Your support helps our community
Wednesday, October 3 – Open Meeting to Review Kirkland Roads and Parks Levies: As previously announced, FHNA sponsored a neighborhood meeting in the cafeteria of Finn Hill Jr High (132nd and 84th) to review Kirkland Propositions 1 and 2 on the November ballot. The...
Yes, it will start to rain again. But we can make the most of it with rain gardens. They are a great way to optimize our region’s bountiful rainfall for growing plants and vegetables, while controlling surface water runoff. Kirkland is creating rain gardens at various...
How do you feel about trees? Do you want to hug ‘em? Or can you just take them and leaf them? (Sorry, I couldn’t resist.) Either way, the City of Kirkland would like to know. They’re conducting an online tree survey, which will the staff will incorporate into a report...
Many thanks to all of you who came to DennyFest! You can’t celebrate without celebrants, so the FHNA volunteers who organize DennyFest are always thrilled to see their neighbors come down to O.O. Denny Park to enjoy the music, the food, and some old-fashioned...
Do you want a free T-Shirt and food, and help cheer on our region’s athletes without going very far? If so, please consider volunteering for the upcoming Kirkland Triathlon on September 30th. The event will be supporting the HopeLink Organization. The bike route comes...
Volunteers from FHNA are needed to Collect Food for the Hungry: This Saturday (September 15th) is the first day of the Eastside Concern for the Hungry Food Drive (a region wide food drive). The food that hundreds of volunteers collect on this day across King County...
This year’s DennyFest is shaping up to be one of our best. Great music, chili and pie contests, arts and crafts, our dog show, free food and drink, nature walks….and we have some new features, too: a magician, a full-blown display by the Fire Department, and a bouncy...
On August 23 at Bastyr University the King County Parks Department hosted its second Big Finn Hill trail planning meeting. At the meeting Dave Kimmett of King County Parks summarized the input from a public meeting that occurred in early June, and facilitated a...
To support ongoing trail planning efforts within Big Finn Hill Park, several volunteers have been inventorying and mapping the existing trails throughout the park. Links to the draft maps are found below. Members of the stewardship committee intend to use these maps...
City Council adopted updated regulations for chickens and roosters on August 3, 2012 that will affect residents on Finn Hill. While the primary focus of the new regulations were to allow greater flexibility for residents in the City to raise backyard chickens, the...
