“I am happy to announce that two of my students at the Children’s School of Excellence [CSE] won the 2007 University of Washington Neuroscience for Kids Art Contest.

There were over 1200 entries from all over the world, and Airies Hygaard and Evan Hawkins both won in the K-2 grade category…and they are only in Kindergarten! They drew colorful neurons, comparing their brain to a growing tree. The theme for this grade was
“My brain helps me…”

Over the year, we have studied the brain, and this contest fit right into our Kindergarten curriculum. Many students from CSE participated and all the drawings were unique and wonderful.

It is very exciting to see that the University of Washington knows the importance of teaching about the brain to young children.

Click here for more information. ”

Cheryl Nichols
Teacher
Children’s School of Excellence
Rainier, WA.

Congratulations to Ms. Nichols, CSE and the students!

CSE Award Winners Mr. Hawkins & Ms. Hygaard with their prizes
Photo courtesy of CSE

“Two area land-use watchdog groups are appealing a Yelm-area section of Thurston County’s comprehensive plan, saying its [Yelm’s] urban growth area is too large. “If an urban growth area is bigger than it needs to be, it’s costly to taxpayers,” said Tim Trohimovich of Seattle-based Futurewise, one of the two appellants along with the Olympia-based Adams Cove Group. He added that it would lead to “paving over areas that are needed for groundwater recharge and paved surfaces that will cause discharge of polluted water into surface-water supplies.”

The appeal, if approved by the Western Washington Growth Management Hearings Board, could result in the second time in two years that Thurston County has been ordered to rework parts of its comprehensive plan. The county is in the process of complying with the hearing board’s first such ruling, issued in 2005.

Trohimovich and Adams Cove Group spokeswoman Gayle Broadbent said they filed the appeal Feb. 16 with the hearings board because the Yelm urban growth area is bigger than it needs to be to accommodate growth.

The hearing board’s role is to make sure local governments comply with the state’s 1990 Growth Management Act,” quoting The Olympian.

“The Yelm History Project is an attempt to relate the story of Yelm in a variety of ways. It is, actually, many stories. It is a story about the prairie, the surrounding forests, and the Nisqually River; all in the morning shadow of Ta Co Bet; Mt. Rainer. It is also the saga of the Nisqually people, who inhabited the land, shaped the environment, and spread throughout the region. The Yelm History Project, finally, relates the history of the people who settled the prairie, farmed the soil, and logged the forests,” quoting the Yelm History Project site.

The Yelm History Project provides a wealth on information on the history of this area.

“Yelm, Washington. Yelm Acupuncture Clinic announces Community Acupuncture every Wednesday evening, 6pm to 7:30pm beginning February 21.

Do you suffer from stress, anxiety, trouble sleeping, PTSD, or addictions? Would you like to detoxify your body to increase your overall health and energy? Are you interested in experiencing acupuncture, but regular treatments are not in your budget? Join us for Yelm Community Acupuncture. Treatments will be done in a group setting and will be approximately 20-40 minutes long.

Yelm Acupuncture Clinic is sponsoring sessions. The fee is minimal, only $20 to cover the cost of supplies and expenses.

Yelm Acupuncture Clinic is located at: 204 Yelm Avenue West in Yelm. Please call 360.458.6942 with questions.
Treatments will be administered by longtime Yelm resident and acupuncturist, Fran Pearre, LAc and me.

Thank you,

Hilary Laferriere, LAc.”

Just published on the Earthfiles website is this story [scroll to #10]:

“10) Yelm, Washington – January 22, 2007 at 2:45 p.m. Pacific –

I am a listener of Coast to Coast, and heard you on the program
Friday night, Jan. 26th.

My name is — and on 1-22-07, I had an experience that I can’t quite
believe myself yet. It was about 2:45 PM in the afternoon. I was on
the roof of a construction site in a town known as Yelm in Washington
state, about a 30 Min. drive east of Tacoma.

While I was on this roof of a Walmart, inspecting a roof, I caught
something in the sky out of the corner of my eye. We are about 15 min
south of McChord AFB. So I thought nothing of it and went on with my
work. This was a little strange though because I realized that there
wasn’t an engine or any noise coming from what I had caught. I looked
back up to see what it was, and that was when I caught the image of a
craft, wasn’t really a saucer, but was round. Almost spherical. That
was when it passed through a cloud and stopped just as it penetrated
the side facing south.

That was the side I was on, but it seemed to be right above McChord
AFB. This caught me off guard cause as it started to penetrate out of
the cloud, the cloud and the craft both stopped the north easterly
movement that the clouds where moving in. It was a silverish color,
almost the color of non-polished aluminum. This craft stayed in this
cloud for about 10 min, and then promptly pulled back into the cloud.
Directly after the craft pulled into the cloud, was when I noticed
what looked like a tunnel forming in the cloud. The tunnel then just
disappeared and the cloud returned to its normal wind drift…

I’ve seen these men twice since the incident, and none of us can remember a thing about the time that is missing -except that we all get an overwhelming feeling of scaredness, or overwhelming feeling of impending doom. All 5 of us also hear this female voice that says 2011, over and over again throughout the day, each day since it happened. The feeling of overwhelming doom is so strong that it makes me want to cry.

I get shivers, and feel like you would if you where looking down the barrel of a gun.

It’s a very strong intense feeling.”

Click the hotlink above for the full story.