The Downtown Emergency Service Center (DESC) housed more than 200 homeless people at the now-closed Red Lion hotel in Renton before the City Council passed restrictions on homeless shelters. A new bill would keep cities from prohibiting homeless shelters and housing. (Ellen M. Banner / The Seattle Times)
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Mom and parent advocate Shereese Rhodes (r) hugs her ten-year-old daughter Mya Janae outside of their home in Kent Friday, February 19, 2021. The Kent mother doesn’t love online school, but it’s better for her daughter. She’s no longer getting nauseated to the point of vomiting before school, and if her teacher treats her poorly, at least her mom is there to intervene.
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Kyle Seager scores on the Dylan Moore RBI single to left in the 3rd inning. The San Diego Padres played the Seattle Mariners in the first Spring Training game of the 2021 season Sunday, February 28. 2021 at the Peoria Sports Complex in Peoria, AZ. 216474
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Jaime Pinkham, a Nez Perce tribal member and champion of tribal fisheries, has been appointed to serve in the Biden Administration. Home, he said, is still his cabin on the reservation. He is pictured here after a day fishing on the Salmon River.
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FILE – In this March 2, 2021, file photo, socially distanced and with protective partitions students work on an art project during class at the Sinaloa Middle School in Novato, Calif. Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a new law Friday, March 5, with $6.6 billion in incentives to try to get more California schools to reopen. The response has been lukewarm support, as teachers resist and parents complain that it doesn’t do enough to get kids in the classroom. (AP Photo/Haven Daley, File) FX505

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The Seattle Art Museum reopens featuring Jacob Lawrence in a major traveling exhibition. In the first room of Lawrence works is Rich Black Specimen #460 by Hank Willis Thomas in aluminum with powder coat and automotive paint representing a runaway slave. SAM will be open Fridays through Sundays and next First Thursday in April with free admission all day. Capacity will be limited. This is the fourth stop on a five-city tour, and the only WestCoast stop. For more information see seattleartmuseum.org Ref to more photos online LO Linesonly Friday March 5, 2021 216560
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Rabbi Rafi Mollot, dressed as Haman, and Ari Hoffman, on the horse, dressed as Mordechai, pretend to ride through the streets of Shushan as Haman shouts, “This is what you do for somebody the king wants to honor!” In the story of Purim, the evil leader Haman is tricked into dressing Mordechai in the king’s robes. “One of the themes of the holiday is opposites,” said Hoffman, who said he finally gets to play the good guy in the story for a change. Congregants of Bikur Cholim Machzikay Hadath synagogue in the Seward Park neighborhood of Seattle celebrate Shushan Purim with candy and pony rides for children Sunday February 28, 2021. Purim is a Jewish holiday that celebrates the saving of their people from a threatened genocide at the hands of an ancient Persian leader, Haman. 216509
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Purim celebrated in Seattle’s Seward Park neighborhood VIEW

Larger than life, a mural of the slain civil rights leader, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., looks out from the corner of East Madison Street at East Pike Street. It’s by artist Lawrence Genette and is part of the Capitol Hill Arts District. Dr. King was only 39-years-old when assassinated: April 4, 1968 in Memphis, He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964. (Maybe a Black History Month ref) LO MLK Friday Feb 26, 2021 216505
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Sgt. Darreld Sheppard (CQ) with the Summit Safety Patrol has to climb a berm of snow to get to his office Thursday morning. It was shoveled out later. Ref to more photos online More than 386-inches of snow have fallen this winter at Snoqualmie Pass according to the WSDOT website. and another 30-plus is expected this weekend. (Note: Ck numbers) LO Snow at Snoqualmie Pass Thursday Feb 25, 2021 216500
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