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MIND BOGGLER Loren Strand, 5, mom Evelyn Strand, Jacob Strand, 7, and Joshua Strand, 9, play the word game Boggle at Explorer Middle School’s Literacy Night on April 16. Explorer staff hosted games and activities to encourage involvement in reading and writing for students and their families.
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A Mariner High
School student has been selected as a Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange Ambas-sador and the winner of a full scholarship to be an exchange student in Germany.
Adeo Carter, a Mariner ju-nior, will be one of 250 high school students from across the United States to serve as U.S. ambassadors in Germany.
As a Congress-Bundestag scholar, he will live with a host family and attend a Ger-man high school for 10 months abroad, while experiencing the German culture and learning the German language by total immersion.
“I felt it would be an amazing opportunity,” Adeo said. “This is a once-in-a-lifetime experi-
ence to have a year-long stay in another country, essentially for free.”
The Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange Ambassador Program (CBYX) was created to strengthen ties between Ger-many and the United States through citizen diplomacy. More than 17,000 students have participated in the program since 1983.
Adeo, 16, flies to Washing-ton, D.C. on Aug. 5. He will go through orientations there and meet with American govern-ment officials before heading to Germany for more of the same. He’ll also receive Ger-man language lessons to help him communicate abroad.
“I’m interested in having a career that allows me to travel internationally between Europe and the U.S.,” he said, adding that he wouldn’t mind working as an interpreter. “This is a good foot in the door.”
Although he isn’t required to know German beforehand, Adeo has studied the language for two years at Mariner.
In fact, it was Adeo’s German teacher, Marianne Sebastian, who encouraged him to apply to the program. She had been an ambassador in Germany when she was in high school, and her experiences aboard were the reason she got into teaching the language.
Adeo said Sebastian tells all of her junior and senior students to apply. He thought he had the right background to represent the United States and Congress in Germany, so he applied.
“The thing I’m most looking forward to is getting a chance to go to school in another country and really absorb the language while over there,” he said. “What better way to learn how to speak and understand a language than living there?”
Adeo was a member of the NJROTC program at Mariner for two years, no longer avail-able, which he said made him patriotic, as well as knowledge-able in American military and politics.
Although gun
control measures have failed in the state Legislature this session, the debate is far from over.
Aware of local concerns after the New-town massacre, the Snohom-ish County Health and Safety Network will host a Town Hall-style debate at 7 p.m. Wednesday, May 1, at Mukilteo City Hall, 11930 Cyrus Way.
State Rep. Marko Liias, D-Mukilteo, will moderate
the debate, with the Monroe Police Department in support of legislation and the Second Amendment Foundation in opposition.
Students from the Kamiak High School debate team will also talk pros and cons of gun control.
“We’ve received some push-back from both sides, and have had difficulty putting up fliers,” said Chris Jury, the program coordinator.
“Surprisingly, we’ve had some local firearms dealers who feel there’s no merit for a debate. They rejected the idea and refused to accept fliers.”
The debate is the brain-child of two youth councils involved with the Health and
Chris Sohn was snowshoe-ing on Red Mountain on
April 13 when an avalanche hit.
All of a sudden, he was sur-rounded by snow.
Sohn, 44, of Mukilteo, was up at about 4,800 feet when he was caught in the avalanche near the Snoqualmie Pass ski resort with a group of a dozen snowshoers. The avalanche struck at 12:30 p.m.
“I heard one of my friends yell, ‘Avalanche!’ and then I was upside down, sliding from the top of the mountain,” Sohn said. “It was so fast, I didn’t see the snow coming at us.”
He slid 15-20 feet in the snow, hit a tree and then slid some more until he was stopped by a second tree and found himself stuck in loose snow around the trunk on a steep slope.
Snow buried his face and half of his body, and Sohn realized he was still upside down.
His legs were scissored under the snow, and he was tangled up in his shoes and
poles. He could hardly move. He managed to free his right hand and make a breathing hole in the snow.
Then he waited.Another snowshoer in his
group, Won Shin, 56, also from Mukilteo, landed about 100 feet away, also by a tree. About 15 minutes later, he saw that Sohn was tangled in the tree and rushed over to help his friend.
“I couldn’t reach him, be-cause it was too steep,” Shin said. “I climbed up and se-cured myself in the tree with a rope, and tried to get close to [him] in the tree.”
Shin, who has more than 15 years experience snowshoe-ing, had packed survival gear for the climb, including a rope, a GPS and a compass.
He carefully reached out and wrapped the rope around Sohn as a harness and braced against the tree to pull him up.
The group of 12 was split up by the avalanche, with four making it off the mountain on their own by 5 p.m. Sohn and Shin were among the four who made it off Red Mountain
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Around 3 p.m. Eastern time on April 15, Jesus cried out
with a loud voice, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” Matthew 27:46
A little before 3 p.m., death and pain blasted through of scores of innocent people simply watching a sporting event in Boston. A cacophony of emotions pound in our ears: Where was God?
Christianity is the only religious faith that says that God himself actually suffered and cried out in suffer-ing. What good is that?
His followers standing around the cross came to see it as the greatest act of God’s love, power and justice in history.
God came into the world, suffered and died on the cross in order to save us. It is the ul-timate proof of his love for us.
And when we suffer, we may be completely in the dark about the reason for our own suffer-ing. It may seem as senseless to us as Jesus suffering seemed to the disciples – but the cross tells us what the reason isn’t.
It can’t be that God doesn’t love us. It can’t be that he has
abandoned us. Jesus was abandoned so that
God the Father would never abandon us. The cross proves that he loves us and understands what it means to suffer.
The late author Bren-nan Manning has an amazing story about how he got the name “Bren-nan.”
While growing up, his best friend was Ray. The two of them did every-thing together: They bought a car together
as teenagers, double-dated to-gether, went to school together and so forth.
They even enlisted in the Army together, went to boot camp together and fought on the frontlines together.
One night while sitting in a foxhole, Brennan was remi-niscing about the old days in Brooklyn while Ray listened and ate a chocolate bar.
Suddenly a live grenade came into the foxhole.
Ray looked at Brennan, smiled, dropped his chocolate bar and threw himself on the live grenade. It exploded, kill-ing Ray, but Brennan’s life was spared.
When Brennan became a priest, he was instructed to take on the name of a saint. He thought of his friend, Ray Brennan. So he took on the name Brennan.
Years later, he went to visit Ray’s mother in Brooklyn. They sat up late one night hav-ing tea when Brennan asked her, “Do you think Ray loved me?”
Mrs. Brennan got up off of the couch, shook her finger in front of Brennan’s face and shouted, “Jesus Christ – what more could he have done for you?!”
Brennan said that at that moment he experienced an epiphany. He imagined himself standing before the cross of Je-sus wondering, does God really love me?
And Jesus’ mother Mary pointing to her son, saying, “Je-sus Christ – what more could he have done for you?”
The cross of Jesus is God’s way of doing all he could do for us. And yet we often wonder, does God really love me? Am I important to God? Does God care about me?
And Jesus’ mother responds, “What more could he have done for you?”
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Jean Greenberger passed away peacefully on April 17, 2013, a day filled with the family love she created.
Born in Jacksonville, Fla. on Dec. 11, 1930, she grew up in Kansas City, Mo., moved to Seattle in the ‘40s, then made Mukilteo her home for the last 22 years.
She is survived by grateful daughters Cecilia Greenberger (Bill), Nancy Moore (Bill), Janet Zars (Hugh); son Robert Greenberger; sister Marybeth Swartz; granddaughters Charlene, Frances and Emily; many nieces, nephews, grandnieces and grandnephews.
And to her friends, the amazing individuals and groups of people she has loved and been loved by, those known 60 plus years and those met in recent weeks – to all of you, we are so grateful and so happy you’ve known her.
Jean was preceded in death by her husband of 49 years, Alfred Greenberger, and her sister Luann Pfeifer.
Jean was educated by living fully, Holy Names Academy, Seattle University and healthy curi-osity.
Guided by her Catholic faith, she gave de-
cades of her time and talents to each of the communities of St. Luke in Shoreline, St. John Mission Church in Mukilteo, and St. Vincent de Paul in Everett.
Fueled by her in-tellect, she learned about the world, its natural places, peoples, politics and faiths through travel; played bridge with the best; was an accountant in downtown Seattle in her early and late career years; and business manager for St. Luke Church and School for 13 years.
Always strong, she golfed with the guys; camped in the Cascades and Kenya; rafted Alaska and the Amazon; and rode the horse, camel, elephant and zipline.
A funeral mass will be celebrated on April 27 at 12:30 p.m. at St. John’s Mission Church in Mukilteo. A reception will follow.
OBITUARyJean Greenberger: 1930 – 2013
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from Seattle, Everett, Pierce County and Yakima searched for the nine others. Shin said he tried to go back up with them, but the rescuers wouldn’t let him.
He said the group of four was lucky because they were close to trees that broke the avalanche’s impact.
However, a woman who had been showshoeing with her dog near the group was not as lucky. She was buried in the avalanche and died nine hours later, according to the King County Sheriff ’s Office.
“We saw the one lady with the dog just before the ava-lanche started,” Sohn said. “That was the last time I saw her.”
The other eight snowsho-ers realized the woman was missing when her dog, alone, approached them afterward. About 45 minutes after the av-
alanche struck, they located the woman face down under about 5 feet of snow.
She had a pulse, and they did what they could to keep her warm while they waited 2 ½ hours for rescuers to hike to them.
It took another six hours to dig the woman out and get her on a sled. After she was brought down from the moun-tain, she was pronounced dead around midnight.
The 12 friends are experi-enced snowshoers who go into the mountains every weekend.
Sohn and Shin said they’ll never forget how fortunate they were to get off Red Mountain not only alive but largely unharmed.
“I’m lucky that Won Shin was there,” Sohn said. “He is the reason I’m still living. I appreciate him a lot.”
Shin said: “I’m not a hero. I’m the one who was lucky to find him.”
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