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[The water cooler - What Eastsiders are talking about - By Ann Garretson]

"What are your plans for Seafair weekend?"
(asked at the Kirkland Library on 08-05-99; published in the EJ on 08-08-99
see also the official Seafair Web site -- link will open in new window)


[pt.]Daniel Dociu, Video games art director, Redmond
[blue rule]
"Working. Working some more. And doing some projects I've been putting off. We've attended the Blue Angels show in the past. It was fun."

[pt.]Jamie Lee, Student & waiter, Redmond
[blue rule]
"I'm going to be at work the whole weekend. But I have Sunday afternoon off, and I've been thinking about going and checking it out -- going down and seeing what's there."

[pt.]Michelle Goldberg, Full-time mom, Kirkland
[blue rule]
"We avoid Seafair. I have three small kids and I don't want to fight the crowds and the traffic. Everything's across the bridge... We used to like to go on the Mercer lid and watch the Blue Angels. Now I want to avoid all freeways -- even on normal days!"

[pt.]Robyn Beebe, Children's counselor & student, Kirkland
[blue rule]
"I don't have plans yet but maybe I'll go to some of the activities. I'm not very involved in Seafair. It just has never grabbed my attention. But the planes -- that's the most entertaining part."

[pt.]Chris McClincy, Looking for work, Bellevue
[blue rule]
"Just to watch the airplanes practice. They're just cool. All the stunts they do -- it's amazing! I'd love to go up there! ... Twenty-five years ago the Pirates came and saw me in the hospital. It was December. It wasn't Seafair. I thought that was so cool, too."

[pt.]Linda Means, Looking for work, Woodinville
[blue rule]
"We're going on a family picnic on Saturday. We're not going to Seafair but we'll probably watch the boat races on TV. I liked the older hydros. Nowadays it seems like whoever has the most money gets the best boat and wins, usually. In the old days, it was more of a sport and it was more exciting to me."

 

[blue rule]

© 1999 by the Bellevue, WA-based Eastside Journal newspaper.

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