September 2019

Burien Little Leaguer remembers his playing days

by Roger Price

In 1951-52, living on the corner of 4th S.W. and 153rd in Burien, I was learning to drive a peddle car and taking the corners off the walls in our living room. My brother Norm was always across the street at the Burien play field playing Little League baseball for the Sunnydale Oiler’s. He told me he hit 400 that year and it was written up in the newspaper but unfortunately he can’t find the article anywhere, I thought maybe Cooperstown has it along with his glove and baseball bat.

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Community Radio: Are you listening?

By Jean Godden

The low power radio movement is flourishing here in Puget Sound. The Seattle area alone boasts seven operating stations. Spin your FM dial in the 80-100 FM range and you're likely to stumble onto one of these hyperlocal stations.

As local media keeps shrinking -- we just bid farewell to the Seattle Weekly's print edition -- these frequencies matter more than ever. They give local groups a permanent home in the media landscape and provide a forum for debate about important local issues.

For those who think the terrestrial signal (communication via the atmosphere) is old technology, consider this: A Pew Research Center survey recently put radio listenership in the United States at 91 percent of the population. And NPR stations, outlets like KUOW land KNKX, reached an all -time high of 37.4 million listeners in recent surveys.

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LETTER: Great idea on homelessness!

To the editor

Enjoyed reading (Scotty Anthony’s) very interesting article today.  Somewhere recently I read that 9% of those homeless on the street have families somewhere who they could actually be living with.

It was suggested that cities offer those homeless a one-way paid bus ticket back to their families so that their families could be allowed to care for them.

I thought that was a great idea!!

Marilyn Graves

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Arts a Glow turns into get out and go as lightning and thunder shut down Burien event

The annual Festival of lights in Burien, Arts A Glow was shut down almost immediately by an unusual fall thunderstorm that brought massive numbers of lightning flashes and torrential rain to the Seattle area. 

The "procession" a parade of illuminated characters that was set to take a new route through Dottie Harper Park on SW 146th was shut down just prior it beginning at 8pm as a light rain began falling under skies that were flashing already,

Then the real storm came in and with it heavy rains that made street drains struggle to keep up and cars spraying large splashes as people fled the area for home or other shelter.

The power was knocked out across the Seattle area in pockets with 1337 customers out. 

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