MAGNOLIA SOCCER CLUB'S WORLD CUP EVENT COMING
Magnolia Soccer Club's World Cup is coming Sunday, Nov. 8
All the Games will be played from 8 a.m. until 6 p.m. at Interbay Stadium.
Magnolia Soccer is a recreational youth league, volunteer-operated, serving players in the Magnolia neighborhood of Seattle.
Each year more and more kids from Magnolia are playing soccer for MSC, which means they tend to have more experience than other league players. For more information visit www.magnoliasoccerclub.com.
MAGNOLIA RESIDENT COMPLETES BASIC TRAINING IN TEXAS
Air Force Airman Luis P. De La Cruz Jr. graduated from basic military training at Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas.
The airman completed an intensive, eight-week program that included training in military discipline and studies, Air Force core values, physicalfitness, and basic warfare principles and skills.
Airmen who complete basic training earn four credits toward an associate in applied science degree through the Community College of the Air Force.
He is the son of Theresa Pagan of West Blaine Street, in Magnolia. De La Cruz is a 2009 graduate of Ballard High School.
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PACIFIC PUBLISHING CO. WINS AWARDS
Pacific Publishing Co.'s neighborhood newspapers garnered several top awards in the Washington Newspaper Publishers Association (WNPA)'s 2009 Better Newspaper Contest.
Those winning awards include:
•Capitol Hill Times - Best Personality Profile (Short), second place, for Doug Schwartz's "Heading Over the Hill and Far Away"; Best Editorial, third place, for Doug Schwartz's "What Would Rodney Say Now?"; and Best Multiple Advertiser Ad, third place, for "Shopping & Living Local";
•North Seattle Herald-Outlook - Best Business Story, first place, for Vera M. Chan-Pool's "Staying Open for Business";
•Queen Anne/Magnolia News - Best General Feature Story (Long), first place, for Myke Folger's "A Life at Sea"; and Best General Interest Column, second place, for Glenn Avery; and
•South Seattle Beacon - Best Health or Medical Story, first place, for Erik Hansen's "Getting to the Root of America's Obesity Epidemic."
The awards were announced last weekend at the WNPA's 122nd-annual convention in Olympia.
THREE NEW HIRES JOIN THE CROSSCUT STAFF
Mark Matassa, a respected local political writer and editor who has worked in those capacities at The Seattle Times, The P-I and The Los Angeles Times, is the new deputy editor at Crosscut, a nonprofit online news organization in Seattle.
Joing him are executive director Jill Mogen, a longtime local advertising and publishing professional and most recently publisher of Seattle Homes & Lifestyles magazine.
Crosscut has also hired Marilyn Hoe, to be its operations director. Hoe was most recently of Town Hall, where she was responsible for coordinating civic and arts events and community outreach.
ATTENTION ARTISTS
Bellevue Arts Museum is asking for entrants for its 2010 BAM artsfair.
The submission deadline for entries is Jan. 29, 2010. You can apply online at www.zapplication.org ($40). The BAM artsfair dates are July 23-25, 2010 at Bellevue Arts Museum and Bellevue Square. There will be 325 exhibitors and about 320,000 visitiors.
NEWS FROM PONTI
Ponti chef, Alvin Binuya, is beginning the transformation of the menu for fall with a few new items for Lamb Jam and Dine Around Seattle the month of November. For Lamb Jam, Chef Binuya has been designated a "leg man" and will be creating Oregon lamb-water chestnut pot stickers with black vinegar-scallion dipping sauce for the Lamb Jammers to enjoy.
Ponti's Dine Around menu will include new items like the pot stickers and a warm Honeycrisp apple crostata, not currently available on the menu.
Other dishes for Dine Around will be Ponti classics, such as ahi poke, Gulf prawn linguine and Oregon lamb shank braised with sake, ginger and lemon.
The blending of all-time favorites (one of which, the Thai Curry Penne, was a Binuya original in 1990) and innovative new dishes will create a must-taste menu for both long-time and new customers.
VESPERS A-COMIN'
See the Seattle Jazz Vespers in downtown Seattle featuring The Christopher Gross Ensemble at 6 p.m., Sunday, Nov. 1 in the historic gothic sanctuary of Seattle First Baptist Church on First Hill at the corner of Seneca and Harvard streets.
This venue is offered to the best jazz groups in the city to perform 100-minutes of their own popular music. The Vespers are FREE and open to the public on the first Sunday night of each month at 6 p.m., from October through June. No tickets or reservations are needed.
EAT LOCAL
When it comes to Thanksgiving, you food may not need to travel farther than your guests.
This year, individuals throughout Washington can join Cascade Harvest Coalition's campaign to reconnect Thanksgiving traditions with local agricultural traditions of celebrating the harvest and at the same time take a stand for local farms, a healthier environment, local economies, and communities by signing the pledge to eat local for Thanksgiving. For more information visit www.eatlocalforthanksgiving.org
DOINGS AT THE PNB
Next On Stage at the Pacific Northwest Ballet is the Director's Choice, Nov. 5-15.
Director Peter Boal's selection of premieres and repertory hits offers a kaleidoscopic view of PNB's talent. Featuring the PNB Orchestra.
• Petite Mort* (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart/Jiri Kylian)
•Mopey (C.P.E. Bach and The Cramps/Marco Goecke)
• The Seasons** (Alexander Glazunov/Val Caniparoli)
• West Side Story Suite (Leonard Bernstein/Jerome Robbins with Peter Genarro)
*PNB Premiere **World Premiere.
For more information about this program and future programs, visit www.pnb.org.
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