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Brush up on cosmetology at EvCC event

By Kristi O'Harran, Herald Columnist

For a college student, it probably sounds like a dream.

Take a class with one instructor for every 12 bodies. Count on a 100 percent passing rate on licensing exams and job placement help. Oh, and it's half the price of a private school.

It's real.

You have to want to do nails and hair, though.

Visit the Everett Community College Cosmetology Department from 1 to 5 p.m. Wednesday at 9315 State Ave., Suite G, in Marysville for a client appreciation day and open house.

Instructor Tina Evans says the school offers advanced technical training. And if you would simply like to see how the students are doing, book The Spa Package -- $25 for a manicure, pedicure and facial.

My dad, who lives on Camano Island, has a new Internet provider, and recently, he created a new e-mail address. Dad might not know that I understood ­billbrayton17532 very well.

I was born and raised above a butcher shop at 17532 Aurora Ave. N. in Seattle. Funny how numbers stick in your brain.

But there was a glitch with his new provider, and within a week, Dad had to pick a new e-mail name.

He went with wildbill88.

I don't need to know any more about that.

Another unhappy bond buyer weighs in. Charles Walters of Marysville also has had trouble finding banks to sell him savings bonds.

I mentioned in my Tuesday column that last week I visited three financial institutions to buy savings bonds. Two had no bonds to sell and one wouldn't sell bonds to me because I didn't bank there.

The same thing happens to Walters, once near Yuma, Ariz. He was told he couldn't buy bonds at a bank that sold bonds because he didn't have an account.

It makes you huffy.

I was having trouble getting $50 bonds. Walters is a really super grandfather who often buys $500 bonds for several of his grandchildren.

When he can find bonds to buy.

Fun Fact: Dorthy Ottaway grew up in Granite Falls. The Marysville woman says her grandmother, Dorthy, lived in Granite Falls, too, and now lives in Arlington.

Did folks in school ever misspell her name as Dorothy?

"No," Ottaway, 32, says. "My family was so well known in such a little town I guess people were used to spelling it 'Dorthy' long before I was ever born."

She said it's nice being named after your grandmother.

"It is old English," she said. "I am from the third generation of Ottaway's to come from Granite Falls. I don't know if you can call us famous, although when I was 16, I was in the Washington Pageant as Miss Granite Falls. Does that count?"

You bet.

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