It was a tough week in Highline and the Puget Sound area with snow, ice, cold, wind, power outages and more. There were numerous fender-benders on the slippery streets. Highline and Tukwila public schools closed for several days as did area private schools. All that... and winter didn't officially start until Sunday.
The Port of Seattle Commission voted last week to temporarily suspend construction on the $400 million consolidated rental car facility.
The ongoing downturn in the credit market means the agency cannot sell the taxable, long-term bonds needed to finance the project, according to officials.
For Highline residents, the biggest impact of the construction would have been increased traffic construction around the site at South 160th Street and International Boulevard for the next couple of years.
The facility was expected to be completed in 2011.
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Miranda is hard to please. We've had many wonderful dining experiences, but she rarely utters the words, "This is better than what I can make." (It is simply the truth; Miranda's food is divine.)
Yet these remarkable words were spoken at 909 Coffee and Wine in Olde Burien. I witnessed it.
Four of us met that day; Miranda, her sister Adelina, Rose and me. We decided to skip the malls and do some holiday shopping in Olde Burien.
It is a wonderful area.
Severe winter weather prevented about 200 ticket-holders from hearing Seattle TV icon Stan Boreson sing about "Walkin' In My Winter Underwear" at ChoralSounds Northwest's Christmas concert on Dec. 14.
Northwest Associated Arts wants to do something about that by offering a $10 credit to any future NWAA production for those holding unused tickets to ChoralSounds "Silver Bells" concert.
Marketing director Paul Bauer said 600 hearty folks attended the performance on Sunday at the Highline Performing Arts Center in Burien.
The Des Moines City Council has updated its Commute Trip Reduction Plan to reduce local air pollution, traffic congestion and energy consumption, as required by state law.
This plan, mandated in 1991 under Washington's Clean Air Act, requires large employers in the city to implement programs that reduce both drive-alone commuter trips and the number of vehicle miles traveled by employees on those trips.
Currently, Des Moines has two work sites that are required to have commute trip reduction plans for employees - Highline Community College and City Hall.
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The help of the public is needed to find the thief who grabbed a bank bag out of the hands of a customer headed into a Bank of America branch in SeaTac.
A customer was walking into the bank at 16640 International Boulevard South on November 21st about 1:20 p.m. The suspect was loitering at the ATM machines at the front of the bank.
The Des Moines City Council has approved the sale of $6.205 million in bonds to fund marina capital improvements and another $3.515 million in bonds to fund transportation capital improvements.
Prior to their action, finance director Paula Henderson told council members the bonds have a "true interest cost" of 4.47 percent.
I still look forward to Christmas even though Washington Mutual Bank is now calling it something else and is probably not sponsoring Bank Day at grade schools anymore.
Starting in the first grade, I took my nickel or dime to school every Tuesday for Bank Day deposit.
The Herald's front page news on Nov. 10th "Park Causes Sparks To Fly" gave top billing to Christine Bartels. Voicing her opinion for the proposed changes to California Place Park in the North Admiral neighborhood, she states "We spend time in every playground that isn't in the area and it would be nice to have one close to home." Well she, her husband and 2 children reside and own a home on Lanham Pl. SW in Highpoint. http://www5.kingcounty.gov/kcgisreports/property_report.aspx?PIN=3278602240.
The Herald took a chance on me
When some considered poetry
Was worthy not of printer's ink
No matter how it made you think
Unlike the current "poemophobes"
Who rule from under neon globes
Or claim to be of current "Times"
But cannot see the worth of rhymes
The Herald knew when side by side
Both poetry and news reside
