Sustainable Crown Hill 4th Annual Green Halloween Dance Party

On October 30, kids and adults enjoyed an evening of dining, dancing, and hunting for inedible treasure to celebrate Halloween at the Crown Hill Activity Center.  The wet, miserable weather pushed the fun indoors but didn’t dampen spirits.  The lively music from Glenn Dudley, Jerry Berger, and Suzanne Giardot coupled with calling from Sherry Nevins got everyone off their feet moving in space.  Thanks to several rock club members from the North Seattle Lapidary and Mineral Club the lucky party goers scoured the darkened halls for 12 rock specimens (petrified wood limbs, chunks of obsidian from Oregon, nephrite, grossular, jaspagate chunks, polished beach agates from Whidbey Island, olivine samples from the Nooksack River, amethyst, quartz crystals, and calcite beauties, thundereggs and pumice).

Maybe we’ll see YOU next year!

Hallowe’en Hoedown 2010

Sustainable Crown Hill and the North Seattle Lapidary and Mineral Club have teamed up with local musicians and caller Sherry Nevins to create an all ages costume dance followed by a flashlight treasure hunt for rocks (obsidian, petrified wood, geodes…)

Don’t forget your flashlight, costume, and dancing shoes!

April 17 – Carkeek Park storm drain painting – How did it go???

April 24 – Help Green CH:  Meet in the Petco Parking lot at 9:00 AM.  Trash detail, graffiti painting, exercise.

April 28 – Crown Hill Park Meeting from 6:30 to 8:00 PM at Crown Hill Center.  Update the park plan – the fire station will be moving out soon – let’s make a great park.  FINALLY!!

May 15 – Crown Hill Neighbors Annual Meeting.  Elections. Jim Diers, special guest.

Crown Hill Neighbors received a grant from Department of Neighbors to work on the Tree survey project!!  An arborist from the UW will help to create a map and interesting walk.

Next Meeting: May 9 (Mother’s Day) from 5:00 to 7:00 PM.  Potluck meal from 5:00 to 5:30 PM.  Break-out sessions from 5:30 to 7:00 PM – baking bread and drop spindle spinning.

We’ll make Bottle Cap Jewelry, Paper Sack Gift Tags, Stamped Cards, and Collages.

If you have any miscellaneous crafting supplies you’d like to contribute, we can use everything (stamps, stamp pads, markers, scissors, paper, magazines, glue, acrylic paint, watercolor paints, paint brushes, bottle caps, paper garbage sacks, newspaper, crayons, yarn).

SCH Meeting Notes from 4-26-09

From this point forward, each meeting will have a host, facilitator and note taker. These jobs will rotate from month to month so that we all have the opportunity to be more active members of the group and to share the burden of responsibility more equitably.

Job Duties:

Host – emails the announcement that meeting is coming up, provides the meeting space

Facilitator – runs the meeting

Note Taker – takes notes and posts them or emails to someone else to post

Announcements:

May 9 – CHNA Annual Meeting, 10 am – 12 pm Community Groups and Parks and Rec will have presentations. Temporary firehouse is being constructed.

May 12 – New Park and Levy Green Space Meeting for North Seattle from 7:00 to 8:30 PM at Greenlake Community Center

Celebrations:

Mid-June – Michael and Danielle will plan a softball event for the group.

August – Mary Deadenders will plan a WCH charette wrap up event

Updates on CH News:

Crown Hill Park and Building – the City took possession of the park on March 20. Still waiting for building. Gilbert and Sullivan are gearing up to move in.

Walkable Crown Hill – SDOT has approved another traffic circle for 92^nd and Mary to be installed May or this upcoming fall. Also, 4 speed humps will be installed between 92^nd and 95^th – two on Mary, two on 14^th

Mary DeadEnd is planning a streetscape with planter boxes and a redo of the right-of-way from 14^th to Mary.

Dennis reported that small projects submitted to city may include repair of small section of foot path along 100^th. With planned Rapid Ride, there may be more upgrades.

Rapid Ride is coming to Crown Hill – The #15 bus will no longer meander through Blue Ridge, instead take 100^th down the hill to 7^th and turn around. 3 levels of stops will be created: 1) Terminal Stops with arrival times, 2) Transit Bulbs, 3) Signs. http://www.metrokc.gov/kcdot/transitnow/rapidride.stm

Education:

Permaculture – Bert will organize

Solar – Martin will organize solar heating, Michael will show PV

Gardening – Danielle will teach a composting class in July. Doug will teach native plants and invasive plant removal, dates TBD.

Work Party Garden – Lanae, Kit and Carol K will organize

June Meeting: June 6, Permaculture, part 2 (Bert)

Host: Bert

Facilitator: Carol K

Note Taker – TBD

Have you heard??  We’re going to have to start paying for our plastic habit at the grocery store.  You can avoid the hit to your pocket book, reduce your dependence on plastic and feel good about using something you made yourself.  Your bag will be a better conversation starter than your latest hairdo.

Join us on August 22, 2008 from 6:30 to 9:00 pm to make your own original bag (or 2 or 3) to store in your car or bike basket for your next shopping trip.  These one of a kind bags are made from fabric that was saved from the landfill and your personal *trash*.  The pattern is easy enough for beginning sewers and there will be others to help you out if you get stuck.

Bring a snack to share, your sewing machine, scissors, thread, rotary cutter and a cutting mat if you have one.  Also, if you want to incorporate a fancy pocket – bring a little *trash* goodie – something that shows off your decadence, your midnight indulgence, your organic-ness or whatever you just tossed in the trash can!

Hope to see you there!

August 22, 2008
6:30 to 9:00 pm
Abundant Life Church
9204 11th Ave NW
(in the church basement)

On Friday, July 11 from 6:30 to 8:30 pm at Abundant Life Church (9204 11th Ave NW), we’ll make some more bags.  We cut out material for two sizes thanks to a pattern that Nikki found.  Feel free to invite others who might enjoy.

We didn’t get around to stenciling but if anyone knows how to do this or has materials, please bring and teach the rest of us.

Hope to see some friendly faces.

Danielle

PS. Things to bring:
snack to share
sewing machine
scissors
thread
rotary cutter and mat (if you have one)
pins