About: Ken Jensen
Posts by Ken Jensen:
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August 29, 2022 City councilmen must return
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August 12, 2022 Jim Vernarelli has the ‘Centennial Bug’
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April 26, 2022 Miner winning award ‘lucky to be here’
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April 24, 2022 Black Diamond’s Ben Bieri
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April 23, 2022 Black Diamond Museum spruced up
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April 22, 2022 Diamond mine man accidently killed
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April 21, 2022 Black Diamond home: Display draws visitors
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April 21, 2022 Youth killed in mine slide
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April 20, 2022 Loading coal at New Black Diamond
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April 20, 2022 Festival to be dropped
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- Ice cream is an immediate hit the first time it sells in King County on May 18, 1872.
- Vashon Island beginnings: Portage Post Office opens on May 18, 1903.
- Some Washingtonians prepare for the end as Earth begins passing through the tail of Halley's Comet on May 18, 1910.
- University of Washington Board of Regents adopts a campus plan designed by architect Carl F. Gould of Bebb & Gould on May 18, 1915.
- Kirkland chooses slogan The Gateway to Seattle on May 18, 1926.
- Paul Robeson sings at the International Peace Arch on the border-crossing between the United States and Canada at Blaine on May 18, 1952.
- Mount St. Helens erupts on May 18, 1980.
- Burlington Northern loses its mountaintop in Mount St. Helens blast on May 18, 1980.
- Group Health Cooperative nurses vote to replace the Washington State Nurses Association with District 1199 Northwest as their bargaining agent on May 18, 1983.
- Wanapum fishing activist David Sohappy is released from Geiger Corrections Center on May 18, 1988.
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Now & Then: Seattle Times
- San Juan Island’s 1859 Pig War brought home the Canadian bacon
- Kelso bridge collapse 101 years ago still ranks as Washington’s deadliest
- To open Seattle’s Aurora Bridge, the president and a telegraph were key
- Seattle artist’s 1988 underground mural remains very much in fashion
- How a Seattle doctor and patient transformed the treatment of kidney disease
- Presiding over West Seattle, the H-shaped ‘Mount’ celebrates 100 years
- Celebrating the First World Flight, from Seattle to Seattle in 1924
- The 1941 House of Tomorrow in Puyallup doesn’t have too many days left
- Seattle’s historic Denny Mansion will be demolished — but not forgotten
- A new book shares the insider story of the multistory Space Needle renovation
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