Whitewater club opens
Miss watching Olympic swimming? Come try it yourself at Whitewater Aquatics.
The new season opened Sept. 8, with swimmers from age 6 and up are still welcome to join and have coach Greg or coach Casey take their swimming skills to a higher level.
Whitewater is a non-profit swim club run by parents.
Ever since King County announced it was no longer going to fund Mt. Rainier Pool in 2003, the pool has faced an uncertain future.
Des Moines, Normandy Park SeaTac and the Highline School District came together then, forming the Mt. Rainier Pool Coalition as a temporary solution to keep it open.
The cities' contracts to continue funding the pool end in 2009.
Way back in the 60s we lived at the end of a stubby dead street on Southwest 124th. Archie Pompeo had a small acreage on the corner where it meets Ambaum and number one son Mike, age 14, worked there during the summer as a pickle slicer or something.
Buddy Alexander lived across the street from Pompeo's pickle factory. He and his brother, Monty, had horses and talked their friend Ken Robinson, then 12, into talking me into letting him buy a horse. Ken had no place to ride it but the Alexanders had a big field and said Ken could keep it there.
There is a common concern in Burien these days, and well--someone has to tell it.
It is a real estate agent and landlord's dream, and a renter's worst nightmare. Rent just went up...way up.
Guess why. The common phrase landlords are using these days to rent their units is, "It's within walking distance of the new Town Square." Any rental within a few blocks of the construction is now hot property.
Renters in Burien are not taking this lightly. Some have decided to do something about these rent hikes.
Transitions are not an easy thing for many of us. The changes from being single to married, from working to retiring, from having a full house to an "empty nest" can all be difficult. But if you think those transitions are challenging, consider the transition to high school.
Although some of us remember high school fondly, it's also a time of great pressure-academic challenges, dating, driving and figuring out what to do after graduation.
Dick Dahlgard --"Mr. Burien" to many-- died suddenly of cardiac arrest Nov. 5 at his Lake Burien residence.
Mr. Dahlgard turned 73 on July 19.
Services will be held Saturday, Nov. 15 at 3 p.m. at John Knox Presbyterian Church, 109 S.W. Normandy Rd. in Normandy Park.
He was a true Burienite.
He attended Sunnydale Elementary School and graduated from Highline High School in 1954.
Mr. Dahlgard opened Dick's Camera in 1969 and operated it successfully before retiring in 2006.
The Burien/Normandy Park Fire Department will replace its two stations after voters overwhelmingly approved a bond measure in the Nov.
As the owner of a consulting firm that assists hundreds of communities in more than half the states in the nation deal with this issue and have handled more than 2,000 applications, it's disheartening to hear stories such as this. (Neighbors fight
cell antennas, Nov. 5)
The bottom line is that this could have been a "win" for everyone, i.e., the citizens, the city and Verizon, if someone who knew how to handle the situation as regards the alternatives to what's proposed had been involved . . . and the really good part is that it didn't have to cost the city anything.
Hello everyone. I'm not in the habit of responding to letters-to-the-editor or other opinion concerning my positions, but recent ink spilled in West Seattle warrants a response because we are living in uncertain times and my constituents don't need misinformation raising anxiety levels any higher.
There will be no KO of 401(k) plans by me or my colleagues for that matter.
How pompous and sanctimonious can one get? I refer to the letter last week, "No one cares." Most of us care very much, but we care differently.
What you apparently don't care about is our ability and right to hold an opinion other than your own. That almost bothers me more than all the issues you brought up in your self-centered letter.
Thank God for all who come together with different opinions and suggestions - hashing them out, and hopefully coming up with the best solutions.
