MY EDMONDS NEWS Posted: May 5, 2021
From left: Bill Brubaker, Ray Ramsey and Bruce King (KOMO-TV archives)
KOMO-TV’s Bill Brubaker was “that guy” that guy we invited into our homes night after night, day after day, year after year.
With his on-air partners, Ray Ramsey (weather) and Bruce King (sports), Bill brought us up to date on what was going on in our world and why it was important. We laughed with him, cried with him, celebrated with him. Bill was our friend; he was my friend. Sadly, we lost that friend last weekend. Bill Brubaker passed away. The lifelong Edmonds resident was 85. His wife, Marlene, preceded Bill in death just two months earlier.
White violence and Black protests during the 1918 flu have a lesson for today
Adella Bond fired her revolver outside her window into the South Philadelphia air, hoping to attract police as a mob of Irish American people gathered around her home to tell her she wasn’t welcome.
Bond, a Black woman who was a municipal court probation officer, knew that racial conflicts unfolded in neighborhoods that had once belonged to only White people but were beginning to house Black people as they migrated from the South to the North during the Great Migration, said Kenneth Finkel, a professor in the department of history at Temple University in Philadelphia, and the author of “Insight Philadelphia: Historical Essays Illustrated.”
Violence toward Black people and protests for racial justice were rampant in Philadelphia during the 1918 flu pandemic, in much the same way they have been during the current coronavirus pandemic.
Don’t let Christmas tree needles go to waste
Precious pines: a woman in Brighton carries her tree to a recycling centre
Credit: simon dack/alamy
SIR – Felicity Cloake says we should eat our Christmas trees rather than throwing them away.
I would add that pine-needle culinary delights are best enjoyed while soaking extremities in a needle-infused footbath.
Peter Saunders
SIR – On the question of when to take festive decorations down (Letters, December 30), many years ago, when my three sons were fairly young, we visited my house-proud mother-in-law on Boxing Day.
Shortly after we had finished our turkey lunch, she took the lights and decorations off the artificial tree, and proceeded to fold it up and put it away, saying: “That’s Christmas over, then.”
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You may have already heard the sad news about Charley Pride.
The first Black star of country music, Pride died on Saturday (December 12) of complications from COVID-19, at the age of 86.
During his career Pride sold over 25-million records and earned three Grammy Awards. He had more than 30 number-one hits between 1969 and 1984.
It was back in the early 80s when the story behind the photo in question begins.
At the time Ray Ramsay was the Vancouver promo rep for RCA Records, and he d picked Pride up at Vancouver s South Terminal because he had his own private Lear jet (Pride did, not Ramsay).