Many college students like to talk politics. Even more like to eat pie. When you combine the two, you end up with a fun event like the Pie & Politics gathering at Skagit Valley College Tuesday afternoon. SVC culinary students baked the pies for the occasion. Secretary Wyman is shown answering a question at the event as Mount Vernon Mayor Jill Boudreau listens. The visit to SVC was the third of four stops that Wyman is making Tuesday as part…
Bellingham was a busy destination for Secretary Reed on his annual college civics tour. After attending events late Wednesday at Northwest Indian College and Western Washington University in B-ham, Reed began the day with visits to Bellingham Technical College and Whatcom Community College (pictured above) in the morning before heading south for stops at Pierce College in Puyallup, Green River Community College in Auburn and the University of Washington’s branch campus in Tacoma.
On Tuesday, Secretary Reed continued his annual college civics tour across the state encouraging students to vote and become civically engaged in their communities. One of the stops he made today was at Everett Community College where its slogan was “informed voting is as easy as pie.” Needless to say, the Secretary ate and served pie to students, as well as encouraged students to register to vote and showed them how to navigate through the elections website. Other campuses on the agenda today…
Sam Reed with Whatcom County library directors. Whatcom County libraries unite under a new program called “One Card, One Community.” Secretary Reed was asked to pose in a photograph with library directors to help promote the new program. Essentially, libraries within Whatcom County will allow patrons to use any library card within the county to check out books. And, when returning books, patrons can drop off at any location. They believe this program is the first in the state. Libraries participating include, Bellingham Public…
Ask-WA Statistics – August, 2009 Ask-WA maintained a busy service during the month of August, with email again outpacing chat service. In numbers: Email questions received: 3821 Chat sessions requested: 3067 Chat sessions accepted: 2599 Qwidget requests (% of total): 789 (25.7%) As a cooperative we maintained an answering percentage of 84.7% for the month, which is lower than in July but remains well over the goal rate of 75%. Keep up the good work! The email aspect of the…
Ask-WA Statistics – July, 2009 Despite a fairly quiet academic cooperative, Ask-WA maintained a busy service during the month of July. In numbers: Email questions received: 3512 Chat sessions requested: 3238 Chat sessions accepted: 2927 Qwidget requests (% of total): 883 (27%) As a cooperative we maintained an answering percentage of 90.4% for the month, which is well over the goal rate of 75%. Keep up the good work! The email aspect of the service remains robust, and outpaced chat…