May 2007

Last week I cleaned out my garage and found a few pieces of copper and aluminum scrap leftover from a remodeling project.

I figured that since the price of metals has gone up quite a bit lately, I'd drop the stuff off at the nearest recycling center.

Driving past the dump in Algona, I stopped at the bright yellow house with the green trim on West Valley Highway, on the outskirts of the town of Pacific.

Inside the gate, I hauled out my 10 gallon tub full of treasure and dropped it on the ground next to a big scale.

A couple of pretty girls came up and

As old as its hosting city, the King County Aquatics Center celebrates 17 years of service to the community as a local recreational arena.

Regarded as one of the Federal Way's most heralded achievements, the center brings in over $8 million each year to local businesses, according to state Senate Resolution 8612, a bill that commends the center and the work of those involved with its operation.

The Aquatics Center hosts about 60 events each year, including high-profile events such as Olympic trials.

This month the center also offered special events commemo

To see a VIDEO of the Beamer-Bethel soccer game played April 17th please visit the link at YouTube.com

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To see a VIDEO of the Kentwood-Federal Way baseball game from April 17th please visit the link at Youtube.com

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To see a VIDEO of the Federal Way-Kentwood Fastpitch game from April 17th please visit the link at

The free 2007 Puget Sound Fresh Farm Guide from Puget Sound Fresh, a program of Cascade Harvest Coalition, is now available at most local libraries and Highline retail stores.

Participating "partner" stores with guides available include PCC Natural Markets and Safeway stores.

The Puget Sound Fresh Farm Guide is the most comprehensive printed guide to locally produced farm products in the 12-county Puget Sound Fresh region.

Lawmakers in Sea-Tac International Airport's home city are alarmed at the Port of Seattle's plans to possibly extend a runway into Des Moines Creek Park.

Port officials don't know what the fuss is about.

Area law enforcement officers will eat, sleep and play on the roofs of Krispy Kreme stores this weekend while they collect donations from customers for Special Olympics.

Among the participating stores in the Cops on Doughnut Shops event will be the Krispy Kreme at 1900 First Ave. S.

This year's goal is to raise $50,000 for Special Olympics during this three-day event at Washington Krispy Kreme stores.

An Air Force flight nurse from Burien was promoted to the rank of major on March 29.

Teresa Trillo has been a member of the Air Force Reserves for 29 years, serving in both the enlisted and officer corps.

During 2005 she deployed twice for 120-day tours in Washington, D.C., and St.

Get a taste of all of the arts, from visual to culinary, during Burien's fourth annual Spring Stroll Art Walk.

The art walk on Saturday, May 5, from 10 a.m.

A hit-and-run collision just north of Burien last month left active community volunteer Teresa Vert with a broken rib, five breaks in her pelvis and kidney damage.

"It was a block and a half from my house on South 112th Street and Eighth Avenue South at a four way stop," she recalled recently.

"I looked and there was nobody coming.

SeaTac City Council members reviewed on April 24 design plans for a fabric-covered band shell at Angle Lake Park.

Michael Fuhrman from Rainier Industries in Tukwila told lawmakers the "simple but elegant" nautically themed shell would consist of four steel pipe posts holding an asymmetrical Teflon-and-vinyl fabric cover.

Audience members watching performers at the band shell will see Angle Lake in the background with Mount Rainier off to the right, according to Fuhrman.

He said the storm and earthquake resistant shell is covered by a 15-year warranty.