In the Media
Former Western Washington University distance standout Sarah Porter placed 10th in the senior women's 10,000 meters Thursday, June 23, at the USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships being held at Hayward Stadium on the University of Oregon campus.
Thursday, June 23, marks the 100th day of the NFL's lockout of its players - the league's first work stoppage since 1987 and its longest ever.
Like every one of his peers, former Ferndale High School and Western Washington University standout Michael Koenen, who has served as the Atlanta Falcons' punter and kickoff specialist since he entered the league in 2005, has had the professional part of his life put on hold.
Though not self-proclaimed, artist Ryan Babcock could just as well be called a visual philosopher. His work speaks of the inner workings of someone who is constantly pondering the state of society and its actions with a goal of making viewers think.
“My art foresees the possibility of a world of separateness, loneliness, absent thinking and lack of personal awareness. This is caused by the teachings presented to us by corporate America,” he said. “I believe that we are all here on this earth to learn, evolve and be happy.”
Plenty of ideas that could lead to a new business are expected to be tossed around June 24-26 at Western Washington University.
Western's College of Business and Economics and its MBA program are among the sponsors for Startup Weekend, a 54-hour event where business people come together and try to start a company.
THE legendary King Canute might well have fought the ‘ungovernable sea’ but it was left to his namesake, international poet, Knute Skinner, to savour the pleasures of peaceful coexistence.
Born in St Louis, Missouri, Knute is the recipient of a Bachelor of Arts (BA) Degree from the University of Northern Colorado, an MA from Middlebury College’s ‘Bread Loaf’ School of English and a PhD from the University of Iowa. He is also a long-time resident of Killaspuglonane, near Lahinch.
College is within reach for students who have a C grade average, no criminal record, and parents with low incomes. The State of Washington will pay for their education.
I wrote about the College Bound Scholarship Program last month, and many of you had something to say about it. A few of the comments:
Cori Pflug-Tilton likes to be prepared for whatever may come, and she has to be, as principal of Snoqualmie Elementary School.
“It’s a very dynamic place,” she said one morning during the last week of school. Students and staff were eagerly anticipating Friday, and she was working on year-end staff reviews, but making time for any parent that knocked on her door.
Jo Collinge and the Bellingham YWCA are inseparable.
When Collinge, 72, found herself "term limited out" in 2010 after her third one-year term as YWCA president, she became vice president for a year. Now she's serving in a volunteer position as development director.
It's no wonder she loves to talk about the YWCA's mission of service.
Amy Montanye-Johnson will become the next principal at North Bend’s Two Rivers School, a Snoqualmie Valley School District press release stated.
Montanye-Johnson accepted the district’s job offer but the hiring will not become official until June 23 at the Snoqualmie Valley Schools board of directors’ meeting.
Brian Baird is talking, in paragraphs, about marine snails the size of lentils that are in danger of dying out from the increasing acidity of oceans.
He's speaking with authority about how the loss of those pteropods would disrupt up the food chain, and, for a moment, it's as if he's addressing his former colleagues in Congress, imploring them to act before it's too late.