City Briefs - November 4, 2011
GIRL SCOUT COAT DRIVE A MAJOR SUCCESSFamilies of students at Washington-Hoyt Elementary School teamed with Girl Scout Troop 41577 for the One Warm Coat Drive, held between Oct. 16 and 22. Milgard Manufacturing and Hasbro have awarded grants to the troop to purchase more coats at Playback Sports in Tacoma. In partnership with Milgard’s Composites Division, a total of 525 coats were collected for families staying at Tacoma Rescue Mission. The girls sorted and delivered the coats on Oct. 22.
HILL COMPETENT TO STAND TRIALPierce County Superior Court Judge Edmund Murphy ruled on Oct. 26 that Robert Jesse Hill is competent to stand trial on a felony charge of intimidating a judge. Murphy made his decision after reviewing reports from Western State Hospital that stated Hill understands his legal situation. Hill is in jail in lieu of $25,000 bail.
Prosecutors claim Hill contacted Tacoma Municipal Court Commissioner Randy Hansen and made threatening comments. A few days prior to that, Hansen had increased Hill’s bail on a pending assault and weapons case from an incident in August in which Hill allegedly pepper-sprayed two people. Hill is running for Tacoma City Council against incumbent Lauren Walker for the District 3 seat.
Anissa Rivera: When grandmother comes to town
Mom just left after a weeklong visit and the kids enjoyed every minute.Who else lets them sip from her iced glass of Coke or lets them stay up watching Disney Channel? It was a week of "Well, when you were little ..." followed by stories of what parenting was like back then.
Mom raised six girls, mind you, and while she had a lot of help, we always laugh at the stuff she and Dad did that today would be frowned upon or even outlawed.
Case in point: jamming six girls into the backseat of Dad's Corolla without benefit of car seats or seat belts. (The trick was the first girl sat back against the seat, the second would sit beside her but almost hanging off the front of the seat, then the third sits way back again, and so on. Hey, we fit.)
This led to my younger sister hanging off the middle of the driver's and passenger's seats, bothering whomever may be driving. One driver memorably told her, "You can mess up my life, just not my hair," when she tried to play backseat hairdresser.
