Cascadian Corner

a travel log, a love song, a wish list, a touchstone, a soap box, an escape hatch, a flag unfurled, a battle cry, another world

[jadeseadragon]

Panther Creek Falls 📍 Carson, Washington

[salishseacitizen]

TESC Beach Trail

Fungus ID Quiz

[salishseacitizen]

Grand Forest, Bainbridge Island

[salishseacitizen]

It's out again. Hazy, but out.

[isnothingsacredanymore]

as I hit the lake, I prayed it’d be green

it’s all that I need

I deserve it, I think

[alysiakay-blog1]

a place like gravity falls

[kiyomiatelier]

some pictures of a hike I took before I was off to seattle

larrabee state park in bellingham, wa

[peabab]

I yearn for a little PNW diner like this in the evergreen trees and its always slightly rainy and they have the whipped butter and the warmed maple syrup in the little glass pitcher

[pacificanthem]

abandoned to nature; along the Washougal River, Washington

[westcoastpagan]

Second day in a row of rain and hail. I really don't like the weather this time of year. That being said, here are some pictures from last summers trip to Mt. Rainier.

[midwestaesthetics]

Mount Saint Helens, Washington State, USA, pre-1980 eruption and 1980 eruption...

[vintagecamping]

Camping on Long Beach

British Columbia

1977

[pamietniko]

Sol Duc River

Olympic National Park, Washington

[househunting]

$279,000 / 1 br / 1 ba / 357 sq ft

Seattle, WA

built In 1977

[frommylimitedtravels]

Gatton Creek Trail - Olympic National Park

[qualitysigns]

Seattle, Washington, USA

[nothorses]

Seattle Central College is trying to close the only public wood tech college in the state of Washington, which is one of if not the only avenue into woodworking trades for people who usually aren't hired to be trained on-site: queer, trans, neurodivergent and disabled students, and women. Which is exactly what most of the students in the program are.

The reason according to the college is that they want to sell the building to fix the school's budget; they also claim the wood tech college has a severe budget deficit, but they've failed to follow through on any promises to try to fix that (including hiring a permanent dean, so the school has someone to advocate for them... which they haven't had in at least a decade).

The reason according to some students & staff is that Seattle College's VP has a grudge against the lead carpentry instructor & has been trying to get her program shut down for years to get rid of her.

Students are trying to make some noise about it, in hopes that the college backs down and they can work towards the long-term fixes Seattle College keeps failing to follow through on.

Why the future of a popular Seattle carpentry program is under threat

The future is unclear for one of the Puget Sound region’s only comprehensive training programs for carpentry and boatbuilding.

If you can sign this little petition & share this around, it'd help the school out a ton!

It shows the school they're going to get pushback, which has changed their mind about this in the past.

Sign the Petition

Save Wood Technology Center's 90 year Legacy

[nothorses]

It would be really cool if we could help get this to 1k!

There are less than 200 students at the wood tech college, so makes a really big impact when anyone else signs and shows that people outside of just students really care about this.

There were like 230 signatures when I first posted this- I'm really grateful to everyone who's already helped out. It means a lot!

[nothorses]

Hi everyone. If you signed this, you're on the news!!

Amid budget woes, Seattle Central’s Wood Technology Center is on the chopping block

More than 2,000 people have signed a petition calling on Seattle Colleges not to put the 23rd Ave Wood Technology Center on the chopping blo

They even link to it later in the article.

This really is one of those cases where every little bit of effort has a HUGE impact. This program is tiny, and Seattle Colleges is expecting it to disappear quietly. Every signature makes it more obvious that isn't going to happen, and that makes it harder for them to follow through on closing & selling the school.

These numbers have also been a huge surprise to the students working to fight this-- they didn't expect this many signatures at all, and it's incredibly encouraging to see so much support for their efforts from the wider community.

Thank you so much for signing! (and please keep going!!)