Summer 2010 Sense of Place Class Schedule:

Please pre-register for these classes by calling 509 447-2401 or emailing cmack@wsu.edu.
If class must be canceled, pre-registrants will be notified.
Classes are $5 per person, or a non-perishable food item may be substituted.

Saturday, June 5
Wildfire and Fuels Workshop—

Protecting Homes and Forestlands

9:00am-2:00pm • District #2 Fire Station at Tiger (3 miles south of Ione, WA)

Every summer dozens of structures and properties are threatened, damaged and destroyed by wildfires in the State of Washington. This free workshop will show you how to reduce the severity of wildfire damage and protect your home. Sessions include wildfire history;outdoor slash-burning rules and regulations; identifying and restoring native plants; creating and maintaining firewise landscapes; how fuels reduction affects wildlife habitat; demonstrations of fuel reducing methods. Dress appropriately for some outdoor sessions. Bring a sack lunch. Beverages and cookies will be provided. Please pre-register at 447-2401 or email cpogson@wsu.edu

Saturday, June 12
Idaho-Washington Forest Owners Field Day

9:00am - 4:30pm • Athol, Idaho
registration 20$ individual/$30 family Call 447-2401 to receive a flyer for this event or download from http://ext.wsu.edu/forestry

Attend six different hands-on sessions, choosing from over 30 forestry and water-related topics. Watch demonstrations on horse-logging, small-scale forestry technology, mushroom cultivation, birds of prey , fish-shocking, biomass, and more. Order on-site BBQ lunch, or bring your own. Sponsored by WSU and UI Extension and over 20 other state, federal and local agencies and organizations.

July 10-11
Pend Oreille Valley Lavender Festival

Newport City Park at 1st and Calispel Saturday, 9am to 7 pm, Sunday 10 am to 4pm

Enjoy new vendors, microbrew and wine tasting in the Tuscan garden, model train displays and demonstrations, festival fairies, children's art tent, firewise landscape booth and lavender crafting with WSU Master Gardeners. Eat lunch in the Bistro, and listen to musicians, including Ray Allen, the Charley Packard Band, Six Foot Swing and Locust Street Taxi. Albeni Falls Pipes, Drums and Dancers concert Friday evening. In 2009, more than 3000 adults and 333 children from 45 states attended the festival. Entry fee is $5 for adults and children over age 12.

Saturday, July 17

Water, Weeds, and Wunch (Whoops, that's Lunch!)

Kalispel Camas Wellness Center, 1821 N. LeClerc Road, 9:00 am – 3:30 pm

Aquatic invaders are a wildfire spreading in our waters. Join us for the day to learn about solutions to Eurasian milfoil, quagga mussels, and other introduced species. Share your concerns and success stories at a round-table discussion. A line-up of guest speakers will move you to action for preventing and managing invasives. Workshop and lunch are free, but pre-registration is required by July 10 for lunch count, by calling 447-2401, or emailing cpogson@wsu.edu

Sunday, Aug. 1

Master Gardener Garden Tour and Dinner

Join WSU Master Gardeners on the annual tour of some of Pend Oreille County’s most beautiful and productive gardens. Both novice and experienced gardeners will find much to learn about selecting plants, coping with a challenging climate, avoiding damage from deer and other pests. A catered dinner is available to cap the day. Reservations for the dinner must be received by July 23. Registration forms will be available at the Extension office and plant clinic locations, and at http://pendoreille.wsu.edu

Thursday, Aug. 5

Family stream day

10 am- 2pm Free

Bring the kids and a picnic lunch and join wildlife biologists from KNRD and WSU Extension for an exploration of the aquatic life of a creek, We will also look at the butterflies, birds and plants in the meadow surrounding it. Meet at the site on Indian Creek. Travel approximately 7 miles northwest from Newport on LeClerc Road to Indian Creek Road, then about one mile to Geophysical Observatory Road and follow signs to site. Bring sunscreen, lunch, old shoes for wading, field guides and insect nets if you have them. Free, but phone 447-2401 or email cpogson@wsu.edu to pre-register and to reserve handouts.

While We're Waiting....—

Summer Workshops for Women over 40

While we're waiting for what? For the dust to settle about global warming and climate change. In the meantime, let's see what we can do on an individual level to stay in charge of our own lives, get some things done, learn something new, and develop more I-can-deal-with this skills. Even though we say “women over 40,” there will be room for their guests of any age and sex. You are all invited! But for your information, women over 40 are considered a “protected class” in Civil Rights legislation, so why not start with us?

Three workshops will be held this summer. Topics include how to build a straw bale house, and finish the inside walls, how to can your garden produce outside in your own backyard; how to make and successfully use your own root cellar. The sure date so far is Tuesday, July 20, 5:30 pm for our “Get Out of the Kitchen and Into the Yard “home canning” workshop for safely preserving green beans. Each participant will can one pint, and while waiting we will discuss food safety and preservation issues, eat, and sip homemade teas from the Pend Oreille Wild. Please contact the Extension office 447-2401, www.pendoreille.wsu.edu or email jlambarth@wsu.edu for more details, dates and registration information.

August 19-22

County Fair

County Fairgrounds in Cusick

The county fair offers competition, excitement and a wide variety of educational exhibits. Be sure to attend, and consider contacting the fair board for information about volunteer opportunities.

More info about the 2010 fair is available at http://www.povn.com/pocofair

August 28

Pend Oreille River Celebration

Come by boat or land to celebrate the Pend Oreille River. Try out kayaks, standing surfboards, fishing gear and other water toys with instruction from vendors and guides. Learn about fish, birds, bugs and other water creatures. Find out about Leave-No-Trace recreation, wildflower identification, traditional plant use, hydropower, and the geology and history of the river. Sponsored by Pend Oreille River Tourism Alliance (PORTA) and the Pend Oreille River Water Trail steering
committee. For more information go to www.porta-us.com

Master Gardener Plant Clinics

For plant and bug ID, and garden advice, visit with WSU Master Gardeners on Thursdays from 6 -8 pm at the Newport Library, or Tuesdays from 11am to 3 pm at the Ione Library. Email questions and pictures to cmack@wsu.edu or drop samples off at the Extension office, S. 418 Scott, in Newport.