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Grants awarded to local performing arts groups

The Skagit Community Foundation has awarded $96,192 in McIntyre Hall Local Performing Arts Grants in the program s second annual grant cycle. ....

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The Northwest connection between Burl Ives, Sam the Snowman, and 'Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer'


December 23, 2020 at 9:03 am
“Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” has been a fixture on national TV every year since 1964. But not many people know that the animated narrator of the show has a direct connection to the Northwest.
Burl Ives, the Academy Award-winning actor who performed the voice of the narrator Sam the Snowman, lived in Anacortes in Skagit County on Fidalgo Island from 1989 until he passed away in 1995. Ives and his wife Dorothy – who passed away in 2016 – moved to Anacortes after visiting a friend there. As it turns out, the couple left something of a special “Rudolph” legacy in Anacortes that still resonates decades after they first arrived. ....

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Computer course for Spanish speakers fills need during pandemic


On Excel, she is able to keep track of invoices, create graphs and complete financial reports.
She said the skills she learned also helped her apply for an emergency COVID-19 grant for her business, Lili’s Green Cleaning Services, which she started last fall.
Mendez is one of 16 who graduated Dec. 5 from the free computer course offered to Spanish speakers. Classes were held in a bilingual format for six Saturdays this fall, and included basic and advanced levels.  
Honestly, I was very afraid at the beginning, Mendez said through an interpreter. I thought it was very complex, and I felt to some extent a bit embarrassed of making mistakes and not doing as well as others. I was kind of intimidated. But honestly it was extremely easy. I didn’t realize how much I was learning. ....

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