People line up to get COVID-19 vaccines at the Auburn Outlet Collection in March. (Ellen M. Banner / The Seattle Times)
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Travelers returning to SeaTac International Airport wait for their rideshare on level three of the parking garage served by Uber, Lyft and Wingz. These are mobile apt- based transport. An Uber ride from the airport to downtown Seattle was about $45. The fare into Seattle is around $3.00 depending on distance traveled on Link light rail. Thursday June 17, 2021. Seattle-Tacoma Int’l Airport 217431
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“Black Lives Matter!!” chants ring out as Jevell Sutton, center, with the Pan-African flag, and others march at the Juneteenth Freedom March and Festival along 23rd Avenue East in Seattle’s Central District neighborhood Saturday June 19, 2021. Juneteenth, recently recognized as a federal holiday, commemorates the day in 1865 that Union troops arrived in Galveston, Texas, to command freedom for all enslaved people, more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation. It celebrates the end of slavery in the United States.
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The Cascade Swim Club finishes a training session at Colman Pool in the morning before the facility reopens to the public on Saturday June 19, 2021. In West Seattle it the city’s open air-salt water pool on the Sound. Water temperature is 83-degrees and swimming is at 25% capacity. June 19 through September 6 at reduced capacity. LO Linesonly 217421
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The Cascade Swim Club finishes a training session at Colman Pool in the morning before the facility reopens to the public on Saturday June 19, 2021. In West Seattle it the city’s open air-salt water pool on the Sound. Water temperature is 83-degrees and swimming is at 25% capacity. June 19 through September 6 at reduced capacity. LO Linesonly 217421

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Alexander Popov, a man who was arrested on suspicion of murder sits behind the glass in a courtroom in the city of Gorodets, 60 km. (36 miles) north-west of Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, Sunday, June 20, 2021. A court in central Russia has arraigned the suspect on murder charges in the death of an American woman studying at a local university. The body of 34-year-old Catherine Serou was found Saturday in the woods area near the city of Nizhny Novgorod, 400 kilometers (250 miles) east of Moscow. (AP Photo/Roman Yarovitsyn) XAZ123 XAZ123

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Kate Dorman juggles while swimming laps at Colman Pool as it reopens on Saturday. The exercise is called swuggling (CQ) and Dorman says it makes it more fun beside being rigorous. Colman Pool in West Seattle is the city’s only open-air salt water pool on the Sound. Water temperature is 83-degrees and swimming is at 25% capacity for one-hour sessions. REF to more photos online (and Video) The slide and the diving board were closed while I was there. June 19 through September 6 at reduced capacity. LO Linesonly 217421
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Trayon Michael, a member of the Royal House of Noir, competes in face during the Royal Youth Kiki Ball outside the Langston Hughes Performing Arts Center in Seattle Saturday, June 5, 2021.
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University of Washington Master of Occupational Therapy (MOT) degree candidates gather for a group photo in front of Suzzallo Library. Mackenzie Koehler, left, Kori Wilson (with camera iPhone), Bernie Brady and Larissa Grieves are among the 24 in their class receiving degrees. The campus graduation ceremony is virtual again this year on Saturday. These students have already had a virtual commencement for the two dozen receiving MOTs> (The one person hidden, NO I.D.) They use the covered front entrance to shelter from the rain. (See more photos online) LO Linesonly Friday, June 11, 2021 217370
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The two-week-old penguin chick mistakes Dr. Karen Wolf’s finger for a piece of herring. Keepers and veterinary staff are hand-rearing the rare Magellanic chick back to good health after it was suffering from what appeared to be dehydration. Staff determined the chick needed extra assistance to survive including syringe feedings four times a day. It now weighs over one-pound. Dr. Wolf says, “without veterinary intervention the chick would not have survived. It was weak, dehydrated and unable to feed.” Feedings include a blend of herring and krill, vitamin supplements and herring with skin, bones and fins removed. Point Defiance Zoo and Aquarium has fifteen Magellanic penguins in the colony. (Wolf is the head vet at PDZA) It’s the first penguin in the colony they’ve had to hand-feed. Ref to more photos online Linesonly Thursday June 10, 2021 217364
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