October 2011

Family Fun Night
Seattle Civic Dance Theatre
Fauntleroy School House-bottom floor
9131 California Ave. S.W.
October 7, 6-9 p.m. Free Event with live DJ Paul Thomson of Star 101.5, Hula Hoop contest, Specialty Dances and more. Bring your $$$ for pizza, pop and cookies, Silent Auction, Raffles, Cake Walks, Face Painting (all are to help raise funds to keep our Concert Dancers performing in the community). Buy 10 raffle tickets, get one free at only $1 each. Any donations to our Concert Dancers are tax deductible. Please have all donations for Auction and Raffles to the Dance Office by Thursday night, Oct. 6.

Discovery Shop
4535 California Ave, S.W.
206 937 7169
Blue tags 50% until Saturday, October 22nd. All pink clothing 50% each Tuesday in October. October is Breast Cancer Awareness month. On Columbus Day, Monday, October 10th, pick a flag that will determine the discount for your total purchase. The American Cancer Society Shop is open Sundays 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. All other days 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Recycle Roundup
Fauntleroy Church parking lot
9140 California Ave. S.W.

When Dunville Gallery owner Mel Neville announced he would close his gallery and custom framing business this past summer he thought it would be final by mid-October. The West Seattle Herald profiled Neville and his business last August.

But that story changed everything.

"The day after the story appeared in the Herald," Neville said, " a customer walked in and spent $3200."
The truth is, the gallery is so jammed with so many pieces of art and so many of them that are there because of Neville's own refined sense of style and taste that he could go for a long time just selling his inventory.

"My walk in business quadrupled because of that story," he continued, "so I have to put off my final closing date to the end of November. We've had an unbelievable amount of sales just since the article has been out."

This is the second time he's had to extend the closing date in fact because the volume of sales has been so high.

While the King County Metro RapidRide C Line changes to S.W. Avalon Way have met resistance from the Avalon business community, and morphed over time as a result, the plan is finalized and the first phase of construction will happen next week, Oct. 10 - 14.

Here are the details from an SDOT press release:

Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) and Metro are designing and building transit improvements in West Seattle to prepare for Metro’s “RapidRide C Line”. The improvements will create a faster, more reliable corridor for Metro’s new RapidRide buses.

During the week of October 10-14, work will take place on SW Avalon Way, between the West Seattle Bridge (SW Manning Street) and SW Yancy Street.

CARES Cup
Roxhill Elementary School
2011-12

Seattle Sounders stars Taylor Graham and Servando Carrasco attended grade school this afternoon. They helped Principal Carmela Dellino kick off the 2011-2012 CARES Cup during an assembly there. CARES, (Creating Amazing Relationships Ensures Success), an effort to establish meaningful multi-age relationships among students and staff at Roxhill School.

Teams of students participate. Teams for last year's CARES Cup were modeled on the 2010 World Cup; teams of 8-12 K-5th grade students were formed and led by a staff. Teams were assigned one of the 32 countries participating in the 2010 Men’s World Cup. During the course of the year, teams learned about their country, played some soccer, and began to developed teamwork skills.

West Seattle High School graduates Chris Conn and Bobby Sabay help decorate the Alaska Junction for Halloween for the West Seattle Junction Association. West Seattle resident Katie McWherter of Daystar Retirement Village delivers Halloween props to decorate the facility's entrance.

All food proceeds from Taco Night tonight at Alki Tavern, open until 10:00 p.m. will benefit Family Promise and the West Seattle Food Bank.

Specials will be $1 tacos $2 miller drafts. Family promise is West Seattle's only homeless shelter and has the mission of keeping the family together under one roof.

Alki Tavern
1321 Harbor Ave. SW

(206) 932-9970

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Press release:
Gividend Inc., a Seattle-based company offering online donation and fundraising tools for nonprofits, has entered the daily deals industry with Gividend.com, a daily deals aggregator that allows people to support the local nonprofit of their choice with each purchase.

Gividend.com is organized in a way that helps people quickly find the most relevant deals for their lifestyle, and automatically donates a percentage of each purchase to community causes. Gividend partners with daily deals sites including GroupOn, BuyWithMe and Tippr to offer each company’s daily deals in one convenient location. Gividend saves time for busy individuals by consolidating the daily morning emails from a range of deals sites. Gividend supporters can filter the deals by category or location, further streamlining the experience.

"Everyone’s using sites like GroupOn and BuyWithMe to have fun and save money in this economy,” said Gividend founder and CEO Aaron Bird. "We saw an opportunity for people to explore their city while supporting a local cause.”

press release:

The decade-long effort to clean up the Lower Duwamish Waterway takes a major step forward this week as the City of Seattle begins work on one of the hotspots on the Superfund mega-site.

The cleanup of Slip 4, about three miles upstream from Harbor Island, near the Georgetown community, comes as the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency considers how to clean up the rest of the five-mile portion of the river. EPA’s cleanup plan is expected to be issued next year.

One of five major lower Duwamish hotspots, which collectively account for about half the chemical contamination on the river, Slip 4 is a 6.4-acre navigational slip on the east bank of the waterway, about 1400 feet long and 200 feet wide.

“The Lower Duwamish is the heart of our thriving industrial corridor,” said Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn. “It provides 80,000 jobs a year with an annual economic output of $13.5 billion — we want it to keep on thriving.”

McGinn said the effort to clean up the river will begin to restore a part of Seattle that needs help to once again provide healthy habitat for fish, birds, and people.

Taproot Theatre is closing its 35th anniversary season with Oscar Wilde's An Ideal Husband, a witty satire that examines Victorian England's high society, which the opening dialogue warns is entirely composed of "beautiful idiots and brilliant lunatics".

An Ideal Husband tells the story of Sir Robert, a young, successful politician and seemingly ideal husband whose corrupt past comes back to hunt him, endangering his clean public and personal image.

Will the truth shatter his political career and marriage with his adoring and angelic wife, or will Sir Robert give in to blackmail to safe face?

While lesser known than The Importance of Being Earnest or The Picture of Dorian Grey, An Ideal Husband captures all of Wilde's wit and sparkle.

The fast-paced and dialogue-heavy play examines gender roles, morals, politics and marriage of 1890's England and the audience may be surprised to find that Wilde's observations are still very relevant today.