Louie Cerqui and his son, Rob, background, only pick their own vegetables for use at home.

Louie Cerqui has seen sprawl turn his farming operation near Fife into an urban business.

Rob Cerqui, the third generation of Cerquis to farm, holds a picture of his grandfather, who arrived in Fife in the 1920s from Italy. Rob inherited the family love of winemaking. Somehow he finds the time during the fall harvests to make and bottle his own wines.

Maxine Muller remembers drinking from the 14-foot-high Fife Memorial Fountain, in the background, while walking home from school. "We'd stop every day like clockwork," said Muller, 81. "The water was ice-cold, just like it was out of a freezer."

Phyllis Poon of Kent dances with Vincent Pascale of Auburn at the Fife Senior Center, which has a dance every Thursday at 12:30 p.m.

Lucy and Louie Cerqui have owned a farm in Fife for more than 30 years. Louie's parents moved to Fife from Italy, and he's been there all his life.

Eleven-year-old Brock Mayfied, his 9-year-old sister, Madison, and Emma Englund, right, have their water skills tested on their first day of swim lessons at the Fife Community Pool.

Fife City Councilman Joe Rozenski, 84, has his daily coffee at the Poodle Dog restaurant. Rozenski, whose parents moved to Fife in 1914, has never moved away

Sarah Lesley, 18, center, a cheerleader at Fife High School, dances during a Martin Luther King Day celebration at the school, featuring music by Infusion.

Silas Cross has worked out of this window for 15 years, in the family business he now owns, Cross' Smoke Shop. His family, members of the Puyallup tribe, have been in Fife since 1856.

Barber Bob Wood relaxes in his shop at Fife Center between clients.

Interstate 5 slices Fife in half. When built in the early 1960s, it plowed through the community's farmland and forever altered its rural lifestyle.