Mark your calendar for June 12th! From 3pm – 11pm Downtown Tacoma will be hosting it’s first ever Twilight Criterium Bicycle Race, presented by Michelob Ultra. The race will loop around the north end streets of Pacific Ave and the course adorned with bands, beer gardens, DJs, Prizes, Games, a Kids’ Race and more.
If you’ve never seen criterium racing (aka: “crit”) before, get ready for a thrill as the riders compete on a closed circuit loop for about an hour per event. The race is measured in time (not laps) and the pace is kept at a near sprint the entire time by way of mid-race prizes and points. Spectators can expect to see the pack race by some 30+ times in the night’s main event.
Racing will take place approximately every hour starting at 3pm concluding with the Category 1 (elite/ pro) riders at 7.30pm.
To make it even more exciting, the Tacoma Twilight Criterium will be the final stage in the Cascadia Criterium series – a new month-long Puget Sound series of races in which riders aim to build up points to claim the overall title. The night's final prizes will be awarded at 9pm.
“We wanted to create a new event to bring life to the Downtown area and generate some buzz in the City amidst these pressing economic times.” says Tim Waer of the Tacoma-Pierce County Sports Commission. “Tacoma Bike greeted with open arms to co-host the event. The city is ready for this race. We were very lucky to get on board Tacoma Bike, Dean Burke at Junefish and Race Director Joe Holmes. We hope, with the support of the City and the riders, to prepare the ground for an event for years to come.”
Tacoma-Pierce County Sports Commission, Tacoma Bike and Junefish join together to bring you a party in Downtown Tacoma like you’ve never seen before. Bring the kids, bring a chair, settle in for the night.
The event is free to spectators. For more information visit: www.tacomatwilight.com. Join the race on Facebook for the latest updates.
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Comments on items posted in the Editor's Log are welcome in the Forum. Registered readers may comment on many items. Selected items by participating bloggers are also posted to the Community Log by the editors. Arts reviews and commentaries may include opinions by the writers that are not necessarily shared by the editors or publishers. The Academy of Nantes and the Office of Superintendent for Public Instruction of Washington State will sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) in Olympia on Tuesday, April 27.
This agreement will celebrate a new step in the connection between the educational systems of both regions. The cities of Nantes and Seattle have been working for a long time on signing such a memorandum. These two regions have in common numerous concerns: the environment, high technology, and expanding international exchanges. Thanks’ to these common projects; this MOU will allow to develop numerous partnerships between schools, and to support the learning of French language in Washington State. The Northwest Indian College in Bellingham, Wash., will hold its second annual TL'aneq' Gathering for a Celebration benefit dinner and auction on Saturday, April 24th, 2010 at the Semiahmoo Resort in Blaine, Wash.
NWIC’s goal for the evening is to raise $250,000 in support of the college’s cultural arts and education and to enhance our relations and understanding within the region. Our vision for education at NWIC is based in deeply held beliefs about relationships and stewardship. Tickets are $250 for the TL'aneq' event. The event, co-hosted by David and Jonathan Syre (Trillium Corp), will include a pre-event reception, gourmet fare and a live and silent auction of Coast Salish cultural arts and experiences, including a tour of a renowned local master carver’s studio (Felix Solomon, who has artwork displayed at the Whatcom County Museum as well as private collections). The college is currently seeking table captains, table sponsors, and ticket sales. We are also seeking artists who wish to donate art for the live or silent auction. The Seattle Press is undergoing a substantial change in content management. We have added a "Member Networking" feature that will enable reader-writers to contribute news and commentaries by publishing personal Journals and regular Updates.
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SEATTLE -- If a young person knocks on your door and says they're selling magazines for a charity, wait before reaching for your pocketbook. The Washington Attorney General’s Office, which issued a warning about Fresh Start Opportunities in March, says solicitors have returned to Washington state.
Fresh Start Opportunities claims to be a “job business training company” that sends young adults door to door to give them a “fresh start” on life. The organization has ignored repeated inquiries from the Secretary of State’s Office concerning its failure to register as a charity, as well as consumer complaints received by the Attorney General’s Office and the Better Business Bureau. “After paying generous amounts for subscriptions, consumers throughout the country never received the magazines and have no idea how their money was spent,” said Attorney General Rob McKenna. The AGO has received complaints from consumers who paid $50 to $784 for subscriptions. A common theme among the complainants is that they were touched by the solicitors’ stories. They said solicitors claimed to be earning money for college, working toward a better job, receiving points for a free trip, or contributing proceeds to help homeless youth. Consumers paid for subscriptions by check. The Attorney General’s Office has received complaints from consumers nationwide because the company lists a downtown Seattle address on its Web site. But it’s just a mail-forwarding service. A business scans the letters then sends the files by e-mail to the addressee, believed to be located in another state. So no one from Fresh Start Opportunities ever has to step inside to pick up the mail, such as refund requests. The Web site also lists a toll-free phone number. When called, an automatic message says the number is “temporarily unavailable.” A 19-year-old man working for Fresh Start Opportunities was arrested last fall in connection with an Edmonds robbery and was a suspect in burglaries in Sammamish and Tumwater. A state search engine listing registered charities is available at www.secstate.wa.gov/charities. Do as I do, or say, not as I say, or do. We're confused. Where is Sen. Patty Murray (D, WA) on the issue of the day: Health Care? From what we can see on her official website, the answer is "over there" or "over here" - or elsewhere, or nowhere.
The site's health care pages are a litany of platitudes about the problems of people who have had to battle insurance companies and other bureaucrats, but there is - at least without an anthropological dig into the ruins - no way to discern any solutions or any preference among those of others. One cannot expect that every senator be an expert on every topic, and though we admire Murray's stance on many issues, on this one there appears to be little leadership. It's not as though the issues haven't been crystal clear for years, or decades. Cherry picking, pre-existing conditions, arbitrary cancellations, excursions into clients' childhood illnesses, insurance companies whose profits are increased by denying coverage. Everyone save the profiteers agrees that these are the root of our poor national health conditions. Murray's official position - again, read her official site - appears to be that "someday soon we really must do something, oh dear!" After nearly 12 years in the senate, surely Sen. Murray is not approaching this subject for the first time. This is not a time to study the problem; it is the time to choose and to act. Fuzzy weasel words like "improve" and "protect" do not help any of the thousands of Americans who will be denied care during the time you read this comment. Lawmakers may rightly be judged by the company they keep. Recent TV ads - sponsored by "health industry" shills - encourage voters to "thank Patty Murray" along with her colleague Maria Cantwell for supporting "real reform" in glossy presentations that resemble leopards thanking the lions for not eating all the wildebeests. Such sponsors do not spend their advertising funds for no reason. The ancient parable of lions lying with lambs speaks to the generosity of the lions, not the wisdom of the lambs. Gov. Bobby Jindal (R-LA) might well apply his vaunted cost-saving strategy to the rest of the country. In his rejoinder to Pres. Barack Obama's address to Congress earlier this year Jindal disdainfully suggested that "volcano monitoring" was a waste of the taxpayers' money.
This idea might have been rejected by the hundreds of people who were on their way to Anchorage and the thousands flying elsewhere over North America to other destinations at the time Mt. Redoubt erupted recently. Well before the eruption, flights were advised and diverted due to, well, volcano monitoring. As at Mt. Rainier, Kilauea and numerous other sites around the country, government agencies monitor environmental hazards and attempt to provide warnings. This is rarely considered wasteful by those downslope or downstream. As I write, flood waters in the Upper Mississippi Valley are being monitored as they are each spring, and continuous estimates of potential impact on the Lower Mississippi (as in Shreveport, Baton Rouge and New Orleans) are being sent ahead of the flood. The cost of this effort is many times the cost of volcano monitoring; we have many more rivers than we have volcanoes. As one who has not seen the Mississippi from less than 30,000 feet in decades, I might question the wisdom of all that wasteful "river monitoring," but I don't. What affects my brothers and sisters in Louisiana affects me. November 2012 is coming. I suggest we all commit a few bucks to "Jindal monitoring" no matter how inconsequential the rumblings might sound. The Ruby Room, a Seattle non-profit boutique, provides free formal gowns to teens whose families are struggling financially. It will hold several Saturday boutique events this spring at which Seattle high school students can select a prom gown and accessories, all free of charge. The dates appear below.
“We have thousands of gowns in all sizes and colors that will flatter every body type,” says Nyla Bittermann, director of the Ruby Room. “If you’re looking for the latest in prom fashion, you’ll find it in our boutique. And best of all, it’s free.” Seattle Press asked Ruby's representative Jaime whether the gowns were loans or gifts. The answer: "The gowns are gifts to teens whose families are struggling financially. When they make an appointment to come to the boutique, they get to select a dress, matching jewelry, shoes, handbag and even a wrap - all for free. They do not need to bring the items back. "When I tell the teens they can select all of the above items and not pay a dime," Jaime added, "the look on their faces is priceless. We're talking about girls who are on free- or reduced-lunch programs at school who don't regularly get new clothes, let alone a prom dress and all the accessories." If you or someone you know needs a gown, you may email nyla@rubyroomseattle.org to schedule an appointment. Include your name, phone number, high school and date of the dance. The Ruby Room is currently accepting monetary and accessory donations such as jewelry, shoes and handbags. Visit www.rubyroomseattle.org for more information. The Ruby Room provides formal attire to teens in financial need, enabling them to participate in their high school community. The organization also provides leadership and education through volunteer opportunities and workshops. The Ruby Room was founded in 2002 by Nyla Bittermann (Jordan) and Kristen Corning. It all started with 8 volunteers working out of an office in Queen Anne and is now going strong on Capital Hill with over 100 volunteers. 2009 Boutique dates are 10 a.m. – 3 p.m. Saturdays. Appointments are required. April 4, April 11, April 18, April 25, May 2, May 9, May 16, May 30, June 6. Note: No boutique on May 23. ;) Works include oil paintings, wood block prints, vat dye paintings, silk screen prints and other media. Beadwork jewelry produced by children in UAC's free workshops for AIDS patients and orphans will also be on sale. Artists included in the show include Kizito Fred Kakinda, James Nsamba, Kennedy Baguma, Matias Tusime, Hassan Mikiibi, and Hadson Mbabazi. The exhibition will be held at the Ballard Bookcase Gallery, 4611 11th Ave. NW Seattle, WA 98107. For information about the show, contact Tom Herriman, 206-353-5978. Seattle - 24 February 2009 - In his rejoinder to Pres. Barack Obama's Feb. 24 address to Congress, La. Gov. Bubba Bobby Jindal argued that the Federal budget should forego spending $140 million for "monitoring volcanoes," intoning the very words with disdain.
Rees Clark, Publisher OLYMPIA–October 3, 2008-The Attorney General’s Office today filed a lawsuit against the Washington State Republican Party for alleged violations of the state’s campaign finance disclosure law.
The suit stems from a complaint filed with the Public Disclosure Commission alleging that the WSRP had misused funds from its exempt account for three mailings in support of its gubernatorial candidate, Dino Rossi. At its regular meeting on Thursday, Sept. 25, the PDC referred the case to the Attorney General’s Office. The Attorney General’s Office accepted the case, reviewed the materials and confirmed there was sufficient evidence to file. The complaint was filed in King County Superior Court today. The office agreed with the PDC’s assessment that the WSRP had used exempt funds (funds that are exempt from contribution limits) for mailings in violation of the permitted uses under the campaign finance disclosure law. The court assigned the case to Judge Jeffrey Ramsdell and a trial date is scheduled for March 29, 2010. The WSRP must respond and file an answer to the complaint within the next 20 days. The Attorney General’s Office is seeking civil penalties and costs of investigation and trial, including reasonable attorney’s fees, injunctive relief and any other relief the court deems appropriate. Let me see if I have this straight.....
If you grow up in Hawaii, raised by your grandparents, you're "exotic, different." Grow up in Alaska eating mooseburgers, and yours is a quintessential American story. If your name is Barack you're a radical, unpatriotic Muslim. Name your kids Willow, Trig and Track, you're a maverick. Graduate from Harvard law School and you are unstable. Attend 5 different small colleges before graduating, you're well grounded. If you spend 3 years as a brilliant community organizer, become the first black President of the Harvard Law Review, create a voter registration drive that registers 150,000 new voters, spend 12 years as a Constitutional Law professor, spend 8 years as a State Senator representing a district with over 750,000 people, become chairman of the state Senate's Health and Human Services committee, spend 4 years in the United States Senate representing a state of 13 million people while sponsoring 131 bills and serving on the Foreign Affairs, Environment and Public Works and Veteran's Affairs committees, you don't have any real leadership experience. If your total resume is: local sports reporter, 4 years on the city council and 6 years as the mayor of a town with less than 7,000 people, 20 months as the governor of a state with only 650,000 people, then you're qualified to become the country's second highest ranking executive. If you have been married to the same woman for 19 years while raising 2 beautiful daughters, all within Protestant churches, you're not a real Christian. If you cheated on your first wife with a rich heiress, and left your disfigured wife and married the heiress the next month, you're a Christian. If you teach responsible, age appropriate sex education, including the proper use of birth control, you are eroding the fiber of society. If, while governor, you staunchly advocate abstinence only, with no other option in sex education in your state's school system while your unwed teen daughter ends up pregnant , you're very responsible. If your wife is a Harvard graduate laywer who gave up a position in a prestigious law firm to work for the betterment of her inner city community, then gave that up to raise a family, your family's values don't represent America's. If you're husband is nicknamed "First Dude", with at least one DWI conviction and no college education, who didn't register to vote until age 25 and once was a member of a group that advocated the secession of Alaska from the USA, your family is extremely admirable. OK, much clearer now. (From the mailbag. -Ed.) Governor Chris Gregoire has proclaimed October 2008 as "Family Involvement in Education Month" in the state of Washington. The proclamation recognizes that:
Seattle - A relay run across the length and breadth of America, to promote world harmony will reach Seattle, W.A. on Tuesday, June 24th. Runners in the 50-state USA World Harmony Run are carrying a flaming torch to symbolize their goal of fostering international harmony and friendship through sports. The relay is intended to inspire people to work for a more harmonious world.
In Seattle the international team of runners will be engaged in several events on Tuesday, June 24. SEATTLE – A 21-year-old Scottsdale, Ariz., man accused of coercing consumers to buy software that actually turned their computers into spamming machines agreed to a settlement that substantially restricts how he markets software in the future, the Washington Attorney General’s Office announced today.
The Attorney General’s Consumer Protection High-Tech Unit sued Messenger Solutions, LLC, and owner Ron Cooke, in March. The suit, filed in King County Superior Court, accused Cooke of violating Washington’s Computer Spyware Act and Consumer Protection Act while marketing programs under the names Messenger Blocker, WinAntiVirus Pro 2007, System Doctor and WinAntiSpyware. Under the settlement filed today, Cooke cannot use Net Send messages or simulated security alerts to market products, transmit software to another person’s computer without a user’s knowledge or make other misrepresentations in the advertising or sale of products. |
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