April 6, 2016 The Skanner Page 5
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Calendar 2016
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FRIDAY, APRIL 8
WORLD DANCE PARTY: Come join us for our World Dance Party!
Meet new people, share food and learn a variety of dances.
Dances will be in 15-minute sessions. All ages welcome. Admis-
sion is one pot luck dish to share. 6 p.m. – 9 p.m., Northshore
Senior Center, 10201 E. Riverside Dr., Bothell.
FRIDAY – SUNDAY, APRIL 8 – 10
PHOTO BY SUSAN FRIED
23RD ANNUAL SEATTLE WORLD RHYTHM FESTIVAL: Enjoy over 80
drum and dance workshop & performances featuring cultural
traditions of Africa, Asia, Caribbean and many more. Friday is
Family Day from noon – 5 p.m. All events are free. Saturday
hours are 10 a.m. – 10 p.m. Sunday hours 10 a.m. – 7 p.m. Seattle
Center, 305 Harrison St.
SATURDAY, APRIL 9
Jazz Walk
Lady A was one of 20 musicians who performed at right different venues during the third Annual Jackson Street Jazz Walk April
2. Jackson Street was once the mecca of Jazz music in Seattle.
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Thomas Silva, regional director of the U.S. Depart-
ment of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division, in signing
the agreement for an effort that will provide clear,
accurate, and easy-to-access outreach to employers,
employees, and other stakeholders, share resources,
and enhance enforcement by conducting joint inves-
tigations and sharing information consistent with
applicable law.
Background: The Wage and Hour Division is work-
ing with the IRS and 27 other states to combat employ-
ee misclassification and to ensure that workers get
the wages, benefits, and protections to which they are
entitled. Labeling employees as something they are
not, such as independent contractors, can deny them
of basic rights such as minimum wage, overtime, and
a host of other benefits. Misclassification also gener-
ates substantial losses to the federal government and
state governments in the form of lower tax revenues,
as well as to state unemployment insurance and
workers’ compensation funds.
More information on misclassification is available
at http://www.dol.gov/misclassification/.
Seattle News Briefs
Mayor Murray signs Executive
Order Banning Official City Travel to
State of Mississippi
Tuesday Mayor Ed Murray signed an Executive Or-
der banning official City of Seattle travel by employ-
ees to Mississippi in response to that state’s passage
of a bill to revoke protections for LGBTQ people.
The new Mississippi law allows employers to fire a
person because of sexual orientation, allows busi-
nesses and organizations to refuse to serve LGBTQ
people, and other discriminatory practices.
Mayor Murray has said he will continue to ban
non-essential official travel by City employees to any
state that passes laws to eliminate civil rights protec-
tions for the LGBTQ community. On March 28, Mayor
Murray signed an Executive Order banning official
City travel to North Carolina.
Department of Financial
Institutions Promotes Financial
Education for All Residents
The Washington State Department of Financial In-
stitutions (DFI) is pleased to be one of the many part-
ners celebrating April 2016 as Financial Capability
Month in our state. Understanding the importance of
financial education, Washington Governor Jay Inslee
proclaimed April as Financial Capability Month.
This month presents opportunities for partners
like DFI, the Jump$tart Washington Coalition and the
Financial Education Public-Private Partnership
(FEPPP) to collectively highlight and support the
work being done in our state to increase and improve
financial education - and urge that more be done to
improve the financial capability of all Washington
residents.
With organizations regularly assessing our na-
tion’s financial literacy, results continue to illustrate
the need for personal finance education both in and
outside of the home:
WalletHub’s recently released information on
“2016’s Most & Least Financially Literate States” puts
Washington 34th in the nation for overall ranking,
with a “Wallet Literacy” rank of 15, “Planning & Daily
Habits” at 23, and “Knowledge & Education” at 41.
https://wallethub.com/edu/most-and-least-financial-
ly-literate-states/3337/ (Details at https://wallethub.
c o m /e d u / m o s t - a n d - l e a s t - f i n a n c i a l l y - l i t e r -
ate-states/3337/#methodology)
Results from the Financial Industry Regulator Au-
thority (FINRA) Foundation’s 2012 State-by-State Fi-
nancial Capability Survey reveal that:
• Only 39% of Washington residents surveyed re-
ported spending less than their income.
• Sadly, 25% reported having unpaid medical bills.
• More than half (54%) do not have rainy-day savings
to cover three months of unanticipated financial
emergencies..
[FINRA Investor Education Foundation, http://
www.usfinancialcapability.org /results.php?re-
gion=WA]
Kicking off Financial Capability month, teachers
and community leaders began participating in the
Jump$tart Washington Coalition’s Reading Days.
Reading Days brings community leaders into ele-
mentary schools to read “Lily Learns About Wants
and Needs” by Lisa Bullard and talk about the impor-
tance of making wise money decisions. Early partici-
pants include:
• April 1: Bothell Deputy Mayor Davina Duerr is
reading at Woodmoor Elementary School to Cally
Ingram’s fifth grade class.
• April 12: Spokane City Council President Ben Stuck-
art is reading at Roosevelt Elementary School to La-
Tonya Simmons’ and Justine Hudson’s first grade
classes.
• April 13: Redmond Mayor John Marchione is read-
ing at Redmond Elementary School to Mrs. Huse-
man’s, Ms. Kubat’s, and Ms. Findley’s fourth grade
classes.
• April 14: Bremerton Mayor Patty Lent is reading at
West Hills STEM Academy to Mary Anne Craig and
Rachel Chamberlain’s third grade class.
DFI’s Financial Education Clearinghouse www.dfi.
wa.gov/financial-education provides access to re-
sources - from budgeting and saving, credit and debt,
83RD ANNUAL DAFFODIL FESTIVAL PARADE: 83rd Edition of Daf-
fodil Festival Grand Floral Parade featuring 150 participants
which include floats, bands, mounted units and more. Starting
at Pacific Ave. & S. 11th, ends at S. 24th St., Tacoma. 10 a.m.
MONDAY, APRIL 11
DRAGON BOATING: The Seattle Flying Dragon Boat Club practices
on South Lake Union. You can come watch them practice and
maybe get a chance to get in a dragon boat. It is all free to come
and check out! South Lake Union, Kenmore Air Parking Lot, 860
Terry Ave. N. 6 p.m.
TUESDAY, APRIL 12
CAREGIVER SUPPORT GROUP: Open to anyone caring for an older
adult or an adult with disabilities. Talk with other caregivers,
discuss challenges, frustrations and more. 1 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
,Southeast Senior Center, 4655 S. Holly St.
SATURDAY, APRIL 16
FRANCHESSKA BERRY: Seattle-based Berry blends elements of
West African, Brazilian, Caribbean and Cuban dance in her expe-
rience-based teaching sessions. She’s bringing her skills to Town
Hall for an educational morning of movement. Your little ones
will get some stretching in! Admission for adults is $5, children
are free. Seattle City Hall, 600 4th Ave. All day event.
JUNIOR DAFFODIL PARADE! Largest children’s parade in the State
celebrating our youth! Proctor Business District, 26th and Proc-
tor, Tacoma. 10 a.m. - noon.
to health care and mortgages, and has a special sec-
tion on avoiding scams – into a single site.
For more information about DFI outreach, work-
shops, partners, programs and information, visit
www.dfi.wa.gov/financial-education/ and follow us
on Twitter @DFIConsumers and @FinEd4All, our fi-
nancial education blog www.finlit.blogspot.com and
Facebook www.facebook.com/wadfi.
16-Day Seattle International Dance
Festival Expands Beyond South Lake
Union to Capitol Hill June 10-25
June bursts with contemporary dance as the Seattle
International Dance Festival (SIDF) brings its bold
mix of global and local artists to the South Lake Union
neighborhood for a 16-day dance profusion. For this
eleventh anniversary year, the festival expands its
footprint by adding Capitol Hill’s Broadway Perfor-
mance Hall as the venue for some of the Inter|Nation-
al and Spotlight Series programs. The popular, and
free, Art on the Fly moves to May 21 to sync with the
SLU Market. This coordinated effort between SIDF,
Amazon.com and the SLU Chamber is expected to en-
liven the evolving, vibrant neighborhood all day long.
As in previous years, evening indoor festival perfor-
mances kickoff at SLU’s Raisbeck Hall; third week
evening performances are inside Capitol Hill’s larger
Broadway Performance Hall.
Tickets to paid performances are $22 in advance,
$27 at the door (Students are $18 in advance, $22 at the
door). A 2-Show pass is $38, the All Festival Pass (9
shows) is $64 and the Premium Pass ($85, includes en-
trance to the closing night VIP party.) All details, in-
cluding performance times, locations and ticketing
information are available at www.Seattleidf.org.