Apparently, you are not aware or don't care to illuminate the Highline Hospital's recent failure to support local area citizens on Medicare with AARP supplemental insurance.
I was told by my primary-care physician's office people [Dr.
There is a costly, growing, unsightly and undesirable problem in our country that I feel is neither being taking very seriously nor proper steps being taken to resolve.
The problem is GRAFFITI. You see it on buildings, fences in our Public Parks, almost anywhere. It seems the younger generation is trying to express themselves for what ever reason.
We are now well on the way towards November and the election of the next President of the USA.
Fresh-off-the-vine produce, lush flowers and handcrafted goods are coming to Olde Burien Thursday, May 8.
That's when the Burien Farmers Market opens for the season with live music on 10th Avenue Southwest between Southwest 151st Street and Southwest 152nd Street.
Des Moines will begin its farmers market on Saturday, June 7. It will be on Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Des Moines Marina through Oct. 25.
SeaTac will hold a farmers market for the first time, beginning Sunday, June 15. SeaTac's market will be at Angle Lake Park each Sunday from 11 a.m.
Savor some local culture, from visual to culinary, during Burien's fifth annual Spring Stroll on Saturday, May 10.
Sponsored by the Discover Burien Association, the event offers a taste of the work of artists plus food, wine, beer and arts-related events representative of the businesses where they are located.
Activities and artists will be stationed both outside and inside businesses marked with balloons along Southwest 152nd Street in downtown Burien.
Highline School Board members focused on ways to get more students participating in athletics--especially in middle school, at an April 28 work-study session.
Athletic coordinator John Melver reported about 40 percent of the district's middle and high-school students play school sports.
Tukwila, the first city in the state to be certified as an official Community Wildlife Habitat by the National Wildlife Federation, will host the eighth annual Backyard Wildlife Festival on May 10.
The festival will feature a day full of outdoor events and exhibits designed to stimulate the minds and senses of both adults and children.
This year, Tukwila's festival will feature keynote speaker David Mizejewski.
State legislators' generosity in granting larger than anticipated raises to teachers has contributed to the possible elimination of 30 district positions.
"These are positions, not people," district spokeswoman Catherine Carbone Rogers cautions.
With retirements, resignations and transfers, no one may actually be laid off.
However, the district is required to notify those who could be affected by May 15.
Twenty-five positions are proposed to be eliminated among nonsupervisory certified (teaching) staff.
Highline students selected as state aerospace scholars.
Westside Baby benefit sets a raffle record.
CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION. Gladys Kochalki celebrated her 100th birthday last month at the El Dorado West retirement community in Burien last month.
Burien birdhouse builders are sought.
SeaTac begins branding effort to lure businesses.
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There wasn't much to say after this one. I mean, you could say something happened, but it wouldn't be saying much as far as a barometer of just how good the Todd Beamer Titans boys soccer team is. The measuring stick was last-place Spanaway Lake, whom Beamer stupefied, 13-0, at Federal Way Memorial Friday.
Now 13-0 says a lot, kind of.
