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As passengers at center disembark from a Seattle center monorail at the Westlake Station in downtown Seattle, others at right wait to board Wednesday, March 31, 2021. Construction starts next week on station improvements, so crowds of fans (they say 4,000/night) can go to Kraken games by monorail. A wall will be broken to “open up” the platform area at Westlake Mall and existing booths at both the Westlake Mall and Seattle Center stations will be demolished and moved to the side, so folks can use ORCA to tap at fare gates. 216768

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Grace Vakalutukali (l) gets a shot from certified medical assistant Vanchesta Stewart at the Pacific Islander Community Association in Federal Way, Monday, April 5, 2021. UW Medicine is vaccinating people from the Pacific Islander community thanks to $1 million in funding from the Allen Family Foundation. The Allen Family Foundation grant boosts COVID-19 vaccinations in vulnerable communities 216804

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Clockwise from left, Narayan MacGowan, Sahej MacGowan, Halia Correia and Beau Rosen, front, look through the eggs they’ve found at a community Easter egg hunt at Seattle’s Interlaken Park Sunday April 4, 2021. Over 300 eggs were hidden by Kellie Sloan and her son to bring some Easter joy to the neighborhood kids.
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