Students, faculty and most of all alumni of West Seattle High School gathered at the school on Saturday, Oct. 15 to celebrate Homecoming 2011 with a BBQ.
The BBQ was a fund raiser for the high schools ASU (Associated Student Union).
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Mayor Mike McGinn rode out to meet members of the University of Washington cycling club on their first team ride of the fall semester on Saturday, Oct 15.
Club president Genevieve Gebhart thanked the mayor for his efforts in making Seattle a safer city to cyclists and presented him with an official UW cycling jersey, welcoming him as an honorary club member.
McGinn, a graduate of the UW School of Law, felt honored to receive the jersey but kindly declined the offer to join the club on a ride, claiming he'd quickly be left behind.
"Unlike you guys, I ride for transportation," he said.
In his address to the club, McGinn recalled bike commuting to school during his own college days, and called on the students for help.
"All of you are experienced and brave riders but most people aren't that way," he said as he expressed the need for Neighborhood Greenways to make cycling safer and more convenient.
"We are at a time of extraordinary transition," McGinn said, explaining that with the price of filling up gas tanks, car insurance, and maintenance, many can't afford to drive a car.
Over 2,000 Occupy Seattle protesters, many from West Seattle, crowded Westlake Park Saturday afternoon on 4th Ave. between Pike and Pine streets. It was the largest crowd yet since the protest began Sept. 26. Occupy Wall Street began Sept. 17 in Zuccotti Park, New York City, as protesters there took a stand against corruption in big business and banking that they believe benefits the wealthiest one-percent of Americans while the other 99-percent are neglected.
Such groups have now been reported in over 85 countries, including Italy, Iceland, Indonesia and South Korea.
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"I am here because I want to be part of this extremely important movement," said West Seattle resident Deborah Lawrence, protesting with her husband, Mike Derry. "I'm excited that new kinds of people showed up instead of just the same old Leftists, which I am one of," she added. "I don't like the criticism that people are leveling at them, that they don't have an agenda. They do. It's a populist movement."
Tall, lean, and laid-back in his delivery, performance artist Stokley Towles resembles Jimmy Stewart. But this Mr. Smith isn't going to Washington. He's landing in the Seattle sewers. And that's just fine with him, as he goes with the flow, and makes Seattle's scatological scheme fun, accessible, and somehow elegant, too.
Towles’ nearly one-hour piece, which he wrote, called "Stormwater: Life in the Gutter", explores the dark underbelly of Seattle’s sewers. He did his homework by interviewing Seattle Public Utilities’ (SPU) employees who guide, monitor and maintain stormwater flow in the city. In 2009, he traced the flow of the city’s water supply in his piece "Waterlines", and in 2010 returned with " Trash Talk", a close look at our municipal garbage collection.
The public is invited, at no charge, to see "Stormwater: Life in the Gutter" Sat., Oct. 29, noon at High Point Branch, The Seattle Public Library, 3411 S.W. Raymond St., also Thurs., Nov. 3, 6:30 p.m. at Youngstown Cultural Arts Center, 4408 Delridge Way S.W.
By Mayor Mike McGinn
We are living in a time of deep inequality. Statistics show the United States is experiencing the worst income inequality since 1928. The top 1% control 34% of the nation’s wealth. And it hits unevenly. Communities of color and those who were already experiencing low incomes, even during the boom, are struggling the most.
Unemployment is at 9.1% - that’s lower than it was at the peak of the recession, but still too high. Those who still have jobs aren’t necessarily better off. The New York Times recently published an interesting statistic. The recession technically ended in June 2009. And we have been slowly adding jobs. But since the end of the recession two years ago, household incomes have actually declined by 6.7%. That’s at the same time as bankers are taking home record profits and huge bonuses. Even in what is supposed to be a recovery, we’re still seeing inequality widen.
US Coast Guard press release:
Oil containment boom and oil skimming equipment are working well to contain and recover the diesel fuel and oil spilled by the sunken vessel Justin, which sank Friday morning off of the west side of West Seattle.
Shoreline clean-up and containment crews are using absorbent pads to mitigate a very small part of the spill that reached the beach near Lowman Beach Park in West Seattle. Shore-side response crews have deployed boom along the shoreline in the waters just of the beach near the incident site in an effort to prevent further shore impact.
Two miles of impacted shoreline have been surveyed. A majority of the shoreline impact is very light which makes clean-up efforts ineffective and may actually cause more harm than good. However, shoreline clean-up crews have identified areas on the beach with pockets of oil and clean up operations are underway in these areas.
An Incident Command Post has been established at Coast Guard Sector Puget Sound that includes representative from the Washington Department of Ecology, U.S. Coast Guard, and representatives from the responsible party.
The first South Seattle Community College veterans club meeting was held Thursday, Oct. 13. About 18 male and female students who are veterans attended, although 66 have signed up. Nearly 140 veterans attend South. The club president is West Seattle resident and South student, Army veteran Ryan Shannon. We just posted a story about Shannon here.
West Seattle High School’s Drama Club production of The Desperate Hours by Joseph Hayes will be presented October 26, 27, 28 and again November 2, 3, 4, with all performances starting at 7:30pm.
Tickets are available for $7 with reservation (email reservations@westsidedrama.com or call 206-252-8834) or $12 at the door
About the Show:
"The Desperate Hours" is the story about The Hilliards, a typical family living on the outskirts of Indianapolis. Suddenly, their pleasant home becomes a pressure cooker of cunning and violence.
Said Andrew Finley, drama instructor and director, of the play, which is based on a true story, "The title of this play is really interesting to me because we get used to, like you go to a movie that has action in it and it's all action, all explosion, explosion. It's all catharisis. What's much more interesting, especially for a theater experience is the hours, the time leading up to the explosion. It's the drawing of the tension, the heightening of the tension, and that's where the real acting happens so that the audience gets to have the catharsis at the end, the whole arch of the experience.
Waterfront Construction, the owner of the 75’ vessel “Justin” that sank in the Puget Sound early this morning, has contracted with NRC Environmental Services to contain the surface sheen released from the vessel.
NRC Environmental Services has multiple spill response vessels and skimmers on scene and has deployed a containment boom. The company, a subsidiary of National Response Corporation has offices from Neah Bay to San Diego and is an experienced spill recovery firm.
According to the company additional boom is on scene and ready to be deployed as needed.
Marine and shoreline emergency response trailers as well as vacuum trucks are standing by for additional support.
Monday, Oct. 10
Volleyball
K-M 3, Mt. Rainier 0
Mount Rainier went down to a 25-16, 25-16, 25-18 defeat at the hands of South Puget Sound League North Division rival Kent-Meridian last Monday.
Mykaela Klingler led the Rams with seven kills and Olivia Moss had six kills and two digs.
Tristen Yong contributed three kills and Megan Daley scored one ace, five digs, nine assists and two kills. Jenna Nye had 11 digs, six assists and one ace and Jackie Agusto scored one ace and five digs.
Tuesday, Oct. 11
Girls swimming
Mt. Rainier 135, K-M 35
The Rams splashed past the Warriors in an SPSL North Division meet on Tuesday, Oct. 11.
Mount Rainier opened by winning the 200-yard medley relay in a time of 2 minutes. 6.18 seconds before J. Wu of Kent-Meridian won the 200 freestyle race in a state qualifying 1:53.71. M. Kawaguchi of the Rams took the 200 individual medley in a state qualifying 2:13.37 time.
S. Dorhofer won the 50 free for Mount Rainier in 27.11 and teammate E. DaDalto scored 168.15 points to win diving. Kawaguchi won the 100 butterfly in 1:02.95 and C. Larson took the 100 free in 1:01.75.
