Heart in the Park featured by ShanzDev

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Display this heart in your window to let the world know your heart is with them during this pandemic. A local mom heard about an effort in the Midwest to display hearts in windows to show support for medical personnel fighting to help COVID-19 victims. Her son and daughter-in-law work in a local ER. She worries about them every day, but knows they are fighting for others and she is thankful. 

Please join us in showing support for them and others who are fighting to stop this pandemic and keep us safe.

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Laissez les bons temps rouler! We invite you to join us for the 1st Annual Mardi Gras Dinner & Auction to benefit the Friends of Normandy Park programs, events, festivals, community and more! Save the Date and buy your tickets. Tickets are available to purchase on eventbrite. Buy Now! Email us at info@friendsofnormandypark.org

The holidays are right around the corner! Are you ready for FREE arts & crafts, Santa hats, antlers, toys, Santa's rock star entrance, holiday vendors and SNOW? Join us at Normandy Park's 7th Annual Winterfest & Tree Lighting Ceremony on Saturday, December 7th!!

Plus - Check out our 1st annual custom-designed Normandy Park gluhwein boots/mugs from Germany! They're 100% sponsored, so every dollar goes back into Normandy Park to pay for projects, programs and events that help our community. $10 each. Buy one today! THANK YOU Tay Adam Krull, Waste Management, Manhattan Village and our angel donors!

We had a great time at Fall Frolic this past weekend on Saturday September 28th at Marvista Park. Thank you to everyone who came to visit our booth and participated in the raffle. Thank you also to our pumpkin sponsor Matvey Foundation Repair, Pea Patch gardener Rob Rencher, the Des Moines Area Food Bank, QFC, Starbucks and the City of Normandy Park (Parks Department)! 🎃🌻 The pumpkins were so much fun to decorate!

Thank you to everyone who attended our babysitter course and participated in the Pet Food Drive, we really appreciate the support and participation. Looking for more fun community events? We're happy to say that we've added more events and programming plans for 2019 & 2020! 

Head on over to our events calendar for details about what's in-store for the rest of the year. We're looking forward to another magical event with our Winterfest Treelighting Ceremony and Holiday Festivities. But first, we're bringing back our National Night Out with the Normandy Park Police Department to celebrate in August. Keep checking our calendar for more details! Spring 2020 event planning is underway. 

On  a sunny Saturday morning, May 18, three boys and eleven girls settled into the Community Room in the Normandy Park city hall to spend a few hours learning new skills.  CPR Seattle provided an instructor to prepare the youngsters to learn about the ins and outs of babysitting through its Babysitter Training Class and Certification.

The  day included practice with partners and lots of time for questions and gaining knowledge about childcare as a neighborhood babysitter, and a delicious lunch. Diapers and toddler mannequins are among the props used to get detailed ideas across to the students. Students learned basics for infant choking and basic steps of CPR. 

After a successful day of learning, the children in the class got an American Safety and Health Institute (ASHI) certificate that assured parents who are future clients that the babysitter from this class has learned about child and babysitting safety from a certified instructor. Children also learned to write a resume to help them build their skills for getting possible babysitting clients. 

It is planned to have training sessions in the future for those girls and boys who want to spend some of their time doing something helpful for the adults and children in their neighborhood plus hone skills that demonstrate responsibility and earn some money too! 

Happy National Police Week 2019 from the Friends of Normandy Park! To say thank you to our beloved police officers for all that you do to keep our community safe the Friends of Normandy Park board and fellow citizens organized a coffee meet-up at Empire Coffee Saturday, May 18. 

Our Coffee For Cops event at Empire Coffee was a fantastic success. The gathering included perfect pastries, amazing espresso and an excellent community turnout! Thank you to all who stopped in to say hello, made donations, and a special thank you to Empire Coffee for your hospitality and kind donations. ☕️

Thank you to all who donated pet food for the pet food drive from April 29 - May 12. Together, the Friends of Normandy Park and local businesses collected over 415 pounds of cat food, dog food, pet treats and supplies to pets waiting to find their new home. 

Thank you to Burien C.A.R.E.S. and Precious the pup for helping us unload the food, supplies and pet treats! Thank you to our business drop sites: Paws in the Park, Soggy Doggy, Northwest Clinic of Chiropractic and Burien Berkshire Hathaway. 

To help out with our future pet food drives contact info@friendsofnormandypark.org

Last week the Friends of Normandy Park Foundation kicked off our spring Pet Food Drive partnering with businesses to support local animal shelters. You can help too, by dropping off pet food donations and pet gear to one of the drop sites: Paws In The Park, Soggy Doggy, Northwest Clinic of Chiropractic, and Berkshire Hathaway in Burien. To participate hurry and drop off a donation by Saturday May 12th!

Manhattan Village Festivities 

Arts & crafts at Starbucks. Santa, carolers, cookie decorating and a school choir at QFC!

11:00am-1pm

11am-11:30am - Marvista Choir (QFC & Starbucks)

11am-1pm - Silver Bells Carolers (strolling around Manhattan Village)

Normandy Park Towne Center - Tree Lighting Ceremony 

Visit booths, enjoy free treats and music from the Silverbells Carolers

5:00pm – Festival begins! 

5:30pm – Winterfest's tree lighting countdown begins!

5:35pm – Let's welcome a special guest by singing Here Comes Santa Claus!

5:45pm – St. Francis Choir 

5:55pm – Pacific Middle School Choir

6:05pm – Marvista Ensemble

6:15pm – Mt. Rainier High School Choir

6:30pm – Festival ends. Merry Christmas & see you in 2019!