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From YouTube: Lake to Lake - November 2018

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On the latest episode of Lake to Lake , a Bellevue Park Ranger takes us on a guided tour of Coal Creek Natural Area. Also featured are the many benefits of licensing your pet—
and an exciting new city partnership with the University of Washington!

Lake to Lake is produced by Bellevue Television (BTV). Programming airs on BTV Channel 21 and on the Bellevue Television You Tube Channel. For more information, email btv@bellevuewa.gov

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Hello and welcome to Lake to Lake a show about our beautiful city of Bellevue I'm, your host Robin Steele and today we're featuring a tour of the stunning Coal Creek Natural Area, an exciting new partnership with the University of Washington and the many benefits of licensing, your pet, we're coming to you today from Coal Creek, Natural Area, and we start today with a special park. Ranger LED tour of this beautiful and historic park.

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Hi I'm Curtis Q cow, a park ranger with Bellevue parks and community services, thanks for joining me on a quick tour of Coal Creek, Natural Area, the largest property and Bellevue's park system between 1863 and 1963, the mines at Coal, Creek and Newcastle produce 10 and a half million tons of coal. If you look closely you'll see evidence of the early mining industry all along this trail. Just like this piece of coal, coal was one of King County's.

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First large industries, helping Seattle become a major port city as a chip, coal to San Francisco between 1870 and 1930.

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This shaft brought fresh air to the men and mules in the number-four coal seam, it's sealed now, but it was originally more than a thousand feet deep.

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These Timbers are remnants of a box blim that my nerds built to keep water out of the tunnels below they also allowed trains to pass over coal creaking. So this is the foundation of a steam plant. Water was drawn from the creek right here and boiled using coal, the steam turned turbines and that produced electricity which powered the mining operations here. This exposed seam shows the 40-degree slope of the coal layer over millions of years. Geologic forces can tilt and bend these layers of the earth also known as strata coal.

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Creek provides valuable fish and wildlife, habitat forests here, dominated by big leaf maple and red alder, but also include Douglas fir western red cedar, black cottonwood and Western hemlock, really cool vine maples in this area, they're a neat understory tree. They tend to kind of bend down and make these little caverns they're, often covered by moss. They turn a really pretty color in the fall too.

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Cult creek is home to a variety of fish species, including cutthroat, trout, sockeye, coho and chinook salmon. If you're lucky, you might see a black tailed deer, Bobcat black bear or even a cougar. That's because terrestrial wildlife is also so abundant in this 445 acre space. I hope you enjoyed this quick tour of Coal Creek Natural, Area, Happy Trails.

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The city of Bellevue kicked off a partnership with the University of Washington. The program connects city staff with students to advance some of the City Council's important priorities around livability and sustainability. So.

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Today, kicks off our partnership with liveable city or Bellevue, and so the city of Bellevue is here, the students who are engaging in projects all year long are here, and the faculty are here from three different campuses. It's a way for us to engage communities in a year-long partnership, bringing together students and faculty with city staff or staff from an municipality or a jurisdiction to basically thinking about how we could help improve livability in their communities. We.

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Need you, we need your ideas, we need your research, we need your energy that that makes all of us better. So.

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Our livable city year, partnership is with the landscape architecture, students and they'll be coming to Bellevue Botanical Garden to take a look at our wetlands on Terrace garden plans and that plan was created more than 10 years ago and many things have changed in that time. So they'll be taking a fresh look in an existing plan and it's a project that will actually get a deliverable that we can use. I think.

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For the students, it's it's getting an opportunity to get their hands on a real-world problem and have an opportunity to talk to stakeholders in a community and think about a problem outside of the classroom. In.

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Architecture, we spend a lot of time working on hypothetical projects, sites that are far away projects that are sort of fanciful and imaginative, and this was an opportunity to do something really concrete and tangible. So.

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My team was interested in joining the livable city or work because we're looking for a fresh perspective, so we're doing two different projects, we're doing one project to build a business plan for our startup four to five work to help support entrepreneurs on the east side. We're working with the student is really going to be worth it both for the students and for the community, because this is a project we likely wouldn't have been able to do on our own.

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The second project is to explore what uses we can do add 130th station along the future East link corridor. We want to see if there's opportunities to bring educational uses there as well as affordable housing. This.

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City belongs to them. They are the future. They are the ones that will be shaping our public spaces any time that they have an opportunity to get out in the community and do real-life work that that prepares them well for their professional divers. Later, it's.

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Very rewarding, knowing that's not just for getting a grade in the class, it's it's something tangible to the city and something that really makes a difference in the world. I think that's something we all strive for.

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If you're a pet owner, you've probably heard that it's important to get a pet license, but you may have wondered what are those fees go for and why is it important for you, your pet and your community, learn why next.

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I have two dogs that we adopted from rescues. One is from Ensenada was a street dog, very reactive, but the thing about them is you just need to take time and love, and then they become the perfect dog. The other dog we had was five years old and she was probably a backyard breeder dog, she's, very skittish and scared of everything and people, but again over time they gain confidence and- and now people think that their dogs that we bought from a breeder City.

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Of Bellevue contracts with King County to provide all of the animal welfare services within the city- that's shelter, services, animal control, services, licensing services, anything connected to animal welfare, it's extremely expensive for a city to provide those services for itself. So we have joined together with a group of other cities throughout the area that contracts with King County to provide those services to our residents. We.

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Lost Libby, while we were on vacation in California, the dog had a king county license when King County Animal Control examined the dog, they were able to identify that was our dog connected with our telephone number and got in touch with us. My.

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Pets are licensed because I believe in supporting services that they provide because I care about animals, I've called Animal Services for a dog that I saw that needed help and they came and they went and found the owners they made sure and followed up with the owners that they took care of the dog because the dog was neglected. They called me the person who was concerned, and that made me feel great like that.

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My dollars are being used for that, and also that my dollars are being used to extend the time that a dog can stay at the shelter, but at Raths they take time to fix their ailments and they take time to train them and make them adoptable. And even if it takes months and months, Kent.

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County makes it really easy to purchase your pet license. Most people these days go online to the Rask website. You can purchase it online. You can come right here to City Hall and purchase it at the service. First desk. You can purchase your pet license. Also at any QFC store or an era would Animal Hospital, which is located in Bellevue I, often hear well, my pets never go out. Why should I bother to license my my cat or my dog?

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Well, what I say is I understand that totally but I look at it as a way to support all the great work that Roscoe's doing for sheltering animals. My animals came from a local animal shelter. It helps support the shelter operations. It helps support a lot of programs that they have for spay and neuter homeless animals, animals that need services, animals that need help all of the work that goes toward supporting animal welfare within the City of Bellevue. So for me this is my way of supporting that.

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Now here are some fun upcoming events, November 9th from 4:30 to 6:00 p.m. enjoy a special ranger-led night hike at lewis. Creek park bring a flashlight or headlamp and learn about the nocturnal creatures that call the park home. The hike is free and recommended for ages 5 and up with an accompanying adults. Pre-Registration is required to register and for more information visit, register, bellevue, w8 gov or call four two five, four five, two four one: nine five November 12th from 1:30 to 2:30 p.m.

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come to the holiday farm tour at Kelsey, Creek, Farm Park bring your family to see, ponies, pigs, sheep and more. The event is for ages, 2 and up and children must be accompanied by an adult. The cost is eight to ten dollars in pre-registration is required for more information, email, Kelsey, Creek farm at Bellevue, waa, gov or call 425 for five to seven six. Eight eight November 17th from 2 to 3 p.m.

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come, learn all about salmon in their annual journey through the Mercer slough at the Family Discovery Series swim to spawn event, participation is free and pre-registration is required to register and for more information. Email em SEEC at Bellevue, W a.gov or call 425 four five. Two two five: six five November 18th from 10:30 a.m. to 12:00 noon, enjoy a park ranger net hike at Lake, Mont, Community, Park, dressed for the weather, and discover nature's beauty along this two-mile Creekside hike all ages are welcome and no pre-registration is required for more information.

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Call 425 450, two four one: nine five and November 28th through the 30th from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. and December 1st, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. come to the hilltop holiday craft, show at the Northwest Art Center find a great selection of handcrafted items for more than 60 selected Northwest crafters admission and parking are free and craft items vary by price for more information, email, NWACC at bellevue, w8 gov or call 425 four, five, two four one: zero six.

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We thank you for joining us today from beautiful Coal, Creek, Natural Area. We hope you enjoyed our show today featuring some of the reasons. Bellevue is the city where you want to be. If you have feedback or questions for us, please email us anytime at BTB at Bellevue, W a.gov also be sure to subscribe to our YouTube channel to keep up with our latest video content. I'm Robin Steele, thanks for watching Lake to Lake.

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