Bothell City Council candidates Q&A

Bothell

City Council

candidates Q&A

Candidates for the Bothell City Council will appear from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Sept. 20 at a forum sponsored by the Greater Bothell Chamber of Commerce.

All three candidates for three positions in the November election are running unopposed. Opposition candidates had filed for two of the seats but have since withdrawn.

The remaining candidates are Tris Samberg, who filed for Position 2; Bill Evans, who filed for Position 4, and Mark Lamb, who filed for Position 6. David Vliet, who had filed to run against Lamb, withdrew Tuesday.

The forum will be at the Northshore School District Administrative Center Board Room, 3330 Monte Villa Parkway. The moderator will be Steven Olswang, interim chancellor of the University of Washington, Bothell.

Candidates will give brief opening and closing statements and will respond to specific questions from the public.

Bellevue

Gay-rights group

drops lawsuit

A national gay-rights group this week said it will drop a lawsuit against the city of Bellevue after city officials approved employment benefits for domestic partners of city employees.

Lambda Legal sued the city in April on behalf of three gay city employees who said they were unable to get time off to attend family funerals or pay for health care for their partners.

The Bellevue City Council approved the employment benefits for domestic partners — straight and gay — in June.

Lambda Legal initially said it wanted to see how the benefits were implemented before deciding whether to drop the lawsuit. The group this week said that city employees were enrolling for the benefits without any problems.

Kirkland

Cancer-prevention

cooking course

The Cancer Project, a nonprofit cancer education and research organization, is offering a free, six-session cooking course for cancer prevention and survival.

The weekly series begins Sept. 14 and will be held at Evergreen Hospital Medical Center's Cancer Lifeline, 12040 N.E. 128th St., Kirkland.

All classes run from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

Each class includes a 10-minute nutrition video followed by a cooking demonstration and food sampling. Classes are open to cancer survivors, friends, family and anyone interested in cancer prevention and healthy eating.

To register, call 206-297-2100. For more information visit www.CancerProject.org.

Seattle Times East bureau