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Spokesman.com – Oct. 17, 2012    http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2012/oc…    10/17/12
Cindy Hval Correspondent

Truck stops

Falling leaves and cooler temperatures indicate savvy diners need to get their food truck fix in while they still can. Three new mobile kitchens opened recently in Spokane, offering everything from familiar favorites like hamburgers and chicken wings, to exotic fare like stewed oxtail and curried goat. Most food trucks shutter their windows when the snow flies, but you’ve still got time to sample some tasty dishes from the latest additions to the mobile-dining scene.
The Jamaican Jerk Pan
Since The Jamaican Jerk Pan’s opening this spring, owner/operator Roian Doctor said, “I’ve been working like there’s five of me!” But it’s a labor of love for this Jamaican, who owns the truck along with his wife, Sabrina Sorger. Using spices imported from his homeland, Doctor offers authentic dishes like jerk chicken – smoked meat that’s rubbed with and marinated in a special blend of spices. “I’m giving you a taste of what I’m familiar with,” he said. Jerk chicken and curried chicken are always on the menu, as well as side dishes including rice and beans and cabbage salad. Doctor also serves festival – a fried bread, similar to Indian fry bread. “All of my side dishes are vegan,” he said. Adventurous eaters might want to try stewed oxtail. Doctor describes it as “a big chunk of meat with some gravy on it.” He also occasionally serves curried goat. The honey-citrus shrimp skewers have proved popular, too. Prices range from $5.50 for a bowl of curry chicken with rice and beans to a jerk chicken combo plate with three sides for $10.
Jamaican Jerk Pan will be up at Green Bluff near Knapp’s Farm during Apple Festival and offers catering services, as well. Doctor has been pleased with customer response. “All the people say good things about my food, which makes me feel good,” he said. “I tell my customers I cook a little piece of home for you guys to enjoy.” Jamaican Jerk Pan Location: Fourth Avenue and Cannon Street in Browne’s Addition Hours: Monday-Friday, 11:30 a.m.-8 p.m. Phone: (509) 795-9050 More information: www.facebook.com/TheJamaicanJerkPan (http://www.facebook.com/TheJamaicanJerkPan)
Thai Lunch Box
Thai Lunch Box owner Tom Pinyo isn’t new to the Spokane restaurant scene. A former owner of Riverview Thai at the Flour Mill, Pinyo has been around the local Thai food scene for many years. But restaurant owners work long hours and Pinyo has two young children. He decided to buy a food truck so he could spend more time with his family. He bought the former Mommy G’s truck, painted it green, and opened at the Perry Street location last month. “I do all the cooking,” he said. “We try to keep it simple.”Staple offerings like red chicken curry with pineapple, and vegetarian pad Thai have proven to be big hits. “On Thursdays and Fridays we offer a special curry, like bean curry with chicken,” said Pinyo. The menu also features chicken satay with peanut sauce, Thai sausage with lemongrass and banh mi, a sandwich featuring a choice of meat topped with cilantro, jalapeños and fresh veggies.
Prices range from $3 for a single skewer of chicken satay to $8-$10 for a combo plate which may feature curry, rice and satay or Thai sausage.
The sunny fall has been a boon to business, as diners can enjoy the picnic tables Pinyo has set up near the trailer. “We got a really good welcome in the neighborhood,” he said.
Thai Lunch Box Location: Ninth Avenue and Perry Street across from The Shop Hours: Monday-Friday, 11 a.m.-2 p.m., Thursday and Friday, 4-7:30 p.m. Phone: (509) 868-2306 More information: www.facebook.com/ThaiLunchBox (https://www.facebook.com/ThaiLunchBox)
P.H.A.T. Truck
P.H.A.T. stands for Pretty Hot And Tasty. This food truck, which debuted at Pig Out in the Park, is owned by Stoakley Lloyd and his cousins, Avont and LeSean Grant.
“We’re still figuring out our schedule and finding the best spots,” Lloyd said. But one thing they have figured out is their menu. “We make the food we like to eat,” Lloyd said. That includes hamburgers made with fresh – not frozen – beef, chicken wings, and pulled pork sandwiches. They also offer the P.H.A.T. Fidel, a Cuban-style sandwich featuring ham, pulled pork, bacon, pickles, Swiss, chipotle mayo, and ground mustard. Built on a hoagie roll and flattened in a panini press, Lloyd said it’s their most popular sandwich. His favorite is the Code Bleu Burger served with bacon, bleu cheese crumbles and bleu cheese slaw. Prices range from $5 for two burger sliders to $10 for the Big Boy, a mammoth burger featuring two patties, bacon, egg and cheese. All sandwiches come with fries or fresh fried potato chips.
P.H.A.T. Truck also does catering. It has been parked at the Mead Sports Complex near Market Street and Farwell Road and will be at Green Bluff near Green Bluff United Methodist Community Church during the Apple Festival. You may smell the truck before you see it. “We start cooking the bacon and people start wandering by,” Lloyd said.
P.H.A.T. Truck Location: Sprague Avenue and Washington Street (but moves frequently, check their Facebook page or Twitter account) Hours: Monday-Friday, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Phone: (509) 230-8292 More information: www.facebook.com/PHATTRUCK (https://www.facebook.com
/PHATTRUCK) or twitter.com/PHAT_Truck (https://twitter.com/PHAT_Truck)
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Women of Achievement Luncheon in 3 Weeks!

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Hello…As a person who cares for others, I wanted to reach out and make sure you are aware of the YWCA and their annual fund raising effort 2012. I am a table leader this year and would like to have your support and for you to join me at my table this year. …..
Call me @ 509-928-6824 or e-mail me back your response. I wii be turning in my list Thur. Oct. 11 and I want you on it.

Thanks, Irish
Table Leaders:

Spokane: Deepening the Dialogue

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IS THIS THE SPOKANE YOU WANT?

Join the Discussion at East Central Community Center

We’ve all heard that Spokane is a great place to raise a family. But, Spokane Regional Health District’s recent health equity report paints a different picture of Spokane County. Health inequities affect us all, and it’s time to do something about it. Numerous local agencies are banding together to host Health Equity in Spokane: Deepening theDialogue. Join us for this free event and help be a part of the solutions.

October 10, 2012 from 6:00 – 8:00 pm

East Central Community Center 500 S Stone St, Spokane, WA 99202

Light refreshments served.

For more information, please call 324-1542

Visit: http://www.srhd.org/healthequity

Spokane needs PRO OBAMA information tables

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Spokane Gather to Hear Obama

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One Term More

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THE GREEN THING…

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Checking out at the store, the young cashier suggested to the older woman that she should bring her own grocery bags because plastic bags weren’t good for the environment.

The woman apologized and explained, “We didn’t have this green thing back in my earlier days.”

The clerk responded, “That’s our problem today. Your generation did not care enough to save our environment for future generations.”

She was right — our generation didn’t have the green thing in its day.

Back then, we returned milk bottles, soda bottles and beer bottles to the store. The store sent them back to the plant to be washed and sterilized and refilled, so it could use the same bottles over and over. So they really were recycled. But we didn’t have the green thing back in our day.

Grocery stores bagged our groceries in brown paper bags, which we reused for numerous things. Most memorable besides household garbage bags was the use of brown paper bags as book covers for our school books. This was to ensure that public property (the books provided for our use by the school) was not defaced by our scribblings. Then we were able to personalize our books. But, too bad we didn’t do the green thing back then.

We walked up stairs because we didn’t have an escalator in every store and office building. We walked to the grocery store and didn’t climb into a 300-horsepower machine every time we had to go two blocks. But she was right. We didn’t have the green thing in our day.

Back then, we washed the baby’s diapers because we didn’t have the throw-away kind. We dried clothes on a line, not in an energy gobbling machine burning up 220 volts — wind and solar power really did dry our clothes back in our early days. Kids got hand-me-down clothes from their brothers or sisters, not always brand-new clothing. But that young lady is right; we didn’t have the green thing back in our day.

Back then, we had one TV, or radio, in the house — not a TV in every room. And the TV had a small screen the size of a handkerchief (remember them?), not a screen the size of the state of Montana . In the kitchen, we blended and stirred by hand because we didn’t have electric machines to do everything for us. When we packaged a fragile item to send in the mail, we used wadded up old newspapers to cushion it, not Styrofoam or plastic bubble wrap. Back then, we didn’t fire up an engine and burn gasoline just to cut the lawn. We used a push mower that ran on human power. We exercised by working so we didn’t need to go to a health club to run on treadmills that operate on electricity. But she’s right; we didn’t have the green thing back then.

We drank from a fountain when we were thirsty instead of using a cup or a plastic bottle every time we had a drink of water. We refilled writing pens with ink instead of buying a new pen, and we replaced the razor blades in a razor instead of throwing away the whole razor just because the blade got dull. But we didn’t have the green thing back then.

Back then, people took the streetcar or a bus and kids rode their bikes to school or walked instead of turning their moms into a 24-hour taxi service. We had one electrical outlet in a room, not an entire bank of sockets to power a dozen appliances. And we didn’t need a computerized gadget to receive a signal beamed from satellites 2,000 miles out in space in order to find the nearest burger joint.

But isn’t it sad the current generation laments how wasteful we old folks were just because we didn’t have the green thing back then?

Please forward this on to another selfish old person who needs a lesson in conservation from a smart ass young person…

We don’t like being old in the first place, so it doesn’t take much to piss us off

Thank you Irish, we often need the reminders!

Realize the Dream Scholarship

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Application Deadline – 5 PM on Monday, June 18

The deadline to apply for the Realize the Dream Scholarship is just one week away. Please help us continue to spread the word! This scholarship is specifically targeting undocumented students who will graduate from Washington State high schools in 2012.

At least 100 scholarships will be awarded for the 2012-13 academic year and recipients will receive up to $5,000 for these one-year scholarships.

The Application Deadline is June 18, 2012 at 5 p.m.
www.collegesuccessfoundation.org/realizethedream

Realize the Dream Scholarship Resources:
Frequently Asked Questions – FAQs
Informational Student Flyer
Mandatory Affidavit & Information for Undocumented Students

If you or your students have any additional questions, please contact a member of the Scholarship Services team at 877.655.4097 orscholarshipservices@collegesuccessfoundation.org.

Steve Thorndill
Director, Scholarship Services
College Success Foundation

The deadline to apply for the Realize the Dream Scholarship is just one week away. Please help us continue to spread the word! This scholarship is specifically targeting undocumented students who will graduate from Washington State high schools in 2012.

At least 100 scholarships will be awarded for the 2012-13 academic year and recipients will receive up to $5,000 for these one-year scholarships.

The Application Deadline is June 18, 2012 at 5 p.m.
www.collegesuccessfoundation.org/realizethedream

Realize the Dream Scholarship Resources:
Frequently Asked Questions – FAQs
Informational Student Flyer
Mandatory Affidavit & Information for Undocumented Students

If you or your students have any additional questions, please contact a member of the Scholarship Services team at 877.655.4097 orscholarshipservices@collegesuccessfoundation.org.

Steve Thorndill
Director, Scholarship Services
College Success Foundation
The deadline to apply for the Realize the Dream Scholarship is just one week away. Please help us continue to spread the word! This scholarship is specifically targeting undocumented students who will graduate from Washington State high schools in 2012.

At least 100 scholarships will be awarded for the 2012-13 academic year and recipients will receive up to $5,000 for these one-year scholarships.

The Application Deadline is June 18, 2012 at 5 p.m.
www.collegesuccessfoundation.org/realizethedream

Realize the Dream Scholarship Resources:
Frequently Asked Questions – FAQs
Informational Student Flyer
Mandatory Affidavit & Information for Undocumented Students

If you or your students have any additional questions, please contact a member of the Scholarship Services team at 877.655.4097 orscholarshipservices@collegesuccessfoundation.org.

Steve Thorndill
Director, Scholarship Services
College Success Foundation

Subject: College Bound Update: Road Map Region

We are pleased to provide the latest update on our Road Map College Bound students for the Road Map Region (please see attached).  Students will be in school for less than a week we thank you for every effort you are making to sign-up the remaining eligible 8th graders. We know that getting these last applications can be extremely difficult.  We sincerely appreciate all of your hard work and efforts.

In the Road Map Region 1,001 eligible 8th grade students (21%) have yet to complete a College Bound Scholarship application.  From this number, we can assume some lag time for the pledges most recently submitted as the HEC Board is in the process of compiling piles of applications from around the state.  Thanks continuing to persist with last push efforts—it truly makes a difference.

·         Auburn School District reports that Rainier Middle School has gathered 130 completed applications!  All schools are sending in completed pledges and persisting with strategies such as calling home and home visits.
·         Federal Way School District Principals have committed to pumping up recruitment efforts in the last week of school by partnering with counselors, GEAR UP staff, and other community partners.
·         Highline School District is tracking their completed applications internally and reports both Cascade and Sylvester at 100%, Pacific at 97% (6 to go) and Chinook at close to 95%.
·         Kent School District Mill Creek MS has conducted on-line sign-ups on three separate days. A school team is actively working on collecting the signature page and mailing them into the HEC Board. Other schools in the Kent SD are actively conducting small group pull outs and home-visits to collect the remaining applications.  The counselors in the Kent SD are also tracking families that opt out and their reasons for doing so–lastly, the District has also been doing auto calls.
·         Renton School District has McKnight and Dimmitt doing multiple small group sessions with the remaining students and Nelsen just finished a phone call blitz to the remaining eligible families.
·         S.Seattle Schools are opening their doors on the weekend to sign-up families.  The Mayor of Seattle will be making personal phone calls to eligible families.  Several Seattle College Access Network partners including a cadre of volunteers from the UW Dream Project have been meeting with students/calling families (and in some cases translating/interpreting).  The final BIG push will occur and 8th grade graduation ceremonies.
·         Tukwila just mailed in 30 completed applications to add to the 145 previously submitted!

Please don’t hesitate to contact me with any questions, about College Bound outreach in and support for your school/district. My number is 425-416-2020, 206-499-8539 (cell) or via email at sbyers@collegesuccessfoundation.org. You may also contact Marina Espinoza for support in implementing fast and efficient last push sign-up strategies.
I want to thank everyone for all that has been done and for your leadership and support. We know that the College Bound Scholarship is an awesome opportunity for our students and we don’t want to miss it!

Edward O. Prince
Executive Director
WA State Commission on African American Affairs
(360) 725-5663

“One Industry, One Union, One Contract,”

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Seattle Celebrates 22 Years of Justice

— March and Rally Part of Nationwide Celebration of Justice for Janitors Day—

Seattle, WA — Friday, June 15, 2012 marks the 22nd anniversary of Justice for Janitors Day. Elected and community leaders will join area janitors in support of their campaign for “Good Jobs and Strong Communities” at Westlake Park in Downtown Seattle at the corner of 4th Avenue and Pine Street.

Drastic cuts to janitor’s wages and elimination of health care benefits by employers sparked the Justice for Janitor’s (J4J) movement.  Nationally, Justice for Janitors Day honors the faith, community and janitorial leaders who were brutally beaten and arrested while holding a peaceful protest in support of striking janitors in Los Angeles.

June 15 is particularly important for Seattle area janitors, members of SEIU Local 6, who are currently in contract negotiations with employers. SEIU Local 6 expects the employer’s contract proposals hours before the rally. The current janitorial contract expires June 30th.

“Seattle is one of top commercial real estate markets in the country,” said Adriana Almejo, a Seattle janitor and member of SEIU Local 6. “Janitors’ hard work helped these businesses to grow. So why are employers talking about taking away my children’s health insurance?”

Justice for Janitors Day events are planned for Boston, Chicago, DC, Detroit, Houston, LA, NY, Philadelphia, Portland, Sacramento, San Francisco and Seattle.

Who:            Janitors and Community Supporters including U.S. Congressman Jim McDermott, King County Executive Dow Constantine, Church Council of Greater Seattle Director Michael Ramos, M.L. King County Labor Council Executive Secretary David Freiboth

What:           Rally for Healthcare

Where:         Westlake Park, 401 Pine Street, Seattle, WA 98101

When:          May 25, Friday, 3 P.M.

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Members of SEIU Local 6, representing Property Service workers, include airport workers, janitors, security officers, maintenance and custodial workers, stadium and arena workers, window cleaners, and other working families in Washington State. 

CONTACT:  TaniaMaría Rosario, (206) 850-5021

June 17th New York City NAACP is holding a silent march

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Last year in New York City, police stopped and interrogated black men and boys between the ages 14 and 24 a total of 168,126 times.
The total population of black men and boys aged 14 through 24 in New York City is 158,406.
That means the amount of times police stopped black men and boys in this age group exceeds the total number living in the city.
In fact, last year, more than 85% of the 685,000 people stopped by the NYPD were African American or Latino, most of them children and young adults. This is up from less than 100,000 stops a decade ago. Then, like now, 90% of those stopped are completely innocent.
All this adds up to nothing less than the most aggressive street-level racial profiling program in the country.
On June 17th, we’re demanding an end to this alarming and abusive practice. The NAACP is holding a silent march in New York City to call for an end to New York’s notorious “stop and frisk” program. Our marchers won’t be speaking, so I need you to write the messages that will serve as their voices during the march.
Help the NAACP end the abuse of stop and frisk. Create a message for the banners, signs, and posters carried by thousands through the streets of New York on June 17th:

http://action.naacp.org/silent-march-message

In contrast to previous demonstrations, we will march in silence as an illustration of both the tragedy and serious threat that stop and frisk and other forms of racial profiling present to our society. The silent march was first used in 1917 by the NAACP – then just eight years old – to draw attention to race riots that tore through communities in East St. Louis, Illinois, and build national opposition to lynching.
Now, 95 years later, we will use this powerful protest to shine a light on the great injustice of stop and frisk and begin rebuilding national opposition to racial profiling. The march will be the first step in a nationwide federal and state-level campaign to address the problem of racial profiling.
Because we will remain silent as we march, your words will be especially important.
If you’re outraged that police, security guards and even community watch volunteers in so many neighborhoods continue to treat young people of color differently, or if you’re concerned for your children, or your neighbors’ and friends’ children, then channel these emotions into a message of 15 words or less and share it with us today. We will pick five messages to print for the march.
Be the voice of the silent marchers on June 17th. Submit your message for our protest signs today:
http://action.naacp.org/silent-march-message
Thank you,
Ben
Benjamin Todd Jealous
President & CEO
NAACP

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