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New Start High School students restore Salmon Creek Ravine with teacher Orian
Highline staff and students toured the new Highline Heritage Museum during a special open house. The new museum is set to open to the public next week. Celebrate at the grand opening on June 14. highlinehistory.org/
The Thornton Creek Watershed shares many similarities with Miller/Walker in Normandy Park. Last fall, Chinook salmon were spotted spawning in Thornton Creek for the first time in 8 years! Saturday is a an opportunity to learn more about this urban success story: a free public screening followed by Q&A from the scientists who worked on this project.
www.siff.net/festival/engineering-with-nature-an-ode-to-water-wood-and-stone
Engineering with Nature - An Ode to Water, Wood, and Stone
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A doc on the successes of Seattle’s Thornton Creek Project, a neighborhood flood-control initiative.Bow Lake 2nd graders getting ready for their beach field trip with teacher Madeline Highline Public Schools
Rethink your charity carwash for Orca Health Starts Here!
When you wash cars on pavement, the soap, oil, and other pollutants are washed into the storm drain and directly into our waterways.
Soap, oil, and car gunk are harmful to fish and other animals that live in the water. These pollutants destroy the protective covering on fish and injure or even kill them and their eggs. Even biodegradable soap pollutes water and needs to go through soil to properly break down.
What can you do?
1. Ideas to raise money for your charity: bit.ly/salmonfriendlyfundraisers
2. Buy and resell charity carwash tickets at www.CharityCarWash.org
3. Use a commercial car wash!
4. Wash on grass or landscaped area with cold water only.
5. Collect the wash water and pump it/dispose of it into the sanitary sewer drain connected to sewer (NOT septic).
Last month our Renton STREAM Team visited the Cedar River Watershed Education Center during Spring Break and were wowed by our local special wild places, and our unique cultural heritage, including a more than 640-year-old cross section of a Douglas fir. Field trips can still be a hit in cold, rainy and windy weather, but cross your fingers the sunshine holds for them during a low-tide beach walk at Seahurst this weekend!
Join us next month for an all-levels yoga class with Hot Feet Fitness. FREE for ESC Members! envsciencecenter.org/yoga-by-the-sea/
Come celebrate our native pollinators and honey bees in West Seattle on Saturday; you really ought to beeeeeee there!
www.westseattlebeegarden.com/bee-fest-2019.html
Enough plastics to fill up a garbage truck enter our oceans every minute of everyday. Here's a unique idea to stop the flow while also helping people meet their basic needs. Plastic Bank
www.plasticbank.com/
Stop Ocean Plastic | Turn off the tap on ocean Plastic With Plastic Bank
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Plastic Bank, igniting a Social Plastic® revolution. Uniting and enrolling humanity for local action that creates global impact to stop ocean plastic