Here is a look at what is happening on and around campus this weekend!

Friday, April 25:

Building Monitor Training (this is a repeat of the first training) in the quiet dining room at 10:30 a.m. If you are interested in being a Building Monitor, please attend this Friday. If you’ve already attended, you do not need to attend this one.

Join in on the final Earth Week activity, a screening of Avatar with discussion to follow. Film starts at 12:30 in the quiet dining room.

Free workshop! Follow a process for proofreading your writing so that you can find and correct more of your own sentence errors at 1 p.m. in room 1501.

Saturday, April 26:

Join us for the Boeing Creek Watershed Restoration Event from 10-1:30 p.m.  Along with other staff/faculty, students and community members, wage war against Evil Ivy and her menacing minions Heinous Holly, Stinky Bob and Churlish Cherry. Meet between the dog park and the track and drop in any time!

Catch Music Tech faculty member Jim Elenteny with his band, Science!, at Olaf’s in Ballard at 9 p.m.

The Association of Community and Technical Colleges offers two scholarships every year, one for employees of Washington CTCs who are pursuing a college degree and one for students graduating from a CTC.

Please assist The Association by promoting these scholarships to both your employee and student populations? The application deadline has been extended to May 12, 2014.

Here is  the scholarship application.

There is a reception for the current graduates of the Associate of Fine Art program in the art gallery from 3:30 – 5 p.m. in the art gallery Thursday, April 24.   Shoreline offers two direct transfer degrees with  concentration in the visual arts: an AFAS in studio art, and an AFAP in photography. Each year, students in the final stages of their degree present their finest examples of painting, drawing, printmaking, graphic design, photography, sculpture, and ceramics. The show runs to May 15.

Join Shoreline CC Center for Service-Learning and North Urban Human Services Alliance (NUHSA) for a special screening of “A Place at the Table.” on Thursday, April 24, at 5:45 p.m.

This documentary offers an intimate glimpse into food insecurity in the United States. Huffington Post says, ” ‘A Place At The Table’ does what all important documentary films should do. It enables us to bear witness; to see, to feel something about what we’ve seen, and to be moved in the most literal sense of starting out in one place and ending up in another.”  

Marty Olsen

A memorial service for long-time Shoreline Community College faculty counselor and Professor Emeritus Marty Olsen scheduled for 2 p.m., Saturday, April 26, 2014 in the PUB Main Dining Room on campus.

Olsen passed away unexpectedly on Sunday, April 13. Olsen joined Shoreline in 1973 and retired in 2009; 36 years of service to thousands of students.

At a retirement gathering, Olsen said it was the opportunities to work with students who had academic challenges, special needs or difficult life circumstances and then witness their growth and development that made his position much more than just a job.

“Marty’s commitment to students and the community college mission is a lesson and legacy for us all,” Interim President Daryl Campbell said.

Prof. Amy Kinsel, President of the Shoreline faculty union, said Olsen was active in the union and involved in many other aspects of faculty life at Shoreline. Kinsel noted that Olsen had recently attended services for two other members of the Shoreline community, faculty member Karen Toreson and Phyllis Topham, a faculty member who retired along with Olsen in 2009.

Here’s the obituary as that appears on the Seattle Times site: Life-long resident of Seattle, Vietnam Veteran, graduate of Ingraham High School and University of Washington, Counselor at Shoreline Community College for 36 years, retiring May 7, 2009. Survived by his wife, Vicki, son Justin Olsen, daughter Tiffany (Steve Brewster), granddaughters Isabel and Ashley, sister Kathy (Al Dunn), brother Norman Olsen, and stepmother Gidge Olsen. Memorial service April 26, 2014 at 2 p.m. in the PUB at Shoreline Community College, 16101 Greenwood Ave N, Seattle, WA 98133. Donations in lieu of flowers to the Martin Olsen Memorial Scholarship Fund at the Shoreline Community College Foundation or to the Taproot Theatre, 204 N 85th St, Seattle, WA 98103.