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Watch the bus shelter and trees by Ronald Bog - Community Art is alive in Shoreline

Tuesday, August 27, 2013

Panels for the bus shelter

Less than two weeks until SummerSet Arts Festival: Celebrating Ronald Bog happens on September 7th from 1-5pm. 

Recycled CDs covered with yarn and fabric

This summer leading up to the free-to-the-public celebration day has included many art parties around town at local events such as Solarfest, YMCA day camp, the Farmer's Market at City Hall, local knitting group meetings, and gatherings at Ronald Bog Park on N 175th St.

Tree project ornaments
Under coordinating artist Kathy Plants' direction, hundreds of Shoreline residents aged 4-88 years old have transformed a mountain of discarded cd's and donated yarn into 450+ wildly colorful fuzzy ornaments to be installed next week on the tree-lined block in front of Ronald Bog Park. This corridor will be further transformed with texture-rich fabric covered wood panels temporarily installed at the Metro Bus shelter and the Shoreline Ponies will have surprise enhancements for the festival as well.

Felted rocks for the rock wall

On festival day, local volunteer resident artists will lead FREE two-dimensional and three-dimensional art-making booths and make music together. Local sculptors will display their large works that include a brightly colored enormous curvy wrapped tree branch, a giant human-sized nest, a colorful felted rock wall, and more.

Wrapped rocks, ready for felting

The day promises to be one that ignites creativity and celebrates community! For more info, contact Cynthia Knox, 206-218-3302.


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Ronald Bog Park update

Tuesday, April 28, 2020

Photo by Steven H. Robinson

The Sound Transit mitigation project to restore the wetlands at Ronald Bog Park, remove the chunks of cement from the grounds, and replant with native plants is starting to look like a park instead of a construction project!

The photos were taken within the week and show the progress and the growth that spring has brought to the park.

Rebecca McAndrew, Sound Transit Senior Environmental Planner reported:

Most of the work is finished at Ronald Bog. The contractor should be hydroseeding the lawn outside of the mitigation area this week. The ideal time to hydroseed is after March when there is no chance of frost. 

Hydroseeding will take place very soon
Photo by Steven H. Robinson


The three interpretive signs to be installed are almost done. The parking lot will need to be restriped and there could be a few other minor things that need to be done before the park is reopened. 

The sandbag wall will be removed
Photo by Steven H. Robinson


The sandbag wall (also called a cofferdam) isolates the work area from the rest of the pond so sediment-laden water (stirred up while the contractor disturbs soil) doesn’t enter the main pond and flow downstream on the North Branch of Thornton Creek. 

The “fish window” — when in-water work may occur — for Ronald Bog is July 1 to September 30. 

Since work continued after September 30, the wall had to be left over the winter and spring. The sandbags will be removed once the fish window opens again.


 This is the plan being followed for the park.


Sound Transit My Nguyen reports that

Our crew is working on striping the parking lot and hydro-seeding the park which will take approximately three more weeks until it is completed. During this three weeks it will allow our team to assess if the park can be open to the public.  
The re-opening event will be postponed until it is deemed safe to gather in large groups by our state governor. An email alert will be sent out to our readers featuring a date of the event so community members can come enjoy the new amenities to the park.

Article updated 4-29-2020


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Shoreline Breakfast Rotary plants trees at Ronald Bog

Wednesday, December 16, 2009

Volunteers from the Shoreline Breakfast Rotary spent a Saturday morning in December planting ten Oregon conifers in Ronald Bog Park.

Pictured are Dick Nicholson, Connor O’Neil, Harley O'Neil, Mike Rancich, Dan Lyons, and Riley O’Neil.

The Breakfast Rotary has been making improvements to Ronald Bog park since before Shoreline was incorporated, starting with the shelter next to the lake and then to the tree projects. In recent years, they have worked in cooperation with Shoreline Parks to bring in the kiosk and improve the trail in the park.

Dick Nicholson, who drove to Oregon to buy the trees from a native plant nursery, says that by expanding the arboretum project to conifers from the entire Northwest, including Oregon and Idaho, they were able to bring in unusual trees.


Ronald Bog is the Breakfast Rotary’s main civic project. Volunteers Nicholson, Harley O’Neil and Mike Rancich relax after a successful operation. Not pictured but present, Randy Schnabel.

Photos by Randy Schnabel

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SummerSet Arts Festival at Ronald Bog this Saturday

Tuesday, September 11, 2012

Meghan Lancaster will create a "disappearing art work"
similar to this Grove Shrine

On Saturday, September 15th, 2012, from 1-5pm, the Meridian Park Neighborhood will celebrate at Ronald Bog Park with the first ever SummerSet Arts Festival. 

This free event  invites all ages to participate in several fun and artistic activities including: live music, dance and drumming performances, fun kids activities, and art making stations. 

Anne Guthrie and Andy Beveroth work with artist Meghan Lancaster

There will be park and arboretum tours as well as a sculpture exhibition. Volunteers have restored Ronald Bog Park (175th and Meridian in Shoreline) over the summer and the SummerSet Arts Festival will celebrate their ongoing success within the park and community.

Local resident and artist Cynthia Knox is pioneering the festival with the approval of the Shoreline Parks Board. Artist Meghan Lancaster will create a Disappearing Artwork sculpture from natural materials found within the park that will remain until they naturally disintegrate. During the festival she will guide visitors to complete this sculpture. 

The Unearth Collective will also create a site-specific piece that will remain in the park. 

Glass and light sculptor Carol Milne will create a piece to be viewed across the park lake on the distant shore. 

Mary Coss creating her giant conch shell

Seattle artist and advocate for community art Mary Coss will be installing a giant conch shell on a floating pier in the bog. The shell will have a soundtrack so visitors can also experience her sculpture through music and poetry.

She is “committed to placemaking as a way to humanize the built environment. Art can be a vehicle to transform a community, and when done in collaboration with good design, it can contribute to a community with a soul. My experience integrating artwork into the urban setting has made apparent to me the impact of art on neighborhoods and the people who live there, I believe in its value.”

The Floating Shell being position on the Bog

The Shoreline Children’s Center is creating a labyrinth installation as well as a clay turtle mandala. A hands-on art table will keep kids busy making kites and other crafts. Performing artists will bring music and entertainment. Among them, Brittain Barber will lead a jazz duo and local Shoreline resident Elena DeLisle-Perry will provide bluegrass and old-time music including a square dance.

A 'yarn-bomber installs a tree sock on N 175th
Photo by Susan Armstrong

Spreading the word and keeping the community involved, Cynthia Knox continues to bring a community art-making table to different locations and events in the Shoreline area during the summer. The pieces created at the art-making table, like tree socks, will be featured in the festival. 

The SummerSet Arts Festival has found tremendous support; it has received a Shoreline Dept. of Neighborhoods mini-grant through the Meridian Park Neighborhood Association. The City of Shoreline and the Shoreline-Lake Forest Parks Arts Council are co-sponsoring this exciting summer event. Bring a lawn chair or blanket and a picnic and plan to spend a wonderful afternoon in the park!


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Sound Transit begins mitigation work at Ronald Bog by moving sculpture

Tuesday, March 26, 2019

Courtesy City of Shoreline


Photos by Martin De Grazia

Sound Transit is offsetting impacts to wetlands as a result of light rail construction in Shoreline by creating new wetlands at Ronald Bog Park on N 175th and I-5. (see previous article)



The first step in constructing the Ronald Bog Wetland Mitigation Site was to move Michael Sweeney’s The Kiss to a new location.



Workers constructed a new earthen mound approximately 200 feet east from the sculpture's current location and then carefully transferred the sculpture to the new mound.



The entrance to the park was reconfigured with access to The Kiss. The sculpture is still visible from the Bog.




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Photo: Bitterns at Ronald Bog

Sunday, September 13, 2015


Juvenile American Bittern at Ronald Bog
Photo by Martin DeGrazia


Martin DeGrazia sent this photo from Ronald Bog, of a bird he seldom sees in spite of keeping a watchful eye on the Bog.

Christine Southwick (For the Birds columnist) says that it is a probably a juvenile bittern as the adult American Bitterns don't hang out so exposed.



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Letter to the Editor: Icy weather invites dangerous activity at Ronald Bog lake

Monday, January 16, 2017

To the Editor:

As a child growing up in CT I have fond memories of ice skating on the local ponds. Since living here in Shoreline it has been alarming to see people of all ages venturing out onto the ice on Ronald Bog, located on N 175th at Meridian and I-5.

What many residents and visitors may not know is that this body of water is deceptively deep (30' deep in some places) and has been the site of at least one drowning in the last 10 years. Retrieval of the drowning victim was severely hampered by low visibility caused by silt and debris.

Please! Do NOT walk or skate on the ice at Ronald Bog Park - if you must play on ice outside, please look elsewhere to find a shallower frozen surface that would make escape possible should you fall through - the water at the Bog gets deep very quickly when only a few feet from shore in most areas.

Stay safe, warm, and a Happy Winter to all!

Cynthia Jeffries
Shoreline



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Photo: Baby it's cold outside

Saturday, December 17, 2016

Ronald Bog
Photo by Lien Titus

Saturday morning, my deck was covered with a light dusting of snow. It snowed several more times during the day. The flakes were so light that they were floating down from three different directions at the same time.

Ronald Bog
Photo by Lien Titus

It felt very cold outside all day, even when it wasn't snowing. And it was cold enough to freeze Ronald Bog. The photos look more like a field of snow, but that's a layer of ice floating on the water of the shallow bog.

--DKH



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Photo: Bog Beaver

Friday, June 15, 2018

Photo by Martin De Grazia


This is a very good shot of a North American Beaver who lives at Ronald Bog. They are primarily nocturnal, which is why it is challenging to get photos of them. There have been beavers at Ronald Bog and Twin Ponds for decades.

Generally they live peacefully with their human neighbors. Because their teeth never stop growing, they have a constant need to gnaw on wood, whether they need to build a dam or not.

That has created problems with the native plant gardeners who have worked long hours on cleaning up the vegetation around Ronald Bog. The beavers chewed down all the new saplings.

Finally the volunteers and parks staff built fences around the trees.


DKH



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Ronald Bog volunteers continue to weed and plant

Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Volunteers at Ronald Bog
By Dick Decker

We had 13 volunteers gather Saturday, May 21, 2011 at Ronald Bog to remove blackberry roots and some other invasive plants and plant native plants.

This comes to a total of about 500 native plants planted on this portion of the bog since October 2010. The number of volunteer hours since that date are approximately 280.

The volunteers Saturday ranged from novices to old pros and ages from middle school (Mukilteo) up through me as the oldest guy on the block. We had a couple from Columbia who brought their 2 year old and 7 year old daughters to play and enjoy the park. Volunteers came from Edmonds, Seattle and Shoreline.

We also were joined by some members of The Aurora Church of The Nazarene A friend, Rajinder Manhas, joined Terry Roche and me to plant four native shrubs the three of us donated to the park to commemorate a friend, Jerry Crawford, who died recently. We worked with Jerry for a number of years.

We will continue throughout the summer to remove blackberrry roots and ivy as it resprouts.

Thanks to all the volunteers and Gretchen Atkinson, Meridian Park Neighborhood Association, for her ongoing support, promotion and supplier of treats and to the City of Shoreline for the grant to purchase plants, tools and gloves. Thanks to Nora Smith, who gets announcements of our work parties out to so many sites and bring such a diverse group of volunteers. A big thanks to Kirk Peterson for all the support from Shoreline Parks.

Come visit the park to see our work and look for fish, frogs, turtles, the resident beaver(s). otters. eagles, osprey, Great Blue Heron, cormorant, Kildeer, King fisher, many other water fowl and small birds.

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SummerSet Arts Festival: Celebrating Ronald Bog

Monday, July 29, 2013

The turtle escaped from the Bog to amaze this little one
at Swingin' Summer Eve
Photo by Steven H. Robinson

You are invited to join SummerSet and the City of Shoreline for the second annual SummerSet Arts Festival: Celebrating Ronald Bog. The festival is one day only -- September 7th 2013, from 1-5pm.

This free, community-centric, event invites all to participate in activities designed to ignite your creativity and curiosity through the arts. Featured activities include dancing, drumming, musical performances, a kids art tent, and art making stations for all ages. Arboretum tours, a sculpture exhibition, and a sensory plant labyrinth will round out the festivities.

Highlights for this year's festival celebrate the talents of artists that live and work in our creative community of Shoreline. SummerSet Arts Festival is free to the public through generous sponsorship by 4Culture, Shoreline-Lake Forest Park Arts Council, Meridian Park Neighborhood Association and other local organizations and individuals.

The City of Shoreline, Shoreline Heritage Center, and CleanScapes are co-sponsoring the event. Local volunteers have restored Ronald Bog Park (175th and Meridian in  Shoreline) in recent years and the SummerSet Arts Festival will celebrate their ongoing success within the park and community.

Community-based artist, Cynthia Knox, is directing the festival with generous support from the Shoreline Parks Board. Two of her artworks, commissioned as part of the “From the Ground Up” exhibition will be on display during the festival. Come experience her fiber art mastery in the form of a giant nest, and colorful, felted rock wall.

Also featured are community-crafted tree ornaments from castoff clutter. This installation will delight and amaze pedestrians and drivers next to the I-5 entrance ramp.

Artist Lorenzo Moog will be working in fiber, wrapping an enormous downed tree branch.

No lines that an artist will create can equal the lyricism and grace of the curves and line of natural objects while the wrapping of them gives special emphasis to that beauty. The fallen tree is alive again, only this time with both color and line”.

The Sea Hags, a fiber sculpture consortium comprised of artists Ann Blanch, Sue Williams, and Lynn Ahnen-Turnblom will once again enhance the bronze ponies at park's edge.

Landscape designer Susan Ragan-Stuart will create a fantastical outdoor room using live grasses and flowers to create bedding on a king-sized frame. Several other artists will also create site-specific sculptures for the festival that will remain in the park for 6 weeks. A hands-on art table will keep kids busy making kites and other crafts.

Elena DeLisle and many other local musicians will create an outdoor “living room jam” feel with acoustic music-filled tents sprinkled around the park.

The Duwamish Tribe will have an expanded presence at the festival this year, including storytelling and basket-making.

Spreading the word and keeping the community involved, the SummerSet Arts creative team will bring a community art-making table to different locations and events in the Shoreline area during the summer.

Celebrate summer at this community-based arts extravaganza not to be missed! Contact Cynthia Knox or visit the facebook page with questions or if you would like to join the merry band of festival volunteers.


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SummerSet - the last big festival of the season - Saturday at Ronald Bog

Wednesday, September 3, 2014

Blue Heron Family Canoe Group
at Summerset
Photo by Dorrena Ortega

SummerSet Arts Festival
Celebrating Ronald Bog
September 6, noon to 5pm, Ronald Bog
2301 N 175th Street

Around the Sound Clarinet Ensemble
noon at SummerSet
Photo by Dorrena Ortega

FREE Live Performance Schedule:

12:00PM  Around the Sound Clarinet Ensemble
12:30PM-2:00PM The Blue Heron Family Canoe Group and kw'aX'wad'ad'achi Cultural Family performing traditional songs and dances from the Duwamish, Snohomish, and Chinook Tribes
2:00PM  Paul Anastasio and Fire of Tierra Caliente- Music from Tierra Caliente, Mexico
2:30PM  Julian Smedley and Friends
3:00PM-4:00PM The Blue Heron Family Canoe Group and kw'aX'wad'ad'achi Cultural Family
4:00PM  Brian and Zeth Peterka of the Katywompus String Band- Old Time Music
4:20PM-5:00PM Toulooloo- Traditional Cajun Music

All Day Old Time Music Jam - hosted by Sheila Blech-Long

A famous frog will talk about turtles
at SummerSet Festival
Photo by Dorrena Ortega

FREE Activities:
  • Labyrinth and Arboretum Walks
  • Hands-On Art-Making for all ages
  • Make Faerie Gardens with live plants
  • Family Storytelling
  • Face painting
  • Bog Ecology lessons with live turtles

Gourmet Ice Cream and Hot Dog vendors will be on hand. Bring a chair or blanket and enjoy the day with your family and neighbors! Presented by Meridian Park Neighborhood Association.


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Ronald Bog in January

Thursday, January 23, 2020

Photographed from N 175th. Note the rustic shelter background left
Photo by Steven H. Robinson


You will recall that Ronald Bog is undergoing extensive remodeling to plant trees and plants and create a healthy wetland.

Here's a slightly different angle, looking toward Meridian
Photo by Steven H. Robinson


It's a Sound Transit mitigation process in return for building the Lynnwood Link through the wetlands on 1st NE between the fire station on 155th and Aegis Living on 1st NE.

We published an extensive article on the plans for the Bog in September. (What's happening with Ronald Bog? Blame it on Mr. Bean). At that time the ground was being scraped and chunks of concrete were still being dug out of the ground.

Four months later, it's a dramatic difference.



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Back to the Bog - goose family returns safely to Ronald Bog

Saturday, June 5, 2021

The Goose family returns to the Bog

Thanks to reader Jackie Pedraza for letting us know that the goose family made it safely back across Meridian to their home in Ronald Bog after checking out the scene on the Meridian Park Elementary side of the street. (see yesterday's article)

The photos brought up memories for Patty Hale, who shared this story:

"Meridian Park Elementary has been home to many waterfowl families over the years. One year when I was teaching there, a duck built her nest in a central courtyard right outside of the kindergarten classrooms. 

"What a special spring that was for those children! From nest building, egg laying and then a duckling parade with momma leading the way around the perimeter of the building and to the bog. 

"The kindergarten teachers (3 classes that year) collectively must have read the book 'Make Way For Ducklings' a hundred times!"



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SummerSet Arts Festival in photos

Monday, September 9, 2013

The Peterka Family Band played on one of the
four stages. Photo by Patricia Hale.

The SummerSet Arts Festival: Celebrating Ronald Bog transformed the normally peaceful park into a beehive of activity for four hours on Saturday afternoon, September 7, 2013.

Four stages held performers for the entire event. One of the most popular was the Shoreline-based Peterka Family Band.

The Bubbleman
Photo by Bob Pfeiffer
With multiple activities for children, the Bubbleman easily created the most excitement.

Insect Hotel
Photo by Bob Pfeiffer
The backyard Insect Hotel was auctioned off to the highest bidder in a silent auction. At the Diggin Shoreline booth, children were able to make small insect hotels in milk cartons. "Stuff around that bugs like. Hugelkultur wood / plant material / soil / mulch"  Contact Diggin Shoreline.


Bog Nest for Humans
Photo by Bob Pfeiffer
The Bog Nest art installation was meant to be interactive - for people to sit inside the nest and look out. Wool  / hypertufa / plastic and fabric / pvc / wood. By Cynthia Knox and friends.

Mary Lou Slaughter shows the tribal art
Photo by Lee Lageschulte
The Duwamish Indians used to use Ronald Bog as a portage. They were back at SummerSet, drumming, dancing, and showing their weaving abilities. The artist is the great-great-granddaughter of Chief Sealth.

Turtle on the Roof
Photo by Lee Lageschulte
Turtle, by Cynthia Knox. Last year he was floating on the Bog. After being seen at various events around town this summer, Lee Lageschulte found him on top of this sod roof at SummerSet.

Winding Willow School
Photo by Lee Lageschulte
The storyteller from the Winding Willow School was - where else? - under the willow.


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Community Knitalong at Ronald Bog Park on Sunday August 5th, 1pm-4pm

Tuesday, July 31, 2012

Community Knitalong at Ronald Bog Park on Sunday August 5th, 1pm-4pm


Yarn - Bombers Unite! Make tree socks not war! Would you like to contribute your knitting skills to a worthy and artistic cause? Come to community knitalong at Ronald Bog Park. Bring a chair or blanket to sit on. The yarn and needles/loom are provided along with instruction. For more info contact Cynthia.


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Meridian Park Neighborhood Assn to hear about Ronald Bog Tuesday

Tuesday, January 21, 2020



Meridian Park Neighborhood Update 1/21/20 on Ronald Bog Changes

Everyone is invited to attend the presentation and Q/A about the new construction, plantings, and reconfiguration of Ronald Bog Park.

Tuesday, January 21, 2020 in Room 301 at Shoreline City Hall 17500 Midvale Ave N, Shoreline 98133. Free parking in city garage. 7 - 8:30pm.

Light refreshments will be served.



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Dive team training at Ronald Bog

Sunday, July 4, 2010

Shoreline Fire and the King County Dive Team, a division of the Sheriff's Department Marine Division, conducted a training session at Ronald Bog on Thursday, July 1.

This is the second session they have held at Ronald Bog.

Lake Forest Park has a long-standing relationship with the Marine Division, which patrols Lake Washington, but this is the first time that Shoreline has worked with the division.  
 
Officer Greg McKinney, East Precinct, transferred in to Shoreline Police from the Marine Division two years ago. 

Photos courtesy Shoreline Fire Department

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Shoreline Walks on Saturday - Meridian Park and Ronald Bog Arboretum

Friday, July 27, 2018

Ronald Bog
Photo by Frank Kleyn

Shoreline Walk this Saturday: Meridian Park / Conifer Arboretum Walk

Join walk leader Dan this Saturday, July 28, 2018 at 10:00am for a morning walk through the Meridian Park Neighborhood including the Pacific Northwest Conifer Arboretum at Ronald Bog. See the upper reaches of Thornton Creek and the "Retyred" artwork at the Transfer Station.

Walk starts at the Meridian Park baseball fields parking lot located at 16766 Wallingford Ave N, Shoreline. Walk is about 2.7 miles and 1.5hrs long and is rated Moderate.

The free group walk is part of the City of Shoreline’s “Shoreline Walks” community walking program helping Shoreline adults stay active, meet new people (or connect with old friends) and feel safer and more confident exploring our city by foot.

No need to sign up, just show up with your walking shoes! For more information on Shoreline Walks, visit the website or call Recreation Specialist Marianne Johnson at 206-801-2638.



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Captured on camera - a Ronald Bog otter

Thursday, November 3, 2011

Ronald Bog Otter.  Photo by Martin DeGrazia.

These normally elusive critters have lived in Shoreline and Lake Forest Park long before we two-legged types showed up, but they generally stay out of sight, living in our lakes, bogs, and streams.  These are fresh-water river otters, cousins to the salt-water types commonly seen in zoos, and TV programs.

There are otters in Ronald Bog, Echo Lake, McAleer Creek, and certainly other bodies of water.  Otters will travel across land and there have been several reports of otters in Kruckeberg Gardens.

Wonder what else is in the streams and woodlands?


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