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Sno-Isle brings the TEDx program On Friday the library system will host the first of the creative speaker/ discussion series ever held in Snohomish County. By Sharon Salyer Herald Writer
EDMONDS — The first TEDx event in Snohomish County is scheduled Friday at the Edmonds Center for the Arts, where the public can hear from 23 people who are innovators in business, the arts and science speaking on the theme, “Creating New Futures.” TEDx is a local offshoot of the international TED Talk events, organized to bring together leaders in technology, entertainment and design. The Edmonds event, TEDxSnoIsleLibraries, is one of 10,000 such programs held worldwide since 2009. Twelve other TEDx events are scheduled worldwide on Friday, in cities including Singapore, Zürich, Switzerland and Koprivnica, Croatia. Speakers at the Edmonds event include Ben Hempstead, chief of staff of ElectroImpact, Inc. in Mukilteo; Xola Malik, a hip-hop artist and philanthropist; Tammy Mach, whose immigrant parents from Vietnam started a Mukilteo See TEDX, Page A6
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Louise Edlen (center), 93, her daughter, Cheri Jensen (left), and her husband, Dave Edlen (right), wave to a school bus passing her Arlington home Oct. 20. After faithfully greeting the buses from her window for five years, Edlen suffered a stroke in late September. Below: A greeting from the windows of Arlington School Bus 7, driven by Carol Mitzelfeldt, seen from Edlen’s house. It was Edlen’s first day home after recovering from a stroke.
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A waving grandma, the kids who missed her and a bus driver who cared
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he’s Grandma in the Window. At first, they called her that because they didn’t know her name. Yet her wave — two hands delicately raised with wiggling fingers — is familiar to nearly every student on the afternoon bus route between the Arlington middle and high schools. See WINDOW, Page A6
Story by Kari Bray, Photos by Ian Terry, The Herald
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“We want educated hockey players,” says the Tips’ GM, and WHL is helping. Sports, C1
Classified . . . . . E3 Crossword . . . . D6
Dear Abby. . . . . D6 Horoscope . . . . D6
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