by Kaelyn Sayles
The grill sizzled under the cooking hot dogs as chatter and laughter mixed with golf clubs cracking against balls nearby and jets flying overhead.
The Eliminate Project, Kiwanis International and UNICEF have joined forces to eliminate maternal and neonatal tetanus. This deadly disease steals the lives of nearly 60,000 innocent babies and a significant number of women each year.
The effects of the disease are excruciating — tiny newborns suffer repeated, painful convulsions and extreme sensitivity to light and touch.
The West Seatle Kiwanis Club will be at the Farmers Market on Sunday to share information with the public and to raise awareness. All donations for coffee, hot cocoa and tea go towards the Eliminate Project.
The West Seattle High School Cheerleaders will be holding a Mini Cheer Camp Saturday, June 9 in the WSHS Gym from 10:00 am to 1:00 pm.
Kindergarten thru 5th grade kids will have a great day learning fun cheers and making crafts with the cheerleaders. Campers will receive a tee shirt, official team hairbow, picture of themselves with a cheerleader AND perform as an honorary WSHS cheerleader at an upcoming home football game!
The cost of the camp is $30. Space is limited so register by June 4th to ensure your spot. Late registrations are accepted, but the tee shirt will take an additional week to receive.
Contact Bev Corey at coreym_b@comcast.net if you have any questions.
Your cheerleader will come home with:
• West Seattle Mini Cheer Camp tee shirt
• Hair bow
• A handmade art project
• New friends and great memories
• And other surprise goodies
Kids in grades K through 5 will have a morning filled with: ** Cheers ** Jumps ** Chants ** Songs ** Cheer Related Crafts
Winning the right to the concession at Seacrest was apparently the easy part for food vendor Marination. It now looks like they will be delayed with the build out of the space until late summer based on the requirements put in place by Seattle's Department of Planning and Development.
That means for tourists and/or locals on the King County Water Taxi, or people in the neighborhood the return of food and beverage service is going to be a while.
One of the owners, Roz Edison talked to the Herald about what is happening.
"DPD issued their decision on our proposal to convert the building to have it formally established for restaurant use. We all know that it already has been established as a restaurant for the last ten years but it has to go through formal channels to have that building changed. That was the first hold up. What has happened now is that there is actually a second level. After King County does its review of the shoreline master use it also needs to go to the Department of Ecology in Olympia because it does impact the shoreline."
press release
The next major road closure associated with the Spokane Street Viaduct Widening Project will be a full closure of the westbound lanes of the viaduct between I-5 and SR 99 from Saturday, June 9, 6 p.m. until Monday, June 11, at 5 a.m. (The Saturday closure start time is delayed in order to accommodate traffic coming from events earlier that day at both Safeco and Century Link Fields.)
It should also be noted that the previously closed eastbound off-ramp at Fourth Avenue S has reopened, while the eastbound off-ramp at First Avenue S has been closed. The First Avenue ramp will reopen in mid-June.
Upcoming Project Closures:
Saturday, June 9 – Monday, June 11
· Westbound lanes of the Spokane Street Viaduct between I-5 and SR 99 will be closed from 6 p.m., Saturday, June 9 until 5 a.m., Monday, June 11. The SR 99 southbound off-ramp to West Seattle will remain open, providing the opportunity to avoid the closure. The attached maps provide additional detour options.
Monday, June 11 – Tuesday, June 12
Kris Tollefson of West Seattle High School came through with two big finishes in the 3A girls portion of the state track and field meet.
Tollefson scored a second place finish in the 400-meter dash for the Wildcats with her time of 56.57 seconds and took fifth in the 200 with a 25.85 effort.
In the 3A boys portion of the action held May 24-26 at Mount Tahoma High School in Tacoma, Pepe Hernandez of Chief Sealth finished in a five-way tie for fifth place in the high jump at 6 feet, 4 inches and secured seventh in the long jump at 19-10.25.
Anne Patnode of West Seattle came in seventh in the girls long jump at 16-01.25 and Dominique Prater of Chief Sealth placed 12th in the girls shot put at 35-00.25.
Hila Gross of Chief Sealth was 15th in the girls discus at 84-06.
Nikko Emm of West Seattle took 16th in the boys triple jump at 39-09.50.
Seattle Lutheran also placed athletes in the Class 2B meet held at Eastern Washington University in Cheney.
The West Seattle-based school had Jared Stefanoff place third in the javelin at 172-06 and 15th in the 3,200-meter run in 10:56.07.
RICHLAND - It was a tough stand to take for Alexis Gregerson of Mount Rainier to endure at the Class 4A state tennis tournament beginning on Friday, May 25 at Richland High School and the Columbia Basin Racquet Club.
Gregerson rallied strongly and tenaciously from baseline to baseline before dropping a closely contested girls state tennis singles opener to Leslie Ho of Central Valley. Ho posted a 6-3 first set win before Gregerson turned more tenacious to have her opponent on the verge of a second set defeat, but Ho pounded home key points to escape with a 7-5 triumph in the second set.
Theresa Huang of Skyline then fought off the Ram player 6-2, 6-3, to give the Mount Rainier senior a season-ending defeat. The energy expended in the rough first match came back to hit Gregerson.
Ram player Gregerson ended her tennis career under Mount Rainier coach Tim Lee with this appearance at state after teaming with Shannon Wong in state doubles action last season.
Sammi Hampton of Skyview fought Megan LaLone of Skyview through three torrid sets before emerging with a 6-2, 4-6, 6-4 championship win.
After the amazing murals that helped transform the White Center community were done during the Spring Clean event on May 19 there was one left to do.
White Center Chamber of Commerce President Mark Ufkes had a vision to have dozens decorate the community but they don't happen all at once. The big one not completed that Saturday was the one on the north wall of the Saar's Super Saver Foods on 16th s.w.
Ray Zombro, Workbased Learning Coordinator and Amanda Schmidt Visual Arts Instructor on the Evergreen Campus took it to the art students and others there to put together a design that would work on that wall.
While many students are taking part after school, "the heart of it is about 8 students from the art club," said Schmidt, " but we've had offers from others at the school."
June 1 has arrived, and with it comes the official switch to privatization of liquor sales in Washington State.
In West Seattle, most chain grocery stores have their shelves stocked and two previously state-run liquor stores will reopen as private enterprises (the Westwood Village and Alaska Junction locations).
How do the retail consumer taxes work?
As you check out with a bottle of your favorite spirit from here on out, the receipt will show two separate taxes added to the base price listed on the shelves.
First, all bottles will have a 20.5 percent sales tax applied on top of the list price.
Secondly, a “liter tax” is applied, which works a bit differently. The tax is $3.77 per liter, so a pint (350 mL) will have an additional $1.41 tacked on; a fifth (750 mL) adds $2.83; and a half gallon (1.75 L) is hit with $6.60 on top. So whether you are buying bargain basement or top shelf, the liter tax remains the same based on the size of the bottle.
Below is a sample of what the prices are looking like at the onset from a handful of West Seattle grocery stores (in comparison to prices paid to the state prior to the transition).
UPDATE:
A series of concert in memory of the May 30th shooting victims has been announced. Titled "Cafe Racer Love", there will be numerous concerts throughout the city this month to remember those lost in the shooting.
In Ballard, "Innocent When You Dream: A Tribute To The Departed" will take place on June 19 at Conor Byrne and The Tractor for a $10 suggested donation.
The Tractor will feature Wages of Sin, Bucharest Drinking Team, The Bad Things, Miss Mamie Lavona, Hounds of the Wild Hunt, The Great Um Millionaires Club, Dexter Street Stompers, Cast Iron Maidens, Special All Star Jam.
And the Conor Byrne will feature Titanium Sporkestra, Peculiar Pretzelmen, Orkestra Zirkonium, Bat Country, Bakelite 78, The Mongrel Jews, Love Market, Gods Favorite Beefcake, Mindy Lind, The Gloria Darlings and Sean Hurley.
Both show start at 5 p.m.
For more details about Cafe Racer Love, please visit: http://www.caferacerlove.org/.
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Ballard venues, the Tractor and Conor Byrne, are partnering up to host benefit shows for the victims of the May 30th shooting.
