SEQUIM, Wash. - For many novice or recreational golfers, the idea of entering a golf tournament could easily incite anxious and overwhelming feelings. But coordinators of the third annual Salmon Defense golf Tournament want to assure all golf

Disney animation legend who brought Bambi to screen dies - Earthtimes
Los Angeles - Ollie Johnston Jr, the creator of Bambi and the last living member of Disney’s celebrated “Nine Old Men,” who set the standards for the art of animation, has died at 95. Johnston died Monday afternoon of natural causes at a long-term

Teacher’s mission fueled by personal experience - Daily Record
Cle Elum-Roslyn High School teacher Eric Wickwire answers a question from one of his students during his Pacific Northwest history and geography class. Wickwire will be formally recognized for his role in teaching as he is awarded the Cle Elum

Author to tell her story of abuse - Montana Standard
The physical and emotional scars of abuse can last a lifetime, but Barbara Richard says there is hope for its victims. People can survive this, Richard said. She should know. She s a survivor. Richard, who has written two autobiographical

The Grounded Gardener: Know your zone to map out the best garden - Seattle Post Intelligencer
AN EARLY SPRING garden tour to the Southeast, with an extra stop in Texas, showed our group of Pacific Northwest gardeners just how important it is to pay attention to the way climate affects what we grow. How is that, while Charleston, S.C., and

fishing | Where they’re biting, where they’re not - Seattle Times
Everett ramp — Friday: Six boats with 12 anglers caught no fish; Saturday: 12 boats with 28 anglers caught one chinook and one halibut; Sunday: 16 boats with 31 anglers caught two chinook and one rockfish. Edmonds Marina — Sunday: Three boats with

Disney Animator Ollie Johnston Has Died At Age 95 - All Headline News
Los Angeles, CA (CNS) - Disney animator Ollie Johnston, the last of the Disney “nine old men,” as the studio’s core group of senior animators was called, has died. He died on Monday in Sequim, Washington, at the age of 95. According to Howard E

Deaths last week - Chicago Tribune
Herman Yaggi Carr , 83, physicist and pioneer in early development of MRI body-scanning technology; April 19, in Bridgewater, N.J., apparently of heart disease. Hazel Court , 82, British actress who began as a popular ingenue and became a cult figure

Fall storm rolls through - KOMO-TV
Seattle Harbor Patrol responded to reports of a kite surfer in trouble around 5:30 p.m. They arrived to find the 44-year-old man floating face down. The unidentified man could not be revived. Firefighters safely evacuated about a dozen kids from a

Last of Walt Disney’s “Nine Old Men” dies - Reuters
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The last of Walt Disney’s original team of animators, known as the Nine Old Men, has died at the age of 95, a Walt Disney Co spokesman said on Tuesday. Ollie Johnston worked for Disney for 43 years, drawing characters for

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