February 28

King County Library's Netmaster Volunteer Training Program

The King County Library System is looking for volunteers to teach informal public classes about how to use the Internet, at KCLS branch libraries. The Netmaster Volunteer Training Program provides a one-day orientation that lets you practice training others to unlock the vast store of information on the World Wide Web, and gives you the information necessary to meet the responsibility of representing the King County Library System.

Creative Retirement Institute

Edmonds Community College's spring CRI class schedule is now online. Here are the first few classes from the list:

Astronomy II: Our Celestial Neighbors -- April 7 - May 5

Bones of Contention II - Human Evolution -- May 15 - June 5

Design in Northwest Coast Indian Art -- April 19 - May 10

Enjoying Il Trovatore -- April 16, April 23

February 25

Crisis Resource Directory

The Peace Heathens' Crisis Resource Directory is a "consumer guide" to Seattle-area social and health crisis services. It has been fully fact-checked and updated between September '96 and February '97. The Crisis Directory has information on topics ranging from inexpensive legal help to where to take a shower if you're homeless.

February 22

Washington Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty

WCADP, created in 1984, is a coalition of twenty community, religious and legal organizations. Through public education and activism, the group works to increase opposition to the death penalty in the general public and among the state's leaders. WCADP publishes a quarterly newsletter, offers written resources and speakers about the death penalty, coordinates activities around the state, works with the media and the legislature, and offers support to death row inmates in Washington.

February 20

Chinese Cultural Learning Series

Professor Lu-Sheng Chong's free series of cultural lessons helps people learn Chinese as a second language. The course includes Chinese pronunciation, sentence patterns and conversation. The readings introduce traditional and simplified characters and Chinese-to-English translation. Reading selections are drawn from modern and classical texts, and discussions place them in historical and cultural context. Students can study at their own pace with self-teaching materials.

February 14

SCN Mailing Lists

SCN hosts over 50 mailing lists on a variety of topics. SCN's Information Providers operate some of these as forums for their concerns, and others are for SCN administration.

February 9

University Christian Church

UCC is in the heart of Seattle's U District. The University District Food Bank operates from UCC's basement, and the Church offers a teen shelter. UCC maintains outreach programs on the Yakima Indian Reservation and in the Yubik Eskimo village in Alaska. The UCC choir is looking for participants for its newly formed bell choir, and a director for the bell ringers.

February 1

ANON Faction

The Faction says that "Our objective is, of course, chaos. Our ideas are ambitiously ephemeral. Our structure is order. Like life." Faction members include, among others, irreligious witches and anarchistic Dark-Artists. They discuss and experiment with magick, chaos sorcery, freestyle shamanism, pangenic occulture, poetic terrorism, random espionage, tantric anarchy and ritual. And have parties.

January 31

Eat the State!

ETS bills itself as "a shamelessly biased political journal." Geov Parrish and friends provide news and commentary on the week's City Council maneuverings, local activist events, and the activities of the big media. ETS is published in a paper edition on Tuesdays, and broadcast on Saturday mornings on KCMU. To subscribe to ETS's e-mail edition, send a message to majordomo@scn.org and in the body of the message type subscribe eat-the-state you@where.com.

January 30

Vintage Telephone Equipment Museum

The Museum's exhibits date from 1876 to the present. It houses the largest collection of working historical phone equipment in any museum in the United States. Tours and hands-on exhibits give visitors a better understanding of how things work(ed). The Museum's volunteers, many of them retired and most of them members of the Telephone Pioneers of America, contribute to local adopt-a-school programs, repair talking books for the deaf, and participate in many other service projects in the community.

January 28

SCN User Survey in Progress

An online survey of SCN users is being conducted by doctoral candidate Mark Herwick from Portland State University. With the cooperation of the SCN Association, Herwick is seeking to understand how people use SCN and how this relates to community development, citizen participation and community/municipal relations.

Randomly selected SCN users will receive an e-mail message about how to complete the survey online. If contacted, please participate. Your opinions about SCN are important. The results will be reviewed to assess ways to make SCN better.

January 13

Save Lake Sammamish

SLS is concerned with preserving the water quality of Lake Sammamish, and taking action against toxic wastes and watershed development that pollutes the water. Sammamish is a lake in transition from a healthy salmon habitat to a high-density urban growth area. The Lake Sammamish species of kokanee salmon is on the verge of extinction, and shore-line spawning sockeye and steelhead are rapidly disappearing. On January 15, SLS will host a discussion among homeowners, gardeners and experts on lakeside landscaping, shoreline habitat and reducing the use of chemicals. It's this Wednesday at 7:00 PM at the Pomegranate Center in Issaquah, across from the Park 'n Ride.

Washington State Soccer Referee Committee

The SRC trains new referees, certifies referee instructors and oversees soccer refereeing in Washington. With the new smaller sides for younger players, there are now more teams and more games, so there is a need for more referees.

December 21

Marine Corps League

The League looks out for the interests of Marine veterans, assists hospitalized veterans, lobbies Congress, awards scholarships, and helps with the Marine Reserve's annual Christmas Toys for Tots program.

December 17

Northwest Zydeco Music and Dance Association

Find out about the history of Zydeco and Cajun music, check the Northwest Zydeco bands performance calendar, read the NWZMDA's class schedule and learn more about local bands and venues.

December 15

Computer Professionals for Social Responsibilty

CPSR's Seattle chapter will host the organization's yearly international conference, DIAC '97 - Community Space and Cyberspace, this March 1 and 2. CPSR is concerned with public information access in Washington state, and has drawn up a number of policy statements including K-12 Student Records: Privacy at Risk. CPSR/Seattle's local-computer-activists mailing list is open to anyone interested in computing and public policy issues.

December 11

Spirituality Menu

Several local religious and spiritual groups now have pages on SCN.

Unitarian Universalism's page introduces that community's principles and its local churches.

Sound Witness offers a collection of essays and other writings comparing different faiths.

They join the Riverton Park United Methodist Church (What's New for September 5) on our menu.

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