Two months ago, James Wymer, 55, was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease. ALS is a debilitating disease that attacks nerve cells, eventually paralyzing the body while the mind remains sharp.
It happened sometime between third and fifth grade, so long ago that Ardene Bartness can’t quite remember.
Stephanie Tetloff, a veterinarian assistant at Parkway Animal Hospital in Parkland, founded the nonprofit Kitty Haven in 2001 with friend Cindi Hagerman, who since has moved. With the help of them and others, Kitty Haven has adopted out more than 1,100 kittens.
The conversations most adults have had the last few months have been exhausting, and nothing they might say about Thanksgiving seems promising.
Peter Altmann drove a Pierce Transit bus for 12 years, spent another dozen as a supervisor and thought his life was good. Then, in 2006, Altmann’s 90-year-old mother won a David vs. Goliath case against the country of Austria, ending nearly a decade of legal wrangling to have five Nazi-stolen works of art returned to her family.
Three women determined to bring a community garden to Tillicum never thought of their effort as a miracle. That was left to the children.
They are men in the winter of their lives, bound together by what they did decades ago in service to their country. And while most of them still have a sweet tooth, all carry memories.
Family and friends of Robert Meline will gather to celebrate his life today while attempting not to focus on his death – no easy task for those still stunned by his murder.
After playing “Mary Ann” on the piano, Sidney DeLibero turned on the bench, her legs dangling well off the floor, and picked up a photo book.
The lengths to which some potential jurors go to avoid jury duty was shown when a woman told a Bronx, N.Y., court in 2008 that she could not serve on a murder case.
Jessica Anderson, who earned an emergency medical technician certificate from Bates Technical College last summer, rattled off a laundry list of injuries.
The good fortune began when Suzanne Molt and Kathy Endres, who knew each other through the Tacoma Chamber of Commerce, realized they weren’t just pregnant at the same time but that their due dates were the same.
Cancer walker, doctor, patient. Gordon Klatt has been a practicing oncologist in Tacoma for 35 years, and for the first time he can remember, he took three weeks off this summer and stayed home.
The ‘Fish, as patrons call it, is closing. Whatever opens on the lot at 5310 North Pearl St., it won’t be the tavern with the aquarium behind the bar, the wood-burning fireplace or the same crowd.
A schizophrenic, two bipolar women and a fellow with post-traumatic stress walk into a room. That would be a straight line in David Granirer’s class on comedy, a course in which each of those descriptions fits most of his students.
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