Meet Terry Anderson

This bundle of energy who serves the city of SeaTac on the city council also heads up the Highline Historical Society this year.

A graduate of Lake Burien Elementary and Highline High schools, she is truly a local luminary. She even worked for the Highline School District.

Married to a Pan American world traveler, she has been to every continent except Australia and Antarctica, climbed a pyramid, is a good bowler and avid bridge player.

When her first marriage didn't work out she filed for a divorce and was home alone one night when the doorbell rang.

She looked through the peep hole, recognized a neighbor guy who said," I see by the paper that you have filed for a divorce. When it goes through you are going to marry me."

Then he turned around and left.

Sure enough, several months later they did get married and he flew away with her for 40 years of adventure and bliss.

Once while visiting the Holy Land she was in the Blue Mosque with her son when he noticed her shoe was untied. As he bent to tie it for her an offended worshiper hit the son and shouted, "You can't do that. This is a woman. It is forbidden."

She has been a SeaTac city council member since 1989 and is the only woman on the council. She is planning on running for reelection again this year.

If you see her say hello and ask her about her Irish grandmother.

Meet John Prentice

They say old friends are best friends. John was born in 1925 in Portland. He lived almost next door to Jerry Robinson, born in 1920.

We both live in Burien. We rediscovered ourselves after WWII and now spend many an hour reliving the adventures of an adventurous boyhood.

During WWII in the U.S. Navy, John, a radioman, served with the navy gun crew aboard merchant ships.

Normally he was "sparks," but when under attack he ran ammunition to as many as six 20mm gun stations. This meant running down the deck, sometimes up ladders, with a 60-pound magazine in each hand.

John recalls vividly an attack on his convoy by a swarm of kamikazes. While dropping off magazines at one gun, John looked up in time to see that gunner's tracers knock down one dangerously close plane.

"It was our lucky day," he says. "Our cargo was 2,500 tons of bombs."

Many of the others in the convoy were not so lucky.

John was an engineer at Boeing before retiring. His wife, Ava, was a former employee at the White Center News in the late 40s.

Can any reader boast of still having a boyhood pal for more than our 75 years?

Meet Keith Fritzler

This SeaTac citizen probably holds the record for GOING WITHOUT POWER FOR EIGHT DAYS during the big December storm.

He and his wife got by using a Coleman stove on the deck and using a gas fireplace.

He was in the store pushing a basket full of plastic storage boxes when I spotted him.

He said his power went out but the biggest problem he had was a broken water main that flooded his basement two inches deep, soaking a slug of cardboard boxes full of clothes, tools, records. His yard was flooded 6 inches deep.

He does not expect any sympathy. His company sells all those plastic wrapped items we get in the store that you love to hate when we try to open them.

He had a brave smile but was not looking forward to dunging out the mess.