June 2008

It's hard to get real concerned about the King County Budget "Shortfalls" that are described as " Deep, Searing..." with an 8.6% reduction levied on the County Justice System that amounts to a $33 million dollar cut on a Total Budget of $383,721,000.

You see I came through an era with The Boeing Company where a billboard bearing the statement "Will the Last Person Leaving Seattle Shut off the Lights" and those were really Deep and Searing cuts.

Besides King County Executive Ron "Tax to the Max" Sims has shown through his actions of returning parks, swimming pool

Although we now live at Wesley Homes, we lived for 37 years on SW 104th, and our children attended Highline Schools.

We agree with Janie Lemley about school counselors.

And the library should stay right where it is. Mark Pitzner is 100% right in his views about the library & city hall.

Most people will be very unhappy if the library moves & parking is not so easy.

I also worked in Burien for 17 years, and also did most of our shopping there......still do much of it there.

It seems that the planners for Burien have their own agenda.

I was shocked when I read the June 11th Des Moines News about four "Level Three" sex offenders living about two blocks from me.

I am a single woman living alone so a neighbor had warned me about the one (not four) living at this location.

At the same time I asked her if she knew about the one "Level Three" living next door to her. She had not.

I read with interest your article on Chinook's new principal. I have had a forty-year history with that school and have worked with the five principals who preceded Evie Livingston.

While the article was very complimentary about Ms. Livingston, it did not give credit to former principals who have made a significant impact on the learning environment at Chinook.

At one time Chinook was a solidly middle class school with strong academic and enrichment programs.

Over time the demographics at Chinook have changed dramatically.

You can always tell the English. You can always tell the Dutch. You can always tell Lubahn's class, but you can't tell much.

Meet Fritzi Oxley

You have already met Elsbeth, but when she heard I was having lunch with one of the world's most talented quilters she wanted to meet Fritzi.

They are standing in front of one of Fritz's creations on the wall of her home at Fernwood in Normandy Park.

Having spent a childhood sleeping under patchwork quilts my own mom made for her ten children during the Great Depression years, I was surprised to learn a quilt can be any size and is just three layers of cloth sewn together by needle and thread.

And the top layer doesn't have to be cl

An odd set of bookends: 'Shine a Light' and 'Young at Heart'

Young at Heart

Directed by Stephen Walker

Rated PG

(Rated three and one half stars)

Shine a Light

Directed by Martin Scorsese

Rated PG-13

(Rated three and one half stars)

By Bruce Bulloch

I was surprised at the headline and details in your article "City jail eyed for two South Park sites."

The two proposed sites are, in fact, not in South Park; they are both at the edge of Highland Park in West Seattle.

South Park is some distance to our east. Surely a West Seattle Herald reporter should know that South Park and Highland Park are two different neighborhoods. South Park, to the east of East Marginal Way, is not even part of West Seattle.

families' statement

The charges recommended by (Italian) Prosecutor Mignini against our daughter Amanda come as no surprise.

Police don't want to talk about concerns

By Debbie Smith

You know how "some people" protest in the streets for one cause or another and they turn over cars, break windows and loot businesses, lie in the street to block cars and generally create havoc?

Pretty disgusting, isn't it? I always thought so. If you are one of "those people" then you might as well stop reading right now because you probably won't like what I write.

I've always considered myself a very reasonable sort of person.