Our used staple record has been challenged.
Anne Brown in the Logan County Health Department in Oklahoma believes she has the world’s largest used staple collection.
She noted that in 2008, we wrote that an Everett office worker had a used staple collection weighing 3 pounds, 12 ounces, an amount we called the largest in the world.
Snohomish County workers had a good laugh about that two years ago. Folks in the Department of Information Services showed me a collection that was twice as large. They had to pull staples out of every document before it went through scanners, to the tune of 15,000 to 20,000 documents a day.
Brown, in Oklahoma, collates records. She’s been collecting used staples since 1997. Coworkers decided the pile was so big they would search online about staple records.
Up popped two columns in The Herald.
They had a good laugh about our six pounds of staples, says Sanita Spradling, Brown’s coworker.
“The world record for used staple collections is here,” Spradling says. “Yep, that’s right.”
Brown has collected more than 16 pounds.
Anyone care to challenge the new record?
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Rodney is a scaredy cat.
That’s funny, because Rodney is a shark.
He’ll be shy at a Summer Reading Kickoff, “Rodney the Shark” Puppet Adventure planned for 7 p.m. Monday at the Mountlake Terrace Library, 23300 58th Ave. W. in Mountlake Terrace.
A Seattle puppeteer, who goes by Rowbes, will bring his friend Rodney the Shark, who is afraid of his own shadow, to the program.
See Rodney put to the courage test when another shark moves into the neighborhood.
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FirstSwing Foundation will offer baseball clinics beginning Monday in Everett.
Foundation executive director Phil Rognier recently offered a “Baseball Connect” program in Southeast Asia, including baseball demonstrations at the first Hanoi Baseball Film Festival.
Rognier also taught at the University of Hanoi and spoke to local gatherings.
“FirstSwing promotes the notion that sports is a process, not an end in itself, and teaches its importance in developing productive citizens with critical thinking skills, a strong work ethic, nutritional and conditioning knowledge and the assets to become a loving spouse and caring parent,” he says.
For more information about the program, go to firstswing baseball.org/5.html.
He says he hopes to bring kids to Everett from Hanoi in August to see the AquaSox play baseball.
“Who knows, maybe a Vietnamese Ichiro will develop and end up in Seattle? Baseball diplomacy works in funny ways,” Rognier said.
Kristi O’Harran: 425-339-3451, oharran@heraldnet.com.
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