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[LKT]

If you visit http://www.huffingtonpost.com there are links to various websites devoted to helping with the crisis, including one for volunteer sign-up. Good luck!

[service dog academy]

The Service Dog Academy is hiring a very part time, 5 hours a week or less, Covert Marketing/Advertising/PR Specialist.

In order for us to fund our mission of subsidized and affordable service dog training we need a steady flow of pet dog training clients. You cant run a thriving business on clients that make less than $16,000 a year! Currently its very hard for our pet dog training clients to find us on the web. We need you to help us become more visible.

Job duties include:

SEO For Existing Website

Social Media Marketing (Facebook, Twitter, Blogging)

Event Marketing

Producing Press Releases

Public Relations Implementation

Managing Pay Per Click Campaign (Microsoft, Google, Yahoo)

Tracking Campaign Effectiveness

Various Administrative Duties

Database entry

Experience/Qualifications:

College degree or 3 years of equivalent work experience

A successful track record of growing the web presence of small businesses utilizing mostly unpaid advertising/pr

Current uncontroversial social media presence

Candidate Pluses:

Background in positive reinforcement dog training

Dog friendly

Personal Mac Laptop for use on job site

Can do attitude and self directed work ethics

Desire to help a community minded small business

Current media outlet contact lists

OK with kitty cats soliciting attention by jumping on your keyboard from time to time :)

Pay:

$10 an hour (we train the disabled and our pay reflects that)

$10 bonus for each new PET dog training client who books an appointment and whose referral can be tracked to your covert marketing/advertising/PR efforts

Job Benefits:

Extremely Flexible Schedule

Free Dog Training Advice

Send cover letter, resume and references to mary@servicedogacademy.com with the subject: Covert Marketing/Advertising/PR Specialist

Please Note:

Final job candidate will be required to pass drug screening and background check

Holes in your resume timeline are OK. We understand the current job market is making it hard for anyone to find a job.

[Blend]

thanks for the input. much appreciated.

[mamaofboys]

Thanks for the input and articles so far, lots of good information. Based on the school brochure, it sounds like there are some great things going on there and it will be a good fit for my son.

[metrognome]

MoJo — tv stations attract viewership and sponsors by creating ‘news’ that doesn’t exist by reporting a fact and blowing it out of proportion and out of context. Here is the Washington Policy Center’s 2 pg ‘policy note’ that generated the story: http://www.washingtonpolicy.org/Centers/transportation/policynote/FerryPN.pdf

In my opinion, it leaves out or misstates key facts and uses inflammatory language to create a controversy:

– prior to the creation of the county Ferry District, the water taxi was a demo project run at Metro by the same 2 people who manage the other contracted service, DART, which runs shuttles in some suburban cities;

– with the Ferry District, a new Marine Division was created in KCDOT, so it is a parallel division to Metro Transit and the Rail Division. The whole purpose of the Ferry District was to bring operations in-house and to identify other potential passenger routes. Right now their other route is the Vashon Passenger Ferry formerly run by WSDOT/State Ferries;

– the sole factual source for this ‘policy note’ was a report issued by … wait for it … the Ferry District. Oh yeah, and a Seattle Times article.

WPC is a supposedly non-partisan research center that “improves lives of Washington citizens by providing accurate, high-quality research for policymakers, the media and the general public.” I would note that the first five supporters quoted on their ‘about us’ page are well-known conservatives, four at a national level (McKenna, Jeb Bush, Huckabee, Jack Kemp, George Will.) The identified Dems are local: State Sen. Jeanne Kohl-Welles and State Rep. Maralyn Chase.

If you’re interested in the Ferry District: http://www.kingcountyferries.org/

[The Velvet Bulldog]

Available at the library–video has fewer holds than the DVD:

https://catalog.spl.org/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=12P5Y3581L549.10147&menu=search&aspect=subtab14&npp=10&ipp=20&spp=20&profile=dial&ri=1&source=~!horizon&index=.TW&term=buena+vista+social+club&x=8&y=13&aspect=subtab14

[mamaofboys]

My family recently bought a house in West Seattle. When we bought, our school was Lafayette, which we’d heard had a good reputation (part of the reason we bought the house.) But then the district rezoned, and now we are apparently in the Schmitz Park boundary (even though it’s a lot further away!?) I don’t know that much about this school, other than what we could gather at the open house. There seems to be a lot of involved parents and a it had a nice community feel to it, somewhat “smaller” than Lafayette. How are the academics? Art/music programs, etc? The two schools seemed similar enough that I didn’t bother applying my son to Lafayette, and I’m just hoping that was the right decision. I have heard about the Spectrum program (not offered at Schmitz) but I’m not really clear on what that entails.

Our son will be in first grade. We also have a younger child who will start kindergarten in a couple years. Thanks for any input you might be able to offer about what to expect at Scmitz!

[inactive]

Angemarie –

Good on you! I was going to suggest contacting Seal Sitters, but it seems you already have :)! Excellent!

Here’s the link for the Parks Dept. information regarding organizing volunteer groups and activities for city parks.

http://www.seattle.gov/parks/volunteers/default.htm

Also, perhaps the good folks at the Alki Community Association and/or the folks who put out the Community paper (The Beacon, I think it is called) might know about existing efforts, or be a source for you to find others to join you.

Thank you! The summer crowds are hard on the beach and the wildlife, as well as unpleasant for the human users. So, really, it is excellent you are trying to get something going. Way to go for it!

Good luck!

[luckymom30]

Just thought since several people here have been kind enough to reply to my posting I would update them, I placed many calls to differetn State department in Oregon to find out about my sister every person I spoke with said she wa dead because there was no record of it, then yesterday I emailed the top person of one of those departments and she called me today with the news that my sister had died bout 5 years ago in 2005! I asked why was it I could not find anything online about the death and every person I spoke with said thay had no record of the death and the director said for some reason my sisters death file had been misplaced and the information had not been input in the database. Really?? For 5 years!! Being I am her sister and basically her only living sibling I am the only person who can order her death certificate and that is the only way I will find out the exact date of her death. So see what can happen?

[AmyO]

AT&T hasn’t been much fun either. Not sure why I stayed with them for almost 8 years! I’m thinking of switching to Verizon when my contract ends next week. Any input?

[cjboffoli]

uglybrowncrow: I’m totally with you! Maybe it is because I was a December baby born in New England, but I’ve always felt more comfortable with cold and wet than I have with hot and sunny. I used to love how TV’s The Munsters would always think a torrential downpour was a beautiful day! I think to some extent we’re conditioned to think that sunny, warm weather is good and rainy, cool weather is bad. It reminds me of the scene in Hamlet when he says to Horatio: “There is no good or bad but thinking makes it so.”

[miws]

Yeah, ours was either davenport or couch.

Sofas, in my little kid’s mind anyway, were the really fancy ones.

I think “Futon”, (I know, not exactly the same thing, but serves the same purpose), would have resulted in a blank stare. ;-)

Mike

[anonyme]

Oh yes, I remember davenports! Remember the mandatory black ceramic panthers that accompanied them, often on top of the TV? Actually, “sofa” is making a comeback, having been replaced for the last few decades by “couch”. Let’s not forget “divan” either. What’s next, I wonder? A good topic of research for a dreary Saturday afternoon…

[timeslid]

Kasala has great sofas. Their outlet store has good discounts too! Its in SODO 1946 Occidental Ave. S.

Side note, I grew up sitting on davenports and not sofas. Anyone else?

[asianbradpitt]

I heard a story on NPR on my way to work this morning about Earl Johnson, a famous songwriter and composer with roots in West Seattle. I just wondered if anyone knew which house he grew up in, in West Seattle?

[aprilS]

MultiCare Medical Associates is a wholly owned medical group employed by MultiCare and organized in division. MMA has significant power to advise MultiCare on compensation and benefits, direct clinical quality and peer review for the outpatient practices as well as support inpatient quality initiatives. Check out opportunities and apply at:

http://www.multicare.org/blazenewtrails/mma.html

[tom_is_new]

I just moved up from Oregon and need a new insurance agent. Does anyone have any recommendations? I was with AAA in Oregon but I think the person probably matters more than the company. Any input is appreciated.

Thanks!

[jellyfish]

Oliver, I’m very familiar with that blog. Thanks for the input!

[spana]

Jane Addams is about as far from West Seattle as you can get!

But I will say that though it is a new school and they are probably still figuring things out, the staff and teachers are really committed and excellent. It’s an environmentally science focused curriculum and they supplemental science teacher staff too. I think it’s fairly unpolished as a school at this stage, but pretty cool, too.

[sacatosh]

It will likely get worse, not better. They’re currently soliciting college students for summer door-to-door jobs: http://www.joinpinnacle.com/

They also get a big fat FAIL from the BBB: http://www.bbb.org/utah/business-reviews/security-control-equipment-suppliers/pinnacle-security-in-orem-ut-11000043

[Al]

I would take the “complete” with a grain of salt. The plans of the bike route from the waterfront to Spokane St are still highly unplanned so to speak. SDOT still doesn’t know whether it will be a large multiple use path or bike lanes on either side of the new street, and much less how in the heck the Marginal route will *connect* to the new street grid. So the entire route into downtown won’t actually be “complete” until say 2014 or so. SDOT so far has only plans for Sharrows and maybe a bike lane here and there on the waterfront while most advocacy groups want to see a bike track/boulevard since there is plenty of room to build one.

I would suggest emailing your comments and suggestions directlty to SBAB bikeboard@seattle.gov and the viaduct planners, you can find them here: http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/Projects/Viaduct/advisorygroups.htm

[Pug Daddy]

Lately I’ve been hearing a lot about dog owners out on walks being harassed by homeowners regarding picking up after their dogs.

This morning I got that experience firsthand walking my dogs near the corner of Marine View Drive SW and SW Ocean View Drive in the Oceanview neighborhood of West Seattle. While I see my fair share of unattended dog messes in the street, I don’t think anyone should be harassed and subjected to misdirected hostility and certainly not pet owners making an obvious effort to pick up after their dogs.

I’ve been walking down that stretch of street a few times a day since I moved to the Oceanview neighborhood a few months ago. I want to mention that it’s a great neighborhood full of friendly and kind people always ready to say hi and chat you up in the street and ask to pet your pooches. Great place to live!

So you can imagine my surprise when this morning with dogging poo bag in hand ready to swoop in and clean it up when the owner of the house pulls out in his U-Haul truck into the middle of the street into the oncoming lane to order me to pick up after my dog, and I do mean order me. I assured him that I always make an effort to pick up after my dogs in an attempt to reason with him and then proceeded to pick it up. I was then subject to his angry ranting and accusations about all of the poo in his yard as if I had something to do with that and unreasonable suggestions including where I could and couldn’t walk on his stretch of the street and a less than generous invitation to stay on the street I live on and away from his house…apparently he owns all of the property in front of his house up to the yellow line. As if this wasn’t bad enough, twice during the confrontation he began to get out of the truck (while it was still parked in the middle of the street) at which point I demanded he stay in his vehicle. Suffice it to say I thought it was out of character for my neighborhood and completely out of control.

So in an attempt to keep fellow dog owners apprised of their rights and the law. Below is the Seattle Municipal Code and website stating the restrictions and laws around dogs and pooping in public and private areas.

Enjoy and be safe.

http://clerk.ci.seattle.wa.us/~scripts/nph-brs.exe?d=CODE&s1=9.25.082.snum.&Sect5=CODE1&Sect6=HITOFF&l=20&p=1&u=/~public/code1.htm&r=1&f=G

SMC 9.25.082 Offenses relating to safety and sanitation.

It is unlawful for an owner to:

A. Allow the accumulation of animal feces in any open area, run, cage or yard wherein animals are kept and to fail to remove or dispose of feces at least once every twenty-four (24) hours;

B. Fail to remove the fecal matter deposited by his/her animal on public property or private property of another before the owner leaves the immediate area where the fecal matter was deposited;

C. Fail to have in his/her possession the equipment necessary to remove his/her animal’s fecal matter when accompanied by said animal on public property or public easement;

D. Have possession or control of any animal sick or afflicted with any infectious or contagious disease and fail to provide treatment for such infection or disease, or suffer or permit such diseased or infected animal to run at large, or come in contact with other animals, or drink at any public or common watering trough or stream accessible to other animals.

Owners of service dogs shall be exempted from subsections B and C of this section.

(Ord. 119998 Section 21, 2000; Ord. 116694 Section 8, 1993; Ord. 112335 Section 1(part), 1985.)

[JanS]

geez, children…get back to the point. We all have different ways of doing things, and whether it’s short or long, make it interesting. And…for the rest of us, quit the sniping…and I say that in the nicest way :)You both have great input!

Carson…are we neighbors? I’m just east of Adm. Safeway…42nd SW…

[Geoffrey Mac McElroy]

Carson… I’m going over the 2 paragraph limit here as well, but it’s only fair since the OP listed so much on the other candidates.

I find it interesting that member Ken not only misquotes me out of context, as did Publicola, but also questions my motives without picking up the phone to talk with me, or stopping by the Pub to ask me face-to-face what my thinking might be on the issues.

With regard to the Burien candidates’ forum, the question posed to us as candidates was: If you had to cut the budget in the next 2 years where would you cut it? Not: How would you raise additional revenue or how would you close loopholes to deal with the budget deficit? An audio recording of the Burien forum is available on the B-town Blog (who also sponsored the forum):

http://www.b-townblog.com/2010/04/28/photos-audio-34th-district-candidates-duke-it-out-in-burien/

I value a clean environment – a safe and healthy place that we and our children can enjoy now and for generations to come. However, if I had to choose OVER THE NEXT 2 YEARS between cutting funding for basic education, health care for children, or programs that make up the basic safety net of our society and keep families out of poverty, vs. placing a temporary 2-year moratorium on spending for environmental cleanup (“cutting the environment”), I would choose to fund those programs that provide the basic services that families in need must have in order to survive. That is the meaning and intent of my comment in its proper context.

Regarding Lowman Beach, Ken is off the mark. I’m involved because I’m listening to the voters of the 34th district – they care about this issue. And they care because the proposed CSO solution for Lowman Beach has lacked appropriate public input and would have a negative impact on public access to the shoreline and to the park which so many have valued for so long. Public access is one of the key tenets of the Shoreline Management Act. Voter concerns and values are issues that any viable candidate should be concerned with. We all should be concerned about the precedent here and ensure public access is maintained to our state’s shoreline areas.

At the end of the day it’s about people. People are upset, and I am listening.

’nuff said?

Geoffrey “Mac” McElroy

http://www.vote4mac2010.com

vote4mac2010@gmail.com

206.552.4098

[Ken]

And I misused the comma too!

Typing into this little box and hitting post does not allow for the editing and condensing used to make an essay succinct rather than pedantic.

That’s the breaks.

Let’s see if I can gnaw my opinion on the CSO issue down to something easy to understand.

The buzzwords “stakeholder” and “moratorium” just plain set me off.

We are all stakeholders if we have a freakin sink, toilet and gutters. The government, whether it is city county or state, are the tools we wield collectively to finance, build and maintain the infrastructure needed since the days of moving the outhouse to a new pit every couple of years are long gone.

City and county are the agencies that will be in control of this infrastructure for the foreseeable future.

The drive to “Save Lowman beach” by moving the CSO to another location (another city park it seems)looks like NIMBY to me.

If it walks like a NIMBY, talks like a NIMBY, then chances are good that it IS a NIMBY.

(Pun intended)

http://soundangels.wordpress.com/

(excerpt)

Read my lips “Moratorium on all plans for Barton and Murray CSO facilities and back to the drawing board with true consultation and voting power of a stakeholders group.”

Otherwise, quite frankly, this group and many more individuals who are ready to join up, will make life as difficult as possible for any of the current plans to ever see the light of day. Are you listening, KCWTD?

One other thing — politicize this as much as you can. My current phrase goes like this “If [insert elected official’s name] is going to drag their feet on assisting this community to get what it unanimously wants, and, on top of that, force our residents to put out hard-earned cash and expensive time to get what is right, there WILL be a price to pay come the next election, period.”

The county has a place for your input.

http://www.kingcounty.gov/environment/wtd/Construction/Seattle/BeachCSO/SelectionProcess/Survey.aspx

If you don’t feel the other neighborhoods of Seattle can properly understand your need to make sure they accept your share of the pain involved then by all means taunt them again and again. I just put up with 7 years of construction so I could participate in the experiment which might be the future of stormwater control. Or not, the experiment is not over.

http://www.thehighpoint.com/expo/S_Natural.html

Dang. I went over the two paragraph limit again…