Regarding my letter last week in The Highline Times concerning the disappearance of Burien's radio station.
There is one correction needed. It was not KGNW who closed the KQIN studio on SW 153rd.
It was the prior owner, Green Bay Packer Willie Davis, who moved the studio to downtown Seattle. Then he sold it to Salem Broadcasting the current owner.
The headlines today ask the question "IS BUSH RIGHT ON OIL DRILLING?"
The fact that anyone has to ask the question when gas is approaching $5.00 per gallon is telling in and of its self.
But as usual, Bush is late coming to the party and does not go far enough with his solutions or assurances that the environment will not be harmed.
Three people died in a major fire that broke out during the early morning hours of June 29th at the Terra Apartments at 5th Ave S.W. and 155th. The fire destroyed two apartment buildings. When Cissy Harkelrode smelled smoke at around midnight she knew enough to get out, making her escape out the balcony door of her apartment, then climbing out to hang on a tree limb and balcony rails. Two adjoining eight unit apartments at 155th and 5th sw in Burien were involved. No residents had fire insurance in the low income apartments.
Highline residents can celebrate their independence from $4 a gallon gas by sticking close to home this Fourth of July. There is an explosion of hometown holiday festivities set throughout the Highline area.
Burien
The 85th annual Burien Independence Day parade will begin at 3 p.m. It will start on Ambaum Boulevard Southwest at Southwest 149th, turn east on Southwest 153rd Street to 2nd Avenue Southwest and loop back to Ambaum on Southwest 152nd Street.
Over 80 units will appear including the popular Chinese Dragon Team from Seattle.
Normandy Park resident Brett Fish lives next door to the Miller Creek sewer facility and every once in a while an unpleasant smell wafts from the facility where large air scrubbers purify the air.
"It's not a good smell, Fish said. "Not at all fragrant."
But that's the price Fish is willing to pay for an exceptional product--compost.
Bio-solid waste is everything that flushes down the toilet plus dirty dishwater and the water used to wash clothes.
Once the waste reaches the Miller Creek facility the solids are strained from water where a digester breaks down the solids and bacteria into a thick black liquid or sludge.
From there the sludge is filtered to remove excess water and turns into a mudcake.
The big WASL nightmare did not come true for Highline's Class of 2008.
However, almost a third of the senior class did not earn enough class credits to graduate.
This year's high-school seniors were in the first class required to pass the reading and writing portions of Washington Assessment of Student Learning (WASL) in order to graduate.
At the beginning of the school year in September, 110 Highline Public Schools seniors were on track with class credits but had not met state WASL standards and were in danger of not graduating in June.
But, distric
"Fewer Schools-More Money"
That definitely won't be the rallying cry for those supporting a school-construction bond that could be on the ballot in March.
However, with rapidly rising construction costs, that would be the reality Highline Public Schools board members were told last week.
Assistant Superintendent Geri Fain pointed out the $189.5 million bond approved in 2002 to pay for 10 projects, including replacement of seven schools, would cost $407 million if passed in 2008.
The $148 million bond, passed two years ago for technolog
The Des Moines City Council approved on June 26, with two conditions, the city's six-year Transportation Improvement Program (TIP) for 2009-2014.
The conditions consisted of removing Redondo Beach Drive from the list of priorities and moving Kent-Des Moines Road improvements up on the priority list.
Improvement projects include phases two and three of the Des Moines Creek Trail Project, North Twin Bridge repairs, Saltwater Bridge repairs, street and road improvements, roadway reconstruction and intersection improvement on Marine View Drive, and Barnes Creek Nature Trail c
The Hi-Liners DownStage Center has announced an exclusive three-performance engagement of Disney's "Mulan Jr." July 11-13 at the Kent-Meridian Performing Arts Center, located on the campus of Kent-Meridian High School.
These performances highlight a couple of firsts for the Hi-Liners, a Burien-based non-profit youth theater company.
This is their first time generating a production in the city of Kent and the first time they have been named the featured theater event for the Kent Cornucopia Days, sponsored by the Kent Lions.
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