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Dorian Overhaus, an 8-year-old from Ballard, recently won her age division in the All-Around event at the Washington State USA Gymnastics Junior Olympics Championship.
Over 350 gymnasts in the state competed for a spot in the championship event at Sammamish High School. Only 65 qualified and Overhaus finished on top.
She also competed against two friends she trains with at the Cascade Elite Club.
Suggesting playfields in Seattle have artificial turf is like proposing tanning salons on the beaches of Waikiki.
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I've owned a locking mailbox for the last three years, primarily to protect my personal information from being stolen.
The mailbox is mounted on a railing next to the front door of my home on Beacon Hill. The bolts were inside the box so a thief would not be able undo the brackets.
If anyone was going to tamper with my mailbox, I thought for sure it would have been an identity thief trying to break into it.
Plastic grass has far-reaching implications
Editor,
This week Seattle Parks Superintendent Ken Bounds will make a decision regarding installing plastic turf on Loyal Heights Playfield. Although Loyal Heights is just a drop in the overall Seattle Parks Department's bucket of proposals, the implications are far more reaching.
I, and most other citizens of our city, celebrate the Mayor's work to curb global warming. I am proud to live in a city guided by the mayor's leadership in efforts like this.
CONTRIBUTOR
Ending months of speculation and community controversy, Seattle Parks and Recreation Superintendent Ken Bounds announced his approval of the Loyal Heights Playfield Improvement plan last Friday, a plan that is intended to add to the playfield's usability.
ROBINSON NEWSPAPERS
Monorail planners should figure out how many miles of guideway and how many stations can be built for $1.5 billion and, if necessary, get ready to put an altered version of the Green Line before the voters this fall, said Cleve Stockmeyer, one of two elected representatives on the Seattle Monorail Project board of directors.
Stockmeyer also recommended building a dual-beam guideway on the West Seattle Bridge instead of a single-beam guideway as had previously been planned.
Mayor Greg Nickels weighed into the fray last week with a letter
There is $500 million worth of city-street and bridge repairs that have been ignored too long and Seattle City Council President Jan Drago says it is time to get to work on that.
"The next four years, the focus needs not to be on big capitol development, but on maintenance, both major and routine," she said. "The era of big capitol budgets is over for a while as far as I am concerned. We need to focus on the smaller things that are more realistic for us to deal with.
NEWS-TRIBUNE
For the third time in the past five years, the parking lot of Trinity United Methodist Church will serve as host to Tent City, which acts as temporary housing for about 100 homeless people and has moved around the city and its suburbs in the past years.
But unlike past years, when tempers have run high and accusations amuck, hardly any protests have come from Ballardites so far with Tent City's planned visit of Aug.
CORRESSPONDENT
A woman-owned bookstore in Ballard is doing its part to help Northwest women recover from alcoholism and drug abuse.
On Aug. 25, Epilogue Books will donate 10 percent of its day's sales to Residence XII, a women's drug and alcohol rehabilitation facility in Kirkland.
The organization is the first beneficiary of the bookstore's Ten Percent for Change Program, which owners Sharon Lloyd and daughter Rebecca Hildebrandt announced earlier this month.
The fundraiser will feature a 7 p.m.
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Four years ago an athletic complex to replace a bare uninviting concrete field at Salmon Bay School was just a dream.
That dream is fast becoming a reality with construction well underway on a new field and a grand opening dedication party planned for Oct. 7.
Salmon Bay Athletic Field project organizers envisioned a multi-purpose facility to serve a wide range of interests for the school and the community.
A soccer field with synthetic turf, measuring 180 feet by 130 feet wide is the main feature.
