April 2006

for daughter’s killer

The mother of Nicole Pietz is offering a $10,000 reward for information that would lead to the arrest and conviction of the person who murdered her daughter.

Pietz’s body was found in the bushes along Des Moines Memorial Drive and South 114th Street on Feb. 6. She was reported missing by her husband on Jan. 28 after leaving her Lynnwood home that morning, then missing a meeting with friends and failing to meet her husband for dinner that night.

Police officials say she was strangled. Her car was found Feb.

In keeping with the old adage that when robins appear spring has arrived, an influx of new restaurants is usually the harbinger of revitalization in a neighborhood or city.

And the latest arrivals in Burien’s wave of new eateries are Breaktime and the soon-to-open Mark Restaurant and Bar, both on Southwest 152nd Street in the downtown business district.

“Places to eat are magnets, frequently drawing other small shops to join them, sometimes more places to eat and often other types of businesses,” according to Debra George, executive director of the Disco

Students won’t be suspended for walking out of classes to attend rallies protesting proposed immigration legislation currently in Congress, Highline School Board members were told April 5.

Some Highline students left classes on March 27 to attend a rally at Angle Lake Park in SeaTac.

Burien residents soon will have a number of opportunities to comment on the potential annexation of all, part, or none of the North Highline unincorporated area.

A community engagement plan approved by the Burien council on April 3 calls for community meetings on May 31, June 3 and June 7 to give city residents the chance to speak out on annexation.

“We hope that the Burien community will take advantage of the conversations to learn more about the annexation issue and the choices we face,” said Mayor Joan McGilton.

“It is important for Burien

What a difference eight years makes.

In 1998, students and staff at White Center Heights Elementary in North Highline were forced out of their school by slimy toxic mold.

For six years, the students were bused to an old school building a mile and a half from their neighborhood school.

But this month, the architectural plans for White Center Heights’ new two-story, 64,000 square foot elementary school and community center were featured at a national school board association conference in Chicago.

The convention was held April 8 to 11.

Highline Times/Des Moines News publisher Jerry Robinson was named Citizen of the Year by Burien Elks Lodge 2143 on April 1.

Robinson was honored for his “outstanding and dedicated service to the community.”

He is also publisher of the West Seattle Herald, White Center News, Federal Way News and Ballard News-Tribune.

A bountiful crop of horticultural finds and some great buys will be featured at the third annual Bloomin Burien Plant Sale on Friday, April 14 and Saturday, April 15 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. each day. The sidewalks along Southwest 152nd Street between Ambaum Boulevard Southwest and 10th Avenue Southwest in Old Burien will bloom with foliage of every sort, rain barrels, garden art and more. A Discover Burien Association staffer with a horticultural degree will answer gardening questions. Discover Burien, Prudential Northwest Realty and Grassroots are cosponsoring the sale.

Over 120 Burien-area fun-lovers gathered on March 26 to participate in the first “B-Town Rally.”

The event was organized to benefit New Futures, a Burien-based nonprofit, and to build awareness of the family-support programs New Futures operates in three of King County's largest low-income apartment complexes.

New Futures executive director Ruth Dickey thanked participants for their generosity, reporting that the event raised approximately $8,000 for New Futures.

To start the rally, each team was given a cryptic clue to find a Burien-area landm

Making it to Seattle Mariner games at Safeco Field is easy with Sound Transit’s “Home Run Service” and ST Express regional bus service.

Sounder trains feature special service to Saturday and Sunday Mariners home games throughout the season.

“She was so excited because she saw the dragons. She started dancing!”

When Momentum Program Coordinator Bonnie Shultz describes her disabled client’s excitement at landing a volunteer opportunity at an Asian Art Museum, she beams.

Perhaps it was the oriental decor, the workforce diversity, or the many cultures in the workplace.