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Veg Club Returns Feb. 6: Get Ready for a New Year of Fresh Food

The popular Veg Club returns for its 2024 season on February 6 with a class on achieving the best start for your garden. Learn how to choose the best site and bed type, where to get local amendments, and all about local community gardens so you can have a garden even if you have no space. You’ll also get Northwest-adapted seed sources and precise, region-specific planting calendars.

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Island Visionaries Talk About Developing a Future Mindset, Jan. 23

Bob Johansen, a futurist and author, and our own Scott James, founder of Bainbridge Prepares and author of Prepared Neighborhoods, will participate in an interactive dialogue about “Being Future-Ready in the Noisy Now” on January 23. The two will discuss the mindset it will take to thrive in a world that is increasingly volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous. They will look at how we can individually and collectively be more prepared in the present.

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Don’t Be Cold! Get to a Severe Weather Shelter or Warming Center

Temperatures way below our normal are expected through Monday night. Tonight’s predicted low is 14°F, Saturday night temps will drop to 17°F, and Sunday we can expect about 22°F. During the day, temps will be in the 20s through Sunday and then climb to about 34°F by Monday. If you are cold, seek warm shelter—these temps are life threatening with any prolonged exposure.

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Volunteer 24 for 24

Helpline House, Island Volunteer Caregivers, and Bainbridge Prepares have partnered for 24 for 24, a community-wide effort to increase volunteering on the island. The partners ask everyone who can to give 24 hours to whatever cause they choose in 2024.

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Bainbridge Is Now Tsunami and Storm Ready

The National Weather Service (NWS) just awarded Bainbridge Island with its TsunamiReady® and StormReady® designations. The designations mean the City has followed NWS guidelines for enhancing public safety in face of the likelihood of a post-earthquake tsunami reaching the island’s shores or of storm surges that affect the coastline.

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BP Gets Its Party on

More than 100 fun-loving BP volunteers crammed into the Senior Center event room Friday night, December 15, to celebrate preparedness, our prepared community, and, most important, one another.

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This Holiday Season, Give the Gift of Preparedness

Instead of giving people things they don’t need this year, why not show them how much you care by giving them the gift of preparedness? There are tons of preparedness gifts to choose from, in a wide range of prices that can work as Hanukkah gifts, stocking stuffers, host gifts, and even presents for the entire family.

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