September 2012

Monday, Sept. 9
Volleyball
SCS 3, Cedar Park Chr. 2
The Warriors won a five-game match in Nisqually League action Monday.
Boys tennis
Evergreen 3, Renton 3
The Wolverines played Renton to a tie in a short-handed match Monday.

Tuesday, Sept. 11
Volleyball
Evergreen 3, Renton 0
Evergreen put Renton away in three games this past Tuesday.
Hazen 3, Highline 1
Highline took a loss against the Highlanders on Tuesday.
Kennedy 3, Lindbergh 0
The Lancers blanked the Eagles this past Tuesday.
Foster 3, Tyee 0
The Bulldogs downed their nearby rivals last Tuesday.
Ev. Luth. 3, NW Yeshiva 1
Evergreen Lutheran emerged victorious against Northwest Yeshiva this past Tuesday.
Girls soccer
Kennedy 4, Highline 2
The Lancers defeated the Pirates in a Seamount League match Tuesday.
Tahoma 6, Mt. Rainier 0
Mount Rainier lost in South Puget Sound League action Tuesday.
Renton 8, Tyee 1
Renton's Indians topped Tyee Tuesday.
SCS 8, Chimacum 0
The Warriors won convincingly this past Tuesday.
Boys golf
Kentridge 81, Mt. Rainier 31
The Rams fell to the Chargers last Tuesday.
Girls golf
Kentridge 94, Mt. Rainier 9

It is no surprise to anyone that human beings are a combination of nature and nurture. The trick is to determine which traits result from heritage and which result from training after birth. Very early in life boys gravitate to playing with guns, building blocks and toy trucks while girls end up playing with tea sets and baby dolls. If both parents work outside the home their jobs may still represent stereotyped occupations in terms of which sex engages in this work.

Early school readers showed the role of parent as traditional with mother staying home and caring for children and keeping house and father going out to work. There were 138 careers shown for men and only 26 shown for women in the readers even as late as the 1960s. One of the careers shown for women was fat lady in the circus!

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West Seattle Chamber presents “ Cruise for Commerce – Aim High, Float Local”
Thursday, September 20, 2012, 6 – 9 PM
Harbor Island Marina, Gate C

This week has been intense for me. A hectic-crazy-busy (it's a word, I swear) real world trial by fire kind of week, and it won't be stopping for anything as mundane as the weekend. I mean, seriously, I thought I was busy before taking on another job. Let's just say I'm gaining a healthy respect for all of you 50-60+ hours/week workers out there. That and I'm beginning to understand why parents never have time for social lives outside of work and family.

It was like a game of tug-o’-war in Ballard’s game against the Redmond Mustangs last Friday. One which, though they pulled hard, ended up in a loss for the Beavers.

In the first quarter, Ballard was leading 7-0 with a 26-yard touchdown pass from Senior Johnny Verduin to Senior Dominique Smith, but by half, Redmond came out ahead 10-7.

Third quarter, Ballard came back with an 11-yard touchdown run from Dominique Smith followed by a two-point conversion, bringing the score to 15-10.

In fourth quarter, however, Redmond was able to make a comeback, bringing the final score to 20-15.

It was an especially good night for Dominique Smith, who rushed for 80 yards with one touchdown and received 62 yards. Verduin passed for a total of 122 yards.

On defense, Justin Simon and Nate Rauda held the ground for Ballard with each getting 9 tackles.

Sophomore Shea Carroll also did his part for the team, rushing for 26 yards, receiving for 38 yards and getting four tackles.

The unwelcome volunteer

Eugenia Woo, who runs "MAin2," Seattle's historic preservation blog, has put out a call for community members to support the nomination of the Ballard Free Carnegie Library as an official landmark.

In part, this is in reaction to an essay by building owner Karoline Morrison in the Ballard News-Tribune, where she stated that she is not in support of official landmark status, describing the pains she went through to take care of it and how little the city has done. Morrison has expressed concerns that the landmark status will only hinder her and the businesses who pay the rent and provide the money that preserves the building.

However, Woo is not so convinced.

"We believe nominating and designating the building as a Seattle Landmark will only enhance the property, not hinder its operations or its future," she writes. "Most historic properties in Ballard, particularly those in the Ballard Avenue Landmark District, are thriving."

She also mentions that, once its a landmark, funding can be applied for through preservation incentives, which could help undo damage done by money lost.

By Elizabeth Wang

Nineteen-year-old Ben Hirshberg used to love Cheez-Its and, chicken nuggets and Cocoa Pebbles. But after choosing to eat like a Paleo, he had to eliminate the food he normally craved. The hardest thing for Hirshberg to give up was ice cream.

“Ice cream was one of my favorite foods,” he said. “But I’d go to the store and grab the ice cream carton, look at the ingredients: sugar, high-fructose corn syrup … I wasn’t super excited to put that into my body.”

Hirshberg calls himself a “loose Paleo,” referring to those who follow the Paleolithic Diet, also known as the Caveman Diet. It’s based on the presumed ancestral human diet of wild plants and animals, which were consumed during the Paleolithic era around 10,000 years ago. It consists mainly of fish, grass-fed pasture-raised meats, vegetables and fruits; it excludes such products as grains, refined sugar and processed oils.

I needed a break from Ballard. As Martin and I flew east to humidity and an overfilled cottage gritty with 140 years worth of beach sand, we both felt thankful for a break from everything that had consumed us for the first nine months of the year; namely his mother's health, her move, her death. We needed to forget everything. That is, except plotting how to get to a remote beach.

Like Ballard, there are politics aplenty on Martha's Vineyard and a mix of tragedy to do with traffic fatalities and small town news (such as the ice cream break-in). But unlike Ballard, there I was an outside observer and didn't feel that I needed to get involved.

On the morning after Labor Day, there was the whine of bandsaws and the clack of hammers. My parents live in an enclave of 300-plus gingerbread houses that were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978 and designated a National Historic Landmark in 2005. However, dating back to its founding in 1835 as a Methodist Revival tent camp, there have always been rules. Anything other than emergency repairs are forbidden between July 1 and Labor Day.

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The cars were the stars today at the Fifth Annual West Seattle Junction Car Show. In 2010 and '11 rain stifled the event, but this time the weather cooperated with the sun kissing chrome and metallic paint to the delight of the crowd as the show ran on all cylinders.

Diane Rose Vincent

West Seattle's Diane Rose Vincent took a stroll down California Ave. which for her became "Memory Lane" thanks to several 60's-era Ford Mustangs displayed.

She fondly recalled, "I had learned how to shift gears from a college friend with a Volkswagen. Then I got a red '66 Mustang from my dad in '68. I took all my friends out in it. I drove like a maniac back then, in San Bernardino. We would go up to the mountains and I'd drive around those twisty roads real fast and my friends would yell 'Stop!'"

Harold Scott