NEWS BRIEFS | Greenbank Farm gets donation
Published 9:00 am Thursday, October 2, 2008
Greenbank Farm hits jackpot
The Greenbank Farm Management Group has received an anonymous challenge grant of $15,000.
The farm is owned by the Port of Coupeville and managed by the nonprofit group.
The management group is hoping donors will help double the grant in an effort to meet the numerous expenses of keeping and maintaining the farm’s many attractions available to everyone, and are targeting Dec. 1 to raise the $30,000 goal.
Among the missions of the management group are to act as a steward for preservation of the farm and protect its open spaces, scenic beauty and environmentally sensitive wetlands.
For more information, call 360-678-7171 or click here
Whidbey Island Farm Tour set
The Whidbey Island Farm Tour offers people a chance to experience the island’s rural character first hand. Eighteen farms are open to the public on Saturday, Oct. 4, and Sunday, Oct. 5.
The tour is free, and visitors can start anywhere and take in as many farms as they like.
This year, in addition to goods and produce available at the farm sites, the Farm to Home Fair on Saturday at the Greenbank Farm will offer merchandise, information and activities. Visitors can sit in on a demonstration of cooking with locally-grown food, learn how to make goat cheese, shop for locally-made cosmetics, see island crafts people weave local fibers into beautiful clothes, or watch bees as they make honey.
Seventeen Whidbey Island restaurants support the tour by featuring locally-grown foods on their menus for both days. And at the Deer Lagoon Grange, people can enjoy a country and western dance the night of Saturday, Oct. 4.
For more information, click here
Learn about a health career
Want to be a doctor? Healthcare professionals at Whidbey General Hospital will talk with people who are interested about their work from 6:30 to 8 p.m., Oct. 6 in Conference Room A. Talk with doctors, a nurse practitioner and a physician’s assistant and learn what they do, their training, the cost, the positives and the negatives of their work.
Eagles to host candidates forum
The Whidbey Island Eagles will host a candidates forum later this month.
The forum is scheduled for Saturday, Oct. 11 at the Eagles Aerie on Highway 525 near Freeland.
Candidates or their representatives are expected in the races for governor, U.S. Congress, 10th District Legislature, Island County auditor and Island County commissioner.
Call 331-5038 for information.
