P.E.R.K.

There will be a second meeting this coming Thursday, February 21, 2019, at Kenmore City Hall regarding the creation of the Environmental Education and Research Center at St. Edward Park.  Susan Carlson sent me the email below.   PERK Board members participated at the first meeting held at UW Bothell on January 23, 2019.  Daniels’ Hotel project at the historic Seminary Building is moving forward. How the surrounding trails/darkness/wetlands/streams/trees/natural habitat at St. Edward Park (and its surrounding habitat on the shores of Lake Washington) will be protected is at stake now. Who will be the stewards of the park? Who will do the research to describe the state of nature that presently exists at St. Edward Park, so that it may be protected and restored for future generations?  Your input is welcomed. Many opportunities to comment exist, such as voicing preferences on what will ultimately happen to the existing “ballfield” open space that some want to stay green and the present city council has wanted to turn into an artificially lighted, artificially turfed field?  We need voices to state their preferences at these meetings, so that the St. Edward State Park Environmental Education and Research Center can do its best job of creating relevant education and research.  I hope it will help organizations like PERK foster environmental education and protection far into the future. We are hoping to protect threatened or endangered species.  Habitat is needed to do so. If we want to promote protection of salmon in our streams, marbled murrelets in our trees and orcas in our Puget Sound, we must protect habitat in our connected habitats, from St. Edward Park all the way to Puget Sound.  We need to learn how best to do that via partnerships and community education.  Submitted by Elizabeth Mooney, President of PERK.

St. Edward State Park Environmental Education and Research Center 
Public Meeting Announcement

Fabulous DAY in Kenmore! SEEKING DATA and promoting environmental education. July 12 PERK (perkinkenmore.org)hosted 20 UW Tacoma Math Science Leadership Camp students in Kenmore to do real science with mentors from the UW Tacoma and our PERK Community! After their data collection, students shared lunch with the community at City Hall and enjoyed speeches and inspiring discussions with UW Tacoma Counselors/Scientists/Mentors, Professor Robin Evans-Agnew, Mayor David Baker, our local Scientist Mentors/Speakers/Hosts, Richard Honour, Joan Hardy, David Bain, Jean Reid, Steve Colwell, Clyde Merriwether, David Ruggerone, Janet Hays, Patrick O’Brien, Hitoshi Maruyama and Jim Myers. Thank you to all, including Melodi, Leslie, Bryan (for this fabulous photo), City Manager Rob Karlinsey as well as City Council for a letting us use the City Council Chambers for the wrap up of a wonderful day.

STAY TUNED: The results of the July 12 2017 one day air monitoring experiments the Students conducted will be presented on July 28, 2017 at UW Tacoma Campus from 2pm-4pm. If interested in attending, email me at elizabeth.mooney47@gmail.com.

For us all to consider: Do we want to have a full fledged air monitoring program initiated in our community? We need resources to do so.

How Good is Our Air ?

On July 12, 2017, 7th Graders in UW Tacoma Math Science Leadership program will be performing an air monitoring exercise in the Kenmore area. This one day event is an effort to raise awareness of industrial pollutants in our residential area and what risks they may pose to our health.

The students will be at various sites around town from 10:30am (Log Boom Park) to 12:30 (City Hall) taking air samples and questioning passersby regarding health issues. From 12:30 to 1:20 they will be at Kenmore City Hall hearing local speakers discuss our regional pollution issues. If you see them out sampling, say hello, take their survey, or stop in at the City Hall to say hi and listen to the speakers.

Results from the study will be available the following week and the students will be presenting their findings at University of Washington Tacoma.

This event is being hosted by PERK – People for an Environmentally Responsible Kenmore. For further information about the event or the results contact:

Elizabeth Mooney 206-979-3999

check LakeWashington.us for results after 7/17/17.
as well as this PERK website, which does provide EMAILED UPDATES if you wish – register in the upper right corner of our home page.

Come and voice your opinion about the open space field at St. Edward State Park in Kenmore!
Kenmore wants to place an artificially lighted artificial turf Little League field in place of the grassy open space where deer, frogs, bats, birds and nature reside, where people walk and picnic in relative peace and quiet, where the skies are dark at night, and where teams play games and camps conduct environmental education. Speak up on June 12, 2017 at public comment, if you wish. Thank you!

PERK Meeting TODAY!!!!
June 7, 2017
6:30-8:30pm
Lake Forest Park Library Meeting Room

Agenda

People for an Environmentally Responsible Kenmore host Citizens for St. Edward Park’s discussion of the Ballfield at St. Edward Park and other

1. Citizens for St. Edward Park discuss the Open Space aka “Ball fields” and organizing for the June 12 7pm Kenmore City Council Meeting at Kenmore City Hall

2. Air Monitoring Environmental Justice Project Wednesday, July 12 in Kenmore with 9th grade UW Tacoma students and UW Tacoma Professors mentoring STEM Leadership Camp–looking for volunteers to help on July 12 in Kenmore 10am-1:30pm.

1. Using our map…lakewashington.us –A Community Map Uniting all to protect and restore Lake Washington–support for LakeWashington.us was provided by Puget Sound Stewardship and Mitigation Fund, a grant making fund created by the Puget Soundkeeper Alliance and administered by the Rose Foundation for Communities and the Environment.

Dear All,

Share your updates about the greater Lake Washington environment!

THURSDAY March 23 6-7pm
Kenmore Library Meeting Room
Short but sweet!

Bring your updates! We can compile our communication about our community projects. Then we will put the information on our Rose Foundation PERK interactive map!

Learn how!

If you have an update to share, please send to me at:

Elizabeth.mooney and follow up with a phone call to my cell 206-979-3999 -by March 21- and we will have a collection of updates to share at the meeting.

RSVP is appreciated but not required.

Thank you.

Elizabeth Mooney
President
PERK-People for an Environmentally Responsible Kenmore
Perkinkenmore.org
206-979-3999

As requested in the pre-hearing conference Friday February 3, 2017 petitioners have revised their list of legal issues.

The revised list and Declaration of Service is attached.

As Ecology and WSDOT have taken the position that our appeal was not timely filed, in spite of meeting the City of Seattle’s noticed deadline, we are unable to support Ecology’s withdrawal at this time.

Respectfully,

Carl Stixrood for Petitioners

Attachments

17-002 Dec of Service Petitioners legal issues rvsd Feb 7 2017
17-002 Petitioners revised List of proposed Issues Feb 7 2017

On behalf of PERK, at the Washington State Legislature hearing in Olympia yesterday, I testified in favor of HB 1028 regarding the asphalt fumes issue in Kenmore.

I delivered our letters of support, authored by PERK members, to the Committee.

The mayor of Kenmore was there to testify “PRO” along with Representative Gerry Pollet who coauthored the bill with Representative Jessyn Farrell.

Here is a video of that session (Our suppporting testimony starts about 11 minutes in).

Please take the time to submit your comments to our reps on this bill

We hope to have a citizen meeting in the next 3 weeks to talk with our community and decide what actions to take next.

Thank you.
Elizabeth