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Happy PSRW: Thank you for your public service!

Today is your last chance to RSVP for
an in-person community meal this week

By the PSRW PLANNING TEAM Public Service Recognition Week (PSRW) begins today and runs through May 7. Thank you for choosing public service, specifically to strengthen communities as part of the Commerce team! We invite you to view Director Lisa's Brown video greeting and join her, Deputy Director Kendrick Stewart and a number of the Commerce community at Coffee at 8 this morning on Zoom. Read more.

As state employees,
we have ethical responsibilities

Answers to some PSRW Jeopardy questions
are sprinkled throughout this article

Editor's note: Ethics Officer Sarah Champion was key in crafting some of our Public Service Recognition Week (PSRW) Jeopardy questions. The below article will give contestants a leg up on correctly answering questions in the ethics category! Commerce's PSRW Jeopardy will be held from 10 to 11 a.m. Tuesday on Zoom. First- and second-place winners will get prizes. And for the rest of us who aren't contestants, we pretty much need to know this stuff too.

By SARAH CHAMPION

Hi, Commerce, it's me, your friendly agency ethics officer! My role, in consultation with the Washington State Executive Ethics Board (the state board that makes decisions regarding ethics complaints) and RCW 42.52 (the Ethics in Public Service Act) is to help team members understand their ethical responsibilities.

Read more.

PSRW activity

Geocaching in our worksites!

Have you ever tried geocaching out in the world? Now's your chance to do it in a Commerce worksite.

Geocaching is typically an outdoor recreational opportunity to use GPS or other navigational techniques to hide and seek "geocaches," or containers with items inside. At Commerce this week, we have hidden geocaches inside Olympia headquarters and the Seattle and Spokane offices.

Use this activity sheet to play along. If you find a geocache, you can leave and/or take an item inside. Also, please don't move the geocache. We don't want to ruin the fun for everyone else.

You can check out everything we have lined up for PSRW in IntraCOM.

Happy hunting!

Commerce is hiring

Check out these positions.

Commerce community calendar

• Coffee with Kendrick, 8 to 8:15 a.m. weekdays, Zoom
• Public Service Recognition Week, Monday-Saturday, May 2-7, see the full schedule
• PSRW: Commerce Jeopardy, 10 to 11 a.m. Tuesday, May 3, Zoom
• PSRW Real Talk on why we choose public service, 10 to 11 a.m. Wednesday, May 4, Zoom
• Toastmasters, noon to 1 p.m. Wednesday, May 4, Zoom
• Let’s Meditate with Kendrick break time, 10:45 to 11 a.m. Friday, May 6, Zoom
• Commerce off-hours PSRW hike, beginning at 9 a.m. Saturday, May 7, Burfoot County Park in Olympia, learn more
• “Moving from Exhaustion to Resilience” training, 9 to 10:30 a.m. Thursday, May 12, register to attend
• Let’s Meditate with Kendrick break time, 3 to 3:15 p.m. Thursday, May 12, Zoom
• SmartSheet User Group, 3 to 4 p.m. Thursday, May 12, Teams
• Commerce off-hours clamming trip, beginning at 10 a.m. Saturday, May 14, Potlatch State Park, register to attend, learn more
• Fun Books Lunchtime Club (break time), noon to 1 p.m. Tuesday, May 17, Zoom
• Volunteer Friends (break time), noon to 12:30 p.m. Thursday, May 19, Zoom
• Equity Reading Group, 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. Thursday, May 19, Zoom
• “Meetings in a Hybrid Workplace” training, 2 to 3:30 p.m. Thursday, May 19, register to attend
• Headquarters-and-Hubs Myth Mitigators, 2:45 to 3:30 p.m. Thursday, May 26, Zoom
• Memorial Day, Monday, May 30, Commerce offices closed

Please send your calendar postings to digest editor Dawn Geluso. Any item included must be open to all Commerce team members.

About Commerce

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