LaVern and Frances Puddy celebrated their 55th wedding anniversary on May 31.
Noemia (Mia) King, who grew up in Magnolia and attended Our Lady of Fatima church, has been awarded the Leonore Annenberg Teaching Fellowship from the University of Pennsylvania.
Bookworms and literature lovers will soon have a chance to explore a unique emporium of new, used and rare selections at Abraxus Books in Lower Queen Anne.
Although the Army Reserve's 70th Regional Readiness Command is disestablishing (going inactive) June 30, Fort Lawton will remain occupied as the "Grow the Army" initiative unit, the 364th Sustainment Command (Expeditionary), or ESC, officially activates and stays at Fort Lawton until its new center in Marysville is completed in mid 2011.
Seattle Learning Center will open its Preschool and Playcare program for the Queen Anne community Sept. 8.
Flying highLate Saturday, June 6, medics called officers to Seventh Ave. W. for assistance. A 15-year-old was flying high on psychedelic mushrooms and needed to go the hospital, but he wasn't cooperating with ambulance personnel. Officers told the boy they were going to give him "one chance to stand up and leave like a man," or they were going to drag him. The boy sat motionless on the bed, but jerked from officers' grasp, falling to the floor when they tried to get him out to be placed on a gurney.Ultimately, his legs had to be placed in restraints and he was carried down a flight of stairs, spitting all the while at law enforcement and medical personnel. He was fitted with a "spit sock" and transported to Harborview for treatment and for a mental health exam. All told, treatment of the teen's mycological misadventure required the efforts of two officers, an engine company, a team of medics, and ambulance personnel.
Magnolia resident Spencer Covich, a recent Western Washington University graduate, and three other students recently showed Sen. Patty Murray the results of a survey they conducted in which few of the 13,000 students at the university had personal finance training.
The worst thing about news stories is that they often bring up more questions than they answer. Afterward we are left with questions that dangle like cut electrical wires inside of our heads. Whatever happened to the basic tenets of who, what, when, where, how and why? One could call this dearth of answers an act of domestic torture.
June is always a transformative month as students across the state and the nation make that milestone walk across the platform to accept their diplomas and degrees. And in spite of lackluster performance statistics that show this nation is failing our children, let it be known that our children are not failing us.
"I swore I would never vote for Greg Nickels. Now that I see the challengers, I will have to think about this." I am hearing variations of that statement from Democrats and Republicans now that the slate of candidates is set.
The Seattle branch of the English Speaking Union held its Annual General Meeting in May at the Seattle Yacht Club. The main dining room was set with round tables with crisp white linen tablecloths and napkins, with a view of the water and boats. Ladies in colorful summer attire and gentleman in white dinner jackets gave the impression of an elegant dining room aboard a cruise ship.
Queen Anne Farmers Market is open from 3-7 p.m., Thursday, June 25, and will feature new vendors: Wilson Fish, Poco Caretto Gelato, Sunfield Farm and Xiong Cha Gardens. Americana music by Adam Borkoski at 3 p.m., chef demo by Brittany Bardeleben of Betty at 4 p.m. Meet Elizabeth Mullaly, QAFMA poster artist and Kristen Ramirez, Fremont Bridge artist-in-residence, 3-7 p.m. More information at www.qafma.org
It's a stretch to link the surge in our country's overheated, right-wing rhetoric with 19-year-old Hannah Geiger's account of what happened to her in Magnolia on June 1.
My sister Karen has lived what looks to me to be a pretty good life. True, she spent most of her life in Cincinnati, the place I fled, but she has been a nurse there for 35 years. She's also been married to my brother-in-law Jim for more than 35 years.
At a time when the city, county and state are making public safety cuts to balance their budgets, HR 1517, the Voting Restoration Act, passed in the most recent legislative session, permits convicted felons to restore their right to vote without repayment of legal financial obligations (LFOs).