The Snohomish Health District brings awareness to World AIDS Day, Thursday, December 1, 3020 Rucker Avenue, Everett.
Public health information tables will be available 10 a.m.-7 p.m.. Featured speaker, Edmonds Community College instructor Hayden M. Bixby presents at 7 p.m. Hayden is the International Program Coordinator for Cura Orphanage in Kenya. There will also be light refreshments and candlelight ceremony.
At 6:30 p.m., the Gay Men's Task Force holds a Memorial Walk in honor of those infected with and affected by HIV/AIDS. Meet at the Health District front entrance to walk to the HIV/AIDS Memorial at 3000 Rockefeller and back to the health district.
Kristyn Whisman, winning the title of America's Strongest Woman. Photo: Ray Novak
"One of the things that I love about strongman, is that
when you go to an event, all you can control is yourself and your own
performance. It's not worth the stress to worry about anyone but
yourself, because all you can do is do your very best. If on a given
day, my best is good enough to put me in first place, then that is
wonderful. If it's not good enough for first, then you take your
performance, learn from those who were more successful than you, and get
back to training hard." — Kristyn Whisman, American's Strongest Woman
Kristyn Whisman, Edmonds Community College's Dean of Corrections
Education at the Monroe Correctional Complex, has competed for and won
the title of America's Strongest Woman in the Lightweight Women's
Division of the North American Strongman (NAS) Nationals for the third
time. The NAS nationals America's Strongest Women event took place in November at Harrah's Casino in Mississippi.
Kristyn Whisman, at the North American Strongman Nationals Competition Photo: Ray Novak
Participants competed in six events over two days: log clean and press
for reps, yoke walk, farmer's walk, frame deadlift for reps, keg carry
for distance, and atlas stone over bar for reps.
Kristyn:
• clean and pressed a 110 pound log 10 times in one minute, to tie for first place;
• carried a 350 lb yoke 80 feet in 11.78 seconds, for second place;
• carried 120 pound farmer's handles 80 feet in 10.43 seconds, for second place;
• deadlifted a 405 pound frame 37 times in one minute, for second place;
• carried a 150 pound keg for 190 feet, for fifth place; and
• loaded the 200 pound atlas stone over a 50 inch bar four times in one
minute, to tie for first place — and take the overall win by 1.5 points.
"Going in to the last event, the atlas stone, which is a quintessential
strongman event, I was in second place. Before we started the stone, I
knew I just had to go out and do as best as I could in the stone, and
just wait to see what happened," Kristyn said. "Getting first place in
the atlas stone was good enough for the overall win! I worked so hard
for this, and to win the championship for a third time was extremely
gratifying. It was an extremely tight contest, which made it much more
exciting and fun. All the competitors worked so hard and everyone was
hitting personal records throughout the entire weekend. It really was a
great event."
The LEAF School partners with tribes, governments, non-profits,
businesses and educational institutions to get students involved
hands-on in service-learning projects that help to make communities more
sustainable. Participating students are able to earn an AmeriCorps
education award while taking a series of college courses in human
ecology. Over the past six years, more than 300 students have
contributed over 6,000 hours of service with dozens of community partner
organizations.
Murphy’s students have played key roles in a wide variety of
service-learning projects, including many habitat restoration projects
with both the King and Snohomish Conservation Districts. His students
have designed and installed an ethnobotanical garden at the City of
Lynnwood's Gold Park, made an assessment of possible sources of PBDE
contamination at Bracket's Landing in Edmonds, investigated pre-spawn
mortality of Coho salmon in Lund's Gulch, and monitored the return of
fishers on the Olympic Peninsula.
Minh Carrico, “Celebration," 2004, digital pigment print
From November 18, 2011-January 5, 2012, the Lynnwood Library Gallery
will feature artwork by Edmonds Community College Visual Arts instructor
Minh Carrico.
The Lynnwood Library Gallery, 19200 44th Avenue West, is
free to the public, and presented by the Lynnwood Arts Commission.
Gallery hours are: 10 a.m.-9 p.m., Monday-Thursday; 10 a.m.-6 p.m.,
Friday; 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Saturday; and 1-5 p.m., Sunday. Closed on
national holidays. Call 425.670.5519.
Minh’s color photographic images represent two societies, two worlds that make up his identity: a
white southern community in Little Rock, Arkansas where grew up during
the 1970’s, and Vietnamese culture through his mother, and his own
travels. In many ways Minh still feels an outsider of both Western
society and Viet Nam. In 2002, Minh began surveying daily life of his
remaining relatives in Viet Nam, and more recently he traveled back to
Arkansas to captured forgotten memories and instances.
Minh teaches design and photography and is co-chair of the Visual
Arts Department at Edmonds Community College. His nearly 20 years
of experience in the field has led to his passion for teaching the
future generations of visual communicators. Outside the classroom, Minh
works on a number of fine art photography projects and mix-media
installations that address personal and social identity. His visual art
has been exhibited and published internationally.
Edmonds Community College's Office of Diversity Affairs notes the following upcoming events and resources in our community:
Van Jones, Martin Luther King Jr. keynote speaker,
12:30 p.m., Thursday, January 12, 2012, at Edmonds CC and 7 p.m. at Lynnwood Convention Center.
Latino Legislative Day, Friday, January
20, 2012, Olympia.
Minority Achievers Program 9th Annual Gala Fund-Raising Event, 6 p.m., Saturday, January 21, at the Edward D.
Hansen Conference Center, Everett.
Lynnwood City Council approves emergency
overnight sheltering for homeless individuals, beginning Tuesday, November
15. For more information, contact
Julie Moore, 425.670.5023.
English instructor Hayden Bixby is the featured speaker at the Snohomish Health District'sWorld AIDS Day event 7 p.m., Thurs., Dec. 1 at 3020
Rucker Ave. in Everett.
Hayden is the International Program Coordinator
for Cura Orphanage in Kenya, home to 50 children, ranging in age from 4
to 13, who have lost their parents to AIDS.
Bixby has lead a short study
program for Edmonds Community College to Kenya which included a stop at
the orphanage and has taught an English composition class focused on
East Africa in the Modern World at the college.
Edmonds Conference Center in downtown Edmonds participated in Halloween festivities attended by
nearly 4,000 people.
Good witch, Cheryl Jeney, and bad witch, Sande Hecle, along
with Edmonds Community College international student, Sule
Sekeroglu, gave treats to hundreds of children.
The Edmonds Conference Center proudly represents the college at several community events each year.
English instructorsAmanda Laughtland and Marcia Woodard, alumni of the
University of Washington's Master of Fine Arts in English/Creative
Writing program, will read 8 p.m., Tuesday, November 1 at Richard Hugo House, 1634 11th Ave. on Capitol Hill in Seattle.
They are part of the Castalia Reading Series sponsored by the University of Washington's graduate
creative writing program. Free.
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