I've lived in the central Kirkland neighborhood called Norkirk for 29 years and I've seen lots of changes in the direction I'm referring to. So, our new neighborhood blog site (www.whySKREAM.com) is an attempt to help return us to a strong feeling of community and connection with our neighbors. It'll look and feel even better when we get it moved over to our own server in the next 2-3 weeks.

Last month I mentioned our first neighborhood event, the donation drive for Eastside Baby Corner where Kirkland neighbors donated 15 TRUCKLOADS of used clothing for EBC. You can read about that drive on the EBC page of our blog site and view 14 different short videos to learn all about EBC, which is a fascinating organization. Our next event will be a neighborhood picnic in central Kirkland on August 28th. You can keep up to date on the picnic also on the same blog site.

Thanks for tuning in. We'll keep you advised on how our neighborhood events and the blog site progress over the next few months.


Giving back to the community
This month I want to announce that we are launching a new neighborhood blog site designed to create a sense of community and connection between neighbors and businesses in central Kirkland and the charities that serve folks in need in that area. I believe that people in our society are becoming more and more isolated from each other, more technology results in less person-to-person contact, there's very little sense of neighborhood or community compared to 50 and 100 years ago, that this isolation is causing us to feel lonely and disconnected in our lives and it doesn't feel good. We're all searching for some way to be involved with others, especially close to our homes, in our neighborhood and close-in community.