The deadline is fast approaching to buy tickets for the second annual Tukwila Historical Society Gala and Fundraiser, Saturday, May 19.
About 600 pounds of projection equipment was loaded Monday morning into the Renton IKEA Performing Arts Center, host to the Seattle International Film Festival in Renton. The festival kicks off this Friday, May 18, in the city for the second year in a row. It may be the last year that 35 millimeter film projection is used in the festival. Renton is the only site this year of all the SIFF venues to have 35 millimeter projection equipment.
Those thousands of sandbags placed along the Green River to ward off flood waters are going away, now that an agreement is in the works about who will pay for their removal.
Discussions have been under way for weeks between three Valley cities – Kent, Auburn and Tukwila – and the King County Flood Control District about who would pay for the sandbag removal.