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Bush signs extension for jobless e_SClB WASHINGTON - With no end in sight to economic bad news, President Bush on Friday ensured that millions of laid-off workers will keep getting their unemployment checks as the year-end holidays approach.
OLYMPIA — The owner of King Solomon's Reef, a downtown Olympia restaurant that closed last week because of a kitchen fire, says he would like to reopen the restaurant by New Year's Day and is paying for repairs himself because his insurance policy lapsed days before the fire.
LACEY — Incoming Saint Martin's University President Roy F. Heynderickx says he plans to help the small private university in Lacey gain a stronger regional and national reputation.
Kiwanis Club of Olympia meets at noon Mondays at The Viewpoint Room below Tugboat Annies, 2100 West Bay Drive N.W., Olympia. 360-250-0288.
TUMWATER — A self-storage business, possibly with a car wash, has been proposed for two former Olympia brewery parcels off Cleveland Avenue in Tumwater, according to a feasibility application on file with Tumwater Development Services.
Venture Financial Group Inc., parent company to Venture Bank, reported its largest quarterly loss in company history Wednesday, losing $27.7 million in the third quarter of the year compared with a profit of $3.2 million in the third quarter of 2007.
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Venture Financial Group Inc., parent company to Venture Bank, reported its largest quarterly loss in company history Wednesday, losing $27.7 million in the third quarter of the year compared with a profit of $3.2 million in the third quarter of 2007.
Olympia Family Medicine and Capital Medical Center on Olympia's west side have formed a partnership.