Back of Photo: Them Prom Kim holds three-year-old Sokha Buntun during a Tacoma Police Dept. seminar on crime prevention in the Salishan Housing District. These seminars are for people with limited knowledge of English. Photo by Joe Giron
Front of Photo: Former (State) House Speaker John Bagnariol opened an Italian restaurant in Renton as a comeback from two years in prison as one of the three Gamscam defendants.
Back of Photo: Jim Heckman was hired to fill the position of Executive Director for the Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission on May 6. He has been working for the Commission since last July as Director of Biological Programs. Prior to his employment at the Commission, Heckman spent twenty-five years with U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
Back of Photo: About 2300 Tacoma and Pierce County citizens packed the Foss High School gym Thursday for the first "Safe Streets" community forum to Fight Illegal Drug Use, Gangs and Violence. 150 individuals held number signs to aid in forming discussion groups of 15 people each.
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Note: Published photo has the number of people at 1,600.
Back of Photo: Tacoma Police Dept. officer Manny Ortiz conducts a crime prevention seminar in the Salishan Housing District Wednesday. The seminars are designed for people with limited knowledge of English. Photo by Joe Giron
Back of Photo: "Damon Herd, the Tacoma Fire Dept's 1st black Fire Marshal, stands before a fire truck at the station that also is home to his office (901 Fawcett)."
Herd is 36 years old in the photo and became a firefighter in 1971. According to Herd, he was a part of the first group of minority applicants that the Tacoma Fire Department recruited in the early 1970s.
Back of Photo: Trang Nguyen (16), Thuy Le (14) who both attend Stadium H.S. and have been in the US for only 3 months and Betty Thach (16) who attends Clover Park H.S. and has been here for 2 and a half years, are all Amerasian children, they watch the city skyline pass by as the Sea Explorer boat Charles Curtis, a 80 foot wooden hull boat built in 1931 slips out of city waterway. Tacoma has been designated as one of about 50 cluster sites across the US. A program has been scheduled to welcome the Amerasian youth and their families, after lunch a boat cruise of Commencement Bay, courtesy of the Sea Explorers, a branch of the Boy Scouts of America.
Back of Photo: About 45 members of the Safe Streets Campaign picket outside a Summit area home 08/30/1989. Safe Streeters believe the owner of the Exeter Arms Apartments lives in the Summit area house. A large group of neighbors suspect crack activity in the apartments. The owner has been contacted by Safe Street volunteers and staff in an attempt to assist the owner in resolving this problem, but his lack of cooperation made it necessary for the picketing. Bill Hunter/Photo
Back of Photo: Tuyet Mazziotta feeds her 14-month-old daughter during a visit to the Luner New Year Festival celebration in the Kingdome Saturday. This is the beginning of the year of the horse. It's two days of food, music, booths, and combines many groups of differing Asian backgrounds including Vietnamese, Cambodian, Chinese, Thai et cetera. The traditional dragon dance can still be seen tomorrow afternoon after 4 pm in Chinatown in S. Seattle.
Back of Photo: International Chess Master John Donaldson gives a lecture to the Tacoma Chess Club. Donaldson is the son of former City Manager Bill Donaldson, and also graduated from Stadium High School. Donaldson has achieved the highest ranking of any Tacoma chess player and was captain of the U.S. Olympic Chess Team. Neighbors 6/5/87 Photo by Scott Eklund
Back of Photo: Safe Streets kicked off its "take-back-the-streets" blitz with a community mobilization meeting Monday afternoon at the county-City Building in downtown Tacoma. Police chiefs from all over Pierce County attended to discuss drugs and violence in the community. Karen Stallwood
Back of Photo: Cultural Fair sponsored by South Puget Sound Adoptive Parents. As part of a cultural fair to educate children and adults about different cultures Jennifer Yoon, 24, left and Angela Synn, 13, right performed some traditional Korean dances including fan and basket dancing.
Back of Photo: Former Tacoman John Donaldson is a sparring partner for Yasser Seirawan (right). Seirawan is in the top ten in chess internationally. They're playing on the porch of the apartment of Seirawan's mother at Rainier Beach in Seattle. Photo by Peter Haley
Back of Photo: Carrie Robertson photo, Merryman story; Marine View Presbyterian Church members (from left) Mildred Sloan, Rick Weir and Roger Wiseman look over the house that they and other church volunteers remodeled to house needy families.