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Breakfast raises about $190,000 for Renton schools By TRACEY COMPTON tcompton@rentonreporter.com
Seahawks’ mascot Blitz entertained the crowd at the ‘Friends of Renton Schools’ benefit breakfast Monday morning. Renton students acted as greeters at the breakfast and sat at the tables as table captains. At the podium was Meeghan Black, who served as emcee. dean a. radford, Renton Reporter
Seattle International Film Festival
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SIFF: The world of film returns to renton
Renton gets something extra in opening film
By DEAN A. RADFORD
The festival schedule
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The producers were looking for a handsome older gentleman. It didn’t take long for Don Bressler of Renton, the retired president of Renton Technical College and active in the community, to get the part in the film that will kick off the Seattle International Film Festival in Renton, “Fat Kid Rules the World.” Bressler plays a doctor in the film. He’s an extra, mostly in the background, adding to the realism of the shoot at a hospital. Wife Susan had emailed in his photo to the casting website one Sunday evening and within 10 minutes, Bressler was offered the part. Initially, Bressler said no, facing two long days of shooting.
Then he changed his mind. “I thought it would be interesting and fun,” he said. It was. Bressler hasn’t yet seen the award-winning film, so maybe all his scenes ended up on the cutting-room floor. He wore khaki pants and a long-sleeved shirt. He didn’t have to learn any lines. The shoot was last summer at an historic building in Des Moines that has served in many ways, including a retirement community. Bressler had no idea at the time that his “debut” would also be the opening-night film of the famed festival. Renton has other connections, too.
‘Fat Kid Rules the World,’ partly filmed in Renton, will kick off the Seattle International Film Festival in Renton on May 18. Submitted
About 100 Lindbergh students served as extras when the filmmakers came to their school to shoot for three days last summer. And the Bresslers’ good friend, Heather Nasarow, co-owner of Renton’s only winery, the Cedar River Cellars, played a nurse for the Des Moines shoot at the Landmark on the Sound overlooking Puget Sound. She was was in lots of scenes walking up and down halls and in the background, adding to that realistic air, just like Bressler. She had what she described as “a lot of shots of her lower ratio,” meaning her derriere, she said, laughing. “I don’t know if I’ll see my head” she said. [ more SIFF page 18 ]
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The Friends of Renton Schools celebrated its third benefit breakfast Monday morning with the help of former NASA astronaut Bonnie Dunbar and raising close to $189,000 for Renton schools. Dunbar was the keynote speaker for the fund-raising event and spoke to the crowded Renton Pavilion Event Center about her upbringing and the importance for young people to understand the paths open for
them. This year the breakfast raised close to $189,000 and organizers expected to reach $200,000 as donations were still coming in mid-week. Last year the event raised more than $180,000. “We are so thrilled with the community support,” said Pam Teal, Renton school board member and chair of Friends of Renton Schools. “We have a very generous community that supports education.”