Applications are being taken for the YouthBuild program in the Yakima Valley. Low-income women ages
16-24 are encouraged to apply.
Participants will have the opportunity to complete their high school diploma or earn their GED, learn residential construction and earn a construction certification.
The program, which begins Tuesday, is run by Northwest Community Action Center.
To apply, visit the center at 706 Rentschler Lane, Toppenish. For more information, call 509-865-7630.
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The Olympia School District will host a community forum about construction of the new Olympia Regional Learning Academy (ORLA) at 6:30 p.m. today at the Knox Administrative Center, 1113 Legion Way SE.
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The Bellingham Public Works Department said the following roads will have traffic limitations during the week of the week of March 4, 2013, to accommodate construction and repair.
Alabama Street between St. Paul and Toledo streets Alabama Street between St. Paul and Toledo streets will be intermittently reduced to one lane while Interwest Construction, under contract with the City of Bellingham, replaces the sewer main line. Flaggers will direct traffic around closures. For additional information visit the City webpage at http://www.cob.org/government/departments/pw/projects/2012-sewer-rehabilitation-program-eu-0156.aspx or contact Shane Oden, P.E., Project Engineer, at stoden@cob.org or 778-7921.
Alley between Pacific and Orleans streets The alley between Pacific and Queen streets from Carolina to Kentucky streets will be closed while Interwest Construction, under contract with the City of Bellingham, replaces the sewer main line. Flaggers will direct traffic around closures. For additional
BELLINGHAM - Seafood processor Bornstein Seafoods has donated $100,000 to the Bellingham Technical College fisheries program building campaign.
As an acknowledgment of the donation, BTC will name the hatchery portion of the new Fisheries and Aquaculture Sciences building The Bornstein Hatchery, dedicated to Myer J. (Jay) Bornstein.
"Naming the hatchery of this building for Bornstein Seafoods honors the Bornstein family and specifically Jay's significant contributions to Bellingham's waterfront and fishing industry, and to the national seafood business," BTC President Patricia McKeown said in a news release.
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