Jim Posted April 11, 2005 Posted April 11, 2005 When: Friday evening, April 22nd, 7:00 to 9:00 PM Where: Sunset Hill Community Club, 3003 NW 66th St. Why: All proceeds to benefit the Salmon Bay 8th grade camp scholarship fund! Details: Pre-registration for tickets is $15, contact Nancy McKinney, 789-2173, ncmckinney@seattleschools.org, or Judy Challoner, 282-2444, challoner@comcast.net. Tickets will be available at the door for $20, but the building only holds 150, so reserve you tickets now! Finger food will be provided and there will be no-host beer and wine sales. No one under 21 please!!! Steve will give the slide show, a retrospective of his climbing career, which he recently presented at the American Alpine Club annual meeting. Steve has a uniqe relationship with folks in Pakistan and gives back to that community, and is kind enough to offer his time for this fund-raiser. The funds go to paying for 8th grade camp for those kids that could not afford to go otherwise. You can PM me with any questions. Thanks.
thelawgoddess Posted April 14, 2005 Posted April 14, 2005 a fund-raiser for 8th graders ... but you have to be 21 to attend??? can someone explain more about the "Salmon Bay 8th grade camp scholarship fund"?
Jim Posted April 14, 2005 Author Posted April 14, 2005 Sure - Salmon Bay is a K-8 Seattle Public Alternative School in Ballard. It's an Alternative school because the program is dominated by hands-on, project and group work. Cirriculum is developed by the teachers, there is little to no book work. There is an inclusion program for Aspergers synddrome kids (related to autisim), service leaning programs, and outdoor education programs - including the 8th grade camp, which is up at Camp Orkila on Orcas Island. The kids come from a variety of income families and some cannot afford the fees that it costs to go to 8th grade camp - and the school has limited funds to help out. Thus they organize fund-raisers to allow kids to attend that cannot afford the opportunity. It's a passage time for the kids - the last time their together before heading to high school. You have to be 21 because alcohol will be served at the event.
thelawgoddess Posted April 14, 2005 Posted April 14, 2005 thanks, jim. that information really helps. sounds like a great cause.
Jim Posted April 19, 2005 Author Posted April 19, 2005 Some additional information from Steve: Steve Swenson will be giving a slide show retrospective of 37 years of alpine climbing. Steve will describe early climbs in the Cascades, then Canadian Rockies, Alaska, Karakoram in Pakistan, the second American expedition to climb K2, solo ascent of Everest without supplementary O2, and last years ascent of the unclimbed Mazeno Ridge on Nanga Parbat in Pakistan.
erden Posted April 23, 2005 Posted April 23, 2005 It was a great show, a reflection on years of accomplishments and the friendships which helped make those possible. We should all get busy now to go climbing for it takes a life time to get it all done. Erden.
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