An unusual COVID-19 testing operation in Capitol Hill. (Courtesy Public Health ñ Seattle & King County) (Public Health – Seattle & King C / )
An unusual COVID-19 testing operation recently set up in Capitol Hill. (Courtesy Public Health - Seattle & King County)
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Jordan Royer, left, holds a thank-you card to be presented to QFC Manager Mike Good, right. Community leaders came together to thank QFC employees losing their jobs when the Wedgwood store closes this weekend. Some $11,000 was raised in the community, and paid to the employees as thank-you for their service. Photographed Thursday, April 22, 2021 216974
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Washington’s Claire Hoffman (21), from left, and Marin Grote (12) reach to block a tip from Kentucky’s Madison Lilley (3) in the first set of the semifinal of the 2020 NCAA D1 Volleyball Championship at CHI Health Center in Omaha, Nebraska, Thursday, April 22, 2021. By Rebecca S. Gratz
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FILE -In this Dec. 4, 2014, file photo, released by the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, a wolf from the Snake River Pack passes by a remote camera in eastern Wallowa County, Ore. Trump administration officials on Thursday, Oct. 29, 2020, stripped Endangered Species Act protections for gray wolves in most of the U.S., ending longstanding federal safeguards and putting states in charge of overseeing the predators. (Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife via AP, File)
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Meteorite hunter Robert Ward with a pressure tank that contained super-cold helium, debris from the re-entry of the upper stage of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket that fell to earth about six miles northeast of Beverly in eastern Washington.
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Volunteer Anna Fern CQ helps gather diapers to distribute to social service agency partners at WestSide Baby in White Center, Tuesday, April 20, 2021. 216937
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FILE -In this Dec. 4, 2014, file photo, released by the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, a wolf from the Snake River Pack passes by a remote camera in eastern Wallowa County, Ore. Trump administration officials on Thursday, Oct. 29, 2020, stripped Endangered Species Act protections for gray wolves in most of the U.S., ending longstanding federal safeguards and putting states in charge of overseeing the predators. (Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife via AP, File)
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Teachers and others attending a Washington Green Schools program get detailed views during a tour of a “material recover facility” called Recology, Thursday, Feb. 28, 2019, in Seattle, where the group learned about waste sciences and recycling. 209489
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Two people were shot and injured this morning at an encampment at an industrial area near the Duwamish River in the South Park neighborhood of Seattle Thursday April 22, 2021. 216976
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The Olympia State Capitol framed with blossoms Wednesday, April 14, 2021. LO LO LO 216911
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Meteorite hunter Robert Ward with a pressure tank that contained super-cold helium, debris from the re-entry of the upper stage of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket that fell to earth about six miles northeast of Beverly in eastern Washington.

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Gov. Jay Inslee speaks with Marysville firefighters Luis Cruz, left, and Chris Brunett, right, about being vaccinators at the mass COVID-19 vaccination site on Tuesday, April 20, 2021 in Arlington, Wash. (Olivia Vanni/The Herald via AP) WAEVE102

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It’s teamwork as Ashley Hernandez, left and Sam Padilla (CQ), put finishing touches on their unique cookies, all made from their own recipes. They own Coping Cookies, a pop-up seller of their creations. Ref to more photos online Saturday April 17, 2021 216856

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Takuji Yamashita earned his law degree from the University of Washington in 1902. He was awarded U.S. citizenship that year, and then had it stripped away by the Washington Supreme Court because of his Japanese birth. The ruling also denied him admittance to the bar, so Yamashita went into business and farming. He would later join a U.S. Supreme Court appeal to try to reverse the ban on citizenship for Asian immigrants. Credit: UW Magazine / Courtesy Imaizumi and Yamashita families

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FILE – In this March 15, 2018, file photo, people watch coverage of the first round of the NCAA college basketball tournament at the Westgate Las Vegas Superbook sports book in Las Vegas. Nevada casinos have crossed the $1 billion revenue mark for the third consecutive month. Regulators released data Monday, April 30, 2018, showing casinos statewide earned about $1.03 billion from gamblers in March. (AP Photo/John Locher, File) LA109

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At RoozenGaarde Display Gardens, Mount Vernon, ackrylic artist Kylie Fair Anderson, from Anacortes, has her easel posted at the edge of the 25-acre Tulip field. Mid April is the best time to view the Tulips. The Tulip farm is open seven days a week, 8am to 7pm. Admission is $15.00 per person, children 12 and under are free. LO LO LO 216934
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Emily Yang, left, and Leanne Xu, both 4, play in the sand and water during a spell of exceptionally warm weather at Juanita Beach Park in Kirkland Sunday April 18, 2021. 216931
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A Camellia’s prominent pollen-producing stamens venture out into the air at the Seattle Japanese Garden, one of countless extraordinary scenes often no bigger than a coin, as Spring unfolds around Seattle and viewed using a close-up lens Sunday, April 4, 2021. 216811
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Nikita Ares CQ, a Seattle-based painter, works Tuesday, March 30, 2021 to install her first exhibition at the newly-opened Museum of Museums CQ on First Hill. 216766
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