Mary Brown, receptionist at Tacoma's Mary Bridge Hospital, seems immune to the bevy of jolly-faced jack-o-lanterns on her desk and frets away during a few moments this afternoon. The woman usually sports a smile popular with staff and visitor alike. (Photo by Geff Hinds)
Back of photo: McIlvaigh Middle School students march down Portland Ave. 3/10/89 after a noon rally urging the kids to say no to drugs and alcohol. NEWS 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.
Tacoma Public Library- Martin Luther King Jr. Branch
Back of photo: L Brouw Story The MLKing branch of the Tacoma Public Library opened today. Here John Martin, 6, watches as Megan Marshall gets her first library card.
Back of Photo: Bob Baldasin, assistant Sergeant-at-Arms in the Senate Chambers in Olympia, was a former Tacoma Police Department officer. (Misterek story)
Back of Photo: John Stevens is a partner in the Talking Rain Beverage Company, which is producing a new brand of flavored seltzer -- with water from Tumwater. Staff photo by Bruce Kellman Business story by Gillie
Back of Photo: MariJo Donais, 32, of Vancouver, Wash., claims to be channelling Zanzoona, a warrior who lived 3,500 years ago in the Mycenaean civilization. Here, supposedly is Zanzoona in the body of Donais. The voice and body posture are more like that of a large, mature man than Donais. Staff photo by Peter Haley
Front of Photo: SEATTLE, Dec. 30--SETTLING IN SEATTLE--Newlyweds Elena Akhmilovskaya, former Russian chess player, and John Donaldson, the captain of the American chess team, are now living in Seattle following their secret wedding ceremony at the 28th Chess Olympiad in Greece last month. The couple are trying to get Soviet authorities to allow Akhmilovskaya's 7-year-old daughter, Dana, to come to the United States. AP Photo by Gary Stewart