Senior resources fair

The Seattle Parks Department's Senior Adult Programs office will hold a free senior-adult resource fair from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. today at the Queen Anne Community Center to help seniors and recent retirees with information about long-term housing and care needs.

Information also will be offered for baby boomers about long-range planning.

The fair will feature exhibits from local businesses and service agencies demonstrating a number of products and services.

Lunch will be served to those who attend. The center is at 1901 First Ave. W., at the top of Queen Anne Hill.

Help with basic services

Utility-assistance brochures printed in foreign languages are available to reach Seattle's immigrant and refugee populations and help with money-saving programs.

In addition to English, the brochures are printed in Somali, Vietnamese and Spanish. They cover two city programs: Project Share, which is funded by voluntary donations from Seattle City Light customers to help those who are behind on paying their electrical bills, and the Utility Rate Discount Program, which is funded by City Light and Seattle Public Utilities to provide rate discounts on electric, water, garbage and sewer bills for the elderly and those with disabilities.

The brochures are available by calling the Mayor's Office for Senior Citizens at 206-684-0500. Information also is online: www.seattle.gov/humanservices/

mosc/Utility_Discount_Program.htm

Brochures also are being distributed at senior centers, public libraries, community centers and neighborhood service centers.

Assistance with child care, food and health care are available for low- and moderate-income families and single residents in Seattle through the Help for Working Families initiative. Information about that initiative is available in English and other languages at

www.seattle.gov/humanservices/HelpForWorkingFamilies/

Can you help?

The Seattle Parks Department is recruiting people interested in becoming officials for wheelchair basketball for local, regional, national and international competitions.

The requirements include passing the written National Wheelchair Basketball Association exam, an open-book test of wheelchair version of college basketball.

For more information, contact Nick Bicknell at 206-615-0617 or nick.bicknell@seattle.gov.

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.