Join your neighbors on Saturday, March 27, from 9 to 2 p.m. for clean up and tree planting at Fairmount Playground.
Tools and refreshments will be provided.
This is a great way to meet your neighbors and beautify your neighborhood.
Address is 5400 Fauntleroy Way SW.
For more information contact Ron Harris White at 684-7398 or ron.harris-white@seattle.gov.
Tukwila man charged in Yakima murder
Two men have been charged with murder in the fatal shooting of a man outside a Yakima supermarket. The Yakima Herald-Republic reports that 21-year-old Jordan Daisy of Seattle and 23-year-old Ezra Swann of Tukwila were charged with first-degree murder, attempted murder and first-degree assault in Superior Court. They are accused in the death of 27-year-old James Kilby of Union Gap.
He was shot in the chest while sitting in a parked car outside Wray's supermarket. Authorities say a friend who had called Kilby to give him a ride was apparently the intended victim. Kilby also had a Kitsap County address. Daisy and Swann are being held on $2 million bail.
Couple charged with car thefts
Bonneau
Harris and Tiffany Schatz were arrested Feb. 4 in SeaTac in connection with a string of more than 100 thefts from cars parked at South King County restaurants, hotels, fitness centers and furniture stores. Many of the thefts were from Ford pickups.
The two pleaded not guilty Feb. 22 to a number of theft charges.
Drunk hits police car
The speaker for tonight's West Seattle Crime Prevention Council meeting will be Benjamin Kinlow, Crime Prevention Coordinator for the SW Precinct. He will be speaking about the history of Seattle's Community Crime Prevention Programs including the organization of Block Watch Captains.
He will also speak to the current state of the program.
If you would like to submit questions in advance of the meeting please do so in an e-mail to westseattlecpc@gmail.com .
During the council meetings you can address the safety issues that matter most to you. Discuss crime & nuisance hotspots with neighbors and police officers working in your neighborhood.
The monthly meetings are held at:
Southwest Police Precinct
2300 SW Webster
Seattle, WA
Meeting is held from 7-8:30pm
On the 3rd Tues of every month except for July, Aug, & Dec.
Colorectal cancer is the third leading cause of cancer death among men and women nationwide, yet only about half of people who need colorectal cancer screening receive it.
Highline Medical Center in Burien s working with the American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) to educate patients about the importance of screening and to encourage everyone age 50 and older to get screened for colorectal cancer.
Highline Medical Center is the only Washington State hospital participating in this national program to provide free screening for a group of average risk patients. This effort was organized by Highline Gastroenterologist Dr. Harry Teicher in coordination with three of his physician colleagues and hospital staff, all of whom have committed their time and energy to offer these screenings to the community.
After racking up 11 runs in its first game, the Ballard High School baseball team could only muster one run in a 5-1 loss to Bishop Blanchet March 15.
Junior Oliver Guarino went one-for-three with a run scored for the Beavers.
Though the offense dipped against Blanchet, the Ballard defense showed improvement while utilizing its senior pitchers.
The Beavers gave up five runs with an error versus 13 runs with five errors two days earlier.
Ballard is 0-2 in nonconference games this season.
The Beavers open up KingCo play against Lake Washington at 3:30 p.m. on March 23 at Whitman Middle School.
This letter is in response to the article and letter in the last issue of the Highline Times. Had both Brian Bennett and Lee Moyer (members of the Shoreline Advisory Committee) spent, as much time preparing for the committee meetings as they have spent on self-promotion in the media, Burien would have a much better Shoreline Master Plan Draft Document.
Bennett knows that a public access is not allowed on the Ruth Dykeman Center's property because; 1. the Comprehensive Plan does not allow it and, 2. it would present a clear and apparent health, security and public safety hazard in that location. Bennett just worked on revising the Comprehensive Plan December 2009. He needs to reread this document.
Moyer is a self-proclaimed citizen activist and environmentalist. He claims to have served on the committee because he was a soon to be a citizen of Burien. However, he signed up for committee membership long before the election came about.
I just received a letter from "OUR Washington," located at 132 S.W. 153rd St. #201 in Burien, WA 98166.
The letter says, "Organization United for Reform (OUR) Washington was started by others like us, low to moderate income families that came together and made a commitment to work for better schools, neighborhoods, housing, utility reform and other issues important to our families."
It says OUR Washington is a new organization. It says the reader must come (it is underlined) to a luncheon and/or fill out an attached membership form to become a charter member.
Of particular concern is a slip asking for the reader's signature so the organization can take money from the reader's bank account on the fifth day of each month. The reader is supposed to attach a voided check or deposit slip to verify their account.
I took one look at the envelope and the appearance of the contents and knew who sent it. A quick check of the phone number, 206-723-5845 verified that it is indeed, once again...ACORN.
A few months ago, I repeatedly contacted ACORN, telling the organization to stop taking money out of my bank account each month.
Sometimes you don't know whether to laugh or cry at the wastefulness of the Government at all levels with our life's resources !
Today I received a letter from U.S. Census Bureau informing me that I was to get ready to receive the actual 2010 Census form in the mail in about a week or so,and of course it was written in 5 different languages so that all the illegal aliens could respond and get counted too.
Now we all have been watching for several weeks these, probably not inexpensive, Madison Avenue TV, News and Magazine print ads to alert everyone to the fact that the Census Is Coming! The U.S. Census Director , Robert M. Groves must think we have the attention span of a gnat with all these early warnings that the Census is "A'coming!" But then if Mr. Groves had any competence he would just mail out the
Census form or better yet set up a web site so they could can get paperless responses. But then you probably would not spend the estimated $ 14 Billion Dollars on this very simple head counting project. Well, Mr Groves: I'm at the ready, so shut off the early alert system.
Gary Kennedy
Des Moines
Spectators wait at the Burien Town Square Plaza, the finish line for the second annual Cove to Clover 5K fundraiser for the Highline Food Bank on March 14. The runners began at the Normandy Park Cove and raced to Town Square. John Timeus of Kent finished first and Ray Prentice of Normandy Park finished second among the men. In the women's division, Elsa Natal of Seattle was first and Carmen Storer of Des Moines was second.
This historic Normandy Park house could be torn down within the week or so if a buyer is not found. Architect Paul Thiry designed the house.
Thiry died in 1993 at the age of 89.
The owners, who wish to remain anonymous, have been looking for a buyer for over a year postponing plans to re-develop the property. The owner said they have people looking at it and hope the house can be moved. The real cost is in moving the house, which is so big it must be moved by a barge.
Weighing 200 tons the house would cost over $200,000 to move.
