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Building a novel from 40 years of diary entries By Daniel Nash
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uzanne Popp — a prolific painter, rancher and director of infrastructure aid organization VillageSteps — has translated decades of travel to Africa into a semi-historical novel. “The Bride Price,” published Dec. 1, is the story of Myrna Chitundu, a young girl with a promising academic future and dreams of becoming a doctor. She is first girl to be accepted into the fictionalized Royal Academy, an English colonial school, and impresses her instructor with her aptitude and dedication. But her plans
are thrown away when she is raped and impregnated by a family friend. The man offers her family a lebola — a dowry — in exchange for her hand in marriage, which they accept. Her family is saved by the dowry and the loss of a mouth to feed. Despite that dark beginning, Popp insists the story is ultimately uplifting. The story begins in the 1960s and follows the girl, Myrna Chitundu, as she grows into a woman, becoming matriarch to three generations of family. The strength of a family fostered by her nurturing — Popp says the name Myrna translates to “comfort” in English — is
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Suzanne Popp’s novel, “The Bride Price,” is a semi-historical tale set in Africa. Popp has traveled to Africa once or twice a year since 1969. Daniel Nash, The Courier-Herald
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Christmas forecast Tuesday morning should bring us more gray skies with rain likely throughout the day with temperatures in the low-40s and overnight lows in the mid-30s. Showers and highs in the 40s are expected through the week.
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Dan Willman performs holiday songs next to the Yule Log video fireplace at the Enumclaw Senior Activity Center’s annual Christmas lunch Dec. 19. Dozens of seniors dined on a ham dinner served up by volunteers from Enumclaw Rotary. Brian beckley,
A handful of legal decisions were issued recently related to YarrowBay’s master planned developments in Black Diamond, The Villages and Lawson Hills. Superior Court Judge Patrick Oishi granted a YarrowBay motion to dismiss the appeal of the development agreements for the developments Dec. 5. In the court documents Oishi wrote that the petitioners, Toward Responsible Development, missed three court ordered deadlines — Oct. 10, Nov. 2 and Nov. 26 — to pay the city’s cost for preparing the record. In the conclusions Oishi wrote, “TRD in its response to the third motion (to dismiss by YarrowBay), concedes that dismissal is warranted to allow issues to
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