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    Novemver 21, 1936: Elsie Parrish, a maid at the Hotel Cascadian, makes a bed.
    August 11, 2019 at 7:00 am

    A Centennial Celebration of Suffrage: Elsie Parrish: A chambermaid clears the way for minimum wages

    After a landmark Supreme Court ruling, Parrish finally received the pay she was owed — and launched a legacy that’s gone mostly unnoticed, even by...

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    April 18, 1971:
About 2,500 persons sat in a grassy area at the northeast corner of the Seattle Center yesterday for an anti-war rally after they had marched through downtown Seattle. Stephanie Coontz, an anti-war leader, stood on the speakers’ platform.
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    Trish Millines Dziko (cq) is the CEO/Executive Diretor of Technology Access Foundation (TAF) Academy. Photographed at their Kent, Wash., campus, on Tuesday, September 19, 2012. 

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    Ralph Munro, left, met Gov. Dan Evans in March 1968. Three months later, Evans appointed Munro, then 24, to lead a committee to study volunteerism. ?Ralph was the one who taught me to care,? Evans said when Munro retired after 20 years as secretary of state.
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    Seattle, Wa  –  144439 – gg  –  Former NAACP local president Dr. Sheley Secrest (cq) speaks to a rally on the steps outside Seattle City Hall. About 75 City of Seattle employees walked out of work during the 1:00pm lunch hour for a half-hour Tuesday to demonstrate their support for police reform and are urging their colleagues to do the same. Several groups are involved in organizing the walkout on the day after Martin Luther King Jr. Day, including the City Light Black Employees Association, Seattle Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgendered and Questioning Employee Association, Citywide Black Caucus and City of Seattle Native American Employees (CANOES).
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    Ceres is a high-tech, aquaponic, vertical marijuana farm in Bellevue. The soil-free plants thrive on nutrient rich water continually monitored for their PH and nutrient levels.
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    KCTS personality George Ray
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    Public TV pledge anchor, ‘KCTS Cooks’ host George Ray dies at 85

    George Ray introduced recipes, persuaded viewers to buy bluegrass music, and cast his affable personality across airwaves for some 50 years.

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