Columbia Citizens

your Wikli-fix: heart & home

It may be that home is where the heart is, but there's still plenty of love to go 'round once you step out your front door. It's a hallmark of Columbia Citizenship: we love where we live.

Ash Wednesday service

At Columbia Lakewood Community Church, February 13, please plan to attend our annual traditional Ash Wednesday service. As we begin the season of Lent, this somber, sacred service reminds us of our mortality and need for repentance in our lives.

Service is at 7pm. A light supper of bread and soup will be served beginning at 6pm. Columbia Lakewood Community Church is located at 5005 S Ferdinand St. For more info, contact Pastor Jeff 723-9272 or moc.nsm|2rekrabj#moc.nsm|2rekrabj

Become a Master Urban Naturalist in Seward Park

Are you a Seward Park enthusiast with an interest in Pacific Northwest ecology? Do you like to share what you know with others? Are you over 18 years old?

If you answered yes! to all of these questions, Seward Park Audubon's Master Urban Naturalist (MUN) program is your match. The MUN program provides free beginner level naturalist training classes and certification in exchange for 20 hours of donated service over the course of one year.

Details are here.

community service scholarship award

Lakewood Seward Park Community Achievement Award

LSPCC will grant a scholarship award of $2000 to a neighbor residing within the geographic boundaries of the Lakewood Seward Park Community, as described on lspcc.org.

Application and essay are due by April 30, 2013 to Lakewood Seward Park Community Club, 4916 South Angeline Street or to moc.liamg|anpswl#moc.liamg|anpswl.

More details are here

Help make a difference in the life of a youth

Mission: To inspire and enable young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, responsible and caring citizens.

Are you looking for a way to give back to your community? We're looking for volunteers to support our educational programming here at the Rainier Vista Boys & Girls Club. On average we serve roughly 200 youth, ages 5 to 18, per day from Rainier Valley. Education and academic success are key elements here at the Boys & Girls Club. We provide Club members with opportunities that incorporate high yield learning activities and focus on academic skill building. Your help is needed to encouragement youth to become self-directed learners.

Details are here.

Let's talk about books

Hey, read a good book lately? Share book recommendations with your friends and neighbors and find out what other people in your community are reading.

Columbia Library, Sunday, February 17, 1pm-2:30pm

Bring a book that you recently read and liked. Share your fiction and nonfiction suggestions and get ideas for what to read next. If you'd like to drop in and listen to others talk about books, you're absolutely welcome.

neighbor blog: the Leftovers Lady

www.leftoverslady.com: a website for redesigning food and other items to save time and money and a place to share gardening and kitchen consignment items.

open plots at Dakota p-patch

There are several open plots in the Dakota P-Patch (in Dakota Park at the north end of NRV West, between S Dakota St and S Lilac St, west of MLK, next door to the Seattle Community Farm). P-Patch waiting lists average about 3 years, but everyone on our list has passed on the open plots. Speak up now and you could be in the garden this spring!

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survey for playground/field renovation

We need your opinion.
 
We're a group of neighborhood parents with students at Orca K-8, a local alternative, public school located on 46th Ave S in the old Whitworth building.  We're working to renovate the existing playground and field on the west side of the school. Cultivating a community gathering space that nourishes and supports the Orca K-8 school and the surrounding neighborhood.  We would like input from the community, as many that do not have students at the school, still use the area as a local park.

Please take 5 minutes and complete this online survey to help us with initial input for ideas and design.

volunteer for healthy seniors

At Full Life Care in Columbia City, our adult day health care center, we need volunteers. See link above for full details. This is ongoing.

West Seattle Bridge ramp closures

If you're heading eastbound from West Seattle to Beacon Hill or I-5 this President's Day weekend, read on or go to wsdot.wa.gov.

Beginning at 10 p.m. Friday, Feb. 15, road construction crews will close the West Seattle Bridge ramps to both directions of I-5, and S. Columbian Way. The ramps will reopen by 5 a.m. Tuesday. Signed detours will direct drivers around the closures using Fourth Ave S.