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2012 Service Sites
Denny Creek Neighborhood Alliance- Tree Planting (Site Leader-Kaija Eastman)
Denny Creek Neighborhood Alliance (“DCNA”) is a community organization formed by community members who were concerned about protecting the Denny Creek watershed and its environs. This project is located in Juanita Woodlands Park, Kirkland, and involves planting tree seedlings. This is an outdoor project, so dress warmly, bring rain gear, and work gloves if you have them. The site will provide the needed equipment. This project can accommodate up to 20 people, and is a 3 hour commitment: 9:00am-12:00pm. Please arrive sharply at 8:30 to register at Mobius Hall so that you can be the first group to leave at 9:00am to get to your site. This project is also good for older children and youth.
Greater Bothell Parent Resource- Kid Project! (Site Leader-OPEN)
This project will be on site in Mobius Hall. The Greater Bothell Parent Resource Center is an agency dedicated to serving at risk families, individuals, and youth through counseling, parenting workshops, life skills training, and community resources. Children will decorate grocery bags centered around the theme for MLK day and how one envisions the meaning of MLK Jr and why we celebrate his holiday. The bags are used for distributing non-perishable food items at our community outreach dinner on the 4th Sunday of each month! The project can accommodate 10 kids with parents. This project is a 1 to 2 hour time commitment.
Cascadia/UW Bothell Wetlands (Site Leader: Jarvis Lin)
This project is located on site in the campus wetlands. Volunteers will first remove blackberries that are growing above the red dogwoods. The volunteers will switch to planting red cedars and dogwoods within the wetter areas, and douglas firs in the dryer areas. Please bring tall rubber or waterproof boots for the mud, and very thick leather gloves for handling the black berries. We will provide you with shovels and picks for planting the trees. The project can accommodate 10 people and is a 3 hour service project (9:30-12:30pm).
Seattle Children's Hospital - Kid Friendly! (Site Leader Samantha Porter)
This project involves creating cards for children at Seattle Children’s Hospital. These cards will be put on the children’s food trays during meal times at the Hospital. Cards should be designed for 7-10 year old children, both boys and girls. This project will be an ongoing project at Mobius Hall. This project is great for kids.
Northshore Family Center (Site Leader Navarre Kerr)
This project will be located at the Northshore Family Center which is walking distance (.5 miles) from the University of Washington Bothell and Cascadia Community College. Volunteers will help disinfecting and clean toys, re-organizing the storage room, sweeping, cleaning tables, chairs, and other fixtures; it will all take place in the Children’s Room. The main idea is to give the room a fresher look, to make it easier on our participants and facilitators to run programs. This project can accommodate up to 6 people and will last from 9:30-11:30 (2 hours).
Children’s Book Area (Site Leader: OPEN)
There will be a children’s book area at Mobius Hall. The books are focused on diversity, Martin Luther King Jr., or other peace and social justice issues. You do not need to pre-register your children for this area. Children can come to this area before or after their other service site. When they come to the reading area either a volunteer will read to them, parents can read to their children, or the children can read on their own. We will try to have books appropriate for K-6 levels of reading.
Vineyard Park Assisted Living (Site Leader Sindi Diko)
This project involves playing history games with the residents at Vineyard Park. You may end up playing jeopardy remembering influential people of the past. Vineyard Park is located at Bothell Landing. This project can accommodate up to 13 people and is a 2 hour time commitment: 9:30-11:30am.
American Hero Quilts (Site Leader Chris McCrae)
American Hero Quilts creates and delivers quilts to injured military members returning from war. These “hugs” are a patriotic, quality quilt to show recognition and appreciation to injured troops. This project will be on site in Mobius Hall. Students, families, and volunteers will each decorate a piece of a quilt that will later be sewn together by quilting professionals, who will then deliver them to military hospitals. This project can accommodate up to 5 on-site students who will facilitate the project; all MLK Day of Service participants will have an opportunity to decorate their own quilt piece.
City of Bothell - Christmas Tree+ Recycling Project (Site Leader Darryl Nevels)
This project is located at the (Evergreen church), walking distance from campus. Volunteers will be guided by their site leader to the site where the City of Bothell has coordinated a drop off site for Bothell residents to bring their Christmas Trees and other recyclables to this site. This project is an effort for sustainability, and volunteers will assist in guiding residents to the correct drop off sites and will collect and distribute the recyclables in the correct locations. Up to 10 volunteers can be accommodated for this project with a 3 hour commitment: 9am-12pm.
Food Drive:Greater Bothell Parent Resource Center (Site Leader Hana Mohamed)
This project involves going to grocery stores (in small groups) around the Bothell area to collect food for the Greater Bothell Parent Resource Center, and also handing out fliers on the services that the Greater Bothell Parent Resource Center provides. The Greater Bothell Parent Resource Center is an agency dedicated to serving at risk families, individuals, and youth through counseling, parenting workshops, life skills training, and community resources. You will then bring however little or much food that you collected back to Mobius Hall to put in bags that were decorated as part of another service project. This project can accommodate 8 people, and is a 3 hour long project (9:00am-12:00pm).
Career Center Resources (Site Leader Ben Wiselogle)
The UW Bothell Career Center and volunteers will provide informational packets for economic opportunities to our local veterans and military families. This project will accommodate 2 student volunteers on site at Mobius Hall to assist the Career Center staff in organizing and distributing informational packets.
Washington State Voter Registration: (Site Leader Ashley Hamilton)
This project will provide volunteers who are Washington State residents a chance to get civically engaged though an opportunity to register to vote. Volunteers will assist and answer questions about voter registration, ensure the confidentiality of the applications, and seal and label the applications to be sent to the Washington Elections office. This project will be on site in Mobius Hall and will accommodate 3 volunteers and last throughout the Day of Service.
City of Bothell Waste Management - Door Hangers: (Site Leader: OPEN)
Assist the City of Bothell Public Works Department in spreading the word about waste management. This project will utilize volunteers to walk door to door to homes and distribute door hangers that provide information about recycling and waste management. Volunteers will meet at Mobius Hall, gather the door hangers, and walk through several local neighborhoods to distribute this information. This project will accommodate up to 10 volunteers.
Husky Packs (Site Leaders Ty Edwards and Heather Apel-Lowe.)
Help out your fellow University of Washington Bothell students by compiling Husky Packs donations. This project will take place on site in Mobius Hall and facilitated by the Husky Packs student organization. Donations will be collected during the two weeks before MLK Day of Service. Volunteers will organize donations and put them into Husky Packs. Following the Husky Packs student organization will distribute them to students in need. This project will accommodate up to 14 volunteers.
Northcreek Forest (Site Leader-Freddie Hensen)
For the North Creek Forest restoration site we will be helping to restore new public land in this crucial habitat for the campus wetland! Join us to help remove invasive species and improve the health of our wetland and community.
Other projects happening locally:
Green Kirkland Partnership - Invasive removal
Hosts: UW Restoration Ecology students from UW Seattle and Bothell, in partnership with the Highlands neighborhood and the Green Kirkland program
Location: Cotton Hill Park - 110th Ave NE and NE 98th St, Kirkland, 98033
Time: Monday, January 16th, 10 am to 2 pm
Provided: Tools, gloves, snacks, hot beverages, water
Bring:
RUBBER BOOTS!!! It is VERY MUDDY!!
Lunch
Dress for the weather
Please join the 30th Annual Martin Luther King Jr., Seattle Rally and March !
http://www.mlkseattle.org/
Monday, January 16, 2012
--Workshops (9:30am-11am)
--Rally (11am-12:30pm)
--March at 12:30pm.
--Theme: "30th Anniversary Celebration: Recapturing MLK Jr.'s Revolutionary Spirit!"
Seattle has one of the largest annual Martin Luther King Day Celebrations in the U.S. We honor Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., for his work toward racial equality and economic justice for all people, for his commitment to nonviolence, and for his stand against war and militarism.
For more information, contact diversity@uwb.edu
Planning Committee Contacts
Andrea Ramirez
UWB Office of Student & Residential Life
aramirez@uwb.edu
Karama Blackhorn
UWB Office of Community Based Learning & Research
kblackhorn@uwb.edu
Aaron Tuttle
CCC Student Life
atuttle@cascadia.edu