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Kid Issues around the Puget Sound

Here's a sad commentary on our country.  (I think Seattle Citizen mentioned this issue elsewhere.)  A baby was shot in the head in a drive-by shooting in Kent.  The baby is likely brain-dead. Why did this happen? Police said the shooting stemmed from a road-rage incident when a silver car driven by Malaja’s family and a black sedan turned on Lake Fenwick Road South at the same time. “There was some sort of exchange, and the next thing we know is the individuals in the black vehicle exchanged gunfire (at the) silver vehicle,” said a police spokeswoman on the scene.  KIRO tv had a story and this is what the baby's uncle said: "We need to stop the Seattle violence," the baby's uncle, Edmond "Mackie" McNeil, told KIRO 7. "The CD [Central District], south end, whoever, wherever. It's over. We're trying to be living for our kids. Everybody needs to live for your kids, now. It's over. You ain't no gangster because you w...

Stay out of Ingraham (if pregnant or if you have an infant)

A notice went out to all the parents at IHS, but there are two confirmed cases of pertussis (whooping cough) at Ingraham. Pregnant women and infants should stay out of the school building for a bit. Whooping cough in high school?  Get the vaccinations, okay?