For Admiral, West Seattle Junction and Morgan residents who missed the July 28 community meeting on Neighborhood Planning Status Check: How is Your Neighborhood Doing? there is still an opportunity to provide input by completing a brief online survey.
Click here to fill it out online.
The deadline to complete the survey is Aug. 12.
When teenagers hit the front door after school, they are looking for food they can inhale instantly. To them, the perfect food is something they can just open and eat.
No cooking, no dirty dishes, just instant calories, fat and salt. That’s why they view chips as a favorite snack.
A microwave is the after-school appliance of choice—good for popping in a “hot pocket,” mini pizza, canned chili or instant ramen style soup.
Most of these foods (especially in the serving size teenage boys eat) exceed their recommended sodium intake for the whole day just in after-school snacking.
If kids can get to a fast food restaurant on the way home, their sodium intake soars even more. One Big Mac with fries and a shake contains more salt than they should eat in a whole day.
High salt foods like chips are even available in school vending machines. And sports drinks have added salt, which most teen athletes don’t need (unless they are exerting themselves in really hot conditions).
MTV is shooting an episode of “$5 Cover” featuring The Maldives this afternoon at the Tractor Tavern and they need extras.
Interested persons are asked to come down to the Tractor, 5213 Ballard Ave. N.W., from 3 p.m. to 9 p.m. Dress is casual but no white, corporate logos or images of real people.
Must be older than 21.
The episode is being directed by Lynn Shelton, director of the Seattle International Film Fest hit "Humpday." Shelton has also directed music videos for local bands, such as The Lonely H and Harvey Danger.
Taproot Theatre Company has extended the run of "Smoke on the Mountain Homecoming" through Aug. 22, giving people two more weeks to experience this toe-tappin’, knee-slappin’, heartwarmin’ bluegrass gospel extravaganza. The regional premiere of this musical has been delighting audiences since it opened on July 10.
This is the third and final installment of the toe-tappin’, bluegrass gospel musicals that have been charming audiences for more than 20 years.
Directed by Scott Nolte, who’s directed each of Taproot Theatre’s five Sanders family productions over the years, "Smoke on the Mountain Homecoming" takes place on an October evening in 1945, after World War II. The Sanders family, who’ve become treasured for their musical talents, gather to sing together for what might be the last time, as they’re sending Pastor Oglethorpe and his wife, June, on a new journey and singing Dennis Sanders in as the new pastor.
"Smoke on the Mountain Homecoming" is written by Connie Ray and conceived by Alan Bailey, with musical arrangements by Mike Craver.
Dutch Bike Co. will be moving into the under-remodel Kolstrand Building on Ballard Avenue this coming January.
The shop, which has been located on Shilshole Avenue just east of the Ballard Bridge for 2.5 years, will double its space in the new location.
David Schmidt, owner of Dutch Bike Co., said the Kolstrand Building is a great historic building, and Ballard Avenue is a destination for many people in Seattle.
The new location will give the shop, which sells, rents and repairs European bicycles, the opportunity to expand the size of its service area, Schmidt said.
He said the new location also has a space behind it that Dutch Bike Co. can use for a large fleet of rental bicycles for tourists.
The shop will be moving into the new 1,500-square-foot space in January 2010 and opening in February.
Schmidt said he is excited to be located among restaurants and cafes in the Kolstrand Building and to put more bicycles on Ballard Avenue.
Dutch Bike Co. is the first of two newly acquired anchor tenants for the Kolstrand Building.
The other is the graphic design agency Turnstyle, which has been located above Matador on Market Street for the past five years.
On Northwest 64th Street, a woman failed to lock her door while she was outside gardening. At one point she looked up and saw a well-dressed Hispanic man, aged 30-50, with curly short black hair walking away from her front door. Going inside, she discovered that her purse had been moved and her wallet was missing.
Late Friday, at a bar in 8100 block of Greenwood, one customer invited another to sit down at the bar. But this seemingly friendly gesture went awry when, after a few minutes of discussion, one man punched the other in the side of the head and walked out the door. Though the victim complained of hearing loss, he declined medical attention.
Early on July 23, someone took took offense at a car parked near 85th and 15th. “The owner returned to find his wipers, hood ornament, and side mirrors bent and damaged.
On Thursday evening, two young teens were spotted lighting a fire on an old tabletop near the track at Madison Middle School. By the time officers arrived, the Fire Department was on scene. The fire had burned itself out. Witnesses described the teens as both about five feet tall. One, white, had a slim build and wore an orange T-shirt and carried a dark backpack and a skateboard. The second, Hispanic, had a medium build and wore a black T-shirt, and gray-green plaid cutoffs. He, too, carried a skateboard.
Down off of Avalon, a resident with a history of harassing his neighbors (and who is named in three anti-harassment orders) got a one-way ride to King County Jail after he verbally abused one of the victims, screaming such charming epithets as “F you (n-word). I can do whatever I want” and “Kiss my white Scandinavian (posterior)!” When officers arrived, they found the suspect lying shirtless and intoxicated on his lawn. He mumbled, “I'm in my own yard. I didn't do anything.”
A presentation officially unveiling a new, cleaner diesel fuel was given to media atop the 860-foot Matson container ship M/V Manoa at the Port of Seattle’s Terminal 18 on Harbor Island Friday, July 31.
Agencies represented in the presentation included the Port, Puget Sound Clean Air Agency, Pacific Merchant Shipping Agency and Matson Navigation. Matson has done business with the port since 1904.
Unveiled was the At-Berth Clean Fuels, or “ABC Fuels” program. At the heart of that program is a diesel fuel that is more refined than the common diesel “heavy bunker fuel,” as some call it.
The heavy diesel is not transparent, and requires heating before it can be pumped to the ship. The highly refined diesel is translucent and thinner.
The new diesel’s appeal is that it is a low sulfur fuel and reduces emissions over 60 percent in diesel particulate matter, the stuff people breath into their lungs, and over 80 percent in sulfur dioxide. The fuel is now used in the auxiliary engines of ships but not in their main engines for now.
Dear Editor,
I'm appalled that the West Seattle Herald has sunk to biased reporting. The Herald's stance on the bag tax is made very clear by the front page story "Fee on shopping bags up for vote" (July 29, 2009) in which a caption reads "Seattle residents could be forced to pay..."
FORCED? Is this non-partisan? The article reads like a puff piece for the petro-chemical industry who will lose money if this goes into effect.
The environment, the citizens marine life and the city all stand to gain from passing this referendum. The only losers would be Exxon, Mobile, Monsanto, etc. and people too lazy to pick up and reuse a free canvas bag.
Seems like a perfect opportunity for the Herald to run an editorial describing the advantages of the "bag tax," but instead space is given to propaganda spewed by The American Chemistry Council with not a word from the Seattle Green Bag Campaign.
I hope West Seattleites are no so easily duped as to vote against this eminently sensible, cost-effective and necessary referendum.
Nancy Pennington
West Seattle
Dear Editor,
Why does Clowncilmember Conlin obsess over taxing us 20 cents for every tenth-of-an-ounce plastic bag when he has always backed the destruction of our precious viaduct that would result in 44 million pounds of rubble?
A four-lane tunnel to replace our eight-lane viaduct will cost the taxpayer $5 billion. And most of us haven’t dared dream how to pay the $300 million that Nickels, Conlin and Gregoire think they will extract from Port of Seattle property taxpayers.
Likewise, we haven’t even begun to consider the $400 million in tolls for tunnel passage.
I’ve got an idea! Why don’t the toll takers accept plastic bags!
Yes, we know the plastics industry has purchased advertising to encourage a “No” vote on Referendum 1. But even they miss the mark in playing up the same class warfare (i.e. food banks vs. Walmarts) that the left has played up in promising $1 million of fabric bags to the stupid proletariats who just can’t seem to survive without Big Brother.
Here’s the deal:
WE DON’T WASTE PLASTIC AND PAPER BAGS!
We use them to contain waste inside wastebaskets. (Seven per week in my household.)
