February 2007

Mt. Rainier student to ER

A Mount Rainier High School student was treated at Highline Medical Center last week after overdosing on Dramamine.

Highline School District spokeswoman Catherine Carbone Rogers said the girl, who recovered, started having seizures at school.

Medics at the school treated three other girls after showing symptoms of overdosing on the common drug for motion sickness.

The school sent a letter home to parents warning of the risks of over-the-counter drugs.

Baggage handlers arrested

(Editor's Note: Jerry Robinson updates us on an old friend.)

Meet Gertrude Finney

Gertrude Finney, community legend, is still smiling though losing her room.

This perky 96-year-old, White Center's original librarian way back in 1949, has been a resident at the Bessie Burton Sullivan home for the aged for 10 years.

Owned by Seattle University, the home is being closed and converted to dorm rooms for students and other uses, so residents were told they would have till December to find new quarters.

We have known this fountain of local histor

In the Morgan Junction, loyal customers came together generously offering up generators to keep the doors open during recent wind storms. Friends gathered on communal couches in the English-style setting and toasted pints to the new year. Stories, laughter and the sound of clinking glasses from 'round the world filled the air.

Something's brewing at Beveridge Place Pub.

Was that the sound of strings-a-strummin'? And I thought I just heard a double-neck guitjo. Some unique sounds are going down on Delridge. And this is in addition to the already happenin' scene just down the street at the Skylark.

For a neighborhood that used to seem somewhat quiet when it came to live music, now the hills are alive with the sound of it.

Stella Chao loves walking around where she can see other homeowners working in their yards and the conversations with her neighbors are a welcome thing.

Now that Chao has been hired as the new director of the City of Seattle's Department of Neighborhoods, she is busy establishing relationships with all the different communities, including West Seattle.

She takes over a department with a staff of 90 people with programs that include the Neighborhood Matching Fund, Mayor's Citizen Service Bureau, Office for Education, Historic Preservation, Neighborhood Planning, the P-Patc

Gertrude Finney, community legend is still smiling though losing her room.

This perky 96 year old, White Center's original librarian way back in 1949 has been a resident at the Bessie Burton Sullivan home for the aged for 10 years.

I can think of few things that are sadder to me than packing up Christmas decorations.

You know the feeling. That wonderful, bustling, sentimental holiday season is behind us, and it's time to put it all away again. Every year I reconcile to not let the process get me down. Every year that doesn't work. I sigh heavily as I pack the boxes. And nothing is worse than lugging a Christmas tree carcass out the front door.

I hate January. The weather is rotten. The fun times are over. The house is a mess, as is the credit.

It was as if my whole fifth-grade class had gone mad, teacher included, as egg after egg flew out the third-floor windows of Gatewood School. Standing on the playground below, several teachers had to dodge this barrage of eggs plummeting to the ground. Plop...Smash...Plop... One after the other they hit the hard pavement. Mr. Cacchione, our fifth-grade teacher, turned to me and said to throw mine. I did. Whoosh...out into the air it flew. It seemed to hesitate slightly before gravity took over.

"Apocalypto" opens with a frenzied boar crashing through the dense jungle of Pre-Columbian Central America. Hunters pursue like wild animals themselves, seen only in startling glimpses, re-appearing to the left then right in an incoherent pattern. From the camera's vantage point the view is chaotic, thrilling and, in the end, violent.

Director Mel Gibson is in his element.

As a film maker, Gibson has launched out on an exotic arc becoming as much a cause for fascination as the projects he undertakes.

Re: Viaduct replacement

In response to your comment about tearing down the wall:

I knew Ronald Reagan. Ronald Reagan was a president of mine. You Sir, are no Ronald Reagan.

And you may count me as a tunnel opponent.

Thank you,

J. Kalagian

Alki