March 2006

KING COUNTY

NO: 06-4-02118-2SEA

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

(RCW 11.40.30)

In the matter of the estate of: ELAINE MAE SCHMID, Deceased.

THE ADMINSTRATOR named below has been appointed as Administrator of this estate.

KING COUNTY

NO: 06-4-02156-5SEA

PROBATE NOTICE TO CREDITORS

RCW 11.40.030

In the matter of the estate of: ROY A. WORRELL, Deceased.

The personal representative named below has been appointed as personal representative of this estate.

Alki's miniature Statue of Liberty - weather-worn, cracked and vandalized - might soon be recast and re-enshrined with commemorative pavers and a new plaza at Alki Beach.

Northwest Programs for the Arts, which stages the Seattle Music Fest at Alki Beach in the summer, spearheaded a fund-raising campaign for a bronze cast of the statue. The nonprofit organization also arranged for architects to donate their design skills for a new base and a small plaza around the base of the statue.

The 15-member Community Advisory Committee began the complex task of recommending which K-8, alternative and elementary schools to close, consolidate or relocate at their first meeting last week.

Some members feared their May 26 deadline wouldn't be long enough to solicit adequate community input.

So far, a series of community meetings and weekly gatherings with the committee as a whole will roll out the closure/consolidation plan.

The recent spate of teen-on-teen robberies was a major topic at last week's meeting of the West Seattle Community Safety Partnership at the Southwest Police Precinct.

A group of approximately 20 parents and community members expressed concerns to police and to school administrators and staff from both Chief Sealth and West Seattle high schools.

Sylvan Way, one of West Seattle's most vital east-west arterial streets, remains closed while workers replace much of the street's road base after encountering unstable soils under the street when they tried to hook up a sewer line.

A few weeks ago, workers were installing a sewer system for a new 178-unit townhouse development called Sylvan Heights under construction next to Sylvan Way. The housing project's sewer line is supposed to tap into the main sewer line buried under Sylvan Way.

The Seattle Department of Transportation might want to redesign the Junction's midblock crosswalks when it repaves California Avenue this summer, but city transportation officials don't plan to add parking pay stations or change the Junction's walk-all-ways intersection.

The California Avenue repaving project will extend from Southwest Edmunds Street northward to Admiral Way.

Transportation officials worry about crosswalks that span four lanes, such as are found in the Junction, said Gregg Hirakawa, spokesman for the Seattle Department of Transportation.

Qualifying for this year's state National Geographic Bee for the second year in a row, Schmitz Park Elementary fifth grader Sean Keller will compete tomorrow in the state championship, to be held at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma.

The competition sponsored by the National Geographic Society challenges students in fourth through eight grades with geography questions. But, of the 100 state finalists, only one student will travel to the national championships in Washington D.C. May 23-24, which will also air on PBS.