March 2011

Chaco Canyon Organic Cafe that the West Seattle Herald profiled here, is holding an opening party on March 26, ahead of their scheduled April 1 opening. The new restaurant is located at 3770 s.w. Alaska street in the West Seattle triangle. The party will run from 7:00 pm to 11:00 pm.

Featured at the event will be free appetizers, samples of beer and wine and a chance to meet some of the restaurant's vendors plus tour the Link Apartments.

Chaco Canyon is the first café in the Seattle area that features a daily raw foods menu. The cafe will offer vegan sandwiches, several daily hot vegan soups, rice and quinoa bowls, and a daily selection of vegan and wheat/gluten free baked goods, organic juices, coffee, and tea. They are 90% to 97% organic all year.

The company recycles and composts more than 90% of their waste and has no plastic utensils.

The Ridgeback Cafe

500 NW 65th

206-783-4073


Mon 7 am - 6 pm; Tue-Thu 7 am - 9 pm; Fri 7 am - 10 pm; Sat 8 am - 10 pm;
Sun 8 am - 6 pm



Georgetown is, we’ve decided, Ballard’s official sister neighborhood. It’s where Ballardites go when they can’t take it any more: can’t find a parking spot anywhere near Market, can’t squeeze sideways into Ballard eateries or bars, and can’t deal with the influx (especially on Friday and Saturday nights).  
But in a strange twist of reverse Ballard-flee behavior, Ballardians can now escape to Georgetown without leaving Ballard. G-town's beloved Hangar Cafe has opened a satellite on 65th NW, the Ridgeback Cafe, and Justin Taft has brought his crepes up North for us to enjoy.



By Gwen Davis, UW News Lab student

Taproot Theatre continues its 35th anniversary season with Douglas Anderson's thought-provoking play, The Beams are Creaking, a story in which Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a Lutheran German pastor during World War II, decides to stop Hitler and the Nazi party himself while battling questions of morality, political allegiance and religious conviction.

“This script is exciting on a number of levels,” said Karen Lund, the director. “Historically, you don’t think about how German people were working from the inside to try to stop the Nazi Party. But what do you do when you are to murder? That’s a fascinating moral question.”

The play attempts to grapple with the deeper significance of right and wrong, and how the truth can be distorted.

Sonja Lowe, Taproot’s marketing director, said that the play’s power lies in how it forces the viewer to accept that reality and morality are not always simple.

“For Bonhoeffer to enter into a much murkier world of lies, and secrets, and ultimately plots to kill a man,” she said, “that takes a whole lot of a different kind of courage.”

Tully's on Alki has its regulars, and West Seattle-born Janie Hereford Burleigh is one of them, not that many would call her "regular" with a long, colorful life and memory to match.

She often sits in an oversized chair across from the fireplace, armed with a thick book. Her quiet husband, Darrel, is usually with 10 feet of her, reading the book she'd just finished. (She recommends The Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet set in Seattle's Skid Road.) But if you can get her to look up, Janie's twinkling eyes seem to light up the room, and some of her stories she might share of her West Seattle days of yore seem to distract even the most electronically plugged-in hipsters in the place.

WHERE IT BEGAN

"I was born in 1921, and lived at 5646 32nd Avenue (SW) by Juneau St. It was a safer world. My mother wasn't worried about me being out there in the woods by myself all day. I'd bring a tuna sandwich and practice performing. I'd stand on one of those big wide stumps and really let it out without anybody to hear me so I wouldn't get embarrassed.

At a public workshop in Burien on March 16, King County Parks director Kevin Brown said planners received excellent feedback on the Burien portion of the Lake to Sound Trail.

The trail is a proposed 16-mile-long biking and walking trail that would link the shoreline of Lake Washington at Gene Coulon Park in Renton to the shoreline of Puget Sound at Beach Park in Des Moines, while also passing through the cities of Tukwila, SeaTac and Burien.

The trail would also connect to four regional trails: The Des Moines Creek and Westside trails, plus King County's Green River and Cedar River regional trails.

Part of the trail would be along Des Moines Memorial Drive from South 156th Street in SeaTac to South Normandy Road in Burien.

The Burien portion is the first phase of new trail to be built.
Brown said he expects the design to be completed by mid-2012.

"We are aggressively looking for state and federal funding,' Brown declared.
He admitted that with the economic downturn, "the grant process is more competitive."
But he noted that the county, along with the five cities involved, are committed to the project.

Press Release:
The White Center community is gearing up for its annual Spring Clean, an event that brings together volunteer youth and elders, business owners and residents, and diverse people together to work, clean and improve the
neighborhood’s physical environment.

“I hear people all the time say this is the event they look forward to each year, and we’re proud of how its grown to be truly driven by community interests and people power,” said Aileen Balahadia, Executive Director of the White Center Community Development Association.

The White Center CDA is a catalyst for a healthy community and new prosperity in White Center- so it’s a better place to visit, shop, and live. Asked why she participates in the Spring Clean event, White Center resident Julia Bautista Salinas said: “Everyone in White Center benefits from events like Spring Clean because it helps create a clean look for the community and helps erase negative nicknames. This event makes me proud to say I am from White Center.”

"Gem" is a 4 month-old blue nose pitbull puppy and she seems to stay one or two steps ahead of her opponent who happens to be her owner, on the Delridge Playfield soccer area.

The Chief Sealth Seahawks and West Seattle High School Wildcats varsity soccer teams were evenly matched in the first half at 0-0, but the Hawks broke away in the second half with four unanswered goals. They were made by, in order:

# 7, Simon Crean, Junior
# 8, Brandon Rosarion, Junior
#24 Abdinasar Galgalo Senior
#19 Hector Ramirez, Senior

"We came out kind of flat the first half," said head coach Ron Johnson. "Second half we got to our game speed. All four goals were in the second half. Last year we were able to beat West Seattle two times in a row. That was the first time in 12 years I've been able to do that. Chief Sealth has got over 60 players on our three teams, Varsity, we have a JV and C team. It's going to be nice once the rubber gets packed in."

"The field is very nice," said #16, Mohamed Harun, a senior. "It's very comfortable. You don't get injured that much on this field. This one is way better," he said, comparing the new field to Denny/Sealth Sports Field.

Press Release:

Select members of the cast of the locally homegrown TV pilot, The Divine Marigolds, will be at Celtic Swell in West Seattle tonight to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day!

After making appearances in the Seattle St. Patrick’s Day parade and the Seattle Center Irish Festival, the Marigolds team head to the Celtic Swell in West Seattle to celebrate the success of the show with fans, family and friends! The show will be filmed at the Celtic Swell as well as other Seattle haunts Husky Deli, Alki Bike and Board and the Villa Heidelberg.

The show, which is an off kilter family comedy about an large Irish American family living in Seattle, was created by a team of 5 local creators, Lisa Coronado, Jeremiah Kaynor, Will Chase, Jordin Mitchel and Alder Sherwood. The team along with other local crew and talent are producing a Seattle TV in the vein of Arrested Development and Malcolm and the Middle.

The Celtic Swell: http://celticswell.com/

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/?tid=1685130444506&sk=messages#!/pages/The-Divi…

Website: www.thedivinemarigolds.com.

Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/divinemarigolds

Press Release:
Every year, every associate with Keller Williams Realty across the nation volunteers one full day to community service which would be equal to one person working 40 hours per week for 174 years! The brokers, family, friends, and business partners of Keller Williams Realty—Seattle Metro West will be volunteering a combined 432 hours to a local community project on Red Day 2011, May 12th.

This will be equal to one person working 40 hours per week for 2 1/2 months!

We are looking for a West Seattle project to throw our talents, energy, and labor into. If you know of a worthy project or individual that would benefit from our ef-forts, we would love to hear from you. Any local project could be a candidate for consideration such as a senior in need of home maintenance or repairs, a West Se-attle community project, or a service or non-profit group in need of assistance.

Please submit your project ideas no later than March 30th, 2011 to Keller Williams Seattle Metro West @ 206-935-3442 or hominee@kw.com We are eager to hear from you!