RSS2009 ANNUAL
Working Project
This year, our special Annual edition looks at those who work in the Yakima Valley. We've assembled a colorful array of people and jobs: piano tuner, 9-1-1 dispatcher, veterinarian, museum curator, winemaker, landfill worker and many more.
"Working" confirms what writer Studs Terkel discovered more than three decades ago - that someone's job is a search "for daily meaning as well as daily bread."
Working Video
Wildlife enforcement agent Morgan Grant shoots (the breeze) first so he can ask questions later -
Morgan Grant schmoozes for a living. He does it while wearing a holstered handgun because, for weeks on end, everybody he approaches is carrying a rifle
Cindy Carroll flops onto the floor with a pile of stuffed animals. A 4-year-old hops around like a rabbit, elbows bent toward his chest, wrists flapping.
Four years, four choirs and one African drumming class. That could sum up choir teacher Nichola Blink
Hers is a face the people she helps would never recognize. They don
From a fast-paced, densely populated country on the other side of the world to a small, rural town on the Yakama reservation
A deep interest in science and technology inspired Sam McIlvanie to become a veterinarian. People and their pets keep it interesting.
Jenyne Wells drives a school bus part time and pursues a lifelong interest in horses that is being carried on by her two teenage children.
Your heart beats like a drum, growing louder and louder. Sweat cascades down your face. Chapstick can
Stomach pains, barely making the bills, calming the kids while satisfying a customer. This is the cost of pursuing passion.
Inspiration, practice, gigs, audiences, rehearsals, listening, traveling, spotlights, recordings. Music. Welcome to the world of the professional musician.
Lance Johnson never knows what to expect from his job. He could be hanging out of a plane, perched in a lift truck between power lines or standing on a mountain of cow manure.
Meat butcher. Heart surgeon. Teacher
Shelly Graham bounces through the double doors of the cardiac unit clutching a diet cola and a bag of Baked Lays potato chips. It
Topics that Dr. Lyle Bonny and his dental assistant discuss one March afternoon over the gaping mouth of a root-canal patient include, but are not limited to:
A bell rings, shattering the calm. The thunder of footsteps crashes against the cafeteria floor, and students pour into six lines to get lunch.
Even after 38 years of teaching, Sherilyn Hausske is still amazed by her students.
Rich aromas fill the shop. So do the sounds of whirring blenders and coffee grinders. Posters featuring the game schedules of nearby Eisenhower High School hang on the walls.
The convoy of garbage trucks sweeps in, spins around and prepares to unload its garbage, giving Larry Ross more work to do.
Splashes echo around the pool as members of the West Valley swim team jump in on a Tuesday afternoon in January.
Richard James, the multifaceted radio personality at New Northwest Broadcasters, has considered most of the factors involved in relocating.
YAKIMA, Wash. -- This job comes with a 360-degree view. From the top of the control tower at the Yakima Air Terminal, sweeping scenes of the Yakima Valley are visible - at least during the day.
Yes, it's a real job, full of multitasking and prioritizing, budgeting and planning.
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