South Puget Sound Habitat for Humanity is in great need of people to build gingerbread houses for our inaugural Gingerbread Holiday Cottages Competition.

On November 29th and 30th, we’ll join with the Olympia Downtown Association to kick off the holidays in grand fashion - and we hope you’ll be right there with us! Here is an opportunity to display your creative talent. This showplace is for all lovers of gingerbread, frosting and candy - especially when you channel that love into building a “one of a kind” masterpiece. Join with your family or friends (a child or grandchild, your neighbor, a church friend, or anyone who has a flair with gumdrops!) to take part in this very community oriented activity. And in the process you’ll be contributing to the materials for another Habitat home.

If you have ever wanted to try and build a gingerbread house here is your chance.Visit the SPS Habitat web page for more info. 

Questions? Call Peg at 791-7487 or Susan at 239-1386.

We will have a new display of work from Seattle artist Kate Endle beginning on November 7, 2008. Join us for your first peek during First Friday from 5-9pm.

Her collages and illustrations have made their way into a variety of publications, books and media including The Utne Reader, Sesame Street Workshop, Macy's & Yamaha to name a few. Her work could be seen most recently hanging at Anthropologie in Seattle.

Original work as well as prints will be available for purchase at Home Body, Eco-Luxe Living through December 2008.

Please join us for the 2008 Gingerbread Holiday Cottages Competition sponsored by South Puget Sound Habitat for Humanity. The event is being hosted to support and bring community awareness to our organization, to join the Olympia Downtown Association in celebrating the holidays, and to tap into the creative magic that is abundant in our community. The event will be held Saturday and Sunday, Nov. 29-30, 12-5PM at the Olympia Ballroom above the Urban Onion, 116 Legion Way SE, Olympia.

This is the first year of the Gingerbread Holiday Cottages competition, and we have high hopes for the event. We look forward to seeing the magic of creativity that I know the participants will bring to the event. There are three divisions of competition: “Professional,” “Sponsored,” and “Community/Family.” There will be 1st, 2nd and 3rd prizes in all three categories and the entries will be judged at the opening of the competition by a delegate of the major sponsoring business. There will also be a “people’s choice” winner determined by the most number of tickets sold to the visiting public. That award will be named at the end of the competition. All judging will be based on overall appearance, originality, creativity, seasonal theme, craftsmanship, architecture, and adherence to the contest rules.

Cindy Sheehan is Running for Congress!

Please help and support Sheehan for Congress 2008

Sunday, June 8th, 2008

7 PM to 9 PM (doors open at 6 PM)

Minnaert Center at SPSCC

See below for ticketing, and more information.

For a closer view Mouse-click the individual posters. Sometimes there are mouseovers, so check...if you're into that sort of thing. If you're interested in movie or Theater times their posters are hyperlinked to their respective schedules.

If your event is not on here I apologize. I do not always see every flyer and sometimes the pictures fuzz up and are illegible.

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Come out to the Thurston County Fairgrounds on Monday night and get 3 hours of great information on new and exciting technologies from Microsoft and other sources.

Adam Kinney will present information on Silverlight 2.0. Woody Pewitt will talk about Internet Explorer 8 and the Code Trip Bus Cam. Jason Mauer will take us Under the Hood of the code Trip, explaining the technologies used on the bus and on the website.

Thousands of dollars worth of software will be given away from Infragistics (NetAdvantage for .NET), Telerik (RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX, RadControls for WinForms, Telerik Reporting,Sitefinity CMS), Identity Mine (Blendables Essentials Mix) and copies of CodeRush by Devexpress. Along with all of that goodness, there will be some foam Code Trip Buses and Code Trip Laptop sleeves given away. Free stuff and free high quality presentations -- you don't want to miss this.

To answer a question posed by some of you, sorry, no food this time, but grab something on the way out to the fairgrounds and stuff your face while while Jason, Woody and Adam stuff our brains full of new and shiny information.

"Are you ready for the Code Trip to come to Olympia?  Jason Mauer is coming back to Olympia with a tour bus full of geeks.  They'll be pulling up to the Thurston County Fairgrounds on Monday, April 14th.  There will be giveaways, and great information on the newest technology from great presenters.

Have you been tracking the Code Trip?  They started in Las Vegas at MIX08 on March 7th and headed north.  They've made about 13 stops since then and Olympia will be the last one before arriving at the MVP Summit in Seattle on Tuesday, April 15th.  The capacity of our venue is 288, let's see how close we can get to that total, ok? 

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