Carrolls News

Many North Central Washington residents woke Sunday morning to a flurry of snowfall out their windows as an unseasonable winter storm stalled over the region. via Wenatchee World

I found this photo here A story about veterans being trained at Olympic College for "green collar" jobs got a letter in response, saying that the program is vague and there is no market for people with these ... via Kitsapsun.com

“What we're telling people is to be patient”

Cold and erratic weather is expected to continue into next week, bringing plant-freezing temperatures through Tuesday. via Seattle Post-Intelligencer

University of Idaho researchers have helped to develop an interactive Web site to help manage watershed recovery efforts after two dams are removed in Washington state. via Seattle Post-Intelligencer

“Some families come every year and get a tree”

Earth Day isn't until Tuesday, but volunteers across Washington got a head start on it over the weekend by clearing invasive plants, planting native ones, picking up trash and generally working for a cleaner, ... via KOMO-TV Seattle

“There are a lot more people this time.”

Could it be, as local Democrats would have us believe, that the "big blue wave has finally hit"? Yakima County party leaders Saturday pointed to record turnout at their convention and FDR Dinner as further ... via Yakima Herald-Republic

“You're taking our mother away!”

Ana Reyes-Velasquez is secured in an SUV after Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers arrested her last week in Burien. via The Seattle Times

“Danielle takes pride in riding her favorite horse, Noel, which gives her self-confidence and great exercise.”

HANNAH NAUGHTON/ Mason and Christie Afualo make hand prints in a newly poured concrete slab at Tumbleweed Ranch while participating in the Pegasus Project recently. via Yakima Herald-Republic

Registration continues for the annual Olympic Coast Cleanup on April 26. Hundreds of volunteers will work to remove marine debris from ecologically sensitive coastline from Neah Bay to Long Beach. via The News Tribune

“Especially with climate change, nobody knows how useful this data will be”

Wish your own backyard pond had more "herps," as biologists call amphbians and reptiles? Follow these three rules, from Cory Samia of Vancouver's Water Resources Education Center:Lose the chemicals. via The Columbian

Posted today at 8:00 am by Jonathan Kauffman China to Monitor Olympic Food Plant 24 Hours a Day : Stories like this make your heart swell, don't they? China takes the Western world's safety concerns in mind and ... via Seattle Weekly

His petition opened with, "We want human rights, not the Olympics." * Pakistan's new Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani has challenged President Perez Musharraf by ordering the release of 10 judges arrested in ... via Seattle Indymedia Center

Thumbs up to Washington Residents for a Better Community for their steady, effective drive to gain better lighting for their community. via Tulare Advance-Register

“Nazis were in the vanguard of conservationism -- they sought to remedy the increasing alienation of people from the natural world, deforestation, urban sprawl. ... Hitler himself was a sometime vegetarian and animal lover.”

THE PRIVATE, locker-room cussing of George W. Bush and Dick Cheney holds nothing to the profanity heard in our household on the morning after the University of Washington's Center for Urban Horticulture was ... via Seattle Post-Intelligencer

A dancer at the top of ballet's establishment meshed almost seamlessly with the Washington Ballet ensemble in the company's opening performance at the Harman Center on Thursday, a treat for the audience and a tribute to the company's ascending quality. George Balanchine's 'The Four Temperaments' gained a deeply sensitive dimension from its guest star, American Ballet Theatre principal David Hallberg, but he was surrounded by dancers who delivered the work with a noticeable sophistication of their own. Read more

“I'm not, 'Oh, forgive him.' I have a lot of anger about it. If his life needs to be taken for what was taken from us, that's completely justified.”

Prosecutors have added aggravating circumstances to murder charges against a 20-year-old man accused of killing two people, then setting fire to their Spokane home, making the death penalty a possibility in the ... via The Columbian

“Symptoms - loss of function, decline in cognitive ability and difficult behavior - can be delayed and caregiver burden reduced through medication therapy, which may include combining medications from two FDA-approved Alzheimer's medication classes.”

Main Category: Alzheimer's / Dementia Also Included In: Caregivers / Homecare Results from the third annual Alzheimer's Foundation of America ICAN: Investigating Caregivers' Attitudes and Needs Survey suggest ... via MediLexicon

The city of Vancouver, Wash., has gone to federal court to try to block one piece to the Cowlitz Tribe's multi-prong approach toward building a big casino in north Clark County. via The Columbian

Lowland snow is expected to fall on most of Western Washington Thursday night and Friday morning, reported KIRO 7 Eyewitness News. via KIRO-TV Seattle

“It may take us a long time to get there, but I don't doubt that we will.”

When Washington state created a program giving parents five weeks paid time off to be with a new child, it was lauded as being ahead of the curve. via Tri-cityherald.com