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Beertender Edward Cunningham checks vaccination cards Wednesday as customers enter Burke-Gilman Brewing Company in Seattle. (Steve Ringman / The Seattle Times)
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King County customers of restaurants, theaters, gyms must show proof of COVID vaccination or negative test

King County will begin requiring customers of restaurants, bars, gyms and other indoor entertainment spaces to show proof of vaccination from COVID-19, or a negative test taken within 72 hours. Updated

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Attendance was increased for Sunday’s game, and the upper deck saw its largest crowd of the season. Austin FC played the Seattle Sounders FC in MLS Soccer Sunday, May 30, 2021 at Lumen Field in Seattle, WA. 217261
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Trevor Moawad seen on day two of Summit LA19 in Downtown Los Angeles on Saturday, Nov. 10, 2019, in Los Angeles. (Photo by Amy Harris/Invision/AP)
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As Lee Roof CQ records the measurements, Kelly Hulsey stretches the tape around another entry in the giant pumpkin weigh-off by the Puget Sound Giant Pumpkin Growers at Christianson’s Nursery in Mount Vernon on Saturday September 26, 2015. The winner, left, by Scott Carley weighs 1,427 1/2 pounds and Joel Holland’s 3rd place pumpkin, right, weighs 1,254 1/2 pounds.
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Jason Duncan, right, a vice president at Outdoor Research, stands with employee Ian Mason, left, as they prepare to talk with applicants at a job hiring fair May 16, 2020, in Seattle. The company started with cloth masks for the general public, but soon pursued making medical-grade masks, investing millions to convert an entire floor of its downtown headquarters into an FDA-approved facility. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren) NY686
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The old Black Angus Motor Inn, Sunday, Sept. 12, 2021 in Seattle, is partly demolished. The inn was bought by the Low Income Housing Institute this year who will host a tiny house village on the site next to it. 218185
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Abandoned Seattle motel where homeless slept demolished for tiny house village

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RETRANSMISSION OF XNYT144 TO PROVIDE ALTERNATE CROP — President Joe Biden, participates in a videoconference with Prime Minister Scott Morrison of Australia, left, and Prime Minister Boris Johnson of the United Kingdom, from the White House in Washington on Wednesday, Sept.15, 2021. The Biden administration took a major step on Wednesday in challenging China’s broad territorial claims in the Pacific, announcing that the United States and Britain would help Australia to deploy nuclear-powered submarines, adding to the Western presence in the region. (Doug Mills/The New York Times) XNYT144 XNYT144

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FILE – In this Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2020, file photo, a Republican election challenger at right watches over election inspectors as they examine a ballot as votes are counted into the early morning hours at the central counting board in Detroit. There is no shortage of job openings for election officials in Michigan. And Pennsylvania. And Wisconsin. After facing waves of threats and intimidation during the 2020 election and its aftermath, county officials who run elections are quitting or retiring early as the once quiet job has become a minefield because of the baseless claims of fraud pushed by former President Donald Trump and much of the Republican Party. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File) NYSB502
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Jason Duncan, right, a vice president at Outdoor Research, stands with employee Ian Mason, left, as they prepare to talk with applicants at a job hiring fair May 16, 2020, in Seattle. The company started with cloth masks for the general public, but soon pursued making medical-grade masks, investing millions to convert an entire floor of its downtown headquarters into an FDA-approved facility. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren) NY686

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Michael Reyes, holding his 10-month-old son Scout, addresses a rally of union carpenters at their hall in Kent Wednesday night. The carpenters were signing up to picket duty for the anticipated beginning of their strike on Thursday morning. Union media rep Kristin Hyde said there was a “100% chance” they would strike, beginning at four locations around the region. Wednesday Sept. 15, 2021 25120 Pacific Highway South, 218224

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FILE – In this Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2021 file photo Ann Enderle R.N. attends to a COVID-19 patient in the Medical Intensive care unit (MICU) at St. Luke’s Boise Medical Center in Boise, Idaho. Idaho’s public health officials say crisis standards of care are “imminent” for the state’s most populated region as hospitals in the Boise area continue to be overrun with unvaccinated coronavirus patients. Hospitals in the northern half of the state were given permission to begin rationing care last week. (AP Photo/Kyle Green,File) LA205 LA205

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Design For Acceptance: Looking up from his drawing board, Minoru Yamasaki, architect-designer, had reason to smile as he worked in his office in Birmingham, Mich. He is one of many Japanese-Americans who have built successful careers since Second World War. Highlight for Yamasaki was his return to his home town, Seattle, as architect-designer of the United States Science Pavilion at this year’s World’s Fair. On the wall were two views of the Central Hotel, Los Angeles, which he designed.

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Trevor Moawad seen on day two of Summit LA19 in Downtown Los Angeles on Saturday, Nov. 10, 2019, in Los Angeles. (Photo by Amy Harris/Invision/AP)

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An injured harbor seal pup lays on the beach before being rescued by trained volunteers with Seal Sitters, part of NOAA’s marine mammal stranding network. Lynn Shimamoto, a trained investigator with Seal Sitters, part of NOAA’s marine mammal stranding network, rescues an injured young harbor seal pup along the beach at Seacrest Park in West Seattle, Sunday September 12, 2021. “We were concerned because it’s very thin and seems to have some respiratory issues,” said Shimamoto. Also, she added, “it keeps coming up on these really busy beaches,” and was recently chased by a dog into the water. The seal, safely put into a carrier for transport, was be taken to the SeaLife Response Rehab and Research (SR3) marine animal hospital in Des Moines. Shimamoto says it is incredibly important for the public not to disturb marine wildlife. Wildlife hospitals will not accept drop-offs of marine animals from the public. If you observe an animal on a West Seattle beach in distress, call their hotline at 206-905-SEAL and visit their website at www.sealsitters.org for more information.
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Injured harbor seal pup rescued on West Seattle beach

After the offense gave up a fumble in 3rd quarter, the defense got the ball back on a similar play, taking a 4th and 1 for Indianapolis and turning the ball over. . The Seattle Seahawks played the Indianapolis Colts in NFL Football Sunday, September 12, 2021 at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, IN. 218183
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The Stars & Strips flies from the Seattle Fire Department’s ladder 4 at Seattle Center during a 9/11 memorial on Saturday. When the World Trade Center’s towers collapsed, 343 FDNY firefighters died along with workers there. Saturday, September 11, 2021 218189 (Alan Berner / Alan Berner)
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