Polly Dyer – Seattle • Entered by Penelope Peterson on December 31, 2023
Broadband Meeting
October 26, 2023 – October 26, 2023
Participants and Hours
| Pre Planning hours | 2 |
| Post Admin hours | 1 |
| Activity Hours | 2.75 |
| Participants | 1 |
| Total Hours | 5.75 |
Key Issue: Multiple apply
Activity Type: Broadband Meeting (prep, implementation & follow up)
Key Partners: Polly Dyer Seattle Broads
Short Description of Activity
Our Broadband met at Cathy Gorrell’s home in West Seattle at noon on Thursday, October 26, 2023. Cathy provided warm autumn butternut squash soup and beverages. Broads brought their own lunches if they wished. Here is the agenda for our meeting:
Agenda for Polly Dyer Seattle Broadband Meeting
October 26, 2023 at noon at Cathy Gorrell’s home in West Seattle
What to Bring: Your lunch and $20 if you want to purchase a one-of-a kind Polly Dyer Seattle Broadband bandana, hand-dyed and printed with an old-growth tree and an endangered native flower by Taylor Clay. Penelope will send out a photo of the bandanas before the meeting. Cathy will provide a pot of soup/stew; Penelope will bring gluten-free dessert. Cathy will give a tour of her garden. Cathy’s address is 3805 SW Orchard St., Seattle, WA.
Introductions and welcome new members
Stewardship Activity for Forest Week/Green Seattle (Barb Muirhead) Multiple volunteer opportunities are available. Barb suggests registering for the one at Magnuson Park on Nov. 4th sponsored by seattle.greencitypartnerships.org.
Advocacy Issues
Breach the Lower Snake River Dams (Penelope and Susan Kostick)
Protect the Alpine Lakes area (Janna and Shelley)
Stop the construction of the asphalt plant on the Cedar River (update from Barbara Phalen and Nora on issues they were to investigate)
Stop logging of the Legacy Forests in Washington (Genia)
Protect Icicle Creek (Barbara Phalen)
4. Fun and Education
Save the date for our Regional Broadwalk on June 24-27th, 2024, at Cornet Bay Retreat Center, Whidbey Island. Barb Muirhead has reserved this site for us. Cabins, tent sites, and RV sites will be available. Barb, Susan Kostick, and Penelope constitute the program committee and will organize hikes, stewardship activities, speakers, and food. If you have suggestions, please send them to the program committee. Online registration will be available in January.
Upcoming Events;
October 24th at 7 pm via Zoom, Book Club discussion of, The Entangled Life: How Fungi Make our Worlds, Change our Minds, and Shape our Futures by Merlin Sheldrake. Let Penelope know if you are not a regular Book Club participant but would like to attend so she can send you the Zoom link.
November 16th at noon–GRATITUDE potluck and meeting at Penelope’s house (3514 E Conover Ct., Seattle, WA 98122). We will gather to celebrate our steady advocacy for the environment these last five years and to give thanks for the learning we have done, the fun we’ve had, and the friends we have made along the way.
Reflection/Evaluation
We had a nice turn-out of fifteen Broads for this meeting. We heard reports and talked about the several advocacy issues on our agenda. However, we had the most spirited discussion of our newest advocacy initiative–protecting “legacy forests” in the state of Washington. Our Advocacy Chair, Genia Moncada, spent a lot of time reading from the state’s written documents defining “legacy forests” and indicating that these forests are intended to be logged on a regular basis, with the money from the logging sales going to support education in the state of Washington. We decided that we want to pursue this issue further, and we asked Genia and Janka to draft a written advocacy statement on “legacy forests” for us to consider at our next meeting. We were encouraged by how many Broads showed keen interest in the “legacy forest” issue at this meeting. Their interest was likely sparked by hearing the speaker on “Legacy Forests” from the Center for Responsible Forestry at our September meeting via Zoom and by our Broads’ participation in two hikes to different Legacy Forests, conducted jointly with the Center for Responsible Forestry.
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1. Minutes of our October 26th meeting