‘Miscellany’ Archives
Phillips Walkers Surpass 6 Million Steps
By Janine Freij, member of Phillips Wellness 50+ team Participants and supporters met Tuesday, July 26, for a potluck to celebrate the success of the Phillips Million Step Challenge. The 8-week program, sponsored by Phillips Wellness 50+, set a goal for the participants to walk one million steps collectively between our first meeting on June 7 and our final meeting on July 26. By July 5th, we had surpassed our original goal by 1.5 million steps. The group of Philips residents, all 50 or older, kept on walking to our final night, where we learned that we had surpassed 6 million steps. People have discovered not only the health benefits of walking, but also how much fun it is to walk with friends who support, encourage and celebrate each other”'s accomplishments and will challenge you to do even better. The food at the potluck was delicious, plentiful, and healthy, a testament to the awareness of building new healthy habits that the group embraced enthusiastically throughout [...]
Reprinted from Washington State Magazine April 2008: Meditations on a strip mall
David Wang by David Wang Why has architecture become an exercise in stage set building? ON THE PRAIRIE WHERE I LIVE arises a strip mall. It looks like it belongs on the French Riviera: turrets and arches, awnings, balconies with wrought iron railings”¦ Well, I”'ve never been to the French Riviera, but in this ignorance is my point. The everyday buildings we build around us want to be anything but everyday. They want to be stage sets of Somewhere Else. And their proliferation seems to suggest that everywhere we Americans go, we want to be Somewhere Else. Getting up in the morning on the Moran Prairie, where the deer and the antelope used to roam, we have our cereal, and then we must drive by Something Mediterranean on our way to Washington State University”'s Riverpoint campus in Spokane. It is an irony that the hot topic in teaching architectural theory these days is “sense of place.” Faculty write about it. Students stress over it. Academic [...]
Banyan Community Neighborhood Center Opens
Banyan Community held a Ribbon Cutting ceremony with many donors and neighborhood families for a new home on Thursday, August 18, 2016 ”“ a prototype space for holistic community development with 18 years of proven outcomes! It is a 30,000 square foot two story wood frame building with a precast basement. The ceremony was a historic moment in Banyan”'s story of developing youth, strengthening families, and creating community. Banyan Community is now poised to grow and partner with more youth and families, doubling in size over the next five years! BY BANYAN COMMUNITY STAFF The Ribbon Cutting Ceremony for new fully funded $6.4M home of Banyan Community was August 18th. “This is a historic moment in Banyan”'s story: a one of a kind, permanent home that will allow us to double the youth and families we partner with in the Phillips neighborhood,” says Joani Essenburg, Co-Founder and Executive Director. Banyan has been creating transformation in the [...]
