May 2010

One way out now after the Mount Rainier Rams, the state's best rated baseball team all season, lost to Union opening districts. Win!

Mount Rainier's boys of spring must summon up inside themselves the will and the way to win or, the truth is, the Rams, the state's week two on state 3A ranked No. 1 baseball team, will be done.

Losing to the Vancouver, Wash. squad, the Southwest league's No. 2 seed Union Titans, didn't knock the Rams out of the district playoffs but it did put the Des Moines school in a loser-out game after what was an 11-1 loss in opening SPSL/Olympic/Seamount/Southwest district diamond action at Kent Memorial Park Tuesday.

"We have to be better than that," said head coach Darren Rawie, lamenting this loss and the loss before to Enumclaw.

But just win this next game versus Olympic at 7 p.m. Wednesday tonight and the Rams will be on to the next stage, finishing this phase of districts no worse than the No. 7 seed to the state's final 16 "regionals" competition starting next Saturday, May 22 at venues all across Western and Eastern Washington.

By Jan Pendzich

Ed. Note: Republished from May 19 in honor of Memorial Day.

Longtime Greenwood resident Joseph Mottle Jr. is a man with a cause.

After his high school principal arranged for an expedited graduation from Lidgerwood High School in tiny Lidgerwood, N.D. (pop. 1,200), young Mottle joined the Merchant Marine in Minneapolis in April 1944 and was immediately posted to the U.S. Maritime Service Training Station in Sheepshead Bay, N.Y., for three months of training.

He completed his training as a Seaman Second Class on June 20, 1944. As a harbinger of things to come, his certificate of graduation specified that the curriculum included 30 hours of elementary gunnery training.

Mottle was originally scheduled to serve as a messman on a ship plying the infamous Murmansk run. However, as fate would have it, when Mottle was sent to New York City to wait for his ship, the Merchant Marine asked for volunteers to go to San Francisco and he accepted that assignment.

Six months after announcing that it had found a new home, the Ballard Food Bank revealed the address – 5130 Leary Ave. N.W. – of the new location it will be moving into this summer.

Nancy McKinney, executive director of the food bank, made the announcement about the move at the Dec. 9 Ballard District Council meeting but did not give the exact address of the new location because the lease had not been signed.

At the meeting, McKinney said the Ballard Food Bank's current building at 7001 24th Ave. N.W. was too small, limiting food storage space and forcing patrons to line up outside the building in the rain and cold while waiting to be served.

She said a residential location for the food bank was not ideal anyway.

"We want to get out of the residential area," she said at the meeting. "It's a bad place for us to be. It really does make my hair gray."

In an announcement about the move sent May 18, McKinney identified the following ways the new location will help the Ballard Food Bank continue its mission:

• Significantly increase capacity to help individuals and families to meet their basic needs.

May 26
AAA Driver Improvement Program--Wesley Terrace Auditorium, 816 South 216th St, Des Moines. 8:30 a.m. - 5 p.m. $16 per person Refresher course on defensive driving skills. Successful course completion qualifies drivers 55 years of age and over for automobile insurance premium discounts. However, all ages are welcome to attend. Pre-registration is required. For enrollment information, call 206-243-3564.
Burien Council Chambers--2:30 to 4:30 PM, members of the Highline Forum will meet at the City of Burien's Council Chambers at 400 SW 152nd Street. The public is invited to observe. If you are interested in receiving a copy of the May 26 agenda, contact Marco Milanese at the Port of Seattle - HYPERLINK "mailto:milanese.m@portseattle.org" milanese.m@portseattle.org or (206) 787-7734.
Business After Hours--Discover Burien and Southwest King County Chamber of Commerce, 5-7 p.m. Wells Fargo Bank. 800 S.W. 152nd St. Free admission, RSVP to the Chamber www.swkcc.org/calOfEvents/default.asp? id=26470&page=displayEvent

Updated May 20

Highline School District staffers are receiving more reaction from the media than parents after a substitute stadium manager was fired for providing health care to student athletes without appropriate medical supervision, according to district spokeswoman Catherine Carbone Rogers.

The state Department of Health has issued an emergency suspension of Jayson Boehm's health license after charging he conducted physical exams of students, gave students injections, and prescribed treatments.

Boehm was licensed as an emergency medical technician, massage practitioner, nursing assistant and counselor but did not have credentials to perform physicals or give injections.

Parents, whose children received physicals from Boehm, were contacted personally by principals about a month ago when his actions were first reported, according to Rogers. The district arranged physicals from the Highline Youth Health Center at district expense for the affected athletes.

In a press release, Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn issued this statement challenging Seattle City Council President Richard Conlin to a debate over the tunnel project:

Statement by Mayor Mike McGinn

“In a blog post today, Richard Conlin put out a number of arguments about why we shouldn’t worry about cost overruns on the tunnel. I have been expressing my concerns about the risk cost overruns pose for our city. How Seattle answers this question will have a major impact on our future. I think it is time that Richard and I air these issues and talk them through in a public forum. A debate like this between us will give the public a chance to decide for themselves whether or not we should worry about cost overruns.”

– Mayor Mike McGinn

Council President Richard Conlin’s blog post:

http://conlin.seattle.gov/2010/05/18/time-to-tell-the-truth-about-costs…

“Time to tell the truth about costs and the viaduct tunnel project”

The singularly named Mugoux said that her dog, Oliver came to her in a dream before she met him. "This is an amazing dog because I dreamt about a dog," Mugoux said," and had no interest in getting a dog. I had a dream where everything was a disaster, but you know how in dreams you go from scene to scene, and they change completely? In my dream there was this little imp of a dog that followed me through every disaster that happened in the dream and I had that dream in May, about four years ago."

At the time she lived in Houston and in late summer she realized she wanted a dog, so she started going to animal rescue shelters and then one day, "I was shocked," she said," I didn't even remember that dream but there he was. He was the dog in my dream! He has been with me now through many an arduous journey."

Mugoux and Oliver (who is a Rat Terrier) have lived in West Seattle for around a year now. He will eat anything but Mugoux said, "He's kind of of a vegetarian. He loves lettuce and carrots and canteloupe. I guess canteloupe would be his favorite food."

Westwood Village is holding their 2nd Annual Westwood Village Street Fair Saturday, May 22, 2010. The event will feature inflatable carnival rides, face painting, a magician, a meet and greet with famous northwest clown JP Patches, a fashion show, plus live performances from the Red Hot Blues Girls and The Memphis Radio Kings.

A free hourly raffle with prizes ranging from gift cards to your favorite Westwood Village Stores to a diamond pendant from Wyatt’s Jewelers.

The event begins at 11AM with the 1st Annual Westwood Village Dog Show with great prizes such as Puppy Vacations, Doggy Spas, grooming certificates, and gift cards.

Entry to the event, rides, and participation is FREE.

The work of sixty talented Westside photographers in their first public exhibition, "Face to Face: Portraits by West Seattle Teens", up May 20 - May 28, 2010, in the West Seattle High School library.

TO SEE A SLIDESHOW OF SOME OF THE STUDENT PHOTOGRAPHS CLICK THE MAIN IMAGE

The West Seattle Expo is a bi-yearly student competition held at West Seattle High to showcase the work of Instructor Martha Tonkin's Photography, Marketing/DECA and Fashion Merchandising students. The Expo is the brainchild of Tonkin, who came up with the idea after completing a two-year "Project Based Learning" training for educators offered by the Seattle Public Schools in 2002. Tonkin loved the basic PBL concept of "teacher as coach, industry-expert as evaluator", and has been using this model in her classroom ever since.

In this curriculum design, industry experts interface with students as both mentors and judges, to develop interesting and complex projects which have "real-world-relevance". Tonkin teams with local industry experts to keep her curriculum continually fresh, full of current theory and practice, and stocked with state-of-the-art technology at all times.

Visitors to Ballard on May 17, and there were many of them, could be forgiven for thinking they had been transported to another time and place. Men and women walked Market Street in traditional Scandinavian outfits, waltzes played on an accordion drifted from Bergen Place and Norwegian flags waved from every flag-able surface.

Ballard's annual Syttende Mai celebration took over the neighborhood, starting with crafts and lunch at the Nordic Heritage Museum and culminating in the parade, with its thousands of participants and onlookers.

Ingrid Chamales, who recently moved to Gig Harbor from South Dakota, was checking out the Nordic Heritage Museum with her husband for the first time on May 17.

Her parents are from Norway, and she said she decided to make the trip from Gig Harbor for the festivities because she read about it in a Sons of Norway magazine.

Chamales' husband was disappointed by the lack of lutefisk but said he would be back for the annual lutefisk-eating contest at the Ballard Seafood Fest.

Following are the winners from the 2010 Syttende Mai Parade. Winners may pick up their trophies at Union Bank (formerly Frontier Bank), located at 5602 15th Ave. N.W.