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Highline College student creates clothing company that will benefit the homeless

"Elliott Snyder is a young man with artistic talent and vision. A 17-year-old high school senior and Running Start student at Highline Community College in Des Moines, Snyder has started his own business. Called "Overcast Clothing Co.," the company designs and sells Northwest…

2010-04-16
Bicycling brothers from Greenbank finish a year on wheels and still going strong

"Two brothers from Greenbank are a year into a round-the-world trip for charity, and they’re still on their feet.

And despite illness, bad food, damaged and stolen equipment, enough rain to last a lifetime and maybe 100 flat tires, not to mention beautiful…

2010-04-13
Mart Stewart co-organizes conference at Can Tho University in Vietnam 2010-04-06
Pushing to the top: A younger Whittaker attempts to scale Everest

"Children at times follow their parents' footsteps into the family business.

In Leif Whittaker's case, that path leads to the top of the world."

2010-04-05
Drivers disregard cellphone hazard

"An international survey of 837 drivers who used cellphones while driving found that almost half swerved or drifted into another lane, 23% had tailgated, 21% had cut another driver off, and 18% nearly hit another vehicle.

Despite these statistics, as well as national law prohibiting…

2010-03-30
White House job not beyond reach for right Fellow

"Allison Gregg has pinned a picture above her desk of the place that she hopes will be her next workplace: The White House.

Gregg, 36, is a regional finalist to be a White House Fellow. She and other finalists from the Southeast will be interviewed in Miami in April, and if she makes…

2010-03-29
WWU professor pulled back into '94 murder trial

"In 1994, Carolyn Nielsen was a graduate student at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism when she wrote stories that questioned the trial and subsequent murder conviction of a 14-year-old Chicago boy.

Nothing came of it then. The boy,…

2010-03-29
Window on My World: Pickford director fell in love with cinema early

"The seductive power of film had to duke it out with the equally narcotic effects of music and literature in my formative years. During my high school and college days I collected and absorbed books as if I had a hellhound on my trail and the only thing keeping it at bay was my list of…

2010-03-26
Knute Skinner has two poems published 2010-03-26
Mount Everest, a family tradition

"Leif Whittaker has always known that walking in his father's shoes would be a difficult chore.

But here he goes, at age 25, leaving Port Townsend this week to climb Mount Everest.

In 1963 Jim Whittaker, at age 34, became the first American to summit the world's…

2010-03-24
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