November 2018

Tim Clinton

SPORTS EDITOR

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Burien Actors Theatre’s (“BAT”) production of Handle with Care is a delightfully fresh holiday comedy dusted with magic and brimming with romance.

This Northwest premiere come from the writer of BAT’s hit production last spring of Church & State.  Performances run Nov. 23 through Dec. 16.

The Burien Actors Theatre production, written by Jason Odell Williams, features specialty drinks themed to the show and plenty of free on-site parking, plus an opening night party.

To the editor:

Many Burien neighborhoods are blighted: 46% of Burien Residents don’t like this. Blighted neighborhoods have created Burien’s economic challenges by depressing home values and curtailing economic activity. Clean Up Burien is committed to eliminating blights through Code Enforcement.

Cleaning Up Blights

Burien and its Code Enforcement department can rid Your neighborhood of:

Junk Vehicles: Burien requires all vehicles located on public or private property to be licensed and operational.

Trash & Debris: Burien requires garbage to be stored in an approved container for no more than 7 days before disposal. Also, Burien prohibits broken or discarded machinery, automotive parts, furniture, appliances, and construction materials from accumulating on private property.

To the editor:

Hello All You with heightened awareness of  “doing good” for your community! Don’t let this enthusiasm disappear with the left-over Halloween candies and confetti from your election day celebrations. The White Center Library Guild has some great ways to channel this energy. Come join us at our next activity, a Holiday Sale at the library, November 17, from 10 to 3pm. Of course, bring your friends and family.  The proceeds from this sale help fund programs and activities for children in our community. Our donors provide gift-worthy items. . Our prices have always catered to limited budgets. Our sales give us the opportunity to advocate for the White Center Library..  You will be amused and amazed.

Editor’s note: The following letter was sent to Westside Seattle columnist Jean Godden and reprinted here with her permission.

Dear Ms. Godden,

I decided to write to you about homelessness because each week I read your closing column in "Westside Seattle" and find that your statements are informed, thoughtful, and compassionate while shunning radical or extreme answers to difficult contemporary situations. Homelessness is certainly one of these. My purpose in this note to you is to advance a solution to what is evident on the streets of Seattle but to avoid mixing the underlyingcauses into the discussion. It is here that I believe that our leaders are stumbling. It is imperative to separate the causes from the effects because the enumeration of the causes only elicits feelings of guilt or paralysis.

by Jerry Robinson

               With a break from building airplanes at Boeing's plant #2 in Seattle, I wanted to go see my mom on Mother's Day in the city of Roses. It was an innocent event. I needed a ride to Portland in 1943 so I stood on the street corner at 170th and highway 99 near our house in McMicken Heights. SeaTac Airport was still six years from landing planes. It was a lonely corner back then.

          My low finances meant a bus was not an option. I thumbed a ride, wishing for a series of hops from south-going travelers. I wasn't on the corner more than 15 minutes when a four-door sedan stopped. I jumped in to join three women. "where ya headed," they asked. "Portland," I said.  I sat comfortably in the rear seat next to a woman named Ester. In the front seat, Noreen.

          The sedan was driven by "Marge", a woman about 40. The other women were younger, maybe early to mid 30's. I was all of 23.