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Evergreen Basketball 2007 Final Weekend!

Friday, February 16:
EVERGREEN vs. Cascade College
Women: 5:30 p.m. Men: 7:30 p.m.
FAMILY FUN NIGHT, co-sponsored by UMOJA, with face painting, contests, prizes and an expanded selection of food!

Saturday, February 17:
EVERGREEN vs. #5 Warner Pacific College
Women: 5:30 p.m. Men: 7:30 p.m.
Come to SENIOR NIGHT and help the Geoducks honor the accomplishments of women's basketball's all-time leading scorer and rebounder, Jenny Olson, and men's senior Devon Connor-Green!!

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COLLEGE STUDENT APPRECIATION NIGHT, co-sponsored by UMOJA.
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Admission is $6 for adults; $3 for senior citizens, military personnel, teens 13-17; $1 for kids 12&under. As always EVERGREEN STUDENTS and kids wearing t-shirts from any EVERGREEN SPORTS CAMP are admitted FREE!

Recently State Senators Roach, Prentice, Rasmussen, Oemig, Clements, Rockefeller, Tom, Fairley, Hobbs, Shin, Swecker, Holmquist, Benton, Stevens, Parlette, Delvin and Kline sponsored Senate Bill 5714-2007-08 which would establish a pilot program offering $500,000 of State support for two school districts to implement Spanish and Chinese (Mandarin, I assume) language instruction at the Elementary School level. I admit that as a father I have a strong bias toward furthering bi- and multilingual education on the Public School level; however, I also believe that citizens concerned by Americans' history of isolationism and patriarchy should contact their local Senator and ask that s/he support this bill (Senator Karen Fraser for Olympia @ fraser.karen@leg.wa.gov). To find out who your local legislators are, click here.

I scan through 50 + local Oly blog feeds regularly with a public Bloglines aggregator account. I'm experimenting with organizing the various blogs into themes, this is a rough and ready effort since most blogs fit under several themes, but this organization is helpful anyway. (Eventually I think Bloglines is going to need to include some form of tagging system.)

If you don't yet see your own local blog included, please msg me through OlyBlog, add a comment here on this post, thanks!

Many Olybloggers also keep their own individual or collective blogs elsewhere, I'm definitely interested in adding those too. Make sure your blog has a rss feed and I can pull it into the public news reader for all to enjoy. Eventually I'll work up regular posts drawn from our diverse and inspiring local bloggers.

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Join us on Monday, February 19th for a preview of Full Family Sanction, Is It Fair? — a mixed media exhibit of photos and audio stories from from Washington families facing welfare cuts.

When and Where: 1 - 5 pm in the Columbia Room on the 1st floor of the Capitol Building

In fact, join us for the entire WROC/NOW Legislative Advocacy Day
10 am - Legislative Briefing at the First Christian Church, 701 Franklin Street SE
Childcare provided.
Noon - Lunch provided
12:45 - March to the Capitol
Join Have A Heart For Kids Day on the Capitol steps
1 - 5 Visit your legislators and WROC exhibit in Columbia Room

The song "Fashion" by David Bowie from 1980's "Scary Monsters". Great for all of you late '70s/early '80s music fans plus glam rock people.