Photo by Rebekah LaSala. Just beyond the easement road past Brett Fish’s property, the Southwest Suburban Sewer District has erected signs to its maintenance and compost facilities. Fish says, except for compost trucks, district employees should be using a separate entrance that is further to the west.

SLIDESHOW: Wrangling over road

May 14, 2013

By Rebekah LaSala
SPECIAL TO THE HIGHLINE TIMES

Brett Fish of Normandy Park is in a battle to fight for his cherished boyhood home, and to stop what he adamantly feels is flagrant misuse of the easement road that runs through his property.
Fish is the son of local born, well-loved journalist and writer, Byron Fish who passed away in 1996. Byron Fish was a former Normandy Park mayor.

It has been Brett’s personal mission to launch into a battle with the Southwest Suburban Sewer District that has become fraught with conflict stemming from the SWSSD’s alleged misuse of the road.

The controversy involves an agreement allowing the sewer district to use Fish’s road to access the district’s compost plant. Fish’s house and the plant sit near each other along Miller Creek, just south of Sylvester Road Southwest.

The easement agreement allows the district to use the road for trucks hauling compost and sludge.

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Highline Forum meeting set in Burien on May 22

On May 22nd from 2:30-4:30 p.m., members of the Highline Forum will meet at Burien’s City Hall Council Chambers, 400 S.W. 152nd St. The public is invited to make comments at the start of the meeting. The city of Burien is hosting the meeting and the theme is education with a larger focus around regional partnerships.

The Highline Forum includes the southwest King County communities of Des Moines, Burien, Normandy Park, SeaTac, Tukwila and Federal Way and the Highline School District, Highline Community College and Port of Seattle.

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Photo by Jerry Gay
SeaTac police officer Rich Rowe gives a crime prevention tip to three residents.

For tips on preventing crime, just ask a burglar

May 14, 2013

There’s no better way to figure out what motivates a burglar than to go directly to the source--Just ask the burglar.

A new study by a researcher at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte examines hundreds of convicted offenders to gain a look inside the mind of a burglar, providing remarkable insight into an intruder’s motivation and methods.

The study was funded by the Alarm Industry Research and Educational Foundation (AIREF), which is supported by the Electronic Security Association (ESA), the largest trade association for the electronic life safety and security industry.

Dr. Joseph B. Kuhns of the university’s Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology conducted the survey, entitled “Understanding Decisions to Burglarize from the Offender’s Perspective,”

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