June 2008

I tell stories to important people

By Lauri Hennessey

The other day my seven year-old son asked me what I did for a living. When you are seven there are livings that are easy to understand, of course. Teacher? Easy. Firefighter? Cool. Dentist, doctor, store owner. All graspable.

Try explaining to a 1st grader that you do public relations.

This challenge has been bouncing around my mind as I read the flap over Scott McClellan's book. The former White House spin doctor now admits he lied on the job. Most of America isn't surprised.

'Leatherheads' downright fun

Directed by George Clooney

Rated PG-13

(Three Stars)

By Bruce Bulloch

The opening scenes of "O Brother, Where Art thou?" were a revelation.

The Parks Department proposal to close the beach fires under the Seattle Climate Action Now recommendation is an attempt to make an end run around the community's wishes and should be strongly opposed.

It is the Parks Department's responsibility to provide recreational facilities to the citizens of Seattle for their myriad uses. It is not the Parks Department's right to dictate local climate policy. That duty belongs to the Puget Sound Clean Air Agency.

(Regarding) reporter Steve Shay's article (Try drinking this stuff , June 4). Thank you White Center News for publishing this story that needs further expanding.

This story was very impressive that 5- to 7-year-old children can learn and understand the problem of dog poop creates for the environment. My hats off to the KapKa primary school for reporting and teaching their young charges of environmental pollution problem that is a wide spread concern.

should be illegal

This article is an assault on intelligence (Editorial, June 4), how's that for an attention grabber?

Listen, I approach this from a pragmatic perspective, not an emotional one. Right now immigrants are committing a crime against the United States, from the time they're in the hospital but we grant their children citizenship anyway. They're violating our sovereignty and we're granting them citizenship, where is the logic in that?

There are no children of former slaves living in the United States today, which was the main reason for amendment.

Word is out that Kenny Davis, who has been director of Alki Community Center for many years, received notice of his unsolicited transfer to South Park Community Center. Ken had hoped to finish his career at Alki Community Center and does not want to be transferred.

This would be a great loss to the Alki and West Seattle community as Ken has brought such a warm, caring presence to the children and adults who use the center.

How sad was I to see this place

Reduce by more than half the space

The spot where we so loved to sit

To sip our drinks and chat a bit

And after we had chewed the fat

I'd roam around the store so that

My husband dear could then engage

The issues on the sporting page

And as I strolled from floor to floor

I hardly then returned before

Imagine living in South Park and kayaking to work on the Duwamish River, then returning home to dine on fish you caught on the same pristine waterway.

Farfetched?

"It's totally possible to make this happen," said Cari Simpson, project coordinator of the Duwamish River Cleanup Coalition, who presented a "final map," a wish list, of a Duwamish Valley of the future.

West Seattleites got their chance to weigh in on what projects a new $140 million Seattle parks and open space levy may include, should the City Council vote to put one on the ballot this fall.

The meeting was scheduled after several people complained that of the three public meetings planned to gather public input, none were near enough to West Seattle.

Abraham Lincoln once said that people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Gail Wolz has chosen to be happy.

As if to prove this point, the first thing you might see when you spot Wolz is a silly hat.

Wolz, you see, is a "certified laughter leader."

About twice a month Wolz visits the Providence Mount St.