The American Red Cross Serving King & Kitsap Counties will present the 9th annual CPR Saturday event on May 3 as a thank you to the community for its on-going support of the local Red Cross Chapter. This free event is open to anyone who would like to learn life-saving Adult CPR skills. Red Cross volunteers make this event possible with their generous donation of time and skills. The Washington State Convention & Trade Center has donated the training space.
Behavioral scientists like to debate the influences of our surroundings - colors, the layout of a room, a landscape - and how they shape us. Indeed, British writer Lawrence Durrell once posited this notion: Pluck a group of people from anywhere in the world and deposit them, say, in the Rhone Valley, and after enough time passes they will assume the character and practices of the grape-growing natives.
FRAUD Wednesday 3/12, noon: A woman came into the East Precinct to report she, and her husband, interviewed a man in February to put a pool cover on their pool. The man, in his 50s or 60s, had been recommended to them by some friends who had him do the same job for them. The couple wrote the man a personal check for $5,500 to do the work. A few weeks went by, and the couple did not hear from the man. The woman called the pool cover guy's cell phone, but it had been disconnected. She then called the company the man claimed he uses for his materials. A company representative said the man had not placed an order with them and that they preferred not to do business with him. Further investigation by the woman revealed the pool cover guy had closed his Post Office box and shut down his website.
Dental X-rays are following the lead of still cameras for a growing number of dentists. The X-rays are now digital, and the images are displayed immediately on a computer monitor, said Dr. Thomas Roberts, a Phinney Ridge resident who switched last October to the high-tech system at his Queen Anne dental practice."I held out for a long time because the quality of the original sensors wasn't very good," he said. The equipment he uses now is much better, Roberts said: "The quality of the films just went through the roof, it was so good."
GRAND OPENING: FedEx Kinko's opened yet another location in North Seattle, at 12513 Lake City Way N.E., on Feb. 29. Steve Strauss is the manager.PAPERY: Paper Delights recently opened at 2205B N. 45th St., in the Bagley Lofts building.The store offers a variety of greeting cards, including letterpress and handmade, as well as invitations, fine giftware and bulk candies.CELL-PHONE RECYCLING: Visitors to Woodland Park Zoo, 601 N. 59th St., can recycle their used cellular phones by dropping them off at the zoo gates. Funds from the recycling will benefit the nonprofit Orangutan Conservancy, which aims to protect endangered orangutans and their rainforest habitat.
The following is the menu for Seattle Public Schools' elementary students. All breakfasts include toast, fruit, juice and milk. Lunches include vegetables, fruit and milk. The menu is subject to change.MONDAY, APRIL 7Breakfast: Hot or cold cereal.Lunch: Deep-dish pepperoni pizza (pork) or Mozzarella cheese breadsticks with or without marinara sauce.TUESDAY, APRIL 8Breakfast: Egg-and-turkey sausage tac-go with or without salsa.Lunch: Chicken nuggets with or without sweet-and-sour sauce, Italian Hot Pocket or Yogurt and blueberry muffin Munchable.WEDNESDAY, APRIL 9Breakfast: Pancake on a stick.Lunch: Belgian waffle sticks with or without syrup and beef sausage, Toasted egg-and-cheese bagel sandwich or Chicken Caesar salad with whole-wheat roll.THURSDAY, APRIL 10Breakfast: Cheddar cheese omelet.Lunch: Breaded-chicken burger on multigrain roll, Two-bean chili with or without cheddar cheese or Chicken Caesar salad with whole-wheat roll.FRIDAY, April 11Breakfast: Smokie roll (pork).Lunch: Cheeseburger on multigrain bun, Baja fish sticks or Yogurt and blueberry muffin Munchable.
HALEINTERCULTURAL VIDEOCONFERENCE: Students at Nathan Hale High School, 10750 30th Ave. N.E., participated in a live videoconference at the nearby Meadowbrook Teen Center on March 12 with Palestinian teens living on the West Bank. The event was part of a yearlong face-to-face learning partnership sponsored by Bridges to Understanding.United World College students from Ireland, Israel, Jordan and Palestine also took part in the 45-minute videoconference. The college students were in Seattle for one week from their New Mexico campus for their Constructive Engagement of Conflict curriculum.This cross-cultural exchange is one of several Bridges to Understanding events taking place through April. Three teachers and 16 students will travel from partner schools in Guatemala, South Africa and the Tibetan Children's Village in Dharamsala, India, for three weeks. Their trip coincides with the Dalai Lama's trip; the students will present handmade compassion boxes to the Dalai Lama.
Things are going "green" everywhere you look. From weekly fliers and inserts, advertisements and billboards, to entire catalogs dedicated to renewable resources, there's a lot of information and products available that can help you and your family "go green." But with the confusing array of services, products and information, where do you start?
Approaching its 80th anniversary this fall, Park Vista is one of only a few housing co-ops in Seattle. It is easily recognized by its distinctive architecture and prominent location in the Ravenna neighborhood.Park Vista is a 50-unit, art-deco brick structure built in 1928, the same year that the Paramount Theater was built. Located at the intersection of Northeast Ravenna Boulevard, University Way Northeast and 15th Avenue Northeast, Park Vista sits right across from Cowen Park. It was designed by architect John A. Creutzer, who also designed Seattle's Medical Dental Building and the Swedish Tabernacle Church in Downtown Seattle and the Julie Apartments in the Denny Triangle neighborhood.While Park Vista was originally built as apartments, some active members arranged to purchase the property and convert it to a co-op in 1949.
Northwest Focus words of the month: "concert" and "concerto."What's the deal with Italian terminology and classical music? If I tell you I went to a concert and heard a concerto, am I just repeating myself? Am I trying to sound haute? I hope not. While "concerto" is, literally, Italian for "concert," the gathering of an audience to hear musicians play is not what "concerto" has come to mean in English. An audience hearing a concerto has gathered to enjoy one of the great nonverbal conversations human beings can have.
CLOSING: After 25 years as an independent bookstore solely for young readers, All for Kids Books & Music, 2900 N.E. Blakeley St., will close June 30. Owner Chauni Haslet, 63, is retiring to spend more time with her family. The $500,000 business is for sale, but Haslet is not actively pursuing a buyer.Book buyer René Kirkpatrick will leave All for Kids on April 27 to start work at Third Place Books on May 5 as a buyer in the store's adult section.The future of All for Kids' well-known walls of graffiti, signed by the hundreds of children's authors who have come through the store's event room, is still undecided.
I'm a third-generation Seattle girl with roots that go back to the Interurban and Playland.Driving down any local road produces intense nostalgic signals for me - and I love that. Needless to say, the "Images of America" series, in their sepia glory, grabbed my attention immediately. There it was: the wall of books with historic photos from favorite locales. I snatched up the ones with the closest ties, like Ravenna and Ballard. However, look as I might, my own childhood neighborhood of Greenwood was missing. I loaded books into my basket, thinking, someday, they'll do my district.A year later, a mention in a newspaper caught my eye, and I knew I had to have that book and meet the author, Ted Pederson.
The Jewish holiday of Passover starts the evening of April 19, and for many Jewish people, that means renewed interest in kosher wine.The Hebrew word "kosher" means "fit" or "proper," as it relates to kosher dietary law, according to the Orthodox Union, an organization that provides kosher supervision.Many people associate the idea of kosher wine with the sweet Concord grape or blackberry wines sold by Manischewitz and Kedem. For some people, kosher wine is only important at Passover, and they also associate the Passover Seder meal with the sweet wines.You might be surprised to find some exquisitely dry, sparkling or even mildly sweet kosher red and white wines from France, Spain, Italy, Chile and Israel at the Tree of Life Judaica and Books in Ravenna. The shop is offering a More than Manischewitz kosher wine tasting on Thursday, April 10, with kosher food samples. However, Tree of Life sells kosher wine all year round and has wine tastings on the second Thursday of every month.While it is traditional to ask four questions on Passover, there were just two at last month's wine tasting: What makes wine kosher? And why do some people find it important to drink kosher wine - not only on Passover, but on other Jewish holidays?
Queen Anne thespian continues radio tradition The gang of thespians at the First Baptist Church at Pill Hill have been doing theater for years: Comedies, dramas, histories, you name it. But this is the first year they have embarked on a reenactment, to the finest detail, of The Old Radio Days. Led by director Joanne Hjort and Queen Anne-based talent agent and actor, Mozelle Sims, the cast and crew have begun rehearsals for the program that will feature a handful of classics from Fibber MacGee and Molly, Little Orphan Annie, Our Miss Brooks, The Shadow and Abbott & Costello's "Who's on First" sketch.
The Seattle branch of the English Speaking Union held its21st annual Shakespeare competition on March 2 at the Frye Art Museum. Thirteen local high schools participated by each sending a contestant who recited a monologue from one of Shakespeare's plays and a sonnet of their choice. The first-place winner was Chelsea Poppe of Issaquah High School. The second place winner was Anneka Gerhardt of Roosevelt High School. The third-place winner was Leah Russell of Skyline High School. Poppe will represent the branch at the finals in New York April 26 to 29. She received a $500 prize, plus an all-expenses-paid trip to New York. Second and third places received $300 and $150, respectively. The teachers received the same amount. Local judges were professors George Scranton and Andrew Ryder from Seattle Pacific University, Hal Ryder (no relation) from Cornish and yours truly. The Shakespeare competition is the highlight of the local branch's education program.