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Sustainable business practices are focus of new 4-course certificate program at Bellevue College
The program was developed after Bellevue College conducted a “Green Survey” among 16 Puget Sound companies, large and small, to identify and assess the work-force skills employers need to operate successfully today and in the future. Leaders of the participating companies expressed an increasingly urgent need for professionals who understand how to integrate sustainable practices into all aspects of their operations.
Bellevue Reporter, August 17, 2010
http://www.pnwlocalnews.com/east_king/bel/business/100940504.html
Students lean on emergency endowment for help
So far this year the Clover Park Technical College Foundation has granted almost $12,000 to help dozens of students who have had some kind of financial emergency.
The Suburban Times, August 17, 2010
http://www.thesubtimes.com/2010/08/17/students-lean-on-emergency-endowment-for-help/
State's WorkFirst program takes cuts to balance budget
Other reductions will include: … Less funding for job search, job retention, career advancement and other employment services … Fewer education and training services … Reduced child care support for two-parent families by requiring one parent, instead of both parents, to participate in work activities
Snohomish Times, August 17, 2010
http://www.snohomishtimes.com/snohomishNEWS.cfm?inc=story&newsID=1344
Study Examines How Quickly Transport GHP Controls Carpenter Ants
A study by Dr. Laurel Hansen, of Spokane Falls Community College, looked at how quickly two products controlled carpenter ants.
PCT Magazine, August 18, 2010
http://www.pctonline.com/Transport-GHP-carpenter-ant-study.aspx
What I’m Drinking Now: WOW wine!
The Texas Sommelier Conference had incredible wine at both the sessions … One of my favorites was in a session about the wine of Washington State. The session’s lessons on topography, and how the soil of a vineyard above a floodplain will give completely different characteristics to the soil of a vineyard below a floodplain, even if those two pieces of land are right next to each other, was insightful. … Dr. Kevin Pogue PhD, a professor at Walla Walla Community College, [discussed] the land that makes the vineyards of Washington State so different and the soil so expressive.
D [Dallas] Magazine, August 18, 2010
http://sidedish.dmagazine.com/2010/08/18/what-im-drinking-now-wow-wine/
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