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MAY 19, 2021
VOL. 102, NO. 20
Another spate of fundraising Matching campaign to raise funds for village beautification project
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By Jessica Keller
QA & Mag News editor
Magnolia residents are being asked to help raise money for the neighborhood’s village beautification project this month after two more anonymous donors offered to make in-kind donations for the streetscape improvements. The Reimagine Magnolia Village Beautification Committee has until June 5 to raise up to $20,000 to match two offers of $10,000 each for the “I’m All In, Are You?” campaign, as it is being called. The funds will help complete phases 2 and 3 of the Reimagine Magnolia Village project, which entails a number of streetscape improvements on West McGraw Street between 33rd and 35th avenues west including new benches, tables, chairs, umbrellas, decorative poles with hanging baskets, banners and bike racks. Already benches, sidewalk safety improvements, new trees, banners and hanging baskets have been installed on West McGraw starting in front of Starbucks and up to 34th Avenue West and back down. Those improvements came from funds raised during a successful matching campaign in February that brought in $50,000 total. “If we can finish phases two and three with these matches, we’re on our way home,” Beau-
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Photo by Jessica Keller Magnolia Chamber of Commerce Vice President Daniela Eng takes a photo of a plaque on a new bench at the corner of West McGraw and 34th Avenue West in Magnolia Village that pays tribute to her mother, last week. tification committee chair Cheryl McQuiston said. McQuiston said the “I’m All In, Are You?” campaign funds will go toward purchasing 10 tables, 10 umbrellas, 40 chairs and bike racks
for phases 2 and 3. Funds will also allow the committee to purchase, at residents’ request, an additional 11 chairs so all the tables installed
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QA book company hits milestone Bilingual Books Inc., Kershul celebrate 40 years in business By Jessica Keller
QA & Mag News editor Kristine Kershul was in her late 20s when she became an author and accidental business owner. She was teaching German to undergraduate students at the University of Washington when a colleague suggested she write her own foreign language book. The idea surprised her, although she was intrigued.
“I said, ‘I’m an academician. I don’t do commercial,’ ” Kershul said. Told to give it a year before deciding for good, Kershul said she put together a team of colleagues, and, to her surprise, in that first year they published five books – in German, Spanish, Italian, French and Chinese. “Now, we couldn’t do that many in a year if I wanted to,” Kershul said. That was in 1981.
“I was 29, and I didn’t know anything about publishing, but I knew a lot about teaching.” — Kristine Kershul Owner, Bilingual Books Inc. “I was 29, and I didn’t know anything about publishing, but I knew a lot about teaching,” she said. With her first five books out of the way, Kershul soon became immersed in the world of foreign language book publishing. The premise of her books, Kershul said, is that, with a little commitment, everybody has 10 minutes a day to learn a new
language. “There are wonderful stories of people who are truly fluent in so many languages,” she said. Early on, Kershul decided her strategy would be to produce introductory foreign language books and products that were useful, entertaining and easy to use and
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