The West Seattle & Fauntleroy YMCA announced that Dan De Santis,
Managing Broker,
RSVP Real Estate
Miles Ewing,
Principal,
Deloitte Consulting LLP and Mary Anne Vance, Attorney,
The Law Office of Mary Anne Vance, P.S. have been elected to the Board of Managers.
The YMCA is located at 4515 36th Ave s.w. in West Seattle.
A new web TV series is kicking it in town, "Chop Socky Boom". The four-part series, with nearly a dozen cast and crew members from West Seattle and White Center, spoofs the kung fu and action hero genres. The first two episodes were released today, called "Audition". and "Callbacks".
With its playful, animated opening credits ala South Park, the table is pretty well set for high-flying hijinks and angst-ridden self-examination between this motley crew of self-ascribed "misfits". Thrown into the bowl of tricks is a subtle homage to the Peanuts cartoons, and to a Clint Eastwood film.
Sometimes, a serious point is conveyed.
For instance,
The Bridge Care Center, on 1516 NW 51st St., was successfully able to clothe people through the wet and cold winter months, but as the chilly nights linger, they're running out of jeans and blankets.
"The numbers that The Bridge are serving have increased steadily, so we're gratified at our success, but it's also just so upsetting to see so many people in need," said Rita Weinstein, co-founder of the clothing bank.
Weinstein said the clothing bank is having a hard time keeping jeans stocked and are especially in need of men's jeans sizes 30-34.
"With cool night-time temperatures lingering, we also need blankets, sweaters, jackets, and hoodies. And we always need clean or new socks and underwear," added Weinstein.
Open since June, 2011, The Bridge Care Center's clothing bank serves upwards of 50 people a week, providing them with clothing, shoes, sleeping bags and rain capes at no cost.
New Woodland Park Zoo residents will make their public debut this weekend during the "Pigs, Warts and All" program. The new animal residents are a wild pig species called African warthogs and Visayan warty pigs.
Visayan warty pigs are critically endangered animals native to central Philippines, and are recognizable by their prominent head tufts.
Warthogs, the wild pigs of the African savanna, earned their name from the large facial warts on each side of their tusks and jumped to fame when the character warthog Pumbaa endeared itself to fans of Disney’s “The Lion King.”
As the animals make their debut this weekend, May 5 - 6, the zoo will hand out free piggy banks at the ZooStores to the first 500 kids (age 12 and under) each day.
Also during opening weekend, keeper talks will be presented at the pigs’ exhibits and special pig-themed programming for young kids will be offered in Zoomazium.
“Pigs, Warts and All” program schedule:
- Visayan Warty Pigs Smart Cart: Cute, Clever, Critically Endangered – 10:00 a.m.-noon
- Creature Feature – 10:30 a.m., Zoomazium
- Visayan Warty Pig Keeper Talk – 11:00 a.m.
press release
The Seattle Department of Transportation previously announced that they would be inspecting the Fauntleroy Expressway bridge deck (the raised roadway at the west end of the West Seattle Bridge) on April 30th. Due to unexpected mechanical issues, the work has now been rescheduled for Wednesday and Thursday, May 2nd & 3rd between 8 a.m. and 3 p.m.
The inspection team will establish short-term lane closures of the right-hand lane, beginning on the westbound side, using truck-mounted traffic warning devices. The inspection team will make short-term (15 minutes) stops at any given location along the bridge deck. After completing the westbound route the team will then inspect eastbound, toward Downtown Seattle, also along the right-hand lane. The entire inspection will be completed by 3 p.m. on the given day. (When working during the morning commute period, activities will take place in the lanes of travel that are in the opposite direction of peak traffic flows.)
Deadline for receiving items for Community Calendar is 5 p.m. Wednesday for the following week’s Times/News. Events are published based on timeliness and space availability. Email submissions to: hteditor@robinsonnews.com Items can be accepted from nonprofit groups and government agencies only. Others may call Dona Ozier at 206-708-1378 for inclusion in our “Out & About” advertising section.
Art Exhibits
Burien Community Center—Marquetry art by Dennis Harrison. Marquetry is an art form that uses only natural and dyed wood veneers in its presentation. It is a little-known art form in America, but it is hundreds of years old as practiced elsewhere. Through May 31. 14700 6th Ave. S.W. Mondays-Thursdays 8 a.m.-8 p.m. Fridays, 8 a.m.-5 p.m.
Auditions
Des Moines Arts Commission—Looking for talented performers for “Des Moines Got Talent” concert Aug. 8. Auditions, May 3 and May 4. Contact 206-870-6527 or recreation@desmoineswa.gov for appointment
When I told my mom I hitched a ride to the stockyards in Portland with a man I did not know, when I was 10, she was shocked. When I told her he had a badge with his name Albert Wiesendanger (rhymes with anger), she did not believe me. It was okay, he was a park ranger. I also told her I knew a man named Elmer Slotboom; she didn’t believe me and never wanted to know about a boy named Booger something.
When I bought the White Center News in 1952 I was stunned when my foreman told me that as a schoolboy at Highline High he and his friends called the town Rat City.
He said it was called that because his buddies believed it was named as a Restricted Access Territory for U.S. Navy personnel during the Second World War.
I had never heard that and ignored it but set about working hard to improve the image by helping get improved parking, paved streets, and a generally nicer place to live.
In every part of this world flowers provide a common language, one that all people understand. Eye-catching colors and captivating fragrances speak in their beautiful natural expressions to birth, love, marriage, illness, happiness, even death, and those all too often times we need to say, “I’m sorry.” What would life be like without flowers?
June 24th 1934, a group of 20 women and one man with a common interest in flowers and gardening organized the Des Moines Garden Club. Although men are more often identified with mowing lawns and trimming brush, they appreciate flowers too.
One of the well-proven ways to favorably impress a lady is bring her flowers. You may not get out of the doghouse with flowers, yet you’ll surely move up a notch on love’s ladder.
In the April 13th edition of Letters, Mr. DeLorm stated that the previous animal control program to CARES was unsuccessful. It was most indeed successful!
Dr. Kasper started up the program in July of 2010 and had regular office hours and a 24-hour phone contact. She frequently went into the field on dog calls, took in the many stray animals brought to her, spayed/ neutered, and vaccinated them and made them available for adoption.
Her use of Pet Finders online reunited a trucker with his little dog lost in Tacoma almost a year earlier (Highline Times ran a feature story). Her policy was to be a non-kill shelter as much as possible despite the city suggesting otherwise. The many citizens of Burien who had problems resolved or adopted animals from her shelter will attest that Dr. Kasper's program was successful.
But because the city of Burien wouldn't provide adequate fiscal support or administrative support, Dr. Kasper's animal control program wasn't sustainable and she found it necessary not to renew the contract in July of 2011.
Good news is new House of Representatives legislation that calls for robust, sustained and comprehensive diplomacy with Iran (HR 4173.)
I hope Adam Smith will sign on to this bill if he already hasn’t.
To be for peace and diplomacy takes courage when the war drums are beating.
John Corr
Des Moines
