Nov 1, 2013 | Featured, Health & Well-Being, Walk-n-Talk, Walking, Walking Event
It’s time for a walk! (Isn’t it always time for a walk?) It’s fun. It gets you out of the house. You get the chance to talk to people you normally wouldn’t chat with. And it keeps you healthier. Join the other Walkers and Talkers for the...
Oct 22, 2013 | Art Walks, Featured, Other Local Walks, Walking, Walking Event
Join fellow art-lovers on Saturday, October 26, for a FREE Art Walk to enjoy the Public Art of Des Moines! We will meet at the entrance to the Des Moines Library, 21620 11th Avenue S, at 10 AM to have a quick preview and then begin our walk with Turtle Island-Puget...
Oct 9, 2013 | Featured, Other Local Walks, Parks & Trails, WABI Weekday Walkers, Walking, Walking Event
Come join us for the third walk of the WABI Weekday Walkers, on the third Wednesday of the month, October 16, at 9 am. This is a beautiful walk through the woods from the north end of the Des Moines Creek trail. We should see some fall color in the maples along the...
Oct 4, 2013 | Featured, Health & Well-Being, Walk-n-Talk, Walking, Walking Event
After a luxuriously long, sunny, dry summer, we’re now full into Autumn with rain, gray and cold. But! The weatherman has promised us a few days of sunshine, so let’s get out in it together for October’s Walk-n-Talk! This month, on Walk-n-Talk...
Sep 22, 2013 | Bike/Ped Advocacy, Bike/Ped Count, Cycling, Cycling Event, Featured, Walking, Walking Event
The Annual Bicycle and Pedestrian Count will be taken at locations throughout Washington State in nearly 40 jurisdictions, including Burien. Data collected from these counts will be used to monitor success in increasing bicycle and pedestrian travel as identified in...
Sep 9, 2013 | Featured, Other Local Walks, Parks & Trails, WABI Weekday Walkers, Walking, Walking Event
Come join us for the second walk of the WABI Weekday Walkers, on the third Wednesday of the month, September 18, at 9 am. Start is Grand Central Bakery in downtown Burien. In honor of school starting, we’ll walk by a current school (Seahurst Elementary) and a...
Sep 4, 2013 | Featured, Health & Well-Being, Other Local Walks, Walking, Walking Event
12th Annual WALK FOR THE WOMEN, Saturday, September 28, 2013 Have fun, win prizes and do good. The walk is an easy two miles through the heart of Burien to benefit homeless women. IF YOU’D LIKE TO JOIN A WABI TEAM OF WALKERS, BEING PART OF THE FUN AND...
Aug 28, 2013 | Featured, Health & Well-Being, Parks & Trails, Walk-n-Talk, Walking, Walking Event
This Sunday, September 1st, the monthly Walk-n-Talk will tackle some of the westward-facing hills of the Seahurst neighborhood of Burien. Every month since August 2011, neighbors and Burien city visitors have gathered, walked and talked for fun, conversation and...
Aug 12, 2013 | Featured, Health & Well-Being, Other Local Walks, Parks & Trails, WABI Weekday Walkers, Walk-n-Talk, Walking, Walking Event
Come join us for the kickoff walk of the WABI Weekday Walkers, on August 21st at 9:00 am. We’ll explore Seahurst Park before it closes down in September for a major salmon restoration project. Date: Wednesday, August 21, 2013 Time: Meet at 8:45 am. Walk...
Aug 12, 2013 | Featured, Health & Well-Being, Other Local Walks, Parks & Trails, WABI Weekday Walkers, Walking, Walking Event
Joining the popular WABI Walk-n-Talk once a month on a Sunday wasn’t enough for new WABI Walker, Laura Kennedy Gould, so she suggested starting a weekday walking group. So, in a burst of alliteration, WABI is pleased to launch its new recurring event: WABI...
Aug 6, 2013 | Art Walks, Featured, Health & Well-Being, Parks & Trails, Walk-n-Talk, Walking, Walking Event
If ever there were a beautiful day for a Burien Public Art Walk-n-Talk, it was this last Sunday, August 4. Twenty people gathered on a sunny afternoon at the Burien Community Center Annex, near the skate park, to begin the walking tour of Burien’s Public Art....
Jul 23, 2013 | Art Walks, Featured, Health & Well-Being, Parks & Trails, Walk-n-Talk, Walking, Walking Event
“Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.” – Marcel Proust What is Public Art in Burien? It stands tall on a pedestal at your side, adds pattern and color to a painted wall and is embedded in the floor at your...
Jul 3, 2013 | Featured, Parks & Trails, Walk-n-Talk, Walking, Walking Event
Fourth of July weekend is full of hustle and bustle, but maybe you’d just like a walk in the park? Ahh, shady trails, quiet conversation and a babbling brook sound pretty nice after the “rockets’ red glare and bombs bursting in air”. For our...
May 31, 2013 | Featured, Health & Well-Being, Walk-n-Talk, Walking, Walking Event
It’s time for a walk! (Isn’t it always time for a walk?) It’s fun. It gets you out of the house. You get the chance to talk to people you normally wouldn’t chat with. And it keeps you healthier. Join the other Walkers and Talkers for the June...
May 5, 2013 | Featured, Health & Well-Being, Parks & Trails, Walk-n-Talk, Walking, Walking Event
Today was the month of May’s first Sunday and, therefore, a Walk-n-Talk day. And, oh, what a walking day it was! Sunny. Blue sky. Warm temp. Dry paths. And a group of faces that are more familiar every month. Twenty-one people showed up to start at an elevation...
Apr 27, 2013 | Featured, Parks & Trails, Walk-n-Talk, Walking, Walking Event
Care to walk through a wooded ravine, bright green with spring? This Sunday, May 5, our Walk-n-Talk will start at the top of the hill and walk down the service road to the Marine Science Center at the north end of Seahurst Beach. The road winds down toward the water...
Apr 24, 2013 | Art Walks, Featured, Other Local Walks, Walking, Walking Event
All are invited to the 2nd annual Highline School District Student Art Walk Thursday, May 9th, 5:00-8:00 p.m. • A Free Event Celebrate Art Education Month and wander Downtown Burien from 4th to 10th on SW 152nd to find art from talented middle and high school...
Apr 11, 2013 | Featured, Health & Well-Being, Parks & Trails, Walking
Jaymi Heimbuch, Treehugger.com • Living / Health • April 2, 2013 Urban living gives you brain fatigue. It flat out makes your brain tired of constantly being alert and aware. And a walk in the park can go a long way to clear up the resulting fuzziness. I like how Fast...
Apr 8, 2013 | Featured, Walk-n-Talk, Walking, Walking Event
If ever there were a day to wear rain slickers and carry bumbershoots, today was it! It POURED on us… and we laughed the whole way. We had so much fun that when we finished our walk, back at Town Square Park, we continued to stand there in the rain, talking. We had a...
Apr 4, 2013 | Cycling, Featured, Walking
We are people-powered in how we get things done (and hopefully how we get from A to B!). Behind-the-scenes of WABI efforts are a half dozen people that bring together quite a range of civic skills and experience. The “WABI-ists” are ardent cyclists and...
Apr 3, 2013 | Featured, Health & Well-Being, Walk-n-Talk, Walking, Walking Event
It’s walking time again. Let’s head north from Burien Town Square to see how Spring is springing in Chelsea Park. The last time we visited the neighborhood, we found these scenic gems: Dottie Harper Park, Burien Community Garden, white-painted tree trunks,...
Mar 11, 2013 | Featured, Other Local Walks, Parks & Trails, Walking, Walking Event
Welcome to B-Town D.O.G. aka Burien Dog Owners Group For more B-Town D.O.G. information, click here. Events Coming up: Burien wants to talk DOGS! Wed. Mar 13, 2013 7pm St. Bernadettes Parish Hall Join the Burien Parks and Recreation Advisory Board and staff for a dog...
Mar 11, 2013 | Bike/Ped Advocacy, Cycling, Walking
Get ready. There’s something exciting coming to town. We WABI-ists have been fussing behind the scenes for months now, planning something so big that it will extend from one end of the city to the other. (Pretty fabulous! Just sayin’…) This will make both...
Mar 5, 2013 | Featured, Health & Well-Being, Parks & Trails, Walk-n-Talk, Walking, Walking Event
Sunday’s Walk-n-Talkers could not have dreamed of a more charmed day to stroll the neighborhood streets. The skies were blue. The air was fresh and cool. Throughout the neighborhood and all over town people were out riding bikes, walking, mowing lawns and...
Mar 1, 2013 | Health & Well-Being, Walk-n-Talk, Walking, Walking Event
Have an idea for a Walk-n-Talk route? Please help us find our local hidden gems, best seen on two feet. Walking is a way to discover things never seen while behind the wheel. A new world opens up. Where do YOU like to walk? Each month a route is selected for the...
Mar 1, 2013 | Featured, Health & Well-Being, Parks & Trails, Walk-n-Talk, Walking, Walking Event
This Sunday, March 3, the 20th monthly Walk-n-Talk will tackle some of the westward-facing hills of the Seahurst neighborhood of Burien. Every month since August 2011, neighbors and Burien city visitors have gathered, walked and talked for fun, conversation and...
Feb 11, 2013 | Featured, Other Local Walks, Parks & Trails, Walking, Walking Event
Walkers arrived at Burien’s Eagle Landing Park on Saturday, enthusiastic about walking down the 289 stairs… and then back up again. This was just one of the 15 Seattle Stairway Walks featured all over Seattle and nearby cities. The walk was a Feet First event...
Feb 3, 2013 | Featured, Health & Well-Being, Walk-n-Talk, Walking, Walking Event
So what if it’s Super Bowl Sunday! Thirty-five people and four dogs still showed up to go for a walk with neighbors and strangers, chatting all the way. The afternoon was dry and in the low 40s and just fine for the almost 2-and-a-half-mile loop from Burien Town...
Feb 1, 2013 | Featured, Other Local Walks, Parks & Trails, Walking, Walking Event
Twenty “Walking Ambassadors” got in a huddle last night to plan for the Seattle Stairways Walks coming up on Saturday, February 9. (Read full coverage HERE.) Walkers met at the Pioneer Square offices of the Feet First organization. Representing WABI...
Jan 30, 2013 | Featured, Other Local Walks, Parks & Trails, Walking, Walking Event
On Saturday, February 9, WABI Burien is walking with the Feet First event, Seattle Stairway Walks. With a mix of urban history and lore, Seattle Stairway Walks uncover the blooms and birds of Seattle’s greenspaces, the legacy of the city’s neighborhood...
Jan 30, 2013 | Featured, Walk-n-Talk, Walking, Walking Event
Feeling cooped up during winter’s dark, gray days of rainfall? Get out for a walk! Have a nice chat with other local folks. Get some fresh air and chase the doldrums away. (And if you have your pedometer, come see how many steps you can log toward your daily...
Jan 6, 2013 | Featured, Health & Well-Being, Walk-n-Talk, Walking, Walking Event
Walkers poured in today to the first floor meeting room at the Burien Library/City Hall, for a brief talk followed by a 2.5 mile walk, January’s special “Walk-n-Talk-with-a-Doc.” In spite of an almost-assured downpour, 61 eager people gathered to...
Jan 4, 2013 | Featured, Health & Well-Being, Walking
by Maureen Hoffmann, WABI Burien President Small steps. That’s all it takes to start a walking program toward greater health and a sense of well-being. For just the cost of comfortable walking shoes and a little time, you can go for a walk, get the kinks out,...
Jan 2, 2013 | Art Walks, Bike/Ped Advocacy, Bike/Ped Count, City of Burien, Cycling, Cycling Event, Cycling Resources, Featured, Health & Well-Being, Other Local Walks, Parks & Trails, Walk-n-Talk, Walking, Walking Event
Our new year is starting out with some beautiful days to get out on two feet and two wheels! Blue skies, sunshine and brisk, fresh air. Time for a nice walk or a ride. Happy New Year to all the WABI-ists… all of you that are involved or interested in WABI Burien,...
Dec 26, 2012 | Featured, Health & Well-Being, Walk-n-Talk, Walking, Walking Event
January Special: Walk-n-Talk-with-a-Doc Do your New Year’s resolutions include goals like “lose weight”, “get in shape”, “exercise more”? Do you wonder how to begin? On Sunday, January 6, 2013, WABI Burien will help you start your year off right by offering a special...
Dec 2, 2012 | Featured, Health & Well-Being, Walk-n-Talk, Walking, Walking Event
We got drenched! Five of us rain-slicker-clad walkers headed out from Burien Town Square, hunkered in a doorway, into the downpour, undaunted by the deluge. We took advantage of the awnings and overhangs as we walked along the south side of 152nd, and marveled at the...
Nov 28, 2012 | Bike/Ped Advocacy, Health & Well-Being, Other Local Walks, Walking, Walking Event
Our friends at America Walks are planning to kick off a new webinar series on Thursday, Nov. 29 studying ways people can support walking programs at the state, tribal and local levels. The first webinar, “Data and Resources to Propel Local Walking Programs and...
Nov 28, 2012 | Bike/Ped Advocacy, Cycling, Cycling Resources, Walking
Later this month, the Washington State Transportation Commission will conduct a new statewide survey on transportation taxation options, priorities and other topics utilizing over 17,000 Washington State residents who are part of the Voice Of Washington State (VOWS)...
Nov 28, 2012 | Featured, Health & Well-Being, Walk-n-Talk, Walking, Walking Event
Will we be walkin’ and talkin’ and singin’ in the rain? (Isn’t that what galoshes and bumbershoots are for?) Incredibly, every Walk-n-Talk for the last 16 months, we’ve had dry weather. (Except that on one walk day it started drizzly and...
Oct 30, 2012 | Featured, Walk-n-Talk, Walking, Walking Event
November’s Walk-n-Talk will be a “special edition” collaboration between WABI and the Burien Library. We’ll meet in the main lobby of the library at 2:00 (NOT Town Square’s grassy knoll) and enjoy perusing the walking resources gathered...
