August 2010

The annual Ballard Art in the Garden Festival returned to the Ballard P-Patch from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Aug. 21.

Hundreds of Ballardites roamed amongst the beds of sunflowers, artichokes and tomatoes while listening to music and admiring pieces from 25 local artists.

A lot of people in the neighborhood don't know the Ballard P-Patch, located at Northwest 85th Street and 25th Avenue Northwest, is there, said Mark Cooper, who tends a plot in the garden.

Art in the Garden is a great way to get attention for the P-Patch, Cooper said.

In addition to music, art and, of course, the gardens, the festival featured a flower sale, children's painting, a bake sale, a puppet show, a barbecue, a silent auction and more.

Cooper said, though it's cliched, a community garden is not really about the garden, it's about the community.

"It's great to be among fellow gardeners," he said. "There's a real sense of community to it."

Click the image above for a slideshow from the 2010 Art in the Garden Festival.

Saturday Aug. 21 was the last day Safeway in the Admiral District was open. A new one will replace it, to open in 11 months. The shelves are empty, and many items have been on sale.

The store is closing to be replaced by a larger Safeway Lifestyle store to be open next year. Our original coverage of that story is here.

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A water pistol fight broke out at high noon Saturday, Aug. 21, at the Junction during the West Seattle Junction Association's Big Bonanza End of Summer Sale. Red balloons decorated storefronts along California Avenue wooing customers into shops as the weather cooperated.

Coupon handouts at the Junction are good for 12 stores, including Cupcake Royale, Capers, Donna Ryan Photography Studio and Boutique, Sound Advice, Clementine, Jan's Beauty Supply, Snap Fitness, Table 35, Coffee to a Tea with Sugar, Bella Nova Spa, Super Supplements and Wild Rose's Antiques & Gifts.

Also 20 Junction merchants are participating today in the"Market Bucks" promotion.

Life Care Center of West Seattle at 4700 Southwest Admiral Way held their Community Fair and Artshow on Saturday Aug. 21 showing residents and doctors artwork.

Approximately 75 people showed up for the event.

Helen Peneueta showed her artwork. Dr. Brian Bleau and Dr. Stan Schiff showed their photographs from around the world.

Tatiana Brown and Quata Cody showed their artwork as well.

The next event coming up is the Antique Roadshow on Sept. 25 from 10am to 2pm and West Seattle residents are encouraged to bring your antiques for a free appraisal. Six certified appraisers will be on hand for the event including one for coins and precious metals, and one more for dolls and english pottery, european rugs.

I just picked the most beautiful bloom in my garden. It is huge, almost a foot across, and white as snow, with wonderful lavender under colors. And, the best part about it is I’m going to eat it for dinner!

What is this edible, forgotten flower in my garden? It’s cauliflower!

Cauliflower is one of the cruciferous vegetables, like broccoli and Brussels sprouts. Try these easy ways to get this cancer-preventing vegetable into your family’s meals. Chances are, once they try these, cauliflower won’t be forgotten any longer!

Indian Curried Cauliflower

• 1 head cauliflower
• 2-3 tablespoons olive oil
• 1-2 tablespoons curry powder (try Penzeys or World Spice)

Heat oven to 450°F. Cut cauliflower into flowerets. Toss with oil and curry powder. Bake for about 15-20 minutes or until tender. Makes 4 servings.

Nutritional Information (per serving)
Calories: 107
Carbohydrates: 9 grams
Protein: 3 grams
Fat: 7 grams
Sodium: 46 milligrams

Cauliflower Slaw

• 1 head cauliflower
• 2 cloves garlic
• 2 tablespoons lemon juice

Recently while traveling through airports in America I was struck by the “Headline News” that seem to be a fixation for much of the news media, and presumably the nation, about a recent parochial school graduate who has excelled as an “Indoor Gladiator.” It seemed that he was about to pick a coliseum to “Play” in and the entire media was in a frenzy about where this might be! There has been no mention of the academic skills of this “Gladiator.”

I wondered if this might have been the case in Roman times when coliseum games were the “major leagues.” As I recall these games were taking place at a time when a certain other group, Barbarians, whose focus was on “Burning and Pillaging” were approaching major coliseums with the idea of applying their skills.

I think that this analogy has some merit. Here in Federal Way schools we were fortunate enough to have many kids who were invited to the join the major leagues, but I saw no notice of these invitations in the local paper! Many had to make some very difficult decisions that would have some very long term effects.

2010 Football Schedule
Thursday, Sept. 2

Decatur at Kennedy

Friday, Sept. 3

Bremerton at Foster
Highline at Nathan Hale
Kentwood at Mt. Rainier

Saturday, Sept. 4

Tyee at Chief Leschi

Friday, Sept. 10

Kennedy at Arch Bishop Murphy
Fife at Evergreen
Clover Park at Foster
Mt. Rainier at Auburn

Saturday, Sept. 11

Seattle Prep at Highline

Thursday, Sept. 16

Kentlake at Mt. Rainier

Friday, Sept. 17

Tyee at Evergreen
Highline at Foster

Saturday, Sept. 18

Hazen at Kennedy

Thursday, Sept. 23

Foster at Tyee

Friday, Sept. 24

Evergreen at Kennedy
Highline at Renton
Mt. Rainier at Kent-Meridian

Thursday, Sept. 30

Lindbergh at Highline

Friday, Oct. 1

Kennedy at Foster
Tyee at Renton
Aub.-Riv. at Mt. Rainier

Saturday, Oct. 2

Hazen at Evergreen

Thursday, Oct. 7

Tyee at Lindbergh, 6:30 p.m.
Mt. Rainier at Kentridge

Friday, Oct. 8

Foster at Evergreen
Highline at Hazen

Saturday, Oct. 9

Renton at Kennedy

Thursday, Oct. 14

Spanaway Lake at Mt. Rainier

Friday, Oct. 15

Hazen at Foster
Lindbergh at Kennedy
Evergreen at Renton

Saturday, Oct. 16

This weekend seems to have been selected by a number of good causes as the right time for fundraising so if you can make it to all of them you should or pick at least one to throw your support behind to offer some help.

ECOSS Garage Sale
ECOSS in South Park is holding a community Garage Sale on Saturday at Duwamish Waterway Park, 7900 10th Ave. S from 11:00am to 3:00pm.
Proceeds from the garage sale will go towards establishing WiFi internet access along the 14th Avenue retail corridor. All items that do not sell will be donated to the Providence Regina House.

Jarod Newlove family benefit

A feed store in suburbia is an oxymoron. Who needs a bale of hay? Who needs 100 lbs of grain? What are those little chirping sounds? Who goes there?

One minute inside Hayes Feed & Country Store in Old Burien reveals the answers. Many, many people it seems.

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"Business is great!," says Mark (no last name). Mark escorts us around the store. There are bins with baby chicks constantly chirping .

There is a sense that you are stepping back in time--longer than maybe even the 60-odd years the store has occupied this part of town, longer in the manner that relics from the early farming days of our own community seem to peek out from a lonely, lofty perch. Not needed on today's modern farm, special tools adorn the walls where, if removed, the dust shadow would show their position. Rolls of wire rest like summer sausage in a butcher shop, waiting to be consumed by a local farmer who wants to raise some livestock.

Nashville-based Soles4Souls®, one of the fastest growing charities in North America, facilitates the donation of both new and used shoes. Collecting shoes from the warehouses of footwear companies and the closets of people like you, the charity has, to date, donated over 8 million pair of shoes to people in need - both in the US and around the world. Over 1.5 billion pair of shoes lay idle in American closets, over 300 million children around the world are without shoes. Soles4Souls® has a simple mission: To impact as many lives as possible with the gift of shoes.

Sippin’ 4 Soles is a fundraiser aimed at helping support the work of Soles4Souls® in Haiti. In August, Seattle native, Ruth Clark, will be traveling to Haiti with Soles4Souls®, delivering and distributing shoes to those in need. The tax-deductible donations raised
at Sippin’ 4 Soles will go directly toward this Haitian relief trip, providing shoes and other necessary relief to those affected by the massive earthquake this past January.

Please join us for wine tasting, hors d'oeuvres, live music with The Fabulous Po’ Boys...raising money to help bring soles to Haiti......one sip at a time.