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Showing posts with label shoreline area news. Show all posts

Email subscribers: longer editions may be cut off

Tuesday, April 2, 2024

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Every email program behaves differently. I try to subscribe with different programs so I can keep an eye on how the editions are handled.

Yesterday's edition had 12 articles. At least one email program cut off the edition after the 9th article. The articles were there but you had to click the gray link at the bottom to have the edition open in a web page.

You missed the article about tickets available for the Third Place Commons Breakfast, a story about our former congressman Jim McDermott, and one about $3 million for a UW research lab upgrade.

I usually don't have time to create 12 articles but occasionally I get started before midnight.

--Diane Hettrick


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Problem resolved with follow.it email edition

Friday, July 14, 2023

Email digest subscribers began notifying us this week that they were no longer receiving the daily digests distributed by the follow.it program.

We were able to give specific examples to follow.it and they responded immediately.

We have investigated the issue and discovered that one of our email servers was mistakenly blacklisted by Spamhaus, an anti-spam organization. We have taken corrective actions, and the email-sending functionality should now be restored to its normal operation.

We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.

To see the articles that you missed, go to the web version of the Shoreline Area News at https://www.ShorelineAreaNews.com to view all we have published. 

You do not have to do anything to restore your subscription. You should begin receiving digests right away.

Also, email subscribers should be aware that follow.it has begun putting large ads at the head of the digest. Our stories start just below that. They also have ads at the end of the digest and occasionally along the sides.

Be careful not to click on any of these.

follow.it is a free program and the ads are the price of doing business with them.

--Diane Hettrick


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Warning: Ads on Follow.it

Thursday, June 1, 2023


Those of you who subscribe to our email edition on Follow.it understand that the end of each edition has ads placed by Follow.it

They are nothing to do with the Shoreline Area News, neither products nor candidates that we endorse. They are simply the price of a free service.

In yesterday's email edition there was, for the first time, an ad at the beginning of the edition. At a glance it would be understandable if you assumed it was a story we had placed. Follow.it is getting much more accomplished with the presentation of its ads.

I am asking email subscribers to be wary of what is at the beginning and end of each edition.

If you do not want to see the ads, you have the option of bookmarking www.ShorelineAreaNews.com on your browser and clicking on it each day after 6am to read the most up to date stories. 

We also publish on Facebook; however you need to both Like and Follow AND click on or comment on individual stories occasionally so the Meta algorithm will show you most of the articles published.

You can search for ShorelineAreaNews on Twitter to make sure you are seeing all the published stories.

--Diane Hettrick, Publisher/Editor



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Obituary: Evan Smith 1945-2022

Saturday, December 31, 2022

Evan Smith 1945-2022
Evan Bernard Smith, whose resilience and upbeat view of life guided him for decades through the challenges of multiple sclerosis, died November 18, 2022. He was 77.

The son of Bernard and Esther (Davies) Smith, Evan was born in 1945 in Seattle. 

His maternal grandfather, Thomas Davies, an immigrant from Wales, was a pioneering figure in Snohomish County and a special influence on Evan, who came to share his grandfather’s gentle nature and his community-minded spirit.

A graduate of Marysville High School in 1963, and Whitman College in 1967, Evan majored in history and was a Northwest Conference All Star in cross country and track multiple times. He was co-captain of Whitman’s cross country team that finished third in the 1966 NAIA National Cross Country Championships, and individually finished sixth in the steeplechase in the 1967 NAIA National Track Championships. 

Evan still holds two Whitman records – for the two-mile run and distance medley relay. He was known for his commitment to Whitman Athletics and wrote a sports column for The Pioneer, then the college newspaper. The opening line of his column was always “How’s every little thing?” – a phrase he’d continue to say for the rest of his life with a gleam in his eye when inquiring how others were doing.

After graduation, Evan co-founded the Snohomish Track Club in 1968 and would continue to run in the Pacific Northwest, Alaska, and the 1968 Olympic Trials. He stayed involved in the sport his whole life, coaching track for decades at the collegiate and high school levels, even after his illness robbed him of his ability to run. His passion for the sport never waned; during his final years, the TV was always tuned to track events such as in the Olympics or the World Athletics Championships.

Evan trained with the legendary Steve Prefontaine at the University of Oregon while earning a master’s degree in communications (and would later lament the Ducks’ devolution from a running school to a football school).

More than a decade later, he earned a law degree from Case Western Reserve University. As a professor at Kent State University, Ohio Wesleyan University, Southern Illinois University, and University of Alaska - Fairbanks, Evan taught journalism, history, and law during the 1970s, ’80s, and ’90s.

At the end of 1990, he returned to the Northwest with his family. Although MS increasingly limited his mobility, he remained committed to writing, coaching, and leading in the community. He was active in his church and his childrens’ school district, coaching high school and middle school track from his wheelchair. 

Evan wrote news and opinion columns for local news outlets – he co-founded the Shoreline Week which eventually became part of the Everett Herald-owned Enterprise newspapers, where he was Forum Editor. 

Later, he was a co-founder of the Shoreline Area News online publication, where he covered local politics under his byline and local sports in unattributed articles, for over a decade. He was a mentor to the editor, sharing his knowledge of everything from story layout, to suggested topics, to the use of punctuation in headlines.

In 1998, at his daughter’s nomination, Evan was named Father of the Year by the National MS Society’s Greater Washington Chapter, where he volunteered his time to mentor those newly diagnosed with the disease. Evan never let his illness define him: he was optimistic, upbeat, and full of self-described “vim and vigor.” When asked how he was doing, he always answered “Well, except for a little case of MS, I’m just fine!”

Evan is survived by his wife of 41 years, Barbara Schechter, daughter Ellen Gardner (Adam), son Jared, grandson Wyatt, granddaughter Emma, and countless other family members, friends, and caregivers who fell in love with his wonderful (albeit interminable) stories and bad puns. 

He imparted to his children his passion for history and sports and his attention to current political events. Those who spent time with him will remember his friendly nature, sense of humor, intellect and, most of all, his courage and determination to live a full life in the face of a cruel, incurable disease. Those qualities and his memory will forever inspire all who were lucky enough to know him.

A memorial service will be held at 2pm on Saturday, January 28, 2023 at Richmond Beach Congregational Church. Those who knew and loved Evan are invited to come and share stories – he loved nothing more than telling and listening to good ones. 

In lieu of flowers, please contribute to the Evan Smith Fund for Cross Country and Track at Whitman College at give.whitman.edu/smith, which will support the program that meant so much to him and his lifelong teammates. Others might consider subscribing to their local newspaper and reading it regularly in Evan’s honor.



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Shoreline Area News celebrates 13 years

Sunday, October 30, 2022

 

And it seems like only yesterday - thanks Whitney




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Shorewood PTSA honors Marianne Deal Stephens as their Outstanding Educator

Saturday, May 28, 2022

Marianne Deal Stephens
Photo courtesy Shoreline Schools
For their annual awards, the Shorewood PTSA honored Marianne Deal Stephens as their Outstanding Educator.

Here’s what was said about Marianne in her nomination:

Marianne is always on the ball when it comes to providing pathway and college preparedness/application information, providing just the right information at just the right time. 

Her emails are full of so much relevant information, reassurance, and solid counsel, provided in an organized way that makes it easy to find just what is needed. 

And, she serves literally EVERY single student on campus. As a parent, I find her to be responsive and reassuring. Both of my students (one now in college) brighten up whenever her name is mentioned at the dinner table, and both agree she is truly amazing, and an unsung hero. 

Shorewood is truly made better by her presence.

Marianne is the former School Board reporter for the Shoreline Area News. She left the SAN for the job at Shorewood. 

We have not been able to find anyone with her skill set to replace her, so it is good to know that she is appreciated at Shorewood!


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The best way to read your Shoreline Area News is on the web

Tuesday, January 18, 2022


Email subscribers and particularly Comcast subscribers to the Shoreline Area News have experienced some recent difficulties in getting the daily editions, or not getting them on time for events.

Comcast and most other large domains and sites have added multiple layers of security in the face of greatly increasing cyber attacks. Comcast has been particularly problematic for us because it takes very little for their algorithms to identify an email as spam.

They will put it in your spam folder a couple of times but if you don't find it and take it out, it blocks the emails from ever getting to you again. 

Follow.it - the product we are now using to distribute the email edition - is more than a bit random for when it picks up the articles and when it delivers them to you.

If I have a last minute article, you may or may not get it in time.

Two problems - one solution.

Create a bookmark on your web browser for the Shoreline Area News. Here's the address: https://www.ShorelineAreaNews.com

We publish first to the website, then copy the articles over to Facebook and Twitter. Follow.it picks up the stories from the web.

If you read the SAN on the web, you can pick what time you see it, and you will always see the most recent articles. There are other useful links on our webmail - Carl's Shoreline Weather, links to medical offices, and community organizations. Tabs across the top take you to articles in the most commonly used categories. 

There's a long list of "tags" that will take you to all the stories on a particular topic. Below that is an archive of every article ever published.

There's a search box to help you find things with keywords - it's small but mighty.

And the web version displays well on your phone.

Each daily edition is done by 6am. New stories will appear no earlier than mid-afternoon - often after midnight.

Shoreline Area News  https://www.ShorelineAreaNews.com

--Diane Hettrick, Editor



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Update for email subscribers

Sunday, June 27, 2021

This is what the new digest will look like.
Some of you were transferred to Follow.it today and should have gotten your email from them with the confirmation link.

Most will get theirs on Monday. We had enough addresses that Follow.it is going to do the set up for us. The good news is that they were very responsive.

And they agreed to enter all the addresses at 6am which should mean that you will get your new Follow.it digest at 6am every day.

Many thanks to Carl Dinse who keeps things running behind the scenes!

--Diane Hettrick



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Attention email subscribers - get ready for Follow.it

Friday, June 25, 2021


This is what you may see after you click the confirmation link in the email that Follow.it will send you. Pick the green one that says Website and enter Shoreline Area News or shorelineareanews.com


As I posted yesterday (see article) we are switching to a new carrier for our email subscriptions.

To get ready, put this address in your contacts / address book: hi@follow.it

When we make the switch on Saturday you will get a message telling you to confirm your subscription. You can procrastinate a little but you need to do this before the old product (Feedburner) quits delivering the digest - June 30, 2021.

One tricky thing. We have discovered that whatever time it is when you confirm your subscription - that's the time your digest will show up each day.

We experimented with half a dozen emails - so I have a follow.it edition that shows up at 3am and misses half the stories...

Since so many of you have told me that you sit down with a cup of coffee to read the Shoreline Area News first thing every morning, we will make the switch around 6am. If you confirm right away, your digests will arrive as usual. They will just look different.

If you are not able to confirm at that time, you can wait for the next day. Follow.it will send the digest for at least a few days without your confirmation.


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Attention email digest subscribers

Thursday, June 24, 2021

This is what the new edition will look like


For those of you who receive your Shoreline Area News once a day in a digest of articles published in the previous 24 hours: There is a change coming up.

For over a decade we have used a free product called Feedburner to subscribe readers and distribute a daily digest.

On June 30, 2021 Feedburner will no longer perform this service.

On Saturday June 26 we will switch all of you to a new service called follow.it

We will subscribe everyone at the same time, but you will have to confirm your subscription. Details are below.

You will start getting digests from follow.it on Sunday. You will continue to get Feedburner editions until June 30. You may unsubscribe or just ignore them until they go away.

We suggest you put this in your address book / contact list: hi@follow.it
This should keep the new digest from going into your spam folders.

Something you are not going to like: follow.it does not put a list of stories at the head of the digest. We may be able to add this at a future date but in the meantime you will have to scroll.

How you confirm your subscription may depend on your email provider. It may be just clicking the link one time but probably you will have to go through a few screens.

You may get the follow.it email with the confirmation link immediately or you may need to wait 20 minutes.

  • If you click the link to confirm and receive a message from follow.it that says "Pick your Feed" select the first box that says "website" and enter Shoreline Area News.
  • Ignore #2 filters and #3 output - just click the green button to move to the next screen.

Hopefully this will be a smooth process - but if not, email Editor@ShorelineAreaNews.com and we'll walk you through it.

--Diane Hettrick



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Email edition did not go out on Tuesday

Wednesday, February 3, 2021

Tuesday's email digest was not delivered to subscribers.

We have looked into it and find no reason why the email edition was not distributed on Tuesday. The only variable was that it was an extremely long edition.

Whenever the email digest goes missing, you can check the webpage for articles. https://www.ShorelineAreaNews.com

On Tuesday there were stories about the Third Place Commons celebration, the sale of Towne Centre Hardware, Whitney Potter's Groundhog Day cartoon, some very cute bird photos by Jan Hansen, a big article about the new North City Water maintenance facility, students on university honor rolls, heart health from a VM doctor, info on the Edmonds Arts Festival and more.


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To our email subscribers

Wednesday, August 12, 2020

Today's edition is particularly long. How much of it will land in your in box will depend on your Internet Service Provider (ISP).

Some will give you all the articles. Some will offer you a webview - go ahead and take the offer. Some will just lop off the bottom.

The last article in the digest should be Ceramic artist Sam Scott holding studio sale by appointment

If it isn't, you can view the missing stories on the web: http://ShorelineAreaNews.com

You might let me know if you do not get all the stories: Editor@ShorelineAreaNews.com

--Diane Hettrick, Editor



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2019-20 WIAA Media Person of the Year: Clark Norton

Friday, March 6, 2020

State wrestling tournament 2020
Clark Norton (left) and Derek Norton
Photo by Maren Norton


Clark Norton, sports reporter for the Shoreline Area News, has been named the 2019-20 WIAA Media Person of the Year.

Clark has covered wrestling at Shoreline secondary schools since 2012 and is or has been a wrestling coach at Shorewood HS, Einstein MS, and Kellogg MS.

Clark Norton 2019-20 WIAA Media Person of the Year


He was nominated for the award by Bryan Officer, Shorecrest and Kellogg head wrestling coach.

Officer said "Clark always writes detailed reports. He includes individual match results as well as team tournament finishes. He covers both middle school and high school wrestling in the Shoreline area which helps publicize the sport of wrestling and gives recognition to our teams and athletes."

We at the Shoreline Area News are delighted to have his interesting match accounts, which bring the team aspect of the sport to the fore.

"Congratulations for this well-deserved recognition!"


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There was no Tuesday edition of the Shoreline Area News

Wednesday, February 26, 2020

Photo by Seattle Poppy
It's ok - you are still on the subscription list, you didn't do anything wrong, and I am ok, thanks for asking.

I literally made one keystroke to start working on Tuesday's edition and Comcast winked out.

No internet, no phone, no TV. I called Comcast and the friendly robot confirmed my address and told me that it was scheduled maintenance and everything would be done by 6am.

So I went to bed.

If anyone has influence with Comcast, I really would like to have at least a few hours advance warning for these "scheduled maintenance" episodes!

Diane Hettrick



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Ten Years Ago: Information sessions about the bond proposed to rebuild the high schools

Saturday, December 28, 2019

By Diane Hettrick

Now that construction is complete for Shorewood and Shorecrest High Schools, it's startling to see what a long process it was.

In December of 2009, the Shoreline School District, which had been planning the new high schools since design work was funded by a 2006 bond, were ready to start showing all the details to the public ahead of the February election.

Nine meetings were announced but there were at least two dozen, as school administrators talked to every group they could find in Shoreline and Lake Forest Park.

The special election scheduled for February 9, 2010 was a big one for the school district. In addition to building two new high schools, they were asking for a four year renewal of the maintenance and operation levy, and a four year capital levy for technology purchase and support.

All of the measures passed.

In other December 2009 news, Bob Ferguson was unopposed in his re-election to the King County Council and talking about running for State Attorney General.

Shoreline was asking citizens to vote on an environmental slogan, with these choices:

  • Forevergreen
  • Sage Advice
  • Keeping it Green
  • Sowing the Seeds of Sustainability
Did any of them win? Darned if I know.

The Shoreline City Council saw the election of three new members, with Keith McGlashan being the only incumbent councilmember in four years to be re-elected.

The three local Rotary clubs (Shoreline breakfast, Shoreline lunch, Lake Forest Park) banded together to buy a full-color dictionary for every third-grader in Shoreline Schools.



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Cartoon: Post-Thanksgiving haze

Thursday, November 28, 2019




Yup, no Shoreline Area News today.
We will return to our regular programming after your 
Editor gets some sleep.

Thanks to Whitney Potter for expressing it so well!



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Ten years of the Shoreline Area News

Wednesday, October 30, 2019

Graphic by Whitney Potter


Ten years ago the U.S. had just plunged into a deep economic recession. Businesses, jobs, investments, were being cut back or lost. Newspapers were vulnerable because they are so expensive to run. The Seattle Times laid off staff and sold a six story building.

The local Enterprise chain, run from the Everett Herald, decided that they didn't really need King county and announced that the north King county edition would cease publication at the end of October. Shoreline and Lake Forest Park would again be left without local coverage.

Shoreline resident and political journalist Evan Smith worked for the Enterprise. He was distraught that the edition would close a week before a pivotal Shoreline City Council election.

Around the same time, the owner of the Ronald Bog Blog left Shoreline, informing his partner Sonya Reasor and me that we were now in charge. I had very recently been given access to the Blog because I was contributing so much content.

I had a private email list, left over from my six year stint as a PTA legislative rep. When my term of office was over, I continued sending information to local people: political "info-pinions" during political season and community events during the rest of the year.

Constantly, I heard people say that nothing happened here, and there was nothing to do. Yet I knew what vibrant, rich communities we had. People who weren't involved just didn't know about the opportunities.

Sonya, Evan, and I met to work out the details of starting a new, online publication that would cover only local news for Shoreline and Lake Forest Park. Evan would be the political writer, Sonya would provide technical expertise as well as content, and I would provide content. I thought we would all share in posting articles.

Evan and I had visions of dollar signs, but Sonya was clear from the beginning that she wasn't interested in money and would not be involved long-term. She set us up on a Google platform, created the leafy masthead, posted some wonderful articles and photos, and moved to West Seattle.

Evan happily covered the election and years of local politics.

And I discovered just how much work it was to lay out articles on a slightly buggy platform, let alone pull in enough content to publish. Taking ads would be whole new levels of work.

I am not a journalist. I am not a businessperson. I am a volunteer and a networker and a communicator with a strong social services bent.

When we started the Shoreline Area News there were a hundred local blogs around Puget Sound. Almost all of them are gone - most within the first year. The Seattle Times recruited our "hyper-local publications" to partner with them. My group of a dozen had two that are still very successful - the B-Town blog in Burien has multiple editions and covers south King county. The My Neighborhood News group run by Teresa Wippel has three editions in south Snohomish county.

Teresa and I have a strong alliance which I appreciate greatly. She has a successful business model, has employees, and pays her writers and photographers.

I pay in "fame and fortune" and am more grateful than I can say for all the people who contribute to the SAN.

There's a lot of technical work behind the scenes. Sonya continued to support me even after she moved but we were both relieved when Carl Dinse stepped in. I had actually gone looking for Carl because I heard he had a photo of Edmount Island on fire. (That's the island in the middle of Lake Ballinger. It's peat and occasionally burns for a few months at a time). When I found him and the photo, he said he had a weather station in Shoreline and would I be interested in weather reports?

Carl is a tech professional and donates large amounts of time on a weekly basis keeping the SAN running. He also contributes occasional photos, and of course, his wonderful hyperlocal weather reports. He has added a weather station in Richmond Beach and is close to opening one in Lake Forest Park.

Another person who has been with me almost from the beginning is Steve Robinson. Steve is a police chief. Right now he has come out of retirement to run the Bellevue College police department while they are between chiefs. I knew him as a PTA volunteer, an 8 year Shoreline School Board member, and a former board member of the Shoreline Schools Foundation. I didn't know he was a photographer until he offered to take photos for me.

I have a crew of wonderful photographers, some of whom are turning into reporters! The current crew includes, besides Steve, Wayne Pridemore, Mike Remarcke, Lee Lageschulte, Marc Weinberg, Jerry Pickard, and all the people who have sent in photos of what they see, like Seattle Poppy.

Jan Hansen keeps an eye on Puget Sound, researches vessels, and is the major contributor to the Scene on the Sound feature. Gloria Z Nagler takes incredible animal and insect photos and captions them with humorous text that make them come alive.

When Frank Workman left town, he gifted me with Rob Oxford, who covers Shorecrest football and the world at large. Frank still contributes, thanks to the reach of the internet. Thanks to the coaches and parents who send in sports information. Clark Norton's wrestling reports are so interesting that he has developed his own following.

Many people over the years have spent time doing major reporting in the SAN and then moved on to other things - like paying jobs! I'm afraid to start naming people because I know I would leave someone out - but I have to name Pam Cross, who is currently covering Shoreline City Council meetings.

I am so fortunate to have Whitney Potter and his wonderful, punny cartoons. He has won at least two art awards in the past couple of years and I'm proud to have him associated with the SAN.

Donna Hawkey is now writing articles and covering some events. Christine Southwick has been writing her charming and informative For the Birds column for years. Aarene Storms doesn't write her book reviews just for the SAN but has allowed us to publish them.

I've had several gardeners write for the SAN. When one moves on, another steps up. Victoria Gilleland's "In the Garden Now" features her own garden in Lake Forest Park with her beautiful flower photos.

Doug Gochanour wrote theatre reviews for a long time. I still haven't been able to replace him.

If I haven't mentioned your name, please don't feel slighted. I appreciate you all more than I can say. I appreciate the people who send in tips and photos of accidents and protests and cute kids (but get the parent's permission!)

My wish list includes restaurant reviews - amateurs welcome - someone to cover LFP council meetings the way that Pam does for Shoreline. Also theatre reviews - not critics but someone to talk about the productions. We have a lot of local theatre so there's room for more than one.

Someone to cover the school board - they speak a jargon and acronym filled language there so it can't be just anyone. I really miss Marianne Stephens!

And right now I'd really appreciate someone who can find a free program to distribute the email digest.

If you do not know, we publish on the web, then the same content goes to Facebook, Twitter, and the email digest which you can subscribe to. I would appreciate it if you would tell your friends and neighbors about the SAN and if your organizations can make sure your members know about our publications.

So here's to the years to come!

Diane Hettrick
Editor@ShorelineAreaNews.com


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Email subscriber edition Thursday

Thursday, August 8, 2019

From Diane Hettrick

Apologies to our email subscribers for the problematic edition Thursday.

Many subscribers had tiny, unreadable text. Others had the text but half the photos were stripped out. And it is possible that some of you had no problems.

In order to keep the numbers lined up for the election report, I put them in a spreadsheet and then copied them into the article.

This method drags in some of the invisible "code" that runs behind everything on the internet.

The code then interacts with your internet service provider (ISP) - yahoo, gmail, comcast, etc. and the ISP throws up its hands and screams and throws garbage at you. (sorry for the technical explanation).

Since the email edition is an automated process, I won't be able to send it out again.

However, you can read the stories you missed on our webpage ShorelineAreaNews.com

Carl Dinse has cleared the code out of today's election report, so all should be back to normal.

Thanks for your patience.



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To Email subscribers

Friday, December 21, 2018

To our email subscribers:

This edition is particularly long. Some of your email programs / web browsers are going to lop off the end.

The last article on the list should be "12:25pm - here we go again - the power is out"

If this article shows - you are fine.

If your edition stops before that article, go to the end of the last article you have. In teeny, gray print look for a link that says something like "more" and click it.

Some programs will give you a big window that says "View in web browser". Click it and you will see the SAN edition on a web page. Some of them are formatted very messily so don't take this option until you need to.

--Diane Hettrick, Editor

P.S. If your friends complain that they signed up for the email edition but never got it - it's because they didn't click the confirmation link from Feedburner when it came into their email. There are 1000 people who signed up but never completed their subscription. 


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Third Place Commons to Celebrate Diane Hettrick at Annual Breakfast

Tuesday, January 30, 2018

ThirdPlaceCommons.org/Breakfast2018


Third Place Commons invites you their annual community breakfast on Thursday, March 8th when Shoreline Area News Editor Diane Hettrick will be honored.

​This lively, fast-paced event is the Commons’ biggest fundraiser of the year and is the perfect time to join with friends, colleagues, and neighbors in showing your support for the extraordinary community that is fostered at the Commons and at the Lake Forest Park Farmers Market.

This year’s theme is “Celebrating Our Commons Community Values.” Those values are the organization’s core values, established by the Board of Directors in 2017, that guide the Commons in all that they do. These values are:
  • Accessibility
  • Community
  • Inclusivity
  • Connection
  • Collaboration

One of the high points of the breakfast each year is the presentation of the Friends of the Community Award, which has previously been awarded to the Lake Forest Park Rotary, Friends of the LFP Library, the Shoreline / LFP Senior Center, and the LFP Youth Council and Shorecrest Interact Club, among others. In 2017, Shorecrest High School arts leaders Vince Caruso (music chair) and Laura King (art chair) were honored.

Given this year’s focus on their “Commons Community Values,” the Third Place Commons Board felt that that there was no better way to celebrate these values than by honoring this year’s Friends of the Community Award recipient Diane Hettrick.

If you’re reading this, then you know that Diane has given tirelessly to the local community for many years as the daily editor of the Shoreline Area News. Thanks to her efforts, the Shoreline Area News has become an invaluable resource to local individuals, organizations, businesses, and civic partners throughout Shoreline, Lake Forest Park, and well beyond.

Please join your Commons community on March 8th in celebrating Diane’s tremendous contributions to our shared community!

Per tradition, the wonderful Milner Family Fiddles will be on-hand to serve up a warm, musical welcome to one and all. Longtime local favorites, the Milners play regularly at the Commons and elsewhere in a rotating roster of family members, led by Glen Milner. Included in the line-up for our event will be Alisa Milner and her husband Ian McFeron, whom you may remember from his moving speech at last year’s breakfast.

Third Place Commons is a community-supported 501(c)3 nonprofit organization dedicated to fostering real community in real space, and this is your chance to show your support for that vital community. The event will also feature a live auction featuring some very fun and unexpected items. 

Visit the event page to learn more or get your tickets now for the big event!



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