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Leschi Elementary School students (some with bicycle helmets on) help adults from the Leschi neighborhood prepare a new garden outside Leschi Elementary School's Community Day School Association (CDSA) on East Spruce Street late last fall
Editor honored, Community Council representative named, Ethics and Elections Commission member reappointed, Madrona receives grant.
This is the fourth part in an ongoing series addressing our city's public schools. University of Washington education researcher Stephanie Bravmann said it is crucial to any conversation about revamping schools that we understand the historic, social and political context within which school systems - and, perhaps more important, the particular problems of school systems - arise and exist. The dilemma of student dropouts does not reside outside the big picture, and may in fact be central to it.
Under a picture of Malcolm X n the auditorium of Meany Middle School, the sixth- and seventh graders of Meany and Madrona K-8 School are competing for the second time this year. But they are not engaged in a tough sporting match or a cheerleading competition. No, they are engaged in a healthy competition of math wizardry. And the prize? A giant, stuffed pig named "Pi."
Al Brand left Park Shore and headed for the bank on New Year's Eve. He was in the crosswalk when suddenly a car struck him, injuring him seriously. He was taken to Harborview Medical Center, and three days later, he died. I've seen many near-misses in Madison Park, but this was the first time a friend of mine had been hit.
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81-year-old spreads cheer, wisdom of good health with therapeutic laughter
The memory of dim sum makes me so nostalgic...for this is an experience that goes beyond the delicious food. "Dim sum" literally means "the essence of small things," but there are other translations like "to touch your heart."Sampling many small delicacies is a slow process, so you can enjoy conversation along with the presentation, which is often exquisite,
Jim Diers was booted from his post by Mayor Greg Nickels - he had supported Paul Schell in the mayoral primary. It was Nickels' way of saying there was a new gun in town. But Diers landed handsomely on his feet. These days he's working as liaison to Seattle communities for the University of Washington Office of Partnerships, is director of the South Downtown Foundation and on the faculties of the University of Washington Department of Architecture and the Asset-Based Community Development Institute.
South Jackson Street crosses 12th Avenue South at the heart of Seattle's Little Saigon. Vietnamese and Cantonese dominate the tongues here but Spanish, Somali, Tagalog and Russian are as likely as English to be overheard.Elderly women in broad, woven hats crouch next to brightly colored plastic baskets of Chinese vegetables on the well-traveled sidewalks. Mothers with perky babies bound tightly on their backs shop among ladies clothed in head coverings and street-length robes. Jeans-clad teens wait at the busy bus stops with folks clutching shopping bags, parents with toddlers and construction workers in orange safety vests and hard hats on route to a job site.High energy pulses through this fascinating swirl.
Dr. Peggy McIntosh, associate director of the Wellesley College Center for Research on Women, was to deliver the keynote address for Seattle Human Rights Day celebration in December at the Arctic Building in downtown. However, laryngitis silenced the famous author of the seminal essay "White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack." The audience heard the speech of McIntosh, who is white, delivered by policy analyst Darlene Flynn who is black. Ordinarily, this change may not have been worth noting, but the subject matter evoked different responses with Flynn speaking for McIntosh. Blacks, and doubtlessly some whites, have known and spoken of privilege discrepancies since the beginning of slavery. Through Reconstruction, segregation, and discrimination, privilege differences have been apparent and acknowledged always by blacks and on occasion, by some whites. But McIntosh's realization, and its articulation, of this made many whites take notice in a manner which they could not, and would not, have viewed the same had the words come from a black person.
As a longtime performer in movies, television and theater, Amy Hill has been a recognizable actress in Hollywood since the 1980s, and her entry into the world of theater began at Franklin High School in Seattle in 1969.Born in South Dakota, Hill moved to Seattle at age 6 and resided first in Beacon Hill, then in the Rainier Valley. After she graduated from Franklin in 1971, Hill's mother, a Japanese national, urged her to travel to Japan. Hill moved to Tokyo and was accepted at the Sophia International University. Returning to Seattle at age 24, Hill finished her degree in art and Japanese language at the University of Washington. After revisiting Japan, Hill studied acting at Seattle's ACT Theatre and at the Asian American Theatre Co. in San Francisco. Since then, she has performed in films, television and theater, sharing the screen with such players as Mike Myers, Drew Barrymore and Bernie Mac.
Kirby Wong, a Seattle man of Chinese-American descent, could be alive today if there had been greater ethnic diversity in the blood supply five years ago. Similarly, more racial minorities on the marrow registry could help New Mexico's Kailee Wells, an adopted Chinese girl with aplastic anemia, whose father's quest to find a match for her brought him to Seattle this past summer.Locally and nationally, people like Wong and Wells are the inspiration for Kin On Health Care Center and Puget Sound Blood Center's efforts on Saturday Feb. 5. On this day, both organizations will host the fifth annual Kirby Wong Blood Drive at the Chinese Baptist Church, located at 5801 Beacon Ave. S. in Seattle, from 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m.
A pervasive and multi-faceted phenomenon, graffiti afflicts citizens in neighborhoods throughout Seattle. The subculture of spray-can wielding taggers - explored last week in this article's first intsallment - continues to thrive despite the threat of fines and jail time. However, in Beacon Hill, businesses and residents are taking proactive steps to combat the problem. Recently, the neighborhood's chamber of commerce secured a $5,000 grant from the city's office of economic development to jump-start an aggressive graffiti abatement program. "For small business owners, [graffiti] can be very disruptive," Chamber president Jackie Lum asserted.