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Riding the ferry to Seattle with Tony, Missy and AJ

Being exposed to wildfire smoke and poor air quality can also increase your risk of infection, including SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. Being exposed to wildfire smoke and poor air quality can also increase your risk of infection, including SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes #COVID -19. https://t.co/qtAhO7DvQG — The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center 😷 (@OSUWexMed) September 14, 2020 West Coast residents continue to suffer from fires and smoke with Seattle, Washington posting the worst air quality in the world on Friday. How can breathing wildfire smoke and ash impact the risk of contracting COVID-19? Lalaine Ignao has this report. Exposure to wildfire smoke can increase COVID-19 risk, health experts say https://t.co/EwynOEObBP via @KING5Seattle — Matthew Keys (@MatthewKeysLive) September 13, 2020 Register to vote at www.vote.gov . Already registered? Find out about state and local elections . Find your  state or locall election office...

Flashback: Riding the ferry into Seattle, Washington w Tony, Missy and AJ. August 1997. I thought we took the trip in 1998, but Missy said she recalls that we watched the news broadcast of Princess Diana's death when we were in Seattle. Princess Di died on August 31, 1997. We went to Bumbershoot, held from Friday August 29 to Monday September 1, 1997. Bumbershoot  is an annual international music and arts  festival  held in  Seattle ,  Washington . One of North America's largest such festivals, [1]  it takes place every  Labor Day  weekend (leading up to and including the first Monday of September) at the 74-acre (299,000 m 2 )  Seattle Center , which was built for the  1962 World's Fair . Seattle Center includes both indoor theaters and outdoor stages.  

Fil-Am Raquel Bono will head the #COVID19 Health System Response Management of Washington State. She is a retired US Navy Vice Admiral OLYMPIA, Washington — Gov. Jay Inslee on March 22 named retired Navy Vice Admiral Raquel C. Bono, a Filipino American, as Washington state director for COVID-19 Health System Response Management.  She will advise the governor and state agencies on how to address the pandemic. The Philippine-born Bono, the first woman surgeon in the military to hold the rank of vice admiral, is currently a senior fellow with the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. -- Inquirer.net #FilAm Raquel Bono will head the #COVID19 Health System Response Management of Washington State. She will advise the governor and state agencies on how to address the pandemic. #MyFilAmStory #COVID19PH | via @inquirerdotnet https://t.co/2KSZPG2kk4 — U.S. Embassy in the Philippines (@USEmbassyPH) April 6, 2020 Today, I named ret. Navy Vice Admiral R...

Here I am where it all started 45 years ago for Starbucks - Seattle !  Whoever thought they'd be famous all over the world?  And they still use the old logo in this store! VENI, VICI A VENTI - Ray Abenojar Starbucks Founding The first Starbucks opened in Seattle, Washington , on March 31, 1971 , by three partners who met while they were students at the University of San Francisco : English teacher Jerry Baldwin, history teacher Zev Siegl, and writer Gordon Bowker. The three were inspired to sell high-quality coffee beans and equipment by coffee roasting entrepreneur Alfred Peet after he taught them his style of roasting beans. The company took the name of the chief mate in the book Moby-Dick : Starbuck, after considering "Cargo House" and " Pequod ". Bowker recalls that Terry Heckler, with whom Bowker owned an advertising agency, thought words beginning with "st" were powerful. The founders brainstormed a list of words beginning with "...