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Digital TV prompts anchor's new look

By Kristi O'Harran, Herald Columnist

Steve Raible, KIRO-TV, is getting used to feeling cool air under his nose.

If you wondered what was different about the news anchor beginning last week, he shaved the mustache he's worn for 35 years.

Consultants said with new high-definition TV broadcasting, every wrinkle and stray hair shows on air.

"If you are 25 and the mustache is big and bushy, that's one thing," Raible says. "When it's graying, that's a whole other thing."

His wife of 27 years, Sharon Raible, says she likes the new look.

Raible said food doesn't get caught on his lip anymore, not that it did much anyway, and he can always grow the hair back.

He already got a letter from a 79-year-old viewer who doesn't like the new look.

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It's much more than day care, it's fun for kids. If you are stuck for child care during spring break, Edmonds Parks and Recreation can at least fill up five hours each day, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., next week, says Sally Lider, environmental education coordinator for the parks department.

It's $110. For more information, call 425-771-0227.

The Edmonds parks spring break and summer camps used to work for me. When my kids were in the 10 to 12 age group, old enough to ride Community Transit from Mill Creek, they took the bus back and forth to camp. That filled their days just fine and I knew they weren't getting into any trouble.

No trouble I ever found out about.

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Ladies rule. I included comments last week from a reader who didn't like my use of the word "ladies" to describe women.

The reader says I'm old-fashioned because the use of "ladies" is obsolete.

Here a few comments I received on the topic:

Jeanne Hanson from Monroe says she hopes to be remembered as a lady. Her grandmother taught her that the word lady isn't a title, it's not what you own or don't own, it's a state of being, she says. No matter what your station is in life or what times you live in, being a lady never goes out of style.

"I can certainly think of a lot of words that are worse than something so gentle as 'lady,' " says Vickie Bennett of Kirkland (she used to live in Everett). "I guess next time I am in line at the grocery store, Ladies Home Journal will be covered like some of those half-nude magazines."

There is nothing wrong with a mannered, self-confident lady, says Sue Howell of Snohomish.

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Fun Fact: Lizardlillylil doesn't seem like an unusual e-mail name to Elizabeth Reed, a junior at Everett High School.

"Lizard is one of my nicknames that I got from my day care and it stuck with me," Elizabeth says. "Lizzy is also a nickname that stuck with me, and I've been told that Lil was a nickname for Queen Elizabeth."



Columnist Kristi O'Harran: 425-339-3451 or oharran@heraldnet.com.