Curriculum night scheduled
South Whidbey Intermediate School’s curriculum night will be 6:30 to 8 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 25, at the school on Maxwelton Road.
The program will begin in the multipurpose room and then move into the classrooms, where an overview of curriculum, teaching strategies, classroom expectations and ways parents can become involved will be discussed.
Parent-teacher conferences will be held Nov. 24, 25 and 26.
Cyclists raise money for MS
More than 1,600 cyclists pedaling through Skagit, Whatcom and Island counties during the weekend helped raise $1.5 million for the state chapter of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society.
Participants traveled figure-eight courses of between 50 and 175 miles, starting from the Skagit County Fairgrounds in Mount Vernon.
Sponsored by Group Health Cooperative and Point B Solutions Group,
it was one of about 100 national MS Society bike events in 48 states.
Bike MS is the largest organized cycling event in the country, and the approximately 100,000 participants raised $67 million nationally.
Drivers alert for bicycles
Island drivers should be on the lookout for as many as 500 bicyclists on local roads as the seventh Tour de Whidbey gets underway on Saturday, Sept. 27.
The event is a bicycle ride benefiting the Whidbey General Hospital Foundation.
Signs will be placed along the roads advising motorists that bicyclists will be out in unusually high numbers.
Speaker to talk on wetlands
Island County Beach Watchers will tackle the issue of island wetlands in a presentation by Justin Craven, the county’s critical areas planner.
Craven will discuss his views on why “wetlands are not badlands” in a program at 7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 18 in the old chapel of Trinity Lutheran Church on Highway 525 in Freeland.
He will offer insight into the nature of the natural water management system — including streams, bogs, marshes and lakes — and resources for landowners working with Island County’s new wetlands regulations.
A wetlands specialist, Craven will detail the help residents can get as they implement the new rules.
The presentation is part of the Beach Watchers speakers series — monthly talks geared to helping Whidbey residents understand and work to preserve the health of Puget Sound.
