SEATTLE – Food service is scheduled to resume on two state ferries in central Puget Sound before Memorial Day weekend.
Olympic Cascade Services and Washington State Ferries announced Tuesday that food service would resume today on the ferry Wenatchee and Friday on the ferry Tacoma. Both serve the Seattle-to-Bainbridge Island route.
Ferry officials said the Edmonds-to-Kingston route will next receive food service, followed by the Seattle-to-Bremerton, Anacortes-to-San Juan Islands and Anacortes-to-Sidney, B.C., routes.
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Heavy spring rains fills city’s reservoirs, for now
The two Seattle reservoirs in the Cascades that supply hundreds of thousands of King County residents with water are full, thanks to the recent spring rains.
Seattle’s water managers like to see the reservoirs full by June 1, a good signal that the supply will last through the drought.
The wet spring “has definitely made it easier to steer our way through the summer,” said Karen Reed, a spokeswoman for Seattle Public Utilities. But she warned the levels could drop quickly because there’s little or no snowpack remaining in the mountains.
King County Journal
Wenatchee: Professor claims discrimination
An outgoing professor at Wenatchee Valley College has filed a $3 million claim against the school, saying his First Amendment rights were violated and he was discriminated against for being Arab-American.
Joseph Smaha filed the claim Monday with the state Office of Financial Management. The state has 60 days to respond before a lawsuit can be filed.
In March, college trustees did not renew Smaha’s contract despite a tenure review committee’s recommendation that he advance to the next step in the tenure process.
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Ashford: Climbers’ bodies taken off Rainier
The bodies of two climbers were brought down Mount Rainier Tuesday afternoon, a day after being spotted by rangers.
The two men were the first deaths on the mountain this year, Mount Rainier National Park officials said.
Tim Stark, 57, and his nephew Greg Stark, 27, both of Lakewood in Pierce County, failed to return from a planned weekend trip to Camp Muir, at the 10,000-foot level of the 14,411-foot peak, supervisory ranger Mike Gauthier said.
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B.C.: Prophetic white buffalo to become a pet
FORT ST. JOHN – The birth of a white buffalo – an event viewed as a prophetic omen in traditional Plains Indian cultures – has been reported at a northeastern British Columbia bison ranch.
The calf was born premature, weighing around 20 pounds, and had to be taken from its mother to be bottle-fed, ranch owner Karen Blatz said Monday. She said the calf has grown stronger and seems to enjoy the attention.
“He’s definitely going to be a pet around here,” Blatz said. “I don’t know if he’ll be joining the rest of the herd, but if he does well, that would be a good possibility.”
The odds of a white buffalo birth are about 1 in 10 million, she said.
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