Weekend News Round-Up
- The swashbuckling Seafair Pirates landed on the beaches of West Seattle on Saturday, officially kicking off Seafair 2009.
- The police are on the lookout for a four-door red Saturn or Chevy Cavalier with "fancy hubcaps" that they believe was involved in a shooting Saturday night on the 8100 block of 48th Avenue South. No one was injured, just a car and empty home found with a few bullet holes.
- No one's sayin' there's a ban on washing your car at home, here in Washington. But if you happen to suds up the trusty automobile, the powers that be strongly recommend washing the car over gravel or grass to filter the dirty water.
- The doughnut shop Top Pot is moving
on upnorth, opening their sixth store in Mill Creek, where they'll spreading their sugary doughnut love out to the burbs for the first time. - Over the weekend, folks were on the move, pedaling an uncomfortably long distance: 10,000 people biked the 30th annual Seattle to Portland 202-mile bike race. And 55 Ford Model T drivers finished going the long, long, 4,000-mile historic distance with 100-year-old cars.
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