Tonight's Alki Community Council Meeting will focus on school issues and park projects.
The meeting starts at 7 p.m.
Alki UCC Church
6115 Hinds St.
Special guests:
Steve Sundquist with Seattle School Board will hold an informal discussion of current school issues. Representatives from the City of Seattle Parks Department will also join us to discuss local projects.
Poetry and storytelling comes monthly to C&P Coffee Company, 5612 California Avenue SW, thanks to POETRYBRIDGE, and its creators Walter Maenhout and Leopoldo Seguel. The monthly event will arrive at C&P Wednesday, March 24, 7pm-9pm.
Maenhout works at the coffee shop and is also a sound recording engineer. Both will read, and there is an open mic.
The Seattle Department of Neighborhoods P-Patch Community Gardening Program is building a Roster of Landscape Architects/Garden Designers to provide garden design services for new and expanded P-Patch Community Gardens. The 2008 Parks and Green Spaces Levy has provided funding for additional garden sites to be located in Ballard, Queen Anne, Rainier Valley, and West Seattle neighborhoods; sites are to be completed by Fall of 2012.
Designers are expected to plan, facilitate, and document a community input process by visiting community meetings, planning workshops, working with bi-lingual and youth focused outreach, and preparing concepts for the city to review. From there, they will present designs to the community, draft construction plans, and propose a project schedule and budget to impliment the plans. Garden designs and plans will emphasize simplicity and high quality infrastructure and materials that are easy for community volunteers to maintain into the future.
Ballard High School seniors Gary Smith and Kyler Korsmo were named honorable mentions for the 2010 All-KingCo Team for boys basketball.
Smith was second on the team with 249 points and an average of 12.5 points per game.
Korsmo was third for the Beavers with 187 points and 9.4 points per game.
Smith's average put him at 11th overall in KingCo, while Korsmo's put him at 33rd.
The Ballard High School boys basketball teams gave out their end-of-season awards March 16.
JVC Awards
Most Improved – Bennett Fife
Most Inspirational – Raymond Owens
Hustle Award – Devon Tautolo
Coaches Award – Nate Rauda
JV Awards
Most Improved – Blake Sechler, Luke Beutjer
Most Inspirational – Jordan Gould
Hustle Award – Jordan McColloch
Coaches Award – Nick Onstad-Hawes
Varsity Awards
Most Improved – Marcus Heim
Most Inspirational – Brad Baker
Hustle Award – Gardar Olafsson
Coaches Award – Jeff Walden
Captains – Brad Baker, Kyler Korsmo, Gary Smith, Jr.
For the second time in two days the Ballard High School Beavers found themselves on the short end of the lacrosse stick, losing 10-3 to Kennedy March 17.
The girls lacrosse team fell to 0-2 on the season while being outshot by Kennedy 19 to eight.
In two games, the Beavers have 24 shots on goal to their opponents' 47.
Juniors Jayne Barnes and Maddie Soukup and freshman Sophie Mora accounted for the Beaver offense against Kennedy, scoring a goal each.
Sophomore goalie Hannah Breton finished the game with nine saves.
Ballard takes on Bainbridge at 6:15 p.m. on March 24 at Bainbridge High School.
The proposed two-story, 9,000-square-foot development to replace the current Washington Federal Savings building at 2020 N.W. Market St. will go before the Northwest Design Review Board April 12.
At the meeting, community members will be able to offer comments regarding the proposed design.
At an Oct. 12 early design guidance meeting for the project, the review board said it wanted to see a simpler design than the one proposed.
The board said it wanted the design to fit in on Market Street and show proper deference to the neighboring Carnegie's building.
The board named the Majestic Bay Theater and La Tienda as examples of the kind of design it would like to see.
The plan, as presented at the Oct. 12 meeting, is for the development to be 40 feet tall instead of the maximum 65 feet and to include parking and drive-up tellers in the lot behind the building on Northwest 56th Street.
The design review meeting will take place at 6:30 p.m. on April 12 at Ballard High School, located at 1418 N.W. 65th St.
The next major milestone in the South Spokane Street Viaduct Project (the structure that links the West Seattle Bridge to I-5) is the permanent closure of the First Avenue South on-ramp to the westbound lanes of the viaduct, tentatively scheduled for May 17. The ramp closure is required to widen the Spokane Street Viaduct to the north by approximately 41 feet. The new westbound on- and off-ramp will be constructed on First Avenue.
In the year and a half during which there will be no access to the Spokane Street Viaduct from surface streets in SODO, vehicles will be detoured to the low level swing bridge to get to West Seattle. Alternative routes are noted in the attached detour map. SDOT will be monitoring traffic flows along the detour routes following the closure to determine whether changes in signal timing or other measures are needed to keep traffic moving.
Photographer Kurt Howard captured these images of Thomas Jefferson's 1-0 victory over Kentlake and Federal Way's 2-0 triumph over Kentwood on Tuesday, March 16. CLICK ON THE PHOTO TO PLAY SLIDESHOW.
On March 17 at approximately 5:50 p.m., Federal Way Police officers were dispatched to a reported shooting located in the 2400 block of S 320th St.
Upon arrival officers located one gunshot victim, a 38 year old white female and resident of Lakewood, Washington.
The victim was transported to Harborview Medical Center in serious condition and later succumbed to her injuries.
Initial investigation showed the victim’s husband, a 42 year old white male and resident of Lakewood, Washington, fired a handgun several times at the victim during a counseling session at the location.
The suspect was later placed into custody on scene without incident. Detectives are investigating this incident as a homicide.
Federal Way Police Detectives are currently following leads from witnesses and other involved parties in an attempt to further investigate this incident.
Federal Way Police Department encourages anyone who has any information regarding this incident to call 911 immediately.
Come and join your neighbors to make 35th Ave. S.W. a better walking experience for all.
Sunday March 28th from 10 am to 1 pm the Westwood Neighborhood Council and Friends of Southwest Branch Library are sponsoring Spring Clean Up!
Gloves, bags, trash grabbers and refreshments will be provided.
Meet outside the Southwest LIbrary at the corner of Henderson and 35th just before 10 AM to join the group.
