Feel free to attend this free workshop, but really, don’t plan on trying this technique at home.
Dan Harville, a hummingbird expert, plans to catch and band Anna’s and rufous hummingbirds at the Willow Creek Salmon Hatchery in Edmonds, 95 Pine St.
It’s a workshop organized by the Edmonds Wildlife Habitat Project. To see how he puts the itsy bitty bands on the itsy bitty birds, drop by at 6 p.m. July 12. Supervised children are welcome.
Harville has been banding hummingbirds around Washington for more than 10 years in order to track populations.
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Not only do they know how to throw a shindig in Sultan, they get the place all cleaned up before the happening.
Volunteers came together for Project Main Street.
They painted in River Park Pavilion and the Main Street crosswalks from First to Sixth streets and did weeding and edging at River Park and on Main Street.
Volunteer coordinator Donna Murphy says the day went very well.
“We had 40 volunteers making Main Street and River Park sparkle in preparation for Shindig,” Murphy says. That’s 40 people times three hours each — 120 hours volunteered to our great city of Sultan.”
Sultan Shindig begins Friday.
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So sad for the Edmonds High School class of 1946, which is planning a reunion for Aug. 14.
The sad part is that organizer Diane King of Marysville mailed out dozens of invitations to the last known place of residence for each classmate. She says she is getting many back from the post office saying the person no longer lives there.
Have they died or moved to a nursing home?
She may never know, she says. For more information, call 360-659-8984.
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We ran pictures last week with a column about Lorelle VanFossen, who was tracking her genealogy in east county. Readers called to talk about the historic photographs posted with the column.
Rick Rapada, who lives in Fife, saw the pictures at heraldnet.com. He said the women tending a bonfire were American Indians who were cooking fish using cedar stakes. He pointed out that in the picture, one woman was cutting fish and another was adding more fish to the fire.
He said his parents are American Indians and that is how they cooked fish.
Patti Gobin, special projects manager for Tulalip Tribes, agreed that the photograph showed salmon being cooked.
“This is our traditional way of cooking our salmon and we still do this today,” Gobin says. “As a matter a fact, this is the only way our family cooks it. The sticks we cook on are over 100 years old.”
Kristi O’Harran: 425-339-3451, oharran@heraldnet.com.
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