January 2011

A meeting will be held on Tuesday Jan. 18 to discuss the upcoming Awareness Vigil for Jeremy Peck, scheduled to happen Jan. 23. The meeting will be held at the Chelan Cafe at 3527 Chelan Avenue Southwest (map).

The Facebook Page for the group Find Jeremy Peck is the central online way to share information and coordinate search efforts.

Peck, 24, has been missing since Christmas Eve. Read more about the vigil and Peck's disappearance here.

Meeting organizer Ben Doty shared the agenda with the West Seattle Herald.

Marty Riemer, the well known announcer, DJ and West Seattle resident is headed back to The Mountain. KMTT, 103.7 FM his radio home for more than 12 years. Station management finally heard the call of Riemer's league of listeners and are bringing him back to broadcasting after unceremoniously dumping him in September 2009.

Riemer said he had no idea this might happen, even though he was aware of the fervent hope his many fans had expressed.

"It was a three month courting process," Riemer explained, "and my first reaction was, 'they want to make nice, it's just a way for them to bury the bad blood.' That's what I originally thought. Then first time we got together we had lunch and talked about random things in the world…and I said 'O.K. there you go it's nothing about a job. Then the second time it was two managers that got together with me over lunch and at that point I said, 'Somethings up."

At that meeting he heard something else he didn't expect. An apology. When they let he and his broadcast partner Jodi Brothers go they were literally and suddenly escorted out of the station by a guard.

By Keith Daigle

The Chief Sealth boys basketball team played a tough game against Seattle Prep on Friday night, Jan. 14, losing 57-50.

The Chief Sealth Seahawks were dominated by the Seattle Prep Panthers in the first half; while the Seahawks were never far behind but just could not wrest the lead from the Panthers. They ended the half 26-23 Panthers.

In the beginning of the second half the Seahawks drew first blood. After a battle for the ball at the Panthers’ basket the Seahawks ran it down the court for a layup.

The Seahawks saw themselves in the lead for the first time in the game in the middle of the third quarter when Chief Sealth junior John Aguilar sank a basket for a score of 29-28. This began a back-and-forth battle between teams for the lead that lasted well into the fourth quarter.

Toward the end of the fourth quarter the Panthers rallied for four points in a row, breaking a tie and making the score 45-41.
After the Panthers rally the Seahawks were left trying to catch up for the rest of the game and never quite got there.

Suspected gender bender bank robber arrested
Kent police arrested a Des Moines woman on Tuesday, Jan. 18, following a bank robbery in Kent. She is thought to be connected with numerous robberies throughout the area. The woman was arrested following a robbery at the Alaska USA Federal Credit Union on SE 240th Street in Kent on Tuesday. Employees and witnesses were able to write down the license plate number of the car she left in, and a short time later she was spotted, pulled over and arrested.
It's believed that the 53-year-old woman is the prime suspect in a series of robberies in West Seattle, Burien, Kirkland and northeast Seattle. The robber was nicknamed "Mrs. Doubtfire" because of her appearance. The woman has been booked into the King County Jail.

Copper wire theft

A party at a house in White Center “went bad” early Sunday morning, Jan. 16th. Numerous shots were fired about 3:10 a.m. by one suspect and one man was hit. He is at Harborview Medical Center after undergoing emergency surgery.

The house is in the 600 block of S.W. 107th St. A number of people were at the party and a fight broke out when one of the party-goers apparently grabbed the buttock of one of the female guests. Her boyfriend took exception and there was a fistfight. One person was ejected from the house.

About an hour later several men came back to the house, pounded on the front door, and then fired several rounds from a handgun into the house. A 20 year-old Seattle man was hit in the torso. The suspects fled.

The Sheriff's Office was alerted to the shooting by neighbors.

Friends of the victim drove him to Harborview where he remains in critical condition. The friends remained and were interviewed by detectives.

There have been no arrests and the case is under investigation.

By Keith Daigle

The Chief Sealth girls basketball team fell to Seattle Prep Friday night, Jan. 14, losing 73-48.

The Chief Sealth Seahawks played a hard game in the first half, rallying some early points against Seattle Prep in the first quarter.

The Seattle Prep Panthers did not take long to find their stride and once they did it was over for the Seahawks.

After the first half the Seahawks’ game fell apart, scoring only 10 points in the third quarter and two in the fourth quarter.

The Seahawks ended the game with a losing record of 1-7 in the conference and a 3-7 record overall. Their next opponents will be Rainier Beach, who shares a similar record to Chief Sealth. Rainier Beach’s loss to Archbishop Murphy on Jan. 12 gave them a conference record of 1-6 and an overall record of 2-6.

The Seattle Prep Panthers faced Bishop Blanchet in a Wed. Jan. 13 away game. The Panthers will enter the game with a conference record of 7-3 and an overall record of 8-5. Bishop Blanchet comes to the game as the underdogs with a conference record of 6-5 and an overall record of 6-8.

The 195 unit Link Apartments in the West Seattle Triangle at 4550 38th Ave. s.w. is now actively on the site in a retro Airstream trailer, serving as the office for the leasing agents.

"We're giving tours and leasing apartments," said Rose Manos," and we have four rented and we've been open for three full days so far."

They are on site from 8:00 am to 5:00 pm and while you can just walk up and knock on the trailer door, they would prefer that you call ahead and make an appointment. You can call 206.937.LINK(5465) to make one.
You can also reach them via email at live@linkapts.com.

The one bedroom apartments start in the "lower 900's" according to Manos and of the nearly 200 units they are the most common. They will have some other units available as well including two bedroom, ground floor lofts and penthouse lofts. "The highest one is just slightly over $1900," Manos said, "The two bedrooms start in the mid $1500's and go up to around $2200."

West Seattle's Nancy McManus, an Admiral resident, seems to have been a bigger winner than the Seahawks Sunday, Jan. 16. She won two tickets to the game at Chicago's blustery Soldier Field and cheered Seattle. OK, so the Hawks lost their grip on the frozen ball, but McManus still had fun with her daughter Delaney,12, an Explorer West student, in tow.

"There was a Facebook contest between the Space Needle's Sky City and the John Hancock Observatory to write why you should go," said McManus. The West Seattle Herald reached her today by phone at a coffee shop by South Michigan Ave. near Soldier Field. "I won two tickets to the game, a night stay at the Essex Hotel, and dinner for four at Sky city when I return."

She felt the Seahawks would have been much more competitive if they were not plagued with injured players.

And while the Chicago Bears are a rough-and-tumble team, McManus emphasized that the fans were gracious toward her, even while wearing her Seahawks hat.

"You know what? People have been so overwhelmingly friendly," she said of the Bears fans. "They teased us and gave us a hard time, but it was all good-natured fun."

Did you ever wonder why we know so much about some things and almost nothing about other things? It all depends upon who is able to secure a research grant to find out. I know you have heard it from me before but here again it depends upon the man’s world in which mostly men set research agendas. If you want to read research about whether Pluto is a real planet, you can find plenty on that subject. Even if you are looking for investigation on the tensile strength of cookies you will find it easily. After all, some corporation wanted to produce a cookie that would hold up well under packaging and transportation from factory to consumer and so this study came about.

But try and find out what effect soda drinks have on young children and you may have a problem. The big companies who distribute their soda drinks around the world don’t want anyone to know that such drinks are not hydrating and that soda in excess is not healthful. Children sitting in front of TV and other screens sipping such drinks mean big bucks to the cola corporations.

On Jan. 12 shortly after 10 a.m. a woman was in her basement on Fauntleroy Way s.w. when she heard her two small dogs barking excitedly upstairs. She found the spontaneous cacophony odd and joined in, yelling at the dogs several times to quiet down. After ten minutes the dogs kept yelping so the woman went upstairs to investigate. She discovered the back door into the kitchen was wide open and wet footprints led from the door into the living room, then back out the same way. It appeared the burglar had time to ruffle through some papers and bills on a dining table, but nothing was stolen. The woman believes she scared the suspect away when she called up for her dogs to quit barking. The responding police officer inspected the area for evidence, found none and advised the woman, “to consider a house alarm, a large loud dog, and better security doors to help prevent further incidents.”