DONNA JUNE DOSSINGER DUGGAN, a 31-year resident of the QueenAnne Hill neighborhood in Seattle, passed away peacefully at home onDecember 3rd surrounded by her family, after a year-long battle with cancer.
The final stages of life are just as beautiful as all others. This is why the Frye Art Museum on First Hill is introducing a new social opportunity for people living with dementia.
How could any kid resist a school lesson that is named “Blood and Guts”? That was certainly true of the students at Lawton Elementary last week, as the Pacific Science Center’s Science on Wheels van pulled into school to give the 400 students a hands-on lesson in how the body works.
Patricia (Evelyn) Strange Boyd was born in Hardin County, Sour Lake, TX, on April 14, 1924 of Ernest Earl Strange and Evelyn Patricia Lawrence.Patricia was the wife of Syndicated Columnist L. M. Boyd, "Mike Mailway" (deceased).
The Queen Anne Farmers Market announced Monday that it will open this year on June 2 with Jaime Collado serving as its new manager.
Philanthropist and former Seattle Mariner Jamie Moyer, and his wife, Karen, are the recipients of the 2011 Seattle-King County First Citizen Award. The longtime Magnolia residents were named the 73rd honorees of the award for their work in founding and developing The Moyer Foundation, a nonprofit organization focused on providing encouragement and comfort for children enduring physical, emotional or financial distress.
Politicians, family members, loved ones and neighbors all gathered at the newly completed Thomas C. Wales Park on Queen Anne Saturday morning to dedicate the opening of the green space to the memory of the slain assistant U.S. Attorney.
The Queen Anne Chamber of Commerce honored four neighborhood businesses April 14 that have gone above and beyond in their support of both the Chamber and the greater Queen Anne community.
Should homework be banned for elementary school students? This was the topic debated by dozens of fourth and fifth-grade students from Queen Anne and Magnolia area schools who gathered at Lawton Elementary on Feb. 5.
Taproot Theatre’s 35th anniversary season opened epically, with the staging of Mary Zimmerman’s adaptation of Homer’s epic, “The Odyssey.” Directed by Scott Nolte, the play successfully takes what could be a six-hour ordeal and re-works it into a two-hour script – it’s easy to follow even for those who haven’t read the poem.
Does it take a touch of madness to be a great artist? Is it better to live without art or live without madness? Is it possible to do either? Structured as three linked monologues, the premiere show of the newly formed Man Alone Productions uses as its starting point the real-life theft of Edvard Munch’s painting “The Scream” from Norway’s National Gallery during the Winter Olympics in Lillehammer.
Darrell Drew says he found a purpose by getting involved in the community. The longtime Magnolia resident, 68, has been instrumental in many of the community’s activities for the past 38 years when he organized the first Magnolia Summer Fest Kids Parade in the 1970s. It is a project that he still oversees with great pride to this day. He has also spent many years volunteering at the Magnolia Community Center, as a member of the Magnolia Community Council, the city-wide board of directors and as a docent for Discovery Park. And if that wasn’t enough, he is also responsible for rigging the pully system that is used to hang banners across West McGraw Street in the Magnolia Village. Between 12 and 13 times a year, he hangs the banners across the street to announce Magnolia’s special events. In recognition for all that Drew has done and continues to do for the community, the Magnolia Community Center celebrated his tireless service with a party last week. Bill Keller, the executive director of the Associated Recreation Council, awarded Drew a trophy in honor of his dedication. “We are celebrating Darrell’s unselfish and tireless work,” Keller said. “He always puts the community first and works constantly to help families, teens and kids in the Magnolia area.” While the crowd attending the celebration acknowledged how much Drew has done for Magnolia, he was quick to say he has gotten the better end of the deal. “This work really saved my life,” said Drew. “It gave me a focus, a sense of belonging and a purpose at a time when I didn’t have any purpose.”
Seattle Repertory Theatre presents the plight of four friends fast approaching the end of their 30s who are testing the boundaries of their relationships in This, up-and-coming playwright Melissa James Gibson’s tart “un-romantic comedy,” which The New York Times called “the best new play to open Off-Broadway this fall.” The play—under the direction of acclaimed young director Braden Abraham and starring Seattle favorites Hans Altwies, Cheyenne Casebier, and Nick Garrison—has its West Coast premiere in Seattle Rep’s Leo K. Theatre April 8-May 15, 2011. Tickets are available now through the Seattle Rep Box Office at 206-443-2222, as well as online at www.seattlerep.org.
In what has to be one of the more sumptuous ballets of our time, “Cinderella” performed by a nothing short than stellar cast at the Pacific Northwest Ballet, is a triumph. The production at McCaw Hall in lower Queen Anne, drew a full house, and brought the audience to its feet as the curtain fell.
Urban, educated Americans often enjoy a sort of extended adolescence, interrupted only by the impending arrival of middle-age. Canadian playwright Melissa James Gibson’s “This” captures this sometimes painful, sometimes comic, delayed transition to adulthood via her tale of 30-something New Yorkers, a set of old college friends trying to maintain relationship status quo while coping with new parenthood, death of a spouse and other life changes.