Looking for a way to honor, memorialize and appreciate the many people and businesses that have ties to Edmonds? Consider purchasing a brick in the Edmonds Historical Museum’s Plaza on 5th Avenue near Bell Street. A unique gift for an upcoming Mother’s or Father’s Day, the museum advises you to get your order in by April 12 to meet the spring 2024 installation deadline.
Rectangular gray pavers are $100, 8” x 8” gray pavers are $500 and 8” x 8” terra cotta bricks are $1,000. To order a brick online, visit historicedmonds.org/buy-a-brick.
The next installation will be in the fall, just in time for the holidays.
Who are the proceeds going to? Is it essentially a tax deductible donation to the City’s Museum?
On separate note, given the City’s budget problems, why isn’t City using a “public donation” or community volunteer approach to “funding” some of the things the people of Edmonds cherish such as Yost Park and its natural area which is essentially closed to the public because the Parks Dept. refuses to undertake a simple fix to the handrail on one of the bridges.
Many of us also cherish seeing the flower baskets around town and that long-standing VOLUNTEER effort by the Floretum Club is apparently being terminated by the Parks Dept even though it cost the City little to nothing (and I’m sure citizens would donate the ‘little’ money needed if asked).
Why aren’t donations or volunteer workers being asked for by the City as necessary to help with the City’s budget crisis?
This is a fundraiser to support the museum.
Regarding the flower baskets, I reached out to the city. Here’s the answer: “The baskets have been purchased and the plants have been growing since last fall. They will once again be a part of an Edmonds kind of summer.”
Thanks MEN. Good to know.
What can be done to restore existing bricks, especially the larger ($$$$) bricks in the center section, whose writing has become increasingly impossible to read?
New bricks will “fade” too unless this is solved.