If Georgetown residents and business owners succeed in their lobbying effort to get Georgetown off the list as a possible site for the city's future garbage transfer facility, planners could reconsider putting it near the West Seattle Bridge.
Seattle Public Utilities completed a long study of four possible sites for a large, enclosed building where garbage trucks would deliver their loads.
Whose drum beat is the Burien City Council marching to? It certainly is not the residents of Burien because by the council's own admission they are disappointed with the citizen response they have received.
The council has decided not to go after an advisory vote because they do not think the residents are capable of understanding the annexation data. Some of the council members say they are under intense pressure. From whom?
Editor's note: The following letter was submitted to interim Normandy Park City Manager Joyce Papke after a proposed ordinance to ban fireworks in Normandy Park was introduced.
On June 8, the Wall Street Journal ran an article promoting a ban on nitrogen fertilizer (ammonium nitrate). The author, Russell Seitz, argued that garden centers around the country are supply depots for terrorists.
Meet Ruby Leonard Spengler.
This popular pioneer citizen of the Highline area is doing fine in spite of some health setbacks, and still has her winning smile.
Meet Camella Kono
She is surgery coordinator for three physicians in the Three Tree Medical Building next door to Highline Medical Center.
When Elsbeth and I went to schedule a date for her hip replacement by Dr. Barronian, I was struck by Konos' curly black hair so I asked if she slept on a scrub board.
She said, laughing, "No, it is natural.
How do I pick out a few mental snapshots from a lifetime of memories?
That was my dilemma on a Saturday last month as I helped volunteers install playground equipment at Burien's new Mathison Park.
I was there because that is where I grew up.
The volunteers were amazing as they lugged heavy pieces and expertly bolted them together. The completed "Big Toy" was a colorful sight to behold with slides and climbing walls. (As a kid, we had climbing structures, too.
Boating
Coast Guard Auxiliary
Ongoing
U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary Des Moines Flotilla No. 32 regularly offers Boating Safety and Seamanship courses at Mount Rainier High School.
They cover the full range of boating safety subjects, including federal requirements, basic piloting, marlin spike, seamanship and boat handling.
The instruction is free, although there is a nominal fee for the student text and work books.
Bombs away!
The South Highline National Nationals didn't have one home run, but little explosions more than made up for a '"master blaster" as the 13-15 year old boys beat West Seattle, 20-4, in a 10-run rule shortened five-inning game played Wednesday eve at Rainier Beach Playfield.
"I think this was the highest scoring game of the tournament," said Ron Dickneite, the Nationals' second-year manager who watched his boys slap silly the ball 20 times in just five innings of play.
Winning means the Nationals played for the championship Saturday (after press time)
NORMANDY PARK - Heavy hitting hoisted the South Highline American League's Mariners to a first-place trophy.
Silepa "Sunshine" Fola socked a solo home run and a two-run double while Luke Lloyd pitched a complete game to steer South Highline past West Seattle, 12-2, in four innings at the Normandy Park City Hall fields for the District 7 Little League Minors Tournament of Champions title on Monday night, June 19.
With the victory, the Mariners completed a three-game winning run through the TOC field after posting a 12-1 record in their league championship season.
Seahurst Park's north beach was closed for almost 48 hours last week after a leak in a nearby sewage line was discovered.
The leak was discovered by a citizen who smelled "sewage-like" odors and contacted the Burien Parks and Recreation Department around 5 p.m. June 20.
City officials alerted the Southwest Suburban Sewer District (SWSSD), which responded promptly.
