April 2007

Piece by piece, Bert Lundh has been putting together the stories of the orginal 11 incorporators of Swedish Hospital in time for Swedish Medical Center's 100th birthday party on April 21.

Lundh is working with Nordic Heritage Museum Executive Director Marianne Forssblad to locate descendents of the 11 men.

"We've had quite a few calls from the descendents," said Lundh.

Living relatives of board members: Andrew Chilberg; Nils A. Johanson, M.D.; P.A. Hallberg; J.A. Soderberg; John Kalberg; Godfrey Chealander; N.J.

Piece by piece, Bert Lundh has been putting together the stories of the orginal 11 incorporators of Swedish Hospital in time for Swedish Medical Center's 100th birthday party on April 21.

Lundh is working with Nordic Heritage Museum Executive Director Marianne Forssblad to locate descendents of the 11 men.

"We've had quite a few calls from the descendents," said Lundh.

Living relatives of board members: Andrew Chilberg; Nils A. Johanson, M.D.; P.A. Hallberg; J.A. Soderberg; John Kalberg; Godfrey Chealander; N.J.

King County Executive Ron Sims recently appointed 21 commission members to review the county's charter.

Two of those appointed are from the Highline area: Tara Jo Heinecke of Des Moines, the former chairwoman of the 33rd Legislative District Democrats, and former Burien City Manager Gary Long of the Suburban Cities Association.

The King County Charter Review Commission will convene over the next 15 months and dissolve after the general election in November 2008.

During their term, the commissioners will review the charter and make recommendations to the county

So sunny, so nice, so Elsbeth offered to ride with me if I wanted to go out for nine holes of hit-and-hunt golf. The winter has been so long I was pretty excited.

The sign said "Carts Stay on Paths," so there was a lot of walking and the course was wonderful but the rough was very deep. If you bent one too much you often could not find it.

My first game in a year was not pretty but I got a lot of exercise.

We did have to call the clubhouse only once.

After a sterling drive that accidentally hit a limb my ball dove into knee-deep grass.

The young ladies of the Decatur Drill and Dance Team may not crack shoulder pads or make a head-first slide into home, but anyone who dares to question whether these athletes work as hard as the boys has never sat in on one of their practices.

One moment the girls might be repeating a segment of their nationally-recognized routine, slamming their bodies against the gym floor and jumping to their feet again just as quickly.

Most of what seems magical evokes a childhood memory, like catching snowflakes on the tongue or my first shooting star, but the sight of cherry petals snowing from the trees is adult magic for me, delivered to me at my doorstep. When I moved to this block in Ballard 19 years ago we were part of a wave of new families; younger couples buying on a traditional, family block. Many of the neighbors had raised their own families here and still hosted their grandchildren. Couples like the Nelsons; he fussed over how I parked my car and Mrs.