Mayor Greg Nickels unveiled three new programs aimed at ensuring the city will have plenty of water available for fire-fighting and household use in the event of a disaster.
"As we saw in New Orleans, dependable sources of water for drinking, firefighting and sanitation, are one of the keys to a community's safety and quick recovery from catastrophic events," Nickels said.
Last spring a girl at Whitman Middle School tripped on the basketball court when her foot got caught between a crack in the pavement.
Fortunately a group of parents and staff were in the process of writing a grant to fund a playground resurfacing project that was turned into the City of Seattle a week after the incident.
The good news came in August when the school's Department of Neighborhood Small and Simple Grant for $8,000 was approved.
Since it is a matching grant, the school ASB (Associated Student Body) and PTSA (Parents Teacher Student Association)
Ballard's top tennis player Mitchell Chavez was warming up against his Garfield friends and rival Aron Shimeles last Thursday for a highly anticipated match-up of number one seeds.
Unfortunately, a light drizzle turned into a rain shower, forcing the Garfield and Ballard match to be canceled.
Chavez and Shimeles work out together during the off-season at the Amy Yee Tennis Center in Southeast Seattle and are quite familiar with each other's games.
Coming off their first win of the season the previous week against Garfield, the Ballard High School football team was hoping to make it two in a row against the Juanita Rebels at Memorial Stadium on Friday night. But after taking a 9-0 third-quarter lead, the Beavers' hopes were crushed under a 21-point Rebel onslaught. Final score: Juanita 21, Ballard 9.
The two evenly matched squads battled to a 0-0 standoff at half time, with both offenses hampered by numerous penalties.
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"If you were President of the United States and the same national and world conditions prevailed then as now, what would your top priorities be, I asked?"
Congressman Adam Smith (D-Tacoma) replied, "Now that's quite a question."
How many times have we wished decision-makers would ask us what we thought and then heard our answer? Opinions are many; doable solutions few.
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Football
Kennedy 63, Renton 0
Kennedy scored 42 points in the first quarter to leave Renton far away in its rear-view mirror Saturday, Sept. 24.
Jeremy Bland opened by scoring on a 46-yard run and Trevor Steen kicked his first of eight extra points.
Mark Airhart returned a fumble 32 yards for the second JFK touchdown, then Nate Williams scored on a 49-yard punt return and a 25-yard run.
Tyrese Lopez then connected with Everett Thompson on a 19-yard touchdown pass.
Arrest in double homicide
The man who allegedly pulled the trigger in the fatal shooting of two men in the Southcenter Mall parking lot has been arrested and charged with two counts of first-degree murder.
Thomas Osbourne Marshall, 53, from Port Orchard, was arrested Sept. 22 at the Port of Bremerton Marina. He is charged with the deaths of 17-year-old Noe Carrasco Salazar and 27-year-old Felix Payan Cruz.
Police believe the motive for the shootings involved drugs.
Marshall is being held on $2 million bail and will be arraigned Oct.
Home robbery gunfight
During a robbery at a home in the 20000 block of 13th Ave. S, two male suspects had their weapons turned on them.
Around 5:30 a.m. on Sept. 26, three adults were sitting inside the house when they saw a car pull up with two men in ski masks inside.
The men walked quickly up to the house and kicked in the door. They were both armed, one with a shotgun and the other with a baton-type weapon.
When a suspect hit one of the victims over the head, the victim started to fight back.
Arrested for rape
A transient was arrested Sept. 28 for the rape of a Des Moines woman with Down's syndrome.
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Highline School Board members and district staffers have been struggling with the need to move Aviation High School students off the Duwamish campus of South Seattle Community College next year.
Using the closed Sunnydale Elementary building had seemed the best alternative.
But Superintendent John Welch told board members Sept.
