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King County Elections (KCE) certified the recall petition filed earlier this year against Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant. 10,687 valid signatures from Seattle City Council District 3 registered voters were required to send the recall issue to voters. Petitioners submitted over 16,000 signatures to be verified in early September.

“Vacancies in the Sheriff’s Department diminish our ability to create a safe place for residents to thrive in King County,” Lambert Said. “Low morale, lack of public support, and the vaccine mandate have created challenges to retaining and recruiting sheriff deputies.”

A program to tackle youth incarceration by promoting paths to opportunity for young people, especially among youth of color, is being formed by the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Washington School of Medicine.

Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan and Seattle Public School Interim Superintendent Brent Jones announced a new partnership between the City and Seattle Public Schools to replace Memorial Stadium, and to provide the opportunity for a new school to serve downtown Seattle using a city property.

Kraken Community Iceplex in Northgate host several Girls’ and Women’s hockey events this weekend, October 9-10. Throughout the weekend there will be opportunities for everyone, regardless of hockey experience, to come to KCI and experience hockey.

As they prepare for homecoming this weekend, the CD Panthers, as an organization, is doing all that they can to make sure parents, their children and the community as a whole is provided with a safe and celebratory experience, and to reassure parents and supporters that this incident will not deter their efforts to giving children and community members a safe environment and a sense of unity.

Dr. Constance W. Rice has been elected Chair of the Seattle Art Museum’s board of trustees.

The Youth and Law Forum is in its 31st year providing seminars, guest speakers and events that help shape a better understanding on how the law works and the opportunities the legal arena offers in the form of careers to parents and young people within the Black community.

This project was originally slated to start at the beginning of the last school year, but due to the pandemic, it had to be delayed a year. Along with Washington Middle School, the Omegas also partnered with Rainer Valley Leadership Academy (RVLA).

Woods has been involved in the City’s equity work from the point that the Office of Equity and Human Rights was first established as a member of the City’s Equity and Empowerment Think Tank as well as the City’s Equity Cohort with the Government Alliance on Race and Equity.