There are so many catch phrases to describe America and the freedom we enjoy: Home of the Free, Land of the Brave.
Or, as a wise person once said, "Let freedom ring, sparkle and explode throughout the land."
"Fireworks Over Des Moines" starts about 10:15 p.m., July 4th, , in the Des Moines Marina.
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When the stock market moves, it can move quickly.
Just last October the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) was setting a new high. Within weeks the market had fallen by 10%, and by January it was testing the "bear market" indicator of being down 20% from its high.
During all of 2007, the stock market, as measured by the DJIA, had 60 days in which prices moved by 1% or more, more than double the number of such days during 2005 or 2006.
Tina Orwall was nominated by Shay Schual-Burke for the state representative position that Shay is vacating.
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
