(Editor's Note: Jerry Robinson visits a former employee and a neighborhood couple this week.)

Meet Bob Kolterman

He and his wife, Martha, have lived by Salmon Creek in Shorewood since the fifties when Bob came to work as a printer, foreman for the White Center News, and Martha embarked on a fine arts career.

Bob is 84 and walks with a limp after an accident on his boat ramp but has a radiant smile anyway.

He and his wife have a home near mouth of the creek and their neighbor on the other side of the creek is the famed Green River Valley developer Mario Segale.

Salmon Creek was once a vigorous salmon stream until the run was killed off five decades ago when Mrs. Standing, Bob's Coleman's neighbor, got tired of poachers snagging fish and filled the mouth of the stream with huge rocks and destroyed the run.

The big rocks have since been removed and last year Bob did see one lonely salmon trying to make a comeback.

Mrs. Standring eventually sold and one night Bob heard someone knocking on his door. It turned out to be the new neighbor who was lying on the porch, bleeding from a bullet hole in his head.

"Roxanne shot me," the injured husband managed to gasp out.

Bob called 911 and a raft of vehicles came to the man's rescue and he survived.

The house was a wild place for some time till one day it burned. Segale now owns the empty lot.

I am familiar with the creek, which has the Southwest Suburban Sewer District treatment plant on its bank, because at one time our family had a home about a block from Schick-Shadel Hospital and our kids grew up exploring the canyon, some of which is now home to a Burien city park.

Our kids have many memories of trying to entice small trout in the rippling creek or playing Tarzan of the Apes.

At one time, when Ambaum was a wagon trail, the creek crossed the road after flowing out of Hick's Lake near Evergreen High and history has testimony of farmers snagging big salmon in the shallows during the fall run.

I used to attend early days' sewer district meetings and Joe Burke, who owned the canyon and waterfront before Segale, was usually in attendance. When the commissioners made a deal to buy some of his canyon property for a new treatment plant Joe happily sold it to them. Afterward he took the district to court for reducing his waterfront property value with the treatment plant and the district settled out of court.

Meet Don and Sue Korbut

This couple from Three Tree Point often eats lunch at the Highline Occupational Skills Center where the staff, waiters, cooks and dishwashers are all students of the Culinary Arts program.

Juniors, who come from high schools in the area, also earn credits for higher education.

The Korbuts live in one of the oldest houses in Burien. It originally was the clubhouse for the Three Tree Point Tennis and Community Club.