October 2008

West Seattle resident Shelly Pastachak decided to put her home on Southwest Webster Street on the market in late August.

After a century in West Seattle's Fauntleroy neighborhood, The Kenney's historic Seaview building could be demolished as AG Architects move forward with a new $150 million redevelopment project.

Board members and local residents made their objections known at a Design Review Board meeting on Oct.

On Sept. 30 there a fight broke out near Chief Sealth High School's temporary campus on Delridge Way.

According to Lt. Steve Paulsen, a member of one gang reportedly stole a necklace from the girlfriend of the member of another gang.

Repairs to four column foundations for the Alaskan Way Viaduct seem to have stopped their sinking.

Bridge engineers for the Washington State Department of Transportation found no more settling during their inspection of the structure Oct.

The popular Tex-Mex restaurant chain Matador will be required to change some of its d

The Second World War had recently ended when Gertrude Finney and her husband, Roy, came to White Center to live in a house her mother had found for them. The house was on the streetcar line to Seattle, so getting to and from work would be convenient.

But instead of taking a job in the city, Gertrude took part-time work at the White Center Library when it was located in the basement of the old fieldhouse on 104th Avenue Southwest.

According to the history provided by the White Center Chamber of Commerce, "members of the Mountain View School P.T.A.

Washington state will receive over $63 million from the Federal Highway Administration to reimburse money the state spent to repair roads after several incidents of flooding over the past three years, including the December 2007 floods.

Sen. Patty Murray, who chairs the Senate Transportation Appropriations Subcommittee, worked in conjunction with the state to acquire this reimbursement from highway administration after the Bush Administration did not request any funding to help repair the federal highways in Washington state that had been damaged.

The mayor is proposing an additional $2.1 million in his upcoming budget for permanent housing units for chronically homeless individuals.

"The idea behind Housing First is simple: reach out to the hardest to reach, move them into safe, decent housing, and then give them the services they need to rebuild their lives," said Mayor Greg Nickels.

The state Employment Security Department has mailed applications to more than 100,000 Washington workers who potentially qualify for emergency unemployment benefits. So far, Washington has paid out more than $2 million in benefits.

Mailings went to anyone who had filed a claim for unemployment benefits on or after May 7, 2006, and later exhausted those "regular" benefits or whose benefit year has ended.

"Most of those folks have probably found jobs," said Employment Security Commissioner Karen Lee.

The late zombies

By Marc Calhoun

Don't you hate it when the undead are late?

I'd locked myself out of the house. My wife wasn't due home for a few hours, and try as I might, I could not break in. So having a few hours to kill until she came home I decided to go for a long walk. It was a sunny October afternoon, and as I walked the ridge to Hamilton Viewpoint, the sunshine melted away most my worries. (Earlier in the day I had checked the balance of my 401K.)

I cut down through Marshal Reserve to the beach, and wandered over to Seacrest Park.