obin Schoenfeld Olson, a resident of Wedgewood, and a physical therapist in Magnolia, will climb Mt. Hood on June 7-8, to raise awareness and raise funds to fight breast cancer.
It now appears that at least part of the world food crisis is because we are making bio-fuels from the crops that would normally find their way to the table, but that may not be the full story.We have an obesity crisis of gargantuan proportions in the United States. We are ballooning up at an unprecedented rate, transforming ourselves into human manatees.
here are two kinds of people in this world, those who pay attention to things and those who don't. And when I say 'those who don't' I mean me. I don't pay attention. If I'd been born into the age of ADHD, I'd have been diagnosed at birth.
Two major developments in local transportation planning during the last month point to a worrisome trend. With universal frustration over our area's interminable transportation and planning gridlocks, new efforts to try to solve the problem seem intent on saving time and hassle by cutting the public out of the decision-making process.
It's always finances that pushes Americans in one direction or another. Coffee prices too high? Buy less,and drink more tea. Housing market dark and gloomy? Put off selling until maybe 2010. Gas prices ridiculously high? Limit driving, start carpooling or take the bus. And hey, no more traffic jams, either.
The late Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan once said, "Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts."A fact to which the chair of the Queen Anne Community Council, Ellen Monrad, is not entitled is a statement she made to reporter Russ Zabel of the Queen Anne News.
This year's Mother's Day Essay Contest winner is Kathleen Rosenberger. Rosenberger's essay about why her mother deserved to receive a bouquet of 100 white carnations, was selected among 140 entries. The contest was sponsored by Magnolia Village Florist and distributed at Our Lady of Fatima School. Rosenberger received 100 white carnations. Second place went to Ed Lane and third place Ashley Ochsner. Lane and Oschsner also received white carnations.
Porcelain Gallery owner Bert Lundh has scheduled a June 4 luncheon to honor Magnolia resident Helen Sommers, a Democrat who retired this year after serving 36 years as a 36th District Representative in the state legislature.
Sarah Stine and her husband, Todd Stine, built a house in the 2400 block of 30th Avenue West around five years ago, but as with all big projects, some things were left undone.
There's chocolate, and then there's CHOCOLATE, according to Lauren Adler, a Wallingford resident who has launched a specialty candy business called Chocolopolis. She already has a Web site up and running for the business, and Adler is also planning to open up a store of the same name this summer on Upper Queen Anne Hill.
Students at McClure Middle School perform "Hee Haw Hay Ride" About 500 people filling the seats at the auditorium at Whitman Middle School.
Assumptions that the Interbay area could become home to a new city jail were confirmed May 6 at a briefing held by the city an hour after this newspaper went to press.
The Hills Pet Nutrition "Second Chance for Love" Tour will be in Seattle this weekend to encourage local residents to help save the lives of one million cats and dogs by the end of the year. Seattle area residents can contribute to the cause by visiting a shelter in their area and adopting a pet.
It was the wolf picture that won her the acclaim, but the artwork is just a small part of Caitlin Bates' life with animals.Since she was a child, animals have shaped Bate's world and now tend to dominate as subjects in her artwork. When she was a toddler, she walked around with large rubber snakes. At 4, she was fascinated with reptiles and memorized all the Latin names for dinosaurs, and strutted about the house and beyond with a giant toy monitor lizard her mother bought her at the Pacific Science Center.
This summer marks only the second time Queen Anne will have an art walk event. And to mark this summer's event, artwork from students at five neighborhood schools will be on display starting tomorrow at businesses throughout the area.