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A construction worker maneuvers a panel into place at the first installation of high-performance building panels that will make up a 15-story apartment building at 303 Battery Street in Seattle Tuesday, October 19, 2021. Sustainable Living Innovations factory workers (not in photo) who built the panels in the Tacoma factory were there to watch. When completed, the building will feature 112 units, with 27 of those units designated as affordable. The building is an 100% electric building with no natural gasoline line, no fossil fuels combusted on site and 600+ on-site solar panels. It will have a 100% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions and is projected to use less than half the energy of a similarly-sized conventional multifamily building. The building will be completed in ten months and only 25 construction workers will be needed on site to build it. 218554

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John Tausaga gets a Pfizer booster shot by nurse Betty Tesfaye at Highline College Monday, October 11, 2021. She and others are there every Monday from 10 a.m. – 2:30 p.m. to give shots to anyone who would like one. They provide Johnson & Johnson, Maderna and Pfizer vaccines, as well as booster shots. They have been at the campus since August and plan to be there until next year. Any K-12 educators/school staff, health care workers or state workers will have to be fully vaccinated by Oct. 18 if they want to keep their jobs (with some leeway depending on union negotiations). Highline College is located at 2400 S 240th St. in Des Moines. 218481

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Councilman Sam Smith. left, and Councilwoman Mrs. Phyllis Lamphere were among the pickets at City Hall yesterday. Virtually all were protesting the Pike Plaza urban-renewal plan. Mrs. Lamphere, who supports the urban-renewal plan, was in a sense picketing pickets. At center was Victor Steinbrueck, architect and a leader of Friends of the Market, an organization backing preservation of the Pike Place Market area. Eighty to 100 persons picketed the building yesterday noon. Friends of the Market contends urban renewal would destroy the market’s spirit and result in mistreatment of market-area residents and businessmen. Some city officials contend the market is in disrepair and cannot be saved without the invest-ment of public money. (4/2/1971)

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