The Conner family is sad to announce the passing of Donald Lee Conner on January 31, 2017 in Everett, Washington.
Don will be interred at Mountain View Cemetery in Auburn, Washington.
Published in the Highline Time section of the Westside Weekly, February 24, 2017.
Milton Koch, 86, died February 6, 2017 in Burien, Washington. He was the only child of George and Theresia Finkel Koch of Dayton, WA. Milton graduated from Dayton High in 1948 and obtained his Bachelor’s degree in Business from WSU in 1952. He served in the Korean War as Second Lieutenant in the US Army and continued in the Army Reserve 329th Engineer Combat Battalion for a total of 28 years.
Milton worked at Boeing as a Technical Writer in the aerospace industry for 38 years. After retiring from Boeing he traveled extensively with his family. He was also a builder and property manager of several rental properties. He enjoyed making and flying model airplanes, studying military history, gardening, skiing, and boating.
Milton is survived by his beloved wife of 47 years Gwendolyn Krueger Koch, daughters Leslie Teders, Laura Carner, Elizabeth Gillihan, and Rebekah Jacobs, and five grandchildren; Titus, Rachel, Julia Gillihan and Caleb and Silas Jacobs.
Discover Burien is very pleased to welcome our new Executive Director Bruce Wynn to the organization. Mr. Wynn comes to us with extensive experience as the former Executive Director for the Kirkland Chamber of Commerce and the Interbay Neighborhood Association where he successfully propelled those groups into a force for economic development while forging important partnerships in those communities.
He is very excited to be a part of Burien's continued development and says "I've been impressed by how interesting and vibrant Burien has become. The boutique shops, restaurants, community resources, City Hall, parks and a host of large and small businesses makes Burien a one-stop-serves-all-town. I want to do for Burien what I've done for Kirkland."
Volunteering takes a special type of person. A person willing to devote many hours to a variety of causes without compensation other than the respect and gratitude of the recipients.
Des Moines resident and current community service award winner Caro Lee Powell Davis is that type of person. As web master and chapter registrar of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) Carol graciously accepted the National Society award at Angelo's Restaurant in Burien last week.
The DAR (Tillicum chapter) is a lineal based organization of women who are descendants of soldiers or others of the American Revolution. Founded in 1890, the organization has more than 180,000 members. The goals of the organization are historical, education and patriotic.
The City of Burien closed the Peter Western Bridge to all traffic on Thursday, February 9. City staff notified the Burien Police, Fire Department and utility companies.
Because of a deep snow followed by heavy rain, the ravine experienced severe scouring, which has caused significant erosion underneath the bridge’s support columns. The creek running through the ravine has also moved, causing further erosion. City staff are attempting to implement emergency repairs to prevent further damage to the bridge.
The Public Works department is working with outside technical experts to take immediate steps to ensure the safety of the area.
A few facts about the bridge:
• It was built in 1950.
• It underwent a seismic retrofit in 1996.
• It was inspected in June 2016 by King County. The report state that there were no issues with scouring of the hillside.
• There is an apartment complex as well as a few private residences near the bridge.
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I sat in the general manger’s cluttered office nervously wringing my hands---my first-ever job interview was underway. There was an opening for a spot on the assembly line at my hometown’s major builder of mobile homes---and I was vying for it.
“Do you have any experience?” asked the G.M.
“Of course I had experience,” I thought, but did not speak. “Everyone has experience of some kind.” But I knew what he meant: Carpentry experience. I nodded vaguely, hoping that would be enough of an answer.
“Let me be more specific,” he said. “Have you ever used a power saw?” I thought about fibbing---and even bent my index finger down and under so that it appeared I might be missing part of it. But I finally answered truthfully, “Not really. But I’m a quick learner.” What was I going to say: “I’m a slow learner?”
“Never mind,” said the boss gruffly. “We can teach you what you need to know, But what we really insist upon around here is that you follow the rules.”
“What are the rules?” I asked helpfully.
By Amanda Knox
This week Chris and I learned the shim sham. Without getting technical, I’d describe it as a social line dance combining tap-style stomping, gliding, kicking, wiggle-walking, and swagger. The shim sham is what our instructors Mark and Katie K. call the seventh evening stretch of every social dance—at least on swing nights at the Century Ballroom. It’s the one time we shed our roles as leader or follower and synchronize instead with the whole room full of other individual dancers.
You can feel the difference. Your mind shifts from honing in on your partner to honing in on both yourself and the entire group, from “couple” to “individual + collective.” So, though I adore partner dancing, I was excited to finally also participate in the shim sham, for the same reason that I love participating in a choir or a theatre chorus or a flash mob. It’s magical when individuals come together and the resulting organism is greater than the sum of its parts—like a flock of birds.
By Tim Clinton
SPORTS EDITOR
Naleia Gomes and Karissa Saelee of Mount Rainier High School both enjoyed banner days as state gymnastics action at the Tacoma Dome Exhibition Hall concluded Saturday.
Both were competing in the individual event finals for Class 4A.
Gomes captured first place in the beam competition for the Rams, scoring a 9.475.
She also took second in the bars competition with a score of 9.375.
Saelee broke into the top seven in all four events.
She finished fourth in the vault with a 9.45 and tied for fifth place in the floor exercise with another 9.45.
Saelee snagged seventh place in the bars with a 9.0 and seventh in the beam with an 8.975.
Saelee was coming off a second place finish in the 4A all-around the day before, when she came through with a total score of 37.950.
Gomes placed ninth all-around with a 36.550.
Mount Rainier took eighth place as a team with a score of 160.675.
Summer Kramer of West Seattle also fared well at the meet in the 1A/2A/3A portion.
Kramer captured 33rd in the all-around with a 32.900 total and tied for seventh in the vault finals with two other competitors at 9.375.
By Tim Clinton
SPORTS EDITOR
High schools
Boys basketball
Seattle Christian and Kennedy will both will see state regional action Friday.
JFK will play Kentridge in an 8 p.m. at Rogers as the Warriors rake on Cascade Christian at Puyallup.
West Seattle waits until 2 p.m. Saturday to play Timberline at Bellevue College when Seattle Lutheran goes to W.F. West in Chehalis to play Napavine.
Girls basketball
West Seattle plays a 12 p.m. game Saturday at Bellevue College against a foe to be determined.
Seattle Christian goes on the road to Pasco to take on Columbia in a 2 p.m. game that day at Chiawana High School.
Pros
Mariners
Seattle launches into its preseason schedule Saturday, playing the San Diego Padres in a 12:10 p.m. game in Peoria, Ariz.
The Mariners play the same team at the same time and place Sunday, before entertaining the Kansas City Royals at 12:10 p.m. Monday in Peoria.
They visit the Chicago White Sox at 12:05 p.m. Tuesday.
Thunderbirds
A sinkhole formed at 24th SW and SW Kenyon on Feb. 20 that briefly trapped a recycling truck and brought out crews from Seattle Public Utilities to cordon off the area and begin addressing the problem.
The hole is approximately 7 feet across and 4 to 5 feet deep.
SPU Crew members on site pumped out the water that had filled it and said they were not sure of the cause, suggesting that it could be a broken pipe further up the street. They will check up Kenyon Street to make sure then the hole will be backfilled with mixture of concrete and rock. The process could take up to a week to fix.
Until then the area will be marked off and monitored by SPU crew members.
