July 2011

Baked goods are a sneaky hiding place for extra salt—they just don’t taste salty. Don’t let them fool you. Manufacturers add plenty of salt and sodium preservatives to keep baked goods from spoiling.

Baking soda and baking powder also add to the sodium content of quick breads. A teaspoon of salt has about 2,300 milligrams of sodium, while a teaspoon of baking soda has nearly 1,600 milligrams. Baking powder comes in at about 500 milligrams per teaspoon. If you check many recipes, you’ll see they contain all three, plus salted butter or margarine. It’s a quadruple salt whammy!

To keep your blood pressure under control and your kidneys healthy, we need a tasty diet much lower in salt than what a typical American eats. So, how can we get the salt out of baked goods?

There are lots of ways. We are lucky here in Seattle to be neighbors of Ener-G Foods. This company has great low-sodium products, including low-sodium baking powder and baking soda. You can order them online at www.ener-g.com, or call 206-767-3928. Most grocery stores that carry gluten-free products also carry these products.

On Saturday, July 23, between 10:00 p.m. and 10:30 p.m., there will be a fireworks display happening in the Shilshole Bay Marina area on Puget Sound. This is for a private wedding.

Orion Pyrotechnics is putting on the display and send out a public notice to inform the area's residents.

Any concerns about this event should be send to Orion Pyrotechnics by email at: Aaronw@orionpyro.com, or to the City of Seattle Special Events Committee at joanne.orsucci@seattle.gov.

press release:

The Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) is making street and sidewalk improvements on Airport Way South between South Lucille Street and South Hardy Street, with construction beginning July 25. Crews are mobilizing now to prepare the work zone. Typical work hours will be 6:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., Monday through Friday.

Near work zones a minimum of one lane in each direction will be maintained. Expect some left turn restrictions. Parking and loading zone restrictions will be in place near the work zone and its approaches, with adjustments made as possible. There will also be short-term driveway closures and pedestrian detours. Weekend night work may also be scheduled with advance notice and some elements of the work that are weather dependent may take place the spring/summer of 2012. Access to all businesses will be maintained.

This Airport Way South paving project will:

• Overlay the roadway with a new asphalt surface
• Repair damaged sections of the roadway base
• Install concrete street panels at bus stops
• Repair sections of sidewalk, install curb bulbs, and upgrade curb ramps

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UPDATE: Saturday evening:

Art vendors, food vendors and a music stage plus other performing arts are all part of the Alki Art Fair July 23 & 24 from 10:00: a.m. to 6:00 p.m. More than 75 vendors are participating.

2011 is a special year due to the Centennial Celebration of the Alki Bathhouse (1911 – 2011). A quick trip inside the bathhouse will reveal historical displays.

A well-attended historical bathing suit model show was held on Saturday.

This is a family event and kids of all ages will enjoy painting pieces of a mural that will be put together around 4 pm each day by Charley Danner. Visitors can watch prints being made at the Seven Shoons print table.

A silent auction will be staged in the Alki Bathhouse. Many items are donated from art fair artists. 11 am – 4 pm each day.

Music on two stages featuring local bands and groups with music styles range from jazz to folk to world music to rock.

Here's the music schedule.with music playing: Saturday 10AM-8:30PM
Sunday 10AM-7:15PM

West Seattle Helpline says, "Join us for a night of West Seattle history at Alki Arts Gallery, which overlooks the beach where the schooner Exact landed with the first white settlers in 1851. Drink some wine. Listen to live music. Have a few bites to eat while learning about the history of the community you live in. Proceeds will go to help West Seattle residents so that the West Seattle Helpline can continue to be proud of our history in West Seattle."

Friday, Aug. 19, 6:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Alki Arts Gallery
2820 Alki Ave. SW.

Purchase tickets at www.westseattlehelpline.org

The West Seattle Helpline is a non-profit social service agency dedicated to helping members of the West Seattle community. We provide information, referrals, and limited financial assistance to help working families in need. We strive toward a strong community of "neighbors helping neighbors."
Since 1989 the Helpline has been offering financial aid and referral advice that can save residents from homelessness, hopelessness, and hunger.

The North Delridge Neighborhood is hosting a logo contest.

Holli Margell member of NDNC Outreach said, "The winning designer gets an I (Heart) Delridge T-shirt and $50 in gift certificates to local businesses. We need something to use on a letterhead, posters, and other outreach materials."

Interested? E-mail ndnclogo@gmail.com or visit

http://www.ndnc.org/Fliers/NDNC_Logo_Rules.pdf for a print out of rules and criteria. Deadline is August 5th.

By David Rosen

The Seattle Fire Department was dispatched to a motor vehicle accident around the 3000 block of Harbor Ave S.W. around 10:30 am this morning on July 21.

According to the Seattle Police Department, this was a two vehicle accident involving a vehicle N/B on Harbor Ave. SW. This vehicle drifted off the roadway and struck a unoccupied legally parked vehicle. Cause of this collision was due to a medical condition of the driver who was a 80 year old female .

She was transported to the hospital.

The big yellow school bus was parked in West Seattle in the Viking Bank parking lot on July 24 and in a four hour period WestSide Baby managed to get well over 50,000 disposable diapers donated to "Stuff the Bus" in their annual campaign.

These diapers will be distributed, free of charge, to children in need in the King County communities served by WestSide Baby. WestSide Baby asked for clean diapers, and even open packages babies have outgrown. The most commonly requested sizes are Sizes 4, 5 & 6 as babies stay in those sizes the longest.

Last year WestSide Baby distributed more than 500,000 diapers to local children. 125% more than the prior year. Nancy Woodland, Executive Director of WestSide Baby said, “Food stamps do not cover diapers and at approximately 23 cents each diapers can average $70 to $100 per month for a struggling family. This most basic need should be as important to us all as putting food on the table. WestSide Baby distributes more than 10,000 diapers each week and we depend on community donations to help fill that need.”

By Eric Mathison

When former Highline Stadium substitute manager Jayson Boehm is sentenced Friday, July 22 most of the focus will be on the four counts of unlicensed practice of medicine and forgery of forms to make it appear a physician signed them.

But members of the Evergreen High Booster Club also want attention paid to the first-degree theft charges.
Boehm pleaded guilty to the charges, including theft on June 9. His sentencing hearing is set for July 22 at 10:30 a.m. in King County Superior Court Judge John Erlick’s Kent courtroom.

According to investigating detectives, Boehm stole more than $100,000. That includes about $82,000 from the booster club and $18,000 from the Highline School District.

Boehm served as unpaid assistant treasurer and treasurer of the booster club for about four years. The club, with about 20 members, holds fundraisers to support athletic teams on the Evergreen campus in White Center.
According to the presentencing statement from the King County Prosecutor’s Office, Boehm resisted efforts by booster club president Richard Parker to give an accounting of the club’s funds.

If people who steal things, even items less than $500 or petty larceny, understood the impact of their crime it might make them avoid being a repeat offender. That's the goal of a theft awareness class for defendants who are charged with theft of merchandise in the amount of $500 or less and who appear in Community Court.

It began July 11 as a program sponsored by Seattle Municipal Court.

The class is eight hours and is designed to provide defendants an opportunity to learn about the impacts of theft on the broader community. “The value of the theft awareness class is that it adds another key component that is meant to address the root issue of criminal behavior,” states Craig Sims, Criminal Division Chief in the Seattle City Attorney’s Office.

Defense attorneys believe that the program is another great opportunity and tool that will assist community court clients in reducing their contact with the criminal justice system by teaching them how to make wiser and better choices for themselves, according to Karen Murray, Supervising Attorney from the Associated Counsel For The Accused.