The Miss Burien Scholarship Program announced last week that Janie Bakke has been named the organization's new executive director.
She succeeds Diane Kennish, who is stepping down after nine years of leading the program.
Bakke has close ties with the pageant world already-she is the mother of Stacy Bakke, who was Miss Burien 2004.
She is also a former Mrs.
Tom Jovanovich was sworn in last week as a new commissioner of Water District 49.
Water District 49 provides service to downtown Burien and surrounding residential neighborhoods.
Jovanovich was appointed in August to fill a vacancy on the three-member commission created when Commissioner Jim Henry resigned effective July 1.
Henry, who had four years remaining in his current term, stepped down in protest after Commissioners Ray Brickell and Jim Henry decided not to renew the contract of district Manager Dale Cap when it expires in November.
Jovanovich
King County Councilwoman Julia Patterson, D-SeaTac, last week praised the final report of the Sheriff's Blue Ribbon Panel.
The 35-page report on problems of training, supervision and discipline within the King County Sheriff's Office and how to correct them was released to county council members on Sept. 11.
It also noted there was "no evidence of corruption ...
The Schuster Group Inc., a real estate developer, recently announced plans to build a new, 53,849 square foot retail development in the heart of Normandy Park.
Located at the intersection of First Avenue South and South 199th Street, the development will serve Normandy Park residents as well as residents from neighboring Des Moines and Burien.
Construction is expected to begin in July 2007 with completion expected in spring 2008.
Called The Normandy Park Towne Center, the development is designed to fill a niche for an in-town retail presence in Normandy Park, a
Burien City Hall will move to temporary quarters in December to make room for construction of Town Square.
Council members approved on Sept. 11 a 24-month lease beginning Nov. 11 for space in a professional building at 15811 Ambaum Boulevard S.W., just south of Hiline Lanes.
City offices will occupy 11,636 square feet of office space in the multi-tenant building. All city departments in the current City Hall will move to the interim site.
The current City Hall at 415 S.W. 150th St.
Five Burien City Council members indicated at their Sept. 11 study session that they now favor designating the entire North Highline Unincorporated Area as a potential annexation area.
Council members voted 5-2 last month to target only two areas in the southern part of North Highline as preferred annexation areas.
But on Sept.
Highline School District officials pointed last week to steady progress in reading and 10th-grade achievement, based on results of this year's Washington Assessment of Student Learning (WASL).
But they expressed disappointment at the math scores of Highline students.
"I want to make it really clear that we are not satisfied with our overall progress," Superintendent John Welch declared at the Sept.
PUBLIC NOTICE
The following Ordinance was passed by the Normandy Park City Council on September 12, 2006.
KING COUNTY, WASHINGTON
RESOLUTION NO. 2006-32
A RESOLUTION OF THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OF SOUTHWEST SUBURBAN SEWER DISTRICT, KING COUNTY, WASHINGTON, DECLARING ITS INTENT TO ANNEX THE AREA REFERRED TO AS ISLAND ANNEXATION - CEDARHURST DIVISION NO.
I read with great amusment Ralph Nichols' recent column in the Highline Times. You came across as, let's just say, elitist. Which I am seeing more and more these days.
You know, the ones with all of the clever one-liners and quotes. The ones that presume to have all the answers for all of us. I mean why bother attending meetings when we have you.
I have lived in this part of town most of my life. I remember seeing the cable car tracks on Ambaum where the road was in disrepair. Or the bricks on Des Moines Drive.
