Diana White is known for the roles she has played over the years as a community leader and public servant. These include her years of service on the Edmonds School Board and her work with the Teachers of Color Foundation. But she is perhaps best known for her connection with, and advocacy, for our region’s…
After more than a decade and a half as the face, heart, soul and brains of the Edmonds Center for the Arts (ECA), Executive Director Joe Mclalwain announced earlier this year that he will be leaving the performing arts center – and the Pacific Northwest. His destination: Austin, Texas — another vibrant arts community where…
Edmonds resident, nurse and foster parent Terra Mangum has won the Hyundai Hometown Hero award sponsored by KING-TV. The honor was announced Thursday on KING-TV’s New Day Northwest. Mangum will receive a new Hyundai IONIQ 5. Mangum was also the winner of the “Rick Steves Service Above Self” award last year sponsored by the Rotary…
Edmonds resident Terra Mangum is one of five finalists for the Hyundai Hometown Hero award sponsored by KING-TV. Terra was nominated by her husband Zach Mangum, who noted that this would not be the first time his wife has been recognized for her community service. She was the winner of the “Rick Steves Service Above…
“In the end, the choice was clear,” explained Edmonds Kiwanian Juliana Van Buskirk who headed up the club’s 2022 Citizen of the Year selection panel. “Michael Reagan’s impact on our community over the years, his tireless passion to keep the memories of our fallen heroes alive through his art, and comfort this has brought to…
Betty Lou Deebach Fessner Gaeng Longtime local historian Betty Lou Gaeng died Monday, April 17 at age 96 in Anchorage, Alaska. Until very recently, Gaeng was writing “Looking Back” columns for the My Neighborhood News Network family of publications — My Edmonds News, MLTnews and Lynnwood Today. The column focused both on Gaeng’s memories and her…
For more than a decade, a special energy spilled into the streets at 5th and Main. It filled the fountain plaza with magic, whimsy, color, texture, surprise and an intangible something that kept us coming back for more. The source: the ever-changing tableau of the Sound Styles display windows, the product of the fertile mind…
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Edmonds is half a world away from Turkey, but right now, they inhabit the same space in the heart of 48-year-old Mehmet Solak. Even as he goes about his business here, restoring and repairing intricate handmade rugs, he thinks of family and friends back home. His hometown, Sultanhani, is far enough away from Turkey’s recent…
Veteran journalist Bob Throndsen died unexpectedly at his Edmonds home Saturday, Feb. 4. He was 75 years old. I met Bob for the first time in late February 2020, just before the COVID pandemic took hold. He expressed an interest in writing for My Edmonds News and I was thrilled to welcome such an experienced…
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A memorial service is scheduled at 11 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 21 for Annie Fortnum, founder of Annie’s Community Kitchen, at Edmonds Lutheran Church, 23535 84th Ave. W. There will be a light lunch hosted by Annie’s Kitchen. Annie Fortnum died on Oct. 15, said Edmonds Lutheran Church Pastor Tim Oleson. She was 91 years old. A…
We’re proud to introduce a new reporter and photographer to the My Neighborhood News Network team: Jasmine Contreras-Lewis. While she grew up in Mesa, Arizona, Contreras-Lewis has lived in Edmonds for five years. She graduated from Shoreline Community College, where she wrote for and managed the student newspaper, The Ebbtide. Contreras-Lewis loves the arts and…
One thousand dogs and cats, Russian rockets, no power and bitter cold. Those are some of the challenges that face Edmonds resident Dan Fine and his volunteer team working feverishly to vaccinate animals against a feared rabies outbreak in war-torn Ukraine. The Russian border is just 30 miles from Kharkiv, where Fine and his team…
Readers will remember our series of stories about Edmonds resident Billie Brown detailing her lifetime in the music industry as a promoter and norm-busting disk jockey, one of the few women to make it big in this male-dominated field. Her family legacy includes her world-famous uncle, the “Godfather of Soul” James Brown, and her father,…
Edmonds resident Nancy Burkhalter, PhD, has been selected by the U.S. Department of State for an English Language Specialist project teaching journalism to professional journalists working in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, at the country’s only English-language newspaper, Arab News. Burkhalter is part of a select group, as her project is one of approximately 240 that the…
Snohomish PUD employees Bill Greenfield and Tommy O’Brien received the Governor’s Lifesaving Award during the annual Governor’s Industrial Safety and Health Conference in Tacoma earlier this week. The Governor’s Lifesaving Award is given annually to Washington workers who have gone above and beyond in saving a life while on the job. Greenfield and O’Brien were…
Edmonds resident Guy Mansfield and search and rescue teammate Lauren Heitmann received a Kittitas County Sheriff’s Office Award of Merit this week for their extended work with the Washington State Search and Rescue Planning Unit on the Devil’s Slide search for a deputy Seattle fire chief in November 2021. The search for Deputy Seattle Fire…
An Edmonds grocery store manager has raised over $5,500 for children in need in the Philippines this year, and is hoping to continue his charitable work in the coming months. Jeff Orate is the front end manager at the Edmonds QFC in the city’s Westgate neighborhood. He was raised in Edmonds, but his family is…
In a heartfelt show of gratitude, sympathy and respect, more than 100 members of the Edmonds community joined with family, friends, colleagues and associates of the late Kristiana Johnson in a Monday afternoon outdoor service in City Park honoring her life and innumerable contributions, large and small, to the town she loved. Former mayors Haakenson…
Being told you have months, maybe a year, to live clarifies priorities pretty quickly, and for Edmonds resident Deborah Ridgeway, that prognosis inspired a relay race. In 1991 Ridgeway and her three sisters — Naomi, Anita and Deborah’s twin sister Rebecca — ran on the Meridian High School track team, a school just north of…
Call it passion – determination – love. All that – and more – have an Edmonds man back in the war in Ukraine, trying to save injured and abandoned animals. Dan Fine had one goal: To help save displaced and lost animals caught in the fighting. This trip, his second, took him into Ukraine, into…
Edmonds resident Alicia Crank has been named executive director of Seattle CityClub. With the appointment, effective July 5. Crank becomes the fifth executive director since Seattle CityClub was founded in 1980. The nonprofit organization is dedicated to improving the region’s civic health. “I am beyond honored to have been selected as Seattle CityClub’s new executive director,”…
He’s going back. This time into the war zone – in Ukraine – to help save more abandoned pets. Edmonds resident Dan Fine is going back, though friends have told him: “I don’t know why you’re doing this… I don’t get it.” Fine and fellow Edmonds resident Tana Axtelle spent the month of April in…
“Welcome to the little log cabin. How can I help you?” Guests looking for everything from directions to a friendly conversation are met by this greeting at the Edmonds Visitor’s Center, run by the Edmonds Chamber of Commerce. Since 1975, the log cabin has served as a community gathering place and warm welcome into Edmonds,…
In early summer of 1977, Hotel California by the Eagles and Rumours by Fleetwood Mac were at the top of the charts, and the first Star Wars movie was the number-one film in the country. It was also when Earl Schuster opened the doors to his new insurance agency in Edmonds. A month after opening…
