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Faith in the news:
from Good News Northwest:
TRANSFORMATION A NEW DIRECTION
By Mark Darroch
from The Fig Tree:
Urban farming improves access to food
By Mary Stamp
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Urban farming improves access to food
By Mary Stamp
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May Day protests disrupt downtown Seattle, Portland
Associated Press
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| from americaeveryday.blogspot.com and the National September 11th Memorial |
NYC rises to new, old heights
Twin towers replacement surpasses Empire State
Michael Muskal Los Angeles Times
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Jim Kershner’s this day in history
Jim Kershner The Spokesman-Review
The Coeur d’Alene Inn, the oldest hotel in Coeur d’Alene, was destroyed by fire when two Japanese boarders accidentally overturned an oil stove in their room.
They poured a bucket of water on the fire, but that only made the flames spread. The room became a “mass of flames,” which spread rapidly throughout the second floor of the three-story structure.
The hotel was erected in 1878 on the fort grounds but was removed by order of the post commander and transported to a site on Sherman Avenue. A third story was added in 1892, giving the building 60 sleeping rooms.
The damaged building might have been repairable, but the fire ordinances of the time prohibited any frame building from being repaired within the city limits. Old frame buildings had to be torn down and replaced by brick structures in order to reduce the risk of citywide fires.
This date in history
1960: The Soviet Union shot down an American U-2 reconnaissance plane over Sverdlovsk and captured its pilot, Francis Gary Powers.
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Wind farms ordered to cut production
PORTLAND – The Bonneville Power Administration twice ordered Pacific Northwest wind farms to cut production in recent days because it has a surplus of power from hydroelectric dams.
The agency, which manages much of the power grid in the Northwest, confirmed it issued the orders during the early morning hours of Sunday and Monday, when demand is low.
The action rekindles a dispute from last year, when the agency curtailed wind turbines because the water from a large mountain snowpack left the region with more hydropower than the electrical grid could handle.
The BPA controls a majority of the region’s transmission system and markets power from a system of 31 dams and a nuclear plant in Washington. The nuclear plant reduced its output to 85 percent Monday afternoon in an effort to ease the situation.
Audit: Hanford tanks questionable
YAKIMA – The Energy Department and a contractor building a waste treatment plant at the nation’s most contaminated nuclear site procured and installed tanks that did not always meet requirements of a quality assurance program or the contract, a federal audit concluded Monday.
The audit also found that the agency had paid the contractor a $15 million incentive fee for production of a tank that was later determined to be defective and, while it demanded the fee be returned, never followed up to ensure that it was.
In recent months, the $12.3 billion plant under construction at southcentral Washington’s Hanford Nuclear Reservation has been the subject of whistleblower complaints about its design and safety. The plant is being built to convert highly radioactive waste into a stable glass form for permanent disposal underground.
The tanks’ design is significant because they will be located in so-called “black cells,” which are areas of the plant that will be too radioactively hot for workers to enter once the plant is operating.
The audit focused on tanks that were received and installed prior to mid-2005. No tanks of similar design have been received since then.
Occupy, immigrants planning protests
SEATTLE – Occupy Seattle, immigrant rights groups and others will hold a series of rallies and marches today.
The planned May Day activities have led Mayor Mike McGinn to issue a warning that some of the protesters may be planning to use violence and disruptive behavior. McGinn said city officials have evidence of such plans.
Some rallies will be centered at Westlake Park in downtown Seattle, the plaza where Occupy Seattle led a camp-in that lasted a few weeks last fall and heightened tensions between police and demonstrators.
One of the immigrant rights groups – El Comiti Pro Reforma Migratoria Y Justicia Social – said they are working with other organizations to ensure no disrupting behavior takes place during their annual march.
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Ellen Warren Chicago Tribune
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