Nicholas Lang:  

Life I've been through quite a bit since graduation. During high school, I was working part time in retail management at the Yakima Mall. A little while after graduation, I was hired as Assistant Manager (full-time)at Champs Sports. After a couple years, Champ's corporate managers asked me to transfer out to the Seatac & Bellevue Square malls in Seattle. So, I took them up on the request, & moved out to Seattle. The entire time I was out there, I was looking for my own place. I was un succcessful. So, not wanting to over-stay my welcome, I looked into any other temporary options I might have. I thought of my aunt, Amy George (Lang) who has also been living in Seattle for a while. Fortunately enough, she gladly invited me to move in with her for the time being. I waited until very close to the end of the year 2000 to take my vacation and came back out here, Yakima to visit. Then, on the evening of January 2nd, 2001, I went out to the mall for a little shopping with my girlfriend at that time, Jamie Wangler. After shopping, we were headed back to my parents' house while I was driving in my 1990 Honda CRX. It was still pretty icy and slushy on the roads, like usual, due to the winter weather. Also, the intersection of Tieton Dr. and 96th Ave., was a big patch of loose gravel. The combination of the ice & loose gravel caused us to slip back out onto Tieton Dr. right in front of a fully loaded pick-up!!! So, the pick-up could not help but ...Expand for more