April 2011

Seattle music legend Duff McKagan and his band rocked the roof off Neumos on Capitol Hill last night with the support of West Seattle musicians, filmmakers, and many fans. When West Seattle filmmaker Jamie Chamberlin was no on stage himself, armed with his instrument, a video camera filming the action, he was shoehorned in the front row pressed against the fans and the edge of the stage to get more close-up footage. Assisting him with a second video camera was Eric Cozens, a Loaded fan, and the well-known co-owner of the Mission Latin Restaurant & Lounge in the Admiral Junction.

Backing up "Duff" were Loaded guitarist and vocalist Mike Squires, shirtless drummer Isaac Carpenter, and bass player, vocalist, and West Seattle resident Jeff Rouse.

West Seattle fans included Emily Shepherd, the sister of Soundgarden bassist Ben Shepherd, rock opera composer Reed Hutchinson, members of West Seattle band Villains of Yesterday, musician and co-owner of Shadowland Ben Jenkins, and Chamberlin's girlfriend, Kathy Bell.

By David Rosen

Today marked the 72nd Annual Easter Sunrise Service at Forest lawn Cemetery located at 6701 30th Ave s.w.

The service began around 6:30 am. About 80 people were in attendance.

They started with an opening prayer led by Ron Rice from West Side Presbyterian Church.

Words from scripture and a sermon was then read by Pastor Randy Leskovar from Calvary Chapel. The service also had an offering led by Pastor Ron Marshall from The First Lutheran Church of West Seattle, followed by the closing Benediction from Father John Madigan from Holy Rosary Church.

After the service was over people enjoyed an overflowing Easter breakfast.

The Sunrise Service is sponsored by the West Seattle Ministerial Association in cooperation with Forest Lawn Cemetery and Funeral Home. They noted their indebtedness to their staff for hosting, furnishing the refreshments, and the physical set-up for this service.

A special thanks was given to the Kiwanis Club of West Seattle for providing greeters and ushers. Something they faithfully do each year.

By David Rosen

Teenagers took part in a Late Night Easter egg hunt Saturday April 23 at the Delridge Community Center.

The event started around 9:00 pm, with some fun games like Easter dodgeball and an egg relay race.

About 50 or so teens showed up for this eggstravaganza.

Once 10:00 pm came, all of the teens gathered in the lobby of the community center and raced out the doors with their flashlights on, handheld and headlamps blazing.

The prize for whoever found the egg with a note inside was awarded a giant chocolate Easter bunny.

By David Rosen

Seattle firefighters quickly responded to a fire in a single family residence in West Seattle at 11242 Marine View Dr. s.w. Saturday night. The first initial call went out at 9:48 pm and was upgraded to a full response as a precautionary measure.

The fire broke out in the back garage and was confined to the garage.

According to Battalion Chief Mike H. Walsh of the SFD,“ This was a fire that was an accidental cause, in the back garage. One of the persons living here set fire to a barbeque by plugging it in thinking he was plugging in a freezer, so it was just a mistake, plugged in the wrong device.

The gentleman that set the fire actually put it out with a couple of extinguishers, and so just to be careful were sending him up to the hospital just to get checked out, but he’s feeling just fine.”

Here's the Farmers Market Fresh Sheet for 4-25-11. Note, not all products are available at the West Seattle Farmers Market.

April 25 – May 1, 2011

Neighborhood Farmers Market Alliance Markets:
University District (UD) – Saturdays, 9 am – 2 pm, YEAR ROUND –
West Seattle (WS) – Sundays, 10 am – 2 pm, YEAR ROUND
Columbia City (CC) – Wednesdays, 3 pm – 7 pm, April 27 – October 19

Locations, Hours, Vendor and Event Info: www.seattlefarmersmarkets.org

New this Week:

*****NEW ITEMS IN ITALICS*****

Green Onions – bunched
Scallions
Beets – Huge cylinder shaped red beets – Nash’s Organic at UD
Lettuce – Green and Red Leaf – large lovely heads –Stoney Plains Farm at all 3 markets
Raab – Rutabaga, Broccoli, Kale,
Asparagus
Rhubarb
“Willipa White” - Fresh soft sheep cheese – Willipa Hills Farmstead Cheeses – U-District
Watercress
Wood Sorrel
Fiddlehead Ferns
Black Morels

Fresh Oysters and Clams from Hama Hama Seafood at U-District and Puget Beach Shellfish at West Seattle. Shucked, In the Shell, Smoked and Pickled Oysters. Also Manila Clams.

By David Rosen
From plastic and paper bags, to an array of easter egg baskets, to a few backpacks, kids between the ages of one to twelve eagerly awaited the 10:00 am easter egg hunt that took place at the Delridge Community Center. Approximately 50 - 100 kids showed up with their parents, grandparents, or family friends.

There were different age group sections for the hunt.

The kids aged one to three were in the tennis court, while the older groups were out on the playfield. The entire event lasted only about 10 minutes.

There were special eggs hidden in the hunt called the “Golden Egg”, if a person found that special egg they were awarded with an easter gift basket.

The Highline Pirates visited the Tyee Totems in boy’s varsity soccer on Friday night, April 22. The game was at 7:30 p.m. at Highline Stadium (Tyee’s home game however)

First Half

The Pirates pulled off the win by putting in three goals in the first twenty minutes. Tyee responded with two more in the first half, but could not convert the equalizer in Highline’s 3 -2 win.

The first goal came from Highline’s Edgar Martinez at the ten minute mark followed by teammate Cody Wadleigh’s volley ten minutes later.

A loose ball bounced just inside the 18-yard line and Wadleigh crashed on the ball with two Tyee defenders on either side. All three had a foot in the mix but Wadleigh’s boot came through with a volley past Tyee’s keeper, putting the Pirates up 2-0.

Less than a minute later Martinez broke clean from Tyee’s back line, running onto a through ball from the midfield and carrying it with pace until Tyee’s keeper committed to coming off his line. Martinez coolly slotted the ball past the keeper to the upper right at about 15 yards out, putting in his second goal of the night and putting his team up by a generally insurmountable 3 – 0.

The 20th annual West Seattle Thriftway Easter Egg Hunt saw well over 500 children, parents, grandparents and one very large rabbit show up to look for eggs in places obvious and not so obvious throughout the store on Saturday April 23.

Starting promptly at 9:00 am the first in were the toddlers who were given a couple of minutes to find and collect (up to the 35 limit) plastic eggs. There were 25,000 distributed throughout the store. "A lot of them got recycled from last year," said Paul Kapioski, store owner, " and because Easter and Earth Day are together this year we're handing out recycled bags too."

The top prize was a Nintendo Wii computer game and Kapioski added, "there's candy, toys and 110 prizes from the Wii to Barbie dolls, and Mariner tickets."

While the official designation is 20 years of egg hunts, it actually goes back farther. "We did it back before it was a Thriftway," said Kapioski," when it was a Tradewell, so actually at least 25 years."

"One of our employees here mentioned that she and her sister used to come as kids," Kapioski said.

Six leaf-bare trees with tulips and daffodils at their base and dangling plastic eggs in their branches decorate a residence at the corner of 49th Ave. and Spokane Street.

Link Apartments, 4550 38th Avenue SW, held an open house Saturday, April 23rd.

Here are some interior and exterior images, including artworks decorating the walls and ceiling, from the open house, and also from the day before.

Click on photo for slideshow