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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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Keith Stiles
Photo by Jim Bates

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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
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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

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Fire fighters from Kitsap County and Kingston and other volunteers comb the beach at Indianola cleaning up an oil spill.

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As early evening moves into dusk....
19-year-old Tacoma resident Janine Absten (right) and 19-year-old Sean Brown (Tacoma) light candles as part of a protest (and vigil) that was joined by 150 others at Owen Beach this evening. The group was concerned by the recent oil spill in Alaska and spent the time discussing the issues surrounding the incident and voicing feelings thereof. The group, with many families and children present created no problems for park officials who earlier were concerned that the protest might grow out of hand, possibly resulting in damages. After the gathering members left the park.
Geff Hinds/Photo
Gordon/News

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"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.

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Pam Wilkerson is suing DSHS for cutting off her welfare payments when her mother gave her a car to use for job hunting. Wilkerson says she would rather support her two children, Jennifer (left) and Laura by working full-time than gathering welfare checks, but that the system makes getting off of welfare impossible.
Photo by Karen Stallwood

Tacoma Public Library - Martin Luther King Jr. Branch

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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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"I live on K street and I'm at war!" With those words Mary Miller, a hilltop resident and parent of 3 school-age children, introduced herself to a classroom of other concerned citizens during an hour-long workshop for "Safe Streets" held at Mt Tahoma High School this evening. Several Hundred (one count had it at 500) folks met in various classroom settings to discuss strategies and vent their fears and frustrations in dealing with the cities problems of late and assigning each participant an "action front" theme to concentrate and educate upon. Miller, who listens to a speaker emphasize the need for group action, sits next to her "Safe Streets" sweatshirt.
Geff Hinds/photo
Gordon/news

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"NEWS 3/17/89 (Photo by Russ Carmack)
Judy Slaney puts a Mazda decal on the tail gate of a Mazda 4x4 pick-up truck at the Mazda import facility at the Port of Tacoma. Congress is taking a critical look at Foreign Trade Zones to see if they help or hinder the U.S. economy. Port of Tacoma has the second largest Free Trade Zone in the country, and the port officials consider it an important economic development too. Mazda adds accessories and detailing to cars imported from Japan and Korea.

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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

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Harold Moss holds a copy of his impassioned letter to his Tacoma city council colleagues asking for an anti-discrimination law for the city.

Photo by Geff Hinds.

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Dave Purchase
Tacoma Needle Exchange
by David Brandt 6/29/89

"Below: Bleach to sterilize needles that get a second use before being exchanged and condoms at right"

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Jenny and George Sung stand in their restaurant at 32921 1st Ave. S. The Peking Wok.
Photo by David Brandt. Weathersby/Biz

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Robert Stivers, PLU religion professor
Photo by Michael Chow

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Curt Smitch at the Rotary Club Luncheon.
Staff photo by Geff Hinds

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Nikki Smith, Managing Director of Tacoma Little Theatre, is enchanted by the audition of children for parts in "Oliver".
Staff photo by Peter Haley

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Three-year-old Calvin Medina, Tacoma, checks out his competition and other tribal dress during the Puyallup tribe's Pow Wow. There was singing, dancing, eating, and competition for best dress and dance.
Photo by David Brandt

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The Nob Hill Apartments overlooking the Tacoma landfill.
News/Abe
Photo/Bill Hunter

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Joe Haynes, cleaning up debris from a room of an apartment that he owns with his wife. Earlier in the day they had found that alleged addicts were living in the squalor.
Photo by David Yee

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The Rev. Jerry Sanders rejoiced in his God given freedom from heroin and cocaine as he witnessed at an anti drug service at New Jerusalem Church of God in Christ, on the Hilltop, in Tacoma.
News/Maynard
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The Rev. Don Magill from the Metropolitan Community Church at 1106 S. Yakima Ave. leads protestors outside Hosanna Christian Fellowship Church as Lon Mabonm here to speak against Tacoma's new gay rights ordinance.
(Photo by Russ Carmack)

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Governor Booth Gardner and Alice Bertner looked at some of the 2700 live birds that have been collected for a cleaning process to save them from the deadly effects of an oil spill that has washed up on the Washington coast. She serves as "Director of Rehabilitation" at the bird hospital that has been set up in the Ocean Shores Convention Center. These are some of the healthiest birds. They are in an outdoor test tank to see if they are clean enough to float. If they pass the test, they are to be released in one of three areas: Nisqually Reach (near Anderson Island); Sequim Bay; or Discovery Bay. 660 birds have been hand-washed since December 24. More than 2500 dead birds have also been collected.
The governor said bird-cleaning efforts will probably continue through the rest of the month. The birds in this photo are called "murre." AP Writer David Ammons is writing a story telling about the governor's visit. It will move on the wire Wednesday afternoon.
Bruce Kellman/News

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John Jayroe Jr. talks about the incident in Tillicum that left him with a broken nose and two black eyes after Pierce County Sheriffs deputies hit him in the face with a baton.
News/Gilbert
Photo/Bill Hunter

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Over the cash register hangs a thermometer of how much money had been donated by 5 o'clock in the afternoon, and the goals of the tavern that they wanted to reach. Peggy O'Neall rings up the cash register with sales donated to help the little boy, victim of rape and mutilation, at the Fern Hill Tavern Thursday evening.
Melissa Stevenson - Photo
Susan Gordon - Story