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Volunteers loading food at Fairgrounds
Gift Bags for Seniors
Missionaries helping at Packout
Saint Raymond Catholic Church in Dublin operates a food bank where those in need can receive food monthly. In normal times they help about 55 families but during COVID-19 this has skyrocketed to 120 families, equating to approximately 500 people. In addition to the increased need, many of their volunteers were seniors not able to help due to the shelter-in-place order.
Missionaries of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints normally spend their time teaching those interested about the gospel of Jesus Christ, but during the pandemic they were not able to knock on doors or visit people in their homes. They were sheltered-in-place in their apartments, but were allowed to leave to provide community service. It was a perfect match, so each week as many as eight missionaries from the Pleasanton zone of the church would go to Saint Raymo
Martha “Marty” McLaren, a past West Seattle/South Park representative on the
Seattle Public Schools Board of Directors, has died. Ms. McLaren, a Puget Ridge resident, was 76 years old. She was a longtime educator and community advocate, but her highest-profile role was that of board member. She won election in 2011 by unseating incumbent
Steve Sundquist and then four years later was unseated herself by current board member
Leslie Harris. We talked with Ms. McLaren after her election in 2011; she spoke of her teaching career following her involvement with advocacy as a PTA leader while her children were in school. More details on her life are in her obituary, which we’ve just received: