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GARDENING WITH NATIVE PLANTS
The Central Puget Sound Chapter of the Washington Native Plant Society is in the process of creating an Eastside subchapter which will put on an inaugural event on Wednesday, March 27th from 6 pm to 8 pm.
This event will take place at the King County Library Administration Service Center at 960 Newport Way NW, in Issaquah. The event is free to the public, and will consist of a panel discussion of native plant gardeners, followed by a question and answer session. The discussion will include: 1) incorporating natives into your garden; 2) choosing the right plants for your site; and 3) where to buy native plants. Some snacks will be provided.
Please come, and bring anyone you think would be interested!
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BELLEVUE ARBOR/EARTH DAY EVENT
Volunteers are needed to help plant trees, restore trails, remove invasive plants and otherwise help improve Bellevue's parks and open spaces at the 25th annual Bellevue Arbor Day-Earth Day event on April 20.
For more information, go to:
http://www.bellevuewa.gov/news_releases.htm#ParksRecreation
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NEW AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHS
If you visited the SLS booth at Salmon Days this year you would have seen some wonderful new aerial photographs we added to our display. We have SLS member Jerry Klein to thank for them. He has been very generous with his time and expertise and continues to allow us free use of his images. Expect to see more of them on our new website that will hopefully be operational by year's end. To see more of Jerry's work you can visit the following web
addresses:
http://www.jkleinartphotography.com/
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ISSAQUAH PASSES PLASTIC BAG BAN
The vote was 5-2, of which one dissent was due to the belief that the structure could be changed and that it did not go far enough. Thanks to all who supported this change. Hopefully, the other cities on the Eastside will follow the lead of Issaquah.
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READERS: GO PAPERLESS!
Our Fall newsletter is at the printers. Highlights are announcement of the new SLS president and the SLS position on the high lake levels the past two Springs. People who are on our Listserve will not be receiving a hard copy but this Newsletter is available NOW on our web site - in COLOR - at http://www.scn.org/savelake/NL.Fall.2011.pdf .
Our Listserve members will continue to receive not only announcements of when the new Newsletters are posted on-line, but also receive official SLS messages on current issues and activities a couple times a month.
Printing and mailing of the SLS Newsletters are our biggest expenses, so we are encouraging readers to switch to the paperless version. Doing so will help us save money - and trees, too, of course!
To go the paperless route, no action is required. Those who want to receive hard copies in the future can just send a message to info@savelakesamm.org and provide their name and e-mail address. (We do not provide addresses to any other organization.)
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