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SUMMARY:Naturescape Garden Opening Celebration
DESCRIPTION:Naturescape Demonstration Garden opens with Alger Communit
 y Celebration July 12Join us Saturday, July 12, 2014 from 11 am to 1 p
 m as the Alger community celebrates the grand opening of the Naturesca
 pe and Nectar Garden at Alger Community Hall, 18735 Parkview Lane, Alg
 er.  The day’s events will feature a brief ceremony recognizing all
  the businesses and volunteers who helped make the garden dream a real
 ity.The ceremony will herald the unveiling of interpretive signs that 
 will inspire visitors to use native plants in their own yards to help 
 preserve habitat and keep our streams and rivers clean. Businesses who
  helped in the creation are Aulos Design by Ani Gurnee, Plantas Native
 , Asuza Farm and Garden, Skagit Soils, Northstar Stone and Landscaping
  Supply and Whatcom Farmers Co-op. Garden tours will be available as w
 ell as games, music, baked goods for sale, educational displays, a wil
 dlife costume parade, and spots for picnicking around the garden. Come
  early, stay late. The celebration is hosted by Alger Community Hall, 
 Friday Creek Habitat Stewards, Skagit Conservation District and Chucka
 nut Transition.The project was made possible by Friday Creek Habitat S
 tewards, a neighborhood volunteer group, who received at $7,500 grant 
 from the Rose Foundation’s Puget Sound Grassroots Stewardship Fund i
 n Spring 2013. The grant funded a multi-faceted stream and wildlife ha
 bitat enhancement demonstration site on Silver Creek at Alger Hall. Th
 e project, inspired by the volunteer group with support from the Alger
  Improvement Club, Skagit Conservation District, and other partners, i
 ncludes incorporating specialty demonstration garden beds that illustr
 ate how gardens beds can create healthy soil conditions, reduce mainte
 nance, protect their neighborhood stream and add native plants that pr
 ovide habitat for fish and wildlife, attracting birds, butterflies, an
 d beneficial insects.Garden design completion by Ani Gurnee of Aulos D
 esign began in earnest following the grant award. Last year the work b
 egan when more than 25 volunteers arrived on a beautiful June 2013 Sat
 urday to lay cardboard and move 50 yards of soil and 54 yards of mulch
  to create the garden beds.  In September, 10 volunteers appeared on 
 a blustery, wet Saturday to install the native plants and pollinator p
 lants. This project was built on the success of the stream enhancement
  project conducted at the site in March 2012.  With support from Skag
 it County's NRSP program, Skagit Fisheries Enhancement Group, Alger Co
 mmunity Hall, Skagit Conservation District, Friday Creek Habitat Stewa
 rds helped clear the Silver Creek stream bank of blackberries and othe
 r invasives and replant with native plants. \n\nFor more information v
 isit https://transitionwhatcom.ning.com/events/naturescape-garden-open
 ing-celebration
DTSTART;TZID=America/Boise:20140712T110000
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CATEGORIES:garden, opening
LOCATION:Alger Community Hall
WEBSITE:https://www.google.com/maps/place/18735+Parkview+Ln/@48.618044
 ,-122.341524,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x54850ba7ffcc5187:0x7c999c01
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URL:https://www.google.com/maps/place/18735+Parkview+Ln/@48.618044,-12
 2.341524,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x54850ba7ffcc5187:0x7c999c01d9a4
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CONTACT:360-724-0392
ORGANIZER;CN="Sarai Stevens":https://transitionwhatcom.ning.com/profil
 e/SaraiStevens
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