In the Media
I've been attending some of the bi-monthly Café Cubana events at the Blue Horse Gallery to learn the basics of salsa dancing and other Latin dance steps with instruction by Antonio Diaz of Rumba Northwest.
Antonio and his wife, Heather Haugland, moved from Juneau last summer, and started their dance instruction company Rumba Northwest almost as soon as they moved to town.
A glacial erratic is a piece of rock that differs from the size and type of rock native to the area in which it rests and are carried by glacial ice, often over distances of hundreds of miles.
Who would think that we have a glacial erratic that is as big as a house right here in Lake Stevens?
Well, we do and it was found by Police Sergeant Craig Valvick while he was patrolling the bottom of the neighborhood off of 91st Dr. SE and 1st St. SE.
Valvick told Officer Matt McCourt about the huge rock, which he found in the small community park at the dead end, and the two of them started doing some research.
The honors continue to roll in for Dylan Goodwin following his standout first season on the Western Washington University men's golf team.
Goodwin, a sophomore from Mukilteo, has been named an NCAA Division II third-team All-American by the Golf Coaches Association of America. He already had been selected the Great Northwest Athlete Conference 2011 Player of the Year and the GNAC Newcomer of the Year.
The State Executive Ethics Board has determined there is "reasonable cause" to believe that Western Washington University employee Douglas Nord violated the state ethics law while serving as the director of the Center of International Studies.
The board, which is connected to the state Attorney General's Office, made its decision Friday, July 8, after hearing results from an investigation, started in November, about his travel practices.
Nord has been under scrutiny for the past few years, having been the subject of a WWU internal audit released in January 2009 and a state "whistleblower" audit released in September 2010. The audits mainly focused on his travel practices, but the state audit also brought up a concern about claims on his resume.
Western Washington University Associate Director of Athletics and head men's golf coach Steve Card will serve as chair of the NCAA Division II Men's Golf Committee during the 2011-12 academic year. The appointment was made by the committee.
Card's term will begin Sept. 1. He is beginning the final year of his four-year term as a member of the committee.
The July collections report was just released by state economist Arun Raha and the bottom line that most state budget writers and state budget beneficiaries look for is this – collections from existing state taxes was $22.3 million below what was expected in the quarterly forecast released just three weeks ago.
But Raha quickly adds that the lower collections are expected based on his current view of the immediate future – short-term slowing in the national and state economies followed by a firming up in the second half of 2011.
Skagit Valley College and Running Start students on Whidbey Island may need to start penny pinching.
The State Board for Community and Technical Colleges passed a new tuition schedule in late June that will raise tuition to the maximum amount allowed by the state Legislature in the 2011-13 operating budget.
Full-time students will see the largest increase, with tuition going up 13 percent from the current $3,100 to $3,500 annually. Part-time students will face an 11 percent increase.
Marissa McGrath and Sara Holodnick are regular ladies six days a week.
McGrath splits her time between Bellingham, where she works on her fabric art, and Vancouver, B.C., where she visits her fiancé. Holodnick, who lives in Bellingham, oversees an AmeriCorps team in Mount Vernon.
But when Friday comes, they do up their hair, put on corsets and Victorian undergarments and slather on rouge and lipstick. They become the "Good Time Girls."
The Washington State Executive Ethics Board has determined there is reasonable cause to believe that Western Washington University employee Douglas Nord violated the Ethics in Public Service Act.
The board made their determination Friday, July 8.
Nord, former director of the Center of International Studies, faces fines of potentially more than $500. The board determined Nord may have more than one ethical violation, according to the board’s “reasonable cause determination” document.
Since the time he visited the Longview Police Department on Career Day as an R.A. Long High School sophomore, Jim Duscha knew he would be a cop.
"That was the only thing that was going to make me happy," he said.
What he didn’t foresee as a teenager was that one day not only would he rise to police chief, he would hold that top job in his own hometown.