Back of photo: Loony (L), Jay Time (C) and Little Loony talk about motivations and experiences of crippin, belonging to the 23rd Street Hill Top Crips Gang. NEWS/GILBERT BILL HUNTER PHOTO

Back of photo: NEWS 9/29/88 (Photo by Russ Carmack) Trash, broken bottles, litter, etc. is everywhere in McKinley Park, and abandoned city park across from the Tacoma Dome and I-5. It's littered and overgrown, a haven for drug dealers and winos.

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Dave Alger of the Associated Ministries at a staff meeting of his workers.
Photo by Bruce Larson

Back of photo: A Tacoma police officer snapped the hand cuffs on a suspect who was arrested during a raid on a South Tacoma home by Tacoma Police and Pierce County Sheriff S.W.A.T. teams Wednesday morning. The home was found to contain a marijuana growing room. Three people were arrested. (bruce kellman 3-23)

In this photo, Robert A. Jones was handcuffed. He and two others were charged with unlawful possession and intent to sell a controlled substance. Also charged with growing a controlled substance. Bruce Kellman photo

Back of photo: Helens Williams, 22, of Seattle was one of four people booked for investigation and released pending formal charges after being arrested during a raid of a suspected crack house in King County west of Tukwila in McMicken Heights. Tukwila Police lead the raid. (bruce kellman 3-11-88)

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Foss High School Principal Ethelda Burke (far right) tours the school with visiting School Superintendent Lillian Barna.
Photo by Geff Hinds

Back of Photo: Doig, Ivan

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Recently wedded chess players John Donaldson and Elena Akhmilovskaya... Donald is now a chess coach.
Photo by Nigel Eddis

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Joe Stortini willingly shows off the new county bumper sticker. (Severson story)

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Evelyn Y. Sun
Director
Washington State Lottery
October, 1988

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Susan Mersereau
Vice President and General Mgr.
Weyerhaeuser Information Systems

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Pierce County Executive Joe Stortini and his election challenger Larry Faulk, left, made a joint appearance at the Parkland-Spanaway Chamber of Commerce luncheon at the Paradise Village Bowl Restaurant. They briefly chatted before lunch.
Staff photo by Bruce Kellman

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Bruce Stucker, founder of Save Our Sound, an organization dedicated to the preservation and beautification of Puget Sound, posed for photo by a part of the South Sound near his Olympia office.
Staff photo by Bruce Kellman.

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Sister Joyce Cox is the Vice Chancellor of the Seattle Archdiocese.
Religion/Steve Maynard
Staff photo at Bruce Larson

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OLYMPIA, Wash. -- WILDLIFE CHIEF -- Curt Smitch is the new director of Washington's Department of Wildlife. Smith has been serving as natural resources adviser to Gov. Booth Gardner.
AP Photo, 1988

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Charles Z. Smith was helped into his new judicial robe by former law partner Theodore Rosenblume (right) at the ceremony at the U.S. Courthouse in Seattle where Smith was sworn in as Justice of the Supreme Court of the State of Washington. Smith was appointed by Governor Booth Gardner on July 13.
Staff photo by Bruce Kellman

NEWS--Rick Spillman, associate professor of computer science at Pacific Lutheran University. Spillman has been studying information that's come out on the Shroud of Turin for 4 years. He's not convinced that recent laboratory tests which show the shroud was made in the 14th century are proof that it is not the burial cloth of Christ.

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"Tacoma Needle Exchange on a downtown street.
Dave Purchase gives a clean hypodermic needle to an I.V. drug user after the use put a used needle into the red plastic container on the table.
1988? 1989? Photo by Peter Haley, The News Tribune (Tacoma), 1950 S. State, Tacoma, WA 98405

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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.

Staff photo by Joe Giron.

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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

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Baarsma, William

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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

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The MLKing branch of the Tacoma Public Library opened today. Here John Martin, 6, watches as Megan Marshall gets her first library card.