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Submitted family interview with Yvonne Zubalik. The interview was conducted by Janis Zubalik, Susan Zubalik, and Jonah Engle in April 2023. The accompanying image was taken in spring 2022 of Yvonne and her children on Monroe Street in the Proctor district. Pictured are (back row left to right) Susan, Janis, Steven, and Yvonne Zubalik (front row left to right) Anne Hopper and Katie Rhodes).
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Oral history interview with Tacoma resident Wayne Williams conducted by dindria barrow on November 22, 2022. In this interview, Wayne shares his family’s history and his personal journey starting in his family home, especially with his grandmother, carried through in his education, and then extended throughout his career. Wayne points out that you must have a purpose in life and that you must attend to it every day.
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Connie Walle is the president of Puget Sound Poetry Connection, now celebrating 25 years in business.
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Rev. Abigail Vizcarra Perez worked as a credentialed educator for private and public schools in California until moving to Washington when she learned at The Seattle School of Theology and Psychology. In 2011 she completed her thesis entitled The Poetics of Children's Ministry. For 13 years she has served children and families in non-profits across the country. In 2016 she became the first person of Latinx descent to be ordained by the United Methodist Church in the Pacific Northwest. She currently lives in Tacoma with her partner, Nathan.
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Oral history interview of Ezell Maurene Vernam conducted by dindria barrow on March 25, 2023, as part of the Archiving Northeast Communities event located at the Kobetich library branch.
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Oral history interview of Edwin Valbert conducted by dindria barrow on April 8th, 2023, as part of the Archiving Northeast Communities event located at the Mottet library branch.
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Postal Service buys the wrong vehicles- and in addition to changing the climate, fossil fuel pollution kills 50,000 Americans a year.
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Tim Smith, South Tacoma Community Activist
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Thor Kallestad, CEO of Mynocarbon Corp
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Could a 5000 year old technology be part of a low/no carbon future? Thor Kallestad is co-founder of a Puget Sound startup with that as its goal.
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Oral history interview with Tacoma resident Wanda Thompson conducted by dindria barrow on June 3, 2023. In this interview, Wanda shares her life’s journey from being born in a small rural town in Florida to being crowned Miss Hilltop, from starting her own modeling agency to working for the Department of Corrections, from being an arts commissioner to being a recognized local leader in multiple fields. Education was the key to her many successes, and she credits her family in helping her discover the love of stories, listening to them, reading them, writing them, and teaching them to others. As her mom used to say, “Everybody has a story to tell.”
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Oral history interview of John J. Thomas conducted by dindria barrow on January 21, 2023, as part of the Archiving North End Communities event located at the Wheelock library branch.
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Washington State Supreme Court rules that climate protestors can use the "necessity defense" before juries
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