It is time for the Mill Creek Garden Club's annual basket sale. Each year the Mill Creek Garden Club offers lush baskets with free delivery to a Mill Creek residence or business.

Orders are due by April 25, 2013. Baskets will be delivered to Mill Creek addresses on Thursday May 9th, just in time for Mother's Day!

Seattle Area Cup Tennis announced that the Mill Creek Tennis Club’s team won the 2012-2013 Emerald Cup championship earlier this month.

The Emerald Cup is a Puget Sound women’s tennis league comprised of more than 15 tennis clubs from the Boeing Employees Tennis Club in the south, to the Silver Lake Club in the north.

The City of Mill Creek is seeking volunteers for three Mill Creek Planning Commission seats that expire on April 30, 2013. The City Council will make the three-year appointments before the end of April.

The sitting Commissioners whose term is expiring may apply for another appointment.

The City is looking for civic-minded volunteers who are interested in planning the “orderly and coordinated development of land and building uses of the City of Mill Creek and its environs.”

Planning Commission meetings are held the third Thursday of each month at 7:00 p.m.

From March 1st to March 15th Snohomish County Fire District 7 responded to 181 calls, 63 of which were in Mill Creek.

• Fires: 18
• Medical Aid: 128
• Motor Vehicle Collisions: 15
• Service Calls: 20
• Total = 181

The Pacific Northwest District of Kiwanis International working in concert with citizens of Snohomish County is forming a Kiwanis Club of Mill Creek. The aims of the new club are to serve the needs of children in Mill Creek and Snohomish County as well as meeting other needs of the community, develop youth leaders, provide opportunities for leadership, business and social fellowship.

The first pre-organizational meeting will be held in Lynnwood on April 23, 2013, Tuesday, at Volunteers of America, 16300 Motor Place, Lynnwood, WA 98037. The meeting is expected to be held from 7:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.  Citizens, 18 years or over, interested in improving the community and helping meet the needs of children are welcome to attend the meeting and become a Charter Member of the new Kiwanis Club of Mill Creek. The club is expected to be chartered in May.  A person, 18 years or over, can sign up for Charter Membership on the Internet at millcreekkiwanis.org.  For more information you can contact Jim Garcia, Kiwanis Lt. Governor, by email, kiwanismillcreek@gmail.com. The latest information of the club will be posted on the website.

On Monday, March 25, 2013, all three of the Jackson High School jazz bands will be performing at Dimitriou's Jazz Alley.

Reservations can be made at www.jazzalley.com or by calling 206-441-9729.

These three Jackson High School jazz bands were recently featured at the Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival at the University of Idaho.

It’s difficult to successfully complete all of the steps it takes to develop a piece of property; especially an 18.5-acre multi-use complex with 29,000 square feet of commercial capacity, 122 townhomes/condominiums, 180 apartments, and a 1.26-acre neighborhood park in Mill Creek.

Polygon Northwest took a big step forward on March 12, 2013, when the Mill Creek City Council unanimously approved an ordinance adopting the development agreement between Polygon Northwest’s limited liability corporation (Mill Creek EGUV, LLC) and the City.

The Snohomish County Sheriff’s Office will officially launch the newly formed School Services Unit Friday, March 15, 2013, at Woodside Elementary School in unincorporated Snohomish County near Mill Creek.

After the Dec. 14, 2012 tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, Sheriff John Lovick proposed the School Services Unit to address his vision that the Sheriff’s Office be a school safety resource to our county’s unincorporated schools.

“As far as we know the Snohomish County Sheriff’s Office School Services Unit approach to school safety is the first of its kind in the state of Washington, possibly even the nation,” said Sheriff Lovick. “It builds on establishing and maintaining relationships between law enforcement and school districts, school leadership, teachers, staff, students and their families.”