Want to win a home cooked meal?

Well you’ll have a chance if you enter the "Thank-Your-Farmers Harvest Feast" contest.

The Neighborhood Farmer’s Market Alliance is challenging home cooks to cook a dinner from entirely local products.

To participate host a Thanksgiving dinner on Nov. 26, of any size, featuring ingredients sourced from either one or all of these three Farmers Markets: Broadway, U-District, West Seattle. Then submit all the details of your festive feast.

The meal that is best sourced from local farmers at these three farmers markets will be named the winner!

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Meeting on UW light rail station set for December 2

What does Sound Transit have planned for the construction of the light rail station by Husky Stadium?  You can find out during a community meeting on December 2.

The meeting will go from 6-8 p.m. at the Museum of History & Industry at 2700 24th Avenue E.  You can meet Sound Transit officials and the contractor who will build the station.

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Movie, discussion on undocumented children at UW's Kane Hall tonight

A movie about undocumented children and their struggles after they turn 18 will be shown at Kane Hall tonight, with a discussion on it afterward.

The movie is "Papers", and it is about kids who are born outside the country, are brought here, have a normal childhood, with normal schooling, normal friends and living normal, American lives, but at the moment they turn 18, become illegal immigrants in the eyes of government.  It discusses the issues they have in trying to become citizens of the only country they've ever known and the obstacles they face in just trying to live their adult lives.

There will also be a discussion after the movie with Pramila Jayapal, executive director of movie sponsor OneAmerica, and some of the people in the movie, including Jorge-Alonso Chehade, who is a UW business school grad but just received a 45-day stay from being deported.

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Watch out for work near the Burke

SDOT crews are still working near the Burke Gilman Trail at the intersection of Seventh Avenue NE and NE 40th Street. 

They're removing the existing island and installing a new curb configuration and new access to the Burke Gilman Trail.

The paving crew is working weekdays from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. and will work this Saturday and possibly Sunday from 8 a.m. and 5 p.m.  Weather permitting; the work is scheduled to be completed by Wednesday afternoon, November 25.

The trail remains open to bicyclists and pedestrians. A temporary ramp is set up next to the construction site and pedestrians and bicyclists are being directed around the work zone.

Photo by majcher via Flickr.

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Armed robbery on campus

On Sunday November 15at about 6:15 p.m., three students walking northbound on Cowlitz Road towards Lincoln Way and Terry-Lander Hall on the University of Washington Seattle campus were approached by two men. One of the men pulled a black handgun, pointed it at the students, and took their laptop computers and other items

A woman who appeared to be serving as a lookout near the intersection of Lincoln Way and Cowlitz Road yelled at the men to hurry up. The suspects ran away.

Officers conducted an area check but found nothing. This incident is being investigated by the University of Washington Police Department under incident number 09-002215. If you have any additional information about this crime, please call the University of Washington Police Department at 206-685-8973.

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Free flatbread from Jamba Juice

Starting at 2 p.m. Tuesday (Nov. 17) Jamba Juice at U. Village will be giving away a free California flatbread to the first 150 customers.

Each flatbread has fewer than 330 calories, but calories don't count when foods are free, right?

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What's that smell?

At about 4 a.m. Sunday, employees at the University  Village QFC detected an odor of burning plastic. They found some plastic bread racks burning outside near the loading dock on the east side. 

They pushed the rack over, which quickly extinguished the fire. They did not need to use a fire extinguisher.

Seattle Fire Department responded and found the fire was already out. it is under investigation.

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UW student wins Miss Seattle crown

The Miss Seattle Scholarship Program crowned a new Miss Seattle, 21 year old McKinley Smith. McKinley graduated from the University of Washington with a BA in Anthropology. 

McKinley's platform "EveryBODY is Beautiful" deals with eating disorders.

"For many years, negative body image defined my life," she writes.

McKinley struggled with anorexia throughout high school and then bulimia in college. Her goal is to make develop community awareness of eating disorders and educate the media about the problem.

McKinley will compete in the Miss Washington pageant to be held in late July.

Thirteen talented women competed at the IKEA Performing Arts Theatre at Renton High School last night, hoping to take home some of the thousands of dollars in scholarship money that was awarded.

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'She was just such a beautiful person'

Hundreds gathered to remember a young woman whose life changed in the blink of an eye earlier this week.

The massive crowd prompted the closure of a city street. Those gathered were illuminated by candles and united by memories of Brittany Hollenbach.

"Brittany had an incredible 21 years of life and she lived every single day of it," said one speaker.

Hollenbach may not have known every single person present, but it appeared she had touched many lives at the University of Washington, where she was as senior.

"She was just such a beautiful person inside and out, and I know that you guys know that, too," said a friend. "She would walk in a room, and the whole room would just brighten."

Hollenbach, whom friends called "Holle," was a few blocks from home earlier this week when she was hit by a car just moments after stepping out into the street. She was taken to the hospital, where she later died.

On the steps of her Tri Delta sorority house on Thursday night, there was an outpouring of grief and support. Holle's family was front and center. Her friends shared songs and carried flowers.

The mourners recalled the girl with the beautiful smile who was a champion swimmer and a free spirit that lives on, they say, in their hearts.

"We were able to really see Brittany grow into the wonderful, incredibly strong leader and human being that she is," said one sorority sister amid tears.

Hollenbach was an organ donor , which will allow her to give life to others, her family said.

The driver that hit Hollenbach will not face any charges as he had the right-of-way and was not intoxicated.

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UW Students mourn one of their own

Brittany Hollenbach, who was a senior at the UW, had everything going for her. Bright, had lots of friends, a great student with "As" across the board... She was perfect to those who knew her.  But on Tuesday night, it all came to a sad end when Brittany, otherwise knowen as Holi, crossed the road at 50th and 15th Ave near the UW. As she stepped out a car going down the road ended Brittany Hollenbach's life. Tonight, hundreds gathered to remember thei friend, daughter, sister, and some that slightly knew her. It was a touching event in front of the Tri-delta house. She was a member there.  It's always hard to see and report on a person who's life was cut short. But the amout of people that she touched was prevalent tonight and it touched me to see the sea of people. It is clear, she will be missed.