Baseball
Camas 4, Mt. Rainier 0
The Rams were blanked on four hits in the Saturday, May 12 game, but still advanced to the regional level of the state tournament. That kept alive Mount Rainier's hopes of making this Friday and Saturday's state semifinals and finals at Safeco Field in Seattle.
Timberline 4, Highline 3
Brendan Gardner-Young hit 4-for-4 with a double in the Saturday, May 12 playoffs as Daniel Dutton hit 3-for-4 and Ryan Brett 2-for-2.
Highline 4, Yelm 2
The Evergreen Wolverines lost two games at the West Central District III Fastpitch Tournament at Sprinker Recreation Center in Parkland Friday.
Their first loss was 9-0 to the No.1 seed, Timberline. That was not a good game to talk about. But the second one was against a good team from the Southwest District, Hudson Bay, and the Wolverines played this Vancouver, Wash. area team straight up.
"We battled," said Evergreen head coach Daylene Boehm.
Kennedy moved smoothly through the West Central District 3A tournament, like a hot knife through butter, in the first game, an 8-0 win over North Thurston. Their second win of the day, 1-0, over rival, Mount Rainier, meant one word at Sprinker Recreation Center in Tacoma Friday.
State. Again.
The Lancers have made the state trip each of the last two seasons and taken one game against two losses in each visit, so that has made them top 10 in the state.
This time may be better than that if their ace pitcher, Karli Merlich, continues her season-long ways.
May 15-An 81-year-old Burien woman was killed shortly after noon in a hit-and-run accident in the 13400 block of Ambaum Blvd. S.W.
The victim, who died at the scene, was identified as Valerie Glass. She lived about two blocks from the accident scene.
According to the King County Sheriff's Office, Ms. Glass was crossing the street in a marked crosswalk. One car stopped for her but a car headed northbound in the next lane over did not. She was hit, but the driver did not stop at the scene.
As of Friday, no one had been arrested for the hit-and-run fatality.
Burien again is looking for a developer to build a full-service hotel and conference center in the city's downtown business district.
The planned hotel, with about 200 guest rooms plus deluxe condominiums on the top floors, will be located on a 1.25 acre site on Southwest 150th Street west of First Avenue South and east of Washington Mutual.
Proposals from developers to join the city in a public/private partnership with the design and construction of this mixed-use facility are due by June 30.
Dick Loman, Burien's economic development manager, said last week th
Former Sea-Tac International Airport director Gina Mae Lindsey has landed in Los Angeles.
Los Angles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa has named Lindsey executive director of Los Angeles World Airports (LAWA).
If confirmed by the city council, Lindsey will oversee Los Angles International Airport as well as airports in Van Nuys, Ontario and Palmdale.
Lindsey left Sea-Tac Airport in August 2004 near the end of a decade-long fight with neighboring cities over construction of the third runway.
Mark Reis was promoted from assistant director to take her place.
Local radio legend Bill Wippel of Normandy Park has been tapped to receive the Susan Hutchinson Bosch Award from the Western Washington chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists.
Wippel will receive the honor at the Western Washington Excellence in Journalism awards banquet on Saturday, June 2, at the Meydenbauer Center in Bellevue.
As news director at KIRO radio in Seattle in the late 1970s, Wippel hired both talk show host Dave Ross and reporter Tim Haeck
Wippel has been active in radio journalism since 1950.
Burien's annual Strawberry and Arts Festival June 23-24 will feature a new 5K run and walk this year to benefit the Ruth Dykeman Children's Center and the WhiteWater Aquatics Club.
The Burien-based Ruth Dykeman Center is a longstanding non-profit organization that supports children and families. WhiteWater Aquatics fosters competitive swimming and other aquatic athletics in Burien and South King County.
Highline High School students also organized the run/walk, which will start at 9 a.m.
SeaTac lawmakers have decided to proceed with construction of a headquarters fire station in McMicken Heights.
Earlier, the council approved preliminary design plans including the purchase of four homes for the expanded station.
But at a subsequent meeting, council members authorized a tentative consultant's study of where the city's fire stations should be located.
Then on May 8, the lawmakers unanimously approved a final design and budget.
Highline figures prominently in the Sound Transit 2 package proposed recently by the agency's board of directors.
If approved by voters, the Sound Transit 2 package, which carries a $10.9 billion price tag, would be financed through a regional sales tax increase of 0.5 percent, or an additional 5 cents on a $10 purchase
It would extend light rail from SeaTac through Des Moines, Federal Way and Fife to the Tacoma Dome, where it would connect with Tacoma's existing light rail system.
A Road & Transit ballot measure backed by Sound Transit and the Region
