Back of Photo: Rick Spillman directs the Center for the Study of Artificial Intelligence at PLU (Pacific Lutheran University). In this illustration, he is in the Artificial Intelligence Lab. The lines of programming superimposed above him are from an AI test. Staff photo / illustration by Peter Haley
Back of Photo: BUSINESS -- Reporter: Cole Chuck Stillman and his long term investments: Chuck among his 45-year-old Douglas Fir trees on his 52-acre tree farm near Johnson Point, Olympia, WA. Stumpage prices have been a boom to the little guy, non-corporate tree farmers is the story line.
Al Gore, Sr., former US Senator from Tennessee, talked with Port of Tacoma Executive Director Larry Killeen (left) during a visit to the Port headquarters Friday morning. Gore was stumping for the Presidential campaign of his son Al Gore, Jr., the current Senator from Tennessee.
Back of Photo: Former Tacoman John Donaldson is a sparring partner for Yasser Seirawan (right). Seirawan is in the top ten in chess internationally. They're playing on the porch of the apartment of Seirawan's mother at Rainier Beach in Seattle. Photo by Peter Haley
Back of Photo: Urban League President Thomas Dixon in front of the construction project which is adding space to the League's main building on Yakima Avenue. Staff photo by Bruce Kellman
Back of Photo: "Earth First" Folks, left to right, Harry Levine-Olympia, Greg Wingard-Sea., Grace Cox-Olympia. Wenatchee National Forest. Photo by Bruce Larson
Back of Photo: Foss High School Principal Ethelda Burke (far right) tours the school with visiting School Superintendent Lillian Barna. Photo by Geff Hinds
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)
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: 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.
Back of photo: Travis Tyson (R) looks at the blood stains in his car from a drive-by shooting early Saturday a.m. at South M st. and S. 36th. From left: Gino Bertucci, Zan Tyson, and Willie Warner (squatting). rushton story haley 7/21/91
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: 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
Back of Photo: 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.
Front of Photo: 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
Back of Photo: 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.
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.