VIEW RIDGEAWARD: Special-education teacher Lynn Ronald, of View Ridge Elementary School, 7047 50th Ave. N.E., received the 2008 Antioch Distinguished Alumna award.Ronald, who has taught at View Ridge since 2002, was recognized for her volunteer work in Washington and Mexico.She also started the school's student council and yearbook, built a butterfly garden that has been registered with the National Wildlife Federation and started a Self-Managers program for students to take responsibility and get rewards for their actions.
■ Susan McCloskey, principal of B. F. Day Elementary School in Fremont, received the Torch Bearer Award last June for holding monthly peace assemblies during the school year and for promoting peace and harmony to staff and students. The World Harmony Run, a global torch relay that symbolizes humanity's universal aspiration for a more harmonious world, presents the Torch Bearer Award to people who have inspired their communities through their own lives and deeds. The torch has traveled to more than 140 countries and has been held by the likes of Mother Teresa, Pope John Paul II and Nelson Mandela. photo provided by B.F. Day Elementary School
■ Chad Green (left), a seminarian studying for the priesthood for the Archdiocese of Seattle, and Chris Hanzeli, development director at the Newman Center at the University of Washington and chairperson of the Centennial Committee, enter Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church, 5041 Ninth Ave. N.E., during the Dominican Rite Solemn High Mass celebrating the church's centennial on Aug. 8. photo/Susan Fried
Sixty students from Seattle high schools finished up a tough, three-week summer-school language program Aug. 22 at Seattle University. The program was tough because students in the daylong classes were only allowed to speak either Mandarin Chinese or Arabic.
It's about the money, honey...
Beginning this week and running through the end of the season the Columbia City Farmers Market will match food stamp program participants' purchases on their electronic benefits card on a dollar-for-dollar basis, up to $20 per market day.
What's a chicken drummie, again?
Organizers stress that everybody is welcome, but the 38th Annual ROOTS (Relatives of Old Timers) picnic on Aug. 31 in Gas Works Park traces its beginnings to when eight African American couples who had been friends and lost touch 30 to 40 years before met for a reunion dinner at the home of Arline and Letcher Yarbrough.
If you worry our society is drowning in a sea of cynicism, inanity and/or tragic hipness, meet Richard Gold.Gold is a retired software jockey who teaches poetry workshops to teens in King County Juvenile Detention, shelters and psychiatric hospitals. No doubt he could be playing golf or peeling grapes beneath the palm trees somewhere, but that's not Richard Gold.
"Seattle is a great town, no doubt," writes singer/songwriter/subversive non-quite-cowpunk Kathleen Edwards, from somewhere inside the mobile "small and smelly bubble" recording artists call home. "I love the community of chefs, storeowners, winemakers, artists, the Long Winters, and of course, Rainn Wilson."
Antique shopping comes in several distinct styles depending on the shop. At the other end are what might be called the suit-and-tie antique shops. Their stock is beautiful, their showrooms are beautiful, their staff is beautiful.
So now we know. Sen. Joe Biden of Delaware will be Barrack Obama's running mate in the coming presidential election.Choosing Biden represents a practical, pragmatic and even logical choice for the Democratic ticket.
Recently, the Washington state Supreme Court ruled that a recall effort against Port of Seattle Commissioner Pat Davis could proceed as planned.
As a relatively new resident of Rainier Beach (about a year-and-a-half), I found Sable Verity's observations to be disturbingly accurate ["Let's rid ourselves of the gang scapegoat," Aug. 20].
Thank you for your excellent points against the Blue Angels [Aug. 6 editorial "Stick fork in the Angels, they're done"]. I work in the Green Lake area where only the visuals alert one to this "display." I come home to my cats, who, I know from being here sometimes, have been scared undeservedly.