More Than Rumors: Agents of Change

By Johnine Larsen | September 12, 2014

By now, you might have heard the rumors. Agents of Change. A group of Realtors giving thousands of dollars to homeless women and children. Some sort of collaboration between Mary’s Place and the Real Estate Gals. Agents of Change. Something good. It’s time to go beyond rumors. Agents of Change is moving, and we’re going…

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Puget Sound’s Baby Orca

By Johnine Larsen | September 9, 2014

Please welcome baby orca “L120” to the Puget Sound! This new calf is a welcome addition to our favorite orca whale population. A population that has, until this weekend, been shrinking. Dangerously. Before this new baby, the Puget Sound orca population had dropped to a twenty-nine-year low of 78 whales. Few babies were being born—and…

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Gals in the Neighborhood: Quiet Reforms

By Johnine Larsen | May 20, 2014

The Good Shepherd Center doesn’t appear on the five o’clock news, and it’s not a tourist destination. If you tell your friends about it, only a few will know the name. The Good Shepherd Center is quiet. It’s quiet in the same way Ella Baker was quiet, and Harry Hay was quiet, and David Brower…

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