Kurtz-Pokorny engagement

With Donald Duck officiating, Jessica Kurtz, formerly of Olathe, Kan., and Eric Pokorny, formerly of Burbank, Calif., become engaged. An Aug. 10 wedding is planned in Seattle.

Chuck and Terri Kurtz of Olathe, Kan., are pleased to announce the engagement of their daughter, Olathe North 2001 graduate Jessica Kurtz, to Eric Pokorny, son of Oscar and Angela Pokorny, Burbank, Calif.

Eric and Jessica live in Seattle, Wash., where they met on a Santa Pub Crawl in 2009. They share a love of travel, food and wine and recently went to Walt Disney World where Eric enlisted the help of Donald Duck to ask Jessica to marry him.

Jessica, who graduated from the University of Missouri-Kansas City with a degree in theater management, currently works in fundraising for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society and is a board member for Youth in Focus, a Seattle non-profit after-school program that uses intensive photography to help disadvantaged teens.

Eric is a media designer at Starbucks Coffee where he will be celebrating 19 years of service in 2013.

The wedding is planned for Aug. 10, 2013, in Seattle….on a boat!

 

Video Christmas card from the Kurtzes

A video Christmas card from Terri and Chuck to you and yours…Merry Christmas and here’s hoping for a safe and happy New Year…

Message to Congress: Do something, damn it!

The Mayans might have been a few days off on what doomsayers claimed would be the end of the world on 12-21-2012.

Instead, it could come at midnight on Dec. 31 if Washington continues to do nothing about the impending fiscal cliff.

Partisan politics continues to polarize Congress and the lack of action by elected officials to do anything about the expected recession-causing fiscal cliff has the stock market diving this morning.

Another video

Terri and Chuck’s 2012 Summer Video:

Dylan and Carys Visit Part 4

Strict gun laws won’t protect from evil

Jonesborough, Ark.

Columbine, Colo.

Aurora, Colo.

Portland, Ore.

And now Newtown, Conn., has been added to the long list of other shooting massacres that have taken place in businesses, public places and schools throughout the nation in the past 20 years.