Category: Community
BURIEN — He saw this conversation coming.
Before Travis Thompson sold out concerts, signed with a major record label and embarked on a European tour, the Burien-raised rapper wrote about change coming to Ambaum Boulevard Southwest.
“Won’t always be a man on the corner slinging that roasted corn … Won’t always be my mom at the house saying, ‘There’s room for more,’” Thompson sang in 2016 on “Ambaum,” an ode to the city’s north-south arterial. “And I’m cool with that, I swear I am. I just hope they don’t forget us when they tear it down, and make high-rise homes, and send us packing now.”
Roxana Pardo Garcia/Alimentando El Pueblo, Burien. “Ever since I’ve known Roxana, I’ve known her to be a leader and a role model. She has done so much for Burien and out of the love she has for her community and as a result of the pandemic, she started Alimentando El Pueblo, the only Latinx food bank in the nation! Her selflessness and passion is truly beyond words.”
Nominated by: Mousy DeVilla, friend
