Caring and Sharing
The Issaquah Food and Clothing Bank is hosting its 2013 Caring through Sharing holiday giving program at the Pickering Barn in Issaquah. The goal of this program is to help all families with holiday cheer through the giving and sharing of gifts for children from birth to 18-years-old.
Pre-registration is required between Nov. 1 – 30, either online or in person at the food bank.
All families must live in the Issaquah School District; zip codes 98027, 98029, 98075 and 98059.
The food bank will check that children are enrolled in the ISD or that the home address is within the school district boundaries. Families do not need to provide the IFCB with a letter from the school. For more information and how to register please go to the website http://issaquahfoodbank.org/ or contact Issaquah Food and Clothing Bank at (425) 392-4123.
Questions about participating/registering: Rebecca Rayner at Rebecca@issaquahfoodbank.org
artEAST’s annual Gala Fundraiser
This year’s Swirl Cabaret promises to be the high-spirited, entertaining evening artEAST is famous for. Pat and Chris Cashman return as hosts and will preside over silent and live auctions filled with art, art escapades, travel adventures, dining, wine, jewelry and more.
Ticket includes cabaret food, wine and dessert. $100 advanced purchase, open seating $500, and reserved seating for four, includes special selection wines. Tickets are limited and available online at arteast.tofinoauctions.com/swirl2013 or at the artEAST art center. The event will be held at the Issaquah Hilton Garden Inn, 1800 N.W. Gilman Blvd. at 6 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 2.
Map your neighborhood and Red Cross presentation
This map your neighborhood informational gathering will help you help your own neighborhood prepare for disasters. Learn how to hold your own MYN event where 15-25 households get together for a party to get acquainted; learn how to respond to disasters; identify skills in your neighborhood useful in a disaster; create a map of utility shut-offs and learn where they are.
Even if you have already participated in a MYN training, this is a good time to organize a follow-up meeting, to exercise your neighborhood’s plan and train new neighbors at the same time. Red Cross experts will also be attending to provide a presentation on family preparedness.
This event will take place at Blakely Hall in the Issaquah Highlands, Saturday Nov. 2 from 10:30 a.m. to noon.
Book signing – the “Renewal at the place of Black Tears”
This multi-media presentation and book signing is suitable for ages 5th grade and up. The “Black Tears” are the name the survivors of the USS Arizona first gave to the oil droplets bubbling up from the fuel tanks of their sunken ship as they remembered their 900 some shipmates forever entombed below. Issaquah Highlands resident, best selling author, and impressionist photographer Jerry Kaufman, will share his interpretation of this up close look at the Black Tears. He will tell the Pearl Harbor story of the decades since the battle with moving words from yesterday and vibrant pictures from today, blended through the healing lens’ renewal and reconciliation. Thursday Nov. 7 from 7 to 8 p.m. at Blakely Hall in the Issaquah Highlands.
FISH annual meeting set for Nov. 13
The Friends of the Issaquah Salmon Hatchery will hold its annual meeting to elect members of the board of directors and hear the state of the organization Nov. 13.
The program will feature: State of Salmon — Restoring a Washington Icon, a video from the Governor’s Salmon Recovery Office.
A preview showing of the new video will be shown next season in the Steve Bell Theatre. There will also be an update on the completed upper intake project.
Standing for election to the board of directors are Ava Frisinger, Tracy Meloy, Randolph Harrison, Mary Lou Pauly, David Sprague and Suzanne Suther.
The meeting will be at the Watershed Science Center with doors opening at 6:30 p.m. and the meeting beginning at 7 p.m. Dessert and coffee will be served.
Also at the hatchery
The new aquarium has been open for public tours for a few weeks, but a grand opening and ribbon cutting has yet to occur. Join representatives of FISH for the ribbon cutting Wednesday, Nov. 13 at 6 p.m. Lead donors, the Issaquah Sportsmen’s Club and the Snoqualmie Tribe Fund will be on hand, as will contractors who worked on the project: Aquarium Concepts, Illuminate Electrical, Kangas Murals, Jordan Valente Construction and All Service Glass.
The aquarium is at 125 West Sunset Way.
