May 16th from 9 a.m. until 3 p.m. at the Washington State Criminal Justice Training Center (19010 1st Ave S), there will be a huge recycling event. You can bring such items as tires, motor oil, antifreeze, lead acid batteries, cardboard, household goods, clothing, toilets and sinks, propane tanks, clean scrap wood, bulky wood, and electronic equipment. For more information, call 206.248.7603. Rain barrels and compost bins will also be sold at this event for the cash only price of $20 each while supplies last. Funding is provided by the King County Solid Waste Division, the Washington State Department of Ecology, and the local Hazardous Waste Management Program in King County. 05/02/2009

I dreamed of this day for so many years. The day that the junk store "AAA Liquidating" in Normandy Park would burn to the ground. Don't get me wrong. The store had some cool stuff sometimes. Like the time when I was 13 and went in there with my friends and we purchased "stun guns" to zap each other with. BB gun wars started to get boring so we thought that stun guns would be fun. (by the way they hurt like hell and we went back to BB gun wars in the woods of Normandy Park instead, we figured shoting each other with BB's was much safer) But what if AAA wasn't there we would've never had the chance to maybe accidentally kill each other. Except for the "stun gun" purchases everything else about AAA Liquidating drove me nuts. The piles of steel barrels, 1/2 priced desks and chairs and what... 10/10/2007