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Deck the halls

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The mansion, the oldest building on the Olympia state campus, is accessible to wheelchairs and walkers. Reservations can be made up to 24 hours in advance. Call the State Capitol Tour Office at 360-586-8687.

Monorail open house

The Seattle Monorail Project, charged with planning the 14-mile Green Line from Ballard through downtown to West Seattle, will hold open houses today and tomorrow, 5:30 to 9 p.m., in Seahawks Stadium's Club Restaurant, to give the public a chance to talk with monorail architects and visit information booths. Enter the stadium through the Exhibition Center garage off South Royal Brougham Way. Child care and free parking will be available. Information is online: www.elevated.org

Today

• The Seattle City Council's Police, Fire, Courts & Technology Committee will hold a public hearing on police-accountability issues at 5:30 p.m. in council chambers in the new City Hall at Fifth Avenue and Cherry Street. City Councilman Jim Compton will chair the hearing, and the public can speak on any issue regarding police accountability. A signup sheet will be outside council chambers at 5 p.m.

• Lynn Fritz, a San Francisco-based specialist in global disaster relief, will discuss harnessing technology to improve humanitarian relief and logistics, 7 p.m. in Room 120 in Kane Hall on the University of Washington campus. Free.

A look ahead

Workshops on immigrant and refugee issues and needs will be a focus of the English-as-a-second-language volunteer fair on Saturday at Seattle Central Community College. Volunteer opportunities to serve local immigrant and refugee populations will be discussed. The fair will be held from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the college's atrium at 1701 Broadway. Information: 206-782-2050.

Can you help?

The Seattle Urban Debate League, a partnership among Seattle Public Schools, the Alliance for Education and the Seattle Debate Foundation, is recruiting new volunteers to serve as judges, coaches, mentors and fund-raisers for programs that engage public- and private-school students in debate activities. Debate experience is not required. A training workshop is scheduled from 6 to 9 p.m. Thursday in the auditorium at Stanford Center, the Seattle School District's headquarters at 2445 Third Ave. S. For information, call Jen Johnson at 206-252-0595.

For your information

The University of Washington's Muslim Student Association is holding its first "fast-a-thon" on campus today to raise money for Northwest Harvest. For each student or faculty that participates, area businesses have pledged to donate at least $1 to Northwest Harvest. The event will end with a gathering at 4:35 p.m. in the second-floor east ballroom of the UW's Husky Union Building on campus.

Here & Now is compiled by Seattle Times staff reporter Charles E. Brown and news assistant Suesan Whitney Henderson. To submit an item, e-mail herenow@seattletimes.com or call 206-464-2226.

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