May 2012

Deb Reinhart and Jim Coombes got their dog Katie had not had a dog for some time, looked at a variety of breeds and decided on a Chesapeake Retriever. "At that time there weren't many west coast breeders," said Reinhart and I was traveling back and forth to Texas but there was a breeder in Illinois so I thought, 'Hey we'll just stop the plane in Illinois, look at the pups and the next time through, pick one up."

She was looking for a "sedge" meaning the rust color. Katie is now 13 years old.

Expressing her faith Reinhart said, "Jesus has shown me what to do to take care of her. She has some Methasone resistant skin problems and has been through a lot of medical problems and I've been there with her." Reinhart said Katie is very patient to have gone through all her issues.

UPDATE 2:50pm Thursday
Athena's owner Nick Parisi shared that on Sunday May, 13 an opening celebration will take place from 4pm to 6pm. Award winning acoustic duo Correo Aereo will be playing (if it rains it will be inside), they will sell food outside, free samples of multiple flavors of gelato and balloons for kids. "We're not cutting a ribbon but it is a celebration," said Parisi. The whole Parisi family will be in attendance. Seamart the convenience store that just opened next door is also planning something special that day. "The beer will be flowing, we just got Schooner Exact on tap working," said Parisi.

Original Post

After some delays, Athena's has opened at 1513 Holden Way s.w. as of 12 noon May 8. As we reported in March it's a family run business owned by Nick Parisi and his wife Phoebe.

The remodel added a third more space to the former Zippy's Burgers location and can now fit in seating for 15 to 20 people at a time.

press release:
As early as this Friday (May 11), Metro will begin a month-long project to install C Line improvements at the Fauntleroy Ferry Terminal.

Improvements will include two new RapidRide stations, lighting, information kiosks with real-time bus arrival signs, and five electric charging stations for vanpool and public use. A bus bulb will be added at the northbound station to create a larger boarding platform.

Construction will happen on weekdays between 6:30 a.m. and 4 p.m., and may cause periodic traffic disruptions. During especially intensive work, especially in peak travel hours, flaggers or police officers will help keep traffic moving.

Southbound bus riders will be directed to a temporary stop on SW Wildwood Place. The northbound stop will be less affected, but during some closures riders will need to use the next stop to the north, on Fauntleroy Way SW at SW Trenton Street.

The distributor of “The Beatles: The Lost Concert” , Screenvision told the the Admiral Theater they must the postpone the scheduled May 17 and 22 limited engagement of the new 92-minute documentary which charts the birth and impact of Beatlemania and includes, in its entirety, their first U.S. concert from February 1964 at D.C’s Washington Coliseum. No new dates for the screening have yet been announced.

According to sources at Screenvision, the film’s distributor in the U.S., the postponement is the result of last-minute issues which are being resolved by the documentary’s producers. The distributor hopes the issues will be resolved in short order so the attraction can be rescheduled for an even longer theatrical run in late Summer 2012.

“It’s regrettable that these issues have caused the cancellation of our planned limited engagement” adds Darryl Schaffer, EVP of Exhibitor Relations, Screenvision. “We are looking forward to their resolution so we can bring ‘The Beatles: The Lost Concert’ to even more Beatles fans and theaters in the U.S.”

The White Center Chamber of Commerce awarded two $500 scholarships to students who attend Health Sciences Human Services High School on the Evergreen Campus at the organization's May 8 meeting. Chamber President Mark Ufkes, along with board members Aileen Sisson, and Mac McElroy presented the certificates and checks to Lena Guevara and Maria Pritel . The two will be attending Western Washington State University and are actually planning on being roommates. Pritel plans to major in biology, Guevara said she will attend Fairhaven (a college at Western), has been a FEEST intern (FEEST is concerned with Food Empowerment) and plans to create her own degree and found a non-profit organization.

July Jubilee Days planning moving ahead

An anesthesiologist at Highline Medical Center, Burien, since 1988, Michael de Haan is used to research. But his recent work was very personal, with a successful outcome.

The patient, you might say, was his father, Jozeph, now 89. Thanks to two brave, and loving, Dutch families who saved his life during World War II, Jozeph plays tennis, works out, and shops with friends in Melbourne, Australia. Unlike Ann Frank, who, too, was hidden in Holland, Jozeph, also a Jew, had a more fortunate fate. Ann Frank's life ended tragically, as we know, when she was captured and later died in the Auschwitz Concentration Camp in Poland.

In 2010, Michael, a West Seattle resident in the Admiral District, spent over eight months, including a poignant visit to Holland, tracking down members of the two families who hid his father in Friesland Province, in northern Holland. They helped Michael authenticate their heroic deeds because he wanted them to become officially recognized by Yad Vashem's “Righteous Among the Nations,” the State of Israel’s honorific for non-Jews who risked their lives to save Jews from extermination during the Holocaust.

Carrie Gustafson loves children. As a child she would create her own with paper and scissors; cutting paper dolls that were twins, then triplets, then quadruplets. Now she’s counting each day until she will be gathering weekly groups of children, ages 6-16, to let them play with clay.

Gustafson’s summer clay camps date back to 1994, through many years on Sunset Hill and then a hiatus since 2009 while she has been living closer to family in Bremerton. This summer, the clay camps that have introduced hundreds, if not thousands of kids to working with clay will return at Sunset Hill Community Association. “The hard part now is waiting to get there and see the kids,” Carrie told me. “I can’t wait.”

Although I’ve known Carrie for almost ten years, and written about her legendary solstice parties with Regnor Reinholdsten, I’ve never interviewed her before. To my chagrin Carrie made a special trip from Bremerton just to sit down with me, and didn’t have anything more than a glass of water before she set off on the return trip in order to pick up her granddaughter Ruby.

The Ballard District Council is convening for its monthly meeting tonight and topics on the agenda for the evening include a chat with the new Assistant City Attorney; the Alaskan Way Viaduct Replacement Program; Central Waterfront/Seawall, and more.

As usual, the meeting will take place at 7 p.m. at the Ballard Library 5614 22nd N.W.

AGENDA:

7:00 p.m. Introductions & Short Announcements - please hold announcements to not more than one minute.

7:15 p.m. Assistant City Attorney Jana Jorgensen
Jorgensen has recently been assigned as the City Attorney Liaison to the North Precinct. She’ll be working on stubborn neighborhood public safety issues including: graffiti, chronic public nuisance locations, as well as advising and supporting the work of the North Precinct Community Police Team. She also plays a major role in developing the city’s response to liquor license applications in north Seattle.

7:35 p.m. Alaskan Way Viaduct Replacement Program Update, Matt Preedy - WSDOT

The twelfth annual Stories of the Sea/Fisher Poetry Slam will take place at the Highliner Pub & Grill tonight.

Presented in cooperation with Pacific Marine Expo, the Stories of the Sea contest is part of the Seattle Maritime Festival and challenges story tellers, poets and musicians to tell the funniest, heart-warming, or harrowing tale about life at sea.

Each performer is given 10 minutes to perform and their performance is judged based on creativity, presentation, imagery and poetic design. The guest judges are are usually representatives of the media and the maritime industry.
 

There are only 12 performer spaces available and registration is on a first-come basis.

The top three performers will be awarded cash prizes, courtesy of the Maritime Festival.

The event will take place tonight from 8:00 p.m.  - 10:30 p.m. at the Highliner Pub & Grill, 3909 18th Avenue West.

for more information, contact Mick Shultz at shultz.m@portseattle.org.

An anesthesiologist at Highline Medical Center, Burien, since 1988, Michael de Haan is used to research. But his recent work was very personal, with a successful outcome.

The patient, you might say, was his father, Jozeph, now 89. Thanks to two brave, and loving, Dutch families who saved his life during World War II, Jozeph plays tennis, works out, and shops with friends in Melbourne, Australia. Unlike Ann Frank, who, too, was hidden in Holland, Jozeph, also a Jew, had a more fortunate fate. Ann Frank's life ended tragically, as we know, when she was captured and later died in the Auschwitz Concentration Camp in Poland.

In 2010, Michael, a West Seattle resident in the Admiral District, spent over eight months, including a poignant visit to Holland, tracking down members of the two families who hid his father on their farms in Friesland Province, in northern Holland. They helped Michael authenticate their heroic deeds because he wanted them to become officially recognized by Yad Vashem's “Righteous Among the Nations,” the State of Israel’s honorific for non-Jews who risked their lives to save Jews from extermination during the Holocaust.