I interviewed Guillermo Covajal, social worker at Baldwin.  Twenty elementary schools are considered for closure in SSD for 2025-26.  In any case, the new and large Baldwin will take on twice their number of students.  Not a done deal yet, but Broadview looks to close sending their staff and students to JB.  District officials will speak at Baldwin on October7, at 6:30 under the topic “Well Resourced Schools.”  With the huge school deficit, the meeting will cover cost saving measures. We’re off to a good start with 3rd grade science.  Our overarching theme is saving orangutans from lost habitat due to palm oil production.  Students look at three islands as refuge.  They study the landscape, collect climate data and do weather experiments. Randy Baldwin Liaison

Baking   soda Baking  soda  is useful to have around for the obvious reason of  baking  but here are a few other great uses if you don’t already know about them…  Smell neutralizer - add an open box of baking soda to your fridge or closet to keep it smelling fresh.  Toothpaste - just a pinch of baking soda on your tooth brush works well for tooth brushing. It also helps whiten your teeth.  Natural drain cleaner - 1/2 cup baking soda and then 1/2 cup vinegar added to the drain and let sit for 30min. Then follow with 4-8 cups boiling water. This can help keep your drain clean and clear. Moss killer - A couple days before rain, dissolve 1 1/2cup of baking soda in 1 gallon water. Pour into garden sprayer (pump sprayer) and spray roof, paths, driveway, and patio where there is moss. Allow this to dry and the moss will slowly turn brown. If it rains and it still hasn’t turned brown don’t worry, it’s still working. The sunnier it is the faster it will turn. Once it has died, scrap /brush off

  Yes, we do have dancing around the Club.  As a matter of fact, a lot.  We have our monthly Community Dance, all ages second Saturday of month.  And then we have Creative Dance Center running throughout the day and some nights. Looking through the early Club scrapbooks from the 1920’s, you can’t help but notice the focus on Saturday night dances routinely once a month, no families, adults only.  It’s clear to me when they built the Clubhouse dancing was front and center.  To prove it the founders planned a stage with a large ballroom, and ladies powder room.  By 1969 the organ arrived and a false ceiling was placed over the two chandeliers. Can you imagine New Years Eve, an orchestra on stage,  attendees wearing their Sunday or slinky best, and no doubt, booze.  It was prohibition.  Price: couples 75 cents, ladies 25.  Advertisements went into the many local small newspapers and 1 cent stamp mailers were sent to members.  Teen and family dances followed, too.  My sibs and I danced roc

  This month's Tried & True recipe is from the kitchen of Doris Harkness. Please enjoy her famous Fresh Apple Cake!

  Each month, we will feature a recipe from a member of the Haller Lake community. Please send us your suggested recipes for this column!

  Here’s a letter from E. E. Saberhagen, employee of Puget Sound Power and Light Company, to Mr. Frank, a founding Club member on the Board.  Dated 1922. “Dear Sir: As I was driving up the North Trunk Road, my attention was attracted by a group of street lights , the only ones north of the city limits on the above road, and I remembered they lead to the Haller Lake District.  Likewise, I recalled that the people were contemplating putting in some additional lights.  How are they getting along?  If there is anything I can do, kindly call me at the Electric Company.” Can you imagine North Trunk Road?  We know it as Aurora today.  It was rural back then.  Haller Lake Circle, an early street pavement project almost standing alone.  Indeed, lights, too, were something of a first.  Seattle’s north city limits at the time?  Eighty-fifth Street just a stone’s throw from Green Lake. Randy Harkness Club Historian