By Highlands Community Council
UPDATE via E-mail from Claudia:
We met the man who is taking care of this little dog. He said Ozzie is home from the vets with a drainage tube. There was no damage done to the internal organs.
He is home in pain. Supposedly Animal Control will be out to pick up the complaint. It will take him about a month to heal.
From Claudia Donnelly via e-mail.
I was walking my dogs this morning at Hazen and ran into some I know — with his dog. He usually has a second dog with him.He told me this story.
He was walking both dogs across the street from a house where a dog is chained up. This chained up dog is well known with the Animal Control people. As this person passed in front of the house, the chained up dog lunged once and twice to get off the chain. The dog lunged a third time and broke the chained and attacked one of the little dogs. This little dog was mauled several times by this bigger dog before it was beaten off. Evidently this dog has done this before — but people haven’t reported. The person I talked to today plans on filing a complaint with Animal Control.
In the meantime, the little dog was at the Vets on NE 4th and was going to be operated on today — to sew up his wounds.
People need to get involved and report things. If they had reported this aggressive dog, the little dog would not be where he is today. But they don’t — they “don’t want to get involved”
Have a Happy New Year.
Claudia
By Highlands Community Council
By Craig Welch
Seattle Times environment reporter
The rows of giant sandbags now lining the Green River may calm residents who feared water could swamp its banks.But the new barrier only masks risks still hidden below.
Beneath the stacks of plastic designed to prevent flooding from a damaged dam rest aging levees in serious decay. The right mix of storms could wipe them out and flood the valley before the river even hits its crest.
Story continues at SeattleTimes.com.
By Highlands Community Council
SKYWAY, Wash. - A man was found dead from a single gunshot wound in Skyway on Christmas night, and the shooter remains at large, deputies said.The man’s body was found inside a vehicle in the parking lot behind the Hill View Apartments, in the 12800 block of 60th Lane South.
Read more at KOMONews.com.
By Highlands Community Council
RENTON, Wash. — David Shirley works in a tow lot littered with life’s stories. “You find everything — war medals, discharge paperwork, checkbooks,” he said.Shirley and his co-workers at Skyway Towing found drugs, dogs, cats, and cash inside the impounded cars. They’ve even found an 8-foot snake and a dead deer.
But what they discovered inside a trunk on Tuesday was a first.
Finish reading the story at KOMONews.com to find out what was in the trunk.
By Highlands Community Council
This article does a great job of describing how a city can annex a neighborhood in. This example could be used for Fairwood or East Renton.
By KING5.com Staff
KING5
KIRKLAND, Wash. - Even though residents of the Finn Hill, North Juanita and Kingsgate neighborhoods did not muster enough votes to be annexed to the city of Kirkland, the city council has voted to annex them anyway.
By a 6-1 vote Tuesday, the council decided to annex the areas. It will increase the city’s population from about 48,000 to 81,000.
Story continues at MSNBC.com.
By Highlands Community Council
MILWAUKEE (AP) - Cities around the country that have installed energy-efficient traffic lights are discovering a hazardous downside: The bulbs don’t burn hot enough to melt snow and can become crusted over in a storm - a problem blamed for dozens of accidents and at least one death.”I’ve never had to put up with this in the past,” said Duane Kassens, a driver from West Bend who got into a fender-bender recently because he couldn’t see the lights. “The police officer told me the new lights weren’t melting the snow.
Story continues at KOMONews.com.
By Highlands Community Council
December 7, 2009
8:14 p.m.
For more information contact:
Karen Bergsvik, Human Services Manager 425-430-6650
Preeti Shridhar, Communications Director 425-430-6569
Highlands Neighborhood Community Center Open from 8:00 p.m. to 7:00 a.m.
Renton, WA: The City of Renton’s shelter at the Highlands Neighborhood Community Center, 800 Edmonds Ave NE will be open Tuesday, December 8, 2009, from 8:00 p.m. to 7:00 a.m. to assist residents during the cold wave.
Additional information can be found on the City of Renton’s web site.
