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Kathleen Merryman is a local news columnist for The News Tribune, where she's worked for a quarter of a century. Amazing, considering she is only 32. You're likely to find her fighting crime, righting wrongs or judging pies. You're less likely to find her in the newsroom. Call her at 253-597-8677 or e-mail her.

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Steve Maynard is a communities reporter and religion reporter for The News Tribune. He covers Federal Way, Fife and Milton. He also has been the paper's religion reporter since joining The News Tribune in 1987. Maynard has reported for daily newspapers since 1979, previously in Walla Walla and Houston. Call him at 253-597-8647 or e-mail him.

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Here's what's happening around Tacoma, Pierce County and South Puget Sound today..
Monday, April 13th, 2009
Posted by Kathleen Merryman @ 05:40:13 pm

The Rev. David Alger, executive director of Associated Ministries, has won the 2009 Greater Tacoma Peace Prize.

He’s honored, he said, to be considered in the same group as past winners, including George F. Russell, Jr., the Rev. Ron Pierre Vignec, David Corner and the founders of the Conflict Resolution, Research and Resource Institute.

He and his wife, Sally, are looking forward to going to Oslo in December for the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony. His trip is part of the prize awarded by sponsors Norden Lodge #2, Sons of Norway, and Embla Lodge #2, Daughters of Norway.

And he is trying to work out his schedule for May 30, the day he will accept the prize, and the day he will bid his official farewell to his job of nearly 30 years.

Alger came to Tacoma in 1980 with the expectation that he would act as a “metropolitan minister,” promote dialogue among churches, and facilitate their service programs.

It did not work out quite that way.

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