TRACYTON Ninety-eight-year-old Edith Stanley s hands are rarely at rest. Despite severe arthritis that pains her fingers, she s often found holding her crotchet hook, spinning yarn into long, fabric patterns that, in just a few hours time, slowly form a hat.
For more than two decades, Stanley, of Tracyton, has donated thousands of chemo hats to the radiation department of her local hospital, now called St. Michael Medical Center in Silverdale. They ve been worn through the toughest of times by those she does not know and a few she does. A friend who succumbed to cancer was buried in one of her hats.
USS Nimitz welcomed back to Bremerton
Aircraft carrier completed 5 operations in 11 months By Michael Rietmulder, The Seattle Times
Published: March 8, 2021, 5:30pm
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3 Photos The USS Nimitz emerges from Rich Passage, a narrow tidal strait in Puget Sound, en route to Naval Station Bremerton on Sunday. (Ken Lambert/The Seattle Times) Photo Gallery
BREMERTON Winter winds and a little Northwest rain couldn’t dampen spirits among the 100 or so people gathered at Bachmann Park in Bremerton. The crowd was there Sunday to welcome home the USS Nimitz, the first U.S. Navy aircraft carrier deployed after the pandemic shook the world, following an 11-month voyage.