Center for the Child Care Workforce: Worthy Wages

"Average Wages - Preschool Teachers: $9.49, Child Care Workers: $7.30."

In Seattle, "Worthy Wages worked in partnership with a local union to launch the Child Care Union Project. As of September 1999 the joint contract between twelve small child care centers is in its final stages."

Procession of The Species Celebration

"As a spectacular addition to the Olympia Spring Arts Walk - community members don homemade masks and costumes, carrying flags, streamers, giant puppets, and inventive musical instruments. You will find us joyously dancing through the streets of downtown Olympia to the infectious beats of Samba, African drumming, Indonesian bamboo rattles, drums, and jazz music. Unlike a regimented parade, at times the Procession participants and onlookers meld into one... Registration fee: 2 cans of food on the day of the Procession to the Thurston County Food Bank."

Sat Apr 15, 6:30 PM in downtown Olympia.

"A few of our accomplishments:

-	Tributary dechannelization for fish passage
-	Plantings of native vegetation... adjacent to the creek
-	... frog pond to help bring back Pacific chorus frogs
-	Construction to restore a tributary creeklet and wetland... adjacent to the south fork
-	Restoration of Willow Creek, a tributary to the south fork
-	Streamkeeper program"