Metro managers who #RideTransit: Bill Bryant
Shared from the Employee Transportation Program In observance of #RideTransit Month, we talked with four Metro managers about their transit commutes and any advice they’d like to pass along to new riders. Metro’s Managing Director of Service Development Bill Bryant is our fourth and final feature, and he regularly rides Routes 15, 18, 40, and the D Line to work from his home in Ballard. Most of the time, he takes the bus both ways, but he also describes himself as a “fair-weather bicyclist” who puts his bike on the bus’ rack… Read More
Apply to the Balanced You Worksite Fund
How do you want to be healthy and well at work? A new program has just launched to help you and your coworkers bring your own innovative ideas and solutions to life – The Balanced You Worksite Fund! When you apply for a Worksite Fund grant, you have an opportunity to create positive change, for you and your coworkers. The Worksite Fund is a competitive grant process that will award approximately 10-30 projects across County agencies to improve health and well-being in our worksites. Grants of up to $5,000 will support a… Read More
Kudos! to Metro driver Michael Mackay
Zachary Cohn @ZacharyCohn gave props on Twitter Friday to one of our many great Metro drivers, after being impressed with how Michael Mackay avoided a potential accident: Props to @kcmetrobus driver of e line bus 6202 today at 1150. someone pulled out in front of him on Aurora. He slammed on the brakes, leaned on the horn, expertly avoided an accident, then calmly reached for the radio to apologize for the inconvenience and ensure riders were ok. Thank you, Zachary Cohn, and Kudos, Michael!
Happy Tails: Macy
Crossposted from Tails from RASKC Like Happy Tails? We sure do! Here’s one from Kayla about her new addition, Maci. My boyfriend and I adopted [her last week]. I believe she is 3 or 4 months now! She is literally the cutest thing ever! We are totally head over heels for her and our hearts can’t get any fuller! She has learned where the toilet is and likes to drink the water so we’re trying to teach her to drink out of her water bowl now! Thanks Regional Animal Services of King… Read More
Catching up with Wastewater Engineers Samayyah Williams, Semhar Abraha, and Sammy Wood
We help new employees learn – and they help take care of everyone’s sewer system Crossposted from Clean Water Stories Everyone has “stuff” to take care of. You might have a house, a car – or an iPhone. With a smartphone, you have to charge the battery, restart it every once in a while, download apps – and sometimes simply find it (am I right?). When you drive a car, you need to fill it with gas, check the wiper fluid, get oil changes, go to the car wash, and go to… Read More
Social Media Spotlight: King County’s Marymoor Park on Facebook
Interested in soccer, baseball, cricket, concerts or movies? Need to take the dog for a walk? Want to try your hand at flying a radio-control airplane or climbing a 35-foot freestanding structure? Looking to enjoy the outdoors by strolling along a regional trail, picnicking on the lawn, or birdwatching on the shores of Lake Sammamish? Then Marymoor Park is the place for you! King County’s most popular park, more than 3 million people visit Marymoor annually to explore Marymoor’s 640 acres of recreational activities, rare amenities, and culturally-enriching events. Follow King County’s… Read More
Public Health and medical community pledge to decrease gun violence
Crossposted from Public Health Insider By Dr. Jeff Duchin, Health Officer for Public Health – Seattle & King County Firearm-related injury and death – from suicide to accidental injury and homicide – is a major public health problem and a leading cause of premature death in King County and nationally. In 2016, 663 adults and 20 children died from a firearm injury in Washington State, including 144 adults and seven children from King County. Firearm-related injuries have very high personal and financial costs to individuals, families and society; and that’s why prevention… Read More
Featured Job: Transit Pass Sales Representative
Closing: 7/9/2018 11:59 p.m. Pacific Salary: $19.98 – $28.54 Hourly Location: Seattle, WA Job Type: Career Service, Full Time, 40 hrs/week Department: Transportation – Transit Division Job Number: 2018RL08274 Transit Pass Sales Representatives sell transportation passes and ticket books to the general public and area employers in-person, by telephone, mail order, on-line and at community events, using customized and Microsoft computer applications. An unusual feature of this job is that qualified Career Service incumbents may bid on vacancies in another customer-service oriented job called Customer Information Specialist that answers customer questions by… Read More
Learning from listening
Crossposted from Best Starts for Kids Blog Part 3 of our Community Owned Data blog series This is the third post in our month-long Community Owned Data series we are doing to highlight our learnings from the Best Starts for Kids Health Survey. We brought the data to specific communities in the form of “data dives,” asked what they thought, and learned a lot from community input and data interpretation! In this post, we share more about what we heard and learned. During the data dives, we presented data about five important… Read More
Himalayan Blackberry: June Weed of the Month
Crossposted from Noxious Weeds Blog Himalayan blackberry (Rubus armeniacus) displaying its famous edible fruits. Photo by Susan Aldrich-Markham of Oregon State University. If Washington ever decided on a state weed, Himalayan blackberry (Rubus armeniacus) would be a strong contender. Some people hate its thorns, some love its berries, but almost everyone has a strong opinion about it. Yet, for all its fame, this plant has only grown in our region for a little over one hundred years—a striking example of just how quickly a noxious weed can take over. Even the origins… Read More
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