Maple Valley Youth Symphony Orchestra, whose members wore festive attire for recent holiday performances, is getting ready for its second trimester. Young musicians with two or more years of playing experience can join for activities that will include a waltz gala ball Feb. 13 at the Olson Mansion and a performance with the community choir of Vaughn William’s “Five Mystical Pieces” April 24-25. Rehearsals in January are scheduled for Monday nights at Shepherd of the Valley Lutheran Church in Maple Valley. More information is available at www.mvyso.org and (425) 358-1640. Choir information is available at www.svlcfamily.org and from Ron Mallory at Shepherd of the Valley at (425) 432-1373.
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For Zandra Jones, volunteering on Christmas Eve is no big deal. It’s like picking up someone’s dropped napkin.
Asia, South America, Chicago and now Covington are among the places where Paul Gossman has answered “the call.”
Now that the Christmas rush is over, many of us will be thinking about our goals and resolutions for the new year.Often those goals are repeats of last year, because we didn’t accomplish whatever it was we had hoped to in the previous 12 months. I always laugh when I can’t find a parking spot or an empty elliptical trainer at the gym in January. When I once complained to one of the gym staff, he said with a smile, “Don’t worry, it’ll empty out again in February.” And he was right.
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For the sixth year, Mountain Vineyard Christian Fellowship hosted an outdoor Christmas party – this time in three inches of snow – at Green River Gorge Resort, an RV/trailer campground near Black Diamond.
Last year, after one of this area’s odd and paralyzing snowstorms, I watched a very dumb guy in a very fancy SUV suddenly whip around the traffic in front of him and barrel at breakneck speed up an icy hill. The icy hill came out the victor, as icy hills are known to do.
Anyone that lost their spouse this past year and years past, please take a minute to read this. I hope in some small way it might help you as it has helped me to write it. I’m not a counselor – just a wife grieving and mourning the loss of her husband of 51 years.
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With the current economy, it seems everyone is cutting back on spending this Christmas. Having a smaller budget may be daunting, but spending less can actually lead to more thoughtful gifts. When money is tight, one has to get creative to find or make just the right present. Here are a few gift ideas for just about any budget.
It was a dark and stormy night. Plenty of lousy novels have begun that way, so why not a lousy column?