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:
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.
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July 18 was a beautiful warm summer evening in Spokane’s favorite park – and Connoisseur Concerts’ Mozart on A Summer’s Eve’s 21st birthday. This popular event in Manito Park was well attended as always. Dinners from Luna at tables, picnics on blankets on the lawn, loungers in lawn chairs, everyone relaxed to the songs of the program Ciao, Belle Donne! Colleen Bryant Palmer,Heather Steckler Parker and Heather Peterson sang solos, duets, and together sang the Three Ladies Trio from The Magic Flute. They were accompanied by special guest Zuill Bailey on the cello and the Connoisseur Concerts’ Ensemble: Keri McCarthy and Bethany Schoeff, oboe; Daniel Cotter and James Schoepflin, clarinet; Roger Logan, Margaret Wilds and Verne Windham, horn; Susan Hess and Ryan Hare, bassoon; Kim Plewniak, string bass. See my digital images of the event . . . . . .
4comculture seeks to weave the contributions of individuals and cultures, building a strong community fabric. One definition of the word culture is “the evolved human capacity to classify and represent experiences with symbols, and to act imaginatively and creatively.” Recently I visited with a local artist who has spent her long life imaginatively and creatively. Marie Whitesel
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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!
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
Seattle Celebrates 22 Years of Justice
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.