The days and nights are getting colder and your thoughts are turning to things like blankets, sweaters, hot chocolate and firewood, right?
That's what my thoughts are about, and because of the high price of natural gas for my furnace, I rely more and more on my wood stove these days.
And according to local firewood purveyors, I'm not the only one.
The Federal Way Symphony begins its new season October 4 and 5 with a bang, or rather with the incredibly smooth and burnished sounds of Joshua Roman, the former darling of the Seattle Symphony.
At age 22, Roman became the youngest member of the Seattle Symphony, only to leave after this lasts season to purse a solo career.
His small intimate concert excursions around Seattle at the Triple Door and Town Hall included lines of young adoring girls waiting to see the mop-headed virtuoso and get his autograph.
The Seattle Symphony quickly took notice and began usin
The City of Federal Way has a long history of taking a single day in September to help with a citywide food drive that benefits the Multi-Service Center's Federal Way Food Bank.
This year Federal Way Mayor Jack Dovey wanted to go a step further. "If one day is good, think what we could do with a whole month," he said.
The City is working with area volunteers and businesses to boost the number of food-drive related activities this month:
Mayor's food drive challenge Sept.
1. Federal Way police followed up on a call regarding some malicious mischief that occurred to a man's vehicle. The victim, who lives on the 1700 block of South 344th Street contacted Federal Way officers to report that an unknown person or person cut the gas hose under his vehicle and siphoned off all the gas from his previously full tank. The incident took place around 7 a.m. on the morning of September 17. The victim's car was a 2003 Chevrolet, color not listed in the report.
It sounds biblical, and, if not that, certainly prophetic, what Decatur Gators girls soccer head coach Christy Gross said regarding her team’s season outlook after a 1-0 win over Graham-Kapowsin at Federal Way Memorial Thursday.
The Gators win over G-K improved themselves to 2-1 in the 4A South Puget Sound League South Division while G-K experienced it’s first season loss, dropping to 2-1-1.
“They are a good mix....” said Gross of her Gators team of young ladies, which are made up of eight upperclassmen and nine underclassmen.
AUBURN - On Friday night at the Thomas Jefferson gymnasium, it took five games of fury before one South Puget Sound League volleyball team rose from the turmoil in victory.
Rallying relentlessly from a 2-1 game deficit and a 6-3 disadvantage in the fifth game, the homestanding Raiders edged out crosstown rival Todd Beamer, 3-2, for a nonleague win.
Trailing 6-3 in the fifth game, the Titans marshaled their forces for the winning surge. Beamer gained one point on a net serve from TJ and continued its momentum behind the serve of Alex Schultz.
Recently I had the opportunity to attend my 50th year high school reunion.
About half of our class was in attendance, and there were still some who I could recognize without a name tag!
Also in attendance was my high school Latin teacher who began teaching in 1947 and quit in 1970 "when discipline became an issue!"
One has to wonder if she thought "discipline" was an issue in 1970 what she would think of today's students!
There were several other members of my class who had been in educational systems, mostly in the East, who also echoed my Latin tea
Live comedy's Sorbo benefits breast cancer
By Bruce Bulloch
Live comedy returned to the Admiral Theater this fall with "Ladies of Laughter."
Featuring Seattle's best standup comics, the series ran through the month of September and benefited the Susan G. Komen Breast Foundation. If you have an appetite for edgy, no-holds-barred humor there was no place else to be. Case in point is Cathy Sorbo who headlined the Sept. 12 and 13 shows.
How do I know it is green?
By Barbara Sims
Laundry detergent made from flowers! Cars that don't pollute! Potato chips fried in organic oils! These days, everything seems to be marketed with an eco-spin - even products that are notoriously bad for people and the planet.
There may be a little ray of sunshine in the unmitigated financial disaster that has befallen the American people, a disaster brought on by greed and complete failure of our federal government to oversee the runaway train called Wall Street.
The roots of all of this stems from the U.S. airline deregulation act approved in 1978. From there, the term deregulation took on a life and an ethic of its own.
