September 2007

Like a Hummer on steroids, the UNICAT All-terrain vehicle can drive comfortably through almost any desert, jungle, snowstorm, or flood nature can stir up. But the 25,000 pound giant decided to plow through the tamer streets of Burien on a recent demonstration. It picked up four thrilled grade school children from their Normandy Park homes, and delivered them in rugged splendor to Marvista Elementary school.

UnicatAmericas, Inc.

I don't understand. This is America. We're not going to agree on everything.

Quarterback Matt Hasselbeck,

Seattle Seahawks

"Disagreement [is] not intolerance" proclaimed the headline atop Eric Mathison's column on Aug.

On Labor Day, we proudly reflected on the value that working men and women bring to our country, our society and our way of life. We hold it as a civil right that one is entitled to work.

Unfortunately, many Americans are deprived of that right to work, simply by virtue of the gender of whom they love, or their gender identity. In most states it is legal to fire someone simply because they are gay or transgendered.

We Washingtonians are fortunate.

State Sen.

The Burien/Normandy Park Fire Department will hold its annual open house on Saturday, September 15, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

During the event at the main station at 15100 Eighth Ave. S. in Burien, firefighters will demonstrate their skills in emergency automobile extrication and high-angle rope rescue.

The Normandy Park Police will offer free fingerprint I.D.

River City, Iowa, in 1912 has always been synonymous with "trouble."

You know, the kind of trouble that starts with the presence of a new pool table in the River City billiard hall, a development sure to bring about the moral decline of the unsuspecting Iowans.

It's the sort of trouble that involves a con man named Harold Hill, who rolls into town to convince gullible parents to purchase musical instruments and band uniforms for their tone-deaf sons.

It's the kind of trouble where Professor Hill's cheating, dishonest schemes gradually give way to romance and lo

Noting an increase in gang activity in several King County communities, members of the King County Council last week proposed the creation of a gang suppression unit in the King County Sheriff's Office.

JoAn Cox, mother of slain King County Sheriff's Deputy Steve Cox, led a community petition drive earlier this year supporting establishment of a gang unit.

Deputy Cox was shot and killed last December while questioning a suspect with reported gang ties in White Center.

According to a July briefing to the Council by Sheriff Sue Rahr, gang-related incidents have r

The number of lanes from Sea-Tac International Airport was reduced last week from three to two in the near-to-terminal area.

Drivers should expect delays leaving the airport, especially during busy travel hours-midday (11 a.m.

Man injured in shooting

Sept. 2-Police were looking last week for the trigger man in an apparent drive-by shooting that occurred shortly before 9:30 p.m. in the 21600 block of 30th Avenue South in the Pacific Ridge area.

According to investigating officers, a 21-year-old man from Des Moines was shot in both legs.

The Foster Bulldogs and the Tyee Totems went at it on the gridiron Friday night on Neudorf Memorial Field and it was a rumble in the neighborhood of good positive things that kids do to fight hard to get ahead and come back from behind.

And, in the end, in the very end, the visiting Totems held on for a 14-13 win.

The Totems improved to 2-0 on the season, which includes last week's 20-6 win over Chief Sealth. Foster dropped to 0-2.

The Totems have been doing it with mirrors it looks like on paper, at least they sure have not been doing it with players.