Weekend update

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.

Scholarship opportunity for faculty and students!

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.

Boeing Creek Watershed Restoration

park cleanupA little “heads up” about our annual Boeing Creek Restoration Event this Saturday, April 26 from 10-1:30.  Please consider joining me and other staff/faculty, students and community members in battling Evil Ivy and her menacing minions, including Heinous Holly, Stinky Bob and Churlish Cherry.  Our continual battle with these formidable foes is to be waged in the forest between the track and the dog park.  With luck, and a bit of honest work, we should be able to gain significant ground in this War of the Weeds and bring in a significant show of leaves by planting native plants and establishing a “Safe Plant Zone”.  Please see the attached flyer for the specific details re: the event.

We are also seeking native plant recruits.  If any of you have native plants on your property that you might be able to recruit for planting in this forest, please let me know.  The habitat is a dry forest understory with an established canopy.  Appropriate plants would include: cascara, wild rose, red huckleberry, serviceberry (Amelanchier), salal, Oregon grape, Indian plum, hazelnut, trailing blackberry (the native), orange honeysuckle, foamflower (Tiarella), wood sorrel (Oxalis), vine or big leaf maple and others.  If you have a candidate that is not on the list, please feel free to email me (mloper@shoreline.edu) or call me (546-4683).  Feel free to stop by any time, and leave whenever you need to.  I know Marty’s memorial is at 2 PM.  We’ll be pulling weeds from 10-12, and planting plants from about 12-1:30

Hope to see you Saturday!

Matt Loper

Reception for AFA Grads Thursday, April 24

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.

Food for Thought: Screening of “A Place at the Table”

place at the tableJoin 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.”