November 2012

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Art Exhibits

Burien Arts—Vision 20/20 Fundraiser Sale. Nov. 17. Doors open at 6:30 p.m., sales start at 7:30 p.m. Keller Real Estate, 455 S.W. 152nd St. Over 350 pieces of art priced at $40 each.
Burien Community Center--Artist Teresa Burrelsman will be displaying her paintings in the lobby until the end of November. Teresa is a Seattle artist working in oil paints, pastels and mixed media. The community center, 14700 6th Ave. S.W. is open Monday-Thursday from 8:30 a.m.-8 p.m. and Friday from 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m.
Burien Press--Artist Scott Grigg, presents American Spring Art show a visual critique of modern American politics. 423 S.W. 152nd St.

Normandy Park Cove has been so helped by the King Conservation District over the years.

As we have worked toward making Miller and Walker creeks more salmon friendly, KCD has provided native bare root plants at a nominal price, a watershed steward with good ideas about ivy removal and other items, and great support for our monthly Stewards of the Cove work parties.

They have helped us remove invasive plants that provide no nourishment for our native salmon, birds and other animals. Their expertise has blessed our community. We are seeing results from the restoration work on our shared acreage, which is helpful to all communities around us and to Puget Sound.

We trust their work can continue.

Merry Ann Peterson
Normandy Park

Congratulations to Earline Byers!

She hit the nail right on the head with this weeks "special"

Think it is an age thing---the "now" generation moves too much to be the collectors that "we" are. If they don't wear it for a few months they throw it away. If I did that I'd need it the week after I threw it away.

I did brave it this year and "Goodwilled” a pair of pants with the tags still on them---from Burien’s Lamonts--a long time ago. Luckily I "undergrew" them-- not the reverse.

I've lived in my house since l962 and I probably have saved newspaper articles that date back that far. My poor kids when I pass on! "What did she save those for?" Maybe I should join the "Messies Anonymous." Have a few friends that meet the requirements too.

Too bad the "now" generation isn't as frugal as "us." Of course, I think they have more space in their closets then we do. In my case it's the attic and the garage too. Again---thanks for the smile.

Virginia Dana
SeaTac

Dear SeaTac City Council,

If you think that I, and others buy that the newly authorized code compliance coordinator position as anything but a supervisory position you would be wrong.

What has happened is the staff has shoved an administrative "bill of goods" down your throats where you as a council cannot effectively argue against it as its "Code Compliance." What person in SeaTac does not want to see more of that?

Let’s first examine the position requirements. For those who read their council packets see pages 8 thru 11 of packet for 10/23/12. A bachelor’s degree in Public Administration or City Planning? You must be kidding. These "paper cut" hazardous fields are irrelevant for code compliance coordinator or code compliance officer.

I see no requirement for being bilingual, which is far more relevant in our demographic. The more I read the more pathetic it gets and anyone reading it will get the gist and I encourage them to do so.

Let’s next examine pay grade. I have no idea what position/title this was compared to but a code compliance coordinator search yields a pay level of ~62K per year not ~100K per year!

By Gwen Davis
SPECIAL TO THE HIGHLINE TIMES

With voters’ decision to privatize liquor last Nov. with I-1183, the state is out of the liquor business and private companies have full-reign of the liquor-selling playing field. Local grocery stores, established wine retailers, small businesses and restaurants have sold liquor since June, when the initiative took effect.

Liquor superstores
But two superstores recently opening in Tukwila – Total Wine and BevMo! – offer an extensive selection of alcoholic beverages at prices unbeatable by local retailers. Similar to corporations such as Wal-Mart and Target – one-stop-shops that provide massive selection at low prices – Total Wine and BevMo! provide unmatched opportunities for alcohol purchasing.

This is in spite of I-1183’s promise of higher liquor taxes and new fees imposed on retailers.

A few weeks ago, the work of three citizen groups in Burien made it possible for the children at the Ruth Dykeman Children’s Center to get their swings set back.

The groups were Neighbors of Seahurst Park, the Lake Burien Neighborhood and Sustainable Burien. While many people contributed to the project, John Feeney from Sustainable Burien facilitated the ground work of the actual installation of the swings.

Several years ago, the children at the Dykeman center on Lake Burien lost their swing set. In these difficult economic times, it is hard for residential treatment facilities to provide the children in their care with extras like new swings.

Very few of these types of residential living facilities exist any longer in the state because the state refuses to fund the residential placement of these children at 100 percent of the cost it takes for their care.

Currently the children only receive 60 percent funding from the state of what is required for their care. This means that the other 40 percent of the funding for the children must come from charitable donations.

We haven’t had it as rough as our friends on the East Coast but the rainy season has definitely arrived in Highline.

Here a vehicle navigates a very wet First Avenue South in Normandy Park as fall leaves threaten to clog a storm drain.

Press release:

BLT is getting ready for “A Tuna Christmas” and it needs some specialty props that BLT has not found yet. If you have any of them and can share them with BLT, BLT will put your name in the program and give you a pair of free tickets! BLT needs these things as soon as possible and will use them through the last performance of “A Tuna Christmas” on December 16, 2012.

Here is the list:

* electric wheelchair (working);

* chrome-edged formica table, preferably no more than 4 feet wide;

* chrome and vinyl chairs to go with table;

* plastic grenades to hang on Didi Snavely's tree;

* radio antennas to create a Christmas tree for the radio station (these may be damaged and may not be returnable - but hey you likely have cable anyway); and

* phone cords in red and green to decorate radio antenna Christmas tree (History lesson for some of you - phones had cords back in the day they had to be plugged into the wall to work - shocking but true).

As dog people, Mrs. Anthony and I are fully familiar with the patterns of dog ownership, having raised them together and separately since we were pups ourselves.

Once a doggy family member leaves for doggy heaven, we wait for a while and start pining for a new addition, partly to keep our other dog company but also because we feel comfortable with a ‘his and her’ sort of matched set.

Last time around, I picked ‘Zeke’ out from the rescue kennel and because he was my dog, we bonded and had great fun for the entire 12 years we were together. I say 12 years of togetherness, but Mrs. Anthony is quick to correct me, saying, ‘Remember…for the first three months, you kept Zeke in that box in the garage.”

It’s true, I did keep Zeke in a small enclosure next to the furnace, lined with newspaper and along with his water bowl and chew toy, it seemed to work out fine. I would let him out regularly into the yard to do his business or to play, but at night he slept on a raised platform, cozy in his little doggie corral.

'57 Chevy recovered
The turquoise 1957 Chevrolet Bel Air convertible stolen Sept. 22 from Burien City Garage at 14926 Ambaum Blvd. SW, owned by the owner of the garage, Duane Quande, was recovered, thanks to Burien detectives, and a tip from a Colorado Springs man. There was no damage to the car. The car was recovered in the SeaTac garage of the man who allegedly stole it. The suspect allegedly offered the Colorado Springs man to trade the Chevy for a car the Colorado Springs man advertised. That man recognized the car from photos and tipped police.

Man shot in Des Moines
According to Des Moines police, two armed men broke into a Des Moines home Monday, Oct. 29, at about 11 p.m. and shot a resident.
The suspects allegedly forced their way into the home in the 1300 block of South 251 Street and demanded money from the man and woman living there. A fight broke out between the man and a suspect and the man was shot in the abdomen and pistol-whipped. The suspects left the home after the shooting.