(Editor's Note: This week, Jerry Robinson talked to a couple and a business owner who are among the people that make Burien special.)

Meet Rochelle and John Flynn

Talk about dedicated, near tireless community volunteers, this pair takes the cake.

For the past five years Rochelle has served on the Burien Arts Commission and is an active townie boosting the Downtown Art Walk, Summer Concerts In the Park and Strawberry Festival.

She even put on a costume and played the part of the Easter bunny this year, hopping around like a kid during the annual egg hunt and handing out prizes.

When the Burien Little Theatre began a comeback, she took her experience in teaching drama and volunteered to be a member of the board.

John works full time as a Teamster and is also an all around craftsman. He built a clever Easter bunny house this year. Plus he builds theater sets for the Little Theatre.

If there is any city activity for kids you will find them pitching in.

They find the time even though they have five kids and seven grandkids.

It is people like the Flynns (and Burien is blessed with a number of them) who make the town a great place to live.

I asked them what they showed friends and relatives visiting and they listed what they call their Hidden Treasures: Ed Munro Seahurst Park, Olde Burien, Three Tree Point and its European cheek-by-jowl houses, Burien Books on its main street, and the Farmers Market in summertime.

They both are pretty passionate about the whole city, though they find the Park and Ride out of place in a downtown retail center and find the complex at Five Corners handy for much of their daily shopping as it is close to Gregory Heights where they live.

They love having the huge up-to-the-minute Highline Medical Center so close by.

They like Trader Joes, but wish there were more women's shops.

They both agree the proposed historic sculpture has one important thing going for it. It has lots of people who either hate it or love it and that is great because it means they truly love their community.

Meet Sherryl Cehovet

One day six years ago she told her husband she was tired of hearing all the sad stories of people whom misfortune hit.

She was working for an insurance company in West Seattle and as a resident herself knew many of the people personally.

When she told her husband she needed a change he insisted she open a gift shop where the biggest tragedy is a dropped piece of China, so she jumped and bought one in Burien next to Key Bank.

She then moved it three blocks east on 152nd, added a small restaurant named The Daily Perk and now has a wide smile on her face everyday.

Elsbeth and I went in for a mocha the other day and I learned that Toppenish-born, seven-month baby Sheryl weighed only 3 pounds, 2 ounces and her mother kept her alive by placing her under a 100 watt light bulb.

Interesting coincidence.

D