STALLINGS AFFAIR -- According to a published report, The Rev. George Stallings, who broke from the Catholic Church last year to form an independent African-American Church, had a two-year homosexual relationship with an employee of his former church. Associated Press Photo, 1989
Front of Photo: VANCOUVER, Wash.--PLEADS GUILTY--Westley Allan Dodd is led into the courtroom in Vancouver's Clark County Courthouse Monday where he pleaded guilty to charges he murdered three young boys and tried to murder a fourth. Dodd, who went against the advice of his attorneys, faces the death penalty or a mandatory life sentence without parole for first-degree aggravated murder. AP photo, 1990
Back of photo: School district and Safe Streets officials stood by while the Washington National Guard used two bulldozers to clear a parcel of land in front of McIlvaigh Middle School on the East Side of Tacoma Sunday morning. The 118th Transportation Company of the 144th Battalion cleared the school district property that Shanta Wright of Safe Streets said had been an area of drug activity. (Bruce Kellman 1/6/91 with story by Doreen)
Back of Photo: A crowd of neighbors listens intently to speakers trying to stop the Tacoma Rescue Mission from moving to a site across from Puget Sound Hospital. Bill Hunter/Photo
Back of Photo: Out going (in both senses) Mayor Doug Sutherland is warm, effusive and gregarious. This is moments before a City Council meeting. Staff photo by Peter Haley
Front of Photo: New Port of Tacoma Executive Director John Terpstra, second from right, is greeted by other Port employees just after word came from the Port Commission that Terpstra would succeed Lawrence Killeen as the top employee in Tacoma's Port.
From left to right: Paul Chilcote, Sharon Starr, John Terpstra, personnel director Lorna Ovena.
Front of Photo: "Dave Purchase (center, in hat and sunglasses) hands out clean hypodermic needles in exchange for used ones on Commerce Street in Tacoma. Standing next to him is a Pierce County Health Dept. worker who is engaged in a survey. (shot 2/7/89).
Back of Photo: "Dave Purchase hands out clean hypodermic needles in exchange for used ones on Commerce Street near 17th. Next to him is a Pierce County Health Department worker who is working on a survey."
(For) "Severson story" (Photo by Peter) "Haley 2/7/89"
Back of Photo: Dr. John Siemens has more time for his own horses (gathered around him) as he slowly begins to faze out his business as a horse doctor and plans for retirement. Photo by Karen Stallwood (Inside Track)
Back of Photo: WASHINGTON--MAVERICK PRIEST--As a photographer takes aim, Rev. George A. Stallings preaches before an independent Catholic congregation Sunday morning at Howard University in Washington, against the wishes of his bishop, Cardinal James A. Hickey. According to church officials, Stalling's establishment of the Imani Temple is a major blow to Hickey, who earlier this year was accused of racism for closing three inner-city Catholic high schools. The move also puts Stallings on a collision course with the Roman Catholic Church. Associated Press Photo
Back of Photo: Pierce County Executive Joe Stortini was offered a cup of coffee by county staffer Sandy Bassett at the reception following the ceremony in which Stortini and council members Barbara Gelman, Dennis Flannigan, Bill Stoner, and Chuck Gorden took the oath of office for new terms. Staff photo by Bruce Kellman
Back of Photo: 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
Front of Photo: 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
Front of Photo: 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
Back of Photo: 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
Back of Photo: "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
Back of Photo: 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
Back of Photo: 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
Tacoma Public Library - Martin Luther King Jr. Branch
Back of photo: 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).
Back of Photo: 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.
Back of Photo: "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.