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Jule Sugarman, outgoing head of DSHS for the state.
Wilson story
Staff photo by Peter Haley

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Tacoma Mayor Doug Sutherland announces to the audience and for the record that the council will stay in executive session for another 10 minutes. This is in the council chambers before a regular meeting.
Staff photo by Peter Haley

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The Senate gallery was overflowing with spectators at the Curt Smitch confirmation hearing held by the Senate Environment and Natural Resource Committee.
Photo by Bill Hunter

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OLYMPIA, WASHINGTON -- WORK RELEASE -- Sen. Bill Smitherman, D-Tacoma, speaks in favor of legislation that would toughen-up Washington prison work release programs. The Senate passed the measure that some felt didn't go far enough.
Associated Press Photo, 1989

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Sheridan Elementary Principal Emma Sneed responded to charges raised by parents during a meeting at the school Wednesday morning. The principal was accused of driving away quality teachers.
Staff photo by Bruce Kellman

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Keith Stiles
Photo by Jim Bates

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Lyle Quasim heads up the Tacoma-Pierce County Safe Streets Campaign.
Photo by Katherine Jones

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Bob Allan of Auburn works on his brush stroke at the Federal Way Senior Center Oil and acrylic painting class taught by Elizabeth Halfacre-Burke from Highline Community College. The seniors worked on their flesh tones today (Thursday).
Photo by Karen Stallwood

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Steve Bowen and Gerald Gorg, workmen from the Auburn Street Dept. hang a new directory sign near the intersection of Main St. and B St. Auburn is sprucing up its downtown shopping core with new identification sign.
Photo by Russ Carmack

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Willie and Joyce Hellems, rows one and two, joined with others in the sanctuary of St. John The Baptist Church on 20th and J Street to pray for an end to the drug problem on Tacoma's Hilltop.
News/Eskenazi
Bruce Larson Photo

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Prayers before sweeping up S. L Street, from left to right: Laura Neal, Theda Cherry, Priscilla Lisicich, and Lynitra Jackson. For Sandy Nelson story.
Melissa Stevenson Photo

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A group of regulars enjoy the brew and camaraderie at Spags, a gay tavern in Seattle that is off-limits to GI's from Ft. Lewis, as per order of the military.
Voelpel Story
Haley

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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

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Paul Rockwell, a junior at Stadium High School, gets a chuckle from a story by Tacoma Equal Employment Officer Melannie D. C. White, as she talks about the Tacoma Scene, power and self respect, during Pierce County's Safe Streets Youth Forum at the University of Puget Sound.
Gilbert/News
Bill Hunter/Photo

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Toni Hale, an auto mechanic student at Bates, the Voc School is a single parent of Tiffany Morris (5), was chosen the Automotive Dept. Bates student of the year last year, and after class she is a work study student and works in the school office as a secretary. She has been in the auto program for a year and a half, and is a good enough student that the instructor uses her to teach newer students to the class. One of the major problems in this trade is that the instructor said NO employer will give a trained woman mechanic a chance. But that doesn't deter Toni, she wants to specialize in Electrical problems and Tune-up work. Her instructor is trying to steer her into the Service Writers position, but she wants to be in the pits. She chose this profession because she got tired of guys ripping her off when she took her car in for repairs and the cost of getting it repaired. She is pleased with herself and the way the car runs after she gets through repairing it, she said it's a challenge. She said the course is not easy but you will never know you can do it until you try, that's why she did. She said she doesn't listen to the males in the class, and their egos,... In the photo she is making a mixture adjustment to a cars carburetor and checking the reading on the Sun Scope.
Photo by Russ Carmack

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Tacoma--City Hall
Bill Hunter Photo

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Row of vacant pawn shops on Pacific at 15th in Tacoma
Photo by David Yee
Inside Track

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Abandoned buildings and warehouses north of E. 11th Street between City Waterway and Middle Waterway. 06/01/1989
Biz/Gillie Bill Hunter PHTPO

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As Bob Gallucci (left) studies a list of demands, a group of concerned citizens, who only minutes before had stormed the Congressman's offices in downtown Tacoma demanding to be heard, listen to Norm Dicks via a conference call speaker react to the groups demands that the Congressman speak out in Congress to halt all military aid pending the international investigation of the murder of the eight persons (including 6 Jesuit priests) in El Salvador Thursday.
Others in photo: Joyce Buchanan (second from left), Olivia Watt (second from right) and Tom Thompson, Norm Dicks' aide (right).
Staff photo by Geff Hinds

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Soviet chess player Elena Akhmilovskaya and U.S. chess player John Donaldson came to live in Seattle after they were married Nov. 25, 1988. But Elena's seven-year-old daughter, Dana, had to remain behind in the Soviet Union. Elena told the Washington State Law and Justice Committee that she deeply misses her daughter, and that she and her husband have applied to Soviet authorities to allow Dana to come to the United States. A resolution asking that Dana be allowed to come to the USA was introduced into the State Senate.
Staff photo by Bruce Kellman

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Drohman, Lewis
Federal Way candidate
Lewis Drohman, Pos. 3 Federal Way
Photo by Michael Chow

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Seattle Mayor-elect Norm Rice, foreground left, and Tacoma Mayor-elect Karen Vialle, foreground right, answer questions and thank the black collective for the support the group has given both Rice and Vialle. The two Mayor-elects met with the Black Collective Saturday morning at 2316 S. Yakima. (12-2-89 photo by David Brandt)
Pierce & S. King County

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Trying to keep 'K' Street safe, Morris McCollum, President of 'K' Street Boosters, far left, has customers and passers-by sign a petition to keep the Hilltop patrolled by the same officers on the crime management team task force for 'K' Street.
Pictured, from left, are McCollum, Diaetta Walker, Henrietta George, Mary Radziski, manager of New Look Clothing on 'K' Street, and Virginia Taylor. The children are Lashwanda Walker, 19 months, in stroller, and Lapaschia Walker, 4-years-old. Both are daughter of Diaetta Walker. They want the streets kept safe so they can shop and let their kids play in the area. (photo by David Brandt)

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A Sad But Hopeful Look.....Pastor Lynn Farnum (Trinity Presbyterian Church), no stranger to the life on Tacoma's Hilltop and the plight of its children, gives a thoughtful glance down a stretch of streets on the Hill today as she joined a concerned group of local pastors and church leaders who briefly toured the area following a press conference they called to express concern and call attention to the Children's Initiative which they support. In the background (right arm raised) another spokesperson for the group, Rev. Dave Alger (Ex. Director of Associated Ministries) explains the sights to other members of the group.
News/Callahan
Geff Hinds Photo

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Ernesto, left, wife Marina, and son David stand in front of their store, El Compadre, at the corner of 40th and McKinley Ave. The store has become the hub of information and assistance for the stream of Mexicans who continue to flow into Pierce County. They will be receiving an award from a new Hispanic organization in town. (photo by David Brandt)

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Demonstrators gather their signs together as they prepare to leave after the City Council vote on the sexual preference issue.
By Jim Bates

Tacoma Public Library - Martin Luther King Jr. Branch

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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).

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Workers cleanup and store moveable partitions in the newly remodeled Bicentennial Pavilion.
Gillie
Photo/Bill Hunter

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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.

Photo by Geff Hinds