The Boys & Girls Clubs of King County honored three local teens for their dedication to their respective chapters during the 2007 Youth of the Year awards luncheon in February. While the three local representatives didn't win the title of Youth of the Year for King County, they each received a $500 scholarship, a Best Buy gift card and tickets to a Seattle Sonics basketball game. -Vera M. Chan-PoolWilliams, a Greenwood resident, is a senior at Ballard High School. He has been a member of the North Seattle Boys & Girls Club for seven years and is currently the co-president of the club's Keystone Club.
The Boys & Girls Clubs of King County honored three local teens for their dedication to their respective chapters during the 2007 Youth of the Year awards luncheon in February. While the three local representatives didn't win the title of Youth of the Year for King County, they each received a $500 scholarship, a Best Buy gift card and tickets to a Seattle Sonics basketball game. -Vera M. Chan-Pool.A freshman at Roosevelt High School, Regan has been a member of the Wallingford Boys & Girls Club for eight years. She works at the club after school as a program assistant, is a counselor-in-training and is president of the club's Keystone Club.
The Boys & Girls Clubs of King County honored three local teens for their dedication to their respective chapters during the 2007 Youth of the Year awards luncheon in February. While the three local representatives didn't win the title of Youth of the Year for King County, they each received a $500 scholarship, a Best Buy gift card and tickets to a Seattle Sonics basketball game. -Vera M. Chan-PoolBullington is a senior at Roosevelt High School. She was named Youth of the Year for the Ballard Boys & Girls Club, where she has been a member for 10 years, is president of the club's Keystone Club and has volunteered 65 hours in the last year.
Grown men are doing amazing contortions as they try to get the cereal boxes to open.our peaceful breakfast seems to become more and more of a challenge. It isn't the state of the world or the activities of the day. No. It's the cereal boxes. No one can get them open.
As a serious single, I've studied the subject. One of the many advice books I've perused urged attention to surroundings. One must, the author insisted, smile and consider any and all acquaintances as possible conquests. I agree with the philosophy.
Falling is a common and serious problem among older adults, but it isn't an inevitable part of aging.Simple steps taken now to improve your health, strength and balance will help you avoid falls now and into the future, according to the Healthy Aging Partnership (HAP), a coalition of 40 Puget Sound-area organizations dedicated to the health and well-being of older adults.As one HAP organization put it: "The more you do today, the more you can continue to do tomorrow."
Walk into the Chinese Baptist Church on Beacon and Orcas on a Tuesday or Thursday morning and you will see more than 30 older adults walking joyfully in a large gym. During their laps, they go for about twenty minutes talking with their friends, laughing, swinging their arms and having fun. After they finish walking, the group fills the rest of the hour with other fitness activities. What are they doing? These seniors have committed themselves to EnhanceFitness, an exercise program designed by researchers at the Univers ity of Washington and Group Health Cooperative
It was only a couple of years ago, when I felt lost in a sea of letters as people talked about the Greater Duwamish District Council (GDDC) and the City Neighborhood Council (CNC), the council of all councils. It was like listening to some cryptic language and I didn't have a decoder ring.My how things have changed. I started attending the GDDC in 2005. I went to a meeting to talk about some issue facing the neighborhood and the GDDC was a suggested pit stop in the outreach effort. I've been going to the monthly meetings ever since.
It's tax time, and that usually means it's also time to procrastinate actually doing your taxes. It also means it's time to confront all the paper records you've been filing and/or piling for the past year. There aren't any hard-and-fast rules for record retention, which is why guidelines aren't particularly helpful, vary widely and are often unclear. To make matters worse, finding the files you need at tax time can be "taxing" to say the least. Most of what we file is never retrieved again, and we waste time trying to find the few documents we actually need.
If you've ever sat in the cell phone waiting lot at Sea-Tac waiting for your mom's plane to touch down or listened to your messages while driving 65 mph down I-5, you know how deeply the telephone has penetrated American life. While it's true that wireless technologies have transformed communication in the last decade, the introduction of the first telephones in the late 19th century began an even more dramatic transition.
'Green roofs' designed to provide cleaner water, less runoffSeattle Public Utilities (SPU) has started a collaborative effort to study the effects of "green roofs," which use natural plant life on building roofs, on storm water flows and runoff water quality.
That unmistakable green, tongue-out scowl of Mr. Yuk has become an iconic cultural symbol in the United States warning children about poisonous substances, and Dunlap Elementary School student Kyesha Martin put a unique spin on the poison control mascot. Martin won first place in a statewide Mr. Yuk poster art competition to raise awareness for, and highlight, National Poison Prevention Week, March 18-24. Poisonings are the third leading cause of accidental deaths in Washington behind only car crashes and falling. Children, teens, adults, seniors and our pets are all at risk.
Meg Mahoney, dance specialist at Wing Luke Elementary School, was the recent recipient of the KCTS Golden Apple Award, which is given to a top Washington state educator and valued at $1,500. According to Mahoney, the award was a huge honor particularly because it recognized the importance of dance in the curriculum. She is the only full-time dance specialist in the Seattle Public School District. She plans to use the funds to upgrade the dance program's sound system. Mahoney beams when she talks about dance. She beams when she talks about her kids - the students of Wing Luke - and she beams, albeit modestly, when she shares her delight in receiving this prestigious award.
The Spring Coed Adult Dodgeball League will be hitting the gym of Finn Hill Junior High School this month. Grab a bunch of your closest friends and sign up before April 6. Start times will alternate between 6:45 and 8 p.m. WHEN: One match per week on Wednesdays from April 11-May 30.WHERE: Finn Hill Junior High. 8040 N.E. 132nd St.WHO: Men and women 18 and upFEE: $125 per team (no individual sign-ups)REGISTRATION: www.kirklandparks. net or 828-1218REGISTRATION DEADLINE: April 6 For more information, contact Tony Trofimczuk, Kirkland recreation coordinator, 587-3334.
oters in the 45th Legislative District (Kirkland, Redmond, Woodinville, portions of unincorporated King County) recently sent Eric Oemig to represent them in the Washington state Senate. Before last fall's election, he campaigned on education, health care, transportation, taxes and other routine Washington state issues. Yet now that he's in Olympia, what do we see? Instead of the promised bipartisan problem-solving, he waves the bloody shirt of presidential impeachment in about as frothing-at-the-mouth, rabid, hard-left partisanship as has been seen in Olympia in a very long time.