Lisa and her son, Demjan, and Rick Thompson, in a hotel lobby in Prague, the Czech Republic. She has friends there in Prague. She did not want her last name used. She escaped from Kyiv and Thompson drove them 500 miles from a refugee center in the now-closed Tesco superstore in the Polish/Ukraine border town of Przemysl to Prague. (Rick Thompson)
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Seward Park – torii gate LO – Lines Only – 040222 Sakura dancer Akemi Burns waits for Rep. Sharon Tomiko Santos to finish her remarks before performing at the torii gate celebration at Seward Park Saturday, April 2, in Seattle, Wash. Seward Park used be home to a torii gate that was placed in the park in 1935 after it was built for the 1934 Potlatch Festival in Seattle. The gate stood in the park until the 1980’s when it was removed due to decay. In 2011 participants of the Seward Park Centennial Celebration decided to erect a new torii. The current torii stands in the same place as its predecessor and is built of red cedar from Vancouver Island and basalt columns from Eastern Washington. It is modeled after the famous “floating” O-torii gate in Miyajima, Japan. 220032
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Elizabeth Banning, left, Diedra Barlow, and Lena Potechin going over the wall, quickly change members on the ice to keep skaters fresh as the clock continues to run. Krakalackins won this game 4-3 over the Bad Santas of Tacoma. They’re with the Seattle Women’s Hockey Club and hosted the past weekend’s tournament at the Kraken Community Iceplex at Northgate. Ref to more photos online Friday March 25, 2022 219949
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