FRIDAY, JULY 7, 2017 | Vol. 99, No. 27 Westside Seattle Your neighborhood weekly serving Ballard, Burien/Highline, SeaTac, Des Moines, West Seattle and White Center SUMMER IS FINALLY HERE GET OUTSIDE!See West Seattle Summer Fest Schedule » P. 11 Photo by Kimberly Robinson Photos by Patrick Robinson See our listings on page 14 4700 42nd S.W. • 206-932-4500 • BHHSNWRealEstate.com © 2017 HSF Aliates LLC. 2 FRIDAY, JULY 7, 2017 WESTSIDE SEATTLE FRIDAY, JULY 7, 2017 | Vol. 99, No. 27 Borderlines (revisited) Editor’s note: Here is an offering by last Saturday and quoth, “The kids have and on arriving he organized us into a Lee Robinson, who my four brothers and I been bugging me to take them fishing work crew. While we were spreading called Mom, from one of her periodic col- Sunday and I don’t really want to go my- out camp in a lovely gravel pit, he dis- umns. This one from Aug. 15, 1962. There self but you know how it is. They’re little appeared, as was to be expected. But was a family rumor that Mom often wrote for such a short time.” we didn’t mind, we had food, the sun Ballard News-Tribune, Highline Times, West Seattle Herald, Dad’s weekly column, Borderlines, after he We have heard this blarney so often we was shining, the river rippled peaceful- Des Moines News, SeaTac News, White Center News fell asleep in the chair when he had typed a just went about our duties and said noth- ly and all was right with the world for single word, then groggily schlepped off to ing. This apparently disturbed him, so he several hours. Jerry Robinson Publisher Emeritus — bed. Mom was a night owl. Once she heard pulled a switch. Then what had been a cloudless sky 1951 - 2014 Dad snoring, she took over the typewriter. “Look,” he went on. “Why don’t we all suddenly grew murky. The first drops T. C. Robinson Co-Publisher/ Like Rumpelstiltskin, she made some gold go? I know a swell spot alongside a riv- began to fall and we hastily grabbed all General Manager from a single blade of straw. er over by Cle Elum, We can pack some the gear and in two or three trips had [email protected] food and you can just lay around and everything thrown into the car, includ- Kenneth Robinson Co-Publisher/ read. Besides, it’s always nice east of the ing ourselves, by the time the heavens Managing Editor Cascades.” burst. 425.238.4616 So, being at heart a charitable girl, we The only satisfactory thing about his [email protected] consent and the next morning, while the weather prediction was the fact that he Lindsay Peyton News Editor sane peoples of the world were still asleep, was someplace out there in the middle [email protected] we found ourselves mashed into one cor- of it wearing a tee shirt. The rain really Patrick Robinson Director of New Media ner of the car, along with five male-type didn’t disturb us too much. We still had [email protected] fishermen and an assortment of poles our book so we just curled up in the Shane Harms Reporter/Photographer and creels. It was a pleasant enough trip front seat and waited. [email protected] with the exception of his admonishment It didn’t take long. Soon there was Gwen Davis Reporter/Photographer when we kicked over the can of worms a tapping on the side window and [email protected] and they crawled all over the floor mats. through the steamy glass we could Amanda Knox Contributing The weather at 5 a.m. is abominable make out what at first seemed to be a Writer/Photographer LEE ROBINSON even when the sun is shining and last bedraggled poodle, standing upright. [email protected] 1925 – 1968 Sunday, it wasn’t. It was raining. But Yep, it was the editor. So we rolled the Pat Cashman Columnist Cheerful Charlie, when he wasn’t leading window down just a mite and he stuck [email protected] the group in song, would remind us every his head in, water dripping off the end Scott Anthony Columnist ur household contribution to the so often that as soon as we crossed the of his proboscis. [email protected] pass, we’d run away from the rain. “Isn’t fishing fun?” we said jauntily. Olunatic fringe sauntered out to the Peggy Sturdivant Columnist kitchen exuding sweetness and light Surprise, surprise, he was right for once “Let’s go home,” he growled. 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