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Your morning news digest from KUOW | Friday, Mar. 22

caption: Mt. Rainier is seen from Seward Park on Monday, March 18, 2019, in Seattle.
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Mt. Rainier is seen from Seward Park on Monday, March 18, 2019, in Seattle.
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Black teachers // Volcano monitoring // Remembering Oso // Vietnamese night

Read Your Heart Out Day

In Seattle Public Schools, the adult at the front of the classroom is usually a white woman — even though 53 percent of students in the district are children of color.

An event at Lowell Elementary School aims to change that, if only for one class period.

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Keeping an eye on our rumbling neighbors

Eighteen volcanoes are classified as “very high threat” in the United States; eight of them are located in the Pacific Northwest. And right now only Mount St. Helens is considered well-monitored.

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Remembering Oso



It's the five year anniversary of the deadly landslide in Oso, Washington. What's the state doing to prevent another tragedy?

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One of the big lessons of the Oso landslide is the hazards they present are not just where they start, but where they go before they stop. David Montgomery, Professor of Geomorphology at the University of Washington

How about Vietnamese tonight?

California-based food writer and cookbook author Andrea Nguyen says you don’t necessarily need to go to an Asian market to get ingredients to make your favorites at home, like pho, banh mi and rice paper rolls.

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