An evening of food, dancing and dialogue will be held on Saturday, March 30, to celebrate the Spring Equinox. Guests are encouraged to bring flowers to decorate and a potluck dish. The event will be held from 3-11 p.m.at The Fremont UNconventional Centre, 160 N. Canal St. Suggested donation: $5-$15. For details, call Anji Ringzin of the People Web at 632-1722.

Spring Clean event in Wallingford:

A Spring Clean event will be held on Saturday, April 6, at the Wallingford Senior Center, located in the Good Shepherd Center at 4649 Sunnyside Ave. N. Free coffee and donuts will be served at 9 a.m., to be followed by the cleanup. Volunteers will asked to help pick up litter, clean traffic circles, paint out graffiti, stencil storm drains and improve public spaces. A free picnic lunch will immediately follow the event and door prizes will be awarded including a mulching mower. For details, call 233-7187.

Thornton Creek work party:

Help Thornton Creek at Homewood Open Space by reclaiming, maintaining and improving habitat along Thornton Creek at a work party event Saturday, April 13, from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Tools and refreshments will be provided. Wear work clothes and boots or sturdy shoes. This is event is sponsored by the Seattle Public Utilities. For details, call Bob Spencer of the Creek Steward Program at 684-4163.

Ravenna Creek workshop:

A workshop will be held on Thursday, April 18, on proposed efforts to daylight a section of Ravenna Creek in Ravenna Park before the stream connects to a new pipeline near NE 55th Street. Public input is being sought to help create a vision and to develop design concepts for the project. The event will be held from 6:30-8:30 p.m. at the Roosevelt High School cafeteria, 1410 NE 66th Street. For details, call Virginia Hassinger, project manager, at 233-7936.

Earth Day celebration at Carkeek:

An Earth Day celebration will be held at Carkeek Park on Saturday, April 20. From 9:30-11:30 a.m., there will be environmental activities for youth groups. From 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m., there will be a community celebration of the environmental education and stewardship projects that take place in the park with tours of the King County Metro pump station facility. From 1:30-2:30 p.m., there will be an Art Walk hosted by Carkeek Plaza merchants. For details, call Nancy Malmgren at 363-4116.

Wetland work party at NSCC:

A work party to help restore the Bartonwood Sanctuary and Wetland on the North Seattle Community College campus will be held on Saturday, April 20, from 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Originally called Slo¹q¹qed by the Native Americans who lived in North Seattle before the arrival of European settlers, the marsh remnant at NSCC is over 10,000 years old and still feeds the south branch of Thornton Creek.

This year, volunteers will continue to weed around trees that are under five years old and begin to add shrubs to the uplands around the wetlands. A remnant wetland in the south end of the campus will be the special focus now that the trees in the North Sanctuary have become established. In addition to the work, instructors and other experts will be on hand to evoke a sense of place and purpose for the curious natural history buff.

Bring a sack lunch and a snack, and dress for the weather. Tools and gloves are provided. Gather in the north parking lot at the campus¹s NE 100th Street entry. For details, call Michael Brokaw at 528-4597 or Peter Lortz at 528-4516.

Event to benefit Thornton Creek fund

The Odyssey Maritime Discovery Center will host a preview party to celebrate a public art project called ³Soul Salmon² on Saturday, April 6. The project was created to educate communities, inspire local salmon culture and generate charity to save native salmon. Local artists have teamed up with sponsors to create nearly 100 8-foot salmon sculptures that will be displayed throughout the Pacific Northwest, from Vancouver, British Columbia, to Portland, Ore.

³We wanted to bring salmon recovery to the attention of people who might never have cared enough to look at the issue,² says Sara Mall Johani, an artist who organized the project. The preview party, which will be held from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., will include a special funding opportunity to benefit the Thornton Creek Legal Defense Fund, a citizens group that has been waging a campaign to daylight a portion of Thornton Creek that currently runs beneath the Northgate Mall¹s south parking lot.

A gala auction will be held at the Odyssey on Saturday, April 13. The center is located on Pier 66, 2205 Alaskan Way. For ticket information, call 360-385-0907.