This week, we introduce the Trainer's Corner, where you will find each week an important tip to help you live a healthy, longer life, but more importantly, a life with vitality.
This week's tip:
Remember to eat an afternoon snack. When asked, "What is the most important thing to remember when training?" I say that food is as big a part of your training as your work out. Without it, you won't feel much like doing anything.
The city is proposing to double the width of the Spokane Street Viaduct and make other improvements in the West Seattle link to Interstate 5, downtown and points north and east.
So why aren't we cheering and slapping the backs of our city leaders?
Maybe it is because of these words in Tim St. Clair's story on Page One:
"The timing for construction is up in the air. City officials want the expansion project completed before work starts on the Alaskan Way Viaduct.
Last year's canceled school closure process made clear that keeping schools open is important to the public .
I look forward to your (Jerry's View) column each week in the West Seattle Herald. I feel like I know you and your wife after reading it each week. I think it is a nice touch for our little newspaper.
But (there is always a but, isn't there?) there are still so many typos in the paper. Drives me nuts.
Who does the editing? Perhaps a new person who really pays attention to the little details would be better than the one you have now. Just a friendly suggestion.
Mary K. Fleck
In the legal profession, we often hear concerns over care in nursing homes. Nursing homes do wonderful things for our loved ones. Nursing homes offer the expertise and care needed when the time comes that seniors cannot live independently. But our elderly family members are at their most vulnerable when they are in nursing homes and they need protection.
There are seven things which we can do to make sure that our loved ones are safe when they become residents in nursing homes.
1. Keep contact information current.
NO: 06-4-01347-3SEA
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
(RCW 11.40.30)
In the matter of the estate of: EDWIN G. BRANDT, Deceased.
THE PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE named below has been appointed as Personal Representative of this estate.
KING COUNTY
NO: 06-4-01207-8SEA
PROBATE NOTICE TO CREDITORS
In the matter of the estate of: DOROTHY V. LOCKERBIE, Deceased.
The personal representative named below has been appointed as personal representative of this estate.
A second sewer leak in three weeks at Lincoln Park convinced King County engineers to replace the sewer line along the popular park's shoreline and to lay a temporary above-ground bypass sewer pipe.
Work on the four-month project began this past weekend. Most of the bypass sewer pipe is now in place alongside the shoreline pathway.
The latest leak in the sewer pipe occurred Feb. 4 about 500 feet north of Colman Pool.
Seattle Public Schools will close and consolidate some schools by fall of next year to create a smaller, stronger district and plug a projected $25 million budget deficit, according to district officials.
Last year's outraged community reaction halted Superintendent Raj Manhas' proposal to close 10 schools, including Alki and Cooper elementary schools.
Key findings from the Community Advisory Committee for Investing in Educational Excellence
Committee goals
After working together for eight months, a community advisory committee - comprising 14 civic and business leaders - released a report that analyzed the district's finances and educational standings.
The committee states its goals are to be known "as the district that closes the achievement gap (between white and minority students) and delivers academic excellence for all," working from a philosophy that high student expectations will result in improved ac
