Meet JONATHON STONE He is the new owner of Dick's Camera shop.This natty dresser admits his wife picked out his co-coordinated shirt and tie but the grin is all his own. He is not exactly a stranger in Burien.
Around 3:30 Sunday morning, three young people were eating fast food at a picnic table in Alki Beach Park. Two men in their twenties approached, put a gun to one victim_s head, and told all three to get to the ground. The victims were told to empty their pockets or they'd be shot. The suspects gathered the items, walked toward the street, stopped, and one fired the gun into the air before they fled south toward the lighthouse. Officers were unable to find them. One suspect is Caucasian and wore a white sweatshirt with hood, blue jeans, and a light-colored bandana.
What about those who wait?
By Kyra-lin Hom
I'm a second generation, half-Chinese, teenage girl. My grandfather and great-grandfather were immigrants from rural China. My grandmother's father immigrated to Canada to become a railroad worker, making a pittance for the privilege of doing life-threatening coolie labor. I should obviously be in favor of all immigration and despise all anti-immigration laws, but I'm not and I don't.
Millions of people from all over the world are striving to gain U.S.
'Tulipomania' in the books
By Karen Spiel
This time of year, we can buy bouquets of gorgeous cut tulips, and we can watch them bloom in gardens, or visit the tulip fields to the north. Looking at these graceful flowers, you would never imagine what a source of upheaval and disaster they once were.
"Tulipomania" is the name for the frenzied speculation in tulip bulbs that gripped Holland from 1634 to 1637.
It appears there will be three major transportation issues on the November ballot, one from the city, one from the county and a third issue from a three-county regional transportation consortium to pay for larger projects.
No price tag is attached to the three issues that voters will have to approve or reject. That will come during the summer.
The first issue for the ballot will be a one-tenth of 1 percent sales tax increased proposed by King County Executive Ron Sims last week to pay for a massive increase in the size of Metro Transit.
Seattle's voters may be confronted with two utterly ridiculous alternatives to the rebuilding of the Alaskan Way Viaduct. The voters should reject both.
The viaduct is absolutely vital for the transportation of people from West Seattle, Ballard, and Magnolia into and out of downtown Seattle. Only SR 99 and I-5 give West Seattle significant north-south access. Already, West Seattleites experience traffic snarls during rush hour in the morning and the evening in getting on Interstate 5.
I was surprised to see no letters in today's (April 19th) paper, other than the letter from the editor, referencing Tim St. Clair's articles of April 11th about the new development coming to the Alaska Junction.
Maybe it's not too late for me to point something out: the folks quoted in the lead article seem pleased with the coming changes. They are business owners and developers, so it takes no great imagination to see what's in it for them. The single people who will move into these new apartments - the ones with a lot of disposable income - have nothing to lose, either.
Chief Sealth High School should be neither expected nor required to do anything more than Eastside Catholic High School did, namely, fire Mr. Willis and his staff. It's high time that Eastside Catholic step out of the Confessional: what did you know (about your own Willis basketball program) and when did you know it? And, by the way, which schools quietly put the squeeze on you?
Let us also train our spotlight on the two principals who co-signed the complaint against Chief Sealth, the principals of Bishop Blanchet High School and of Lakeside High School.
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I cannot express my happiness and joy to read in last week's Herald (April 19) that significant progress has been made in recasting and displaying our own Statue of Liberty - "Lady Liberty" - in Alki. I was suffering the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune [aka pneumonia] when the April 6th public meeting at the Bathhouse reviewed our Lady's design schemes and plaza so was unable to contribute to the discussion.
Well they now have taken out our Green Belt for the rest of (Greg Davis Park at 26th Avenue Southwest and Southwest Brandon Street) all baby birds killed, and we lost all the hummingbird nests we feed all winter, now we have none. I hope Mayor Greg Nickels is happy.
I wrote to City Council and mayor, governor. They our turning Delridge into cement junction. Anyway I just thought I would send you a paper I sent to the Gov. Christine Gregoire:
"I know I am only one person but I have been here 73 years and was born here with eight other siblings. We are only two left.
