The Green Resolution evening on Saturday, June 26 will kick off with a mini trade show highlighting local efforts to green the community, from community gardens to the Point Roberts Sustainability Forum. Adopt-a-tree and Transition Whatcom, promoting alternative energies, will also have information available. The trade show starts at 6 p.m. at the Gulf Road community center while the main program, featuring conservationist and eagle expert David Hancock, kicks off at 7 p.m.

Led by Point Roberts’ own Oscar nominee Bob Habros the Fourth of July parade will have an Academy Awards theme: “Oscars We Have Known.”
The parade will start at noon in the Breakers parking lot, where entries will be judged on everything from humor to artistic merit at 11:30. The parade ends at the marina and is followed by a Family Fun-Fest at Lighthouse Marine Park.

July is kids program month, and Point Roberts parks and recreation district organizers are ready to dish out three days a week of free fun for local and visiting kids.
This year Kids Camp leader Naomi Shucard has new activities planned to introduce the children to some sustainable living practices, from making natural soap to growing their own vegetables in the new community center garden beds.
For registration information call parks commissioner Linda Hughes at 945-0812 or email prparks@pointroberts.net. The program, sponsored by the parks district, is from Monday through Wednesday July 5 to 28.

While a capital projects bond request may have failed at the polls in March 2008, that didn’t mean that the need to improve school facilities went away. As a result, the Blaine school board is considering bringing a revised proposal to voters as soon as February of 2011.
While most of the facility issues pertain to the high school, there are other needs across the campus that need to be addressed. The Blaine school board will review responses from a recent online survey as they consider the range of options available for completing the most urgent of the facility work.
While board members are cautious about presenting a bond issue given the current economic climate, they also have expressed concern about doing nothing.
As one of them put it at a recent board meeting in Point Roberts, “just because the economy isn’t great right now, doesn’t mean that we can ignore the future.”