Sunday Morning Magazine

Luke Minor, Washington College Savings Plans Director, has updated info on the 2 current plans. GET (Guaranteed Education Tuition) the 529 plan we've had for the past 20 continues, and thrives. Now we have an added plan: DreamAhead--which provides account owners select savings options. The plans offer Washington families the flexibility of saving for college education for our kids. It provides an...

"Toy n Joy" i-- a great annual event where 2 great community entities join forces to create an opportunity for all of us to partner with them, and help create a more joyous season for families facing challenges. Captain Lisa Barnes from the Salvation Army, and Hannah Kubiak, Communications Manager with Bartells, represent their organizations, telling us of happy experiences families have had as a...

Mark Putnam, Executive Director, Accelerator YMCA and Emily Meltzer, Director of Development & Communications, Accelerator YMCA share important insights about young people who experience homelessness, and find solutions through the YMCA. There are 1,500 homeless youth and young adults in King County, 1 in 3 youth who age out of foster care become homeless; 40% of youth experiencing homelessnes...

Sasha Hendricks is the Education Curator at Cougar Mountain Zoo in Issaquah. There's a lot of excitement up on the mountain, the animals are all primping, the elves are helping Santa prepare for the Issaquah Reindeer Festival. It's a great way to spend a day with the family, with friends. Consider it as a gift for a family--the memories with last forever, and ticket and membership purchases all he...

Dr. Lee Airton is an assistant professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies in Education at Queens's University in Toronto, and author of the new book "Gender--Your Guide: A Gender-friendly Primer on What to Know, What to Say, and What to do in the New Gender Culture". Dr. Airton focuses on enabling individuals and institutions to welcome gender and sexual diversity in everday life. Their book is rea...

Lynn Julian is one of the women featured in the book "(Extra)Ordinary Women: Ten Inspirational Stories". Lynn shares her experiences as a Boston Marathon bombing survivor dealing with traumatic brain injury (TBI) and PTSD. Lynn's story serves us in multiple ways--having suffered a concussion some years earlier. Having one concussion predisposes a person to others occurring. Because PTSD and TBI ar...

Killian Noe is the founding Director of "Recovery Café" a comprehensive program in Seattle that is working with persons who are suffering homelessness, addictions, mental illness. It uses a membership model to walk with persons, offering various programs, services, classes and trainings. Members must be sober to attend, and assistance is provided to help them have sobriety. Members find success a...

Michael LeMay is Professor Emeritus at California State University, and an author of more than 2 dozen academic titles. His latest, "U.S. Immigration Policy, Ethnicity, and Religion in American History" is a very readable overview of our story of immigration over the past 200 years. Michael sees it as a door, as immigration is about persons entering the country. He organizes US Immigration policy...

Steve Pemberton is a successful father, husband, business man and entrepreneur. He achieved this against incredible odds, a child in the foster care system. Steve shares some of his early life in foster care in his memoir A CHANCE IN THE WORLD--An Orphan Boy, a Mysterious Past, and How He Found a Place Called Home. Giving a child a good foundation in their early years is critical for future succes...

Anna Gottlieb, Executive Director, and Elisabeth Clymer, Program Manager, with Cancer Pathways in Seattle have important information that affects each of us, because cancer does touch each of us in some way. Cancer Pathways, formerly Gilda's Club in Seattle, provides education, support, a place to connect and to be heard. Cancer Pathways goes out to the community -- they have a great program for h...

Making Strides for Breast Cancer is on the calendar for Saturday, October 20 at Gas Works Park. Emily Vega is coordinating the event and encourages us to come out as team, or individually, but come out to support and learn more about the Research happening in the Puget Sound area. Genie is a breast cancer Survivor and expresses her gratitude for the Research that made it possible to detect the bre...

Maya van Rossum is a veteran environmentalist, and the leader of the Delaware Riverkeeper Network. Maya's new book:-- The Green Amendment: Securing Our Right to a Healthy Environment is critical reading for anyone interested in protecting the environment in their own area/state. Maya's goal is to awaken and empower us to take action for our environment rights by pioneering the 'Green Amendment Mov...

Dr. Victor Romano is an orthopedic surgeon in Oak Park, IL, and the author of "Finding The Source: Maximizing Your Results – With and Without Orthopedic Surgery". He's board-certified in orthopedics and sports medicine with over 25 years of experience in the field. He loves his work, loves to help people, and aim to do so in the least invasive ways. Because pain is too often present in our lives...

Steve Kipp is here to tell a critical story of life, of surviving a stroke, a young, healthy, active guy, yet a stroke occurred. Steve's story is important insight and information for each of us as stroke and heart disease are the leading causes of death. Someone in the US has a stroke about once every 40 seconds. To be more informed, to support the work of the Heart Association to advance researc...

Debbie Reber is a NY Times best selling author and with her new book : "Differently Wired--Raising an Exceptional Child in a Conventional World" brings key information for parents of kids who are 'differently wired' as well as teachers, and anyone working with these kids. As school begins, this really is an important foundation to help everyone to be/feel successful Debbie's son had been diagnosed...

Carrie McBride with the Alzheimers Association gives us statistics about Alzheimers and dementia. Alzheimers is the 3rd leading cause of death in our state. The Walk to End Alzheimers is a major fund raiser, and the funds are used for research, for community support and education. People need to know they are not alone. There are numerous walks in Western Washington: Bremerton--Sept 8, Tacoma--Sep...

Thomas Moore is a NY Times best-selling author, a university professor and a psychotherapist. Thomas is really a thinker--who shares his internal thoughts and journeys to help us consider our own life and purpose. In his new book: Ageless Soul--The Lifelong Journey Toward Meaning and Joy, Thomas invites us to reflect on the meaning of age and aging. Consider that aging happens from the moment we a...

Dr. Dirk van Leenen was a child in Holland when WWII was being fought, old enough to understand the experience. His father was a leader of the Resistance, were housed and moved through their home, countless lives saved. Near the end of the war he and his parents were transported to a concentration camp and only endured one day there. He has been writing about the war time experiences, and speaking...

Nearly 1 in 3 adults has high cholesterol. That should certainly grab our attention. To get a clearer understanding we have cardiologist, Dr. Rosemary Peterson who works with this on a daily basis, to explain why high cholesterol is often called 'the silent heart attack'. And we also meet a man, Joe Farrington, who less than 2 years ago experienced 'the silent heart attack'. Doctors informed him t...

David Williams is the Executive Director of the Hydroplane and Raceboat Museum in Kent, a place where the classic hydros are restored. And they are used in performance races during the year, including at Seafair. David is also a writer, as part of the Museum mission is to preserve the history of the people who contributed to building the sport. The new book is: A Race to Freedom--The Mira Slovak S...

July 28th, marks the 150th anniversary of the adoption of the 14th Amendment of our Constitution, which defined American citizenship. Martha S. Jones is the Society of Black Alumni Presidential Professor at Johns Hopkins University. She was formerly a founding director of the Michigan Law School Program in Race, Law & History. She is an author, and her new book, directly related to the 14th Am...

Dr. Julie Lamb is an endocrinologist and infertility specialist at Pacific NW Fertility in Seattle. Dr. Lamb gives us important information about our body and the biology of pregnancy. It's possible to take the matter of getting pregnant as something that will be easy. Some of today's trends, women posting pregnancy for various reasons, including their career, finances, being with the right partne...

Christal Glangchai PhD is a scientist, entrepreneur and mentor whose big passion is to inspire and help girls in all of these areas. In a family of girls, her father engaged them in all kinds of activities around home, even repairing the car. She is dedicated to helping girls really fulfill their potential. Much of her work can be found in her new book: VentureGirls: Raising Girls to Be Tomorrow's...

Dr. Scott Litin, an internist at the Mayo Clinic, Minnesota, takes the time to touch on a few of the topics in the updated volume of the Mayo Clinic Family Health Book. It's a terrific resource that covers some of the basic questions we might have about flu and fever. It helps to get us organized for a doctor visit. Dr. Litin suggests having questions written down to make the best use of the limit...

Dr. Michael Schreeinga is an award-winning research psychiatrist, and author of "They'll Never Be the Same, A Parent's Guide to PTSD in Youth". Foremost is the fact that PTSD has been overlooked in youth. We may finally be acknowledging it with all the school shootings. But Dr. Schreeinga points out the other areas from which it results: Natural disasters, witnessing domestic violence, motor vehic...