Boating
Coast Guard Auxiliary
Ongoing
U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary Des Moines Flotilla No. 32 regularly offers Boating Safety and Seamanship courses at Mount Rainier High School.
They cover the full range of boating safety subjects, including federal requirements, basic piloting, marlin spike, seamanship and boat handling.
The instruction is free, although there is a nominal fee for the student text and work books.
The residents of Federal Way and Des Moines are being asked to vote for Proposition 1 on August 21. This Lid Lift would allow South King Fire & Rescue to maintain the current levy rate of $1.50 per $1,000 of assessed valuation.
What makes this election even more important is that a vote for this proposition will cover a six-year period from 2008 through 2013 instead of the one-year period. The present election system costs up to $200,000 each year. The savings on a six-year election period could be as much as $1 million in election cost alone.
There have been two unanswered, for that matter, unasked questions regarding the Lora Lake apartments: (1) what do the poor, i.e., low income people, have to say about this? And (2) would any of the good people championing the apartments live there?
Daniel C. Lee
Normandy Park
The Des Moines Marina repairs as proposed are incredibly discriminatory against trailer boat owners, sail boat owners, boat businesses, senior citizens and any resident who boats in anything smaller than 40 feet. The Marina is public property owned by all the taxpaying residents living in Des Moines. In 2001 the proposed Marina changes were killed by public protest.
Besides battling fatigue and the chill from 50-degree water, Justin Moser may have to watch out for bears while swimming the 2.3 miles between Des Moines and Maury Island on Aug. 25.
The route for the second annual Brent Rice Memorial Swim of the Sound between Des Moines Beach Park and Point Robinson is similar to one taken by a wayward bear recently.
Except the bear reversed the course, starting from the island and wading ashore a bit south at Saltwater State Park.
The summer of 2007 may provide the perfect laboratory for studying the curse of the third installment.
D'oh! At 2 a.m. Thursday, an officer was driving on the South Park Bridge, when she noticed donuts scattered all over the road. A delivery driver then ran into view and said that a man had hijacked his pastry truck. The driver wasn't sure which way the thief had gone, but the officer was able to follow the donut trail until it ended near Highway 599. A short time later, an officer driving on Delridge spotted the truck speeding through a construction zone with its headlights off. The driver finally stopped-on flattened tires-in the High Point neighborhood.
That was a headline in one of the downtown newspapers the other day. How correct that is.
It took 9/11 for us to begin to look seriously at terror in the previously impervious United States. Now we have chaos at the airports when doctors call 911 because they missed their flight.
On July 5th my mom was home alone and called 911 complaining of a bitter headache. Station 37 was dispatched promptly and transported her to Swedish. Because of their quick response my mom is now recovering from a aneurysm and is making improvements everyday.
We were told at the hospital that 50 percent to 60 percent of people who have aneurysms don't even make it to the hospital never mind be stable enough for surgery.
You might have noticed the glare of bright yellow around West Seattle in the last few weeks. It was WestSide Baby's Stuff the Bus time.
On Sunday July 29, we parked a big yellow school bus near the Farmers Market and spent the day collecting diapers and donations while children hopped into the driver's seat and honked the horn. We are thrilled to say that we collected more than 50,000 diapers for this event.
