If a person wanted to come for an afternoon, or a weekend morning, is there some place that we can drop the money to help support the Urban Horticulture Center?

Christine Southwick
N Seattle/ Shoreline

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On Thu, 27 Jan 2011, Connie Sidles wrote:

> Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 13:09:44 -0800
> From: Connie Sidles <constancesidles at gmail.com>
> To: tweeters <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
> Subject: [Tweeters] Fill parking
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> Hey tweets, yesterday I bought an annual pass for parking at the CUH. It will cost me less than $1 a day to park at my favorite place on earth - a real bargain.?
> I also spoke with the CUH people about this issue, and I learned something very interesting. The CUH must pay rent (an internal but very real cost) to the UW parking dept.
> for the spaces at the CUH. This charge runs to some $3,000 a month! If the CUH cannot keep paying this amount (and it looks doubtful that they can, given the dire state of
> legislative support for higher ed), then what might happen is the parking dept. could take over the parking fees themselves.?
> If they do that, the fees are bound to go up significantly, not to mention the hassle factor. This has already happened at the laughably retro name for the parking dept.'s
> E-5 lot: the Dime Lot. Years ago, a dime is what it cost to park there, on the theory that students needed a price break and this lot is a goodly distance from main campus
> so prices should be low. Although we all know that prices have gone up since the 1950s, I will note that at the current all-day parking fee of $15, the Dime Lot cost
> increased by 15,000 percent.
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> As the CUH struggles to stay afloat in this economy, the staff are doing all they can to keep the Fill as inviting and open as possible. The parking fee, while a change from
> the past, is their good-faith effort to ask all of us to contribute a little bit to keep this jewel of a birding spot shining as brightly as it has for decades.?
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> In light of this commitment, the CUH is offering good deals on the parking fees:
> Daily rate of $2.50 (vs. UW Parking Dept.'s fee of $15)
> 10 days or less: $19 (less than $2 a day)
> Monthly rate: $28 (less than $1 a day)
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> They also note that parking is free on Saturdays after noon, all day Sunday, every holiday, and whenever the CUH main building is closed.
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> So I ask you to be generous in this needful time, as generous as you can afford to be and as I know you are.?
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> On a less monetary note, the Western Meadowlark who has made the Fill his winter home was in the tallest cottonwood of the South Blue Forest yesterday, singing along with
> his cousins, the Red-winged Blackbirds. Talk about fusion music: we were treated to a concert of bagpipes and flute, with the occasional piccolo of starlings. It was like
> being at a performance of the Scottish HIghland Games held at Benaroya Hall as the drum and bugle corps marches in the aisles. My ears are still ringing.- Connie, Seattle
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> constancesidles at gmail.com
> www.constancypress.com
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