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Hawaii in Ridgefield

June 17, 2022 By Kathy Winters Leave a Comment

Saturday, June 25, there will be a Hawaiian-theme event at Overlook Park. Bring your lawn chairs or blankets and enjoy free entertainment: live music, hula dances, Tahitian dancers, and a fire knife performance with drummers. All are welcome and there will be prizes during audience participation games.

Vendors will be selling food, shave ice and merchandise. Bringing Hawaii to Ridgefield!

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Take the Port Survey

June 16, 2022 By Kathy Winters Leave a Comment

The Port of Ridgefield is reaching out to everyone in the community to ask what kinds of amenities and uses they’d like to see as the waterfront is redeveloped, and what concerns they might have. The survey is here:

https://www.ridgefieldwaterfront.com/

All ideas are welcome and appreciated. Let’s make our Port something special.

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Refuge Photo Contest

June 13, 2022 By Kathy Winters Leave a Comment

Submit your favorite nature images taken within the boundaries of the Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge to the 16th Annual 2022 photography competition! Submission Deadline: September 10, 2022

CATEGORIES:

BIRDS

WILDLIFE

PLANT LIFE

LANDSCAPE & STRUCTURES

ADULT CATEGORY PRIZES:

1st Place [in each category]:

$150 Pro Photo Supply Gift Card*

Inclusion in Gallery Showing at Pro Photo Supply.

12 x19 high-quality digital print from Gallery Showing at Pro Photo Supply

Honorable Mention:

Inclusion in Gallery Showing at Pro Photo Supply.

12 x19 high-quality digital print from Gallery Showing at Pro Photo Supply

YOUTH CATEGORY PRIZE:

1st Place:

$75 Pro Photo Supply Gift Card*

Inclusion in Gallery Showing at Pro Photo Supply.

12 x19 high-quality digital print from Gallery Showing at Pro Photo Supply

Honorable Mention:

Inclusion in Gallery Showing at Pro Photo Supply.

12 x19 high-quality digital print from Gallery Showing at Pro Photo Supply

*Gift Cards from Pro Photo Supply

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Summer at Your Library

June 10, 2022 By Kathy Winters Leave a Comment

Read, create, explore and learn all summer long! Summer at Your Library runs from June 15 through August 15, 2022. Track your reading and other activities for a chance to win the grand prizes, and join us each week for free, fun virtual programs for all ages!

How to play

Step 1: Register online or in a library

Kids and teens get a book to keep when they register, starting June 15. If you register online, come into the library to pick out your book. (While supplies last.)

Step 2: Track your activities

Use the Beanstack website or the Beanstack Tracker app:.

For Android on Google Play

For Apple iOS on the App Store

Or the print-at-home log (PDF)

Or make your own tracking log!

Step 3: Play along

READ for 30 days

CREATE something

EXPLORE your world

LEARN something

Step 4: Prizes!

Everyone who finishes the challenge will earn an entry into our fabulous grand prize drawings. Winners from each branch and each age group will win a shopping spree to a local store.

Kids and teens also get a special library tote bag just for Summer at Your Library finishers.

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Meaningful Movies

June 8, 2022 By Kathy Winters Leave a Comment

Meaningful Movies of Ridgefield announces their next movie, Bring Her Home.

Bring Her Home follows three Indigenous women as they work to vindicate and honor their relatives who are victims in the growing epidemic of missing and murdered Indigenous women.

Join us for a discussion after the film lead by Duana Johnson, lead administrator for MMIWUSA and Karyn Kameroff, Program Coordinator for the Cowlitz Indian Tribe.

The event will be this Saturday, June 11, at the Old Liberty Theater in Ridgefield, and the movie starts at 7:00pm. Donations are welcome.

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SPRING RAIN IN 2021 AND 2022

June 7, 2022 By Paul Snoey Leave a Comment


The photo above was taken June 6th.   It is of Allen Canyon Creek at the bottom of Allen Canyon.  My rain gauge says that we had 12 inches in April and May of this year.  So far, in June, we have had 0.5″.  The ground  in both Allen Canyon and Gee Creek watersheds is saturated.  Our creeks are showing a high flow.  The photo below was taken a year ago on June 5th.  It was the day it stopped flowing.  2021 was very much a drought year.  Allen Canyon Creek stayed dry until the first rain event in September.  We have been  in a series of drought years since 2014.   With some hot spells, these years were very destructive.  The flows in  Allen Canyon Creek and Gee Creek have been too low and too warm.  Allen Canyon Creek has fared worse since the creek has been going completely dry. In past years, fish could hunker down in pools until flows were restored.  There is a good flow in Allen Canyon Creek this year but it’s very lifeless.  Gee Creek has done much better because even with low summer flows , it never goes dry.

 

So, what’s next?  The National Weather Service says we could be in for more rain later this week.   If so, that will sustain high flows a while longer.  The spring greenup this year has been intense.  Now that the grass is pollinating those of us suffering from hay fever might find this year to be bad.  There are a few mosquitos on the creek now.  With it being so wet, it’s possible mosquitos could be bad too. The county mosquito control agency uses a helicopter to drop a bacteria in wet areas to kill larva and they drive a small ATV around town to treat stormwater catch basins.  However, with so much standing water providing breeding areas for mosquito larvae, we could be in for an  infestation.  

Still, all this rain has been very good for our watersheds and the habitat it provides.

By Paul Snoey

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