October 2007

Burien

Stabbed man hospitalized

September 23-A man in his 30s was stabbed shortly before 4 a.m. in the 13700 block of 12th Ave. S.W.

Detectives from the King County Sheriff's Major Crimes Unit were investigating the incident last week.

The man was taken to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle with life-threatening injuries.

No arrests had been made by late last week, nor had any suspects been identified. There was no additional information about the victim of this crime.

With the whole Northwest undergoing an explosive growth, Burien is not standing still.

Everywhere you drive streets and highways are under repair, orange cones by the thousands restrict traffic flows, huge road building machines threaten to flatten your car and test your patience at just about every intersection.

The building of the new downtown Burien Town Square is well underway and causing a real stir in the local populace.

And down a revamped First Avenue South a of couple miles, the attractive Normandy Town Center is a welcome sight to the citizens of that

Over the past year in this column I've described several childhood adventures I had with a friend named Larry Coleman. Larry was proudly Canadian. To rile him up I would make Canadian jokes, something like, "Hey Larry, how many Canadians does it take to change a light bulb?"

"None. They don't have any."

Larry would usually fire back with something much better. "Hey Marc, what does the average American get on his IQ test?"

"Drool."

Going to school assemblies with Larry at in the early 70s was great fun, as he would usually get in trouble.

ARTSWEST 'BAT BOY'

Troy Wageman is Bat Boy in the musical now on stage at ArtsWest Playhouse. Photo by Matthew E. Durham.

With a high-profile emergency automobile extraction in the local news recently, a recent training session at South Seattle Community College was held. The college invited the Seattle Fire Department to practice extraction techniques on two old cars no longer needed in the college's Automotive Technology and Automotive Collision Repair programs. The cars, which were destined for scrap, received a second life as the fire fighters trained on extraction techniques for car accidents. Photo from South Seattle Community College.

Exuberant kids use a parking lot to get some skating in. Photo by Steve Shay.

Not really. The cut-out artwork is on a west-facing column of the lower Spokane Street Bridge. Photo by Steve Shay.

Gabriel Sico, 3, tries out his boots on a roadside puddle near the Farmers Market on Sunday in the Junction. Despite the heavy rain, merchants reported the turnout was surprisingly good. Photo by Patrick Robinson.

Every year, we go to Shaw Island in the San Juans to stay at the family cabin. Our time there is full of many wonderful places and things that we love - the swimming pool, the boat rides, the little general store. But the star of the show has stayed the same each year, and this year, not to mix metaphors, our star really hit a jackpot.

It's the old "Message in a Bottle" tradition.

My husband and the kids write a note each year, and make a big production of putting it in a bottle, and sealing it with wax.

I don't know if it slipped through the cracks of the editors of the West Seattle Harold or if they just didn't think it through, but the Sherman Supply ad in the Harold's Explorer magazine was certainly over the top as far as physical exposure.

Showing the naked butts of men and women to promote their product shows a lack of respect to the community in which we live in and they serve, and I certainly would not want my children to see that ad or others like it.

Though the human body is beautiful, I believe that certain parts of the human body are best kept unexposed and bu