André Lucero, president of Western Neon, guides the top half of the Elephant Car Wash neon sign to a trailer Tuesday. This half weighs about 2,000 pounds of the total 5,000-pounds. The sign will be taken to the company’s shop and eventually to MOHAI.(Alan Berner / The Seattle Times)
André Lucero, president of Western Neon, guides the top half of the Elephant Car Wash neon sign to a trailer Tuesday. (Alan Berner / The Seattle Times)
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Nuclear waste is handled by workers, seen on a computer monitor, during a tour of Perma-Fix, Thursday, Nov. 19, 2020 in Richland, Wash. 215610
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Washington head coach Jimmy Lake greets players before an NCAA college football game against Arizona Saturday, Nov. 21, 2020, in Seattle. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson) OTK OTK
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OUT IT GOES: The city dump near the University of Washington was a busy place over the weekend as Seattle residents threw away rubbish resulting from yard work and fall-cleaning chores. Entry to the dump now is made by a new roadway off Union Bay Place Northeast, about two blocks east of the old entrance off Montlake Boulevard Northeast. City officials are wrestling with the problem of how to dispose of refuse after the dump ground is filled up, as it will be in the not-too-distant future.
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The Port of Moses Lake operates the Grant County International Airport where there are approximately 80 Boeing 737 MAX airplanes being stored near the runway until the FAA clears the MAX to fly passengers again. The airport has enough space to store around 180 of these 737s if necessary as Boeing continues to build these jet in Renton Washington. Photographed in Moses Lake Washington on August 29, 2019. 211299 211299
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Exterior shot of the now closed Red Lion hotel in Renton where Downtown Emergency Service Center (DESC) is housing over 200 homeless people, shot Monday, May 11, 2020. DESC is a non-profit Seattle organization that provides services for Seattle’s homeless population. At this point, the group has a 90-day lease at the location. 213925

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FILE – In this Nov. 24, 2020, file photo President-elect Joe Biden puts on his face mask after introducing nominees and appointees to key national security and foreign policy posts at The Queen theater in Wilmington, Del. Congress is bracing for Biden to move beyond the Trump administration’s state-by-state approach to the COVID-19 crisis and build out a national strategy to fight the pandemic and distribute the eventual vaccine.(AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File) WX101 WX101

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Clothing is displayed during a media preview at the Nordstrom Inc. store in New York, U.S., on Monday, Oct. 21, 2019. on Tuesday, Oct. 21, 2019. When Nordstrom inaugurates its much-hyped mega-store in a skyscraper overlooking Central Park this week, it will be the biggest new retail space the city has seen in over half a century. Photographer: Mark Abramson/Bloomberg

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These waters flow into Bristol Bay, Alaska, above which the proposed Pebble Mine would sit. Illustrates ALASKA-MINE (category a) by Kim Murphy (c) 2009, Los Angeles Times. Moved Friday, July 31, 2009. (MUST CREDIT: Los Angeles Times photo by Luis Sinco.)

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Waterfront Park’s Pier 62 is now open, and the one-acre area is getting a steady flow of socially-distanced visitors, and not just for the fishing, Monday, Nov. 23, 2020 in Seattle. A series of lanterns changing colors show archival images that serve to symbolically honor and celebrate Seattle communities and families. The sprawling piece was made by the art collective Psych-Pop, two former Garfield High School classmates: Devon Midori Hale and Chi Moscou-Jackson. The duo was invited to create here by Friends of Waterfront Seattle’s Artist-in-Residence Takiyah Ward, who asked local artists “How do we honor our elders, determine our self, and protect our youth?” according to a sign at the pier. The 2020 lantern piece is called “Artifacts From Utopia.” The pier is open 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. daily. For more information about Pier 62 go to waterfrontparkseattle.org . 215738
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Addie Morton, front, Joey Joseph, Sonja Nelson and Lindsey Holley, right, drop off donated care package ingredients for Bridge Ministries in Bellevue Friday November 20, 2020. Each year, the students of Northwest’s Child/Aaron’s Place focus on a few projects for their annual “Fall into Kindness” project, and one of their focuses this year was benefitting other nonprofits who had been hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic. Holley is an assistant director of Northwest’s Child/Aaron’s Place. 215713
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Northwest’s Child lends a hand to Bridge Ministries and its clients  VIEW

A snowy owl keeps watch from the roof of a Queen Anne home. The large birds are native to Arctic regions and breed mostly on the tundra. LO Snowy owl on Queen Anne on Thursday Nov. 19, 2020
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Seth Rodwell secures the top of a tower tree in Westlake Park. With no annual carousel coming to the park, the Downtown Seattle Association is bringing Holiday Lights & Delights from Nov. 27 through Jan. 9. Following the Westlake Center tree lighting, the switch will be flipped on more than 80,000 lights, all LED’s, on arches, tower-trees, orbs and more. (DSA says presented by Amazon) Ref to more photos online Saturday Nov. 21, 2020 LO Linesonly 215721
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Lighting up Westlake in Seattle for the holidays  VIEW