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The Indiana-based parent company of the Fitzgeralds hotel-casino in downtown Las Vegas on Wednesday announced plans to restructure the property so it can have greater financial flexibility to pursue upgrades and other capital spending projects.
Also Wednesday, the downtown casino revealed a widening operating loss and negative cash flow for the third quarter compared to a year ago as part of the company's third quarter results.
The Las Vegas property reported an operating loss of $1.4 million in the quarter ended Sept. 30 compared to a loss of $900,000 for the same quarter of last year. It reported negative cash flow of $700,000 compared to a negligible amount a year ago.
Majestic Star Casino LLC, parent company of the Fitzgeralds chain and owner of a similarly-named riverboat casino in Gary, Ind., said it expects to receive approval from Nevada gaming regulators next month to establish Fitzgeralds Las Vegas as a direct subsidiary of Barden Development Inc., the owner and holding company of Majestic Star. Fitzgeralds Las Vegas is now an indirect subsidiary of Barden Development, which is owned by Detroit businessman Don Barden. Through subsidiaries, Majestic Star Casino also owns Fitzgeralds casinos in Black Hawk, Colo., and Tunica, Miss.
Last month the company completed a bond refinancing deal by issuing $260 million of 9.5 percent senior secured notes and also entered into an $80 million credit line with Wells Fargo Foothill Inc. The proceeds from the notes and about $28 million of the new credit line were used to retire most of the company's notes. The senior secured notes and credit facility are secured by company assets excluding the Las Vegas property.
By spinning off the Las Vegas property as a non-guarantor, it will be freed from the restrictive covenants governing the bond and bank loans, Majestic Star Chief Financial Officer Jon Bennett said.
The company is considering strategies to upgrade the property but nothing has yet been defined, he said.
The Las Vegas property has experienced some weakness due to the sluggish economy as well as competition from other downtown casinos, he said.
The company hasn't been able to quantify the effect of California tribal casinos on business, though it may be a factor now that customers "have casinos closer to home" as well as "limited discretionary dollars," he said.
"We are pleased with some of our results so far for this quarter," he said. The company still must face a historically slow period between Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays, however, he said.
The downtown hotel's average daily rate rose to $34.69 from $32.64 but its occupancy rate fell to 83.9 percent from 88.7 percent.
Casino revenue was flat at $9 million and slot revenue fell 3 percent to $6.8 million. Table game revenue rose 10 percent to $2.2 million. Overall revenue rose 3 percent to $11.9 million.
The average win per slot machine per day fell to $81 from $84 a year ago though the property reported six more slot machines in use in the third quarter of this year. Average win per table game per day increased slightly to $758 from $751 with three more table games this year. Fitzgeralds had an average of 911 slots and 28 tables during the quarter.
Excluding the Las Vegas property, parent company Majestic Star Casino LLC reported a $1.9 million decrease in earnings to $267,000 for the quarter. Revenue was $66.5 million, down from $70.5 million last year.
A 6 percent decline in casino revenue primarily hurt results across the three casinos, the company said. Casino revenue at Majestic Star, Black Hawk and Tunica fell 3.7 percent, 8.8 percent and 8.4 percent, respectively.
Both Majestic Star and Fitzgeralds Tunica casinos experienced disruption due to remodeling. The upgrade included new cashless slot machines, carpeting and a new configuration of games on the floor, executives said. Majestic Star also is paying higher gaming taxes implemented in 2002 that is accruing at a higher rate than a year ago, they said.
Cash flow has increased since the disruption and the company expects to save on labor costs with the new machines, executives said. The company expects to have 400 cashless machines in Indiana by the end of the year and to convert the balance of machines next year. The company also expects to install a new casino management and slot monitoring system at Fitzgeralds Tunica in the by March and remodel some of its hotel rooms by the end of the year.
The company contributed nearly $180,000 to an effort to defeat a voter referendum to introduce slot machines at race tracks in Colorado, which would have created new competition for the state's casinos.
Tunica and Black Hawk markets were weak during the quarter, executives said.


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- 21 is based on a true story of a group of college student geniuses who are able to use their math prowess to win at blackjack in Las Vegas.
Ben Campbell (Jim Sturgess) is a top MIT student headed for Harvard Medical School, but finds that his chance of getting the needed scholarship is very slim. Enter math professor Mickey Rosa (Kevin Spacey), who trains Ben and a group of students to "count cards" in Las Vegas, earning all of them hundreds of thousands of dollars. "Counting cards" is the process where one adds all the cards that are dealt to know the probability of what's going to come next from the deck.
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Regrettably, the characters exhibit essentially a pagan worldview. God is not mentioned except in reference to one joke. This secular worldview and the negative elements of foul language and deception keeps this movie from being a strong and effective morality tale of negative consequences following negative actions. As the apostle Paul wrote in Galatians 6:7, "A man reaps what he sows."
The movie itself is well made. The story is paced nicely, and the script creates very strong characters. The plot itself has a number of twists and turns, along with a surprise ending. The acting is the strongest element of the movie, with exceptional performances from Jim Sturgess as Ben Campbell and Kevin Spacey as the morally bankrupt professor. Josh Gad as the genius best friend is terrific and has the movie's funniest lines. 21 is a tale told well that comes close to delivering a strong moral message marred by negative elements.
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The industry standard usually is 30 days.
The Belgium-based company's profit plummeted 95% in the fourth quarter as the world's largest brewer paid debt financing costs related to its $52 billion takeover of A-B in St. Louis.
The danger of acquiescing to A-B InBev's demands was apparent last month as London-based Diageo -- the holding company behind such powerhouse brands as Guinness, Smirnoff and Johnnie Walker -- began informing suppliers that it would push back payments to 60 days.
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So, I'm reading Bloomberg News and come to this headline: "First Solar Gets $455.7 Million Guarantees For Canada Plants." Found the official corporate press release here.
I had to do a double-take. The world's largest maker of thin-film solar modules, a company approaching $4 billion in annual sales and with a market cap of $8 billion, is getting nearly half a billion dollars in loan guarantees from the Export-Import Bank of the United States to develop seven solar projects totaling 90 megawatts in southwestern Ontario, Canada. According to the bank, the transaction constitutes the "largest financings in history supporting U.S. solar-energy exports to any country."
"The Bank's support was needed because viable long-term financing for these projects was not otherwise available in the commercial marketplace," according to First Solar's press release.
Wha? What a load of crap. There's low risk to First Solar in doing these projects. It's a large company with a strong balance sheet. It already has built more than 100 megawatts of solar in Ontario so it now has a track record. And, on top of that, it is being guaranteed 42 cents per kilowatt-hour under a 2o-year power purchase contract secured through Ontario's older Renewable Energy Standard Offer Program (RESOP). As history indicates, it is building these projects then turning around and flipping them for an immediate profit, yet it will have 18 years to pay off the low-interest loans secured with the help of these loan guarantees. This company doesn't need the help. If I were a U.S. citizen, I'd want these guarantees directed at companies that did need it or at least to projects in regions that carry less certainty and more risk.
This deal also highlights a big problem in Ontario. First Solar, when it's done, will have built more than 200 megawatts of solar in Ontario but not as part of the feed-in-tariff program. You see, it hates the feed-in tariff program and supports protests from Japan, the EU and the U.S. against Ontario's local content rules. Yet, ironically, it has been the most to benefit in the Ontario solar market. You see, all of its contracts were secured under the older RESOP program. This program had no local content rules, so First Solar brings very little with respect to job creation in Ontario. It's painful to see at a time when Ontario has lured 18 solar module manufacturers with its newer FIT program but has failed to turn huge demand into finished projects connected to the grid. The Ontario Power Authority has offered contracts to more than 1,300 solar projects in Ontario but so far only 10 megawatts are in operation because of footdragging by Hydro One, an overly bureaucratic environmental permitting process, and political uncertainty — no thanks to Tim Hudak's pledge to kill the program if elected.
Behind the scenes, however, First Solar continues to build away, using solar gear manufactured across the border in Michigan and apparently under no time restrictions (unlike conditions of the FIT program). Meanwhile, First Solar's costs have dropped dramatically in the four or five years since it secured its power-purchase agreements under the now-discontinued RESOP program, yet it will continue to rake in 42 cents for every kilowatt-hour it produces. Its profits will be huge, thanks to a poorly designed RESOP program that didn't build-in time restrictions for projects and local content requirements.
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Ty'r Cwm, ''the House in the Valley,'' was probably once an estate worker's cottage, tied to an English mansion or plas, like many which grandly overlook the hills and valleys and tiny villages of west Wales.
Today, it's the home of the Welsh Cookery Center, established by Bobby Freeman, a writer, food historian, and former restaurateur. A small 400-year-old cottage, it has doorways you must stoop under and a roaring, open fire which welcomes visitors.
Welsh foods and cooking traditions are unique and strongly intact, for indeed this rugged Celtic outpost, despite the Act of Union which united the Principality of Wales with England in 1536, remains today a very separate and foreign country.
Whereas English cooking traditions developed from the prosperous tables and groaning sideboards of aristocratic country mansions, the true taste of Wales is in the simple foods of hardworking farm laborers and peasants, slate quarrymen, and coal miners.
It is a diet based on pork, bacon, and root vegetables, which developed out of necessity. Cooking methods were primitive, such as cooking over an open fire and baking on the ever-present planc, which is a well-greased bakestone or griddle.
Cawl, for example, is probably the national dish of Wales. The word tranlates as soup or broth, but cawl is much more than that. A classic one-pot meal, it simmers with a joint of pink, home-cured bacon, scraps of sweet Welsh lamb, cabbage, orange-tinted rutabaga, tiny ''new'' potatoes, and tender leeks.
Recipes for cawl vary, depending on the family, the region, and season and on what vegetables are available. Like other such national dishes as French pot au feu or Spanish cocido, it is at once simple and delicious.
Traditionally it is eaten from earthenware, flowered bowls, with hand-carved wooden cawl spoons that protect too-eager mouths from burning.
Laver, an edible seaweed found on the coast, also reflects the indigenous eating traditions of Wales, for it is still gathered and eaten regularly.
Donning rubber Wellington boots and carrying a large bucket, Bobby Freeman and I struck out for Llangranog beach, where we found it, gathered like tousled mermaid's hair, on the rocks that were exposed when tide had fallen.
Laver needs washing in several changes of water. It is then steeped or boiled for upwards of six hours or cooked more quickly in a pressure cooker. Finally, it is shredded to a fine pulp.
The favorite Welsh way to use the seaweed is in laver bread, a flat cake with oatmeal in it which is fried in bacon fat and served with bacon.
It is also made in a sauce and served hot with a roast. Bobby Freeman likes to mix it with orange juice and rind to make a sauce that she serves with sweet, tender Welsh spring lamb.
Though her maternal grandmother came from North Wales, Bobby was born in Lancashire, in the north of England, and her holidays were always spent in Anglesey.
She came to live permanently in Wales some 20 years ago, to develop and run the Compton House Hotel in the small fishing town of Fishguard, in Pembrokeshire.
The hotel's restaurant, ''Y Gegin'' (''the Kitchen'' in Welsh), soon gained a reputation for the quality of its food. It seemed natural to Bobby not only to use fresh local produce, but also to experiment with serving local recipes.
This, however, was no easy task. There were few Welsh cookbooks available in English - or even in Welsh. Cooking traditions had been passed down through generations from mother to daughter.
Moreover, the Welsh themselves could not understand that anyone would want to cook and serve something as ''ordinary'' and common as cawl in a hotel restaurant.
But in time, she was able to gather recipes by talking with farmers' wives, or by meeting the coracle fishermen who, in their strange, circular cloth-covered crafts, fish rivers such as the Teifi and Tywi for salmon and the pink-fleshed sewin or sea trout.
In the comfort of Welsh farmhouse kitchens, with their scrubbed flagstone floors, she listened and took notes, and, above all, came to know and love the people.
The dishes were served at her restaurant and her efforts were rewarded by two stars in Egon Ronay's guidebook to restaurants, as well as inclusion in the equally prestigious Good Food Guide.
After selling the hotel, she wrote a cookbook, ''First Catch Your Peacock: A Book of Welsh Food.''
Now, in Ty'r Cwm, the House in the Valley, she has begun the Welsh Cookery Center, offering courses called ''Tastes Remembered'' to small groups of people who learn about Welsh food, and about the character and culture of the country.
Cooking demonstrations are complemented by visits to water-powered mills, stone-grinding flour, and smokehouses where mutton hams and the rare pink-fleshed sewin and salmon are smoked, to farmhouse cheese and butter producers, goat and honey farms, the beach to gather laver, and elsewhere.
Accommodation is in top-class hotels or local farmhouses, and the courses can last for one, two, or three weeks.
Further information is available from Ellen Bailey, World Travel, 2322 Westwood Boulevard, Los Angeles, Calif. 90064, or from the Welsh Cookery Center, Ty'r Cwm, Llangoedmor, Cardigan, Dyfed, Wales SA43 2LE.
Here are some recipes to tempt you with the taste of Wales. There are few houses in Wales that do not have an ever-present tinful of these small, cookie-size griddle cakes on hand to pass at teatime to guests and family: Welsh Cakes 4 cups sifted all-purpose flour 1 teaspoon baking powder Pinch of allspice Pinch of salt 1 stick of butter 1/2 cup vegetable shortening 1 cup sugar 3/4 cup seedless raisins 2 eggs Milk to mix A little sugar to sprinkle
Mix flour, baking powder, allspice, and salt together, and cut in butter and shortening. Add sugar and raisins.
Bind with beaten eggs and a little milk to make a fairly stiff dough. Roll out, and form into rounds, using a circular cookie-cutter with serrated edge, or a glass.
Cook on a well-greased bakestone (griddle), or in a heavy iron frying pan for about 3 minutes a side.
Cakes should be golden, cooked through to the middle, not dried out. Sprinkle with sugar, and serve hot or cold.
The famous ''speckled bread'' of Wales was originally a variation of the weekly bread loaf, sweetened with sugar, and with raisins and currants pressed into the dough.
Although some recipes now use baking powder as the rising agent, the best Bara Brith is made with yeast.
Bara Brith
1 teaspoon dried yeast
1/2 cup brown sugar
2/3 cup warm milk
1 pound wheatmeal flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
Generous pinch of allspice
2 sticks of butter
1 1/2 cups seedless raisins, soaked in warm water to plump
1/2 cup chopped candied orange peel
Dissolve yeast and sugar with about half the warm milk, and leave to stand in a warm place for 15 minutes.
Mix all the dry ingredients except the fruit, and rub in the butter until well mixed.
Make a hole in the middle of the flour mixture and add yeast mixture and remaining warm milk, and mix well.
Cover with a clean, damp cloth, and set to rise in a warm place until doubled in bulk, about 1 1/2 hours.
Punch down the bread and knead it a few times, then work in the drained, plumped fruit and peel. Turn it into a warmed and buttered 8-inch loaf tin.
Cover, set in a warm place, and leave to rise again for 1 to 2 hours.
Bake in a hot oven at 400 degrees F. for 15 minutes, then reduce heat to 375 degrees F. and bake for 45 minutes to 1 hour more. Cover loaf with foil, if necessary, to keep from burning.
Cool a few minutes before turning out. Slice and serve buttered, arranged on a plate.


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Team owner will miss Iowa IndyCar race as he deals with leg pain
A.J. Foyt will miss Sunday's Iowa Corn Indy 250 at Iowa Speedway, and it's bothering him almost as much as his painful left leg.
His team, AJ Foyt Racing, is having its best season in years, but the team's owner has to watch the race on television while waiting for doctors to decide whether he needs a hip replacement or back surgery.
"I can barely walk, so I've got to get that fixed," Foyt, 78, said Wednesday by phone while driving to a doctor's appointment. "I'm in too much pain to get to the races right now. I hate it, but hell, I'm getting old."
APRIL: Foyt has back surgery
MAY: Foyt attends Indianapolis 500
JUNE: Foyt skips Milwaukee Mile
Meanwhile, under the direction of son Larry Foyt, the team has been clicking with former Formula One driver Takuma Sato behind the wheel of the No. 14 ABC Supply Honda.
"I told Larry, 'Don't do as I did, do as I say,' " said A.J. Foyt, who relinquished some of the day-to-day operations of his team when he appointed Larry as team manager in 2006. "He's done a great job with the team."
Sato won at Long Beach in April, but Foyt couldn't attend because he was preparing for back surgery later that week. He recovered in time to attend the Indianapolis 500.
Foyt had been struggling to walk due to sciatic nerve pain in the lumbar region of his spine. Doctors believe the pain originated with injuries suffered in a 1965 stock car crash in Riverside, Calif.
That crash, which included an end-over-end flip, was one of the worst of Foyt's career. He was initially pronounced dead at the scene.
The four-time Indy 500 champ tweaked his back this winter when he fell at his ranch in southwestern Texas.
Foyt also skipped the race at Milwaukee Mile last week, where Sato led 109 laps. He is the defending pole winner at Iowa, and comes into Sunday's race as a favorite.
With or without its leader, the team is vastly improved and challenging for a championship, something it hasn't won since Kenny Brack did it in 1998.
"It's still a work in progress," Larry Foyt said. "When the little things finally came together, we started to see results. We have a group of guys who want to win races and do well. That's the thing. When you have guys who want to do well and pay attention to details, you start to see progress. It's fun to be a part of this race team right now."
This weekend, though, they'll be doing it without the guy whose name is on the transporter.
"He's about as tough as they come," Larry said. "When he's not coming to races, you know something is wrong."
Follow Olson on Twitter @jeffolson77
Contributing: Curt Cavin at The Indianapolis Star; Associated Press


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If you want to shed some pound of your body then you should follow the simple steps given in this article. It will help you in burning fat and calories and you will soon come to see the magic of weight loss within few months.
Follow Top 10 easy tips for natural weight loss:
1. Exercise Daily: Do daily exercise for about an hours it will burn your extra body fat and calories. It will keep you fit and keep you away from any type of diseases.
2. Eat Healthy Diet: Avoid fast and junk food as they are rich in fat and will helps you to gain weight so avoid it if you want to loose weight.
3. Eat Vegetables and Fruits: It is the natural way to loose weight from your body. As fruits and vegetables are rich in fiber and water and helps to fill you within just a few calories.
4. Avoid Sugar: Sugar is rich in calorie which produces fatty substances and will keep you unfit and cause many health problems. So avoid eating sugar as much as you can to loose weight.
5. Use Green Tea: Herbal tea like green tea is rich in antioxidants which help in burning fat from the body.
6. Avoid Snacks: Fruits, plain popcorn and granola bars are low calorie snacks which helps you to burn fat from the body.
7. Drinks lot of Water: Drink water at every instance as it will raise the rate to which body utilizes calories which will help to burn fat and calories per hour.
8. Eat Whole Grains: Eat oatmeals, wheat bread, cookies and roti as it will take a lengthy way to digest.
9. Lift Weight: Lifting weight will help you to burn fat at fast speed by burning extra fat.
10. Include Spices in Meal: Spices like turmeric, onion, garlic, chillies, cardamom helps in burning fat at rapid speed.
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The messy saga reached its conclusion with the Argentinian defender joining Real Madrid on a four-year contract.
Liverpool manager Benitez could not hide his hurt at seeing the player finally slip out of his grasp, saying: "I am really disappointed with the situation because we had 100% confidence he would be arriving at Liverpool. But after the hearing it was impossible for him to remain here. He was so disappointed he knew he would have to go to another country."
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When a caseworker becomes your friend
Photo: Chelsea Hill, left, with her daughters
By Chelsea Hill, Larimer County Foster Parent
Looking back, I'm not sure exactly why I became a foster parent. I always wanted a large family. My husband and I have four children of our own, but in my heart I always wanted to care for children who needed a good home. Foster care was the best way to do this.
Now, having fostered for over nine years in two different states, even though I can't recall exactly why I became a foster parent, I do know one of the main reasons that I am still a foster parent today. That reason is Niki Jones. Niki is currently a supervisor in Larimer County, but we met over seven years ago when two of the teens I was fostering were on her caseload.
Niki and I bonded through our shared love and concern for the teens in my home. Both of the teens in my home at the time were going through the process of losing their own babies. Supporting these parents, still children themselves, through this difficult time built the foundation of my partnership with Niki. Without knowing it, Niki was teaching me how to be a foster parent. She showed me how to love my foster kids.
Since those two teens, only a few other children in my home have been on Niki's caseload, but she has supported me with many of the more than 20 children who have been long-term placements in my home. She has been there to support me every step of the way. I have called her late at night, on weekends and even during her maternity leave when there were urgent situations and I couldn't get the help I needed somewhere else. She continues to advocate for me and the children in my home and attends meetings with me when needed. She shares my joys and my sorrows.
I have had my share of challenging and tearful days as a foster parent. I am with the kids 24/7 and sometimes it can feel like no one is listening to me when it comes to what is best for the children in my home. There have been a handful of situations where I have felt completely broken by a decision the department has made about my home or the children in my home, and unsure if I would be able to continue to foster children. That's why I appreciate Niki's support so much. She lets me vent, but also tries to explain the department's actions and walk me through the court process. I know that she will always give me her honest opinion, even when I'm wrong, and she will always help any way she can.
Over the years, our partnership has become a friendship. The biggest impact of our friendship can be seen in the children I foster. They have more stability, because with Niki's support we are able to postpone or avoid displacing children from our home. I am also a better parent to those children with Niki there to guide me, and support me through the process.
Even though she is always showing appreciation for me as a foster mom, I know that I don't thank Niki enough for everything she has done for me. She is my mentor, my therapist, my friend. I wouldn't be a foster parent today without her.
Chelsea is ceritfied by Larimer County. Learn more about their foster care program.


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The British files are all in the left side bar.
Thomas Garner Keys
This site updated again in Jan. 2014
If you wish, skip the introduction and just jump ahead anyplace.
Thomas Garner Keys, Connecticut Hayden Descendant
All of this web site is the DNA proven Connecticut Hayden genealogy line and EVERYTHING in it is historically significant to all of you Haydens and the Keys branch who started out from up there and from England. To all of our Hayden Massachusetts friends, no DNA connection has as yet ever been established between the Connecticut and Massachusetts Haydens. Therefore only the British History portions in the sidebar may be of interest to you as well as these pictures enclosed below of the ship's model Mary and John. The Maryland and Kentucky Haydens are also in the sidebar. Please enjoy your visit.
It has taken countless years of hard research along with much enjoyment and some frustration to finally get this massive collection of data assembled and into print. I almost used the word "completed" but that will never be the case and for that reason, I have placed this family history and genealogy in a Word Document format to make it easier for all of you to add your own family pages in future years.
I had heard rumors during my young, tender years in the 1940's back in Ohio, that our family name was not really Keys at all but that it had been changed during some war "way back when." The story, Mother finally told me when I was old enough, was that we had a paternal Hayden Grandfather somewhere who had refused to fight for our country and was disowned and kicked out of the family and so took on a different, borrowed name. That was the end of her story, period. This story begged to be investigated further by me in years to come. In the letter, which follows, you will discover, in fact, that the son, Oliver Hayden, my great-great-grandfather, had refused to fight for the British in our War of 1812 and his Royalist father, David Hayden (Jr.), disowned him and kicked Oliver out of our family. DNA tests results performed in 2006 confirm 100% proof of our Connecticut Hayden/Haydon bloodline. Our Connecticut Hayden branch is not in any DNA way connected to the Massachusetts Hayden line. That John Haydon, who arrived in Boston it is said, in 1630, being made a Freeman May 14, 1634. The Massachusetts Bay Company's Record also spells his name Haydon. The DNA markers page for the Connecticut, Massachusetts and Maryland Hayden Families are the last item at the end of this page.
You will also discover how and why we "borrowed" the name of "Keys". That "borrowed" last name of Keys still remains with all of us today. It's a good name and I'm proud of it as my father gave it to me and to all of us children and his father, William Henry Keys, before him and his father, George Washington Keys, before him and his father Oliver (Hayden) Keys before him! My Dad said that he felt like an illegitimate child using someone else's name yet he never searched out the details and was adamant in not discussing it nor allowing it to ever come into any conversation. This lack of digging into the history was absolutely amazing to me, as it was already in published history around the country and all Dad had to do was to open our own family genealogy/history book in our bookcase and READ IT! Our father was just not an extensive reader; no fault of his, as he was very busy trying to raise 5 children in the Great Depression and there were more important concerns. Our own father, having fought in the 1st World War in France, still made it a point of family honor that all of us sons would also do our duty and serve our country in whatever conflict. We did do this and I had 2 brothers in the 2nd World War and another brother and I served during the Korean War.
Stuck way in the back of our family bookcase in Ohio was our entire family genealogy that had been given to my Dad (Claude Wennelworth Keys) by his brother (my uncle) Haven Hubbell Keys that covered the years from 1630 to 1936 approx. Our records that had been given to Uncle Haven from cousin Jabez Haskell Hayden covered the Jabez researched years from ca. 1100 AD. in England to ca. 1888 in America. Jabez published in 1888 and he also included portions of our own Keys family name up to that date. Our change of name occurred way before that back in 1812. Uncle Haven Hubbell Keys completed further data of our family and inserted extensive letters and research and published his book in 1936. When Uncle Haven died, there was also an update in the mid -1940's that had been completed by Uncle Haven's daughters which mainly only consisted of the addition of some more children and the index of names and page number locations for each and every person was added. Our Keys family publishing company in California, Artcraft Press, only printed approximately 100 of these books just for family members and certain libraries in America and this became an extremely rare book entitled the Keys-Davis genealogy which also covered Haven's wife's Davis family as well as our Hayden and Keys side. There is also 1 outside copy in the CJC Latter Day Saints Family History Library in Salt Lake City. All of that data has been picked clean and you are about to read it here.
Dad used to refer to his older brother's writings rather unkindly and never ever read them. Sibling rivalry? Had he read them, he would have discovered to his joy that the verbal story that had been whispered along and "screwed up" from other people for now 194 years since that War of 1812 was simply a story of an escape and not a story of desertion.
I know that our Dad, being a real 1st World War Veteran hero , would have run into City Hall and had our name changed back to Hayden! As you read into the genealogy you will find a copy of the letter as to why our name was really changed from Hayden to Keys during the war of 1812.
The only time I could read all of that history during my high school years was when Dad was not in the house ever or he probably would have burned the genealogy without bothering to read and discover. Mom kept it hidden but even she had probably never read it front to back. Mom had been a school teacher and prized books highly so she still kept it, but hidden, behind all the other books away from Dad. I was a book worm and so I discovered it.
It's now many years later and I am now 78 in June 2010, so here it is.
I became "addicted" to this Hayden genealogy research when I discovered in our Dallas, Texas newspaper in 1990 an article concerning a genealogy researcher who was working on a whole mess of "stuff" and there was mentioned a genealogy book called "Keys family who are not Keys." That 1st phone call to him has since led me to a lot of new friends and, " I never knew they existed" cousins and partial cousins from Ohio, California, Washington, Kentucky, Colorado, Georgia, Canada, Australia, Delaware, Arkansas, Chicago and back to England. Thank goodness today for Internet e-mail, as the phone calls then were very expensive. One of my contacts was to the Keys family genealogists group in Massachusetts. They verified what I had already been told in years past and had also read before at home (-about the Hayden to Keys name change and that there really wasn't a drop of actual Keys blood in our veins and that we were all "Connecticut Yankee Haydens.") They furnished me with the name of a Keys (Hayden) cousin in Colorado, and also a Hayden researcher in Houston. So the researcher list just grew and grew!
Many thanks to all of the following:
Primary is: Mrs. Annette Haden Longino, Houston- She has sent me volumes of her research and photos from her trips to England.
Cousin Nancy Keys Fillinger,- Our 2 Keys grandfathers were brothers. There would be some mighty vacancies throughout this genealogy if it weren't for her persistence and thoroughness in research.
Karla Olmstead, A chance meeting on a Hayden search web site: Fred Olmstead, another ½ cousin, is a Hayden on his mother's side descended from Oliver Hayden's family with 1st wife Abigail Cleveland. Karla has provided me with all the genealogy help on that first family of Oliver with Abigail Cleveland.
Fred's ancestral Olmstead family on his father's side (which includes Frederick Law Olmstead) came here on the ship "Lyon" in 1632. I wonder what the odds were of our family of Haydon emigrants from 1630 meeting the other family of Olmstead emigrants from 1632, over 300 years later. They married in 1933 and produced Fred living out in California today. Thank you Karla for all of your kind help. This Olmstead family is also listed in the book "Dorset Pilgrims" along with William Hayden.
John Nicholas Keys. We are 3rd cousins, 1 generation removed. Nick's branch is from our mutual great-great-grandfather, Oliver (Hayden) Keys and his 3rd wife Mary Davidson while my branch is from Oliver and the 2nd wife who died, a Pennsylvania Deutsch/German lady, Eliza Funk. Nick has filled in all the gaps for me in his family branch and has graciously provided me with his own Keys family genealogy. He spent over $400.00 on DNA tests in 2006 to also confirm our Hayden parentage.
Carol Wordingham, England who "lives down the road" from the Heydon, Norfolk Line, Baconsthorpe castle ruins. Her father-in-law was the head gamekeeper at Baconsthorpe. She is a super researcher who has ready access to a lot of wonderful, old books that record the entire vicinity and the Heydons and has kindly furnished valuable historical data.
Kimberly Caskey Hankins. A maternal Keys cousin who provided vital historical data on Lawrence County, Ohio and first class pictures. The wife and I had a super visit with all the relatives and Kim and Darren are 1st rate cooks !
Gayle Hayden Cloud. PhD of ancient Latin and ancient French. She has finished deciphering the old Latin inscriptions from family documents and our old family tombs in England of 600 years ago. She declares that those people couldn't even spell Latin properly back then.
Tom Stevenson - of the Haydon/Drury Line who upon his return from England, set up a beautiful new Hayden/Haydon web site at: http://www.genealogysource.com/hayden.htm Thanks for letting me share your pictures in my genealogy.
Mr. O. William-Powlett in England: He is the present owner of Cadhay Manor in Devon, England. Very distant Haydon relatives used to own it for over two hundred years. He sent me a nice personal letter, e-mails, a booklet and new pictures of his beautiful Cadhay home. Many thanks! The front of Cadhay Manor has appeared on many TV shows here in America. He also alerted me to the now proven fact that BOTH of our New England William and John Hayden/Haydon are absolutely not from the Gideon Haydon (Sr.) Family at Cadhay Manor which no one earlier here in America wanted to believe including me. Since I have subsequently received the records in 2002, of Ottery St. Mary Church and Devon County with the correct family records from that entire time period, it became obvious that everyone's genealogy records needed revising.
There are more friends and family researchers involved who all contributed to this mighty effort and all the Haydens and Hayden-Keys thank you: Edward Hayden, James H. Holcombe, The Windsor Historical Society, and Robert G. Hayden in Queensland, Australia who contributed immensely with meticulous British research records. He died in his sleep soon after he had sent his last file to me in October 2001. He was a good man, still quite young.
I realize that this is a huge family history for you to read and enjoy. It has taken over 1000 years to create, so, just chew on it one bite at a time. This is a history of our own massive, terrible, English "Wars of Religion" and killings, even among close relatives, and our long ago grandparents fighting to keep their jobs and food on the table; get the sons who did not inherit anything an education and hopefully a good job, get the daughters married off to a titled family name, keep the King from seizing your property for any number of stupid reasons, get more property, bury countless spouses and babies from terrible diseases, try to pay the King higher taxes, then collect higher taxes from your own villagers whom you controlled, panic if the Roman Catholics or the Protestants were coming to power again next week or next month and you were going to have to change religions again or lose your estates or your very lives, either hide the religious vestments and the icons or bring them back out of hiding again and which prayers to pray at what specific time of day and what events by law, under each differing ruling Monarch. Then a Heydon neighbor and his wife were burned alive at the stake for not converting again to one religion or the other. I read it! "Well, to heck with it! Enough is enough! I just think I'll leave it all and go to America with just the clothes on my back!" And, so we really did, even as indentured servants! And so, here we are, all of us, for one reason or another. May God bless us and protect us every one.
"You will hear of wars and rumors of wars, but see to it that you are not alarmed."
Matthew 24: 4-14
"God never promised us a pleasant voyage through life, just a safe harbor."
William and John Hayden arrived on the Mary and John in 1630.
This is a commissioned ship's model of the Mary and John.
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In case you may not have a magnifying glass, I have taken the picture above and enlarged it as much as possible without making it blur, rotated and split it to fill the frames below.
"Yesterday is only a dream, tomorrow is only a vision but everyday well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope. This is a salutation of the dawn"
(Mother) Mary Elizabeth Brewer Keys. 1898-1980.
"Remember the days of old; consider the generations long past."
"The principles you live by will create your own world in which you live."
He who careth not from whence he came, careth little whither he goeth". Daniel Webster
There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his." ~Helen Keller
To forget one's ancestors is to be a brook without a source; a tree without a root.
"The history of this country is really the history of countless average families, and we are, all of us, part of it" ~Jeane Eddy Westin
"Some men are born great, some inspire others to greatness, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them." William Shakespeare
Great families in England bear date from William the Conqueror; the rest from Adam and Eve. Anon.
"What we learn about our ancestors, we learn about ourselves. We also learn about history in a most immediate way, as we could not otherwise learn it.... History and genealogy are inseparable." ~Eugene A. Stratton
"We live in an age that has little respect for the past and shows no inclination to profit by the experience of those who have lived successfully and died in peace." ~Gilbert H. Doane
Genealogy: An account of one's descent from a man who did not particularly care to trace his own. Ambrose Bierce
"Genealogy is indeed the handmaid of history when it leads us into a greater appreciation of what the generations of the earth have accomplished before us. Add to that the thrill of the chase, the satisfaction of solving puzzles, the delight in making new discoveries, and, not least significant, the association with many fine people—for genealogy seems to attract people who are far more than just ordinarily interesting—and, yes, it is worth the candle. With but a little effort, one will get out of genealogy much more than one puts into it." ~Eugene A. Stratton
"The mind that has only prejudices to rest on will always be unstable, and that current will run with destructive fury when there are no barriers to break its force."
-Mary Wollstonecraft, English author (1759-1797)
The commitment of our fathers is now, once again, our calling.
This means that it is highly unlikely that John and Francis shared a common Hayden male ancestor and it is not likely that William and Francis did either. It appears that the line of
Francis is separate from either John or William. Even though John and William were not brothers or even close cousins, we cannot rule out that they share a common Hayden male ancestor sometime since Thomas de Heydon although the probability is low at only 16%. Note that none of these results tell us if any of the lines descend from Thomas de Heydon.


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An elevated urine microalbumin level can be a sign of kidney damage, explains Mayo Clinic. Normal values are less than 30 milligrams, and results between 30 and 300 milligrams can indicate early kidney disease. Values greater than 300 milligrams suggest the presence of advanced kidney disease.
A microalbumin test measures the quantity of albumin present in the urine, according to the National Kidney Foundation. Normal kidneys retain this protein and when damaged they spill it into the urine, causing albuminuria.
The most common cause of albuminuria is kidney damage from diabetes, explains WebMD. Other causes include hypertension, congestive heart failure, metabolic syndrome, nephrotic syndrome and smoking. Urinary tract infections and upright standing are other potential causes, according to the National Kidney Foundation. Kidney disease is one of the most serious complications of diabetes, and the presence of albumin in the urine of a diabetic patient is associated with a rapid progression of chronic kidney disease and kidney failure.
The development of kidney disease can be prevented with tight glucose control, smoking cessation, blood-pressure management and adherence to a diabetic diet, explains the National Kidney Foundation. Once albumin is found in the urine, patients are managed with angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors or angiotensin receptor blockers, which prevent the progression of kidney disease.


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Who's ready to enjoy some boating in the great outdoors, John Candy and Dan Aykroyd style? Experience Bass Lake with your fellow SCOPE members this August 4th – 7th, 2016. We'll be staying at The Pines Resort. Join us for a double-ski-only waterski race, BBQ and good times. In the meantime, enjoy the video clips below from the greatest movie ever shot at Bass Lake!
Date: Friday, August 4th – Sunday August 7th, 2016
The Pines Resort
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Bass Lake, CA 93604
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Mrs. Mathilde C. Eharth, 63, of 3250 Lewis Ave., Bethlehem Township, died Thursday in St. Luke's Hospital. She was the wife of Frank J. Eharth.
Born in Allentown, she was a daughter of the late Edward and Estella (Shaneberger) Seng.
Surviving with her husband are two daughters, Sherrye, wife of Michael Sefcik Jr. of Whitehall Township, and Patricia, wife of Robert Bolton of Breinigsville; a brother Carson of Lakeland, Fla.; two sisters, Mrs. Thelma Pietrobon of Palm Harbor, Fla., and Mrs. Theda Ward of Minneapolis, Minn.; three stepsons, Dr. Vincent A. Stravino and Gary Eharth, both of Bethlehem, and Joseph Eharth of Easton,and nine grandchildren.
Services will be at 10:30 a.m. Monday in the Lester S. Pearson Funeral Home, 1901 Linden St., Bethlehem. There will be no calling hours.


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NASA astronaut Sunita Williams made a unique ship-to-ship phone call from the International Space Station (ISS) Thursday to check in with six aquanauts living at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean.
Williams, an ISS Expedition 15 flight engineer, called a NASA crew of divers, doctors and astronauts working aboard the Aquarius undersea laboratory, where a series of robotic surgery tests and spacesuit mobility experiments are underway.
?You guys are in one of the prettiest parts of the world,? Williams told the Aquarius crew from her perch 220 miles (354 kilometers) above Earth.
Commanded by veteran shuttle astronaut Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper, the Aquarius crew is completing two weeks of underwater living under NASA?s Extreme Environment Mission Operations 12 (NEEMO 12) expedition. Aquarius sits more than 62 feet (18 meters) underwater off the coast of Key Largo, Florida.
?We are doing great,? Stefanyshyn-Piper told Williams, adding that her crew will return to the Earth?s surface early Friday.
NASA astronaut Jose Hernandez, flight surgeon Josef Schmid and Tim Broderick, a gastrointestinal surgeon from the University of Cincinnati, are serving aboard Aquarius with Stefanyshyn-Piper. Professional divers James Talacek and Dominic Landucci, of the University of North Carolina at Wilmington that operates Aquarius for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, complete the NEEMO 12 crew.
The aquanauts took a familiar face to the ocean floor with them in the shape of the flat image of a Jack Russell terrier named Gorby, the beloved dog of Williams.
?That?s awesome, thank you so much for taking Gorby with you,? Williams told the Aquarius crew. ?It?s really cool to see him.?
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[doortag]Dorms, residence halls, university housing. No matter what you call the housing options on campus, they suddenly become uncool and unpopular after you are here for a couple years.
"I always feel like I need to clarify why I'm living in the dorms. Otherwise I feel like I kind of get looked at weird." said Nia Orvis, an advertising senior who, as a second-year resident mentor, still lives in the residence halls.
Of course, there are advantages to living off campus. Geology senior Tim Matthews said that living off campus is liberating. "There's something about having a place to yourself where you can look around and say, 'OK, this is my place,' and not feel like it's just a piece of property lent to you by this giant university," he said.[goldblatt1]
But for some, the convenience of "living on" outweighs the negatives. "It's a lot closer to classes, so you don't have to worry about travel time," said Gary Koskinen, a senior who, after living in an apartment for his junior year, moved back on campus to work as a resident mentor. "When I lived in an apartment it was a half-hour bus ride to every class."
"I think there are advantages even for them [seniors], at that stage in their college career," said Paul Goldblatt, Director of Residence Life. "Seniors tend to live in certain places. Shaw is a very popular place, and then there's the northern part of campus. Shaw is clear because it's so centrally located. I think students really like that it's right there in the middle of everything. And then north campus is in terms of location and the attractiveness of it – the buildings are beautiful."
There are even academic advantages to dorm life. "The seniors who live on campus have higher GPAs than those that live off campus. You have access to support and resources," Goldblatt said. [deskgirl]
However, there are some things like cooking and paying rent that students should leave college knowing, but that are not necessarily recreated on campus. "Before I got the mentor job I considered getting an apartment. I really feel like it's a good learning experience. You get to have experience with having to pay rent and having to buy groceries. It isn't always the most fun but a necessary thing you have to learn to do before you get to the world," Orvis said.
"I think there are plenty of opportunities on campus to learn how to cook – there are apartments that come with kitchenettes or kitchens down the hall," Matthews said. "But there's a lot to be said for learning things financially – paying rent, not going through the university with all of your money. It's a lot more learning fiscal responsibility." [dorm3]
Matthews is right – there are a couple of ways to cook on campus. Holden added floor kitchens, and Williams Hall is popular for having residents cook their own food. Students living in Williams can even choose not to have meal plans with the university, so they do have to do things like buy groceries and cook. "I think one of the reasons [upperclassmen] live over there is they have the option of making their own food," Orvis said.
But what makes dorms morph from hip, parent-free places to apparently lame dwellings toward the end of one's education? For Matthews, a lot of it was the resident mentors. Now that he lives off-campus, "It's like you're off the little playground, and nobody's going to blow their whistle at you if you're going the wrong way up the slide." In other words, you're free to make your own mistakes, an arguably essential part of growing up.
Goldblatt is quick to point out that MSU's resident mentors are actually tolerated more than RAs nationwide. "You know, it's interesting. For students who lived off campus and cited rules and regulations as the reason they moved off campus, we are much lower than the national average," he said.
In Orvis's opinion, the problem lies more in the psychology involved in what people perceive as signs of maturation. "People know that as a freshman you have to live on campus, so they want everybody to know 'I've been here for a while, I can live in an apartment.' And having an apartment makes you seem older, more mature," Orvis said. And Orvis made the point that requiring freshman to live on campus might not be as necessary as the university seems to think. "I think even if you weren't required to live in the dorms, people would probably do it anyway. Because living in the dorms is that classic college experience that people want, at least for one year. I think people would still go through that," Orvis said. [goldblatt2]
But from a business standpoint, it is advantageous to Housing and Food Services (HFS) to have both freshmen and upperclassmen "living on." "The residence hall system is run completely on room and board rates. It gets no money from the state, no money from the university. So the more people who live off campus, the more loss of revenue," Goldblatt said. And obviously, they can't fill up every residence hall with just the freshmen required to live there.
Because of this, HFS does try to attract older students. Owen Hall is not just for graduates. It is for students 21 and over, and residents are free to host alcoholic events in the dorm. In addition, there is always the option of a university-owned apartment. These apartments still have support staff and programming but not a person in charge of keeping you in line. "I think my hope is in the future that we will have more apartments. If we can create the off-campus experience on campus, that's the best of both worlds. And you're dealing with cooking, all the issues that come with living in an apartment, but you're on campus," Goldblatt said. [dorm4]
Obviously, the first concern is what works for the individual. Some people are dying to get off campus, but there are seniors (and even graduate students) who live in a dorm and love it. But the general stigma surrounding whether or not a senior lives on campus is something that should disappear. Just because a senior lives on campus now may not mean they have lived there all four years, and it's rarely the case that a senior just cannot find anybody to live with. In most cases the seniors that "live on" are consciously making the decision that they see as best. Immature? Think again.
[doortag]Dorms, residence halls, university housing. No matter what you call the housing options on campus, they suddenly become uncool and unpopular after you are here for a couple years.


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OBITUARY: Local Attorney Michael Ditchik passes away; Memorial Sunday
Michael Ditchik was born in Freeport, NY on March 31, 1962. He died on November 24, 2015. Mike attended the Wharton School at Penn, received his BA from SUNY Binghamton and his JD from Boston University.... [Read more]
Longtime resident Margie Gibb has passed away
Longtime resident Margie Gibb passed away suddenly last Friday night, Aug. 28. "Margie was one of the founding board members of Discover Burien, a regular volunteer at our Farmers Market, and we... [Read more]
Longtime community advocate Irish McKinney killed in motorcycle accident
Longtime community advocate Irish McKinney was killed in a tragic motorcycle accident in California on Monday, Aug. 17. Irish was well-known to the White Center/Burien-area as an avid Harley rider, accountant... [Read more]
True-crime Writer Ann Rule has passed away
Former Burien/Normandy Park-based true-crime writer Ann Rule died at age 83 at Highline Medical Center on Sunday evening (July 26), The Associated Press reported Monday. Her most famous book was a profile... [Read more]
Linda Dougherty, long active in Burien Arts Association, passes away
The Burien Arts Association is sad to report the death of long-time Burien Arts board member Linda Dougherty on July 7. "Linda was an active member of Burien Arts since its early days, served more than... [Read more]
Burien resident Joe Arrants killed in construction accident; family needs help
On Thursday (March 12), Burien resident Joe Arrants – a Senior Foreman for Kiewit on the new 520 bridge build – tragically fell 60 feet to his death. Joe was 34-years old, and leaves behind a wife... [Read more]
Prolific Des Moines resident Nancy Warren passes away suddenly
From our sister site The Waterland Blog: Photo of a thoughtful Nancy Warren moderating one of our Candidate Forums by Micael Brunkf Nancy Warren, a teacher at Highline College, Des Moines resident, musician... [Read more]
OBITUARY: Shirley Kathleen Kirk, of Kirk's Feed Store in Olde Burien
Shirley Kathleen Kirk, born November 11th, 1919 to Albert and Eva Taylor, passed away peacefully at home on October 27th, 2014. Shirley was preceded in death by her husband Sylvan F. Kirk. She is survived... [Read more]
OBITUARY: Longtime business owner & resident Donald William Jensen, 90
Longtime Burien business owner and resident, Donald William Jensen, 90, passed away at home on September 11, 2014 with his family by his side. Don was born in Cabo, Montana to Godthard and Myrtle Jensen... [Read more]
Family, friends remember Carol Selander through Burien Arts donations
Programs that offer free art workshops for students will be greatly enhanced by generous donations from friends and family to the Burien Arts Association in honor of Carol Selander, a Burien cultural,... [Read more]
OBITUARY: Lewis Kenneth Morse, 91
Lewis Kenneth Morse, 91, passed away peacefully on May 23, 2014 at Highline Medical Center. Ken was born on November 24, 1922 in Chillicothe, Ohio and moved to Burien, WA in 1962 where he and his wife,... [Read more]
Local Celebration of Life for Walt Gary is scheduled for August 2
Walt Gary and wife Lesley Edwards at their 2009 wedding. A local memorial service will be held on Aug. 2 for Walt Gary, who grew up in Burien, but spent his professional career in the Midwest and on the... [Read more]
Longtime Burien resident Carol Selander has passed away
From an email received Thursday, June 26 from Steve Browning: As her next door neighbor, I wanted to let your readers know that longtime Burien resident, Carol Selander, passed away quietly earlier today... [Read more]
Vigil held for Burien resident Benjamin Dressler, 15, killed in plane crash
Burien resident Benjamin Dressler, 15, and his 69-year-old grandfather Richard Munger died Sunday in a plane crash off the Oregon coast. Ben was a student at Aviation High in Tukwila, where he was just... [Read more]
Jerry Robinson, Publisher of the Highline Times, has passed away
According to a post on the West Seattle Herald website, Highline Times Publisher Jerry Robinson passed away on Monday, May 26. Robinson, who was born in 1920, was 94…
Memorial Mass for Sister Rose Marie Dillman will be at JFK on Wed., May 21
A Memorial Mass for Sister Rose Marie Dillman will be held at the Kennedy Catholic High School Chapel starting at 5 p.m. on Wednesday, May 21. Sr. Rose Marie Dillman – who spent nearly three decades... [Read more]
'Celebration of Life' for 18-year old Joey Minar will be held this Friday
A "Celebration of Life" for Joseph "Joey" Daniel Minar (pictured above, right) – who passed away suddenly March 29 at the age of 18 – will be held this Friday, April 4, starting at... [Read more]
OBITUARY: Maria F. Medina, 91
Surrounded by loved ones, Maria F. Medina, 91, passed away peacefully at her home in Burien, WA on Sunday, March 30, 2014; one day before the 15th anniversary of the death of her husband Filiberto Medina,... [Read more]
OBITUARY: Patricia Elizabeth Perell-Ellis-Hiles; memorial will be Saturday
Patricia Elizabeth Perell-Ellis-HilesMay 31, 1930 – December 17, 2013 Patricia Elizabeth Perell-Ellis-Hiles passed away peacefully while holding hands with her loving daughter Linda Colleen Ellis-Puckett... [Read more]
Memorial Celebration for Milo Locklear will be Sunday at Southgate Masonic Hall
A potluck Memorial Celebration for Milo Locklear will be held this Sunday, Oct. 20 at 2 p.m. at the Southgate Masonic Hall in Burien. Milo, who passed away recently, attended Highline High School and... [Read more]
OBITUARY: Milo Locklear, 31; Candlelight Vigil will be Tuesday night
Some sad news from local musician Sandra Locklear – her son Milo Klym Forman Locklear, 31, has passed away. Milo attended Highline High School and graduated from Mt. Rainier High School in 2000 with... [Read more]
OBITUARY: Jesse Lee (Horn) St George (1926 – 2013)
Jessie Lee Horn was born on April 4, 1926 to Frank and Effie Horn of Moorcroft, Wyoming. When she was very young, the family moved to Yakima, WA, where she grew up on S. 5th Avenue and graduated from... [Read more]
OBITUARY: Duane Quande, owner of Burien City Garage, has passed away
Duane Quande, 70, longtime owner of Burien City Garage, passed away peacefully with his family by his side at his Burien home on Aug. 17, after a courageous battle with TTR amyloidosis. Duane, born May... [Read more]
Memorial Service for Jacques Gordon & Renee Parent set for Friday night
A memorial service for Jacques Gordon, 21, and Renee Parent, 54, is set for this Friday night, July 19 at 7 p.m. at John Knox Presbyterian Church in Normandy Park. The service will be immediately followed... [Read more]


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Veterinarian Susan Clubb sees just about every kind of animal - except cats and dogs. In the waiting room of the Rainforest Clinic she runs on a 10-acre stretch of land in rural Loxahatchee, penguins, monkeys and giant tortoises are normal sights. Tuesdays she's a Jungle Island in Miami working with their exotic animals.
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