Alexander Sasonoff grew up in "Rat City" and lived to write about it.
by Scott Schaefer
Last week we posted the first excerpt from longtime Burien resident, architect, artist and now author Alexander Sasonoff’s recently-published autobiography called “Growing Up in Rat City and Beyond.”
(Side note o’trivia: the office we occupy, located in Olde Burien, was designed by [...]

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[ November 15, 2008; 3:00 pm; ] Richard “Dick” Dennis Dahlgard passed away Wednesday, November 5th, 2008 in his home in Burien, WA.

He was 73.

Dick was born in Pierre, SD, the first son of Dennis and Hazel, the oldest of four.  They moved to Seattle in 1942 where Dick attended Sunnydale Elementary and Highline High School and graduated in 1954.  Following [...]

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According to The Seattle Times, police have arrested two suspects in the shooting death of a 15-year old boy in Boulevard Park on Thursday, Oct. 30th.
The two teens, from Kent, include a 14-year-old believed to be the shooter and a 15-year-old alleged to be the driver.
Both are accused in the Oct. 30th shooting death of [...]

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Back in early September, we unveiled a new, innovative feature on this and our sister site The White Center Blog: an Automatic Translation service, which is located on the right side of the page, under the “Local Weather” section.
On launch, our translation services were for three languages:

Korean
Chinese
Spanish

While not covering the entirety of the diverse languages [...]

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[ November 8, 2008; 2:00 pm; ] Burien’s New City Dance Company is holding Loveliness, a gallery and auction fundraiser for the Rev. Paul Kwon, who is fighting Acute Myelogenous Leukemia.

The event is this Saturday, Nov. 8th at New City’s studios, which is located at 408 SW 153rd Street in Burien.

WHAT: Auction fundraiser for Rev. Paul Kwon; hors d’oeuvres and beverages will [...]

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[ November 8, 2008; 9:00 am to 4:00 pm. ]

Glendale Lutheran School is holding a book sale fundraiser this Sat., Nov. 8th from 9am - 3pm at their school gymnasium, located at 13455 2nd Ave SW in Burien:

All Books will be sold for just .25 cents each!
Krispy Kreme Doughnuts will be available for $1.00 each and will include a cup of coffee or spiced [...]

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Just got off the phone with Scott Thomsen, Seattle City Light Communications and Public Affairs, and here’s the latest (as of 10am Fri. 11/7):

Power was lost this morning around 6:30am in an area bordering South 99th Street, SW 176th Street, Military Road South and 32nd Avenue Southwest
Reason for the outage was a downed tree
Over 2,800 [...]

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Story and Video by Janet Grella
Dick Dahlgard passed away Wed., Nov. 5th
With the passing of Dick Dahlgard on Wednesday, Nov. 5th, Burien has lost one of its most passionate supporters. So passionate in fact, that he was often referred to as “Mr. Burien.”
While working in sales at the Highline Times, I passed many informative hours [...]

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[ November 8, 2008; 5:30 pm to 9:00 pm. ]

Highline School District’s Aviation High School’s Skunkworks Robotics Team 1983 is holding a special Auction/Dinner fundraising event this Saturday, Nov. 8th from 5:30pm to 9pm at Aviation High’s Cafeteria, located at 615 South 200th Street in Des Moines.

From their press release:
2008 was our second year and it will be a hard act to follow!!!

We [...]

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We are more than happy to shout a big and loud Woof Woof! (that’s Doggie Speak for “welcome”) to our latest Advertiser: Wag the Dog Daycare!
You kind of have to look to find Wag the Dog – they’re next to Supercuts on Ambaum in Burien, just south of Martini Cleaners. There’s plenty of parking.
“Wag the [...]

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