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The dreaded time has come and gone: Resolution Day. I have friends who have learned to avoid the dread. They quit making resolutions. But I cannot. I am a man of constant failure who has never stopped trying for a little self-improvement, and 2005 will be, alas, no different.
What a splendid job [Ericka Berg] did in your recent articles on the graffiti problem in Seattle (Jan. 12 and 19) - good writing, fair coverage and extensive research and an admirable reach for a reasonable number of voices and points of view. Letters policy:All letters - whether sent via regular mail or e-mail -must include an address and a telephone number at which you can be reached for verification for the letters to be printed. We will publish only your name and neighborhood in which you live. Letters are subject to editing.
The line I'm talking about today sprang from the lips of buzz-cut Guy Womack, a Texas attorney (Hook 'em Horns!) who compared his client, Iraqi-prisoner abuser and American G.I. Charles Graner, with cheerleaders. "Don't cheerleaders all over America form pyramids six to eight times a year? Is that torture?" Womack said
The Park View apartment building on West Highland Drive may end up going to way of the J.C. Black mansion, which was demolished right next door last year. That's significant because both buildings across the street from Kerry Park could be considered as historic.
The fifth-largest company of its kind in the country has announced plans to build a 194-unit assisted-living community for seniors in Lower Queen Anne.
It took two years, $140,000 and the dedicated work of a group of Magnolia mothers, but a facelift for Karen's Place playground has finally been completed.Named after King County Prosecutor Norm Maleng's and his wife Judy's daughter, who died in a Magnolia sledding accident in 1989, the playground near the community center was officially reopened on Jan. 29.
>Jim Fielder, a sixth-grade teacher at McClure Middle School, had each of his homeroom students take newspaper articles and arrange them on a poster; each student then created his or her own message of hope and healing to be posted around the school. To give the kids a tangible sense of contributing to the greater good, McClure held a fundraiser featuring students' artwork and facilitated by a few teachers as well as onsite AmeriCorps volunteers.
it's often easier to share our most intimate secrets with a stranger than with someone close to us. Could it be that some similar mechanism - albeit on a grand, collective scale - is at work in the monolithic swell of public and private aid following in the wake of last month's tsunami in South Asia?
Litter is a problem on Queen Anne Hill. As a matter of fact, the entire hill looks really shabby. Beat-up sidewalk signs chained to poles, tree planters stuffed with cigarette butts and ratty newspaper dispensers all add up to a very trashy look, odd for one of the Seattle's most expensive neighborhoods.
This list of crimes was compiled from censored police reports and written by Russ Zabel.
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You'll hear about the next Oscar race as early as January or February, when - with the current awards season nearing its grand finale - some scribe or broadcast reviewer announces the first sighting of an "Oscarworthy" performance. Not long after, whether the fever is in mediafolk's blood or a publicist or agent somewhere is planting the virus, we'll begin to get the breathy speculations, the spinning of dream scenarios.
We shall now endeavor to explore the delicate mysteries of Yorkshire pudding, a culinary masterpiece with as many variations as there are mums who make it.
Last week it was "Lights! Camera! Action!" on Queen Anne as a movie crew took over the block of Fifth Avenue between Crockett and McGraw streets to film scenes for a picture called "Expiration Date."