Elaine Klaassen

Spirit and Conscience, columns by Elaine Klaassen

Elaine started at Southside Pride in 1996 selling ads, maintaining the religion calendar and writing articles that eventually became a column called Spirit and Conscience.

SPIRIT AND CONSCIENCE: Peace House … ‘A Place to Belong’

March 1, 2002 November 1, 2017

Getting acquainted A lone building stands across the alley from the Dairy Queen in the wasted land at the corner of Portland and Franklin in the Phillips neighborhood. Peace House, as this solitary oasis is called, has been around since October of 1985—long before the corner was empty. From its…

SPIRIT AND CONSCIENCE: Building a family: what it takes

December 1, 2001 November 1, 2017

To become a parent is to take a giant step into the great unknown. Parenting is spelunking and bungee jumping all rolled into one. It takes a lot of bravery. And you have to be so open. In giving birth one is literally and physically stretched to the limit. Adopting…

Neighborhood leadership grant awarded to Carei Thomas

September 1, 1998 November 1, 2017

There is only one Carei Thomas. He makes more music with two fingers than a lot of people do with 10. Since a crippling illness five years ago, Thomas, a master of musical improvisation, has limited use of individual fingers. He says when he plays the piano “it’s no ‘Flight…

Elaine Klaassen

Spirit and Conscience, columns by Elaine Klaassen

SPIRIT AND CONSCIENCE: Peace House … ‘A Place to Belong’

SPIRIT AND CONSCIENCE: Building a family: what it takes

Neighborhood leadership grant awarded to Carei Thomas

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