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People In Your Neighborhood

Joe Leota Lands ‘Dream Job’ With Rainier Beach Girls Basketball

10.15.2010 News
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Seattle Times (RVP news partner): Joe Leota isn’t just happy about being hired as the new Rainier Beach girls basketball coach. “I’m ecstatic,” he said. “It’s my dream job. I grew up in the community. I’m looking forward to the opportunity to get the program headed in the right direction.” Read more. Photo/do communications Related: [...]

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Seward Park Jogger to Attacker: ‘Not Me, Not Here’

10.14.2010 911

The Seattle Times (RVP news partner): The moment she saw him, her intuition told her something wasn’t right. When he attacked, she instinctively fought back. “I told him, ‘Not me, not here, not now,’ ” the 55-year-old Seattle woman recalled Wednesday, two days after she was attacked by a stranger during an evening jog in [...]

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People in Your N’hood: Q&a With Julie Pham, Organizer of Friday’s Initiative Debates

10.14.2010 People In Your Neighborhood

This Fri., Oct. 15, the community is invited to join Sea Beez, a coalition of local ethnic media, and the Urban Enterprise Center, the multicultural arm of the Greater Seattle Chamber of Commerce, for a Candidates Meet & Greet and Initiative Debates from 4:30 to 8pm at the Life Enrichment Bookstore (5023 Rainier Ave. S.) [...]

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People on the Move: JusticeWorks Re-Welcomes Kathya Alexander, Francisca Garcia Joins RV Cultural Center & Jennifer Duong Heads to VA

10.11.2010 Business

Local businesses and non-profit organizations: People on the Move welcomes your personnel changes at editor@rainiervalleypost.com. Kathya Alexander Rejoins JusticeWorks! as Executive Director: Ten years ago, Kathya Alexander was a JW! founding member and member of the original Board of Directors. This fall, she will transition from Facilities Manager at the Rainier Valley Cultural Center back [...]

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Local Diversity Drives Global Impact (OP-ED)

09.02.2010 Opinion

By Selamawit Kifle, Blue Nile Children’s Organization Like many who call the Rainier Valley home, I feel as if I live in two communities: The one where I wake up each morning and the one where my web of cultural and personal connections links me to. Nothing represents this as clearly as my work with [...]

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Invisible Families: Hillman City Organization Helps at-Risk Dads Get Back on Their Feet

08.29.2010 Local Resources

By Laura Kesl (in partnership with The Seattle Times) Marvin and Jeanett Charles founded Divine Alternative for Dads (D.A.D.S.) in the living room of their Rainier Valley home in 1998, with the vision that stronger fathers create healthier communities. “I believe these fathers need someone to walk alongside them,” said Marvin at a recent fundraising [...]

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Rainier Valley Golfer Brings Home the Gold

08.17.2010 News

Rainier Valley resident Cathy Guy brought home a gold medal in golf from the National Kidney Foundation U.S. Transplant Games in Madison, Wis. earlier this month. Winning the 40- to 49-year-old women’s division was sweet for this former college athlete who had a kidney transplant 12 years ago. But it was only part of the [...]

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People in Your N’Hood: Taking Care of Park in the Day, Living in the Forest at Night

07.14.2010 Arts/Living

By Sonia Krishnan/Seattle Times (RVP news partner): He drives north along the paved loop at Seward Park, careful not to go more than 5 mph, one eye peeled for scattered trash, another fixed on an elderly man who doesn’t hear him coming. He slows down. No rush; he’s the only car on this road. Besides, [...]

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People in Your N’Hood: Rainier Valley Golfer Headed to U.S. Transplant Games

07.13.2010 Arts/Living

By Gestin Suttle After being diagnosed with lupus and undergoing a kidney transplant, Cathy Guy thought her days as a competitive athlete were well behind her. Then came a phone call nearly two years ago. It was a college friend who also had undergone a kidney transplant. “He called and said, ‘Why the heck weren’t [...]

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Starbucks VP Selling Rainier Beach Home

04.16.2010 Arts/Living
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BlockShopper: Robyn N. Corr and Dominic R. Corr have listed for sale a four-bed, 2.25 bath home at 10911 Forest Ave. S. in Seattle for $435,000. Efrem Howard of John L. Scott Real Estate is the listing agent. The 1,890-square-foot house was built in 1950 at Rainier Beach. Ms. Corr is vice president of global [...]

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Weekend Update: Kwanzaa, Winter Wonderland Hayrides, Lantern-Making & More

12.11.2009 People In Your Neighborhood

See our Big Dates Page – the only comprehensive calendar of events in all of southeast Seattle – for more information on these and other south-end gatherings, events, meetings, groups, etc. In the meantime, here’s a sampling of what’s happening around the community this weekend… Saturday: Columbia City Holiday Kids Fair, Columbia City Blow Your [...]

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NewHolly Center Provides Support for South-End Somali Neighbors

12.11.2009 Arts/Living
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Seattle Times (RVP News Partner): As soon as Kerta Abukar learned to sew in a straight line, she bought a sewing machine. She sewed the new curtains that hang in her bedroom. Now, her instructor at NewHolly Youth & Family Center is helping her with a more complicated project: a toddler’s dress with hand-sewn details. [...]

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People in Your Neighborhood: The Only Black Student

12.07.2009 Arts/Living
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UW Daily: The Only Black Student is as much a social commentary as it is a road map for social and academic success drawn from an admittedly “bumpy” undergraduate ride at the UW. The first eye-opener came after Mengesha placed into Math 098 — the equivalent of a high-school algebra class that doesn’t even count [...]

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Phamily Newspaper in the Heart of the Rainier Valley

10.20.2009 Arts/Living
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Seattle Metropolitan: The Pham family business gestated more than 30 years ago in a setting that seems scarcely imaginable today. Until 1975 Kim Pham was a press officer for the South Vietnamese Navy, but he dreamed of starting his own newspaper. At war’s end he was packed off to a “reeducation camp”—a harsh jungle prison [...]

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Watch It Now: Officer Cookie’s Chess Club

09.26.2009 News
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Last week, Tony Ventrella reported on one south-end police officer’s innovative effort to prevent youth violence by teaching chess. From Seattle Channel: Three years ago, Seattle Police Department Detective Denise “Cookie” Bouldin was looking for an activity that could be used to prevent youth violence in the Rainier Valley. “I was going to do a [...]

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South-End Gangster Wants New Life

09.17.2009 News
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From the Stranger: Monroe Ezell is a marked man. At 21, Ezell is one of the ranking members of the Hoover Criminals 74, a South Seattle gang affiliated with the Los Angeles–based Crips. Members of the Valley Hood Piru (a Blood-­affiliated gang), and other Seattle gangs, want him dead. Ezell has a rap sheet with [...]

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South-End Scenes: KC Youth of the Year Throws First Pitch at M’s Game

08.18.2009 News
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Above: King County Youth of the Year Michael Davis throwing the first pitch at the July 12th Mariners Game. From his mom Sherry: Michael was selected to throw the first ceremonial pitch because he is Rainier Vista Boys and Girls Club Youth of the Year. Ken Griffey Jr. surprised us and came out on the [...]

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Elderly Rainier Valley Neighbor Finds American Dream Just Beyond Reach

08.05.2009 Arts/Living
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By Julie Pham, Editor, Nguoi Viet Tay Bac News Lam Vuong has been in the United States with his family for five years, just long enough to be eligible to apply for citizenship. But he fears his poor English will fail him if he takes the citizenship test. Although Vuong speaks three dialects of Chinese [...]

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People on the Move: Red Cross Taps Randy Hutson as New CEO

08.05.2009 Business
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The American Red Cross Serving King & Kitsap Counties – located in the Rainier Valley – has announced the selection of Randy Hutson as its new chief executive officer. Hutson will succeed Dr. Larry Petry who retires at the end of August. “We are truly pleased to have Randy in this new role,” said David [...]

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South-End Child Advocate Named One of Puget Sound Business Journal’s 40 Under 40

07.27.2009 News
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After barely one year in Seattle working on behalf of south-end kids, Powerful Schools executive director Tre’ Maxie has been named one of the Puget Sound Business Journal’s 2009 40 Under 40 honorees. “Puget Sound Business Journal’s 40 Under 40 program celebrates its 11th year as the region’s premier award program that spotlights the top [...]

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Ice Cream Lady Melts Hearts Bringing Treats to the Streets

07.15.2009 Arts/Living
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By Tyrone Beason, Seattle Times: You hear Gemini Kelly‘s So Icy ice cream truck before you see it, the tinny music-box melodies ringing out like clarion calls to the people of the South Seattle neighborhoods on her route, jarring them off sofas and porches to form tight clusters in the street. Because Kelly’s rounds take [...]

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