June 2011

Ballard Rotary, a volunteer-based organization that raises funds to invest in the community, is hosting the first annual Ballard 5K Run & Walk on June 12.

Under the slogan of "Do the Ballard", the event celebrates Ballard by welcoming participants to Ballard's beloved Golden Gardens Park, while the proceeds will benefit The Ballard Boys and Girls Club, The Ballard Northwest Senior Center, and Ballard Rotary.

Creative Scandinavian and/or Viking costumers are encouraged.

The starting line will be located in the overflow parking lot above Golden Gardens Park from which the participants have the option of "a briskly challenging 5k run and walk" or a flat 4.5k walk for families with children.

Children 12 and under run free with a registered adult, and receive a free Viking hHat compliments of Viking Bank.

Registration is available online and day of registration starts June 12 at 7:30 a.m.

For more information visit the Ballard Rotary website at www.ballardrotary.org.

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Farmers Markets

Burien Farmers Market-Produce, flowers, crafts, baked goods. 11 a.m.- 6 p.m. Thursdays. Burien Town Square, Fifth Avenue Southwest and Southwest 152nd Street. 206-433-2882 or www.discoverburien.com.

Des Moines Waterfront Farmers Market-Opens June 4. Produce, crafts. 10 a.m.-2 p.m., Saturdays. South 227th St. and Dock Street. www.dmfm.org.

Festivals

Burien Wild Strawberry Festival-June 18-19. Community arts festival, food, music, car show, art vendors. 10 a.m.- 6 p.m., June 18. 10 a.m.-4 p.m., June 19. Town Square Park, S.W. 152nd St. and 5th Ave. S.W. Free. 206-988-3700 or www.wildstrawberryfestival.org.

A West Seattle schoolroom was broken into on May 25. The unknown suspect(s) broke in through a window the night before, ransacking a cell phone charger, candy, toys and some shaving cream. A trail of shaving cream led responding officers from the scene of the crime to a nearby park where candy wrappers and forgotten M&M’s littered the ground.

A friendly game of poker at a bar on s.w. Alaska St turned old west on May 23. Two men started the game of cards around 8 p.m., playing for fun with no actual money exchanging hands. 10 p.m. (and likely several drinks later) came around and the last hand was dealt. The victim apparently had the winning hand, prompting the suspect to smash a large beer glass into his head. The suspect fled the scene and medics treated the victim for several deep cuts. He declined their recommendation to visit the hospital for stitches and police put in a request for a copy of the bar’s surveillance footage.

The 2011 Morgan Junction Community Festival is happened for the 6th time June 25th from 10:30am to 7pm.

The cool weather looked good to The Bubble Man, "because it's cool, calm and cloudy," he said. His real name by the way is Gary Golightly.

The musical entertainment began shortly after 10:30 am with Minor Dissonance described as "Witty Gurls Classical Pop" .The Bubble Man was back again to entertain the kids and music continued throughout the day with Soda (acoustic jazz and rock), Alan Ehrlich (folk/Americana), Bahia (folk, indie, lyrical), Moon Girl (Acoustic folk rock), Norma Beach (rock, bluesy rock), Blue Grasshoppers (folk/bluegrass), Gary Reynolds and Brides of Obscurity (alternative rock), Tongan Choir (Tongan music), Burley Mountain (alt/classic country), Hal Merrill (steel pedal guitar) and finally Offenders ((60's-90's rock cover songs).

After three months of preparation, Megan Jensen has opened her vegan bakery -Bouteloua Balery - in Ballard.

Jensen said she's been a vegan for ten years but a baker her whole life.

"I've been baking since I was really little," she said.

While studying botany at a university in Lincoln, Nebraska, Jensen volunteered at a vegan cooperative.
"I was scooping a lot of cookie dough but it got me back into baking," she said.

After many "you should sell these" responses from anyone who ate her baked goods, Jensen decided to open a bakery.

In March she took over a lease for the space formerly occupied by Moo Berries on 2019 NW Market St.

Born and raised on the prairie of Nebraska, Jensen said she named the bakery after a type of grass that grows on the prairie.

"It's close to my heart," she said, pointing out the pictures of prairie land on the bakery's wall.

Jensen said she had been nervous opening up her own business and perhaps still is.

But on Yelp, the online business review guide, customers are already raving about Bouteloua Bakery.

When told that we should form groups to talk about our “belonging,” three of us misheard the instructions and thought we were supposed to discuss longing. We’d been invited to bring a belonging of personal value to an event at the Museum of History and Industry but realized that what really attaches us to objects is the longing to be connected with other people; in our past or present.

I was carrying a 1909 journal that my great-aunt kept the year of her mother’s death. Laura had a silver bracelet given to her by her grandfather, but that had belonged to her great-grandmother, a woman who had died a mysterious death. Rita had a dried ear of corn, the husks mere wisps, a few more kernels breaking off as we moved throughout MOHAI’s “Belongings: A Gathering of Stories.”

It was the second Open Forum hosted by MOHAI as they prepare to move to their new South Lake Union location in 2012. At the first event they invited a wide range of community members to share stories about their path to the Northwest, whether by immigration, Boeing, wagon train, college, medical treatment, Microsoft…sheer love of water and mountains.

On April 17, Justin Amorratanasuchad was doing what he loved most – telling a story through film – when he died in a tragic accident. Amorratanasuchad was a student in the film program at Emerson College at the time. This week his family announced plans to celebrate his life and talent with a memorial service and a scholarship fund.

The memorial will take place Saturday, June 11, from 1:00 p.m. until 3:00 p.m. at Seattle Unity Church. A reception will follow.

Amorratanasuchad was a gifted filmmaker, winning national and international awards while attending Ballard High School in Seattle, where he graduated in 2008.

“I've taught some big award-winning students,” said Matt Lawrence, lead teacher in the Ballard High School Video Production Program, “but I'm not sure I've ever had another student with eleven awards and honors during their time in the program.”

Among these recognitions was a “Student Emmy”, a Student Television Award for Excellence from the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Thanks to Ballard’s program and awards like this, Amorratanasuchad built a portfolio that gained him acceptance into prestigious film schools.