http://kenbalsley.com Thu, 02 Sep 2010 17:01:07 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The Olympic Regional Clean Air agency (ORCA)  has denied a permit for the Olympia High School Alumni Association to hold a homecoming bonfire - -  something it's done for decades. According to Alumni President Charlie Kirry, without the permit from ORCA, the City of Olympia won't grant a permit. Each year, at ... http://kenbalsley.com/?p=1194 A game of musical chairs has brought Lacey a new librarian. Mike Wessells, the librarian for Yelm, will take over the reins of the Lacey Library on September 1.  Former Lacey librarian Selenina Gomes-Beloz will take over at the Centralia library.  Wessells had been at Yelm for a year and that ... http://kenbalsley.com/?p=1191 Former Thurston County Treasurer, Robin Hunt, a democrat, has endorsed Tom Nelson, a republican, for Thurston County Treasurer. "It takes a special candidate for a lifelong Democrat to support a Republican," Hunt said.   "Tom Nelson is that person." Hunt said that Nelson can bring a fresh perspective and new leadership during a ... http://kenbalsley.com/?p=1188 Mike Beehler, a four-year member of the Lacey Chamber of Commerce, has been selected to serve as interim director of the Lacey Chamber, while the board searches for a permanent executive director. Before retirement, last year,  Beehler was the director of continuing education for the Hawks Prairie branch of South Puget ... http://kenbalsley.com/?p=1185 About 100 people gathered at the Capitol Theater Thursday evening to celebrate the 90th anniversary of women's sufferage. Entitled "Women's Equality Day" the event featured the film "Iron Jawed Angels" starring Hillary Swank and Angelica Houston.  The movie traced some of the events that transpired on the way to passage of ... http://kenbalsley.com/?p=1182 dog park - While Thurston County continues to construct a dog park at the old Hawks Prairie dump site, the City of Lacey is looking at building its own dog park in the heart of the city.  Brooks Park, a neighborhood park off College Street  near 14th Avenue, is the ... http://kenbalsley.com/?p=1178 Regular users of this page will note that the picture of me is a new one.  Well, actually an old one.  I was 34 years old when the picture was taken. I didn't like the previous picture of me.  While it looked like me at my current age of 68, it ... http://kenbalsley.com/?p=1175 When faced with making a decision on which you have no interest - - always vote with the losers.   The winners will not remember and the losers will not forget. http://kenbalsley.com/?p=1173 Clint Didier's, decision not to endorse Dino Rossi for the  US Senate was good news for Rossi. Didier was the third place finisher in the US Senate race with about 12 percent of the vote.  It was expected that he would throw his support to Rossi, but said he couldn't do ... http://kenbalsley.com/?p=1170 If there was an anti-incumbent mood in the country, it didn't make itself felt in Washington state. All of the incumbent congress members seemed to come out of the Primary election with optimism ahead for the General election. In the First Congressional District Jay Inslee had 57 percent of the vote.  In ... http://kenbalsley.com/?p=1167