Whitewater club opens
Miss watching Olympic swimming? Come try it yourself at Whitewater Aquatics.
The new season opened Sept. 8, with swimmers from age 6 and up still welcome to join and have coach Greg or coach Casey take their swimming skills to a higher level.
Whitewater is a non-profit swim club run by parents.
Anticipation is building in the Waterland community as volunteers continue to plan a year of festivities that will celebrate Des Moines' 50th anniversary as an incorporated city in 2009.
A full calendar of activities promises to involve residents of all ages, from young people to seniors who lived in Des Moines before it become a city. These range from a black-tie event that will begin the city's golden year to mid-summer fun, including the return of a parade to downtown Des Moines.
Volunteers gathered at the community center Sept.
SeaTac Mayor Ralph Shape called it "the biggest thing to hit not just SeaTac, but all of South King County" following a groundbreaking ceremony for a new 48,000 square foot YMCA at South 188th Street and 37th Avenue South.
The new YMCA will serve Burien, Des Moines, Normandy Park, SeaTac and Tukwila.
The facility, which will replace a YMCA five miles west in Burien, is scheduled to open in a year.
Nearby residents opposed to the proposed Emerald Pointe condominiums overlooking Seahurst Park got what they wanted from the Highline School Board on Sept. 10 but the developer's consultant said the project will go forward.
Board members unanimously accepted Westmark Development's request to withdraw its proposal to buy or obtain an easement for a portion of property at the old Burien Heights school site.
Westmark wanted the property for a road to the planned condominiums.
The property at 1210 S.W.
Billing Revolution, a recently stealth-mode mobile commerce company, just launched its "single-click," a mobile billing and payments service designed to make it easy once and for all for retailers to sell products to on-the-go consumers without sacrificing high profits to mobile operators.
This new billing revolution is being led by a veteran team of mobile and internet entrepreneurs that have pioneered e-commerce, SMS campaigns such as American Idol, and mobile advertising from companies such as Third Screen Media, AT&T Wireless, Amazon, and Microsoft.
The CEO of Billing
Angel Ward McCormick, Miss Washington USA 1994, defies the stereotypes that have surrounded a few beauty queens-- partying, drinking, scandalous photos.
Ward (her maiden name) is a former Burien resident and 1991 Highline High graduate. She is now executive director of the Dream-On Foundation, an organization she founded that works with other nonprofits.
She now resides in Utah, but Ward still maintains ties with her home state. Family is one reason.
Fourteen years later, the city of Des Moines is still paying the cost for leaky gasoline tanks.
Gasoline contamination was discovered in the soil and groundwater near the two city gas tanks at the Des Moines City Public Works Building in 1992.
The tanks, which were found to have been leaking, were removed and cleanup work was started on the site.
In 1994, contaminated soil that hadn't already been removed was cleaned using a soil vapor extraction system.
The Ruth Dykeman Children's Center in Burien has filed to rezone two portions of its property on Southwest 152nd Street on Lake Burien as moderate density residential and high-density multi-family neighborhood.
President and CEO Tom Rembiesa said that this was done as a way to plan for the future, and that there are no plans to sell or develop the property.
A public meeting to discuss the zoning changes will be held at Burien City Hall, 15811 Ambaum Blvd. S.W., Suite C, at 7 p.m. on Sept.
During construction of the new south end of the Alaskan Way Viaduct, the state will pay the county to get people out of their cars and into buses to help curb congestion.
The Washington State Department of Transportation will give $32 million to King County Metro, to increase bus service on Aurora Avenue, from Ballard, and from West Seattle - the corridors most affected by the construction.
"We're not leaving travel to chance," said King County Executive Ron Sims, at a press conference, Sept.
One westbound, curb lane of the West Seattle Bridge, just east of 35th Avenue SW, will be closed Saturday, September 13, from approximately 8 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
