Trofim Lysenko is unknown today but for many years dissenting from his theories resulted in a trip to the gulag.
Doesn't the community have rights as well?Example: you live on a street full of beautiful 1920s Craftsman style homes. You bought the house because it was obvious that everyone takes great pride in their homes, and you wanted to live on a street like that. One day, one of the owners announces that he's tearing his house down and replacing it with an ultra-modern concrete structure to the horizontal and vertical limits of the zoning. Wouldn't that destroy the whole character of the street, and impact the neighbors property values?
To kick off Seattle Public Utilities' Compost Days event, which began last weekend, SPU was giving away kitchen compost collection kits to all its customers; and the Cedar Grove company was giving away bags of compost at various locations throughout the city.
For the first time, the Magnolia Rotary Club will be partnering with the United Indians of All Tribes Foundation to spruce up the Daybreak Star Cultural Center in Discovery Park this Saturday.
Late last Friday night, vandals tore out the gilded sign of Mount Pleasant Cemetery on Queen Anne Hill, and apparently dragged it a couple blocks where it was found damaged the next morning.
I was driving down the interstate recently when I saw what is wrong with health care in America written on a giant billboard. Beneath a picture of a 40-something-year-old woman reclining on a beach and staring serenely off in to the distance, the sign read "Wouldn't it be nice to never have to think about your health again." Hmmm.
Seattle Parks and Recreation and the Associated Recreation Council (ARC) invite youth ages 14-18 to apply for work as interns in the Recreation Technology or "RecTech" program in the summer of 2010. These internships provide young people with important skills in today's tech-savvy world. The program will bring them up to date on various tech skills and help make them more employable.
Call for artists!United Indians of All Tribes Foundation is celebrating its 40th anniversary and seeks submission of artwork exploring the theme of Native activism and reflecting the powerful story of the beginning of UIATF. In 1970 Bernie Whitebear and other Native American activists made a stand at Ft. Lawton military base in a fight for Native rights and recognition. Bernie Whitebear and his supporters were successful in their siege of the Fort, and were able to establish a land base for the Native American community in Puget Sound on the northeastern point of Discovery Park. Here they built the breathtaking Daybreak Star Indian Cultural Center, and formed the United Indians of All Tribes Foundation, which is still one of the most prominent Native support organizations in the Northwest. For more background information, visit http://www.unitedindians.org/about_history_bernie.html and http://depts.washington.edu/civilr/FtLawton_takeover.htm.
Walking down the hallways of Lawton Elementary school last Thursday felt like a passport to another world.
'Ye know not the day nor the hour so be prepared'.
Magnolia plant sale to benefit children and their familiesThe Katie McKay Circle will present its 15th Annual Plant Sale to raise funds for western Washington children and their families from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Saturday, May 8. at Our Lady of Fatima Church parking lot, 3218 W. Barrett St. Among those items offered for sale: hanging baskets, perennials, heirloom vegetables, fairytale pumpkins, unique sunflowers, statuary, gifts and more. The Katie McKay Circle is a Seattle-based, non-profit organization serving needy families in the region. The Magnolia chapter has more than 40 members.
OverZealous SecurityA man told police he was punched in the face twice by a security guard at McCaw Hall, located in the 300 block of Mercer Street, when he was attending a show on the evening of April 18. The man said he approached the stage at what he thought was the end of the show to take pictures with his cell phone. The suspect began to push the man and told him, harshly, to go sit down. The entertainer then came back out for an encore.
Honorable people can disagree over the recent Seattle City Council passage and mayoral veto of the aggressive-panhandling ordinance. But anyone watching City Councilmember Mike O'Brien's all-too-public flip-flop over the vote may be excused for feeling seasick.
I traveled to Thailand a few years ago with a Thai-American businesswoman friend of mine. She had 11 siblings still there, all over south central Thailand, in a circle radiating out from the country's incredibly exciting urban heart, Bangkok.
"You wouldn't believe the size," my partner, the Lady Marjorie, exclaimed in a voice dripping with disgust, "of the monster spider I just found under the clothes hamper."