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Funny fundraiser to help build play set

Laugh with a purpose this weekend when Terrace Park K-8 PTA presents Comedy Night in Edmonds at Edmonds Center for the Arts at 7:30 p.m., Sunday, Jan. 20.

The PTA fundraiser will help fund a larger play structure at the 500-student school. The current structure was built during a budget crisis, so it accommodates only 35 students, aged 5 through 8.

Terrace Park parent and professional comedian Kermit Apio (Almost Live) saw the need and called on his brothers in comedy to help out the kids. The show will also feature nationally recognized comedians -- and local boys at heart -- Duane Goad (Comedy Central), Brad Upton (An Evening At The Improv), Vince Valenzuela (Latino Kings of Comedy) and Joe Vespaziani (Almost Live).

Tickets are available online at www.ec4arts.org or by phone 24 hours a day at 877-548-3237; ticket prices are $20 general admission or $50 VIP Reserved Premium Seating, with pre-show meet and greet.

Native son publishes original choral work

Richard Rice, 45, an Edmonds native and son of longtime Edmonds residents Glen and Diane Rice, is to have an original choral work published by New York's G. Schirmer Inc., the nation's leading music publisher.

Rice's setting of the traditional Latin text, Salve Regina, for mixed choir a cappella, received its premiere performance by the New York Virtuoso Singers in 2006.

Rice, a 1980 graduate of King's High School in Shoreline, now serves as editor of Gregorian chant publications for the Church Music Association of America. This is his first work slated for major publication.

$5k richer, E-W senior heads to D.C. in March

Come March, Edmonds-Woodway's Shin Kim will be one of only two students from Washington, and one of only 104 from around the country, participating in the 2008 Senate Youth Program.

The program is a weeklong trip to Washington, D.C., and an intensive study of the federal government and the people who lead it, according to a press release.

Senators Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell announced Kim as one of the Washington state winners Jan. 9.

In addition to the program week, each of the 104 student delegates wins a $5,000 college scholarship with encouragement to continue coursework in government, history and public affairs. Transportation and all expenses for the week are provided by private donors.

Kim is the Associated Student Body Clubs Officer at Edmonds-Woodway. Shin has held class officer positions in 10th, 11th and 12th grades and has been a member of varsity golf since freshman year. She is National Honor Society president, state director of fundraising for Junior Statesmen of American, and captain of the Hi-Q team. In addition, Shin is serves as a member of the Lynnwood Teen Advisory Group.

EdCC thanks Rotary Club for support

Edmonds Community College thanked the Edmonds Rotary Club by bringing its president, a vice president and one of the school's success stories to a Rotary meeting.

The club has donated over $33,000 to the school since 1991. That money includes a $7,500 matching federal grant made possible by the Rotary Club's efforts.

EdCC president Jack Oharah spoke at a recent rotary meeting to highlight the organizational relationships.

Oharah spoke of the many students who come to the Edmonds Community College who are the first in their family to receive a college education.

O'Hara introduced one of the college's success stories. Angela Moe is a second year student who is the first in her family to attend college. She described how getting her education was aided by first getting her GED high school certificate. Now she is continuing her college education is preparing to attend the University of Washington to become a teacher.


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