Kirkland surveys citizens on sustainability interests

Posted by Jeff Hoerth | May 5, 2012 | News & Highlights |

Are you interested in touring a landfill, recycling facility or composting facility? Does learning about how to save energy in your home and lower your water utility costs interest you? Want to learn about your local watershed and wildlife and how to protect them? Kirkland Environmental Services is organizing a Sustainably Education Series for Kirkland residents and wants your input. The Sustainability Education Series aims to broaden what Kirkland residents already know about sustainability through a variety of classes, tours, and hands-on workshops. An online survey is available through Tuesday, May 15, 2012 to gauge the public’s interest on...

Trees for Streams workshop on May 15

Posted by Jeff Hoerth | May 3, 2012 | Events |

Do you have any business or organizational association with landowners who have streams on or near their properties? We need more trees along our streams to help salmon survive, and you can play a part. Come to a free, informal workshop to: Learn useful tips and effective strategies to engage with landowners Explore how we can collaborate to have more impact Network with others doing similar work Register by May 8th! Space is limited. To register, email Linda Grob, linda.grob@kingcounty.gov. Questions? Contact Annette Frahm, 206-296-8013 or annette.frahm@kingcounty.gov Agenda “Cutting...

Kirkland Civics Academy Starts May 2

Posted by Jeff Hoerth | Apr 26, 2012 | Events |

Class is in session for the Kirkland Civics Academy starting on Wednesday, May 2. All presentations will be at Kirkland City Hall. Details are at www.kirklandwa.gov/depart/CMO/Academy.htm. Registration is open and available online at www.kirklandwa.gov/depart/CMO/Academy/Registration.htm. The five-part series begins with “Kirkland 101: How the City Works,” which gives an overview of the city organization. The second session (May 16), “Demystifying the Mysteries of Finance and Budget,” covers property and other taxes, sources of revenue, and how the City balances it’s budget. An insight to police, court, fire, emergency medical, and emergency management services is featured in the third session (May 23) “Public...

Get kids of all ages outside on Sat. April 21 trail walk

Posted by Jeff Hoerth | Apr 16, 2012 | Events |

People of all ages are encouraged to explore a wooded trail on Finn Hill as part of a national effort to connect people with nature in April. The Finn Hill Neighborhood Alliance (FHNA) has teamed with Let’s G.O.!, (“Get Outside”) a youth-inspired, youth-led Children & Nature Network initiative to rally people of all ages to play, serve and celebrate outside. More than 100,000 people participated nationally in 2011 with several people posting YouTube videos to document their activities. Plans are to do the same at the Finn Hill event this year on Saturday, April 21 from 11am to 12:30pm. The event coincides with an FHNA clean-up work party at the Juanita Woodlands. FHNA representatives and mentors from the Wilderness Awareness School in Duvall will lead participants on trails in the Juanita Woodlands. Children ages 5 to 11 and their parents are invited. Or if parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles – whoever! – want to drop off the kids while they attend the work party, it’s all good. The Juanita Woodlands work party, which tidies up areas with recently-planted trees, runs from 9am to noon. Everything takes place on the west side of Juanita Drive. Meet at 76th Avenue NE and NE 120th. (Turn west off Juanita Drive onto 123rd Street, then south onto 76th Avenue NE, and the gathering will be near the dead end.) For more information about...

Celebrate Earth Day! Woodlands Cleanup Sat. April 21

Posted by Jeff Hoerth | Apr 16, 2012 | Events |

Thousands of trees have been planted in the 40 acres of Finn Hill forest known as the Juanita Woodlands. To give those trees a better chance of survival, volunteers are asked to help do clean-up in the area around the trees so growth isn’t stifled by ivy, blackberries, and other horticultural hazards. The Juanita Woodlands work party runs from 9am to noon on Saturday April 21, 2012. Everything takes place on the west side of Juanita Drive. Volunteers can meet at 76th Avenue NE and NE 120th. (Turn west off Juanita Drive onto 123rd Street, then south onto 76th Avenue NE, and the gathering will be near the dead end.) Bring work gloves, loppers, and shovels if you can. Coffee and water will be supplied. The event date is a day before Earth Day so the work party offers a great way to acknowledge and participate in the Earth Day Network’s Canopy Project, with its goal of planting a billion trees worldwide to help offset carbon emissions and encourage sustainability. The Juanita Woodlands was saved from development with local donors paying more than half a million dollars seven years ago in a Denny Creek Neighborhood Alliance initiative to help King County secure the land from the state of Washington. Since then, hundreds of volunteers have done clean-up work in the area bordering both sides of Juanita Drive near Fire...

Author: Jeff Hoerth