The Sound of the Puget Sound
Friday November 1: Pastor Steve Jamison of Eastridge Church.
Eastridge Church in Seattle and Issaquah every year, for the past 21 years, has been donating 1,500 turkeys and bags of groceries every year to those in the community who need a little help to put a holiday meal on their table. To talk about this, we’ve invited Pastor Steve Jamison. He and his wife…
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Friday October 25: Danielle Madrid, Founder and Executive Director of Havens Community Connections, and Michelle Hollomon, Licensed Mental Health Counselor.
October is National Domestic Violence Awareness Month. Domestic violence is the third leading cause of homelessness among families, according to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. We were recently joined by Danielle Madrid, Founder and Executive Director of Havens Community Conne…
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Friday October 18: IGNITE.
The latest STEM statistics show that women remain underrepresented in both Engineering and Technology degrees and careers. While women receive over half of bachelor’s degrees awarded in the biological sciences, they receive far fewer in the computer sciences, engineering, physics, and mathematics a…
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Friday October 11. John Breyault, National Consumers League Vice President of Public Policy, Telecommunications, and Fraud
As the director of the Fraud.org campaign, John Breyault is a nationally-recognized expert in fraud, with more than 17 years of experience in educating consumers and advocating for stronger consumer protections at the federal, state, and local levels. Breyault also regularly advises technology and …
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Friday October 4. Marlina Velasco-Barker, Program Manager of Washington Therapy Dogs
Marlina Velasco-Barker is the Program Manager of Washington Therapy Dogs and Nicci Noteboom is the Marketing & Communications Director for the Washington State Chapter of the Alzheimer's Association. Marlina and Nicci joined The Sound of The Puget Sound to talk about how therapy dogs can help peop…
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Friday September 27. Marina Rockinger, Seattle Radio Personality.
If you’ve lived in Washington for the past few years and you listen to radio, you’ll recognize the name Marina Rockinger… The most rocking name is Seattle radio, basically. The name may sound familiar from listening to oldies or country music… Or from learning about health issues from LifeBeat wit…
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Friday September 20. Book Author Marilyn Raichle.
Today’s guest is a local author and Alzheimer’s Disease awareness advocate, and she has just released a book about dementia and Alzheimer’s. It’s called “Don’t Walk Away, a Care Partner’s Journey.” In this book, Marilyn Raichle chronicles her journey with her mom who was experiencing late-stage Dem…
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Friday September 13. Rachel Lehr, Program Director of Rebuilding Together South Sound.
Does your roof need replacing soon? Is your furnace not working right? Do you need a ramp outside your house? These are normal problems, and these problems get worse with time and it’s very expensive to fix them. And these problems are especially worse for low-income families. So, what do you do? L…
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Friday September 6. Pamela Nolte, Community Liaison, Taproot Theatre Company, on Momentia.
Momentia is a grassroots movement empowering persons with memory loss and their loved ones to remain connected and active in the community. For too long, a diagnosis has meant fear, shame, isolation, loss of purpose and despair. But there’s a new dementia story being told. It’s being told by person…
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Friday August 30. Turner Prewitt & Sharihar Heidary Of The American Heart Association.
The Puget Sound Heart and Stroke Walk events are coming up in September. To talk about them, we invited two volunteers for the American Heart Association: Turner Prewitt, who is a heart disease survivor and longtime participant in the event, and Dr. Sharihar Heidary, who is a cardiologist and serve…
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