Ann Marie Garland, 73 of West Seattle died on January 12, 2007, in Las Vegas, NV, while visiting family for the holidays. She was planning on moving there in the spring time to live permanently with her daughter and son-in-law on their ranch. She lived in the Alki Beach area for approximately 50 years and was also a member of Holy Rosary Church.
"Annie' was loved by everyone. She was so full of caring and kindness.
Former salesmen at Huling Bros. Auto Center, one of West Seattle's largest businesses, were charged last week with breaking into a customer's apartment last summer, stealing $70,000 in cash and laundering the money to cover up the crime.
Documents filed by the King County Prosecuting Attorney claim a 60-year-old Delridge man, wearing clothes stained with his own excrement, walked into Huling Bros. dealership last July 21 with $30,000 cash in a plastic bag.
Editor's Note. Lori Hinton has written this column for over three years and once in a while it is a good idea to take a breath and look back at the long view. Here is a checklist of 101 Things to Do from her now famous West Seattle Herald column titled "101 Things to Do in West Seattle." Don't miss Seattle's first ever neighborhood guidebook: West Seattle 101.
Scan the walls of many West Seattle venues - restaurants, coffee shops, shoe stores and more - and you'll find that, more and more, art abounds in our eclectic little neighborhood.
Director Soriano states that "a huge mistake" was made when previous Seattle School Boards hired superintendents who lacked backgrounds in education. The mistake was not in the selection of these quality candidates such as John Stanford and Raj Manhas who clearly demonstrated the leadership skills necessary to implement both educational and fiscal reforms.
Contrary to the suggestion of last week's article ("School levy-bond vote debated"), there is little debate surrounding school Propositions 1 and 2. These critical measures enjoy widespread support, as did the expiring levies they replace.
Propositions 1 and 2 are not new taxes, and they are fundamental to the success of every child in every classroom in every school. They are vigorously supported by teachers, principals, parents, students, business people, elected officials, and friends of education in all parts of the city.
To preserve Ballard's "uniqueness," I would suggest that a Historical District be organized at a strictly local to declare the streets from 20th to 24th on Market and from Market two blocks south on Ballard Avenue to be "historical" in nature; an architectural committee can be formed including all the local merchants to determine a form of restyling building fronts to reflect Scandinavian architecture.
All five Scandinavian flags should be flown at various places along this "esplanade." A few volunteers dressed in Scandinavian attire could walk the streets during summer weather, to
opposes tunnel lite
We support the governor's position in going forward with the rebuild of the Alaskan Way Viaduct. Building a new elevated structure will save the citizens of the Seattle area $3 billion. We believe the majority of the Seattle citizens oppose any tunnel.
The two lane tunnel (Tunnel Lite) will not have the same capacity as the present viaduct.
In a rut? Make a new plan
Annette Herrick
Do you feel like you're in a bit of a rut? Is your performance or enthusiasm waning? Could this be because you're repeating the same routine over and over? Or that you're not paying that close of attention? Grinding it out, day in, day out. Just getting it done.
'Alpha Dog' has gut-punching climax
Directed by Nick Cassavetes
Rated: R
(three stars)
By Bruce Bulloch
Coming of age stories are typically an exercise in sentimentality. They offer an airbrushed view of the first fumbling act of liberation into adulthood. But in truth the right of passage is a series of collisions-big and small-between fantasy and reality, between unformed judgment and unforgiving consequence.
