Nowadays, Thach Nguyen lives a great life.A John L. Scott real-estate agent and Leschi resident, Nguyen spends his time developing high-rise condominiums and creating communities that he hopes people are inspired to live in. He also holds frequent seminars where he shares with others how to find success and happiness in life.But if you had questioned Nguyen when he was a boy living in a small, broken-down home in Southeast Seattle about where he would be in his mid-30s, he probably wouldn't have described his life as it is now...
Lisa Clinton opened Juniper: at 3314 E. Spring St., in early March. The store offers women's clothing and housewares.❚ STORE SWITCH: Swedish Heirlooms has combined its two storefronts into the one at 2911 E. Madison St., opening up the opportunity for Heather Scearce to open Conscious Body Pilates Studio.❚ MOVING: Ellentuck Interiors, 2717 E. Madison St., is moving to a bigger location in Georgetown after more than six years in Madison Valley...
Visitors to the Mad Cap Farmers' Market shop to the sounds of music. The market is open Fridays, from 3 to 7 p.m., in the Grocery Outlet parking lot, at Martin Luther King Jr. Way and East Union Street.
"FLIRTING WITH FORTY" is a recently published novel based on a group of fictional women in Madison Park.b>PIGGING OUTEric Harris and Bruce Chester, from Martha E. Harris, have donated their time and created one of the Pigs on Parade to celebrate the centennial anniversary of the Pike Place Market.
Library to close for renovationGroup selling pavers to benefit parkNew garden to highlight Pacific plants
Dozens of shadow puppets are visiting the Phinney Neighborhood Center.The exhibit, "The World of Shadows: Shadow Puppets," features dozens of puppets chosen from the Northwest Puppet Center's (NWPC) collection. The free exhibit, in the center's gallery, opened June 1 and continues through June 29.
The asker did the difficult part (correct) of asking for the date (bravo) and feels it's up to the gorgeous creature of his/her dreams to decide on the place and time. Wrong!The askee, the one asked out, has agreed (yay) to go willingly (bravo) and figures it's up to the asker to decide when and where. Wrong!
❚ TRANSIT OPTIONS: King County Metro will provide more frequent bus service to CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL & REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER, 4800 Sand Point Way N.E., as part of a new five-year initiative to encourage more hospital employees to leave their cars at home. Metro will add 63 new trips to Routes 25 and 75, beginning with its scheduled Sept. 22 service change. These trips will run at least every 30 minutes, seven days per week.
Remember those old, wise sayings? "A penny saved is a penny earned." "Another day, anoth-er dollar." "Money doesn't grow on trees." They may all seem cliché, but they still make a lot of sense when you think about it. During adolescence, children begin to develop a value system and discover what is important to them.
RAINIER VALLEY - The Rainier Little League playoffs started with a bang last Saturday as the All-City Fence Green Falcons rallied in dramatic fashion to score a stunning 10-9 victory over the Nelson Trucking Rockets in opening round Minors Division action at Rainier Playfield.The game was exhilarating for the Green Falcons, and heartbreaking for the Rockets.
Nick Shiflet isn't as whacked as you think he might think he is.Shiflet - a.k.a. The Shifter, a.k.a. Cookin' Kitty, a Seattle artist with an hourlong show on public access television - says he vacillates on the subject of his own perceived weirdness and idiosyncrasies."I go up and down thinking I'm strange," he says with just the hint of an ironic smile. "Sometimes I think I'm weird, and sometimes I just think I'm a normal person and everybody must think this way."
As of June 1, many Washington state families have an unprecedented opportunity to improve the health of their children through the Children's Health Program - yet it's likely that many of them do not know of the opportunity or how to take advantage of it. <
A children's musical playing now at the Rainier Valley Cultural Center will showcase the infectious poetry of the first children's poet laureate, Jack Prelutsky. His poetry, adapted by Columbia City resident and playwright Ellen Cooper, has inspired children across the country. A Seattle resident, Prelutsky wrote Something Big Has Been Here, a collection of poems with outrageous characters and vivid imagination, in the late 1980s. Cooper wrote the musical with Joseph Seserko for Youth Theatre NW on Mercer Island two years ago.Something Big Has Been Here will run from June 1-17 at the Rainier Valley Cultural Center, 3515 S. Alaska St.; 7 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, 2 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays 7 p.m.
Mayor Greg Nickels recently awarded this year's scholar awards to 24 middle school students for service to their respective schools and communities. Based on a criteria of overcoming major obstacles or meeting challenges, giving back to the community and maintaining good academic standing, the students received $500 each for further education or their charity of choice.
Beacon Hill residents gathered at the Jefferson Community Center, 3801 Beacon Ave. S., on June 2 to celebrate their neighborhood, raise awareness about issues facing the area and have fun in the sun.