Troop stitches warm welcome for baby
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They went to Evergreen Hospital Medical Center yesterday to present a handmade quilt to Wendy Suss of Monroe. But once they caught sight of 1-day-old Nadine Suss snuggled in her mom's arms, they forgot everything except the baby. They gathered around the hospital bed and oohed and aahed over Nadine.
The quilt was a gift the troop made for the first girl born at Evergreen on Mother's Day.
"We talked about it going to the first baby," said Angie Flom, troop leader. "But when it was done, it was so pink and yellow we decided it had to go to a girl."
Nadine won in both categories.
She arrived at 2:01 a.m. Sunday, the first baby of the day in the Evergreen family birth center that delivered more than 4,000 babies in 2003. Nadine has a big brother at home, 20-month-old Nathan.
The Brownies, all second-graders at Cedar Wood Elementary School in Bothell, explained to Wendy Suss that they had used money from their cookie sales to cover the quilt costs.
First they selected a quilt pattern, then each of the 16 girls made a square, stitching together petals to make a flower.
"Our leader, Angie (Flom), brought quilt pieces and we each got to pick six," said Francesca Cook.
Flom gathered the completed quilt squares and a neighbor, 19-year-old Lindsay Payton, sewed the squares together and finished the quilt.
Flom said the girls earned more than $1,000 from cookie sales that they're using for troop activities.
"The interesting part is last year they only wanted to do things for themselves with the money," Flom said.
"This year they're into doing things for other people."
Last month the girls took several hundred boxes of Girl Scout cookies to the Hopelink Food Bank in Bothell.
Even though Nadine slept through the entire event, her parents were touched by the presentation.
"Her scrapbook just got bigger," said dad Blake Suss.
Driver's seat: The Legends Car Club deserves a belated round of applause.
Club members were the driving force behind last year's Kirkland Classic Car Show but were not named in Saturday's column about the event winning a big award.
The show earned the Kirkland Downtown on the Lake organization "outstanding achievement in promotion" honors from the state Office of Trade and Economic Development's Downtown Revitalization Program.
"We work on the show 12 months of the year," said Mike Coleman, president of the Legends Car Club. "We've been doing it for four years."
One member, Karen Bell, said the show was so popular that some downtown restaurants ran out of food.
In case you missed last year's event, the Legends are already revving up their engines for this summer's Kirkland show on July 25.
They're also putting on a second show in Snoqualmie on Aug. 8. That show, Coleman said, will be part of Snoqualmie's jazz festival.
Student teacher: Ben Torres, a sophomore at Skyline High School in Sammamish, doubled as a teacher during second period recently.
A substitute teacher was supposed to take over Rich Korb's world geography class. The teacher didn't get there.
"When the class realized that no one was coming, Ben found the lesson plans I had laid out on my desk," said Korb in a letter he wrote to Torres' parents.
"He took roll, passed out the worksheet, started the video and collected the completed worksheets at the end of class."
What's even more impressive was the class itself: Not a single student left the room.
During the period, a couple of educational assistants came by and saw the class watching the video and taking notes.
At the end of the period, another teacher stopped by to check on the class and discovered Torres had handled everything.
"What's amazing," Korb said, "is that this was an extended (80-minute) period, which is a stretch for most students and staff."
Last week when Korb returned to the classroom, he gave Torres a fast-food gift certificate and threw a party for the entire second-period class for their impressive performance.
Sherry Grindeland: 206-515-5633 or sgrindeland@seattletimes.com