The Chief Sealth Seahawks lost to top ranked Rainier Beach on Friday 51-60, December 18. Chief Sealth won 63-38 in their recent non-league challenge against Eastside Catholic (Bellevue, WA) but the top ranked Rainier Beach Vikings proved to be a formidable opponent.
Click the image to see a slideshow of photos by Sealth Student Kris Wilson
In our print edition the Herald said the free holiday movie, ELF, at the Admiral Theater would play at 8pm this evening.
The correct time was noon on Saturday, Dec. 19th. We regret this error.
Over 3,400 food items all donated by Lafayette students and their families to donate to the White Center Food Bank. White Center Food Bank executive director Rick Jump and volunteer Beth Grieser picked up the huge load of goodies to the delight of Principal Virginia Turner who said she was very proud that her students broke last year's record.
West Seattle High School students Biniam Woldehaimanot, Cooper Sinai-Yunker, Paul Ngyuen, Karen Lowe, Kelly Toal, Brianne Goulet, Sara Elkington, spent several hours outside the Morgan Street Thriftway store on Saturday the 19th collecting food.
Ngyuen, Lowe and Toal are board members of West Seattle High School's National Honor Society.
They've been at this every year for the past few years, "We don't really have a specific goal, it's just helping people in need," said Toal.
The holidays can be a great time to get back to basics. Gifts of homemade foods are a real treat for everyone, and these unusual accompaniments will add flavor to meals without adding salt, which we all can afford to cut.
Ginger-Mint Jelly
1½ cups mint leaves
1 inch fresh ginger root
2¼ cups water
3½ cups sugar
1 package Certo liquid fruit pectin
6 one-pint canning jars and lids
Chop mint and ginger.
Boil in water for 15 minutes.
Strain through cheesecloth. Add few drops of green food color.
You should have 1¾ cups of infusion. Add water or remove liquuidif needed.
Add sugar. Bring to a full rolling boil.
Add pectin. Boil 1 minute.
Remove from heat. Skim foam.
Ladle into hot clean glass jars. Screw on hot clean lids.
Invert jars for 5 minutes, then turn right side up.
Allow to cool. May take a few days to set.
Use as an accompaniment to lamb, veal or pork. This jelly is wonderful thinned a little to use as a basting sauce for baked chicken. Makes a great hostess gift tied with a sprig of holly.
Jalapeño Jelly
6 jalapeño peppers, seeded
2 red peppers, seeded
The losing streak is at five for the Ballard High School girls basketball team after falling to Woodinville 59-34 Dec. 18.
The Beavers matched up well against Woodinville, the sixth-ranked team in the state, for the first half, going into halftime down five points.
But, Woodinville opened things up in the third quarter, outscoring Ballard by 15 points.
Senior Alexandria Lawrence led the Beavers with 13 points and junior Theresa Moriarty added eight.
Ballard will look for its first win of the season against Ingraham at 6:30 p.m. on Dec. 21 at Ballard High School.
A disastrous first quarter allowed Woodinville to put an end to the Ballard High School boys basketball team's two-game win streak Dec. 18.
The Beavers were outscored 11-3 in the first quarter but hung with Woodinville the rest of the way, eventually losing 44-38.
Junior Salim Gloyd scored a game-high 11 points. Freshman Seth Berger and senior Gary Smith added six apiece.
Ballard is 1-3 in KingCo and 2-3 overall.
The Beavers play in the Surf 'N Slam Tournament from Dec. 28 to Dec. 30. After that they return to conference play against winless Newport at 7:30 p.m. on Jan. 5 at Newport High School.
Mercer Island handled the Ballard High School boys swim team 140-45 Dec. 18.
Out of 12 events, the only Beaver victory came courtesy of Caleb Jaeger in the 100-meter breaststroke. Jaeger won the event with a time of 1:12.17.
Ballard will square off against Roosevelt at 3:30 p.m. on Jan. 7 at the Ballard Pool.
The Hiawatha Playfield renovation, begun in the summer is nearly complete. The turf field is open, and rubber track surfacing will be installed in the summer 2010. The project, budgeted at $3.6 million was funded in part by Seattle Parks and Recreation who contributed $2.5 million, Seattle Public Schools, with $1 million and the King County Council, led on the initiative by Dow Constantine with $100,000.
The contractor removed the fences on December 16, 2009, and clean up work is underway around the site. The playfield is located adjacent to West Seattle High School at 2700 California Ave SW.
There is still work to do installing soccer goals completing the backstop fencing and getting site fixtures installed. The contractor will be on site through the end of the year.
The Hiawatha Playfield was renovated with synthetic turf and updated lighting. Baseball, soccer, and football are represented with full-sized facilities. Three lanes of a non-conforming rubberized track encompass the sports field. Each lane is 3.5 feet in width. The existing field events located on the east side of the Community Center are being renovated as well.
When a trio of Federal Way School District high school gymnastics teams gathered together for leaps and spins on Wednesday at the Gator Dome, it turned into tight competition for all.
Despite three all around performers resting due to an assortment of aches and pains, Todd Beamer edged out Federal Way 145.55-145.20 while Decatur was just behind this pair at 144.7.
Beamer had tallied 166 points the previous week with all performers healthy.
"It's early in the season," said Titan head coach Gina Foster. "We're just trying to stay healthy. Some of our performers just needed to rest this week. We can do better, but it was good."
Victorious Todd Beamer was paced by the one-two combination of Samantha West and Cassie Peterson. West winged her way to first place on the uneven parallel bars with a score of 8.65 while adding an 8.6 second place on the floor exercise. Coupled with an 8.5 third place on the vault and a 7.9 sixth place on the balance beam, the Titan's achievements led to a first place all around total of 33.65.
Peterson pushed herself to a 33.6 second place total on the strength of first place on the floor (9.2) and No. 1 score of 8.9 on the vault.
