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Chair of the King County Democrats Susan Sheary is handing out flyers "Decline to Sign" to alert Democrats and Independents to be wary about supporting initiative 25. It is a Republican based effort to try and confuse the voters about "The proposed change to an elected position of King County Elections Director responsible for all elections functions in King County and creation of a separate department is wrong." "Initiative 25 is a very bad idea and would not be good for the people of King County. It is simply a protest by the small band of people continuing efforts to change the results of the 2004 election. Just say NO if you are asked to sign a petition to get Initiative 25 on the November 2007 ballot.”

Tuesday, April 10 at 4-7 PM at Redmond City Hall (15670 NE 85^th Street, Redmond) – Sound Transit East Link Project Public Workshop – RSVP by clicking here

Friday, April 27 at 6:30 PM at Ann Rolio’s home (16109 SE 5^th Street) – Lake Hills Liberals Salon, including an Israeli gourmet buffet, followed by a presentation and discussion of Corporate Personhood by Dave Thomas. RSVP to davthom@att.net.

Saturday April 28 at 10 AM at Chinook Middle School (2001 98^th Ave. N.E. in Bellevue) – Town Meeting with 48^th LD legislators Ross Hunter, Deb Eddy and Sen. Rodney Tom.

Tuesday, May 1 at 5:30 PM at Seattle Sheraton Hotel ( ) – Reception with John Edwards. Reception donation - $500, Silver Sponsor - $1000, Gold Sponsor - $2000. Dinner only – $150. For more information and donor instructions, call Suone Cotner at 206-464-1011 or email scotner@wstla.org

Liberals and Democrats

Our Newsletter Continues to Evolve

Many of you have watched our newsletter change. We now archive our newsletters on our website and allow you the alternative of opening the attached MS Word document or going to the URL. This issue is an experiment with including our newsletter within our email, so no attachment is necessary. The challenge is that emails don’t allow many formatting features which enhance the appearance.

We formerly put our larger commentaries in separate attachments, but now include them within the newsletter. We sometimes copied whole articles from the web, but now display just several paragraphs with links to the source. Earlier this year, we began including an index to allow readers to jump to particular articles of interest. Now we have also organized our index and articles as (1) Liberals and Democrats, (2) National and World and (3) State and Local.

Creating a Network of Informed Puget Sound Liberals

To struggle effectively to reach our liberal goals, liberals need to be well informed. We need to be clear about our values, our history, current social events and trends, our policies, our resources and our strategies. The primary mission of our Puget Sound Liberals has become to conveniently provide this information. We do this primarily through our newsletter and website. We might also offer courses, including an orientation boot camp.

We now send the following commentaries to beginning members:

· Puget Sound Liberals Flyer – describes us

· Books for Liberals – an extensive reading list

· Liberals and Conservatives – describes Liberals and our Conservative opponents

· New Conservatives Rise and Fall – how a minority gained temporary control

· A Liberal Manifesto – what we stand for and how we are proceeding

· Reframing Liberal Concepts – replacing conservative deception with liberal truth

· Strategic Roles of Our Puget Sound Liberals – describes our role and its importance

At present, these form our orientation boot camp. If you haven’t studied these, do so to become better informed than most liberals.

About Liberals

Our website includes many other opportunities for becoming well-informed. It includes more information about liberals, commentaries which discuss various liberal issues, and an archive of all Puget Sound newsletters.

Sources of Information for Liberals

Our website also includes resources for liberals (which refer to many other sources of information (books, media, organizations, and more) and action guides for liberals which present tools for grass roots political action. Particularly valuable is Advocacy and Caring Organizations for Liberals, with links for learning more about particular issues and the organizations that address them. At the end of every newsletter, we provide links for learning about our State Democratic Party and quickly and easily contacting your national and state officials.

Following Current News

To efficiently and comprehensively follow current news, we recommend (see the end of every newsletter)

· Center for Progressive Action – archive of well researched daily news.

· Liberal Opinion – weekly newsletter with many commentaries about recent news.

· Alternet – more liberal commentaries.

· Daily Kos – the major blog for many exchanges of knowledge and liberal opinion

· Pacific NW Progressive Portal - displays many blogs in which Puget Sound Liberals exchange their knowledge and opinions.

Any liberal who learns our orientation and other website information about liberals, uses our sources of information for their research and action, and follows our current news will be better informed than most other liberals. And you can spend less time following the news than you previously spent watching television, listening to radio and reading other media for usually superficial news coverage by uneducated pack journalists. By reading the recommended commentators and bloggers, you learn many perspectives for analyzing and evaluating what’s happening and its implications for the future and for liberal political action.

Improving Our Services

To improve our ability to inform Puget Sound Liberals, we need to:

· Recruit many more members (perhaps through liberal organizations recommending us to their members). Imagine if the Democratic Party adapted at least some of our materials to create an orientation packet for newly active members.

· Obtain someone with the skills to improve our website and newsletter, especially our way of distributing the latter. Content instead of appearance has been our priority, particularly without the skills necessary to improve the latter.

· Consider other means for our members to communicate with each other. For example, they could join an email list, in which each member can send a message to all others, such that unmonitored discussions can occur.

· Consider creating meet-ups, local chapters, or other means for people to come together as local groups. Our recently formed Lake Hills Liberals Salon may provide a model that could be copied elsewhere.

We welcome your suggestions for additional ways we liberals can become better informed, and ways our Puget Sound Liberals can do a better job.

Eastside Democrats Begin Creating Neighborhood Cluster Teams

Active members from one of our Eastside legislative districts met last week to identify and draw boundaries around 17 precinct cluster neighborhoods, with each of about 180 precincts included in one and only one cluster.

The next step is to identify the PCO’s, caucus participants and other Democratic activists within each cluster. These will be recruited to cluster teams, will attend planning-training sessions and then act to maximize the Democratic votes in all elections.

The assumption is that cluster teams will act better than lonely PCO’s. As this and other legislative districts proceed to create cluster teams, we will keep you informed of their activities, struggles, achievements and learnings.

Will Latinos Continue Moving Democratic?

By Roberto Lovato, Public Eye. Posted April 3, 2007.

Latino support for Republicans rose from 21 percent in 1996, to 31 percent in 2000, to between 40 to 44 percent in 2004 (the number is still being debated). In 2006, after the final results were tallied, less than 29 percent of Latinos voted Republican, and Sosa publicly "I told you so'd" the GOP with comments like, "We as a party got the spanking we needed." The much-vaunted rise of the Latino Right had reached, at the very least, a pause. For more.

Democratic Energy and Cash

by kos Wed Apr 04, 2007 at 09:44:57 AM PDT

With the Q1 numbers all in, Republicans have to be feeling a bit queasy about their chances in 2008. (Totals include all receipts, including general election money. In millions.)

Republicans

Romney $23
Giuliani $15
McCain $12.5
Huckabee $0.5
TOTAL $51

Democrats

Clinton $26
Obama $25
Edwards $14
Richardson $6
Dodd $4
Biden $3
TOTAL: $78

Is there any doubt where the energy is this cycle? That's about $27 million more raised by the Democratic side. Sure, there are other Republicans in the race, none of which have apparently announced (and no one seems to care), but even if they collectively account for a few more million, the disparity is stark. Indeed, the top two Democrats out-raised the top Republican.

Kerry out-raised Bush in 2004. Democrats came close to achieving fiscal parity in 2006 (while the DSCC crushed the NRSC). At this rate, our financial prospects are looking fantastic for 2008. And when Republicans can't drown us with cash, they've got little else to work with. To view 162 comments. [In addition, Hillary has money was transferred from her Senate campaign. Dave Thomas]

Hillary and Barack: Right Candidates, Wrong Question

By Gloria Steinem, Women's Media Center. Posted April 4, 2007.

Even before Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton threw their exploratory committees into the ring, every reporter seemed to be asking which candidate are Americans more ready for, a white woman or a black man?

With all due respect to the journalistic dilemma of reporting two "firsts" at the same time -- two viable presidential candidates who aren't the usual white faces over collars and ties -- I think this is a dumb and destructive question. For more.

Why call her Hillary instead of Clinton?

It’s not because she is a woman, with all the men being called by their last names. It is because there is another prominent Clinton, her husband. To call her Clinton would often be confusing.

National and World

Democratic Congressional Accomplishments

In 1992, Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton was elected the 42nd President. After twelve years of Republican presidents, America faced record budget deficits, high unemployment, and increasing crime. Clinton and a Democratic Congress enacted an Economic Package that resulted in the longest period of economic expansion in peacetime history after having inherited a $290 billion deficit; President Clinton's last budget was over $200 billion in surplus in year 2000.

Led by President Clinton, the Democratic Congress enacted major progressive initiatives for the people including Student Loan Reform Act increasing access to higher education for millions; National Service Act helping students get tuition assistance through community service; Family& Medical Leave Act which offers job protection & unpaid leave during a family need; jobs for welfare recipients; Violence Against Women Act to combat domestic violence; the Brady Bill requiring a five-day waiting period for buying guns; National Voter Registration Act which opened up access to voter registration; Clinton fought for women's reproductive issues and gay rights; passed environmental protection bills; reduced crime to its lowest level in a generation with the Crime Bill, and passed many environmental protection initiatives.

President Clinton used American forces to stop the murderous "ethnic cleansing" wars in Bosnia and Kosovo. He forced the government of Serbia to end its attacks on Muslims in Bosnia as well as on ethnic Albanians within Kosovo where "Human Rights" had been unable to raise its head from the bloodied ground of murderous hatred.

George W. Bush has brought us a national deficit of billions due to massive tax cuts, the War in Iraq, unprecedented "Pork Barrel" spending by the Republican legislature and a weak economy. Both his Leave No Child Behind and Medicare D Prescription Drug programs are seriously flawed.

Since our Democrats assumed control of the Congress, the house has passed many popular social bills, which are likely to also pass the senate. Republicans must support them to the discomfort of their conservative base, or face re-election difficulties in 2008. Democrats are also performing oversight of executive branch actions through its investigations. For example, the mistreatment of our returning veterans injured in Iraq went unnoticed during the period of Republican control of our congress. The House and Senate have each now passed appropriations legislation which provides deadlines for bringing our troops home from Iraq. The president will be forced to accept these deadlines or veto the funding he needs for continuing his Iraq war.

What a difference, elections can make!

Subprime Mortgage Vultures

The boom in this industry has been extraordinary. “From 1994 to 2005, the subprime loan market grew from $35 billion to $665 billion,” the Center for Responsible Lending notes in a report entitled “Losing Ground: Foreclosures in the Subprime Market and Their Cost to Homeowners.”

But so has the bust. “We estimate that one-third of families who received a subprime loan in 2005 and 2006 will ultimately lose their homes,” the report predicts.

While opening up the possibility of homeownership to people with lesser means or spottier credit is something that progressives have advocated for a long time, the way the private sector has done this has been criminal. “Because the subprime market is designed to serve borrowers who have credit problems, one might expect the industry to offer subprime loan products that do not magnify the risk of loan failure,” the report says. “In fact, the opposite is true.”

Pelosi is Good Parent to Bush in Syria

Throughout his unfortunate presidency, Bush has shown that he does his best when surrounded by people who give him positive reinforcement, tell him how wonderful he is, deny him nothing and make it easy for him to run from hard work. Sounds a lot like a child, right?

So, when it comes to worldwide diplomacy, the new House Speaker has had to step in because we have an executive branch of government led by a man-child who just has no interest in playing well with others. For more.

Local and State

Adopting our Washington Education Budget

Dennis Gerlitz sent me this message from Lisa Macfarlane of the League of Education Voters

The finish line is in sight for the 2007 legislative session. Governor Gregoire and the Legislature have been loud and clear that this session is all about the education and well-being of our children. The third pro-education budget proposal in a row was released by the Senate Wednesday. Like the Governor and House proposals, the Senate makes education a priority and addresses the entire pipeline from early learning to higher education. All three budgets propose roughly similar spending levels, but differ in their approaches. Here are ten important areas where the Governor, Senate, and House made different strategic choices for new education improvements:

Early Learning

· The Governor and House make a stronger commitment to implement a new Quality Rating and Improvement System (QRIS) to help parents make better choices about child care.

· More low-income children will have access to quality preschool programs in the Senate budget, which adds 1,000 more slots in the Early Childhood Education and Assistance Program (ECEAP) than the other budgets.

· Struggling parents will have more access to early intervention through voluntary home visits to promote healthy child development and school readiness in the House budget.

K-12 Public Schools

· Of the three budgets, the Governor makes math and science the higher priority. She devotes $145 million for educator professional development, new standards and curriculum, lower class size in middle and high schools, and support to school districts.

· All three budgets make a down payment to reduce the salary inequities between school districts by beginning to eliminate grandfathered salaries for K-12 staff. And all three budgets increase the state’s share of special education funding, but the Senate spends $20 million more.

· The Senate and House place a higher emphasis in core K-12 funding such as pupil transportation, staffing ratios, and technology. School districts currently use over burdened local levies for these needs. However, the House provides more for staffing ratios while the Senate directs more to help schools upgrade their technology.

· Career and technical education (CTE) and skills centers get much needed attention in the Senate budget. Funds to update technology and equipment at skills centers and provide CTE programs in middle school will help students get training in high demand fields.

Higher Education

· The Senate increases enrollment growth at an unprecedented rate at our state’s colleges and universities. It adds 10,000 more enrollments to respond to the increase in young people graduating from public school over the next two years.

· The Senate and House each propose two innovative scholarship programs, the Washington College Bound Scholarship and the Opportunity Grants Program. Both are needed to help current and future students attend a college or university.

· The Senate strives to make higher education available to more students by expanding the state need grant to cover families who earn up to 75% of Washington median family income ($54,000 for a family of four).

Budget negotiators from the Governor’s office, Senate, and House will have a tremendous challenge to decide what goes in the final budget. Unfortunately, they cannot do everything to correct two decades of neglect in one budget for public education.

Reply to this email (info@educationvoters.org) and tell us your priorities for an education budget. We will deliver a letter to the budget negotiators next week summarizing our priorities for education. Visit www.educationvoters.org/budget.htm to view a comparison chart that provides more details about the similarities and differences of each budget. Lisa Macfarlane
League of Education Voters. www.educationvoters.org

Maryland Adopts Popular Presidential Vote Electoral System

Maryland has passed a law to require presidential electors to vote for the candidate who receives the most votes nationwide, to go into effect when enough other states adopt the same system for casting their Electoral College votes. When implemented, this would replace present winner within the state-take-all systems, so that the candidate with the largest national vote would always win (unlike in 2000 and some earlier elections. Washington should follow Maryland’s lead.

Terrorism in Washington State

Twice this week, a man has killed a former woman friend and then committed suicide. These may be our most prevalent form of suicidal terrorists. We obviously need more legislation to prevent such killing. For example, requiring stalkers to wear a GPS monitor, with incarceration if they come near to their victim. Similar measures might be used to monitor people convicted of drunk driving. Fifteen thousand deaths result each year from accidents which involve drunk drivers. Maybe also for sexual predators. Most of us are more likely to suffer injury and worse from these persons than from political terrorists.

This Legislative Session Nears End

The action is over in the Capitol building, for all the bills that survived in “opposite house” Committees, and made it through the Rules Committee. From April 3 through April 13, members of the House and Senate will be casting Floor Votes on “opposite house” bills. And when they aren’t debating, amending, and/or casting floor votes, legislators will be busy resolving any differences between the House and Senate versions of the bills that pass.

Through it all legislators will be negotiating over the details in the budget. There are actually three budgets: the two smaller budgets are for transportation, and for capital projects (buildings, bricks-and-mortar), and the largest is the General Fund Operating Budget for all other activities. It’s this last budget, which involves how we spend $29.8 billion in state revenues, that is getting most of the attention now. For more.

This legislative session will end on April 22 or a day or two before. We will then report and comment upon their accomplishments. In particular, we will examine how many of the proposals in the State and King County Democratic platforms were realized. It appears now that few, if any of the bills opposed by strong business interests will pass.

How Does Washington Compare with Other States

Many hours spent during the last several weeks has yielded little information about how Washington compares with other states, except for the health rankings compiled by the United Health Foundation. [Low numbers are good.]

3 Use of seat belts

5 Prevalence of non-smokers (Percent of population) 17.6

6 Infant mortality (Deaths per 1,000 live births) 5.2 6

6 Occupational fatalities (Deaths per 100,000 workers) 3.5

8 Premature death (Years lost per 100,000 population) 6,349

8 Low mortality rates

10 Get adequate physical activity

10 Number of years of life lost before age 75

12 Low motor vehicle deaths (Deaths per 100,000,000 miles driven) 1.2

14 Low cardiovascular deaths (Deaths per 100,000 population) 291.9

16 Accidental deaths

17 Low cancer deaths

18 Eaters of 5 servings of fruits and vegetables per day

18 Prevalence of obesity (Percent of population) 23.3

19 Uninsured 13.0

20 Prevalence of non-binge drinkers

21 Children in poverty (Percent of persons under age 18) 14.9

22 Cancer deaths (Deaths per 100,000 population) 200.1

23 Violent crime (Offenses per 100,000 population) 346

23 Infectious disease (Cases per 100,000 population) 13.3

23 Lack of health insurance (Percent without health insurance) 13.8

23 Poor mental health days (Days in previous 30 days) 3.2

26 Limited activity days

29 Receipt of proven preventive care

31 High school graduation (Percent of incoming ninth graders) 74.2

31 Poor physical health days (Days in previous 30 days) 3.6

32 Emotional well-being

35 Adequacy of prenatal care (Percent of pregnant women)

42 Immunization coverage (Percent of children ages 19 to 35 months) 77.8

44 Per capita public health spending ($ per person) $81 44

Statistics concerning education and other social characteristics of states are available, but they are presented by states listed alphabetically with out numerical rankings, requiring huge effort to calculate the rankings. My general impression is that we rank above average on most social outcomes while ranking below average on spending for them. This may be due to having healthy educated lifestyles. But we might do even better, if we spent a more money.

For each state, see a country with a similar gross domestic product.

Missing are China, Japan, Germany, Italy and United Kingdom. Click here to enlarge.

Deb Eddy’s Crane Bill

On April 5^th, the Seattle P-I, in an extensive article, reported that the bill to regulate construction cranes has passed. But they failed to mention its sponsor Deb Eddy. Once again, we bring you depth reporting of the news that our major Seattle daily newspapers fail to report.

Recommended Books

These books portray in vivid detail the exploitation of the powerless poor by employers, landlords, financial institutions and almost anyone else who can do it.

Barbara Ehrenreich, 2001, Nickel and Dimed. On (Not) Getting By in America

Barbara Ehrenreich, 2005, Bait and Switch, The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream

Mark Robert Rank, 2005, One Nation, Underprivileged. Why Poverty Affects Us All

David Shipler, 2004, The Working Poor. Invisible in America

Lake Hills Liberals Newsletter

Lake Hills in Bellevue, Our City Where Neighbors Care for Each Other

Enhancing Freedom, Opportunity and Cooperation in Lake Hills and Beyond

Lake Hills church to host next tent city

A west Lake Hills church will host the next encampment of Tent City IV beginning May 16, if the congregation succeeds in obtaining the required city permit. The Episcopal Church of the Resurrection is seeking a Temporary Encampment Permit to accommodate homeless individuals at a “tent city” on church property at 15220 Main St. If approved, the permit would allow the encampment of up to 100 adults for a maximum of 60 days. Bellevue’s permit requirements also impose conditions related to public health, safety, and screening from nearby residents. A public meeting is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. April 2 at the church, and the public comment period ends April 5.

Interested in serving on a board or commission?

You could be using your talents and experience to explore important community issues and weigh in on decisions that affect the future of Bellevue and its neighborhoods. During the month of April, the city is seeking candidates for upcoming vacancies on several key boards and commissions. Applications are invited for the:

• Planning Commission – An advisory board responsible for review and update of the Comprehensive Plan, review of land use ordinances, regulations and potential annexations – meets Wednesday evenings.

• Transportation Commission – Advising the City Council on transportation plans, regulations, projects and funding – meeting on the second and fourth Thursday evenings.

• Parks & Community Services Board – Advising on the operation and expansion of parks and recreation programs and facilities – meeting on the second Tuesday evening.

• Human Services Commission – A commission responsible for developing and presenting human services issues for the City Council – meets on the first and third Tuesday evenings.

• Environmental Services Commission – Advising the City Council with regard to city water, sewer, storm and surface water and solid waste programs – meeting on the first Thursday evening.

• Bellevue Regional Library Board – An advisory body to the King County Library System – meets on the third Tuesday afternoon.

Interested persons may download application forms from the web site at www.bellevuewa.gov, call 452-6466 to have one faxed to you, or pick them up at City Hall, Crossroads Mini City Hall, Lake Hills Library or the Bellevue Regional Library. For more information about our Bellevue City activities and opportunities.

Bring Our Troops Home

During this past 5 weeks, some of us have been vigiling for peace, including members of Lake Hills Liberals, MoveOn, Eastside Reconciliation for Peace and Eastside Liberals for John Edwards. Several times a week, 2 to 4 of us hold signs at a 4-way stoplight one mile south of the main Microsoft campus. On a stake, each 12" x 17" sign says `Bring Our Troops Home Alive'. Below signs carried by his supporters is a 4" x 12" sign which says `John Edwards'.

We stand there from 4:30 to 5:30 PM. About 500 cars pass by slowly as they wait their turn at the intersection. About one out of five indicate their approval by waving, thumbs up, flashing their lights or honking, About the same proportion are talking on cell phones. Contact Dave Thomas (davthom@att.net) or 425-746-4572) to make arrangements to join us.

Events Calendar

Every Thursday 7-8:30 PM in Crossroads Mall near the large chess board at table with red checkerboard patterned tablecloth – Conversation Café –. Participants (mostly Lake Hills Liberals) use a discussion format with each participant addressing an issue in turn with listeners respecting what they say. A great way to learn different understandings and opinions, while presenting and modifying your own.

Every Thursday at 7:00pm, Valhalla Bar & Grill (8544 122nd Avenue NE, Kirkland) - Eastside Drinking Liberally http://drinkingliberally.org/locations.html#seattle

Every first Wednesday at 7 PM at Redmond Community Center (16600 NE 80th Street, Redmond) – 45^th District Democrats monthly meeting

Every third Tuesday at 7:00 at Lake Hills Clubhouse next to Lake Hills Library – Lake Hills Neighborhood Association

Every third Wednesday at 7 PM at Stevenson Elementary School (14220 NE 8th Street in Bellevue) – 48^th District Democrats monthly meeting

Every third Wednesday at 7 PM at St. Margaret’s Episcopal Church (4228 Factoria Boulevard SE, Bellevue) - 41^st District Democrats monthly meeting

Every fourth Friday at 6:30 PM at Ann Rolio’s home (16109 SE 5^th Street) – Lake Hills Liberals Salon, including gourmet buffet and political presentation and discussion. RSVP to davthom@att.net.

Activities and Services

Our Neighborhood Enhancement Interests and Activities include: block parties; welcoming new neighbors; cooperation among home owners and apartment tenants; environmental enhancement (recycling exchange), crime prevention, disaster response, school and youth services, military concerns, family financial security, and elder support task groups; and free advertisements for members.

Our Political Actions include: displaying yard signs and bumper stickers, letters-to-editors and government officials, campaign support for liberal candidates, canvassing to identify liberal voters and stimulate them to vote, and encouraging formation of liberal groups in other neighborhoods. Our newsletter stimulates networking of liberals throughout our Puget Sound and provides free advertisements for liberal events.

Our Personal Enhancement Efforts include: educating liberals (our newsletter, commentaries and discussions; website; and reading list), healthy living (walking groups), and arts and crafts fair.

· Our Lake Hills Liberals Walks – M & F 5:15 PM and Sat at 7:30 AM at Lake Hills Library parking lot by dumpster. Slow Pokes Walk. – W 5:15 PM Bring your cane or walker to walk a short distance to Larson Lake.

· Our liberal spirit commentaries (which sometimes accompany our newsletter) address mutual respect and cooperation of religious and secular liberals. They also address changing our mindsets (such as not bringing our experiences to consciousness, insensitivities, resentments and cynicism) which restrict our ability to take advantage of our freedoms and activities. The major restrictions on our freedom and opportunity may be in our head. These can be changed.

· .In keeping with our principle of not competing with existing services, we won’t add a blog capability to our website. See www.nwprogressive.org/portal to examine many northwest liberal blogs.

Hire Our Neighbors

· Private Piano Lessons (students must have a piano), afternoons - Anna Khosrowian (378-7938), price negotiable

· Housekeeper, price negotiable – Laura Montano (641-5038 ambar_lau@hotmail.com)

· Psychotherapist, accepts insurance - Sandy Mathews (462-7889, www.sandramathews.com)

· Babysitting for infants (occasional evenings and weekends) - $5 per hour- Christy Pacheco- johnpacheco01@yahoo.com 425-653-3565

· Data Entry- $10 per 12 font, double spaced page- Christy Pacheco (425-653-3565 johnpacheco01@yahoo.com)

· Home Repair- prices vary, depending on job- John Pacheco 425-653-3565 johnpacheco01@yahoo.com)

· Auto Repair, price varies depending on job (but always fair), Jaime Speicher (AAS Auto Repair Technician) (425-746-2353)

· Home Repair and Remodeling, Rick Hegdahl (425-256-2427 magical_beginnings@msn.com)

· Life Support Therapies, Astara Burlingame RN. (MD) holistic care, acupuncture hy