September 2011

By Chris Foster, Intern

Ballard cross-country found success again Wednesday, as the men’s team edged out Redmond and Inglemoor with a score of 38 points at Lower Woodland. Redmond finished 2nd with 39 points, followed by Inglemoor with 45.

Alex Bowns— in familiar fashion— won the 5,000-meter race by 30 seconds with a time of 16:24, making it three in a row for the Beaver runner. Victor Bailly and Michael Vitz-Wong also finished strong at 7th and 8th, with Bailly clocking a 17:19 and Vitz-Wong a 17:29. Bryan Quandt was close behind his teammates, finishing in 10th place with a time of 17:54, and rounding out the Beaver’s success was Matt Rusk with an 18:06, 12th place finish.

The women’s team also had a strong showing, with Anna Mirenzi finishing 2nd with a time of 20:39. Alyson Fromm also had a top-ten finish, coming in 7th after running a 21:25. Rachel Livengood, Truly McCone
and Rena Evans also scored for the Beavers, as Livengood put up a 22:49 for 13th place. McCone came in 20th with a time of 23:49, and Evans finished 26th at 24:57.

The Beavers next meet is this Saturday the 24th at Lake Sammamish state park.

Tennis

As we reported yesterday (see below) the British press is now reporting the Michelle Moore incident:

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23991641-pro-knox-woman-…

UPDATE 5: Tuesday, 7:30 a.m.
Sollecito's other lawyer, Luca Maori, began after lunch about 15 minutes ago. He just told the court that it was amusing to believe the theory that Sollecito and and Knox cleaned all of their DNA and left Rudy Guede's DNA, referring to the prosecution maintaining Sollecito and Knox used soap and water to remove their DNA while leaving Guede's DNA just after the murder. Maori called this "magic soap".

Maori then showed a picture of the hydra monster in Greek mythology, and said the prosecution's approach to the case was like the hydra monster. Cut one head off and three more grow back.

He questioned why the alleged murder weapon, the knife, was taken from Sollecito's kitchen drawer to test and not all the knives. He said the bloody outline of the knife on the bed did not match the size of the prosecution's knife.

We will update

UPDATE 4:Tuesday, 12:50 a.m.

Sabra Schneider, the one time 34th District Democratic candidate and Webmaster for King County has left that position to become Director of Electronic Communications for the City of Seattle.

To honor her service to King County, Dow Constantine issued a proclamation that reads:

PROCLAMATION

Whereas, Sabra Schneider has unselfishly served the public with her time and talents during her six years at King County; and

Whereas, her heart and her willingness to help others are as big as her native state of Texas, and yet she is a true Pacific Northwesterner; and

Whereas, she has won over the hearts of many with her deadpan, compassionate, and artful delivery of the complete truth; and

Whereas, she is a whiz at communicating complex ideas in fewer than 140 characters through the medium of Twitter; and

Whereas, she has engendered the trust and confidence of her colleagues with her competence and clarity.

Now, therefore, I, Dow Constantine, Executive of King County, do hereby proclaim September 22, 2011, to be

Sabra K. Schneider Day

CLICK ON IMAGE TO SEE MORE PHOTOS.

After a rocking concert at the Puyallup Fair on September 21, The Flaming Lips frontman, Wayne Coyne, stopped by Ballard on Thursday evening to meet friends and sign merchandise at Sonic Boom Records.

Fans started lining up around 4:30 p.m. for Coyne's 6 p.m. scheduled appearance.

"He'll stay until everyone has had a chance to meet with him," staff told us. And that's exactly what Coyne did.

Sipping on a Rainier tall boy, Coyne took his time chatting with each fan, spending easily 10 minutes with one person as he made them a drawing or was engaged in a conversation.

"It's kind of like meeting Santa, isn't it?" Coyne said, who brought with him his "strobo trip light phase illusion" toys, which feature three new songs.

By Cassandra Baker, Intern

4:00 p.m. on September 20th. 53rd block of Leary Ave NW

A man was arrested on September 21st after making inappropriate comments to a minor the previous day. The 12-year-old victim was with his family at an athletic club on the afternoon of September 20th. He said that he was in the locker room and was about to shower when he noticed a naked man staring at him. The man made several inappropriate sexual comments to the victim, who then went and told his mother, who called the police. The suspect fled through a rear or side door in the meantime, but he was arrested at about 5:30 p.m. on the 21st. He was interviewed and booked into King County Jail on charges of Communication with a Minor for Immoral Purposes.

6:02 a.m. on September 18th. 1st block of NW 36th St

South Seattle Community College President Gary Oertli invited the community to an afternoon reception on campus today to celebrate the start of a new College year. After giving his gracious speech, a surprise dancer appeared, circled the floor in front of the podium, and got a dozen or more attendees to dance and clap.

The "mystery dancer" was Joshua Scott Hancock, a school employee at International Programs who said he had been a professional dancer for several years.

"This is our second annual Salute to South and this is where we have a reception for our staff to encourage internal partnerships and then we invite our community partners, our foundation board members, community leaders, legislators," President Oertli told the West Seattle Herald. "I'm always optimistic but we know there is a $1.4 billion (statewide) shortfall and our legislators are very supportive of us and know that the ticket to economic recovery is to train people to get jobs. We're working hard to educate the legislature and ask their support."

In his speech he gave a shout out to the wine technology program who kept the drinks flowing.

Press release:

Question: What will the City's parks and recreation facilities consist of in the future? What are the greatest needs? Where should they be?

Based on your input, we're starting to have some answers to those questions.

As you may remember, Burien Parks conducted several surveys to ask people for their ideas about the city's parks system and recreation facilities. We also held a public meeting as well as consulted with the citizen advisory board and many others. This information is being used to update the City's Parks, Recreation & Open Space Comprehensive Plan, or as we call it, the PROS Plan.

We are hosting an Open House at 7:00pm on Thursday, September 29 at the Burien Community Center. We will share what we've learned so far and ask for your feedback.

Please stop by and find out more about the condition of Burien's parks system, and to see what ideas are emerging about its future.

Remember, for all the latest on this planning efforts, check in regularly at

www.burienwa.gov/ParksPlan

The actual costs of adding north Burien have been considerably less than a consultant estimated in 2008, Burien council members were told Sept. 19.

As part of their deliberations on annexing the rest of North Highline, lawmakers asked city staff for a comparison of the actual costs and the costs estimated by the Berke consulting group before the Boulevard Park area was annexed.

Finance director Kim Krause delivered a report from Berke that set estimated general fund expenditures at $ 3 million. Actual extrapolated expenditures for 2010 were $1.836 million.

Berke estimated in 2008 that the city would receive extra revenues of $1.640 million from annexation. The 2010 extrapolated actual revenues were $2.110 million, according to Berke.

The consultants said the main driver of the cost differences was police services, which were projected to be about $1.8 million. That is about $700,000 more the prorated actual costs.
Mayor Joan McGilton commended Police Chief Scott Kimerer and city staff for keeping costs down.

The actual costs of adding north Burien have been considerably less than a consultant estimated in 2008, Burien council members were told Sept. 19.

As part of their deliberations on annexing the rest of North Highline, lawmakers asked city staff for a comparison of the actual costs and the costs estimated by the Berke consulting group before the Boulevard Park area was annexed.

Finance director Kim Krause delivered a report from Berke that set estimated general fund expenditures at $ 3 million. Actual extrapolated expenditures for 2010 were $1.836 million.

Berke estimated in 2008 that the city would receive extra revenues of $1.640 million from annexation. The 2010 extrapolated actual revenues were $2.110 million, according to Berke.

The consultants said the main driver of the cost differences was police services, which were projected to be about $1.8 million. That is about $700,000 more the prorated actual costs.
Mayor Joan McGilton commended Police Chief Scott Kimerer and city staff for keeping costs down.

A submarine was spotted working it's way around Alki, then heading north, followed by two Coast Guard ships.
About a dozen onlookers, some with binoculars positioned themselves on Alki by the Beachhouse.