Several dozen local citizens gathered Saturday morning at the Northshore Senior Center to meet with and ask questions of the three state legislators from the 1st Legislative District, which includes Bothell.

Representatives Derek Stanford (D – Bothell) and Luis Moscoso (D – Mountlake Terrace), along with Sen. Rosemary McAuliffe (D – Bothell), spoke about their recent efforts in the legislature, shared their ideas for solving tough problems and opened the floor to comments and suggestions from citizens, as well as the first of three town hall meetings across the district.

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On a recent sunny, warm, pre-spring Saturday, 30 volunteers from Bothell and the surrounding areas gathered at the base of the iconic bridge over the Sammamish River to the Park at Bothell Landing to remove invasive blackberries from the area between the Burke Gilman Trail and the river.

The restoration project was the first part in an effort to bring native plants back to the riparian zone along the river to provide shade for fish and other wildlife. The project was held as a part of a “Streamkeeper Certification” program presented by the Adopt-a-Stream Foundation, and consisted of three classroom modules and three outdoor modules, covering subjects such as stream ecology, wetland importance, invasive plant removal, encouraging native plants and monitoring and maintenance.

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“Freeways and airports were America’s life, but we need to shift from that.” That is how Peter Calthorpe, of Calthorpe Associates from Berkeley, Calif., led into his talk about “Urbanism in the Age of Climate Change.”

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On a cloudy Saturday morning when most people would be at home sleeping in, or getting ready to watch football playoff games, or complaining about the less-than-stellar weather, students from the University of Washington, Bothell and Cascadia Community College packed Mobius Hall, prepared to spend a day serving the community as a way of celebrating the birthday of Martin Luther King Jr.

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