Published November 2005

Reaching Out Briefs

Judd & Black donates $10,000
to Christmas House
Cory Long of Judd & Black recently presented a $10,000 check to Christmas House board members and a $2,000 check to the North Everett Boys & Girls Club at the conclusion of the company’s annual charity golf tournament at Battle Creek Golf Course.

Christmas House, a nonprofit charity that was formed in 1981, provided Christmas joy to 7,456 children and more than 2,655 low-income families throughout Snohomish County last year.

Thanks to an agreement with the North Everett Boys & Girls Club, Christmas House once again has a holiday home at 231612th St. in Everett. Christmas House will open its doors Dec. 2 and serve the public over 14 dates through Dec. 20.

For those wishing to support Christmas House, either with a monetary donation or by volunteering their time, contact www.christmas-house.org or call 425-338-2273. Donations may be mailed to Christmas House, P.O. Box 717, Everett, WA 98206.

House of Bread’s giant
cinnamon roll aids Hopelink
House of Bread, a bakery located in the Mill Creek Town Center, baked a cinnamon roll weighing some 246 pounds Oct. 15 in order to gain world-record status as well as raise money for Hopelink, a Puget Sound-area nonprofit organization that serves homeless and low-income families in the area.

The attempt will be submitted to Guinness in hopes of making its Guinness Book of Records, while proceeds for pieces of the cinnamon roll as well as raffle tickets sold during the Oct. 15 baking event will benefit Hopelink.

Shop owners Wayne and Anita Warren said they chose to help the nonprofit organization because some of their employees have benefited from its services in the past and recommended Hopelink as a worthy charity for the event.

United Way awards $91,900
in grants for community projects
United Way of Snohomish County recently awarded $91,900 in outreach grants to help families live more self-sufficiently, to support parents and to strengthen community connections.

Outreach and opportunity grants are one-time grants for grass-roots projects directed toward under-represented or diverse groups of people. United Way awarded outreach and opportunity grants to the following groups/projects:

Lake Stevens Senior Center, Take the Next Step, Positive Women’s Network, St. Vincent de Paul Society, Workforce Development Center in Mukilteo, Soviet Union Refugee Association in Bothell, Snohomish Seniors, Clothes for Kids in Lynnwood and Assistance League of Everett.

Also, Challenge Days, National Organization on Fetal Alcohol Syndrome in Washington state, Monroe Gospel Women’s Mission, Delta Community Baptist Church, Marysville Community Coalition, Snohomish Drug & Alcohol Committee, Snohomish County Youth Meth Action Team and Christ the Rock Fellowship.

Also, Life Changes, Multiple Sclerosis Helping Hands, Parent Coaching Project and Parent Mentoring Project.

Choice & Consequence
receives $10,000 grant
Choice & Consequence, an Arlington-based nonprofit organization, recently received a $10,000 grant from Snohomish County Human Services, Alcohol and Other Drugs Prevention, to conduct a study of the teaching method the group uses in “The Real Inside Story.”

The organization’s registered nurses, “the organ ladies,” travel to schools across Washington state to teach substance-abuse prevention using human organs. In addition to the organs, the nurses use interactive activities, sharing of life experiences, humor and a hands-on activity at the end of each presentation.

The Seattle-based Gilmore Research Group has been hired to do the study.

Choice & Consequence is dependent upon grants and donations to meet the goal of providing services to schools at a reduced price or free of charge. The group teaches at conferences, corporations, health fairs and other adult venues for a fee to help support the schools.

For more information, call 360-435-7250 or go online to www.choiceandconsequence.org.

County awards funds
to nonprofits promoting tourism
Snohomish County has awarded $50,725 in lodging tax funds to eight nonprofit organizations that will promote events and activities that draw visitors to the county.

The funds are from taxes paid by visitors on hotel and motel lodging and are required by state law to be spent on activities that enhance tourism.

Groups receiving funding are:

• ArtBeat, $4,270 to assist in advertising two cultural presentations in Everett.
• Arts Council of Snohomish County, $5,605 to assist in advertising a cultural presentation in Everett.
• City of Edmonds, $5,000 to assist with creating a data bank of images to illustrate visitor attraction brochures.
• Future of Flight Foundation, $25,000 to advertise the opening of a major new tourist attraction and follow-on programming at Paine Field.
• Imagine Children’s Museum, $2,350 to publish and distribute promotional pieces to attract visitors to the museum in Everett.
• League of Snohomish County Heritage Organizations, $5,000 to publish a self-guided tour map showing Snohomish County museums and heritage sites.
• Museum of Snohomish County, $3,500 to publish and distribute promotional materials to attract visitors to the museum in Everett.
• Snohomish Festival of Pumpkins Marketing Association, $5,300 to advertise the fall festival to attract visitors to the event in Snohomish.

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