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

Highland Terrace students visit Visual Arts Center

IMG_4903The visual arts center hosted 6th graders from Highland Terrace for pottery lessons on March 25. Shoreline’s visual art department taught them a few pottery techniques and then let them make their own projects. This is a recent project that aims at engaging future students in our local community and bringing them to campus.

More photos can be found here.

Senator Chase to hold town hall meeting March 15

chasetownhallState Senator Maralyn Chase will be holding a town hall meeting form 12:30 – 2:30 p.m. on March 15, at the Mountlake Terrace Community Senior Center.

The meeting will include an update of legislation action as well as a question and answer time.

Celebrate the success of the MLK Day food drive!

MLK teaCome join the Center for Service Learning and Shoreline students in celebrating the success of our 2014 MLK Day food drive! To thank each of our volunteers, team leaders and staff, the Center for Service Learning will be hosting a Volunteer Appreciation Tea on Tuesday, Feb. 18, from 2-4 p.m. in the Quiet Dining Room and you are invited!

Join us for tea, coffee and hot chocolate, as well as a variety of scones, muffins and cookies. Students will be there to learn about organizational needs and volunteer and service opportunities for beyond the food drive. If you are faculty or staff that have a need for student volunteers or interns in your department you won’t want to miss this event! It will be a great way to mix with potential volunteers and inform students about your department’s mission and areas where you might need some help!

RSVP to csl@shoreline.edu so I have an idea of how many people will be there! Hope to see you then!

Katherine Erickson

The winner is….

IMG_3619#TeamJWag with a whopping 23 votes! Wow… (Although, he did vote for himself…so 22)

Congrats James!

(It was a good run Alan! Get em next year Kent! Maybe after you’ve grown up a little bit more Kyle…)