Bellevue, Washington Lake to Lake Television Show, 6 Mar 2017

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From YouTube: Lake to Lake, March 2017

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On this month’s Lake to Lake television show:

· Take a tour of the new KidsQuest Children’s Museum;
· Celebrate an important milestone for East Link Light Rail;
· See an employment program that enriches our city; and
· Explore careers for women at the STEM Career Fair.

Lake to Lake is produced by Bellevue Television (BTV). Programming airs on BTV Channel 21 and on the Bellevue, Washington YouTube 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 Robin Steele this month. We feature an important milestone for East Link light rail, an Employment Program that enriches the city, an event showcasing careers in public safety, science, technology engineering and math, and a visit to the new kids quest Children's Museum on February 24th, sound transit and elected officials celebrated a milestone for East Link light rail in Bellevue. Since late January crews have been working 24 hours a day on tunnel excavation at the South portal for the downtown tunnel.

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That will be approximately 1/3 of a mile in length and will extend from Main Street to North East 6th Street. The tunnel will be dug in small sections using an excavator and cutting equipment, a method called sequential excavation. The work will involve periodic lane closures and accompanying traffic control. One.

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Of the fantastic things about this project from the beginning was we had a collaborative design process? It was meant that the city of Bellevue and Sound Transit work together.

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Construction of East Link will also involve the upcoming closure of the South Bellevue Park and Ride Sound Transit has opened five new leased, Park and Ride Lots expanded to least mots and identified other existing Lots with parking availability for more information visit. Sound Transit, o RG forward slash East link.

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Next, we introduce you to Jesse Gillman, one of the city's newest employees.

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I'm, a hands-on type person I like.

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A bunch of different ohai of tasks.

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Puget Sound personnel works with people with developmental disabilities to find positions for them in the community. We partner with various employers all through King County, to find them a position that suits their interests their needs. There is no cost to the employer. The program is actually funded by the federal government. The.

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City of Bellevue has just started in December and utilities brought our newest employee on in Jan right tonight. Employees, Jessie, Gilman, I, think Jessie's first day here, I went and I grabbed him and I said hey. What are you doing for lunch and we went and had lunch in the lunch room together and he's been such a great conversation partner after that, so we we've we've got a lot of things that we talk about in between work and hobbies, basketball, movies and all kinds of things.

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So the best part for me has just been getting a new co-worker who's. Interesting and entertaining Jessie helps all of us at the service center by doing all kinds of tasks for all of the different departments, as are sections in our department, he works with stores. He works with our surface water and stormwater. He works with the wastewater department, doing all kinds of tasks for them. Some we're about to get him on this really great project. Where he's gonna be scanning maps into our archive systems, a lot of really great stuff. This.

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Project will be really helpful because it'll allow us to have the maps digitized and available to a much wider population inside the city. So folks, look down at City. Hall could see him. We here at the service center would be able to see them. It's.

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A lot more challenging than my previous job, okay during my previous job I, was doing stuff I, don't think that I didn't necessarily feel bad or very affected for me, so good just to be differently so I just say you know: I want something more.

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People here are very nice and welcoming so I'm happy I, like it I.

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Believe that supportive employment is truly such an amazing thing. The benefits are on both sides, it's so enriching to the individual themselves, who is participating in the supportive employment program, as well as the employer themselves having these contributions and these employees being able to come in every day and do a job that they love. It just means the world to them. If.

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We work in a diverse environment, we're reflecting the community. The greater community around us, we've always been a pretty good team and having Jesse here is gonna. Make us a better team. Put.

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Your left foot in into my job and we're gonna shorten that step up whatever needs to be done and dumping a about you in the butt. Okay,.

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The kids quest Children's Museum recently opened in its new downtown location museum staff. Take us on a behind-the-scenes tour of the brand-new facility designed for kids to explore, learn and have fun.

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So we're here at downtown Bellevue's, new kids quest, Children's Museum and as you enter on the first floor, the first thing you see is the climber and it's part, sculpture, part art and a wonderful, climbing structure that goes up two and a half stories into this beautiful, lit, atrium and now we'll enter the water gallery, which has a variety of ways to play with water and an outdoor space and a special area for the top.

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So all kinds of fun can be had in this area. This is the on-the-go gallery, so focus is on all things, transportation and moving and focuses on companies that are based here in our Northwest area. We have this great package moving system and the boxes go up and they go across the conveyor belt and then they go into this bucket and then they can dump them into the rolling bin and do it again and again.

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So this is our beautiful pack, our truck that was beloved in the old museum, but even more beloved here, because it can feel like you're going down I-90 and you're going the same way as the traffic right outside the window and all of the buttons and whistles and lights work in this new truck. So families are having a blast with the new truck and then this is the recycle, rebuild classroom, so sponsored by Republic Services.

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And what happens in here is we're teaching children to reuse materials, not to throw things out, we're teaching them about pulleys and hydraulics and all kinds of activities going on in this area and using real tools you can see there are real tools that we want kids to be able to learn, to use and now we're gonna head to the second level and start with the connections gallery. So the connections gallery is all about connections in our community.

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So we have a wonderful train table here and you can see that it goes from Bellevue to Seattle.

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So this is the art studio and we are so happy to have a dedicated art studio because we've always done art, but now to have a kiln and be able to use a lot of mixed-media in this facility for preschool classes, routine classes for adult classes, we're thrilled to have a dedicated art studio.

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This is the Todd orchard which is designed for children 3 and under so there are all kinds of places for them to learn to climb and crawl and play with things just their size, no really big kids to run them over. They can learn about planting flowers, they can learn about putting apples and the apple orchard and picking them they can learn about bees and the bee orchard.

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We have. How are you peeling barn? So you talk about emotions, so things like the giggling mushroom and the crying orange.

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And the yawning potato, so that's a great way to get kids talking about their emotions and here's, the bellevue mercantile, which has the history of bellevue. What was phil be like a hundred years ago. We want kids, no kids, West.

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Is open to children birth to ten, and then we have programming that goes up to about age 12. So everyone is welcome at the Children's Museum. Our hours are Tuesday through Saturday 10:00 to 5:00, with Thursday and Friday, we're open till 8:00 actually and Sundays. We open at noon and are open till 5:00, I hope that children and their caregivers leave this museum wanting to learn more taking what they learned here, take it to their homes, to their communities, to their schools and wanting more and wanting to come back. Recruiters.

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From over 30 agencies got together recently to help women find great careers in public safety, science, technology engineering and math. The day-long event featured some great advice for potential applicants. Here are a few highlights. You've.

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Heard curiosity and that's an authority I wrote down to bring here I think you have to know yourself right and if you're a lifelong learner, then stem field is for you because basically it's always going to be different and interesting. But you have to want to know that information. Somebody once said to me that if you by the age of 30, a lot of people are, you know, sort of feel like they know what they know.

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But if you continue learning after the age of 30, then I think and you're still thinking about questions and answers, then that will help to support you and define and I. Think for me, as a young person, I was always reading. Mystery books and science fiction and I was very curious and I really wanted to learn so very similar to the other two who spoke, but I also think role, models matter and you've heard about sort of teachers here.

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For me, I think it actually was my dad a little bit and I would never have admitted that then, but he was kind of I would say, he's the first feminist I ever met because he said find Ana. You know you need to get a job, something that you can have security with, but something that is also going to make you feel interested and so I chose pharmacy. I think that my whole goal is walk through open doors, be curious, be a lifelong learner.

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Learn about yourself, but if doors open to you that inspire you and interest, you don't forget to look at that as lots of times we bang on closed doors as women as women of color, but there are places where the doors are open to you, and they don't seem that interesting at the time or they don't seem that clear, but don't ignore those because a lot of times those are people, they might be men, they might be women, they might be different professions that seem kind of not what you wanted.

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What what you plan for yourself but you'll, find a path through that that might be really fascinating. So.

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How do young people interested in public safety get involved now, like anything, you would recommend so.

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I think for young people, particularly young girls, is to while you're in school take all the science classes that you can be physically fit. Yeah.

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Know do graduate from high school and then, if you're interested in the fire service right, you can get a fire science degree. A lot of departments nowadays are asking for that. So to be able to you know if you they do running start now, you can take a fire science degree and running start so just being driven to, or you know just going after that.

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I wish that when I got into the fire service, that I knew that there were some other things that I could have done instead of waiting until I was already in the fire service to do yeah just being focused on. If this is what you want to do be driven for it.

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Having more recently gone through that process, it's it's a lot of work like like Melissa said it takes about two or three years to get hired and I did a couple. Different avenues. I went to basic nicole college and did my fire service training, which is an AAA, and that was really vital to get hands-on experience with all the equipment that we use. You know coupling and uncoupling hose working with nozzle using the nozzle reaction.

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All this all this weird physical movements that you don't really do unless you're using the fire equipment and so I really valued. My experience there to get the handsy foot series stuff down and then volunteering at West Thurston, Regional, Fire Authority.

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You I got the experience of running calls and and being at a fire station and having the tones go off in the middle of dinner, and you know having some serious calls where you see some pretty sick people and then knowing that I can handle that and knowing that that's something I can still work through and and be a professional and get a job done and so having all those things gives you the big confidence boost to to keep going and know that it's right for you and then it's this big testing process going through public safety testing or the national testing, Network or Seattle has their own test and getting used to people telling you no and that's a big part, because you can go out and take one test and they're gonna say no and you and some people just like oh well, and then they walk away.

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Don't walk away, keep getting used to being told no and keep going because someone's gonna tell you yes and it's gonna be the department that wants you and that you're the right fit for so so I'd, say perseverance and taking those tests and getting yourself as prepared as possible ahead of time will will get you into this seat.

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Emily I mean even back then I think I took 14 or 18 tests before I got hired on and I failed. Like probably my first five tests, you know and then you just you it's just like anything. You know the fire department. Testing is a process, and so anytime you do a process, and then you go through a lot of repetition with it. You'll get better at it. So that's a big thing, I think that's key. The.

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Complete presentation is available on channel 21 or to see anytime on the city's youtube channel. Now here are some upcoming events on March 1st. The crossroads par 3 golf course opens for the season. The course is an excellent beginner in family short course that takes only about an hour to play for more information visit, Bellevue W, a govt or call four two, five, four five, two four eight seven three march 17 through the 26th see the Bellevue youth theaters production of the children's story.

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The ugly duckling this classic Hans Christian Andersen tale tells the story of a little duckling who doesn't fit in with his family tickets are 12 to 15 dollars for more information in tickets. Call 425 450 271 5/5 on March 11th, come to the northwest perennial Alliance March mania plant sale from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Bellevue Botanical Garden admission is free and plant prices vary for more information visit, Bellevue botanical, org March 16th through the 18th visit, the Puget Sound Dahlia Association to bur sale and Master Gardener clinic 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

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at the Bellevue Botanical Garden admission is free for more information visit, Puget Sound, dahlias dot-org and March 31st through April 9th see the little mermaid at the Bellevue youth theater at Crossroads watch The Adventures of the little mermaid as she saves her kingdom and learns what's truly important to her. The cost is 10 to 12 dollars for tickets and more information call for two five, four, five, two seven one, five five.

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We hope you enjoyed our show featuring some of the reasons. Bellevue is the city where you want to be. If you have feedback or questions about the show, please email us anytime at BTB at Bellevue W a govt 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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