November 2012

Ian Dyson has achieved the rank of Eagle Scout, the highest acheivement in Boy Scouts.

Ian is a senior at Highline High School in Burien.

Ian noted he has been working towards this award since he was in Cub Scouts and the first grade at St. Bernadette Elementary School.

Ian’s Eagle project was leading a group of Scouts, friends and parents in making a driveway and turn-around Hillgrove Cemetery in SeaTac. It is the oldest cemetery in the Highline area.

Ian’s Eagle Court of Honor was held at St. Bernadette Catholic Church on Oct. 14.

One cold winter day Dave Stamborsky and I were searching for a likely place to catch a steelhead and I convinced him we should try the Hamma Hamma on the Olympic Peninsula. This is a short and narrow little stream that flows out of the mountains and empties into Hood Canal.

I had fished it before but never in the winter.

Too small to use a boat we decided to hike up to the famous Blue Hole where I had caught summer run fish before. He had never heard of the famous Blue Hole but he was entranced.

When we got there at about eight in the morning we discovered that there was about three feet of snow on the ground that had been crusted over.

Dave is a big man and athletic, a former football star at Highline High. He outweighed me by 20 pounds. We looked at the crust, tested it in our hip boots and decided it was okay and started up the river. It was easy hiking for a bit and then he broke through. Up to his knees.

UPDATE; 11:00 p.m.

The two pumps have helped lower the water level at Nickelsville. However, one might now call the dowsed encampment "Soggy-ville". Residents would welcome donations including dry blankets and sleeping bags. The 85 or so residents there (though approximately 30 have found shelter elsewhere) are on pallets and cinder blocks the City of Seattle has brought in. But the flood is not expected to resolved until more pumps arrive and/or the rains diminish.

UPDATE: 7:30 pm
Via Facebook reader Thelema shared this:

(Editor’s Note: When you get to a certain age, you start passing emails among your peers with the central theme, “Things were so much better back then.” I don’t know who wrote the following article. But thinking about my parents, Bernadine and Ted Mathison, who were into sustainability before sustainablity was cool, and how many of us baby boomers were raised, this article rang especially true. Eric Mathison)

SPECIAL TO THE HIGHLINE TIMES

Checking out at the store, the young cashier suggested to the older woman that she should bring her own grocery bags because plastic bags weren't good for the environment.

The woman apologized and explained, "We didn't have this green thing back in my earlier days."

The young clerk responded, "That's our problem today. Your generation did not care enough to save our environment for future generations."

She was right -- our generation didn't have the green thing in its day.

Burien man arrested after smoking "One last hit"
According to the King County Sheriff's Office, a Burien man, Joseph Yuhashi, 34, began smoking methamphetamine after he led police on a 20-minute chase Wednesday morning, Nov. 14., at 12:30 a.m. The incident began when a deputy noticed a stolen Dodge Charger at the Burien 76 gas station, 14807 1st Ave. S. The deputy went up to the car and the driver, outside, then hopped into the Charger and fled with his estranged wife, leading police onto I-5, then 518 and 509, and through the arrivals area at SeaTac. Once stopped, the man pulled out a methamphetamine pipe and began smoking in public. According to Sergeant Cindi West, he fled because he was wanted for a previous eluding incident. The reason he told the deputy he started smoking the meth

History repeated itself.
The Kennedy Catholic High School football team's Class 3A state playoff run ended with a 38-7 loss to Mount Si -- the same team that dealt the Lancers their only previous loss of the year by a 30-0 score in the season opener.

JFK finished with a 9-2 overall record with Friday's state quarterfinal loss in North Bend.

A win would have advanced the Lancers into this coming weekend's state semifinals in the Tacoma Dome, but it was not to be.

Mount Si advanced instead, carrying with it an 11-1 overall record.
Mount Si quarterback Nick Mitchell proved to be too tough to handle, completing 19 of 29 passes for 228 yards.

The Lancers' lone touchdown came on a 10-yard run by Drew Thompson.
Kennedy had bounced back from the season opening loss to the Wildcats, winning an undefeated Seamount League title along the way to state.

The Lancers opened the playoffs with a 35-29 win over Mountlake Terrace before posting a 20-14 win over Columbia River in Vancouver.

High winds on Nov. 19 are taking their toll on the flora in West Seattle's Junction.

Trees are down at the corner of S.W. Oregon St. and California Ave S.W. while the large limb of another, just north near Seattle Fish Company, is hanging on precariously over a vehicle.

Press release:

Whether you deep fry the bird or stuff the turkey, cooking together for Thanksgiving is a family tradition. But that very tradition (cooking) is the #1 cause of accidents over the Thanksgiving Holiday.

That’s why urgent care centers like Doctors Express, the first ever national franchise of urgent care, expects a huge hike in patients over this holiday week.

Doctors offices are typically closed over weekends and you can wait for hours at the ER. Urgent Care centers like Doctors Express are open 7-days-a-week . 


Here are the
Top 5 Thanksgiving Injuries (and Tips To Prevent Them):

• Burns
 Avoid wearing lose clothes. A dangling sleeve can easily catch fire.
 Make ovens a “Kid Free Zone” 
 Keep pot handles toward the back burners to reduce risk of knocking pots over.


• Food Poisoning

King County Metro Transit has been geting an earful regarding the new Rapid Ride C Line in West Seattle and they've taken steps to address the problems and complaints.

The top concerns or complaints they've heard are:

• It's overcrowded
• The wait is too long
• There's no place to sit
• When will RapidRide be OneBusAway?

They've offered list of what they've heard and what they've done about it so far on their MetroFutureBlog here but they've taken the extra step of soliciting more comments through a questionnaire for riders to fill out.

They said on their blog, "It’s been about seven weeks since we launched the RapidRide C Line between West Seattle and downtown Seattle, and there have been bumps in the road. We’ve heard a lot of feedback, and continue to tackle the issues that bug riders most.

UPDATE 4:17pm
The power that went out this morning and then in the afternoon following a major surge of wind that blew through the area has now been restored.

Original Post
Power flickered off for around 30 seconds at around 1:20pm all across West Seattle according to Herald Facebook friends who said from White Center to Admiral Viewpoint and everywhere between it went off.

It came back up quickly but for 46 customers near 11th SW and SW Roxbury a power outage that began shortly before 10am is continuing. Equipment failure is the listed cause and restoration is projected to happen by 5pm.

146 customers along California near Thistle Street lost power around the same time due to a tree falling. Estimated restoration is 5pm.

You can monitor system status here http://www.seattle.gov/light/sysstat/