February 2012

Monday, Feb. 6
Girls basketball
Nathan Hale 68, Chief Sealth 43
The Lady Seahawks' season ended with Monday's Metro League playoff loss to Nathan Hale.

Tuesday, Feb. 7
Boys basketball
Eastside Catholic 83, Chief Sealth 65
Chief Sealth dropped a high-scoring Metro League playoff game to Eastside Catholic this past Tuesday.
Kennedy 84, Evergreen 77
The Wolverines were defeated by Kennedy Catholic in another high-scoring outing last Tuesday.
Girls basketball
Skyview 63, Evergreen 17
Fortunately for the Wolverines, Tuesday's loss was of the non-league variety.

Wednesday, Feb. 8
Girls basketball
Seattle Lutheran 41, Rainier Christian 33
Seattle Lutheran of West Seattle posted a win against Rainier Christian this past Wednesday.

As children we are taught the value of sharing. The phrase "Share and share alike" is meant to promote harmony and prevent waste. In recent years, the value of sharing, driven in part by a struggling economy but also by the desire to conserve resources and to protect the environment has seen a lot of growth. Social media has been a driving force behind public awareness of both the need and the availability of shared resources, demonstrating that they are better shared than owned.

Sustainable West Seattle is among the leaders in spreading this idea and on Feb 21 they are sponsoring the Seattle Share Fair at the West Seattle Senior Center at 4217 SW Oregon St , Seattle.

The Schedule
6-7 pm: Share Fair Tabling: Get Involved!

7-8:20 pm: Featured Program
Facilitator: Gene Homicki, Local Tools
Speaker: Patrick Dunn, Share Starter

Community Panel:
Billy Thomspon, Zipcar (Car Sharing)
Ken Gollersrud, Seattle Public Libraries (Information/Stuff Sharing)

Press release:

Aviation High School senior Jenny Gao is one of two Washington students selected this year for the United States Senate Youth program. Each year this extremely competitive merit-based program selects 104 of the most outstanding high school students from across the country.

Jenny will travel to the nation’s capital in March for an intensive weeklong study of the federal government and the people who lead it. Student delegates will attend meetings and briefings with President Obama, senators and congressional staff, a justice of the Supreme Court, leaders of cabinet agencies, an ambassador to the United States and top members of the national media. The students will also tour many of the national monuments and several museums.

The US Senate Youth Program aims to inspire outstanding young people to make a lifelong commitment to public service. Each of the student delegates will receive a $5,000 college scholarship from The Hearst Foundations and will be encouraged to pursue studies in government, history and public affairs.

PUYALLUP - Katie Collier's 20 points kept Seattle Christian in the hunt before Cascade Christian pulled the plug in overtime for a 42-39 Nisqually 1A girls basketball win on Thursday, Feb. 9, that gave the home standing Cougars the No. 1 seed to Tri-District after the teams split regular season wins to end up in a first place tie with 11-1 league records. Both teams will host first-round Tr-District games.

Seattle Christian is 13-8 overall while Cascade Christian is 18-2.

Collier's spin move inside for a basket tied the score at 38-38 with 2:36 remaining in the four-minute overtime period. Sixteen seconds later, Collier drew her fifth foul and Chloe Read converted the second of two free throws for a 39-38 Cougar lead.

Following exchanges of possessions and turnovers, Cascade Christian inbounded behind its own offensive basket and Kaydyn Coltom passed the ball to a backdoor cutting Kaycee Creech for a lay up that stretched the CCHS lead to 41-38 with 1:11 left in the overtime.

AUBURN- When the Thomas Jefferson girls basketball team ended its regular seaon with a 6-10 South Puget Sound League 4A North division record it was one game out of the SPSL tournament.

Kentlake change the dynamics of the playoffs with an upset victory against Tahoma on Monday, Feb. 6.

As a result, the Raiders were back in the hunt in a three-way tie with Auburn and Tahoma, necessitating two mini-games of two eight minute quarters each with a one minute halftime.

Making the most of their new lease on playoff life, the Raiders earned the No. 5 SPSL North seed to the SPSL tournament with a 29-20 win against Tahoma in the second of two mini-games at Auburn Riverside High School.

With a 45-39 loss to South No. 5 Rogers, the Raiders have one more chance in a pigtail game for the No. 10 seed.

Update for Feb. 14
Instead of facing the state liquor control board on Feb. 13 and 14 to answer on a number of violations over the past year, the owner of Papa's Pub voluntarily surrendered his liquor license, marking the end for the establishment.

According to Washington State Liquor Control Board spokeswoman Anne Radford, "Papa’s Pub and the WSLCB have reached a settlement agreement in five pending Administrative Violation Notices. Papa’s Pub has agreed that the five violations occurred, and will surrender its liquor license."

Please review the Final Order of the Board here (first row of document): http://www.liq.wa.gov/publications/board/Final%20Orders%20of%20the%20Bo…

Original post on Feb. 10
Papa's Pub in White Center closes days before facing liquor board

During the week of Feb. 10 paper covered the windows of Papa’s Pub in White Center and the words “Closed For Good – Papa” were scrawled on paper stapled to the doors.

press release:
For one week, beginning Monday, February 13th and continuing through Friday, February 17th from 9:00 a.m. until 4:00 p.m. Northbound SW Avalon Way will be restricted by uniformed police officers at SW Spokane Street and the following detour will be in place:

Northbound motorist traveling on SW Avalon Way will be detoured to eastbound SW Spokane Street. They will then be directed to perform a u-turn at 26th Avenue SW onto westbound SW Spokane Street and then north on Harbor Avenue SW.

Northbound trucks and Metro buses traveling on SW Avalon Way will be flagged through the work zone. During these times southbound Harbor Avenue SW will experience short delays at SW Spokane Street.
The SW Spokane Street on-ramp to the West Seattle Bridge will remain open.

Fauntleroy Expressway Nighttime Closures

Dear Editor,

On Wednesday of this week when I came to work I noticed a woman in the parking garage carrying a pet carrier, shaking a bag of treats. A couple of people from my office, Prudential Northwest Realty, were also looking around between and under the cars. As it turns out, a woman was on her way to the veterinarian’s office at Jefferson Square when her heavy cat fell out of the bottom of the cardboard carrier and skittered under a car. Several people helped the cat’s owner, calling and looking for hours. The owner of the cat had recently lost her husband, and did not want to have to tell her three children, ages 11, 13, and 15, that their cat was lost or missing. She stayed looking, while the Prudential folks had to go back to work. Jamie Hanley, the office administrator who had spent quite a long time helping to search, sent out an email to all the agents, urging them to check under their cars before getting in and starting up, in case the cat was under there.

UPDATE, Sat. night, Feb. 11:

Two events took place Saturday, Feb. 11, at the Duwamish Longhouse & Cultural Center, one beginning at 4:00PM, the other at 6:00PM.

4:00 PM: Duwamish Longhouse Art Gallery Opening for "Peter Boome: Salish Connections"

The gallery show features the paintings and prints of the nationally acclaimed Upper Skagit artist. Through June 16th.

Then Paul "Che oke ten" Wagner told Native American stories and performed on a drum and his flutes, selections from his new album, "TIME OF PARADISE".

Award winning Coast Salish artist Peter Boome is a member of the Upper Skagit Tribe of Washington State. He works in a variety of mediums with a primary focus on printmaking and graphic work. Peter earned his AA from Northwest Indian College, his BA from the Evergreen State College and his JD from the University of Washington School Of Law.

Seattle Police reports that on February 9th at approximately 10:54 p.m. officers responded to the area of 22nd Avenue NW and NW Market Street for the report of a stabbing. Officers located two adult male victims who had both sustained non-life-threatening injuries from what is believed to be a knife assault.

Victim #1, a 51-year-old male, sustained a stab wound to the abdomen. The specifics of victim #2′s injuries are unknown at this time. Both victims were treated by SFD medics at the scene and subsequently transported to area hospitals for follow up treatment.

Preliminary investigation indicates that the assault actually occurred about one block south of where the victims were located, possibly in a park. One victim had a speech disability preventing him from providing officers with any information and the other victim was uncooperative with investigating officers. We therefore have no additional details and no suspect information.

This remains an active and on-going investigation.

Ballard sees a string of unsuccessful burglaries:

8:55 a.m. on February 5th. 80th block of 29th Ave NW