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"My Front Door" Art Gallery Event

May 31st— 6 to 8pm: A Gallery of Art-Doors and SideWalk Story-Doors. Please join us for an informal and fun evening with appetizers, wine, beer and non-alcoholic drinks.

Fundraiser and Art-Door auction at the Schoenfeld Building.

Tickets: $25 each.

Find A Door! Rules and Information

Submitted by Emma Margraf on Tue, 05/14/2013 - 14:44

Hello! Starting May 14th, SideWalk and MIXX 96 are running a contest where you will help us find doors painted by local artists that are at locations all around town. MIXX 96 will be airing clues every morning and those who post the answers on our facebook page (www.facebook.com/walkthurston) will be in the running for daily prizes and a grand prize at the end. See below for contest rules and happy hunting! 

 

My Front Door

Contest Rules for Find the Door event for Mixx96.1

Love For A Change

Submitted by Emma Margraf on Wed, 03/06/2013 - 17:37

Last May Merrill Williams got up in front of a room full of SideWalk supporters and told her story of decades of addiction and domestic violence. She said she'd asked for help several times, but couldn't work with the people who offered it because she felt like she was a paycheck to them, not a person.

A Question of Values

Submitted by Phil on Tue, 12/18/2012 - 16:53

Mayor Buxbaum and Members of the Olympia City Council,

As a program of Interfaith Works, SideWalk is essentially a faith-based program. We are not rooted in any particular faith but rather in a set of values that are shared in common by a diverse group of volunteers who come from many faith backgrounds.

These values, derived from the core of every faith and creed, form the foundation of our work:

Letter to the City Council

Submitted by Phil on Thu, 12/13/2012 - 14:48

Mayor Buxbaum and Members of the Olympia City Council,

Eleven years ago I listened as then-Mayor Stan Biles declared that somethingmust be done about homelessness downtown – before the coming summer.  The City Council was considering a set of ordinances to ban camping, car camping, and panhandling in the city.  Civic leaders spoke of an urgent crisis, declaring that the problems downtown were the worst they had seen and the city could no longer tolerate “problem behaviors.”

Thanks to you. And you. And you.

Submitted by Emma Margraf on Tue, 11/27/2012 - 16:13

At the beginning of November I noticed that folks on Facebook were expressing gratitude for a different thing in their lives every day. I thought about doing that on my personal page, but then had a thought: non-profits are often so need based. Why not express gratitude every day on behalf of SideWalk for all of the things we have? While we certainly have needs (operational funding, coffee, more volunteers), we also have abundance.

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