Around Edmonds

This will be a series of arti­cles about Edmonds Washington. The series will include events, mer­chants, restau­rants, orga­ni­za­tions, parks, the arts, etc.

As an exam­ple of what is to come, I have planned arti­cles about the Edmonds Center for the Arts, The Driftwood Players, and The Cascade Symphony; arti­cles about Epulo Bistro, The Loft Café and Social Lounge, The Winged Pig, FIVE, Portofino Pizza and Pasta, and Claire’s Pantry; arti­cles about the local Starbucks and Tully’s, about Walnut Street Coffee and Waterfront Coffee Co too; arti­cles about the Edmonds Chamber of Commerce, both Edmonds Rotary & Edmonds Daybreakers, Edmonds Toastmasters, along with the Edmonds Community Foundation, and Edmonds Backyard Wildlife Habitat Community Certification Project; arti­cles about our neigh­bor­hoods like The Bowl, Five Corners, and Westgate; arti­cles about our mer­chants and pro­fes­sion­als like Running in Motion, Nama’s Candy Store, the Edmonds Bookshop and more; plus arti­cles about the events in town, An Edmonds Kind of Fourth, the Waterfront Festival, the Classic Car Show, the Edmonds Art Festival.

Certainly there will be more too. I’ll have arti­cles on local pol­i­tics and parks, regional issues with a local fla­vor, and national issues that have a local expres­sion as well.

I expect to deliver at least one “Around Edmonds” arti­cle a week. See you soon.

Librarians as Information Guides: Navigating the Online Health Information Maze at the Edmonds Public Library

Librarians as Information Guides: Navigating the Online Health Information Maze

Event Type: Adult
Age Group(s): Adults
Date: 12/​10/​2011
Start Time: 2:00 PM
End Time: 4:00 PM
Description: With all the health infor­ma­tion in the media and on the Internet, what should you believe? Find out how to locate accu­rate and reli­able med­ical infor­ma­tion. Seating is lim­ited, please pre­reg­is­ter. Funded by The Paul G. Allen Family Foundation and Sno-​Isle Libraries Foundation.

Edmonds Public Library

ECA Arts Crush Instant Wine Cellar

Edmonds Center for the Arts, Arts Crush 2011My wife and I won the bid for the Edmonds Center for the Arts, Arts Crush Instant Wine Cellar. This was our third year in a row going for the attendee assem­bled col­lec­tion. Each attendee at the auc­tion brings two bot­tles of wine. One bid­der takes it home. We feel lucky to have won that bid three times. Everything from Three Buck Chuck to lov­ingly cel­lared Bordeaux to unique and lovely Walla Walla wines are found in the mix. I haven’t yet cat­a­loged the most recent col­lec­tion. A ran­dom bot­tle of port grabbed from one of the boxes turned out to be a 1947 vin­tage port bot­tled in 2002. I really look for­ward to explor­ing the rest.

I’ll be cat­a­loging the col­lec­tion at Cellar Tracker.