PR Newswire
A career fair event geared toward the technology and engineering fields will be held May 15 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Sheraton Seattle Hotel, 1400 Sixth Ave.
Job-seekers with technology and engineering skills will be able to speak with recruiting representatives from tech and healthcare companies, as well as local government agencies.
Preregistration is recommended at www.dicecareerfairs.com where attendees will also find a complete list of companies attending. read more »
The Kitsap Community Foundation will mark its 20th anniversary at the annual Kitsap County Celebration of Philanthropy on May 17.
At the event, KCF will honor nonprofits working to improve Kitsap County, including the foundation’s 2013 grant recipients and 2013 philanthropy award winners: Steve and Debbie Hill, recipients of the Hannah Langer Spirit of Philanthropy Award; Orchard Foods, LLC, recipients of the Organization Making a Difference Award; and Dan Diamond, M.D., recipient of the Outstanding Citizen of the Year Award.
Established in 1993, the Kitsap Community Foundation was created to provide financial support to nonprofit organizations in the county and to help generous individuals or businesses establish a legacy of ongoing financial support for the benefit of the community and its future generations. The foundation has provided nearly 150 nonprofit organizations with a total of more than $1.3 million dollars in grants over the past 20 years. read more »
The Kitsap County Board of Commissioners is proposing an Agricultural Signage Pilot Program to allow farmers additional signage opportunities. The program is designed to address the need for county farms to advertise locally grown products during the 2013 growing season, and will take effect May 14.
The county’s Department of Community Development will manage an interim 180-day pilot program so farm merchants can help customers find the agricultural products grown locally for sale.
A comprehensive update to existing sign code cannot be completed in time to accommodate the 2013 growing season. The interim pilot program is a responsive alternative to promote locally grown agricultural products this growing season. The pilot program provides flexibility to the existing code (KCC 17.445), and collects data as to what works and does not in regard to signs. read more »
The Kitsap Economic Development Alliance (KEDA) was recognized for creative marketing by the Washington Department of Commerce at the Associate Development Organization (ADO) semi-annual meeting in Tacoma on May 8.
KEDA received the Excellence in Economic Development Coloring Outside the Lines award for overall creativity in marketing traditionally and/or online for the Kitsap Connected multi-media campaign. read more »
OLYMPIA — The Washington State Administrative Office of the Courts (AOC) announced that a data breach occurred recently on its public website. No court records were altered when the website was hacked, and no financial data was maintained on the site. However, the AOC confirmed that 94 Social Security numbers were obtained.
Up to 160,000 Social Security numbers and 1 million driver license numbers contained on the website may have been accessed as well.
Individuals meeting the following criteria could potentially be affected by the breach read more »
The Kitsap County Board of Commissioners is accepting applications for a public at-large representative to serve on the Puget Sound Clean Air Agency Advisory Council.
The advisory council is comprised of individuals representing business, education, transportation, health and science, tribal interests, fire officials, the environmental community, ports and the public-at-large. Its role is to provide input on agency programs and regulations. The council meets the second Wednesday of each month (except August) at the agency’s Seattle office.
For more information on the advisory council, go to this link. read more »
NAVSUP Fleet Logistics Center Puget Sound’s Navy Food Management Team recently sponsored the weeklong Navy Culinary Apprenticeship Program at Boston’s Deli & Pizza in Bremerton.
Naval Base Kitsap (NBK) Bangor galley staff CS3 Roy Mosby (at left in photo) and CS2 Joseph Fusco trained in the restaurant’s kitchen with owner/chef Don Stauff (center), who worked with them on preparing dough for the next day’s pizzas and calzones. read more »
Air travelers received a bit of good news recently: A bill to put air traffic controllers back to work whisked through the House and Senate and flew into the White House for President Obama’s signature.
Why the quick action?
Millions of constituents were outraged with how the FAA handled a 4 percent budget cut mandated by the sequester. Instead of focusing on non-essential personnel, the FAA furloughed 10 percent of its 15,000 air traffic controllers each day, causing more than 40,000 flight delays and 1,900 cancelled flights, according to FlightStats.com.
Interestingly, the D.C.-area airports that serve members of Congress were exempt from the service cuts — a pure coincidence, testified one FAA official. Nevertheless, Congress felt the heat from angry voters, and some experienced those delays firsthand when they traveled outside D.C. read more »
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The Washington State Department of Commerce and Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance (NEEA), representing an alliance of Northwest utilities and energy efficiency organizations, announced a study of residential energy code compliance that shows Washington state is highest in the nation.
In 2009, Washington state adopted one of the most rigorous residential building energy codes in the country. To determine whether Washington homebuilders met this challenge, NEEA commissioned a compliance study, which included 69 homes in 17 counties. Using two different methodologies, the study found compliance rates were 97 percent and 96 percent, respectively. Additionally, energy modeling of each home in the study showed that many homes go beyond the minimum code requirements. read more »
