January 2011

The girls basketball team faced the Skyline Spartans in an away game last night.

Skyline took the lead in the first quarter and played a tough defensive game for the remainder of the game, forcing the Beavers into 31 turnovers. 

At halftime the Beavers came close to catching up but were unable to score in the third quarter.

The Beavers defense tried to hold the Spartans who ended the game five points below their season average.

The final score was 48 for the Spartans to 33 for the Beavers.

The girls play again on Friday night in a home game against Garfield, one of the top teams in state.

Seattle Christian Schools will hold an open house for future families, K-12 on Tuesday, Jan. 11 at 7 p.m.
The open house is for students enrolling for the 2011-2012 school year.
According to school officials, Seattle Christian offers top-rated academics,
excellent athletics, fine arts and co-curricular programs, before and after school care.
The schools have approximately 600 students on a 13.5-acre campus, just off Interstate 5 in SeaTac.
For more information, contact Fran Hubeek, Admissions Coordinator, at 206.246.8241 or www.seattlechristian.org.

King County Prosecuting Attorney Dan Satterberg will deliver a talk entitled “CSI: King County: "How prosecutors use forensic science tools to find the truth and convict the guilty" on Thursday, Jan. 6 to members of the Burien/White Center Rotary.
According to Satterberg’s office, prosecutors use many types of evidence to prove their cases in court. Often times the most powerful evidence comes from science. Satterberg will discuss the many ways in which forensic evidence leads to the finding of truth in the courtroom in King County.
Satterberg, a Normandy Park resident, will be speaking at Angelo's Italian Restaurant in Burien at noon. Angelo's is located at 601 SW 153rd Street, Burien.

Highline Community College is bringing controversial 1960s activist Bill Ayers to its Des Moines campus as part of the college’s 19th annual commemoration of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
Ayers will be speak Thursday, Jan. 20 at 11 a.m. in the Highline Student Union Building (Building 8) in the Mt. Constance and Mt. Olympus rooms. His topic is “Education for Democracy: School Reform and the Legacy of Martin Luther King.” His talk will be followed by a question and answer session at noon.
Ayers is a retired professor in the College of Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He formerly held the titles of Distinguished Professor of Education and Senior University Scholar.
But it was his activism in the 1960s and 1970s that made him an issue in the 2008 Presidential campaign.
Some charged that candidate Barack Obama had been too close to Ayers, a fellow Chicago resident.
In 1969, Ayers co-founded the Weather Underground, a self-identified radical group opposed to U.S. involvement in Vietnam. The group was tied to the bombing of public buildings during the 1960s and 1970s.
Ayers is married to Bernardine Dohrn, another former Weather group leader.

The Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) will mark a major milestone AT 3 p.m. today by signing a contract with Seattle Tunnel Partners to design and build the SR 99 bored tunnel.

In addition to Seattle Tunnel Partners’ proposal price of just under $1.09 billion, the contract includes funds allocated for inflation during the project and for bonding and insurance requirements.

In December, WSDOT opened bids and identified the best apparent value for design and construction of the bored tunnel to replace the SR 99 Alaskan Way Viaduct. Based on a combination of bid price and technical score, Seattle Tunnel Partners was named the apparent best-value bidder.

Signing ceremony takes place at 3 p.m. at the Port of Seattle Atrium. 2711 Alaskan Way.

For more information on the Alaskan Way Viaduct and Seawall Replacement program, visit www.alaskanwayviaduct.org.

The boys basketball team hosted Skyline last night for a tight home game.

Ballard had a six-point lead in the first quarter but Skyline battled back, leading by one point going into the third quarter.

Ballard came back and took the lead again but by the time the buzzer sounded at the end of the last quarter, the game had still not been decided. Tied at 54, they went into overtime in which Skyline managed to outscore Ballard by eight points. The final score was 60 to 68.

Ballard's Salim Gloyd finished with 29 points and 10 rebounds. He now has eight double-doubles this season.

Ballard's next home game is Friday at 8 p.m. against Garfield.

They are not in the same South Puget Sound League division anymore, and they are not even in the same classification.

Thomas Jefferson is at the Class 4A level and playing in the SPSL North, while Decatur dropped into the SPSL's Class 3A division.

But both are in the same location as before, and it's not like they don't know each other..

"It is nice to beat a crosstown rival, especially when it's the place I coached for four years," said TJ head coach Kyle Templeton, who used to be an assistant at Decatur.

Templeton's team had just beaten perennial power Decatur, 71-61, in the opening game of the Gators' 2010 Bill Riley Communities Holiday Classic.

"We had lost four in a row to awful good teams," Templeton said. "To beat a good team, I was happy with that."

TJ went on to finish second in the four-team tournament with an 82-52 loss to the Lincoln Abes of Tacoma, while Decatur finished fourth with an 88-44 loss to Rogers.

The Gators finished the tournament with a 5-4 overall record and TJ stood at 3-6. Lincoln, meanwhile, ran its record to 7-1 and Rogers left the tournament with a 6-3 mark.

Monday, Dec. 20
Girls basketball
Sumner 69,, Decatur 30
Decatur took a lopsided non-league loss in Monday, Dec. 20 action.
Mt. Rainier 57, Lakeside 53
The Rams rolled to a close victory over perennially tough Lakeside last Monday.
Tyee 56, Foss 39
Tyee trounced the Falcons in a Monday, Dec. 20 battle.

Tuesday, Dec. 21
Boys basketball
Bonney Lake 80, Foster 74
Foster fell short against Bonney Lake last Tuesday.
Inglemoor 49, Highline 47
Two points separated the Pirates from victory last Tuesday.
Evergreen 52, Centralia 50
The Wolverines also fell two points shy in Tuesday, Dec. 21 non-league action.
Bear Creek 55, Tyee 47
Last Tuesday the Totems took a non-league loss to Bear Creek.
Girls basketball
Chief Sealth 60, Evergreen 42
Evergreen went up against its close but non-league rivals from Chief Sealth on Tuesday, Dec. 21.
Foster 50, Blanchet 47
The Bulldogs chalked up a non-league victory over Banchet last Tuesday.

Wednesday, Dec. 22
Boys basketball
Decatur 86, Wenatchee 68
The Gators reversed the score on Wenatchee in a lopsided non-league win last Wednesday.
Cascade Chr. 81, Foster 69

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After keeping people waiting in anticipation for months, the "OPEN" sign is finally lit.

"I'm just excited to be open," said co-owner Renee Steen.

"I have this first-day-of-school feeling. You know, 'are they going to like me?'"

Today is Pie's soft opening as the two owners are still putting finishing touches on the interior and exterior of the Fremont shop.

Steen was ringing up the customers and brewing coffee while Jessamy Whitsitt stood in her open kitchen mixing the ingredients for a peanut butter pie.

The shop's space is open and inviting. All the ingredients are on display and customers can observe Whitsitt as she bakes.

Steen said they're considering doing Free Latte Friday until they get used to the new espresso machine.

For a savory breakfast, it's a toss up between the huevos rancheros pie or the sausage and potato pie with an egg baked on top.

For a sweeter start, Whitsitt said she makes a killer apple pie.

Read more about the new shop in our previous coverage, here.

The last two weeks have seemed like one long buffet table such that I stopped tracking anything else. Then at one party my friend and fellow freelance journalist Scott McCredie inadvertently jogged my memory about a calendar entry. He commented that he and his wife rarely go out for breakfast any more because it’s gotten so expensive.
In response I started yelling “Blood drive. Blood drive” while hitting one of his upper arms. The connection, only obvious to me, was the next day’s Puget Sound Blood Drive at Ballard/Swedish and their incredibly reasonable, made-to-order omelets.
I try to be a regular blood donor but I’m too much a creature of impulse; which is why I’d noted the date posted in the elevator for the December 23rd blood drive in an attempt to plan ahead. Blood banks always need donations around the holidays and they have been struggling to refill their supply ever since storms kept so many donors away at Thanksgiving.