Beginning Monday (Feb. 28, 2011), Seattle Parks and Recreation will ask customers at its 25 community centers, including the Green Lake Community Center and Evans Pool, to sign in. “We are counting everyone who walks in the doors,” Carl Bergquist, Green Lake Community Center Recreation Leader told me. “This is total foot traffic, so if they walk in, leave and come back again they should sign in again.” Carl says that signing in will take just a few seconds of time, and no personal information is requested. “People just need to indicate their age group, the approximate time, and their initials,” Carl says. “That’s…
February 2011
February 25, 2011 at 1:47PM
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Daniel Bagley Elementary PTA asks for your vote in support of fundraising video
Julie Allen, a parent at Green Lake’s Daniel Bagley Elementary School (7821 Stone Ave N), sent us the following video about the school’s latest fundraising effort: Julie is entering the video in a contest sponsored by Verity Credit Union. She hopes to win funds ($5,000 is being offered as a grand prize, and $1,000 will go to two runners up) to help Bagley’s PTA renovate the school’s playing area and buy school supplies. You can read more about Bagley’s “Green Field Project” on facebook. The video with the most votes will win. From now until Wednesday, March 2, 2011 you can cast…
February 25, 2011 at 12:12PM
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Coming soon: 2011 Spring Fecal Fest Zoo Doo
Woodland Park Zoo‘s Spring Fecal Fest begins soon. Every year, the zoo makes exotic poop, called “Zoo Doo” and “Bedspread,” available as compost to gardeners. Zoo Doo is the most exotic and highly prized compost in the Pacific Northwest, perfect for vegetables and annuals, composed of exotic species feces contributed by the zoo’s non-primate herbivores. Bedspread, the zoo’s premium composted mulch, is like Zoo Doo but with higher amounts of wood chips and sawdust. It’s the perfect mulch for perennial beds and woody landscapes such as native gardens, rose beds, shrubs, tree rings or pathways. For a chance to purchase…
February 25, 2011 at 6:28AM
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Seattle Parks Foundation seeks your input about Parks Department funding
photo credit: likeyesterday Seattle Parks Foundation and their partners are asking for your input on a how to address the chronic funding shortfall faced by the city’s park system. Seattle Parks Foundation is an independent nonprofit organization that works to improve, expand, and create parks, trails and green spaces. In January, the foundation released a report which revealed that the Seattle Parks Department lacks a sustainable source of ongoing operations and maintenance funding and faces an annual $25 million shortfall. As a result of this lack of funding, according to Parks Foundation Executive Director Thatcher Bailey, there is a backlog of major maintenance…
