March 2011

Deadline for receiving items for On The Go is Noon Friday for the following week’s print edition of the Herald/News. Events are published based on timeliness and space availability. Email event submissions to: calendar@robinsonnews.com.

Items can be accepted from nonprofit groups and government agencies only. Others may call Richard Sherman 206-708-1378 for inclusion in our “Out & About” advertising column in the print edition.

Discovery Shop
4535 California Ave. S.W.
206-937-7169
50% OFF All Men’s Wear: Sunday, 3/27, thru, Saturday, 4/2. Pink-tagged items $1: Wednesday, 3/23, thru Thursday, 3/31. 50% OFF blue-Tagged items, Friday April 1 and forward. The Shop is open on Sundays 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. All other days the Shop is open for our valued customers & donors purchasing and/or contributing goods; offering estates or financial support from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m

West Seattle Food Bank Collection Sites

Press release:
True Value Company recently recognized 13 True Value hardware stores, selected from each of the co-op’s retail regions, as winners of its fourth annual “Best Hardware Store in Town” nationwide recognition. Bruce Davis of Junction True Value is one of the winning retailers announced at True Value’s 2011 Spring & Rental Market, held in Orlando, Fla., in January.

This newly remodeled store continues to be a community fixture, more than 50 years after John Davis began managing the store. Now, John’s son Bruce is in charge and – despite several relocations to meet the growing demands of its customers – Junction True Value is known for its niche businesses. Community service and offering leadership in the West Seattle Junction development projects set the store above and beyond its competition. In addition to being active members of the Junction Association, Arts West Theater, the store supports local school auctions, the YMCA, the West Seattle Food Bank and the West Seattle Helpline.

In addition to Junction True Value’s deep involvement in the community, the store relies on its employees to help customers solve their hardware needs.

To the editor:
Hello my name is Gisselle Perez. I am a fifth grader at Napa Valley Language Academy
in Napa, California. The reason I am writing to you is because my class is doing state
reports, and I have chosen your fantastic state, Washington. I would really like it if you
posted my letter in your newspaper so that I can get all the help I need for my report.
What I need from you and your readers are pamphlets, post cards, souvenirs or
anything that would be useful. I will be writing about your stateʼs agriculture, famouse
people, events, history, and National Parks. I will be doing a Microsoft Power Point and
formal written report. Thank you for your support and help in making me a great
research of your astounding state.

Sincerely,
Gisselle Perez
% Mrs. Franco
2700 Kilburn Ave.
Napa, Ca 94558

Dear Editor,

I read the article from your March 1st West Seattle Herald regarding the West Seattle Rainbow Girls.  Your reporter, Steve Shay, did a wonderful job depicting what The International Order of the Rainbow is about.

Students, parents, teachers and community members are joining forces to reduce the amount of electricity and water Seattle uses as a part of HP3’s Greenest Neighbor and Cool School Challenge.

Participants from over 15 different neighborhoods around Seattle are competing to be named Seattle’s Greenest Neighbor by having the greatest reduction in their electricity and utility usage.

Five local, West Seattle schools have also taken the challenge to make their school greener by increasing recycling efforts, and reducing their electricity consumption by making a conscious effort to turn off classroom lights and electronics after use. *The schools are not competing against one another.

Winners from the Greenest Neighbor Challenge will be announced April 16, 2011 during the HP3 Green Leaf Festival.

HP3’s unique 16-mile Adventure Race crisscrosses the Delridge community and features multiple challenges, including: generating kilowatts on a stationary electricity-producing bike, carrying two 5-gallon buckets of gravel over a series of routes, pushing a wheelbarrow full of mulch and planting trees.

The chair has long transformed from a functional piece of furniture to a symbol of dignity that is still used as the emblem of authority. Given the rich history of the chair and the ubiquity of the form, the Seattle Design Center and Pratt Fine Arts Center, two icons of Seattle design, launched a project to pair the creativity of designers and artists to design today's chair.

For The Chair Projects, designers were paired with artists and each team was given the bones of a chair by Chicago furniture maker, Baker and the task to morph it into their own. The chairs will be on display throughout Seattle until they're auctioned off in August.

“The idea for the chair project started by wondering how to create a partnership between the worlds of art and design [...] using an iconic furniture item, like a chair, as the foundation for a shared project.” said Craig Cross, marketing manager of Seattle Design Center.

Ballard artist Tom DeGroot paired with designer Gretchen Evans at his studio at Salty Dog Studios in Ballard to create a chair titled "She fancied herself a refined but dangerous raconteuse".

Poetrybridge:

Come join us this Wednesday, at C&P Coffee, 5612 California Ave SW, to hear this month's featured readers Murray Gordon and Moreah staring at 7:00 p.m. Open mic will follow after a short break with Open Mic signups at 6:45. More info at:

http://www.poetrybridge.net/Site/Welcome.html

Last Monday police responded to a burglary call on the 3000 block of 39th Ave s.w. The victim is building a house at the location and told police sometime over the weekend a thief “burrowed through the dirt and under the garage door.” Once inside, the unknown suspect broke off a piece of piece of copper pipe sticking out of the wall, causing water to free flow into the garage all weekend. The subfloor and floor insulation were ruined and will need to be replaced. The suspect decided to use the back door instead of the burrow hole on the way out.

West Seattle, South Park and Georgetown are among the Seattle neighborhoods in which the Washington Department of Ecology will sample soils for dioxins and furans. The agency is conducting a statewide study on their presence in local soils. They will be collecting 120 samples in 20 randomly chosen locations in both rural and urban areas of Washington.

Starting the week of March 28 soil samples will be taken in several Seattle neighborhoods.

The City of Seattle is acting as a partner in the study which will take soil samples along public road right-of-ways including planting strips.

The Seattle locations include South Park, Georgetown, Ravenna, Capitol Hill, West Seattle, Fremont and Ballard. The goal of the study is to determine the range and amount of dioxins in urban areas of Washington, including some areas in Seattle.

The samples will be taken during March and April. The samples will come from publicly accessible locations on public right-of-ways. No sampling will be done on private property. They don't anticipate any interruption of vehicle or pedestrian traffic.

by Debbie Smith

I’m not talking about the really bad guys; the ones who shouldn’t be walking our streets in the first place. I’m referring to the punks who drink too much and then create chaos on our City streets or who get in a fight or steal a car or maybe shoplift from the local 7-11. Not to say that those are not serious crimes, they are. But they aren’t usually the crimes that warrant a life in prison verdict in court.

The “bad guys” of today are wimps. They have lost their sense of honor that they once had. What?! Honor, you ask?