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Pastor Hector Garcia points to the sky after being discharged from the Everett Center, a rehabilitation facility, Wednesday. Battling COVID-19 and its aftereffects for a year, he was once so sick that his wife, Lizbeth, far right, wrote his funeral service. (Daniel Kim / The Seattle Times)
Pastor Hector Garcia points to the sky after being discharged from the Everett Center on Wednesday. Battling COVID-19 and its aftereffects for a year, he was once so sick that his wife, Lizbeth, far right, wrote his funeral service. (Daniel Kim / The Seattle Times)
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"A medical student could learn everything from this one patient," said a doctor who treated Hector Garcia, a Federal Way pastor, who contracted the coronavirus. "Everything that could go wrong, did go wrong." On Wednesday, he went home. VIEW

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Beef is dry-aged in the meat cooler at Bateau in Seattle, Aug. 25, 2021. When it reopened in the spring, the restaurant offered a steak aged longer – more than 400 days – than the pandemic was at that point. (Kyle Johnson/The New York Times) XNYT91
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Beef is a problem. This Seattle steakhouse wants to be part of the solution. VIEW

Kevin Bui, owner of Huong Xua White Center Deli, located at 9629 16th Ave SW, in Seattle’s White Center neighborhood, stands inside his deli Thursday, October 21, 2021. It is next door to The Locker Room Tavern which was destroyed by a fire in September. Water used to put out the fire shot into the deli and firefighters had to remove part of the roof so the fire wouldn’t spread further, seriously damaging the building. Bui is hoping to reopen the business he runs with his wife. Shot Thursday, October 21, 2021. A fundraiser for the deli has been started by Full Tilt, a neighboring business on the north side of the deli. For more information, see: www.gofundme.com/f/help-huong-xua-deli-open-again 218578
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Michael Holland has uncovered the claw of an Oviraptorosaurian, Tuesday, Oct. 12, 2021, shown at the University of Washington’s Burke Museum in Seattle. Holland is one of a team of paleontologists working on four excavated dinosaurs in Montana over the summer. 218485
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UW paleontologists dug up 4 dinosaurs in Montana this summer, including a possible ‘Chicken from Hell’

Lumen Field – Seattle Seahawks vs. Los Angeles Rams – 100721 Seattle Seahawks free safety Quandre Diggs and the rest of the defense looks defeated as Los Angeles Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford celebrates another touchdown during the third quarter Thursday, Oct. 7, 2021, in Seattle. 218444
Seahawks

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Brandi Carlile makes her musical guest debut on “Saturday Night Live” on the Oct. 23 episode hosted by Jason Sudeikis. (Will Heath / NBC)
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Seattle City Council must fund bridge maintenance

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Michael Dick sits on the porch of his home in Boise, where he has erected homemade signs critical of President Joe Biden. MUST CREDIT: Photo for The Washington Post by Carissa Wolf

Biden’s critics hurl increasingly vulgar taunts

Seattle city attorney candidates Ann Davison, left, and Nicole Thomas-Kennedy.
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FILE – In this April 3, 2021, file photo, Ammon Bundy speaks to a crowd of about 50 followers in front of the Ada County Courthouse in downtown Boise. A far-right group launched the anti-government activist Bundy is rapidly expanding nationwide and making inroads into Canada, according to a new report from the Institute for Research and Education on Human Rights. (Darin Oswald/Idaho Statesman via AP, File) IDBOI401 IDBOI401
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Trees had blocked all lanes of SR-18 on both sides of I-90, but were quickly cleared, Sunday, Oct. 24, 2021 near Snoqualmie, as a series of storms moved through the area. 218610
Weather

Storm rips through Western Washington, killing two and leaving more than 100,000 without power in Seattle and beyond

FILE- This Jan. 15, 2010, file photo shows a sea otter in Morro Bay, Calif. It’s been more than a century since sea otters were hunted to near extinction along the U.S. West Coast. The cute animals were successfully reintroduced along the Washington, British Columbia and California coasts, but an attempt to bring them back to Oregon in the early 1970s failed. Now a new nonprofit has formed to try again. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon, File)
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Wed. October 20, 2021. Looking south down 12th Ave. NE near NE 94th St. in the Maple Leaf neighborhood voting precinct that split evenly on the Aug. 3rd primary for Bruce Harrell and M. Lorena Gonzalez. 218568
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In this image provided by the Canadian Coast Guard, the container ship Zim Kingston is assisted after it caught fire in the Strait of Juan de Fuca.
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In this photo taken June 4, 2018, the downtown skyline is shown from the South Hill in Spokane, Wash. . The state’s second-largest city is booming these days thanks to a good economy and influx of new residents. (AP Photo/Nicholas K. Geranios) WANG204
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Storm rips through Western Washington, killing two and leaving more than 100,000 without power in Seattle and beyond

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Devastating fires have left White Center in a ‘state of emergency.’ When will help arrive?

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Business & Tech

A plane is being refueled on the tarmac at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport in SeaTac by a fueler Thursday, October 14, 2021. Earlier that day, U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell (D-WA) joined local aviation and environmental leaders at a press conference to discuss the critical role Sustainable Aviation Fuels (SAFs) play in the transition to a greener, carbon neutral economy at the airport. SAFs are environmentally friendly alternatives to petroleum based jet fuel made from feedstocks such as oil seeds, wood waste, used cooking oil, and algae that can be used directly in existing aircraft. 218524

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FILE – In this Nov. 19, 2016, file photo, Mark Zuckerberg, chairman and CEO of Facebook, speaks at the CEO summit during the annual Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum in Lima, Peru. From complaints whistleblower Frances Haugen has filed with the SEC, along with redacted internal documents obtained by The Associated Press, the picture of the mighty Facebook that emerges is of a troubled, internally conflicted company, where data on the harms it causes is abundant, but solutions are halting at best. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix, File) XNC107 XNC107

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Christina Ponce, a public health nurse for Contra Costa County in California, fills syringes with the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine. (Rachel Bluth/KHN/TNS)

Are COVID vaccine boosters widely needed? Some federal advisers have misgivings

Food & Drink

An assortment of pumpkin-flavored foods from Trader Joe’s. (Chris Borrelli/Chicago Tribune/TNS)

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Pacific NW Magazine

Councilman Sam Smith. left, and Councilwoman Mrs. Phyllis Lamphere were among the pickets at City Hall yesterday. Virtually all were protesting the Pike Plaza urban-renewal plan. Mrs. Lamphere, who supports the urban-renewal plan, was in a sense picketing pickets. At center was Victor Steinbrueck, architect and a leader of Friends of the Market, an organization backing preservation of the Pike Place Market area. Eighty to 100 persons picketed the building yesterday noon. Friends of the Market contends urban renewal would destroy the market’s spirit and result in mistreatment of market-area residents and businessmen. Some city officials contend the market is in disrepair and cannot be saved without the invest-ment of public money. (4/2/1971)

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Seattle Times editorial board endorsements: Nov. 2, 2021, general election

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Seattle Seahawks quarterback Geno Smith (7) signals before the snap during an NFL football game, Sunday, Oct. 17, 2021 in Pittsburgh. (AP Photo/Matt Durisko) NYOTK

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Arts & Life

Nikki Sixx at home in in Jackson, Wyo., in 2020.

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Photography

Climate Pledge Arena – Seattle Kraken vs. Vancouver Canucks- 102321 Fans cheer as they enter the building before the start of the first game at Climate Pledge Arena Saturday Oct. 23, 2021, in Seattle. 218520
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Dressed as Rachel the Pig, the Pike Place Market symbol, Rebecca Yule barely draws a glance as she walks amid visitors in the landmark on the 50th anniversary of it being saved from the wrecking ball. Ref to more photos online. Saturday Oct 23, 2021 218608
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Climate Pledge Arena – Foo Fighters concert – 101921 Dave Grohl of the Foo Fighters performs at Climate Pledge Arena Tuesday Oct. 19, 2021, in Seattle. 218542
Music

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T.J. Watt gets the strip of Geno Smith in overtime, leading to Pittsburgh’s winning field goal. . The Seattle Seahawks played the Pittsburgh Steelers in Sunday Night Football, October 17, 2021 at Heinz Field in Pittsburgh, PA. 218532
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