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Guy's name is Barry, camel's name not recorded. Location is across from San Juan Vineyards. One theory of how camel got there explained by Culinary Fool in a blog entry over the summer.
--Remember the UW professor who died tragically? No, not the one who was eaten by a crocodile. That was Richard Root. This one got wiped out by logs falling off a truck on Hwy. 101. His name was Anthony Qumar, and the state believes that the truck he happened to be behind was overloaded with logs and going too fast. The driver, Garland Eugene Massingham, has been charged with vehicular homicide. Leonard Logging, which owned the truck, is in trouble too.
--Sprawl has its consequences, and one of them is more treated poo (known by its euphemism, "effluent") right into Puget Sound. Groundbreaking on the absurdly-named Brightwater regional wastewater treatment plant, which will serve fast-growing North King County, is tomorrow. For the sake of the Sound, please, eat healthy, Woodinvillians!
--NY Mets pitcher Brian Bannister, son of early-80's Mariner pitching star Floyd, won his first major league game today. And he had two hits, the first two of his career. One was a double!
