The Ballard High School girls golf team was defeated 266-271 by Juanita April 22, ending a two-match win streak.
Coach Casey McMullin said the team put in a good performance and it was a close match, but Juanita's home-course advantage worked against the Beavers.
Ballard has a 2-3 record with two match left, starting with Mercer Island at 3:30 p.m. on April 27 at the West Seattle Golf Course.
Balin Larson scored two goals April 23 to lead the Ballard High School boys soccer team to a 2-1 victory over Inglemoor.
Larson gave the Beavers a 1-0 lead off an assist from Scott Soriano in the 28th minute.
Inglemoor's Vinicius Gomes scored the tying goal in the 40th minute, but Larson gave Ballard the lead for good with his goal in the 65th minute. Conner Jarvie earned the assist.
The win was Ballard's third in the past five games after going winless in the first seven.
The Beavers raised their record to 2-3-3 in KingCo and 3-5-4 overall and moved into seventh place in KingCo.
Ballard faces some stiff competition in the final three matches of the season, taking on three of the top five teams in the conference, starting with fourth-place Skyline at 7:30 p.m. on April 27 at Interbay Stadium.
After coming out on the right side of two close games this week, the Ballard High School softball team ran out of clutch hitting against Eastlake April 23.
Freshman pitcher Andrea Jewett was able to get out of a bases-loaded, one-out jam in the first inning, and the game was tied at zero until the fifth inning.
Eastlake put up three runs in the fifth and added a fourth in the sixth to earn a 4-0 win. Ballard was shutout for the first time this season.
In their least productive offensive game this year, the Beavers tallied only two hits to Eastlake's 10.
The loss ended Ballard's two-game win streak and dropped them to 3-5 in KingCo and 7-5 overall.
The Beavers' next game is against Redmond at 4:30 p.m. on April 26 at Redmond High School,
President Paula vanHaagen of the Westside Unitarian Universalist Congregation, announced the organization’s purchase of the church at 7141 California Avenue SW, at Othello. The congregation has been renting space at the Masonic Temple, 4736 40th Avenue SW for the past 20 years. They closed on the building Thursday, April 22.
The new building is 60 years old and was built for the Gatewood Baptist Church and later sold to the Seattle International Church. The building is 13,312 square feet and sits on just shy of half an acre. The sanctuary seats 300. The church asked that we not reveal the selling price, but the property was listed for $1.4 million.
Frustration is the predominant emotion surrounding the Burien Town Square project. Paul Keller, a principal with the developer of the Burien Town Square project Urban Partners, said they cannot sell or lease any of the space until they renegotiate their loan with the investment group S.T. Residential.
In September the FDIC seized Corus Bank, who owned the loan for the town square project. Burien Economic Development Director Dick Loman said the market has dropped by nearly 30 percent.
Keller said Urban Partner’s is working to renegotiate the term and amount of the loan, in an attempt to remain marketable in this economy. He said right now nothing can move until the loan is renegotiated, which is moving forward slowly.
“There hasn’t been the progress I think that all of us would like to see from a timing perspective,” Keller said. “It is incredibly frustrating but it requires patience.”
Keller said he would categorize the project today as stalled. The Burien Town Square project is in no short-term danger of becoming bankrupt, Keller said.
Explorer West Middle School puts on a performance of My Fair Lady by Lerner and Loewe at a new location: Fauntleroy Church, 9140 California Ave SW, at 7:00 pm Friday April 23rd and Saturday April 24th, 2010.
This is the first year Explorer West is traveling outside of the campus to put on a production. The show will last approximately two hours and is family friendly with one intermission. Featuring ninety students in the cast and crew every student in the school is part of the show.
My Fair Lady is a musical about a poor young flour girl in the early 20th century in England struggling to make money. She comes across a phonetics professor who exclaims that he could make someone think she is royalty. He than makes a bet with his friend that he could make people think she actually is royalty.
Over one hundred candidates for public office will be investigated, evaluated and rated by the Municipal League’s nonpartisan Candidate Evaluation Committees this election season. Volunteer candidate investigators will be recruited through May at informational events held throughout King County.
The following five recruitment events are now scheduled:
· South King County Event - April 22, 6pm
Vince’s Pizza – 2815 Sunset Blvd NE - Renton, WA 98056
· North Seattle Event - April 26, 12:30pm
University of Washington – William H. Gates Hall (Law School), Rm 207
· East King County Event - May 6th, 6pm
Purple Wine Bar – 430 106th Ave NE, Bellevue, WA 98004
· South King County Event - May 13th, 6pm
Federal Way City Hall Council Chambers – 33325 8th Ave S, Federal Way, WA 98004
· Downtown Seattle Event - May 20th, 5:30pm
Picora’s Pizza – 1401 East Madison Street, Seattle WA
After the Ballard High School baseball team took a 1-0 lead in the third inning April 22, Lake Washington scored seven unanswered runs to end the Beavers' two-game win streak.
Ballard wasn't lacking offense – the team finished with eight hits, same as Lake Washington – but couldn't find ways to score runs.
Senior David Doerr went two-for-four, freshman Rory Graf-Brennen went one-for-three and junior Danny Thompson went two-for-three for Ballard.
The loss dropped the Beavers to 5-7 in KingCo and 5-9 overall. They are fourth in the KingCo Crown Division.
With four games left, Ballard will face its biggest hurdle to finishing with a .500 record when it takes on Inglemoor at 7 p.m. on April 26 at Inglemoor High School.
Inglemoor is in first place in KingCo and trounced Ballard 11-1 March 25. But since that time, the Beavers have been able to defeat two of the top 10 teams in the state and go 5-5.
Councilmember Tim Burgess issued the following statement today in response to the Mayor's veto of the Aggressive Solicitation ordinance (C.B. 116807):
"While I am disappointed by the Mayor's decision to veto this legislation, I respect the prerogative of his position. I look forward to working with him and my colleagues on the Council to continue to find solutions to the crime and street disorder taking place in our city, including implementation of the other four measures of my five-point plan.
"I thank those in the community who have thoughtfully contributed a wide range of perspectives to this debate. Street disorder will not go away on its own; we cannot be satisfied with the status quo."
At the end of February, Burgess announced a five-point plan to address street disorder. In addition to the aggressive solicitation ordinance, the other elements of the plan include: more police foot patrols, continued hiring of officers to increase police presence in our neighborhoods, enhanced efforts to connect those in need with appropriate social services and giving higher priority to housing and support services for the chronically homeless.
The 71,520-square-foot property on the north side of Market Street near 24th Avenue Northwest that once housed Jacobsen's Marine and novelty store Archie McPhee was put up for sale by owner Bob Jacobsen April 19.
In February 2009, Jacobsen's Marine moved to West Seattle after nearly 60 years in Ballard; Archie McPhee moved to Wallingford earlier that year.
Since April 2009, Jacobsen had been renting the property, which includes four buildings from 2412 N.W. Market St. to 2436 N.W. Market St., to Maritime's Inflatable Boats.
Jacobsen's father, Bob Jacobsen Sr., collected and assembled the property piece by piece over the years, but Jacobsen said it feels like the right time to sell the land.
Barry Hawley of Hawley Real Estate, which is handling the sale, said it is hard to say when the property will be sold. He said the hope is to sell it within a year.
The current sales price for the property is $10.7 million. Hawley said that is cheap for what the property would have been worth in the past.
