Boating
Coast Guard Auxiliary
Ongoing
U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary Des Moines Flotilla No. 32 regularly offers Boating Safety and Seamanship courses at Mount Rainier High School.
They cover the full range of boating safety subjects, including federal requirements, basic piloting, marlin spike, seamanship and boat handling.
The instruction is free, although there is a nominal fee for the student text and work books.
Soccer enrollment on
The Federal Way Boys and Girls Club is currently enrolling youth for the 2005 Fall Season Soccer League. The deadline for registration is September 16, 2005. Late registration will be accepted on a space available basis.
Registration can be done online at www.fw-bgc.org or in person at the Club.30815 8th Ave. S. Federal Way, WA 98063
Teams: Fall Season Soccer is a program for Boys and Girls in grades K-6. We are offering both girls and boys divisions this year for grades 3-6.
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Fun for the Federal Way all-star baseball team was had in a foreign land as it traveled all over Japan to see the sights and play ball June 25 to July 5.
Players came from area high schools for senior trips that were a lot farther in distance unless Tokyo, Japan is not that far.
That's exactly where one over a dozen high school ballplayers went for fun in the sun in a climate similar to ours.
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SEATTLE - Federal Way American's heroic comeback fell just short in an 8-6 loss to District 8 Northeast Seattle in the 2005 Washington State Junior (13-14 age) Little League All Star tournament hosted by District 8 at Lower Woodland on July 18.
With the loss, District 10 American was eliminated from further tournament action.
"I'm proud of what this team has done," said an upbeat Winston Gatlabayn.
The resident of 1900 SW Campus Drive reported a barbeque grill, valued at $130, stolen from the deck.
A Federal Way officer was driving through an apartment complex at 31224 20th Ave. South when he noticed a rope and noose hanging from a light pole. The officer cut down the rope before anyone was hurt. The maintenance supervisor said that he had seen juveniles swinging from the noose earlier.
Officers responded to an illegal dumping behind the Baskin Robbins at 31434 Pacific Highway South.
Photo illustration by Seth Bynum / Federal Way News
Federal Way residents performed for a panel of judges in the opening auditions of the inaugural Federal Way Idol last week. Nearly 60 contestants vied for 12 slots in next month's finals, which take place August 17, from 7 to 8 p.m. at Steel Lake Park. The finalists will compete for $500 and a recording session with the Knutzen Family Theatre. Shown here are Heather Hannah, Audrey Quinn, Hannah Smith, Autumn Sturzen, Christina Neilson, Kip Brookbank, Karina Hartung, Aleigha Wood, Malik Russell, Kyle Robinson, Casey Bogert, Hayley Howell, Dan Dornott, Tiffany Wascher and Rebeka English.
The Community Center building at the Emergency Family Shelter operated by the Multi-Service Center just off Military Road and the Kent-Des Moines Highway, was showing its age. Then three area corporations recognized the need, stepped forward, and have created a local version of "Extreme Makeover."
Once base housing for the Navy's Nike Missile Base in the '60s and '70s, the four-block area was deeded to King County several years ago by the federal government. The King County Housing Authority then sublet the single family homes to three non-profit organizations, including MSC, to be used for housing programs. Although the site has been well-maintained since then, the homes are definitely '50s vintage architecture, and the majority of the maintenance funds have been spent for basic, functional needs...plumbing, wiring, paint and cleanup.
The Community Center, once one of the base homes, serves as a meeting ground, intake office and counseling office for the three current housing providers sharing the units: Highline Mental Health, St.
When you have lunch with Mary Gates and Betty Huff, you have to accept a periodic interruption from friends of theirs. At Indochine recently, where Mary ordered a shrimp dish with a five-star degree of hotness, and Betty a more demure Thai salad, we gnoshed and talked symphony and the exciting pops program planned for August 13. Now and again, someone they knew would drift by the table (Mark Clirehugh, then Peggy Laporte) to say hello.
The very good reason for this is that these two women are among the leaders and shakers in town who makes things happen.
Here's an idea: Instead of flying, driving, training or bussing off to some exotic locale this vacation season, just stay here in town. Let everybody else hit the highway and leave the city wide open for you and the family. Think of it, with nobody in town you can put your feet up on the theater seat in front of you, take your pick of any table at Salty's, have just about any movie you want at Blockbuster, they're practically giving them away when summertime comes around. You'll have time to try all 31 flavors at Baskin and Robbins, pitch your tent in Celebration Park, the cops won't bother you as long as 200 other people don't do the same thing and start a tent city. That's not going to happen anyway because everybody is out of town.
You can throw yourself a frisbee and actually run and catch it without knocking somebody over at Steel Lake Park. You can hop in the car, park it on 320th on the freeway overpass and count the blue cars (slug your husband in the arm when a Volkswagon goes by, he'll think it's funny).
I actually did this a couple of years ago. My normal vacation to Antartica got cancelled due to good weather so Mrs.
Died one day after her 82nd birthday on July 19, 2005. Born in Battleview, North Dakota, she graduated from the Seattle University School of Nursing and was a longtime resident of the West Seattle area. She was preceded in death by her beloved husband of 51 years, Jack J. Sparks, in 1997, and her son, Michael, in 2000. She is survived by her son and daughter-in-law, Charles and Diana Sparks, of Sammamish, Wash., and three grandchildren, Melissa Arias and Tony and Keenan Sparks. Private family services were held at Washington Memorial Park.
