July 2005

ROBINSON NEWSPAPERS

If the North Highline area were to incorporate and become Washington's newest city, its residents and businesses would generate about $11.3 million in tax revenue every year, according to a study released last week.

If North Highline became part of Burien, North Highliners would pay about $10.8 million annually to the city of Burien.

If Seattle annexed North Highline, the community would pay an estimated $10.6 million to the city of Seattle.

It takes a lot of money for a city to build streets and sidewalks, pay a po

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Reaction to Southwest Airlines' announcement that it plans to move flights from Sea-Tac International Airport to Boeing Field varied widely among three Highline community leaders last week.

SeaTac Mayor Frank Hansen, whose city contains the airport, labeled Southwest's proposal a "cockamamie idea" and said the airline should "live up to the obligations" it agreed to in supporting Sea-Tac's expansion.

Normandy Park's Larry Corvari, who heads the anti-Sea-Tac expansion Regional Commission on Airport Affairs (RCAA), declared the Port of Seattle, Sea-Tac

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I am constantly amazed at how the girl from Dusseldorf I married has adopted the Mariners as her personal franchise.

We have only been to a couple of games at the local diamond but when they play everything else takes second place. That is what is on our television.

Growing up in Germany there was no such game.

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One of the annual mysteries originating in Congress is the concession made in the heat of battle to various groups of taxpayers. Someone proposes a concept, the code writers and computer whiz kids come up with acceptable verbiage and behold, a new law.

United States Code section 199 was added by the American Jobs Creation Act of 2004 [Public Law 108-357]. The purpose of the law was to offset some of the losses American manufacturers sustained through new international agreements.

A whole new concept was created.

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Garden tourists can rest their feet and air out walking shoes for a while, now that most garden tours are over for the summer.

Though gardens usually show best in the early part of the growing season, it would be nice to find tours that showcase successful gardens in the "dog days" of summer, during fall rains and especially the dreary days of winter.

Winter is a sad time in the Lazy Garden, as it is for many.

Assault, extortion, kidnapping: July 18 - A 27-year-old man was arrested in SeaTac after assaulting his girlfriend, and was charged with extortion and kidnapping her 4-year-old daughter.

The 27-year old Federal Way woman told officers she got off the bus at Pacific Highway South and S. 272nd St.

Heavy hitters coming

On Saturday, July 30th, the country's best softball hitters are coming to Seattle as the 2005 WSL HR Tour invades Safeco Field. The WSL's Long Haul Bombers Softball Home Run Team will host a home run derby exhibition at 12:30 p.m., prior to the Mariners game vs. the Cleveland Indians. The Long Haul Bombers will hit softball after softball out of Safeco Field.

Seattle will mark the 14th stop on the 15-city 2005 WSL Stadium Power Tour.

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The Highline School District received $16.2 million in state construction funds last week for the rebuilding of Mt. Rainier High School in Des Moines.

The funds were part of more than $294 million in capitol construction money released by the Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI) to 29 districts.

The money was approved during the 2005 legislative session.

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Block parties and other neighborhood events will celebrate the 22nd annual National Night Out - "America's night out against crime" - in the Highline area and across the country Tuesday, Aug. 2.

National Night Out is a crime and drug prevention event, sponsored by the National Association of Town Watch, which is celebrated community by community.

Margie Gibb, a Burien Block Watch captain, said about 40 of the city's 110 Block Watch neighborhoods are planning National Night Out events.

"Take a stand against crime ...

The Tukwila Pantry, a food bank that has been serving families in South King County for five years, has an immediate need of additional funding to continue its mission of helping hungry families

"It takes many sponsors to keep an operation like the Tukwila Pantry running," the food bank stated last week in a news release asking the community for financial assistance.

"Please help [our] volunteers continue to feed the community by sending a financial contribution."

An unanticipated rate of growth in the need of families for assistance from the Pantry is the cau