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• All-Star Softball Classic for Homeless Youth

  Have fun watching legends Dan Wilson, Jay Buhner and Edgar Martinez play ball, and help raise money for homeless kids.

• Doing Good: Where Kids and Families Can Volunteer

  We have some great ideas for how your family can help out and have fun together making a difference.

• Celebrity Story Time Raises Money to Provide Books for Kids in Need

  An eclectic group, including a chef, break dancer and athletes from the Seattle Sounders, Husky Football and Rat City Roller Girls teams, read aloud the first books they remember falling in love with.

• Tiger Cub “Kali” Makes Public Debut

• Giving Gardens

  Lettuce Link connects freshly-grown produce with food banks, allowing gardeners to share their harvest with people for whom fresh produce can really make a difference.

• Family Volunteer Activity: Help Build Food Gardens

  On May 18, Seattle Tilth’s Just Garden Project will bring people together in Redmond to build food gardens for community members with limited financial resources.

• Two Babies Born in Two Weeks at Point Defiance Zoo

  It's been a great few weeks at the zoo, where an endangered clouded leopard and an endangered Sumatran tiger both gave birth to healthy cubs.

• Edmonds Mom’s Story Published in the New York Times

  Five years after her husband suffered a serious brain injury, Sarah Kishpaugh's powerful and inspiring story about the impact on her family was featured in the New York Times.

• Seattle Times: Lawmakers still have ‘a lot of work to do’ on education

  State lawmakers ended their regular session Sunday after passing only a handful of major education-policy bills. The issue will be a focus of the special session, leaders said.