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How safe are those leftovers? Do you know how to determine if food is safe once the power has gone out and come back on? Or how about your holiday preparations like special dinners, freezing food, re-heating food, taking food to office parties, holiday buffets and storing the leftovers and re-heating using the microwave?

To find answers to all these questions, check out “Food Safety in a Minute”

B. Susie Craig, Food Safety & Health faculty at Washington State University King County Extension provides quick, easy answers to the most common food safety questions.

Find the site at http://king.wsu.edu/nutrition/FoodSafety.html.

Christmas tree permits to cut a tree on the Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest are available through Dec. 24. Cutting areas are located within national forest lands in the eastern portions of Pierce, King, Snohomish, Skagit and Whatcom counties.

Permits cost $10 each, one tree per permit, with a tree height limit of 12 feet. Trees taller than 12 feet require a special permit at a minimum price of $20.

Details: www.fs.fed.us/r6/mbs.

Bellevue Goodwill’s Job Training and Education Center at 14515 N.E. 20th St. is enrolling people in free classes. These courses teach people with significant barriers to employment valuable skills needed to find and keep jobs.

The center will offer an English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) class on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 4:30 to 6 p.m. This class is for adults who speak little or no English.

A course in computer fundamentals, for adults with little or no computer experience, will be offered from 10-11:30 a.m. Mondays and Wednesdays.

Those interested must enroll before the classes begin. Contact Andy Herbst, Job Training and Education Program Specialist, at 425-289-0040 or andy.herbst@seattlegoodwill.org.

Lake Washington Technical College in Kirkland will offer a four-year Bachelor of Technology in Applied Design (BTAD).

It is the first four-year degree to be offered by a Washington state technical college, as well as the first BTAD degree in the state.

The college is planning to start the new degree program in the 2009 fall quarter, with an initial group of 20 students. The program is designed to help entry-level workers in all types of design fields advance to project management positions, including lead designer.

More details: www.lwtc.edu/btad or call 425-739-8300.

Free computer time is being offered at Bellevue Goodwill’s Job Training and Education Center on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 2 to 4 p.m. for people to come in and use computers to look for jobs, write resumes and cover letters, or other computer-based tasks. No sign-up is required.

The training center is at 14515 N.E. 20th St.

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