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E2 The Morning News Tribune Wednesday July 1 1 1990 PEN Dirty deed: Hospitals switch to cloth diapers July 11 to July 17 66th and South Tyler Street Tacoma July 14 1-3 pm Sponsored by Parents Without Partners Inc Calk Virginia 582-7006 OftOANIZATIONS Sea Explorers: Ship No 110 The Charles Curtis 10 am-4 pm Call Stephanie 564-8366 Thomas 546-1092 or 762-1410 or Lawrence 472-6824 1 MONDAY OftOANIZATIONS 4 Altrasa Literacy Program: Gig Harbor Advisory Board 6:30 pm Call 857-2631 Sweet Adelines: Commencement Bay Chorus rehearsal 7-10 pm Call BJ 758-0400 Sea Explorers: Ship No 110 The Charles Curtis 7-9 pm Call Stephanie 564-8366 Thomas 546-1092 or 762-1410 or Lawrence 472-6824 TUESDAY ANNOUNCEMENTS Luacheoa: Retirees of The Tacoma News Tribune will have their monthly luncheon at the Shoreline Restaurant Gig Harbor July 17 noon Calk 585-5989 Crafts: Design your own T-Shirt Puyallup Public Llbnury 324 Meridian July 17 2 pm Calk 841-5455 Behavior classes: Improve your self confidence become more outgoing and reduce stress Pierce College 9401 Farwest Drive SW Tuesdays through July 81 7-9 pm Call: Sandra 964-6594 oroanizahons Tourism Committee: Gig Harbor-Peninsula Area Chamber of Commerce 8 am Call 851-6865 Retired Federal Employees: Taco-1 ma-Pierce County Chapter No 163 of National Association 11 JO am to 2 pm Call 565-2864 Problems continue to mount when diapers are put into landfills According to the paper the average baby using disposable diapers produces a ton of human waste each year In that waste viruses such as polio and hepatitis can live Finally the nurses association estimates a disposable diaper could filhe more I learned about diapers and landfills the more I realized we had to be a positive influence Sharon Knight St Joseph Hospital take up to 500 years to decompose in a landfill Knight said the little bit of convenience lost to cloth diapers is well worth it a little more wok but most of my nurses enjoy she said are more concerned about the ecological Though a laundry service at St Joseph handles the diaper cleaning and the nurses are not even required to rinse them Knight said cloth diapers are no more expensive for hospital use and significantly cheaper for home use According to information published by the Seattle Solid Waste Utility the cost to an individual owning and washing their cloth diapers would be 5750 to 850 each week A laundry service would charge 89-85 to $950 for the same week's supply including pickup and delivery By comparison disposables range in cost from 111 to 14 a week not including disposal cast For residents of Seattle diaper disposal is losing its convenience November the city passed a law making it Illegal to dispose of feces in city garbage Mozell Brown of Seattle Solid Waste Utility said the ordinance clarifies and reinforces an earlier law dealing with hazardous waste While the ordinance gives the agency the power to punish offending customers with up to a year in Jail and a 55000 fine Brown said the agency has been using it more an educational toed fined anyone or thrown them in she said usually Just talk to them about The biggest Impact to the consumer Is that the garbage collector can refuse to pick up a can containing dlitv dinners he sees that disposable diaper full of poop he have to take it she said Once a can is left people begin to comply Brown said Hardest hit by the ordinance have been day-care centers The centers are affected because of conflicting laws While the Seattle law prohibits feces in the trash a state law forbids child-care workers to rinse dirty diapers day-care centers are caught in a she said almost Some day-care centers in South King County could be drawn Into the matter as well For the past few weeks the King County Council has been considering a law similar to That sit too well with Laurie Lien owner of Smart Start daycare center in Federal Way She said the environmental aspect id the law is admirable but current state day-care regulations would make it impossible for county day-care facilities to follow do it unless (the state) changes their policy" she said Even if the day-care required parents to use cloth diapers the staff be able to handle them she said sure the parents would love their diapers coming home with them totally Still day-care centers in Seattle are surviving Babies at Place Daycare on Capitol Hill are swaddled in cloth diapers during the day Those diapers which are not handled any more than disposables are cleaned by a diaper service said infant teacher Adrina Fortune Fortune said disposables that arrive on babies in the morning are recycled in pilot diaper recycling program Jody Snyder of the Tacoma-Pierce County Health waste management section said the county has an ordinance banning infectious waste from landfills but has no plans for a law specific to diapers was omitted from the original law because then be policing every family she said have the capacity for Events for the wfc of WEDNESDAY ANNOUNCKMKNTS Behavior classes: Learn to under- stand and control anger Pierce College 9401 Farwest Drive SW Wednesdays July 11-Aug 15 7-9 pm Call: Sandra 964-6594 Conference: The second annual Gener Equity Conference Bates South Campus A 2201 78th SL Tacoma July 11 10 am-S pm Call: Gwen 596-1705 ORGANIZATIONS Welcome auk Gig Harbor Call 851-2027 American Legion: Greater Gig Harbor Post No 236 8 pm Call: 857-5755 Lions: Peninsula Club 6:15 pm Call 858-3347 Elks: 8 pm Call: 851-2560 Kiwanis: Peninsula-Gig Harbor 7 am Call 851-9761 Toastmasters: Peninsula 6:20 pm Call 858-2748 THURSDAY ANNOUNCEMENTS Dolls: Children of all ages can learn about doll collecting Puyallup Public Library 324 Meridian July 12 2 pm Call: 841-5455 Environmental meeting: Asarco representatives from the compa-Tacoma smelter and its teeb-1 consultants will hold a community meeting at the Mason Middle School auditorium July 12 7 pm Calk Tom 756-0203 Dance: Pierce County Parks and Recreation invites junior and senior high school students to a dance at Sprinker Recreation Center July 12 and 19 Calk 537- 2600 Government jt LAND USE Pierce County hearings examiner July 18 All requestsproposals will be heard in the Pierce County Public Services building (annex) south entrance Pluming and Natural Resource Management public meeting room 2401 85th St Tacoma 8:45 am Seawall Construction Co Inc co Becky StucU applicant requests a shoreline substantial development permit to allow construction of a 50-foot-long 20-foot-wide residential dock in a shoreline rural residential environment on Hale Passage 701 10th Ave Fox Island 9 am Lewis Gilmore and Robert Seidel requests a shoreline substantial development permit to allow construction of a 155-footwide pier ramp and float on the property line between 8510 and 8516 Goodman Drive NW Gig Harbor 9:15 am Key Bank co Steve Bumstand requests a variance to the required height and area requirements for signs in the Gig Harbor Peninsula Plan area to allow a legal non-conforming ground sign to be reduced from 380 to 168 square feet and from 50 to 35 feet high The new sign would exceed dimensions allowed in the urban environment The site is a commercial lot located at 3123 56th SL NW near Gig Harbor 9:45 am Scott Shera co Bill Triquart Pac-Tech Engineering Harley Continued from El is paying for Harley's examinations there Doroshenko said Doroshenko and a close friend also were to have a fund-raiser for Harley July 7 and she has set up a donation fund to help pay for ongoing medical expenses Donations can be made to the Dog at First Interstate Bank of Washington branch at 3607 Sixth Ave Leftover funds will go to the dogtraining program at the Washington Corrections Center for Women near What you get back is immeasurable ORGANIZATIONS i Gig Harbor Club 11:45 am Calk 851-9925 VFW: Herman Uddenberg Post No 1854 and Auxiliary 7:30 pm Gig Harbor Grange Hall Gardes Ouk Horsehead noon Call 549-2704 Business Association: Purdy Area 7 am Floatation Device Pub and Grill Sierra Oak Tattoosh group May 31 pm Call Debbie 863-3004 Adult Children of Alcoholics: group 1 and 7 pm Call Ann 851-2881 FRIDAY fl ANNOUNCEMENTS Books: The Friends of South Hill Library will have Its annual used book sale Meridian Place Shopping Center 11813 Meridian EL near the South Hill Ernst Store July 13-15 noon-7 pm Friday 10 am-5 pm Saturday and 1-4 pm Sunday Calk 848-8686 SATURDAY ANNOUNCEMENTS Festivak The Summer Festival Pioneer Day Harry Todd Park July 14 Calk 584-1280 Books: The Friends of Peninsula Library will have its annual book sale 4424 Point Fosdkk Drive July 14 10 am-4 pm Calk 851-3793 Market Puyallup's Fanners Market begins its eighth season at Pioneer Park Saturdays through Sept 8 9 arn-2 pm Calk Card 845-6755 Children's activities: Laugh Olym- Ides for ages 1-17 Manitou Park jk Inc applicant requests a shoreline substantial development permit allowing a subdivision of a 572-acre vate roads in a residential estate aone Project site is located at 11210 Gravelly Lake Drive SW 10 am CL Anderson proposes to divide a 282-acre parcel located at the northeast corner of 90th Avenue East and 116th Street East in a suburban agriculture aone into five duplex lots to be served by private roads and on-site sewage disposal systems 10:30 am Jim Hughes requests an unclassified use permit to operate an existing 23000-plus-square-foot structure as a roller skating rink on an approximately 314-acre lot located at 6817 27th SL 11 am and Partnership co Geoff Mows applicant requests site plan review and preliminary plat approval to allow a 29-lot duplex or single-family subdivision to be served by private roads and individual septic Syrians on a 2622-acre site on the west side of 54th Avenue Northwest at 136th Street near Gig Harbor 1 pm Geoffrey Kongslie proposes to divide a 395-acre parcel located north of 144th Street East and west of 70th Avenue East In a general zone into 63 single-family lots to be served by public roads and Purdy she said Harley and Doroshenko were united through the prison's Pet Partnership Program Doroshenko said Harley is her life-blood Because Harley normally can sense when a seizure is caning on Doroshenko is fee to eat shower or take a walk when she wants she said Veterinarians in Pullman advised Doroshenko to find another seizure-alert dog to serve as her lifeline she said But Doroshenko said she still holds out hope that Harley who is about 7 years old will survive his ailments and possibly work again She said she took the veterinarians' advice to mean Harley might not survive battling one in a million JustS hours a week 5 of your income to the cause of your choice 1-800-65GIYES Published as a public service by The Morning News Tribune By Timothy King The News Tribune St Joseph Hospital did more than Jump on the environmental bandwagon for Earth Day The Tacoma hospital made a switch to cloth diapers chucking the more expensive plastic disposable diapers and baby wipes for the last time Sharon Knight the nurse manager of women's and services said the idea was promoted heavily by the hospital's midwives Once she investigated using cloth diapers the choice became clear more I learned about diapers and landfills the more I realised we had to be a positive she said see us as teachers and ride models So we must be educated role models for A spot check of area hospitals shows St Joseph is not alone Auburn General Hospital has used cloth diapers for 1V4 years Valley Medical Center and St Claire Hospital formerly called Lakewood Hospital are now considering a switch from disposables to doth On the other band St Francis Community Hospital in Federal Way and Good Samaritan Hospital in Puyallup use disposable diapers Tacoma General Hospital began a three-month test to evaluate a diaper switch from to cloth on July 2 Elaine Brooks Tacoma General's prenatal education coordinator said Itaff feelings about a switch an mixed she said rBut some (of the staff) are very much in favor of doth diapers Some have said that any community agency should be using the best from an environmental According to a 1988 health issue position paper by the King County Nurses Association the environmental consequences of disposable diapers are huge The paper blames the diapers for overloading landfills transmitting disease and spoiling the environment Moat of these problems stem the paper asserts from Improper disposal of the disposable diaper labels instruct consumers to flush the liners this is inadvisable for families using- septic systems For those on a the bulky liner' may dog household GHarbor police nab theft suspects Gig harbor police said they have arrested three suspects in an investigation into a rash of car thefts in the Gig Harbor area on the Fourth of July Police were tipped off to the prowlers when a woman walking her dog at about 5 am July in the 1600 block of Soundview Drive Northwest spotted three teenagers loading stereo equipment into a car She called police said Gig Harbor police officer Mark Galligan Galligan said police tracked down the suspects and arrested two 18-year-old men and one 17-year-old all from the Gig Harbor area at a house on Peacock Hill Avenue Northwest Police suspect the three men had been involved in about 20 car prowls the night of July 4 Galligan said As of last week the police had had only four calls from people complaining their cars were burglarised But police recovered numerous car stereos radar detectors money and sports equipment he said Bond Continued from El 15 acres behind the prison for sight clearance The 15-acre clearcut is part of series of timber sales proposed for 1992 That would be followed by additional logging in 1994 and the year 2000 DNR foresters reported About 28 acres were logged in 1982 and another 55 acres in 1987 Tom Morfee president of the on-site sewage disposal systems Pierce County hearings examiner special hearing July 19 All requestsproposals will be heard in the Pierce County Public Services building (Annex) south entrance Planning and Natural Resource' Management public meeting room 2401 35th SL Tacoma 9 am David Morris requests a site plan review and a variance to allow construction of a 7800-squarefoot office building replacing a 3000-squarefoot portion of Wynwood Center Building and a variance to sign requirements on one 63-acre site between Burnham Drive Northwest and Washington! 16 near the intersection with Woodhill Drive North wesL i 10 am Edwards Construe- tion co Geoff Moore applicant re quests a site plan review to allow a 33-lot subdivision to be served by private roads and on-site septic dis-1 posal systems on a 2032-acre lot in a residential environment located on the east side of Reid Road at the 4800 block Gig Harbor 1 pm Steven Demereri is appealing the cease and desist order of the director of planning and natu- ral resource management ordering discontinued use of a dock without a shoreline substantial development permit as required by Pierce County shoreline regulations located on a four-lot area at 8120 Goodman Drive NW here gonna be a long haul gonna be frustrating and Doroshenko said sighing heavily Doroshenko said she planned to adopt a puppy and have Harley teach it about sensing and alerting seizures Although the puppy may not have strong innate abilities to do this Harley might be able teach the puppy a few skills she said You're lucky because you may qualify for savings on your Auto insurance Farmers figures show that the best drivers are men and women between 25 and 59 so they deserve a break on insurance costs Look Into it today Ask me to tell you about Farmers money-saving 3060 Plus Package Annex Continued from El of pursuing annexation of University Place to Tacoma Zelazny said whether or not the Firerest petition succeeds it will at least help define the direction the petition asks for is to explore the possibility" he said would get something done and one way of eliminating or exploring what we can do in a short period of time If they (Firerest City Council members) say no then we can go ahead and start looking at keeping the status quo or pursuing But what seems like good sense in University Place may send some Firerest residents reeling mention it (University Place annexation) to most people and their reaction is very very said Firerest resident Gary Underwood feeling of people Is that like to remain a small Underwood is a member of a citizens group that is trying to oust Fir-crest City Manager Morrison in the fallout of a recent internal investigation into police department mismanagement The group opposes annexation of University Place and has distributed a flier listing it among the ills that allegedly have beset Firerest under its present management But Zelazny dismisses the importance of the opposition Peninsula Neighborhood Association announced last month that he would support the park district's efforts to purchase and preserve some of the state institutional trust land PNA consists of local citizen activists He said PNA could help get out the vote this fall if the district proposes a September bond issue acceptable to PNA members If ballfields and play areas are part of the plan he would prefer the district buy land from the state that already has been cleared Morfee fi Just mention it (University Place annexation) to most people and their reaction is very very negative Firerest resident Gary Underwood tentimes the minority is louder than the he said sure most of Firerest doesn't want to see University Place become a middle-class ghetto with apartments everywhere That will spill over to he said If the petition is turned in and found to be valid Firerest City Council will have 60 days to either reject it or agree to set an election date for University Place residents to vote on the measure A simple majority is required for the annexation proposal to pass said Bob Meinig a legal consultant with the Municipal Research and Services Center of Washington Before the Firerest City Council makes its decision far more research will be needed on questions of zoning finances and services and the council will probably opt for public meetings to get clearer idea of how Firerest residents stand said Morrison would be a big Job but not one I'd look forward he added said That would minimize the number id trees logged Park Board president Martha Douglass said the district could use support from Peninsula activists to get voters to the polls this September Low voter turnout May 22 killed the proposed 8495 million bond issue and 5150000 special levy The district has asked voters to fund parks recreational programs and district operations four times since the district formed in 1985 All four requests failed at the polls Another reason to get Invisible Fencing With one phone call to Invisible Fencing you can safely give your dog the run of your property without unsightly fences University tested vet approved ft satisfaction guaranteed It even costs less than traditional 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