May 2006

Since the Seattle Times article exposing the fact Chief Sealth has student athletes attending school that do not live in the schools "Geographical Area," I have read one article after another calling for firing the coaches, taking away championships, even having disgruntled parents comparing (Baseball) Major League "alleged" steroid using athletes to these kids.

These kids are not criminals and the comparison between the two is appalling!

I do however believe there is more to this issue than is being reported by the Seattle Times and/or any other news media here in Seattl

This morning, I read another one of those forwards about striking against two of the big three oil companies to fight the war on rising gas prices and thought to myself, I should add to the mayhem over our war on terror and rising gas prices, and tell folks that in a recent meeting of some top dogs in the fuel industry, my notes when I took minutes (to myself of course) was to buy a horse.

Most of us Americans want our cake and our frosting together; talk about spoiled.

Lucille Ball used to joke that she never sat next to legislators at dinner, because they never pass anything.

Our state Legislature proved her wrong in 2006, especially on health care.

NO: 06-4-02625-7SEA

AMENDED PROBATE NOTICE TO CREDITORS

RCW 11.40.030

In the matter of the estate of: RICHARD WAYNE BEYERLEIN, Deceased.

The personal representative named below has been appointed as personal representative of this estate.

KING COUNTY

NO: 06-4-01938-2SEA

PROBATE NOTICE TO CREDITORS

RCW 11.40.030

In the matter of the estate of: DOROTHY H. PIERCE, Deceased.

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE

The above Court has appointed me Personal Representative of Decedent's estate.

Any person having a claim against Decedent must present the claim:

Before the time when the claim would be barred by any applicable statute of limitations and,

In the manner provided in RCW 11.40.070:

Roger and Lynn Smith are streetwalkers extraordinaire.

The Genesee Hill couple, who are in their early 70s, recently finished walking every block of every street in West Seattle.

An elementary school student would consider it simple arithmetic.

Seattle Public Schools had 100,000 students with facilities to educate them in 1960.

People who take morning runs or afternoon strolls around West Seattle are happy for the public stairways that help them climb the steepest hills in the city.

The stairways have linked West Seattle neighborhoods for the past century. Today they bring medical benefits in the form of exercise terrain. Countless runners and walkers map their routes to include (or avoid) particular stairways around the Duwamish Peninsula.

Public stairways are built in the right of way of city streets in places where the land is too steep for a street.

The Washington State Department of Transportation has ruled state funding for a "no build" option for replacement of the ailing Alaskan Way Viaduct would not be available.

"Funding now committed by the Legislature is not available for the 'no replacement option'," wrote Doug MacDonald, Secretary of Transportation, in a three-page letter to Seattle Councilmember David Della.

A motorcyclist lost control of his bike on Alki Avenue and struck a skateboarder on the bike path, killing both men near Duwamish Head Thursday night.

The motorcyclist was identified as Leon Coley Jr., 37.

The skateboarder was 21-year-old Travis Gracey.

Coley was killed when he lost control of his bike, veered off Alki Avenue and struck and killed Gracey on the bike path.

The accident happened shortly before 10 p.m.