September 2005

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Having been a Boeing worker during the prolonged tragic strike of 1948, I remember how it felt to stand around a barrel of burning scrapwood at the Renton plant trying to keep warm, waving a picket sign at passing cars.

Each week I would go to the union hall for my weekly strike benefit. In those days it was only $10. Not much when you have a family of three kids to feed .

We lived in a tiny two-bedroom in McMicken Heights and the rent was only $31 a month.

Pro instruction offered

Local tennis professional Steve Walters again offers area tennis lessons at outdoor locations this summer. Walters, certifed Pro 1 by the United States Professional Tennis Association since 1986, has coached at some of the world's top tennis resorts and academies in Florida, Caifornia, Texas and Canada. Also he traveled on the men's professional tour, including the 1988 U.S. Open, as a traveling coach for world-ranked pros and nationally-ranked juniors.

As a player, Walters has been ranked No.

Football

Kennedy 57, Tyee 0

D'Angelo Jones started the Lancers off in their Saturday, Sept. 17 win by scoring on a 36-yard run.

sports CORRESPONDENT

The Mount Rainier Rams blasted seven balls into the back of the net at various times of the game in a 7-0 win over Evergreen's Wolverines Thursday at Highline Memorial Field.

The Wolverines remain winless, 0-4 in the Seamount League, while the Rams improved to 5-1.

The Rams took fourth place in the state last season, losing to rival Kennedy in the third-fourth state game. Are they that good again is the question.

"We're alright," said Rams coach Jerry Cappadano. "We still have a young team.

Kenneth Wicker, 50, of Des Moines was fatally shot Sept. 17 by a city policeman.

Six officers were dispatched to the 1600 block of South 257th Street around 2 p.m.

Arrest made in

double homicide

The gunman who allegedly shot and killed two people in the Southcenter Mall parking lot Sept. 12 was arrested last week.

On Sept. 22, Tukwila Police officers arrested a 53-year-old unemployed man without incident at the Port of Bremerton Marina after receiving a tip.

Police believe he knew the two victims, 17-year-old Ivan Payan Rojas and 27-year-old Alfonso R. Ayala.

For many of you, this may invoke a case of d/j

Steve Molnes cared for his students and loved to go skiing. He was born on April 6, 1953 and died Sept. 7, 2005.

passion in life and work

By Dean Wong

Family, friends, students and school staff are mourning over the death of Steve Molnes over the Labor Day weekend. A large, standing room only crowd numbering in the hundreds attended a memorial service in Ballard on Sept.

John Kane is on the phone. On the other end of the line, Seattle Port Commissioner Alec Fisken is congratulating Kane on his run at Port Commission Seat No. 3. The results of the primary election are only one day old but there is a clear sense of who has enough votes to move on to the general election.

"I think I did ok," Kane tells Fisken, but evaluating his primary results strictly on numbers, Kane did not do ok. He had fewer votes than any of the other candidates in his race.

But politics, like arguments, are often won by changing the definition of what's at stake.