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helma (Jackson) Sadowick, the youngest of five children, was born in Rosetown, Sask. in 1932. Thelma said, “My mother was born in Ontario and my father was born in Ireland. We lived in a hotel that my maternal grandmother owned in Fisk, Sask. As children, we never had any pets because they were not allowed at the hotel. I never knew what I missed by growing up in a hotel until I was older and had a family of my own. “My father was a blacksmith and during the hungry thirties (a time of mass unemployment and hunger marches) he always said that we would never go hungry and we would have three meals a day because someone would always need a horse shod or the ring on a wooden wagon wheel would need fixing. “My dad used to feed people in exchange for their labour but I never understood. To tell you the truth I didn’t know there were hungry people in the world until many years later when my kids went to school and brought home stories about school mates with no lunch and no mittens in the winter.” The family moved to Flin Flon, Man., when Thelma was three years old. She said, “When I went to school, we walked both ways. No one had a telephone or a television in their house so we just went outside and played kick the can, hop scotch, hide and seek and we all knew how to play Ante-I-Over and walk on stilts. I was pretty good on stilts and I would walk all over just for fun. “I was the baby of the family; I didn’t have to do any work because I was so spoiled. “When I was 12, we moved to Prince Rupert where my dad worked as a welder on the war ships. “At the age of 14, I moved back to Flin Flon to live with my sister until I was 17. I moved to Prince George in 1949 and lived
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Thelma Sadowick keeps herself busy floor curling, needle pointing, crocheting and knitting. with my parents who were now living on Richard, Betty, Mervin, Leone, Thelma, Burden Street. My mother worked as a Doris, Frances and Gordon. I have 25 cook for the City Café on George Street and grandchildren, 44 great grandchildren and I landed a job as a waitress. I think the only two great-great grandchildren and I am reason my mom gave me the job was so proud to say that this makes five generathat she could keep an eye on me. tions. I have four children over the age of “I met Frank Sadowick, who was born 65. It is hard to believe that some of my in Roblin, Man in 1923. We got married in children are now receiving their Canada 1950 and we moved to Roblin to live with pension. I had to wait a long time to collect his parents on a farm. I had never been on mine. a farm and this was the first time I had ever “We had five boys and five girls and they seen a milk cow, chickens or pigs. I learned were the best kids in the world as far as I how to gather eggs and feed the pigs. was concerned. My sisters and brothers “We lived on the farm for two years and are now all deceased. My life went by fast during that time I had two of my ten chiland it hasn’t always been easy but I got through it all with the help of my family. dren. We moved back to Prince George in The children always stuck together and 1952. Frank bought a truck and a sawmill; never tattled on one another. When they he drove truck in the summer and worked were all adults, we would sit around and in the sawmill in the winter. reminisce and then the stories would come “We lived on the Hart, sold the propout – things I never knew about. I suppose erty and moved to Six Mile Lake and then that is why I now have white hair. Tabor Lake. When we sold the property on “When I look back, I was proud that I the Hart, they built the Overwaitea store was raising ten children. It was always where our house used to be. fun to watch them take their first step and “We were married for 40 years before then watch them learn to walk. The older Frank passed away in 1990 because of ones helped look after the younger ones cancer. and there was never a dull moment. Their “We had ten children: Emily, Franky,
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Petunia’s Vipers
July 5 Enigmatic but beloved band Petunia & The Vipers comes to Prince George for a rare concert appearance. Their last four consecutive albums have gone to No. 1 on the Canadian Folk/Blues/Americana charts. Petunia and his snaky road crew perform a wide hybrid of musical sounds dating back to the 1920s but all the way up to ‘70s radio gold, including in the mix elements of country, blues, swing, alt-country-rock, Mexicana, French cabaret, Romanian, ragtime, jazz, punk and folk. In addition to frontman Petunia, the group also includes acclaimed players Stephen Nikleva on electric guitar and Jimmy Roy on the lap steel guitar. Others have been known to join. Catch them at The Legion. Doors at 8:30, showtime 9:30. Cover is $15.
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KidzArt Dayz July 5 & 6 A big happy mess gets made downtown each summer. It’s time again for BMO KidzArt Dayz on inside and out front of the Two Rivers Gallery. This creative blast brings art, music, movement and family fellowship into Canada Games Plaza where everything is hands on and high fun, all for free. It runs 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. both days, and gallery memberships will be for sale for half-price to get families connected to year-round creativity at the region’s top visual arts facility.
Fraser Opera July 5-7 The opera classic La Boheme is presented live at Theatre NorthWest for three days only. Fraser Lyric Opera presents Giacomo Puccini’s beloved opera La Bohème, the story of four starving artists living in a garret apartment in Paris and their passion and fight for art and love. It is a universal story interlaced with powerful music that audiences cannot help but feel drawn into. Shows at 7 p.m. on July 5 and 6, or 2 p.m. on July 7. Get tickets online at the TNW website, at the Books & Company desk, or at the door while supplies last.
Pride Parade July 6 One of the city’s favourite downtown events unfurls its rainbow flag and multicoloured personality. The Pride Parade is a flamboyant statement made on behalf of welcoming, embracing and celebrating diversity or all kinds, and standing up for safety of person and discussion. It is led by sexuality and gender equality but applies to all facets of Prince George culture and society. It starts at 11 a.m., moves through the downtown, and finishes with an afternoon festival at City Hall until 3 p.m. It is free to attend. To join the parade, contact the PG Pride Society.
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July 6-7 The PGARA Speedway is truly the play-
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Rock Star puts on a show for the fans at PGARA Motor Speedway during the 2018 Malicious Monster Truck Tour. The tour returns to PGARA this weekend. ground of power. The Malicious Monster Truck Insanity Tour comes to Prince George for a pair of shows (6 p.m. Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday) with a wild herd of mega-machines, unique vehicle entertainment, and a pit party. Get tickets at all TicketsNorth platforms.
Fishing Education July 6 Learn to fish at West Lake Provincial Park from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. It’s free, no registration required, all ages welcome. Presented through Freshwater Fisheries Society of BC, this introductory program is appropriate for kids 5-15 and their families. The half-day course will teach you the basics of how, when and where to catch fish in fresh water. Instructors will touch on identifying kinds of fish, rods and reels, casting, fishing ethics, and more.
Board Games July 8 The Prince George Public Library rolls the dice on the social power of board games. Kick back, eat snacks, and play board games with old friends or new ones at this evening social for those aged 19-30. Drop in from 7-8:30 p.m. No charge.
Tween Action July 9 Double Digits is a crafts, games, and friendship session for those aged 10-12. It’s at the Bob Harkins Branch of the Prince George Library for only an hour starting at 1:30 p.m. It happens weekly through the summer.
Beastly Beauty July 11-27 Judy Russell Presents brings incredibly popular musical theatre show Beauty & The Beast to the Prince George Playhouse stage for 15 shows. See the best of the city’s homegrown stage talent and the storytelling power of Disney in a live summer blockbuster. Get tickets at all Central Interior Tickets platforms.
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July 12 DOA is returning to Prince George. The iconic punk band, a natural treasure of Canadian counterculture, will be at The Legion along with local openers Children Of The Wave. Tickets are $15 in advance (at Handsome Cabin Boy Tattoo) or $20 at the door, while supplies last.
It’s magical,” said organizers. “Erin Stagg is best known for her diverse range of colourful acrylic and oil paintings. Her style ranges from thoughtful, such as her Flora and Fauna collection to light-hearted and comical, like her Yoga animal collection.” Free to attend. Enjoy the food and browse the shelves at Books & Company.
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July 13 The Chris Buck Band is the headliner, with opening acts Bralorne, SubTotal at the July edition of the CrossRoads Street Festival Series. These fun and safe adultoriented evenings will feature local craft beer, street food, outdoor party games and live music. This is a ticketed event for those 19+. The daytime all-ages street recreation event goes 10-3 for free, with a focus on the themes of motorsports, motocross and jetboating. Contact CrossRoads for more info. It’s all at 5th and George.
Aug. 25 All arts of all descriptions are alive and dancing on the stages, floors and fields of Wells during the annual ArtsWells Festival of All Things Arts. Music is the main draw each summer, with scores of acts from all over Canada and the world, plus local talent given a stellar showcase on the doorstep of historic Barkerville. Weekend passes start at $160 and are available from www.artswells.com (children aged 12 and under are free). This year all pass holders get free entrance to Barkerville Historic Town! And every adult weekend pass includes a $15 voucher to spend at the festival merch booth. A sample of this years acts includes: Sarah Burton, Snotty Nose Rez Kids, Al Simmons, Elage Diouf, Hannah Epperson, Doug Cox, Mip, Rae Spoon, Yael Wand, Hachey The Mouthpiece, Linda McRae and many more. Add in visual artists, theatre performers, writers, and many more and it makes up the ArtsWells extravaganza.
Downtown Summerfest July 14 Downtown Prince George’s signature event in the summertime is a celebration of food, entertainment and activities for the whole family. Live music, merchant booths, arts and culture displays and much more make this a day to circle on the calendar, headlined by the popular food pavilion. The extravaganza runs 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Canada Games Plaza.
Writer’s Workshop July 18 Internationally renowned Canadian writer George Elliott Clarke will teach the writing craft at Island Mountain Arts in Wells. He’s calling his seminar Rooting Deep And Branching Out: Seeding The Poetic Imagination. Class size is limited to 10 seats for the four days.
Live Stagg July 24 Popular local painter Erin Stagg will set up her easel at Café Voltaire from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. for a live painting demonstration that is part instructive and part entertaining. “Come watch Erin bop to tunes and create a painting start to finish.
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Love Al Ropchan, shooting d by Sharlene Vonda will Lazar (neeKecho you Dad, camp fire, you always or be Celebration we Kim Ropchan, granddaug Greenwood made it ) of Life to will all miss you. date. , Jo-Anne went to Greenwoodhters Jamie be announced Forrest, McIvor and many June 11, be with the Lord Service at a later and other on battle with 2016 after a lengthy Tuesday, of Remembrancefamily and friends.Claire June 21, will be With great RYAN MICHAEL to family cancer. Her devotion Home, 1055 2016 sorrow, HORNE Ospika Blvd. at Lakewood held on passing supported and belief in of Ryan we announce Funeral God her during the January Michael and ultimately her 15, 1984 Horne. Ryanunexpected We will sadly gave her illness June 11, Joyce is 2016-He and suddenly passed was born peace. miss Ryan enjoyed was 32 children her loving survived by Richard, With Deepest you Mom. away on Kim, Sharlene, Donna spending years old. 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when someone mentions your use? 3. Have you ever experienced GUILT after use? 4. Have you ever had an EYE OPENER to settle your nerves, treat your hangover or to prevent a withdrawal from use? Answering yes to two or more is indicative of a possible substance use disorder.  I wish someone in the education system would have taken time to teach me about drugs (and yes, alcohol is most certainly a drug). I don’t know if it would have made a difference but at least I would have been made aware that if I, as a teen was drinking five or more drinks a week (for males) or four or more drinks per week (for females), that I was at a high risk for developing substance abuse disorder (and I was, I drank more than that every weekend when being a teen).  This is not rocket science, it is based on scientific fact.  Planting this seed early might not have stopped me from drinking but it might have made a difference in the length of time I have lost. – Questions for Ann? Send your submissions (anonymously, if you choose) to columns@pgcitizen.ca and we’ll pass them along.
It’s a complete comedic smash-down. A battle royal is brewing between Prince George and Kamloops, and it’s a grudge match for the ages. The two motley crews are putting the glad in gladiator as improvisational comedy group Improv Shmimprov Canada takes on the undefeated challengers from The Freudian Slips. “We started really looking at doing a collaborative effort,� said Improv Shmimprov’s co-founder Stephen St. Laurent . “We went down to Kamloops to do that, we went head to head, we had some of their community dignitaries as the judges.� The Kamloops squad won that first match “and now we are doing it here.� Two of the confirmed judges in Prince George include live theatre maven Judy Russell and Birgit Zorzi of the Hurly Burly Booty burlesque comedy group.  “We’ve been working at having some of the northern groups forming an association and this is taking it further down that path,� said St. Laurent. “There is a group out of Vernon that is semi-active, I know there is a newer group out of Williams Lake becoming active, I’ve had some interested out of Quesnel for form-
ing a group out of there, and we have the two more established groups in Prince George and Kamloops. We’d like to establish an environment where we could all work together, learn new games from each other, and form sympaticos.â€? Losing the first head-to-head battle was a motivator for the P.G. theatre sports athletes, St. Laurent said, so they are going into this next bout with their heads held high and a flinty gleam in their eye. They are out for home turf vengeance.  “This will be the first time the impov group has worked at Sonar Comedy Club,â€? St. Laurent said. “I’ve done a couple of other comedy shows there, but this is the first time for Improv Shmimprov. Jason (Luke, Sonar’s proprietor) has been trying to build something downtown, get a nightlife scene going, so we thought we would give it a go, community building, getting more people working together. We will always work with Artspace, but we want to maximize all the opportunities at hand.â€? The comedy tournament is Saturday at 8 p.m. Tickets are available in advance via the Sonar website for $15 or $20 at the door while supplies last. Â
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underfunded and under/untreated. Prevention is key. Given the statistics that 25 per cent of people over age 12 regularly binge drink and that those who use alcohol before age 15 are four times more likely to become addicted to some substance in life, imagine what impact education could have if we taught more about alcohol/drug use before students enter this crucial stage.  In my elementary and high school days, I clearly recall classes on hygiene and nutrition but nothing at all about substance abuse. This is unreal, considering that alcohol use disorder is the third leading cause of prevenable death. Thus, in order to educate now, I present what all doctors should ask if they ever question the presence of a substance abuse disorder. You can do it yourself right now or even at a party with friends. It can be eyeopening, especially for anyone who has the disease of addiction. It is simple, easy and consists of four short questions to ask (to remember this quiz, imagine what happens when one is addicted, we become entrapped in a CAGE). CAGE: 1. Have you ever tried to CUT down? 2. Have you ever become ANNOYED
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here is a medieval legend about an alchemist who discovers how to turn common materials into gold. Of course, we know that adding a piece of the philosopher’s stone to molten lead will not turn it into gold, yet the story provides a beautiful metaphor for life. If we look at the life of any great and inspirational person, we almost always find that they passed through a time of hardship. Many endured years of torment before coming out on the other side. Could it be that suffering is the valueless material, the great discovery that one comes to is the philosopher’s stone, and the eventual triumph is gold? In other words, is the legend of the alchemist the story of finding the meaning to life? One of the most misunderstood writers and philosophers regarding human suffering is Friedrich Nietzsche. It is interesting to note that Holocaust survivor and psychiatrist Viktor Frankl borrowed heavily from Nietzsche’s work as he tried to make sense of the hell he experienced as a Jew in Nazi Germany.
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Nietzsche wrote of “amor fati”, or the love of fate. In other words, when we embrace an attitude of accepting all that happens to us in life, including things we find unpleasant, we are able to grow from the experience and find meaning in our suffering. Nietzsche’s words, “He who has a why to live can bear almost any how,” resonated deeply with Frankl and his fellow inmates. Nietzsche also stated, “What does not kill us makes us stronger.” This is not a masochism that seeks out suffering, it is a strength of spirit which recognizes our capacity to triumph despite unforeseen and unmerited challenges. It is the philosopher’s stone, which allows us to turn lead into gold. Let’s take a look at a popular character from the past. Surveys among political
scientists, historians and the American public consistently rank Abraham Lincoln as the most highly esteemed president in their history. This is astounding, given that Lincoln led the United States through the most divisive period in their history. Though there is much debate as to the exact details of Lincoln’s life, we know that he faced many challenges. Lincoln lived much of his life in poverty and experienced significant political setbacks. It is also likely he struggled with depression. Though Lincoln did not profess to any religion, he lived his life guided by solid moral principles, primarily compassion and integrity. Could that be the key to his personal triumph and the fact that he is still rightly admired more than 150 years after his death? Lincoln was not unique in his triumph over diversity. Nelson Mandela was humiliated in prison for 27 years before becoming the first black president of South Africa and a great diplomat. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. suffered the indignities of being a
black man in racist America. The Dalai Lama is a refugee who will likely never return to his native Tibet. We see the same greatness all around us. Many of the finest teachers I know dealt with learning disabilities as students. All of the Holocaust survivors I have had the privilege to meet have a deeper dimension to their being, though words to describe this are difficult to find. One sees the same wisdom in Indigenous elders who teach us and our children, largely by their quiet example. Life is a beautiful thing. We are all on a unique journey to find the philosopher’s stone. The key to finding it, however, is not to run away from life but to embrace every challenge, to find its meaning and the lesson it has to offer us. If we can do so, we will find the eternal elixir, that which turns what is undesirable into the greatest of treasures. Gerry Chidiac is a champion for social enlightenment, inspiring others to find their greatness in making the world a better place. For more of his writings, go to www.gerrychidiac.com.
My biggest fear is finding a leftover snack that the kids have thoughtfully left on the floor or hidden somewhere and having that little piece of compost be swarming with ants. I also worry that there are ants in the floorboards or the walls and that we are surrounded by insects that will somehow mutate and do not appreciate their brethren being
squished by grade schoolers. Then we would be a tragic newspaper headline like, “Family killed by revengeful insects,” or “House eaten by bugs.” The struggle is real. If no one hears from us in a few days, the battle has not gone well and we’ve burned the whole thing down for insurance money.
REVENGE OF THE ANTS I t has been close to a month and no fish has died at our house yet. A delightful little tank, our aquarium has brought us a lot of joy and stress. We are learning about the nitrogen cycle and that we should change the water on a more regular basis, otherwise the fishies start looking a little peaked. I have also discovered that my houseplants and hanging baskets love dirty fish water. My spider plants look like they are jacked up on steroids. Building on our success with the fish, we have also acquired a new “pet” in the house: sugar ants. Some of you may remember that my husband is not a huge fan of the outdoors and regularly wages war with the insect world outside. We had a giant ant hill in our backyard some years ago and neither of us have really recovered. You can imagine my total delight to discover a small a pile of wee ants beside our banister in the front room. I squashed them with my slipper and they dissolved into nothingness. I looked up to see a small handful of ants scurrying around the floor trying to escape the wrath of the shoe. They were unsuccessful. Feeling rather desperate to take care of the problem before my husband came home and burned down the house, I flipped the couches over and set the kids to squishing ants. It
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TEEN STARTS HOME-BASED BAKERY HANNAH NATANSON The Washington Post
From a young age, Michael C. Platt loved two things: Martin Luther King Jr. and cupcakes. He lingered by the “I Have a Dream” poster in his grandparents’ house, imagining ways he too could fight for justice. He memorized statistics about income inequality and childhood hunger. But he also spent afternoons at his computer in his Bowie, Maryland, home, awestruck by YouTube bakers who transformed a base of eggs, flour and water into edible works of art. When his parents gave him a pair of Toms shoes for Christmas three years ago, Michael saw a way to connect his twin passions. At age 11, he founded a bakery that operates on the Toms one-for-one model: for every cupcake, cake or cookie that Michael sells, he donates another to the homeless and the hungry. Twice a month, he heads to locations including domestic violence shelters, transitional housing and McPherson Square in the District of Columbia to pass out goodies. Michael, now 13, said he especially enjoys handing out cupcakes to kids. “I know I like cupcakes, but also cupcakes are part of a child’s childhood so they should get them,” said Michael, noting that he always eats a whippedicing cupcake on his own birthday. Michael calls his baking business
Michaels Desserts. He left out the apostrophe as a reminder that he is baking for others, not himself. “I always wanted to have a purpose for what I do,” he said. “It’s all about helping people – not just having a purpose for yourself, but thinking about, ‘How does this touch other things?’” When Michael founded the business two years ago, his parents chipped in to purchase supplies and get things going. Nowadays, though, the homebased bakery funds itself, said his mother, Danita Platt, 42. Most customers place their orders via Facebook, though Michael recently set up a website for the business. He sells roughly 75 cupcakes a month (four for $15), along with a dozen cookies and a dozen “chef’s choice” items – which, of course, means he must also make more than 100 treats to give away. Most often, Michael fills orders placed by local strangers – people who live in the area and who heard about his business through social media or by word of mouth – though he did once ship a crate of goodies to Tennessee. Michael bakes both for individuals and for events such as anniversaries and weddings, his mother said, though the most common request is that he produce cakes or cupcakes for nearby birthdays. Sometimes Michael bakes to raise
money for hunger-fighting nonprofit groups, too. He spent a morning last weekend teaching a baking class (with a suggested price of $30 per person) at a Williams Sonoma in Annapolis to raise money for No Kid Hungry. He can keep up with his baking in part because he is home-schooled by his mother, who quit her job as a parent adviser for the Prince George’s County school system in Maryland to take care of Michael full-time. This setup was not the family’s first choice. Michael withdrew from public school – and his mother from her job – after he was diagnosed with epilepsy in sixth grade. His seizures became too severe and too frequent to allow him to sit in a classroom, his mother explained. “It was a very, very difficult time,” she said of the period after the diagnosis, during which Michael had to restrict his physical activity. “He had to stop everything he loved: gymnastics, climbing trees, diving. “So that’s when he kind of threw himself into baking,” she added. Michael said that baking makes him feel calm. But when he started the bakery, he knew from the beginning that he wanted his business to do more than make money. That’s why the bedrock of Michaels Desserts is its mission of fighting hunger and giving back, which Michael accomplishes through
his giveaways and through the very design of the treats he sells. Michael offers customers three kinds of goodies each month: they can choose between shortbread cookies, a staple; a “chef’s choice” item that Michael invents anew every four weeks; and that month’s edition of what Michael calls his “freedom fighter cupcakes.” “So I choose a person to base a cupcake off for each month,” Michael said. “And each month I have a flavour that represents them – and I’ll tell their story on my Instagram page.” June’s freedom fighter was Maya Angelou, who got a banana pudding cupcake because she loved that dessert, Michael said. October is reserved for Harriet Tubman, whose cupcake is mint chocolate chip because her nickname was “Minty”; Nelson Mandela, meanwhile, earns November and a “classic chocolate” cupcake because Michael likes to shape the dark frosting to resemble Mandela’s hair. Martin Luther King Jr. is the only person to receive two months: January and February. His cupcake is stuffed with sweet potato pie filling because “that’s a traditional African American pie,” his mother explained. Michael hopes his cupcakes spread awareness of the past and inspire others to work for social equality. His interest in food blossomed early. Even as a baby, Michael was happi-
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PROFITS USED TO HELP HOMELESS est when his mother woke him in the morning with “a pancake at his lips,” she said. When he baked for the first time at age nine – helping his grandmother, Sarah Johnson, prepare an Almond Joy cake for a family dinner – it was love at first whisk. He has not stopped baking since. Recent accomplishments include his first full-blown wedding cake, chocolate mousse shaped in a rose mold and “Cereal Milk Ice Cream.” No matter how complicated the bakes become, family remains at the heart of Michael’s craft. When he’s not filling orders for his company or baking for the homeless, he’s finessing family favorites: vanilla cake with chocolate icing for his mother and older brother, Gabriel; chocolate cake for his father, De’Maryo; lemon merengue pie for his grandmother. Thanksgiving, with its promise of apple pie – which Michael loves to prepare and to eat – is his favorite. He does all his baking in the kitchen at the front of his family’s three-story home. He shares the kitchen with his mother, who cooks the Platts’ meals there. Both say the partnership is harmonious: Michael calls his mom his “baking consultant.” Though Michael’s recipes are entirely his own invention, Danita Platt provides support and supervision. As Michael whipped together a
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lemon layer cake with fruit filling and delicate icing rosettes on a rainy Thursday last week, he turned to his mother – or called to her over his shoulder – every couple of minutes. “The six-inch or the nine-inch pan, mom?” “You think it’s ready, momma?” “Oops, sorry mom, I didn’t mean to spill that.” Michael said he will never get over how “cool” it is that you can start with flour and eggs and wind up with a “whole entire cake” – a cake, if sold by Michaels Desserts, that is likely decorated according to very exact standards. “I don’t know about ‘perfectionist,’” Michael said last week, pausing with spatula in hand. “But I have an idea and I don’t like to stray away from it much.” (Standing behind her son, his mother shook her head and mouthed, “Oh yes he is.”) Sometimes, Michael admits, he grows tired of being in the kitchen. Then he remembers the homeless boy he met once while handing out cupcakes. A couple of days afterward, the boy’s father messaged Michael on Facebook to say that his son, encouraged by Michael’s example, now aspired to become a baker. “That inspired me,” Michael said. He smiled. He looked down. He popped the lemon cake in the oven.
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He typed the names of his targets on a spreadsheet: “sheila jackson ... Chris hayes ... ilhan omar.” He searched online for the best ways to kill black people and for the addresses of a couple of U.S. Supreme Court justices. By the time federal authorities arrested U.S. Coast Guard Lt. Christopher Hasson at his house in Silver Spring, Maryland, in February and began to release details of his alleged plot to kill prominent politicians and journalists in court filings, Hasson had been stockpiling weapons for at least a decade. News of his arrest reached the public in typical fashion, on Twitter. But the source was not typical. Instead of the U.S. Department of Justice or a major media outlet, it was a little-known researcher in Washington, D.C., named Seamus Hughes. Hughes, 35, is the deputy director of the Program on Extremism at George Washington University, a research group that collects information about radicalism and terrorism in the United States, then turns it into reports, graphics and other easily digestible forms. It tends to find newsworthy tidbits by accident, rather than by design, according to the program’s director, Lorenzo Vidino. “We don’t want to steal your job,” he said with a
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Seamus Hughes is the deputy director of the Program on Extremism at George Washington University. His group broke news of U.S. Coast Guard Lt. Christopher Hasson’s alleged plot to kill prominent liberal politicians and journalists. laugh when I spoke to him earlier this year. “Because of the work that we do, we come across a lot of interesting information.” Vidino and Hughes rely on a variety of sources. They mine public databases, passively monitor Islamic State propaganda online and track the group’s members on encrypted messaging apps like Telegram. “[Lorenzo] and I will wake up – at our separate homes – at 5 a.m. and nerd-out on a case or write up a five-page report really quickly because it’s really interesting to us,” Hughes told me one morning in March over his second cup of coffee. “For us, it’s not necessarily a job – it’s much more fun than that. You have a challenge of trying to figure out how to answer the question of why a guy in
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related cases, when he stumbled upon Hasson’s detention memo. When he comes across an interesting case that the program doesn’t have the time or resources to pursue, he turns to Twitter. “We throw it out in the wind and hope The Washington Post or somebody else runs with it,” he says. Hughes also finds notable cases that are unrelated to the program’s work. For instance, in January, he broke news on Twitter of the FBI’s investigation into Los Angeles City Council member Jose Huizar for bribery and money laundering. While releasing such material isn’t part of his job, doing so is “a welcome respite,” he says. “If you look at beheading videos every day, at some point you’re going to need a break, and that’s part of my break.” Hughes began investigating terrorism cases in the aughts, first as an intern and later as a staff member for the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. In 2011, he went to work for the National Counterterrorism Center. In 2015, a former Senate colleague introduced him to Vidino, who hired him to work at the newly launched Program on Extremism. Vidino, 42, started the program after holding positions at Harvard University, the U.S. Institute of Peace and the Rand Corp. “We thought there was an appetite for some nonpartisan research and analysis on extremism, particularly on religiously inspired extremism, looking mostly at the domestic scene,” he says. “Paradoxically, you’ll find a lot of research being done on al-Qaida and ISIS, but not so
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TEACHING JOURNALISTS HOW TO MINE DATABASES much on the process of radicalization of Americans.” The program is funded by foundations, Hughes says, “the Mellons of the world.” By carving out this niche, the program has become a standout in the close-knit terrorism research community, which includes academic centers and think tanks. Hughes and Vidino have created “an amazing clearinghouse of information... that puts them in a position where they can be literally the most authoritative voices out there talking about extremism in the United States – and that’s a tremendous resource for the rest of us,” says Nicholas Rasmussen, the senior director for national security and counterterrorism programs at the McCain Institute for International Leadership, a think tank in Washington. Vidino and Hughes are joined by seven other staffers at GW and oversee more than a dozen nonresident fellows who are scattered across the country. Since the program began, the centre’s researchers have uncovered about 20,000 pages of legal documents – pertaining to everyone who’s ever been arrested for international terrorism in the United States – and pulled about 1.5 million English-language tweets about the Islamic State. Washington Post photo
“You’ve got to put it in context. I’m the parent of two kids, so if I’m sitting across the room from a mother whose son just joined al-Shabab, I can think of myself and how I would feel if my son did the same thing,” Hughes
Vidino is currently leading a research project in partnership with the New York Times where he’s tasked with digitizing, translating and publishing roughly 15,000 pages of internal Islamic State documents. The project was “very much in line with our focus and expertise and we were naturally happy to partner with them,” Vidino says, adding that the program works with many domestic and international media outlets. He is also a frequent contributor to the BBC. The program’s research goes beyond documents and social media. It includes interviews with former Islamic State members, relatives of terrorists, FBI agents and attorneys. Encounters with family members of Islamic State militants, in particular, can be difficult and require sensitivity. “You’ve got to put it in context. I’m the parent of two kids, so if I’m sitting across the room from a mother whose son just joined al-Shabab, I can think of myself and how I would feel if my son did the same thing,” Hughes says. “You can’t discount that the individual
Books that Seamus Hughes keeps on his office bookshelf. joined a foreign terrorist organization that’s doing horrible things to a lot of people, but you also can’t discount the human cost of those who are left behind after that decision is made.” The work could soon become more labor-intensive: lately, social media platforms have come under fire for not removing extremist content, as happened after a video of the attacks on two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, in March was widely shared on Facebook. If the platforms take down this content, Hughes says, they are likely to drive the material to a larger number of smaller sites – an outcome that would create new challenges for researchers. For law enforcement, meanwhile, such a change would probably have both drawbacks and benefits, he explains: “It does make the intelligence and law enforcement jobs more difficult from the standpoint of looking at a target, but probably better from the standpoint of not getting more recruits.” Will there be more scoops coming from Hughes? Maybe not quite as many, since he is sharing his PACER techniques with more journalists. In the past two months, he has trained more than 500 reporters across the country on how to use the site. And they, in turn, have shared tips on filing Freedom of Information Act requests. “I wasn’t expecting that level of response; it’s been mildly overwhelming,” he says. “And it’s been really interesting to me and quite useful to exchange notes with reporters, because in many ways the tips that they have when it comes to doing investigations are skill sets that I didn’t necessarily have.”
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USING POWERPOINT TO GET A DATE THE WASHINGTON POST
“This is a single 27-year-old heterosexual male,” Sean Keller hollered to a crowd of 200 people at the bar Franklin Hall on Friday night. That heterosexual male was Chris Gillespie, who stood near his friend’s PowerPoint presentation, a wide smile plastered on his face. Gillespie figured the speech would be good, but he was oblivious to what was coming. He didn’t expect the photo of himself in a halfway buttoned-up shirt (“Chris isn’t afraid of a low V”) or the screenshot from his hacked Facebook account (“He’s so cultured that his hacked account got a job in Cairo”). “He’s an outdoorsy dude with a sense of humour, down-to-earth and educated,” Keller continued. The flattery went on and on, drawing casual laughs. But the goal wasn’t comedy. It was to get Gillespie a date (or dates) by the end of the night. His friends carefully curated each slide of their three-minute presentation, hoping someone in the crowd would find Gillespie attractive. The speech was part of Franklin Hall’s first Pitch a Friend night, which enlisted 12 on-the-market locals to be hawked by their friends – as the bar’s Facebook page noted, it was like Shark Tank for singles. Finding dates via PowerPoint sounded suitable for Washington, a city in which “everyone is Type A,” said bar co-owner Peter Bayne. Tinder and similar dating apps have more matchmaking power than
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Sean Keller used pictures and fun facts to sell his friend Chris Gillespie to the audience at the Franklin Hall bar in Washington, D.C. ever, as relationships are increasingly initiated online. But these apps can be overwhelming. Profiles are filled with poorly lit selfies, basic quips from The Office and photos with Joe Biden. How can a person be reduced to a 500-character bio? Daters are now asking their morethan-willing friends for help. Ship, a dating app launched in January, lets users invite friends to swipe through profiles and chat on their behalf. In Facebook groups like Subtle Asian Dating, users can tout their friends by posting flattering photos, personality descriptions and links to their social media accounts. Pitch a Friend night was just one more example of how eager friends are to play the role of wingman for the Tinder era.
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Daters have always utilized their social circle, according to Jordana Abraham, co-founder of Ship. It’s natural for people to be more comfortable meeting someone who is approved, or at least vetted, by another person. As recently as 2009, that was the most common way to date, research shows. In D.C., people used to bring their friends to a matchmaking party to speed date through FriendSwap, which was founded in 2002 and ran for a decade. “For most people, their ideal way to meet is in person – at a bar, a function or doing something they enjoy,” Abraham said. Gillespie, who is on the dating apps, agrees – but meeting in person requires charisma.
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The audience at Washington, D.C., bar Franklin Hall’s Pitch a Friend night watch to see which PowerPoint presentations captured their attention.
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Chris Gillespie acknowledges the audience after his friend Sean Keller’s presentation to try to get him a date. At right is the event’s emcee, Sean McGrath. “It’s hard to approach women at a bar because they might have plans for the night,” he said. “And I don’t want to intrude on that.” Friday night at Franklin Hall, beer in hand, Gillespie didn’t have to extend much effort. Five different women approached him within five minutes of the presentation, striking up conversations about the memorable bits. And yes, it helped that his friends had passed around a flier with tear-off strips with his phone number, conveniently leaving the last digit blank. “Chris has a pen if you’re interested,” one of the presenters yelled before slipping offstage. Olivia Duggan, a frequent patron at Franklin Hall, emailed Bayne the idea for the event months ago. She was inspired by DateMyFriend.ppt, a similar pitch night her friends had attended in Boston. “There’s nothing like a good friend who can reveal your idiosyncrasies,” Duggan said. “It makes the stakes in dating seem lower.” During the presentations, she was seated on one of the bar’s long communal benches, eyeing the clock and commanding the air horn, promptly tooting it after three minutes of frenetic friend-pitching. Alex Waddell pitched his friend Julian Cowell, in the format of a civil court case with “Julian is a good person” as his closing argument. “You’re only eight simple letters from the best decision of your entire life,” proclaimed Jacob Comer, switching to a slide that showed his friend Matthew Gruber’s Instagram handle. “It’s like entertainment,” said Shivangi Jain, an attendee who had just heard of the event that day and didn’t appear to be shopping for a date. “It seems
An hour into the pitches, it became impossible to speak without yelling. People flocked to the bar, drink tickets in hand, to knock back beers. Even after hearing the pitches, some preferred to chat within their circles. very casual, and I just came to watch the presentations.” An hour into the pitches, it became impossible to speak without yelling. People flocked to the bar, drink tickets in hand, to knock back beers. Even after hearing the pitches, some preferred to chat within their circles. Colleen Moore, one of the first people to be pitched, ended her night in the far-left corner of the hall, intently watching a baseball game on the large television. “I would’ve been watching the game if they hadn’t told me to come out for this,” she said, gesturing to her friends in conversation nearby. A few guys did approach her as she wandered the bar, Moore said, but her priority was still the game. Because really, in the age of online dating, who really wants to have an in-person conversation at a bar – even after PowerPoints break the ice? “I mean, if you don’t meet anyone here, it’s a joke,” muttered one patron to his friend about the event. “If you do, you can say it was something serious.”
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n a clear night, the sky is filled with sparking lights. Some seem to stay still while others shoot across the sky. Asteroids and meteors are called shooting stars as they move quickly across the sky. Comets often look like fuzzy stars and you have to watch night after night to see their movement.
20 - 7 8+8
25 - 10
21 - 7
Do the math to label the parts of a comet.
Randy loves two things: science and baseball. When it comes to the solar system, the constellations, and all things robot, he is a genius. But on the baseball diamond? Not so much. He tries but whiffs every time. Then one night, Randy sees something shocking through his Space Boy telescope: it’s a fireball, and it’s headed right for his town! He does the math, summons all of his science smarts, and devises a plan that will save the day in a spectacular way.
16 = gas tail 15 = nucleus 14 = dust tail 13 = coma
A Visit to a Comet
What is a comet?
A comet is a chunk of ice, rock, and gas flying through space. When they get close to the sun, they heat up. We can see their glow and long tails.
Halley’s Comet passes around earth about every 75 years. The last time it passed us was in 1986. Scientists think it will pass by Earth again in the year 1986 + 75 = ____________ .
Photo: nasa.gov
Halley’s Comet
Make a Comet on a Stick
This is the Comet Hale-Bopp. It passed through our galaxy in 1997. Scientists estimate that it won’t pass by again until the year 4380!
If you have three different colors, you can make a very accurate comet. Comets have a nucleus, which is the main body of the comet. They have a coma, which is the glowing part around the nucleus, the red ribbon. Then they have two tails: a dust tail and a gas tail—the gold and silver ribbons.
Photos: spaceplace.nasa.gov
Follow the instuctions below to make your comet.
Space Search
Tie your ribbons around the end of your chopsticks or popsicle stick.
Visit the NASA Space Place at spaceplace.nasa.gov
To discover the name of this book, find the letter on the outer ring, then replace it with the letter below it on the inner ring.
G P F WN G B V T N K
In this activity from the NASA Space Place website, you’ll make your own comet that can fly around the room! You’ll need: • chopsticks or a popsicle stick • 3 different ribbons (gold, silver, red) • scissors and aluminum foil
Cut five pieces of ribbon: two long pieces, two medium-size pieces, and one short red piece.
Use the Kid Scoop Secret Decoder Ring to discover the name of this book by Chris Van Dusen, which is available at the library.
Cut three pieces of tin foil so they’re roughly square shaped. Gather the foil around the end of the stick.
Form the foil into a ball while keeping the ribbon tail off to the side. Repeat with two more sheets of foil.
The word comet came from the Greek word kometes. What does it mean? The letters on the correct comet tail spell the answer.
Hold your comet on a stick and fly it around the room! For more ideas, visit the NASA Space Place online.
ASTEROIDS METEORS NUCLEUS COMETS ORBIT WATCH HALLEY TAILS SPACE ROCK DUST COMA HEAT ICE GAS
Look through the newspaper to find: A word that describes a comet A word with three syllables A number larger than 1,000 Two words that rhyme
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Comets Don’t Last Forever
Every time Halley’s comet travels around the sun, it loses 250 million tons of ice and dust! Scientists think it only has about 2,200 more trips around the sun before it vanishes in about 170,000 years.
Standards Link: Research: Use the newspaper to locate information.
Find the words in the puzzle. How many of them can you find on this page?
O U T E H R S H T A P A C E M Y E C S F
C S A G E I
S T U R
O T E L T U E A D E
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N S H A L L E Y K Y Standards Link: Letter sequencing. Recongized identical words. Skim and scan reading. Recall spelling patterns.
Ode to the Sun Write a poem about the sun.
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CANADIANS OWE A DEBT TO MRS. BROWN H appy belated Canada Day everyone! Regardless of your political persuasion or history, this is a time to come together to celebrate our shared country and the people that we share it with. Canada as a united country with an initial four provinces was first established over 150 years ago. The fact that this union, so long in forming, with such a fractious beginning, still exists in relative peace is reason enough to celebrate. Canada has managed to absorb immigrants from around the world, making it one of the top 20 most multicultural countries in the world, according to Pew Research.) How well we continue this great experiment will be determined by how well we manage to honour the truth of our differences, while at the same time rallying around our shared values of, well, we don’t really know as we don’t have a document telling us our shared values. I would guess most of us would agree that we value freedom, people, our land, democracy, equality, etc. That in itself, is something to celebrate. For my bit to commemorate Canada
THINKING ALOUD TRUDY KLASSEN
Day, here are my thoughts about a rarely mentioned individual: Ann Nelson Brown. Historians may disagree but, based on my knowledge of wise men and a bit of history, I would like to up-end, or at the very least, I would like to cause interest in reconsidering your view of the 1867 Fathers of Confederation. Perhaps, as historian Frank Underhill says in the Canadian Encyclopedia: “Perhaps the real father of Confederation was Mrs. Brown.” Brown is buried in Dean Cemetery in Edinburgh, Scotland. Her grave is marked by a nice headstone, but no mention is made of the mark she made on Canadian history. The graveyard attendants sadly had no knowledge of her history or significance when I visited in 2016.
She became the wife of George Brown, politician, Father of Confederation and founder of the Globe newspaper. The story seems to be that under threat of absorption into America (it’s been a problem for a long time,) George Brown and his most hated opponent John A. Macdonald had to find a way to get along in what was at the time the province of Canada. Mr. Brown was vehement that the French not be granted special rights, while John. A. insisted upon it. It seems that the eventual compromise that was found had significant influence from
Mrs. Brown. She was Scottish and knew what living as a conquered people was like, so she encouraged George to soften his position toward the French. An entertaining introduction to the story is available in a movie called “John A: Birth of a Nation.” We don’t know very much more of Ann Nelson Brown, but she was at the very least an informed woman who took an interest in the troubles of her times and spoke up. A good example to follow, even so many years later.
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