The West Seattle Rock Club holds its 2010 Rock & Gem Show this weekend, May 1 & 2 at the Alki Masonic Temple, 4736 40th Av. SW, from 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Admission is free. Raffle prises are awarded.
Five large vending booths and many demonstraters are on hand.
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The Ballard High School lacrosse team is on a roll, winning three of its last four matches. And with its April 30 victory over Lake Samammish, the team moved into a tie for sixth place and the league's final playoff spot.
The Beavers were down 8-7 at half but outscored Lake Samammish 5-3 to close out the match and push their record to 5-4 on the season.
Juniors Maddie Soukup and Jayne Barnes led the team in scoring with five and four goals respectively.
Sophomore goalie Hannah Breton finished with 17 saves. That moved her into a tie for second place in the league with 107 saves this season. Her 54-percent save rate is third in the league.
Ballard has two more matches left to secure themselves a playoff spot as a second-year team.
Next up is 14th-place Auburn Mountainview at 5:30 p.m. on May 4 at Ballard High School.
First-place Garfield was too much for the Ballard High School boys soccer team April 30, earning a 3-0 shutout against the Beavers.
Sean Russell, Preston Hale and Aaron Kovar scored for Garfield. Goalie Jackson White earned the shutout.
Ballard is 2-5-3 in KingCo and 3-7-5 overall with one match remaining.
The Beavers square off against Eastlake at 7:30 p.m. on May 4 at Interbay Stadium.
The Ballard High School softball team took a 3-0 lead in the second inning April 30. But after that, it was all Bothell, as the team scored 13 unanswered runs to hand the Beavers one of their worst losses of the season.
The Beavers gave up 12 hits and had three errors as they tied the most points they have given up all season.
Ballard is 3-6 in KingCo and 7-6 overall.
The Beavers face Roosevelt at 4 p.m. on May 3 at Lower Woodland.
The Ballard High School baseball team showed how much it has improved in the second half of the season April 30, losing by one point to a Bothell team that had beaten it by nine a month before.
The Beavers fell into an early 3-0 hole but were able to fight back to tie the game. They again fell into a hole, this time 6-3, only to fight back again. But, the final charge fell just short, as Ballard lost 7-6.
Ballard made the most of its offensive opportunities against Bothell and took advantage of three Bothell errors, scoring six runs on four hits.
Freshman Rory Graf-Brennen went two-for-four with two RBIs. Senior Colin Johnson added the other two RBIs on one-for-three hitting.
The loss puts the Beavers at 5-9 in KingCo and 5-11 overall.
Ballard has one more scheduled game remaining – 7 p.m. on May 4 at Woodinville – but also has a rained-out April 28 game against Roosevelt to make up.
Four Ballard High School athletes had first-place finishes at the April 29 meet against Lake Washington and Bothell.
Three of the first-place finishers – sophomores Alex Bowns (3200 meters), Emma Suchland (100 meters and 200 meters) and Cassie Winter (triple jump) – are all currently in the top 10 in KingCo in their events.
Senior Aaron Hamilton rounded out Ballard's first-place finishes in the 800 meters.
The Herald heard about a very special invitation that was offered to a student at West Seattle High School. We asked her to write about it in her own words.
By Tailor Kowis
On Tuesday, April 13th after non stop thinking about who I would go to my Senior prom with, my best friend Holly came over for a walk to help me get my mind off of it. Or so I thought.
When Holly and I got back to my house, which is faced along Alki Avenue, written in huge colorful letters was the word PROM?
It stretched across my three front windows. I was so surprised!! All I could think was who is asking me to prom right now? We walked into the house and sitting on a table at my front door was a note with my name on it, and two note cards one with the word yes and one with no. Inside the note it said "please pick up the following cards & you will be picking the yes or no cards shortly. Please proceed to your room with both cards in your hand where a man awaits you, and hand the man your chosen card. Choose wisely."
The annual McLendon's Pancake Breakfast and Plant Sale is going on this morning, Saturday May 1 in White Center at 10210 16th Ave. SW.
The event runs until 10 AM but the plant sale continues throughout the day. This is McLendon's 84th Anniversary.
They serve FREE pancakes, sausage, orange juice and coffee. The food is all prepared by Des Moines Creek Restaurant as they have for the past 14 years for all McLendons. "We go through 150 pounds of sausage at each McLendons, of course it depends on the store," said Steven Walsh as he cooked up a large batch. Walsh is married to the "lady who organizes all this every year, Maryanne Bredl. "She actually bakes all the pies for the restaurant and does the Sunday Lunch Buffet," Walsh said.
Last year the White Center store gave away the most food of any of the McLendon's stores.
The plant sale is featuring Fuschias, on sale for $17.84 and visitors each get a free tomato plant, limit one per customer.
As “The Last Station” would have it, Leo Tolstoy spent his final days struggling to master the perils of celebrity rather than the written word. Czarist Russia is shambling towards its doom (the film is set in 1910) and Tolstoy’s ideas on communal ownership of property—and even celibacy—have struck a resonant chord. People hang on his every word. Reporters furiously crank on their primitive motion-picture cameras whenever he steps out the front door of his country estate and sweaty young acolytes split wood at a commune down the road.
Tolstoy (Christopher Plummer) is eating this up. He knows his audience and plays to it, at once disclaiming and yet dressing the part of the intellectual saint with his long, scraggly beard and peasant smock.
