Back of Photo: 6th grade teacher, Art Rorem, helps 11-year-old student Stacey Johnston with a language arts problem as some of the 30 other students look on. (at left is Aimee Medicus, 12, and behind her, Seth Carlson, 11) Lowell Elementary in Tacoma. Jeff Larsen/photo Susan Gordan/class size story
Back of Photo: Southbound traffic on I-5 in Seattle was backed up North of N. 45th street Saturday afternoon because of a wreck near the convention center downtown. Shot was taken from an overpass at North 45th. The lane on the right with no traffic is the express lane. Bruce Kellman for South King Edition
Back of Photo: Steve Kirby (background right) and Louis Neietzel (background left) keep score as Ken Raske (foreground) and Art Seeley (pointing finger at numbers), from the Auditors office opened up more than 150 mechanical voting machines in the storage warehouse as totals were checked against the paper precinct reports prepared on election night. Louis Neietzel is the 29th District Chairperson.
"Staff member Kevin Coley hugged a drop-in at Nativity House, a Commerce Street haven for the homeless." The Liberty Project revitalizing downtown Tacoma's Lower Pacific will most likely scatter the homeless population. However, according to people and organizations who work with rehabilitating people, it will not end the homelessness issue. It was suggested that the plan involve housing and training for the disadvantaged.
Back of Photo: Nativity House Worker & "Drop-In" Larson
Back of photo: Point Defiance Park-Gardens Lee Fellenberg, maintenance leader at Pt. Defiance Park, prunes the roses on arbow # 3. (Bruce Kellman pix 2-13-87 for SPARETIMER)
A black-and-white photograph taken at Yosemite National Park was a $500 honor award winner in last year's Kodak International Newspaper Snapshot Awards contest. Judges were impressed with "not only the wide range of tone, but the wide range of textures that beautifully complement each other" in the photo. The News Tribune summer snapshot contest is a little more than a week from being completed. Winners of weekly prizes, plus honorable mention certificate winners, will compete in a final local contest to be considered for entry in the international contest and will vie for cash and travel prizes in the amount of $55,000. Deadline for this week's contest is 9 a.m. Monday and the final week's deadline is at 9 a.m. August 11.
Back of Photo: News (Photo by Russ Carmack) Judy Kipp, from the Tacoma Historical Society, reads from her notes at the corner of S. 11th and A. St. pointing out the local sites such as the Weyerhaeuser Co. Building which use of be called the Tacoma Building. Also from that location is the Perkins Building which was completed in 1906, and prior to the construction of the Eleventh Street Bridge in 1911. The VIP group went on a modified version of Walking Tour 2. some of the other sites they saw was the Bank of California, the Pantages Theatre, the location of the old Peoples-Store, The Rhodes Store, and other notable locations.
Back of Photo: The Nativity House, a warm refuge for area homeless, is facing a possible shortage of private donations because of the weak economy. As a means of raising more money to fund the Nativity House, Director Bob Sieber, left, hopes to organize a Beggars banquet fundraiser for February. Next to Sieber, is Henry Prill, a Jesuit Brother from Poland who is spending six months working with Sieber as part of his Jesuit training. Sieber and Prill were passing out warm meals to over 100 homeless recently. Dean J. Koepfler/Photo
Back of Photo: Student Karen Foster at Jason Lee Middle School sits in Mr. Steve Cairns 8th grade, English/U.S. History class and listens to his discussions on U.S. History. Foster is an eighth grader who's not so thrilled about middle school.
Back of Photo: --Up, Up Goes the Viaduct-- Rapid progress is being made on the SR 512 viaduct at Puyallup, Joe Michel, assistant project engineer for the State Highway Department, reported Wednesday. The concrete bridge over East Pioneer and Main avenues and the Puyallup River is being erected by Dale M. Madden Construction, Inc., Seattle, under a $1.8 million contract. The west span is going up now and its twin will be constructed under a future contract. (news 06/17/1971)
