February 27

WA State Neighborhood Networks Consortium

Neighborhood Networks invites you to two grand openings of computer learning centers in Seattle on Saturday, February 28. They're only a few blocks apart, so you can visit both. This is an opportunity to share information with Neighborhood Networks Consortium members.

Grand Opening of The Bryant Manor Computer Learning Center

1801 E. Yesler Way, Seattle (near Langston Hughes Cultural Center)

1:00 PM to 3:00 PM

Sponsored by the First AME Church Housing Corporation

Grand Opening of the Chateau Apartments Learning Center

119 - 19th Avenue, Seattle

2:00 PM to 4:00 PM

Public Internet Access Locations in King County

About half the library branches now have graphical browsers that anyone can use. Some senior centers, community centers, Internet cafes and other locations also offer public Internet access.

1st Legislative District - King County Democrats

34th Legislative District - King County Democrats

37th Legislative District - King County Democrats

46th Legislative District - King County Democrats

Each of these Seattle-area Democratic party organizations now has its own separate Web site on SCN, within the King County Democrats site.

February 9

Queen Anne Neighborhood Planning Committee

The Queen Anne Neighborhood Planning Committee brings together residents, business people and employees from throughout Queen Anne. The Urban Center area near Seattle Center and the Urban Village on Upper Queen Anne are working together to develop one plan. Topical committees are researching each issue and developing draft plans for review by QANPC and by the community.

Seattle's Comprehensive Plan channels most of the city's projected job growth and about half of the housing growth into five major urban centers. The Queen Anne Urban Center is one of them. This is your chance to shape growth to improve the community, not degrade it.

Horizon Crest Community Association

Horizon Crest Community Association is run by volunteer members. Membership is open to all residents and homeowners within Eagles Mere divisions 2, 3, 4, and 5 in Bellevue, Washington. HCCA was established to encourage awareness of each other as neighbors, and as a forum for the discussion and resolution of concerns such as safety and other items of general interest.

January 31

West Seattle Helpline

The West Seattle Helpline is a non-profit social service agency providing assistance for West Seattle residents in need. Since 1988 the Helpline has offered financial aid and referral advice that can save residents from homelessness, hopelessness and hunger. Helpline is funded by many individuals, businesses and churches within the West Seattle community. The agency has only one paid employee and is staffed primarily by a corps of volunteers who care about the needs of their neighbors.

Typically, around 60 West Seattle families are helped each month. Helpline clients include fixed-income seniors, single parents, the working poor, people with disabilities, students and those new to our area. In addition to direct financial assistance, the Helpline makes numerous phone referrals each month for people living both in and outside of West Seattle to link them with needed services.

Welfare Rights Organizing Coalition

WROC is made up of families who currently receive Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF). WROC organizes groups of women and men to watch how welfare policy is implemented at their local welfare office and how it is made at the legislature and DSHS in Olympia. WROC currently has groups active in Seattle and King County. If you are interested in joining a group, or helping to start a group, please call the WROC office at (206) 324-3063.

The mission of the Welfare Rights Organizing Coalition is to effect economic and social justice by educating and empowering low income parents. WROC works to enable people receiving public assistance to make positive changes in the welfare system. WROC's goal is to change the welfare system so that it is more responsive to the needs of low income people and treats public assistance recipients fairly and with dignity. By seeing the changes they can make in the welfare system, WROC encourages its members to use those same skills to make positive decisions in their own lives.

Washington Contract Attorneys' Group

Washington Contract Attorneys' Group is a voluntary, non-profit association of attorneys who are available for hire on a temporary (contract) basis by other attorneys. The people in this group work solely for lawyers, law firms and corporations. If you need a lawyer to represent you, please see WCAG's list of lawyer referral services, which lists addresses and phone numbers for some of the lawyer referral services available in Washington state.

December 1

Sound Witness

"For many years a loose network of people from various Christian churches worked in the Seattle-Tacoma area reaching out to Jehovah's Witnesses, and all those affected by the Watchtower. Many people were helped. ... As we busied ourselves, over the years, with addressing the errors of the Watchtower and other sects/cults, we came to believe that segments of the 'Evangelical' Church are in danger of compromising the Gospel at crucial points. ...

"Sound Witness believes that evangelism must begin with clear communication of the objective substance of Christian faith and practice. Sound Witness seeks to speak to the minds of people, ... so that they might ... be better equipped to discern, not only the errors of sects/cults, but also the shifting winds of contemporary popular 'Evangelicalism'."

Questions: webeditors@scn.org