February 2008

WestSide Baby

On Feb. 10, WestSide Baby hosted our seventh Annual Benefit Tea at the Jerry Brockey Center at South Seattle Community College.

It was a wonderfully successful event raising crucial funds that can directly benefit families in our own neighborhoods. WestSide Baby partners with our community to provide essential items to local children in need by collecting and distributing diapers, clothing, toys, books and baby equipment.

We hold one major fundraiser every year on a Sunday in February. The model for this event is simple.

Student views at Sealth have 'fallen on dear ears'

By Duron Jones

I'm sure this opening is something that sounds familiar to the Seattle Public School board, as it should since I have spoken to them in public testimonial on several occasions. However I feel that my voice and opinion has fallen on deaf ears as well as the voices and opinions of every single student who let their voices be heard via survey and polls.

The first attempt to gain student body voice resulted in 278 against the co-location of the schools and 5 were for the co-location of the schools.

NO: 08-4-01344-5SEA

PROBATE NOTICE TO CREDITORS

RCW 11.40.030

In the matter of the estate of:

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Deceased.

The sentiment was bittersweet at Red Cup Espresso Saturday. Two framed, autographed Pearl Jam concert posters displayed on their wall at 4451 California Avenue SW, were being raffled. Fans of both Eddie Vedder and Angelia Paulsen showed up to pay $10 per ticket for a chance to take home a poster donated by Vedder, a West Seattle resident, and also to help Paulsen's family. Paulsen, 36, the owner of the shop, was killed in a car crash January 7 on I-5. She left behind husband, Sean O'Dea, and their son, Julian. The money raised will help with Julian's education.

The process proposed to update West Seattle's four neighborhood plans, and 33 others across the city, won't be as in-depth as when the blueprints were originally conceived in the late 1990s, but city leaders vow there will still be plenty of neighborhood input.

Director of Seattle's Department of Planning and Development, Diane Sugimura, said since the current plans will be used as a framework, the time spent on revising or reviewing each plan can be scaled back substantially.

"We see this definitely as an update," Sugimura said.

Some community activists are co

Mayor Greg Nickels released $25,000 last week from a $350,000 fund he'd frozen that the City Council had set aside to aid renters being displaced by condominium conversions.

The temporary hold was necessary to determine if the funds would be needed to supplement an unexpected loss of about $600,000 in federal funding, according to Seattle City Council central staffers.

The City Council designated the money in the 2008 budget to increase the $500 developers are required by state law to pay displaced tenants to aid in the search for housing.

The White Center Early Learning Initiative, a first-of-its-kind public-private community based partnership, will significantly expand early learning opportunities to children from birth to 5 years old in White Center.

Funded by two grants-$4.7 million from Thrive by Five Washington and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for expanded early learning options for families with young children, and $7 million from the Gates Foundation for the construction of an early learning community center, the White Center Early Learning Initiative aims to provide parents and caregivers with educat

King County Metro Transit says bus fares for adults will increase by 25 cents starting Saturday, March 1.

A two-zone trip taken during peak-commute times will now cost $2.25, a one-zone trip $1.75, and the off-peak fare will be $1.50. New monthly passes also reflect the increase.

The Metropolitan King County Council approved the bus fare increase last year to help maintain Metro's existing system. It is the first bus fare increase since 2001.

In existence since the 1940's, the West Seattle Women's Golf Club is a member of the Greater Seattle Women's Public Golf Association, the Washington State Women's Public Links Association and the Pacific Northwest Golf Association.

Last October the 60 members of Evergreen Key Club, a student service organization at Evergreen High School of White Center, went through a rigorous application process for the Starbucks Youth Venture Grant.

The startup grant gives youths with an initiative to better the community the necessary funding for the first year of their "venture" and is sponsored by Starbucks in partnership with Youth Venture.

After many after school meetings, the club's members struck an idea that seemed to be the perfect project and it became the "Kill the Chill" venture.