Back of photo: School district and Safe Streets officials stood by while the Washington National Guard used two bulldozers to clear a parcel of land in front of McIlvaigh Middle School on the East Side of Tacoma Sunday morning. The 118th Transportation Company of the 144th Battalion cleared the school district property that Shanta Wright of Safe Streets said had been an area of drug activity. (Bruce Kellman 1/6/91 with story by Doreen)
Back of Photo: A crowd of neighbors listens intently to speakers trying to stop the Tacoma Rescue Mission from moving to a site across from Puget Sound Hospital. Bill Hunter/Photo
Back of Photo: "Volunteers work to clean up the Lakota Creek in Federal Way. The clean-up was sponsored by The Hylebos and Lower Puget Sound Basin Citizen Advisory Committee and King County Surface Water Management Division. Some of the volunteers included Federal Way mayor-elect Debbie Ertel and King County Executive Tim Hill. The people in the photograph are: Dave Clark, foreground, Ted Enticknap, right, with the two people in the background unidentified." Photograph by David Brandt.
Tacoma Public Library - Martin Luther King Jr. Branch
Back of photo: L Brown story Carrie Thomas gets one of the few good vantage points to be had in a crowded ceremony at MLKing Branch of the Tacoma Public Library. (Her dad is the support, he is Dave Thomas, one of the project's architects).
Back of Photo: Antique dealer Dog Bassett cues up a "78" on one of the several Victrola phonographs he deals. Among his specialties is a 25,000-piece record stock. Bassett owns "The Time Machine" on Broadway.
Mary Brown, receptionist at Tacoma's Mary Bridge Hospital, seems immune to the bevy of jolly-faced jack-o-lanterns on her desk and frets away during a few moments this afternoon. The woman usually sports a smile popular with staff and visitor alike. (Photo by Geff Hinds)
Back of photo: McIlvaigh Middle School students march down Portland Ave. 3/10/89 after a noon rally urging the kids to say no to drugs and alcohol. NEWS BILL HUNTER PHOTO
Back of Photo: Aguilar, Ernest Ernest Aguilar is the Washington State Hispanic Chamber of Commerce chairman of the board. The Hispanic Communities of King and Pierce Counties are upset by recent charges by Seattle Police that a majority of drug dealer arrests are Mexican nationals. They are organizing to protest the police charges.
Front of Photo: ATLANTA July 19--WHIPPING UP THE VOTES--Delegate Bill Baarsma of Tacoma, Washington, counts votes while on the phone. He handles communications for his delegation and is the whip. Action was during the Monday night session of the Democratic National Convention (AP LaserPhoto/Eric Risberg) 1988
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.
Tacoma Public Library- Martin Luther King Jr. Branch
Back of photo: L Brouw Story The MLKing branch of the Tacoma Public Library opened today. Here John Martin, 6, watches as Megan Marshall gets her first library card.
Back of Photo: Bob Baldasin, assistant Sergeant-at-Arms in the Senate Chambers in Olympia, was a former Tacoma Police Department officer. (Misterek story)
