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<< Previous   of   Next >>   ADVERTISEMENT   CONTACT THE HERALD Robert Frank, City Editor frank@heraldnet.com   Published: Tuesday, June 17, 2008 In Turkey, try this tip to order hot chocolate By Kristi O'Harran, Herald Columnist Sandy Ward, Director of the Future of Flight Aviation Center & Boeing Tour in Mukilteo, returned from Istanbul last week. She tried on the Turkish look, wearing a scarf, but says many women there don't cover their heads. Ward attended an annual meeting for the International Air Transport Association. Thousands of old airline tickets were shredded and used as confetti to publicize a traveling exhibit coming to Mukilteo about the history of airline tickets. "There are no more tickets in use," Ward says. "It's e-tickets, or nothing." She had a funny exchange at Starbucks in Istanbul, trying to order hot chocolate: Ward: "Do you have nonfat milk?" Server: "Yes." Ward: "I would like a nonfat hot chocolate." Server: "No have." Ward: "Do you have chocolate?" Server: "Yes." Ward: "Put nonfat milk with chocolate." Server: "No have." Ward: "Can you make mocha?" Server: "Yes." Ward: "Well make a nonfat mocha with chocolate and leave out the coffee." Server: "We can make that." That is how she got her hot chocolate in Istanbul. n n n Some students won't be hightailing it to the beach today, after school ends in Snohomish. Some will attend a Last Day of School Youth Peace Rally at 12:30 p.m. at Fourth Street and Avenue D in Snohomish. Organizer Dena Marie, the new director of Historic Downtown Snohomish, says she wants teens in Snohomish to know they have a voice. "I want them to know that focusing on peace rather than war is what Gandhi and Martin Luther King were exemplifying to us all," Marie says. "I have written a book called "Our Energy Matters" and I believe what we focus on truly does make a difference." At the rally, they'll learn about summer ideas around town, including skateboard competitions, creative classes at Wired and Unplugged coffee shop and Kla Ha Ya Days. "Giving them something productive to do over the summer will benefit us all," she says. n n n Some think funeral homes have a "circling vulture" reputation. In old western movies, the dark-clad undertakers were seen opportunistically measuring gunslingers for their coffins just before the showdown, says Dale Amundsen with Evergreen Washelli Bothell funeral home. But Amundsen doesn't want folks to leave before their time. The community relations coordinator partners with Roger Steinke at Bothell First Lutheran Church to offer "Hot Dogs & Hot Rods" from 11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Saturday at the corner of NE 183rd Street and 103rd Ave. NE in downtown Bothell. Bothell police will be there with child identification kits and trigger locks, and the Bothell Fire Department will sell bicycle safety helmets for $5 and offer child car seat instructions. "It's not a formal car show in a competitive sense," says Amundsen, "But come and show off the wheels you're proud of." Let him know you are bringing your custom ride by calling 425-486-1281. And take a donation of food for the needy. Amundsen says he'd much rather meet people at Hot Rods & Hot Dogs, rather than down the road. n n n Fun fact: It takes a brave person to share a bad habit for Fun Facts. Chelsea Oliveira, 18, didn't mind revealing that she bites her fingernails. The recent graduate at Henry M. Jackson High School in Mill Creek gave up chewing her toenails when she was 12. Columnist Kristi O'Harran: 425-339-3451 or oharran@heraldnet.com.

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