City briefs

Police give crime tips for landlords

The Shoreline Police are teaming up with the Kenmore Police to present a free informative seminar to help landlords and property owners reduce crime, from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 13 in the Aurora Room at the Shoreline Center. Learn how to prepare your property and keep it up to habitability standards, keep it visible and control access, screen employment or housing applicants while adhering to civil rights and far housing laws, determine the benefits and misconceptions of the federal Section 8 Program, verify tenant information, hire employees or turn down an applicant, use rental agreements, deal with a clandestine drug lab and learn the warning signs of drug activity, handle complaints and crisis, and distinguish the roles of landlords and police. To register, call 206-205-7652 or 206-546-3636.

Bone marrow drive is set

The Shoreline Fire Department is joining other fire and police depts. and the Puget Sound Blood Center in hosting Bone Marrow Registry Drives in Nov. The Drives are being held on behalf of 5-year-old Nicole Howard and numerous others who have leukemia and desperately need a bone marrow transplant to survive. Nicole is of mixed race descent, so she, like all people of multi-ethnic and non-Caucasian backgrounds, has a difficult time finding bone marrow matches.

The Bone Marrow Registry drives are intended to attract people of Asian, African-American, Hispanic, Native American or mixed-race heritage. Right now, fewer than 10% of donors are from each of these non-Caucasian backgrounds. Blood testing for donors from these racial groups is paid for by a federal grant. Caucasian donors, while still needed, are asked to pay $25 for the testing .

Those interested in being placed on the National Bone Marrow Registry should be prepared to give a small sample of blood for testing. Once on the registry, donors will be contacted if they are a match for someone who needs a life-saving bone marrow transplant.

Each of the Drives will feature free Starbucks drip coffee and will be conducted by trained medical personnel from the Puget Sound Blood Center.

For further information, visit www.helpnicole.org or call Shoreline Fire Department, 206 533-6500.

Here is the schedule for the Bone Marrow Registry Drives in the area: Saturday, November 9 Edmonds Fire Station 17 at 275 6th Avenue North, Edmonds; Saturday, November 16, Shoreline Fire Department/Shoreline Police Department Fire Station 61 at 17525 Aurora Avenue North, Shoreline.

Shoreline banker on KC board

Jeff Lewis, president and CEO of Shoreline Bank has been named to serve as a director on the board for King County’s new Cultural Development Authority (CDA). King council member Carolyn Edmonds proposed the creation of the CDA to replace the county’s Office of Cultural Resources. It will manage cultural education and cultural facilities programs for arts and heritage organizations, public art projects and other art programs and services on behalf of the county. The CDA will receive hotel/motel tax revenues as proscribed by state law to support arts and heritage funding programs. The 15-member board of directors will oversee the business, property and affairs of the CDA. Boardmembers will serve terms ranging from one to three years.

Lewis is currently a member of the Shoreline Arts Council advisory board and is active in the Seattle and Shoreline Chamber of Commerce and various banking industry trade groups. He is past president of the Shoreline Community College Foundation Board, Washington Roundtable, Seattle-King County Economic Development Council and the Alki Foundation.