Redmond Reporter, April 26, 2013

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Redmond Saturday Market starts May 4 This year, the market will feature about 10 new vendors and their products While it may be next include jewelry, dog toys, to impossible to find toffee, tea, clothes and avocados, oranges, baartwork. nanas or any other type Godwin, who is also a of warm-climate produce vendor and has been selling at the Redmond Saturday his artwork at the market Market, shoppers can look for 18 years, said they will forward to finding a variety have about 130 vendors toof locally grown fruits and tal for the upcoming season vegetables and more come and the market has room opening day on May 4. for about 85 vendors on any Located at 7730 Leary given Saturday. Way N.E. As a longdowntown, time vendor, the market Godwin will run said his from 9 a.m. favorite to 3 p.m. thing about every Satthe market urday, rain is “just beor shine, ing there.” through Oct. He said he 26. This will enjoys seebe its 38th ing the new season and items and just as it has artwork. In in years past, addition, this year’s Godwin market said just by will feature The Redmond Saturday Market will talking with products his fellow begin the 2013 season on May 4. — which File photo vendors, he range from has learned produce and a lot of background inforherbs to jams and sauces to mation about what goes arts and crafts — all grown, into their final products. made and manufactured in Godwin added that the Washington. market is also a good place “It’s very important to for vendors to test the waus,” market President Pete ters on new products, start Godwin said about keeping small and receive customer things in Washington, addfeedback before going “fulling that their vendors come blown.” from all over the state. In addition to a variety He said their customers of vendors, Godwin said atlike to buy local, straight tendees can look forward to from the grower. a number of market staples “It’s not all polished and including Zucchini Races, waxed. It’s the ‘real McCoy,’” Kids Day, master gardeners Godwin said about how [ more Market page 5 ] fresh the market produce is. By Samantha Pak

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Above, Steevie Bereiter, operations supervisor at Waste Management’s Cascade Recycling Center in Woodinville, discusses the various machines they use to separate recyclables. Below, Kristin Kinder, education and outreach coordinator for Waste Management, listens to a Redmond resident’s question about the recycling process. Samantha Pak, Redmond Reporter

Residents visit recycling center on Earth Day By Samantha Pak

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ng Session! A LEARNING PROCESS To do their part in

helping protect the environment, a group of Redmond residents spent part of their Earth Day visiting Waste Management’s Cascade Recycling Center (CRC) in Woodin-

ville to learn more about what happens to things after the collection truck sets their bins back down on the curb. Aparna Varadharajan has always been curious

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about this and so she signed her family up for the CRC tour as soon as she learned about the opportunity. The Redmond resident said they had already visited the Cedar Hills Regional Landfill in Maple Valley and wanted to learn about the other side of the process. Varadharajan said if people were able to see and understand what happens to their recyclables, they would be more likely to participate. City of Redmond recycling coordinator Stacey Auer agreed. [ more earth page 3 ]


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