January 2016

By Tim Clinton
SPORTS EDITOR

High schools

Boys basketball
The Seamount League has a full slate of games scheduled for 7 p.m. Wednesday, when Highline hosts Foster and Evergreen entertains Renton as Kennedy Catholic travels to Hazen and Tyee to Lindbergh.
Mount Rainier gets a 7 p.m. visit from Kentlake on Thursday and Seattle Lutheran visits Puget Sound Adventist at 7:30 p.m. that day.
Kennedy will be at home playing Evergreen at 7 p.m. Friday as Hazen hosts Tyee, Highline travels to Lindbergh and Foster to Renton. Seattle Christian is at home playing Vashon at the same time.
West Seattle entertains Eastside Catholic at 8 p.m. as Chief Sealth hosts Seattle Prep and Shorewood Christian hosts Evergreen Lutheran.
Wet Seattle is at home against Stadium at 6:30 p.m. Saturday with Mount Rainier traveling to Tahoma at 7 p.m. and Seattle Lutheran going to Northwest Yeshiva at 8:45 p.m.
Scheduled for 7 p.m. Tuesday are Kent-Meridian at Mount Rainier, Cascade Christian at Seattle Christian and Seattle Lutheran at Rainier Christian.

By Tim Clinton
SPORTS EDITOR

Ishikawa available as free agent

Looking for a well-traveled, slick-fielding first baseman who can also play the outfield and hit clutch home runs to send your team to the World Series?
Federal Way graduate Travis Ishikawa is available on the free agent market coming from the Pittsburgh Pirates after hitting the clinching home run for the San Francisco Giants in the 2014 National League Championship Series.

Conger traded to Tampa Bay

Federal Way native Hank Conger was traded this off season to the Tampa Bay Rays from the Houston Astros.
The veteran catcher joins Highline High School graduate Ryan Brett in the Rays' organization.
Brett is a second baseman who played briefly for the Major League team before going down with an injury in May.

Brittany McPhee buries 21

Brittany McPhee from Mount Rainier High School buried 21 points for the Stanford University women's basketball team to help it to a 59-34 win at Arizona on Saturday.

McPhee scores 17 for SPU

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Burien Arts Gallery Reception
Burien Arts Gallery
826 S.W. 152nd St.
Fri., July 8, 5–8 p.m. Opening Reception for works by mixed-media artist Kathy Constantine are featured. Also paintings by Artists United artists Nancy Bogni and Nancy Fulton. Show runs June 29-July 30. Gallery open Wed.–Sat., Noon-6 p.m. For more information visit www.burienarts.org or call 206.244.7808.

Job Fair at Highline College
Highline College’s main campus, Building 8
2400 S. 240th St.

by Lee Robinson (from April 1965)

I was having coffee with the Boss in our favorite booth at the Epicure restaurant in White Center. The conversation had taken a turn for the worse.

He wanted to discuss things like “How come you took two hours for lunch?” and “don’t turn in late copy” and “there weren’t any socks in my drawer this morning” finishing with “did you remember to take the meat out of the freezer?”

That kind of talk is hard on a girl so early in the morning. I was hoping something would happen to distract him. Something did happen. He was called on the telephone.

He hates to answer the telephone during a coffee break. So when the manager Jim Willis came by our table to say good morning and mention that he was wanted on the phone, the Boss complained about having to walk clear back to the kitchen to take the call.

The Boss sez “gee whiz, there, Jim!, how come you don’t install a ‘hotline’ in the booth for The News?” “ After all this is my office away from the office,” he adds

Jim Willis is quite genial. He sez “ O.K. big Jer. We will put a sign on this booth ‘exclusively for the White Center News.”

A Tukwila man is in custody after he attacked a neighbor and put the life of his 5-week-old daughter in danger. The attack took place on Sun., Dec. 30 at the Pacific Court Apartment complex in Tukwila. A naked 28-year-old Ifeanyi Chiegbu is reported to have kicked his neighbor’s door in and smashed a large mirror within the apartment. He then told his the victim that he was going to cut her with a piece of the mirror before he started to choke her. The victim was able to reach a wall-mounted phone and dial 911 but Chiegbu chewed through the phone line to put an end to the call. He then allegedly told her that now he was going to rape her and hurt her. Neighbors heard the door being kicked in and the confrontation and called police who arrived just minutes later. Police found Chiegbu naked and on top of the victim, but as they attempted to pull him off of her, Chiegbu’s wife arrived in the apartment and begin fighting with the police officers. In the confrontation between his wife and the police, Chiegbu was able to escape to the second-story apartment’s balcony where he jumped off and fled to his own apartment in the complex.

To the editor:

Bad - The guest commentary - a waste of the trees slain to provide the paper.

"We are scared and we are angry" Lee Ryan and the blamers may be but the rest of us are not.  An essay full of sound and fury signifying ... nothing.

Good writer - Amanda Knox. Clear, thoughtful, insightful. What a great hire.

Have a great new year.   

Tom Taaffe
Burien

To the editor:

by Sarah Cecil

 As you navigate the financial world, you’ll most likely deal with a wide array of investment choices, constantly changing tax laws, estate-planning issues and other areas. And then, to make things even more complex, you’ll have to consider your own risk tolerance, time horizon and individual goals. If you’re like most people, you don’t have the time and expertise to create, monitor and adjust your investment strategy by yourself, so you’ll need to get some help. But how can you choose a financial professional who is right for you? 

You’ll need to do some research, possibly by interviewing a few candidates. Here are a few questions you may want to ask: 


  

Do you have experience working with people like me? Ideally, you’d like to work with someone who has experience in helping people like you — that is, people with similar income and asset levels, family situations, goals and so on. The more familiar a financial professional is with people like you, the better that person will be at helping you identify the appropriate investment moves. 


by Georgie Bright Kunkel

In centuries past people worked from dusk to dawn without a break for Sunday. However, after Christians began to celebrate the Sabbath, there was at least one day of rest. 

In my childhood, Sundays were spent at church and in quiet activity. My mother attended a church that was an alternate form of the Baptist. Since there was no church meetings of her particular denomination
in our town, I went with my babysitter to her church.  Since my father died before I was born, my babysitter was very important in my life.

She supervised all my childhood activities until I was old enough to get myself off to school by myself. I gained my early self confidence from the attention that this early relationship provided me.

By Amanda Knox

I love the end of the year, if simply because there are enough holidays crammed together that many relatives and friends who are spread far and wide actually have the time off to travel and visit home. One such friend, a college buddy, now a world traveller, had lunch with me to catch up. The conversation steered towards Christmas. He got a high-tech clothes iron with 400 micro-holes. “It isn’t as fun as when we were kids,” he mused, chuckling.

“Oh, I don’t know,” I said. I got leather biking chaps. (Wee!!!)

But seriously, besides the gifts we give each other, one gift we strive to give ourselves at the end of the year is a moment to catch up. Facebook gives you the option of scrapbooking and sharing the highlights of your year. Media recaps the events that inspired the greatest followings. Individually and collectively we seek to characterize what was considered the present until so recently, the better to understand the context from which we move forward.