9th Annual Native Women’s Leadership Forum and 2013 Enduring Spirit Award
Date: April 4 & 5, 2013
Time: TBD
Location Swinomish Lodge
Anacortes, WA
SAVE THE DATE: of April 4 & 5th, 2013 to attend the 9th Annual Native Women’s Leadership Forum and 2013 Enduring Spirit Award to be presented to four Native women leaders paving paths for future followers. This year the event will take place at the Swinomish Lodge in Anacortes, WA.
The 9th Annual Native Women’s Leadership Forum kicks off with a welcome reception on April 4th and begins the Leadership Forum on April 5th at 7:30 a.m. with a youth breakfast. There is a great agenda planned and it looks forward to a spirited discussion on Indigenous Women’s Voices. Your assistance is needed and much appreciated for getting the word out about the conference to other women. Invite your mothers, sisters, and friends and let them know they will much enjoy meeting and networking with other women of interest. Please note the attached registration flyer. In addition more detailed information can be found on website at www.enduringspirit.org
When a racial incident threatens the tranquility of Belmont College, a liberal arts school in Vermont, the school administration is challenged to mount a response to the act of intolerance. Because their patronizing attempts to make themselves feel better do nothing to alleviate tensions on campus, the Dean of Students is forced to confront the prejudice in her own life.
“Spinning Into Butter” kicks off quiet’s 2013 season exploring issues of race, causing us all to confront the assumptions and prejudices that lie hidden just below the surface. Panel discussions will follow each evening performance.
March 14, 15, 16*
Performances every night at 7:30pm
*Additional Matinee Performance at 2:00pm
Doors open 30 minutes before each performance
Broadway Performance Hall
1625 Broadway
Seattle, WA 98122
Tickets
$12 Door
$10 Advance – http://bpt.me/324228
$7 Students/Military with ID
Director: Sandra Ponce
Stage Manager: Jess Askew
Cast: Zach Adair, Matt Aguayo, John Clark, Matt Gilbert, Justin Neal, Sandra Ponce, and Maggie Jane.
Set/Prop Design: Bridget Natale
Lighting/Sound Design: Jordan Sell
Costume Design: Sandra Ponce and Jess Askew
quiet is an Associated Program of Shunpike.
Produced by special arrangement with THE DRAMATIC PUBLISHING COMPANY of Woodstock, Illinois.
Burke Museum
Sat., Apr. 13, 2013 | 10 am – 3 pm
Included with museum admission; FREE for Burke members, UW students, staff, and faculty with UW ID
The Recycling Fair will showcase public and private recycling solutions and methods from throughout the Puget Sound region. Learn the life cycle of plastic, what to do with that odd bit of trash, and how to behave when confronted with a “recycling desert.” Participating organizations include Seattle Public Utilities, Total Reclaim, Cedar Grove Composting, UW Recycling, Waste Management Inc., and many more.
Get ideas:The Everett Home & Garden Show is Friday, Saturday and Sunday at Comcast Arena. You’ll find lots of displays, speakers, vendors and other fun stuff, such as a wine tasting. Find all the details in our storyhere.
Watch birds: Hike along with other birders and Pilchuck Audubon Society members on a free day-long adventure on Sunday. The group will look for shorebirds, waterfowl, passerines and raptors on Camano Island. Meet at 8 a.m. at Quilceda Walmart on the east side of the parking lot near I-5. Carpool to Camano Island and visit English Boom, Iverson Spit and Davis Slough. No elevation gain. Dress warmly and bring rain gear and bird scopes if you have them. The group will stop for lunch along the way. Leader: Terry Nightingale, 206-619-2383, 206-619-2383, tnight@pobox.com. For more information, go to pilchuckaudubon.org.
Was the wolf framed? You’ll have to decide for yourself after seeing this hilarious, live retelling of “The Three Little Pigs.” To hear Alexander T. Wolf’s side of the story, you’ll have to take your family to see the Dallas Children’s Theatre production of “The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs” on Sunday in Everett. Find all the details here.
Old time: The Cascade Mountain Men present the Muzzleloading Arms and Pioneer Craft Show on Saturday and Sunday at the Evergreen Fairgrounds. More than 300 vendors and exhibitors will be on hand with leather and fur goods, camping gear and period costumes. Demonstrations include blacksmithing, wool spinning and wood carving. Hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday. Admission is $5 a day; teens younger than 16 must be accompanied by an adult; kids 12 and younger get in free. Parking is free. For more information, call 425-890-7208 or go to www.cascademountainmen.com.
Musical revue: A good melody is timeless. So says the creator and producer of “In the Mood,” a big-band-inspired 1940s musical revue that’s playing Saturday in Everett. Or make that more than 40 good melodies, which is about how many songs the audience will hear as “In the Mood” re-creates the swing-era experience. Read the details in our story here.
Roof-raising music: They may sing gospel, but a Blind Boys of Alabama concert ain’t nothing like a church service. The Blind Boys’ live shows are roof-raising affairs. The performers make a stop in Edmonds on Saturday. Read more in our story here.
Spring forward: Don’t forget to set your clock ahead an hour on Sunday morning. Unless you want an excuse to be an hour late to everything.
Shop, for a good cause: The Convent of the Meeting of the Lord offers its spring fundraiser at the Quiet Light Candles shop, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday at 29206 64th Ave. NW., near Stanwood. The fundraiser features the nuns’ homemade pure beeswax candles and other gifts. The event includes candle-pouring tours, coffee and cookies. For more information, call 360-629-0285 or go to www.quietlightcandles.com.
Free clothing swap: The Great Oak Harbor Giveaway Day is from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday at Oak Harbor Christian School, 675 E. Whidbey Ave. Shop for new-to-you clothing and household items. Free admission. More info: 360-675-2338.
“Dino Day”: Kids can dress up in dino gear, crack open their own fossils, watch scientists prepare a duck-billed dinosaur fossil, and dig for a fossil ichthyosaur in the Dino Dig Pit. Dino Days is from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday at the Burke Museum, on the University of Washington campus, at the corner of NE 45th Street and 17th Avenue NE. Call 206-543-5590 or go to www.burkemuseum.org to learn more.
By Shondiin Silversmith Navajo Times
WINDOW ROCK, March 7, 2013
A process that usually takes three to four years was swept through as a Native American T-shirt company got its product on the shelves of America’s largest retailer in less than one year.
Native Threads President Randy Bardwell, Pechanga Band of Luiseno Indians, said his company basically “busted the door down at Walmart” because a process he was told that takes years took Native Threads only six months.
“We did it really fast, and the reason it happened so fast is because we were able to put good information together for Walmart,” he said.
Native Threads’ first shipment officially hit the Walmart floor the weekend before Black Friday in 2012 with three original designs.
Bardwell said they had to drive five hours to get to the closest Walmart retailer that sold their product…across the state line in Arizona.
“It’s surreal,” said Bardwell. “The work that we put in to get it there makes it all worth it. It’s really a big sense of accomplishment.
“Not only are they the largest retailer in the world, but also they have so many stores that fit into our population demographic,” Bardwell said, noting that they took a lot of things into consideration before proceeding with the process.
“It wasn’t a decision that we took lightly. We had to consider what we had built without Walmart, and how we may alienate or affect our core shops – the people that really got us to where we are today,” Bardwell said. “We don’t want to put them in the same basket as Walmart.”
Bardwell said the way they did this was to create new designs specifically for Walmart, and they wouldn’t sell those designs through their core shops. It’s not only designs that changed, but the weight of the T-shirts as well.
Bardwell said the usual heavyweight T-shirts sold through the website and shops is not what is being sold at Walmart, because Walmart requires a lighter weight shirt, but the print quality is the same for both.
Mens Tee, Native Threads
“Choosing Walmart as a partner was the right thing to do, not only from a sales standpoint,” Bardwell said, but because through Walmart they are able to sell their products at prices fit for everyone. “Walmart serves our population, and they can buy the quantities that can drive the price range to the 10-dollar range.”
Bardwell also believes that this partnership shows everyone that Native Americans are “sophisticated – we’re big picture thinkers and we’re true Native American entrepreneurs.”
Bardwell said that Native Threads can be found in over 120 stores until their spring release in May, when it will be cut back to around 70.
According to the Native Threads Website, Native Threads is one of Indian Country’s only Native-owned and operated clothing companies since their development in 1990. Bardwell said when they were first established they sold their products directly in various ways and that is how they started branching out.
“We went from direct retail selling to wholesale selling,” he noted.
“Our designs are contemporary, yet the messages are very traditional, cultural, and conscious of the current social, political and economic trends that affect Native peoples,” states the Native Threads Web site. “By combining these elements, our clothing helps give Native people clarity about who they are in this place and time. By providing constant reminders about our past, our products help bring to the surface the pride we carry inside of us.”
In 1911 in Europe, March 8 was first celebrated as International Women’s Day. In many European nations, as well as in the United States, women’s rights was a political hot topic. Woman suffrage — winning the vote — was a priority of many women’s organizations. Women (and men) wrote books on the contributions of women to history.
But with the economic depression of the 1930s which hit on both sides of the Atlantic, and then World War II, women’s rights went out of fashion. In the 1950s and 1960s, after Betty Friedan pointed to the “problem that has no name” — the boredom and isolation of the middle-class housewife who often gave up intellectual and professional aspirations — the women’s movement began to revive. With “women’s liberation” in the 1960s, interest in women’s issues and women’s history blossomed.
By the 1970s, there was a growing sense by many women that “history” as taught in school — and especially in grade school and high school — was incomplete with attending to “her story” as well. In the United States, calls for inclusion of black Americans and Native Americans helped some women realize that women were invisible in most history courses.
And so in the 1970s many universities began to include the fields of women’s history and the broader field of women’s studies.
In 1978 in California, the Education Task Force of the Sonoma County Commission on the Status of Women began a “Women’s History Week” celebration. The week was chosen to coincide with International Women’s Day, March 8.
The response was positive. Schools began to host their own Women’s History Week programs. The next year, leaders from the California group shared their project at a Women’s History Institute at Sarah Lawrence College. Other participants not only determined to begin their own local Women’s History Week projects, but agreed to support an effort to have Congress declare a national Women’s History Week.
Three years later, the United States Congress passed a resolution establishing National Women’s History Week. Co-sponsors of the resolution, demonstrating bipartisan support, were Senator Orrin Hatch, a Republican from Utah, and Representative Barbara Mikulski, a Democrat from Maryland.
This recognition encouraged even wider participation in Women’s History Week. Schools focused for that week on special projects and exhibitions honoring women in history. Organizations sponsored talks on women’s history. The National Women’s History Project began distributing materials specifically designed to support Women’s History Week, as well as materials to enhance the teaching of history through the year, to include notable women and women’s experience.
In 1987, at the request of the National Women’s History Project, Congress expanded the week to a month, and the U.S. Congress has issued a resolution every year since then, with wide support, for Women’s History Month. The U.S. President has issued each year a proclamation of Women’s History Month.
To further extend the inclusion of women’s history in the history curriculum (and in everyday consciousness of history), the President’s Commission on the Celebration of Women in History in America met through the 1990s. One result has been the effort towards establishing a National Museum of Women’s History for the Washington, DC, area, where it would join other museums such as the American History Museum.
The purpose of Women’s History Month is to increase consciousness and knowledge of women’s history: to take one month of the year to remember the contributions of notable and ordinary women, in hopes that the day will soon come when it’s impossible to teach or learn history without remembering these contributions.
You’ll want to think about going to bed early or sleeping in this weekend: Daylight Saving Time starts at 2 a.m. Sunday, March 10. That means you’ll spring ahead and move your clocks forward one hour — and, unfortunately, lose that hour of sleep.
The benefit is that we’ll get more sunlight later in the evening and it’s a pleasant sign that spring is just around the corner. Spring 2013 officially starts on Wednesday, March 20.
One drawback for Northern Virginia residents—Metro closed last year effectively one hour earlier than normal, since clocks jumped from 1:59 a.m. to 3 a.m., and 3 a.m. is Metro closing time. A few late-night partygoers in DC were caught off guard by the time change.
The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority has not issued a press release regarding Daylight Saving 2013, but it is expected the same thing will happen.
Many electronic devices, like your cell phone and computer, automatically adjust when Daylight Savings Time begins or ends.
So, why do we do this at 2 a.m., and why shift our clocks at all?
According to Webhibit:
In the United States, 2 a.m. was originally chosen as the changeover time because it was practical and minimized disruption. Most people were at home and this was the time when the fewest trains were running. It is late enough to minimally affect bars and restaurants, and it prevents the day from switching to yesterday, which would be confusing. It is early enough that the entire continental U.S. switches by daybreak, and the changeover occurs before most early shift workers and early churchgoers are affected.
The larger reason for shifting our clocks, however, is energy conservation.
The first official national time shift wasn’t until 1918. Then the United States stopped the practice, started again during World War II for energy conservation reasons, stopped when the war was over and re-started with the Uniform Time Act in 1966. The Energy Policy Act of 2005 lengthened daylight saving to eight months instead of six months.
Although a U.S. Department of Transportation study in the 1970s found that daylight saving trimmed electricity usage by about 1 percent, later studies have shown that the savings is offset by air conditioners running in warmer climates.
It may not all be for naught, however. Another study, performed in 2007 by the RAND Corporation found that the increase in daylight in spring led to a roughly 10 percent drop in vehicular crashes.
Check Your Smoke Detectors!
When you change your clocks in the fall and spring because of Daylight Saving Time, it’s also a good time to change batteries in your smoke and carbon monoxide detectors, and check to make sure the devices are in working order.
Arizona, Puerto Rico, Hawaii, U.S. Virgin Islands and American Samoa do not observe Daylight Saving Time.
Enjoy a Sweet Stroll in downtown Snohomish at the First Annual Snohomish Chocolate Walk
Calling all chocolate lovers! Join us for a sweet stroll downtown, collecting treats along the way! A decadent and delicious Chocolate Walk will be held in Downtown Snohomish on Saturday, March 16, from 11:00 AM to 5:00 PM.
Ticketed guests check in at the Snohomish Visitor Information Center- 1301 1st Street, Snohomish, WA to receive their Chocolate Walk Passport, goodie bag and raffle ticket. Attendees can spend the afternoon leisurely strolling through Downtown Snohomish visiting 17 Chocolate Stops (downtown businesses) and collecting specialty chocolate goodies.
Local chocolatiers add to the decadence. Meet and greet with several of our featured treat creators to learn about the art of chocolate making. For a list of Chocolate Stops and chocolatiers, visit: www.historicdowntownsnohomish.org/snohomish-chocolate-walk.asp
Also featured is an opportunity to win one of 12 unique gifts donated by participating businesses.
Hurry! Only 200 advance tickets are available. The $15 tickets can be purchased online only through Tuesday, March 12 at
www.HistoricDowntownSnohomish.org/Snohomish-chocolate-walk.asp
NOTE: No tickets will be available at the door.
Proceeds from the event benefit Historic Downtown Snohomish, an independent nonprofit organization dedicated to the revitalization of downtown Snohomish.
