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Passport applications
processed in Seattle on Aug 3 & 4, 2010 |
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The Consulate General of
Poland in Los Angeles has just received a special laptop and all the
equipment needed for processing passport applications on the road.
Seattle is the first stop in the new series of passport trips by the
Polish consuls.
The Consul is
scheduled to visit Seattle on Aug 3 & 4, 2010. Assuming the
equipment works as expected, passport applications will be processed at
the Polish Home in Seattle 10 am - 6 pm on Aug 3 (Tue) and 9 am -
5 pm on Aug 4 (Wed). There will be the usual reservation system on both
days.
To make a reservation, please contact
Mr. Marian Strutynski, (425)
746-3037.
The application will be processed according
to reservation list, with people without reservations served as the time
allows.
posted July 29, 2010
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Dr. Janusz Dominik died on July 10, 2010 |
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Dr. Janusz Dominik |
Dr. Janusz Dominik, a longtime
member of the Polish community died in Seattle on July 10, 2010 at age 84. Mr.
Dominik was born in Cracow, fought in the Warsaw Uprising of 1944, and gained
his medical diploma in Galway, West Ireland, where he met his wife Mary. In
Seattle he practiced as a family doctor and consultant. He was
an longtime member of the Polish Home Association and a generous supporter
of the Polish Home. Also please see
Dr. Dominik's obituary.
Dr. Dominik is survived by his
two sisters Jadviga of New York and Alicja of Poland, by other family of Poland
including his grandniece
Agatha and great grandniece Pola who were with him at his death,
and his late wife's family in
Ireland.
Funeral Mass:
11 am on July 21, 2010 at
St. Joseph
Church in Seattle
Burial
following the mass, at Lake View Cemetery
Wake after
burial: from 12:45 at the
Polish Home
in Seattle
Guest Book:
visit the Guest Book
here
Remembrances
in
lieu of flowers
should be written to Polish Home Foundation,
and sent to Polish Home Foundation, 1714 18th Ave, Seattle, WA 98122, marked in
memory of Dr. Dominik.
posted July 19, 2010
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Poster competition for 2010
Seattle Polish Film Festival |
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Seattle
Polish Film Festival is pleased to announce a poster
competition for the upcoming 18th Annual Seattle Polish Film
Festival. Deadline for entries is September 1, 2010. Winner
will receive 2 festival passes and an invitation to the
opening reception. Please visit
Seattle PFF site for competition rules and poster
requirements.
More: SPFF
poster competition,
SGSCA
posted July 7, 2010
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Alisa Lidzbarski Lahti at the Westmoreland Museum of American
Art, PA |
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Sunrise Roosters |
Alisa Lidzbarski
Lahti is a Seattle-based artist creating paper-cut and
wycinanki-influenced artwork; wycinanki being the
Polish art of fine cutouts. Her work will be on display at a
Paper Artist Exhibion at Westmoreland Museum of Modern Art in
Greensburg, near Pittsburg, PA. Congratulations!
For a local
opportunity to admire Ms. Lahti's art, check out this event
Best of Magnuson Park
art fair.
posted July 1, 2010
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Warning: email scam about a
friend stranded abroad without money |
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Several people
in the local Polish community received an "urgent" mail
recently, supposedly from a member of the community, asking for
financial help due to being stranded abroad without money.
Please note, this is a well known scam scheme and the person in
question is all the time happily living in Issaquah. Hallmarks
of the scam - person stranded at a hotel abroad, but no hotel
name or phone number given.
posted June 30, 2010
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2010 Presidential elections
in Seattle - the run-off round |
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Update: Results for the
Seattle polling station #177: Kaczynski 146, Komorowski 139,
full results here.
This is the
second and final round of the early
presidential elections in Poland after the tragic death of
President Kaczynski. A polling station for Polish citizens is at the
Polish Home; voting in the United States is set on July 3,
2010 from 6 am to 8 pm. To vote you have to be registered -
people who have not registered before the first round can
register till July 1, 2010.
More info here.
More: Election FAQ,
Detailed info about oting in Seattle
(in Polish),
results here
posted June 21, 2010
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Helping flood victims in Poland |
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Wilkow,
a few miles from the Vistula, May 28, 2010 |
Poland has suffered two flood
waves on all major rivers, affecting especially cities on the Vistula. If you
would like help please read on:
Locally in Seattle:
Polish Home Assn.
asks for donations
for the flood victims in Poland. These funds will be sent to the Red Cross in
Poland to help with the needs of those affected. Please send a check to: PHA,
1714 18th Ave Seattle, WA 98122, and mark "Red Cross or Flood" in the lower left
corner.
Nationally:
Polish American Congress
Charitable Foundation
also asks for tax deductible donations for flood victims. Please send checks to
PACCF, 5711 N. Milwaukee Avenue,
Chicago, IL 60646, marked "Flood Relief for Poland".
Donations to
PACCF are eligible for gift matching programs.
posted June 8, 2010
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SGSCA wins the Best Single
Project of the Year award |
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Update: In addition to the Seattle award, Gdynia
Business Week project won a national Sister City award -Sister
Cities International is honoring Seattle-Gdynia Sister City
Association with its 2009 Innovation: Youth & Innovation award
for the Gdynia Business Week project.
Volunteers still
needed
for
2010 Gdynia Business Week
(Aug 23-27, 2010) - for more info
contact Janice by email
or call at 206-819-8653.
At the annual Sister City Reception
at the Seattle City Hall hosted by Mayor Mike McGinn,
Seattle-Gdynia Sister City Association was honored with the 2010
Best Single Project of the Year award for the Gdynia Business
Week project. Gdynia Business Week was a summer business school
for 100 Polish high school students in Gdynia organized by SGSCA
& Washington Business Week with support from the City of Gdynia
in August 2009.
Congratulations to project coordinator Janice Jaworski and
the whole SGSCA organization whose many members volunteered
their energy, time, money and vacations for the Gdynia Business
Week.
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The Best Single Project Award |

Project coordinator Janice Jaworski
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SGSCA President Debra Markert with Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn |
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More: about
Gdynia Business Week,
SGSCA,
Washington Business Week
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May 12, 2010 |
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Martha
Golubiec retires, Anna Borodenko leads the Polish Scouts |
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Martha Golubiec |

Anna Borodenko
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At a
recent celebration, the Polish
Scout Troop Kaszuby honored Scoutmaster Martha Golubiec who retired after
24 years of leading the Troop that she founded in 1986. Scoutmaster Anna
Borodenko has become the new leader of the Polish Scouting organization in
Seattle. Congratulations!
More:
Polish Scout Troop Kaszuby
posted May 6, 2010 |
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2010 Presidential elections
in Seattle |
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Update: Results for the
Seattle polling station #177: Kaczynski 132, Komorowski 121,
full results here. The
second & final round of voting is on July 3, 2010.
The early presidential elections
in Poland after the tragic death of President Kaczynski have been called for
June 20, 2010. Polish citizens can vote in Seattle at the Polish Home; voting
will be on June 19, 2010. If you want to vote, you have to register - please read
detailed info here (in Polish).
Registration deadline is June 17.
More: Election FAQ,
Detailed info about registration &
voting in Seattle (in Polish),
Ulotka Wybory 2010 w
Seattle (in Polish)
posted May 2, 2010
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Corey Krzan wins the 2010 UW PSEC scholarship |
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UW Polish Studies Endowment
Committee announced that the $1500 Student Scholarship for 2010 was awarded to
Mr. Corey Krzan. Mr. Krzan is a third year undergraduate student who is
double-majoring in French and Eastern European Languages. He is active in the
Polish Student Association at the University of Washington and he is also going
to Poland for a one year program at the Polish Culture and Language School at
the Jagiellonian University in Cracow, Poland. Congratulations!
More:
UW Polish Studies Endowment Committee scholarships,
UW Polish Student Association
posted May 2, 2010
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An Iranian movie about Siberian exiles |
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The recent lecture about
Seattle-area Siberian exiles and screening of the movie
A Trip To Nowhere at the University of Washington brought news about other efforts to
document the WWII deportations.
Below, some links related to a documentary movie The Lost
Requiem by the internationally renown Iranian director Khosrow Sinai. Mr.
Sinai shot the movie in 1970s after attending a funeral at the Polish cemetery
in Tehran.
A video interview with director Sinai and a separate
press interview
about making the movie (many historical photographs from Iran), and . In 2008,
President of Poland, Mr. Kaczynski decorated Mr. Sinai and survivors living in
Iran:
an article in Wprost,
official gov note. Mr. Sinai
with Mr. Wajda in 2008.
posted May 2, 2010
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City of Seattle Proclamation of Sympathy to the people of Poland |
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Considering the tragic death of
Polish President Lech Kaczynski and other Polish statesmen and women and also
considering a successful relationship & friendship of the City with a sister
city of Gdynia, Poland, the City Council of Seattle made a proclamation
expressing on behalf of the people of Seattle a sincere sympathy and heartfelt
condolences to the people of Poland and to the sister City of Gdynia.
posted April 20, 2010
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Mourning the President of Poland and the members of Polish elite
who perished in the plane crash on April 10, 2010 |
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President Kaczynski and
the First Lady |
The Polish community of Seattle
joins Poles and friends of Poland everywhere in mourning the tragic loss of
President Lech Kaczynski, First Lady Maria Kaczynska and members of the Polish
elite who died in the plane crash in Russia on the way to a Katyn commemoration.
Our thanks go to all who extended their sympathy and remembered them in their
prayers.
If you would like to express
your sympathy in this tragedy for the Polish nation, this is what you can do
locally:
The Book of
Condolences is available for signing at the
Polish Home in Seattle for
the next two weeks on Friday evenings from 6 pm and Sunday afternoons from 1 to
4 pm. Books of Condolences are also available at the Polish Consulate in Los
Angeles and in Vancouver, BC.
The Mourning
Mass will be held at the
Polish Church in Seattle at 11 am on April 17, 2010.
Below an update from local
events mourning the tragedy.
Gail Wodzin's report and pictures from the ceremony at the Polish Home
organized by Seattle-Gdynia Sister City Assn on April 11, 2010
KOMO news
video with the news of the tragedy and clips of members of the Polish
community, including Ron Golubiec and Paul Griffin speaking at the ceremony at
the Polish Home
KING 5 news video with the news and clips from St. Margaret's including Fr.
Stanislaw Michalek and Aldona Bazant.
Seattle Times short
report from the Katyn commemoration in Seattle on April 11.
Also:
The undelivered Katyn speech of the President (Rzeczpospolita daily,
in Polish)
posted April 12, 2010
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Andrzej Falinski died on March 24, 2010 |
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Andrzej Falinski |
Mr. Andrzej Falinski, a longtime
member of the Polish community died suddenly in Seattle on March 24, 2010. Mr.
Falinski was born in Kielpin, in northern Poland, in 1946. He arrived in the US
1985, settling in Seattle in 1989 and working as a precision machinist. He was
an active member of the Polish Home Association and served as the Polish
Home Manager for five years.
Mr. Falinski is survived by his
daughter Gosia Busse with husband Eric and their sons Elliott and Ethan,
daughter Magdalena Braun with her daughter Zoe, niece Bozena Commerree and
friend Halina Cielslik with her three daughters and three grandchildren, all of
the Seattle area, as well as sisters Krystyna and Zofia with their families in
Poland.
Memorial Service:
On March 31, 2010 at
St. Margaret’s Church
in Seattle
11:30 am - 12:45 pm viewing
1:00 pm Vigil Service
Wake to
follow the service: at the
Polish Home
in Seattle
Interment at a private
ceremony later
posted March 29, 2010
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PAC & the Piast Institute campaign for Polish ancestry on
the census |
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Polish American
Congress and the Piast Institute launched a national campaign to reinstate
Polish ancestry option on the census form. The current census does not ask about
white ancestry, but you can still mark Polish ancestry as an add on. PAC & Piast
ask everybody to do just that - mark the Polish ancestry on the form - in order
to get the ancestry question reinstated.
More:
Please read about the
national campaign & how to mark Polish ancestry on the census form.
posted March 18, 2010
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New element 112 named for Copernicus |
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It's official: On Feb
19, 2010, the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) declared
that a new element with atomic number 112 will be called Copernicium in honor of
Nicolaus Copernicus. Copernicium was discovered in 1996 by a team of scientists led by
Prof. Sigurd Hofmann from Darmstadt, Germany.
More:
Wikipedia info,
IUPAC
announcement
posted March 11, 2010
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Nowy Dziennik prints stories about Seattle Polonia |
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Local Polonia welcomes Mrs. Ewa Orlowska, a new Seattle
correspondent to Nowy Dziennik. Thanks to her efforts, this biggest
Polish language daily newspaper in the United States printed recently two local
stories about our community. The story about
Malgorzata Walewska describes efforts of the UW Polish Studies Endowment
Committee to support Polish studies at the University of Washington, while an
earlier story introduces
Polish Book Club in Seattle. The Editor is a longtime reader of the Nowy
Dziennik weekend edition and its cultural section – it’s worth subscribing
to.
More:
subscription information for daily, Friday and weekend editions,
Nowy Dziennik website
posted March 7, 2010
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John
Golubiec re-elected President of the Polish Home Association |
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John Golubiec |
At the Polish
Home Association election meeting on January 30, 2010, Mr. John Golubiec has
been reelected as the PHA President and Mr. Adam Strutynski as the Senior
Vice-President. Congratulations!
More:
Polish Home
posted Jan 31, 2010
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Debra
Markert re-elected President of the Seattle-Gdynia Sister City
Assoc. |
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Debra Markert |
At the
Seattle-Gdynia Sister City Association election meeting in January 2010, Ms.
Debra Markert has been re-elected as the SGSCA President, Mr. Tom Clark and Ms.
Janice Jaworski as Vice-Presidents, and Ms. Harriett Wodzin as the Treasurer.
Congratulations!
More:
SGSCA
posted Jan 26, 2010
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Nov
2009:
Polish Home Opening Gala Awards
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Several people
and organizations have been honored with awards at the Opening
Gala for the new wing of the Polish Home on November 15, 2009.
Hon. Joanna
Kozinska-Frybes, Consul General of the Republic of Poland in Los
Angeles presented the following awards
honoring
American friends of the Polish community in Seattle for their
strong support of Poland, Polish culture and heritage:
Amicus Poloniae (Friend of Poland) Award,
granted by Hon. Robert Kupiecki, the Ambassador of Poland to the
United States to Mr. Glen Lee, former President of the
Seattle-Gdynia Sister City Assn;
Certificate of Recognition,
awarded by Hon. Joanna Kozińska-Frybes, the Polish Consul
General to Mrs. Janice Jaworski, SGSCA and PHA member,
special projects and fundraising and Mr. Paul Griffin,
former SGSCA Secretary and former PHA Treasurer.
More about it here
Also, Mr. John
Golubiec, President of the Polish Home Association presented
awards to people running the Expansion project and Mr. Ryszard
Kott, President of the Polish Home Foundation presented awards
to people and organization for significant contributions to the
project. Click here for
the full list of the honorees.
Congratulations! |
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Consul
Joanna Kozinska-Frybes |

Glen Lee |

Janice
Jaworski |

Paul Griffin |
posted Dec 22, 2009 |
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Oct 2009: Contract for the $80,000 grant for the Polish Home
signed |
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Follow up on the grant: the Polish Home in Seattle has received an $80,000
matching grant challenge from the City's Neighborhood Matching Fund in June
2009. Subsequently $40,000 was raised for the grant and the grant contract was
signed in October.
The Polish Home grant committee would like to thank from the bottom of their
hearts to all the supporters who made this possible through their generous
donations. The money from the NMF grant is being used to finish up the new wing
of the Polish Home and will also be used to remodel the old part of the Polish
Home building
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Read more
here.
More: about
Polish Home Extension project,
grant info - how to danate
Related offer from Danuta Moc
posted Oct 22, 2009
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Nov 8, 3 pm: Trip to Nowhere - film and art
exhibition in Boston, MA |
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The Sybiracy Project - a local initiative to
document survival stories of the Polish victims of Soviet mass deportations to
Siberia during WWII - has culminated in a film premiere and art exhibit under
the common title Trip to Nowhere. The exhibition opens in Boston at the
University of Massachusetts campus on November 8, 2008.
Where: Univ. of Massachusetts, Boston, MA.
More: The Sybiracy
Project website - survival testimonials and other info
posted Sep 23, 2009
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July 2009: $80,000 grant for the Polish Home to match
- $15,000 to go! |
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The Polish Home in Seattle has received an $80,000
grant from the City's Neighborhood Matching Fund. However, it is a matching
grant and the challenge is the Polish Home needs to receive new donations
before the NMF grant can match them. $40,000 in cash donations is needed to sign
a grant contract with the City.
By Sep 22, 2009 we are almost there – thank you donors!
Donations still appreciated.
Read more
here.
The Polish Home asks all the members and friends of
the Polish Home to donate money to the Polish Home Foundation to benefit from
the NMF grant. If you have not donated to the Polish Home yet, or would like to
increase your donation, please do so now! Your money would be doubled and the
grant will speed up completion of the Extension project. Please donate today!
More: about
Polish Home Extension project,
grant info - how to danate
Related offer from Danuta Moc
posted July 25, 2009
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July
2009: Mr. Koczarski and other activists decorated by the
Consul General |
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Hon. Paulina
Kapuscinska, Consul General of the Republic of Poland in Los
Angeles visited Seattle in July, 2009 and recognized the
following people for their active involvement in the Polish
community in Seattle:
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Mr. Roy
Koczarski, the Polish Home architect, has been honored with
the Officer Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of
Poland, awarded by the President of Poland for promoting
Poland abroad.
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Mrs. Martha
Golubiec, Mrs. Krystyna Koczarski, Mrs. Barbara Strutynski
and Mr. Marian Strutynski each received a Certificate of
Recognition by the Consul General, awarded by the Consul for
their longtime very active involvement in the Polish
community and promoting Poland and Polish culture in the
Pacific Northwest.
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Also, in
January 2009, Mrs. Krystyna Swietlicka received a
Certificate of Recognition from the Consul General for her
work as an educator and the former principal of the Juliusz
Slowacki Polish School in Seattle.
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Roy
Koczarski |

Martha Golubiec |

Krystyna
Koczarski |

Barbara Strutynski |
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Marian
Strutynski |

Krystyna
Swietlicka |
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