Our Museum is growing - wanna come play?

Renton History Museum is making a plan - incorporating new ideas, heading in new directions and taking on a whole new identity. You wanna come along and have a stake in what our present and future generations will see and say about our town's legacy? A little like "Killroy was Here", but more defined.

The museum has hired a professional planning firm, Gyroscope, Inc., to help with charting out a course for the museum for the next 15 years. This is not a "one size fits all" approach to consulting, but collaborating with a team of super creative consultants that want to work out specific options to fit our town's needs.

Please come and be a part of a hands on Informational Meeting on Thursday, October 22nd from 7 - 9pm and weigh in with your thoughts and ideas. The consulting firm will be sharing with us the research they have done on Renton, showing similar museums in other areas that are doing things that might be of interest, and some visual exercises will make the meeting more interactively dynamic and fun. Elizabeth Stewart, Director of Renton History Museum, promises that it will be a "cool process".

Consider this your chance to be a part of history making. Adding in your voice, your view for those present and future audiences of Renton history. YOU are the special spice that is needed to make this gathering a go.

What I might also remind you, is that this is a great way to come and see the museum if you have never taken the opportunity before. Don't be shy - no one will mind if it's your first time. Come take a peek at what has come before you on the hallowed grounds of Renton.

Renton History Museum
Informational Meeting with Gyroscope Inc and YOU

October 22, Thursday, 7:00 - 9:00 pm
235 Mill Ave. South, Renton WA 98057
425.255.2330 info@rentonhistory.org

Located one block south of the Renton Public Library
Parking available in the public lot behind the museum

What to do with the Sewing Blues

My baby is down - that is, my sewing machine needs to have some TLC and a tune-up. If you have every used a sewing machine on a semi-regular basis - you know that you can't live without one in the house that is is operating order. You might have the urge to create, or a repair emergency might need to be dealt with pronto. We sewers don't fare well when our tools are broken or gone.

Renton is so amazing that within our lovely little downtown - there are two places that you can go for sewing machine repair - or to purchase a new machine. Let me tell you - this is not common, and we are very lucky. Many of the creative or crafty inclined need to drive miles for what we take for granted on our old main drag here in Renton.

Sewing Machine Service Co., Inc.
315 Main Ave. S.
Renton, WA 98057
(425) 255 -8673
www.sewingmachineservice.com

Viking Sewing and Vacuum
305 South Third Street
Renton, WA 98057
(425) 226 - 8112

For those inclined to take up the craft of sewing, Renton Vocational College runs a few classes every quarter for those of varying stages of sewing prowess. Right now they are in the midst of Spring Classes, ( look here for what is on now), but come next quarter you could sign up. With the crunch on finances, there is more of an interest in the crafts of old - the art of sewing being one of them. Mary Collen, of Sewing Machine Service Co., Inc. is planning on a class that introduces the basics of sewing repairs in the near future. A class that puts the sewing needle in your hand so that you can hem your own pants, or replace that broken zipper without having to pay the tailor or dry cleaners to do it. Empowering new sewers - that is what it is all about. Join us, won't you? Here is a recent local article about what a lifetime of joy it can bring.