Date: May 29, 2009
Community and Government Affairs
City of Lake Forest Park
206-368-5440
News Release
What's Happening in LFP in June....
The Secret Gardens of Lake Forest Park Garden Tour Celebrates its 7th Season June 20, 2009
"The Secret Gardens of Lake Forest Park garden tour is one terrific garden tour," said Ciscoe Morris.
The 2009 Lake Forest Park Garden Tour includes special gardens. Grand vistas, small garden treasures, historic landscapes will share their secrets to those on the tour. This year the gardens will foster your imagination and your creativity.
Ciscoe Morris of News Talk 97.3 KIRO FM will be broadcasting from the Lake Forest Park Towne Centre on June 20, 2009 between 10 am and 1 pm followed by live music until 4 pm. The Towne Center will be transformed into a lush garden as it hosts an overflowing Plant Sale. Plant experts will be on hand to answer questions. The Garden Fair-Plant Sale is held on the lower level of the Lake Forest Park Towne Centre, located at the intersection of Bothell Way NE (SR 522) and Ballinger Way NE (SR 104) (see map). Admission is free.
Each garden on the garden tour will host artists and musicians. As you wander through the garden you can see the garden through the eyes of an artist and listen to live music.
Advanced ticket sales for the Secret Gardens of Lake Forest Park are $12. You can purchase tickets at the Towne Centre at Two Trading Tigers and Wildbirds Unlimited. And can be ordered on line at www.secretgardensoflakeforestpark.com. For more information contact lfpgardens@yahoo.com
June at the Farmers Market
June at the Farmers Market
In addition to the anticipated arrival of cherries and berries…..
On June 21, 2009 there will be a family fun festival sponsored by the PTSA of Shorecrest. It will include book sale, pie sale, face painting and other events for children
Click here for more information.
LFP Reads
This year the LFP Reads book is A Sudden Country by Karen Fisher. This award winning book explores the journey across the country at the height of Oregon fever in 1847.
For the 5th year, Lake Forest Park Library Committee in conjunction with Friends of the Lake Forest Park Library, Third Place Books has a community reads program.
To read an excerpt click here.http://www.asuddencountry.com/excerpt.htm
Read a review:
Seattle Post-Intelligencer, June 17, 2005
"Spare, but poetic prose illuminates this marvelous retelling of the grueling trek of two characters (a young wife, a Hudson's Bay trapper) along the Oregon Trail in 1847, based on the experiences of the author's own pioneer forebears. "They began their journey with the snow still soft by day, anxious to make way as soon as the season would allow," Fisher writes in one of her crystalline passages. "They wrapped the horses' legs in blankets and traveled under moonlight on the crusted ice."
"A Sudden Country" is being touted by its powerhouse publisher as a worthy successor to "Cold Mountain" and "Snow Falling on Cedars" and should bring much attention to its 44-year-old author, a former wrangler, carpenter and farmer who has lived for seven years in a one-room cabin on Lopez Island with her husband and three children."
Read the book in June and July and then come to the community activities listed below. A Sudden Country will be 20 percent off during June, July and August at Third Place Books.
Third Place Books Discussion Group
Monday, July 27, 7pm
Lake Forest Park Reads Author Event
Wednesday, July 29, 7pm
Hear the author speak at Third Place Books
Writing Your Family History
Saturday, August 1, 1pm
Held at Shoreline Historical Museum, 749 North 175th Street, Shoreline
Vicki Stiles, museum director, presents an informative workshop on eliciting and telling family stories, in the same vein as A Sudden Country.
Patchwork Pioneers
Wednesday, August 5, 7pm
Held on Third Place Commons Stage
A pioneer story told in character by the first bride of Seattle,
Louisa Boren Denny.
Presented by storyteller Debbie Dimitre.
Shoreline Arts Festival
19th Annual Shoreline Arts Festival "Weaving a Cultural Tapestry"
June 27 and 28, 2009, Saturday 10-7 and Sunday 10-5
Festival attendees explore the Juried Art Shows and the intriguing booths in the Artists Marketplace. Adjacent to the delicious offerings of the Food Court, the Showmobile Stage features popular bands and danceable music with acts like Panduo - steel drums, the Dented Trucks - blues, Spirit of Ojah – African rhythms and funk, Timeslip – rock ‘n roll classics, Kris Orlowski – indie pop rock, Cocoloco – lively Latin music and the Hard Road Band – bluegrass.
On Saturday, the Shoreline Auditorium will feature local children performing Missoula Children’s Theatre’s production of “The Princess and the Pea.” Auditions will take place June 22 so please check out website for more information.
The Community Rhythm Jam will return on Sunday and Rob Reynolds will be demonstrating his amazing rock stacking all weekend. There will be a hands-on area for everyone to try their hand at rock stacking.
Art projects in the popular Children’s Hands-on Art Arena will relate to the theme this year. Again this year, the Northwest Collage Society will sponsor an exhibit and collage making workshop using recycled materials. The winning poems from our Second Annual Poetry Month Contest will be posted in Poetry Hall. The Festival Breakfast will be held at the Shoreline Senior Center both days from 8:30-noon.
The Festival runs 10-7 on Saturday and 10-5 on Sunday. The Shoreline Center is located at 18560 1st Ave NE. The Festival is free!
More information at: 206-417-4645 or www.shorelinearts.net
Lake Forest Park Library summer programs
Home-School Summer Reading Program
Tuesday, June 9, 10am
Home-school students, ages 6-12, are invited to learn about the 2009 Summer Reading Program, Be Creative @ Your Library, hear stories, and learn about exciting new books.
Let's Create a Clown Show!
Saturday, June 27, 2pm
Held on Third Place Commons Stage.
Presented by Charles the Clown
Ages 4 and older
Learn how to create costumes and magic tricks from everyday objects to build your own clown show.
Picnic Story Time
Tuesday, June 30, Noon
Ages 3 to 6 and families
Bring your lunch and enjoy stories, songs and a variety of creative activities.
Pizza and Books
Tuesday, June 2, 4-5pm
Held in the Third Place Commons Meeting Room.
Ages 12 to 18
Eat pizza, talk books and share new reading ideas.
Sponsored by the Friends of the Lake Forest Park Library.
Teen Writers' Group
Tuesday, June 16, 4-5pm
Held in the Third Place Commons Meeting Room.
Ages 12 to 18
Explore and develop your creative abilities using a variety of short writing exercises in a supportive group environment. Bring pen or pencil and paper.
Read Three, Get One Free Summer Edition & Read. Flip. Win!
Read three books, write three thoughtful reviews and get a prize book...free!
Forms are available at your nearest KCLS library and when turned in, are eligible for a monthly prize drawing and entered in the Grand Prize drawing for a free laptop!
This summer will also feature a video book review contest, Read. Flip. Win!
Read a book. Make a movie. Put your movie on YouTube.
Enter to win a “Flip” Video Camera!
Ask at the library for details.
Adults
Writer's Workshop with Frances Dayee
Thursday, June 4, 11, 18 and 25, 10am
Held in the Third Place Commons meeting room.
This series of workshops will help you learn to write for fun or for publication, find the right market and tantalize the editor. Writers (and closet writers) of short stories, articles, essays and books are all welcome. Benefit from positive feedback from this published author of three books and writing teacher with over 30 years experience. Attend one or all sessions.
Registration not required. Drop-ins welcome.
Sponsored by the Friends of the Lake Forest Park Library.
Computer Basics
Free beginner computer classes are available at the library, including using Microsoft WORD and EXCEL, and accessing the WEB via Internet Explorer.
Please call for information and registration.
Lake Forest Park Reads...
A Sudden Country by Karen Fisher
June-August
Join us for the fifth annual Lake Forest Park Reads citywide literary event. Read the book and join the discussion at the Third Place Book Club or with your own book discussion group. Attend events, including a visit by the author. Inquire at the Lake Forest Park Library or Third Place Books for more details and specific program dates. Sponsored by the City of Lake Forest Park's Library Advisory Committee, Friends of the Lake Forest Park Library, Friends of Third Place Commons and Third Place Books.
Ivy Out
Join a hardy group of people working to remove ivy from parks and open spaces.
The next Ivy Out on Saturday, June 13th from 9 to 12 at Grace Cole Nature Park. This will be a special occasion as Allan Schaufler and a crew from King 5 will be filming the Ivy Out for an upcoming TV segment ;
The King County Extension Land and Water Stewards will also be there and will be honoring Mamie Bolender for all of her work in Lake Forest
Park as a Land and Water Steward.
We hope you'll be able to join us.
We'll have snacks and water (Please bring a refillable bottle)
As usual, please Bring: gloves, long sleeves, bring you favorite shovels,
nippers, pruners, adzes or other tools. We will also have tools available.
Directions: To find Grace Cole Park, go south on 28th Ave. NE at 178th
Street until you come to the park (about 1/2 mile)
Note: this counts for Community Service Credit for students
Questions? Call Mamie: (206) 364-4410
Lake Forest Park Stewardship Foundation
