January 2013

Friday, Jan. 25
Boys basketball
Chief Sealth 87, Ingraham 53
Even though they were playing on the road in North Seattle at Ingraham, the Chief Sealth Seahawks still won in a big way.
The Seahawks outscored the Vikings, 87-35.
Next up for Chief Sealth is a home game against Bainbridge at 7 p.m. Tuesday. The Seahawks entertain Seattle Prep at 6:15 p.m. Friday.
West Seattle, meanwhile, is home against Eastside Catholic at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday before going to Blanchet on Friday.
Kennedy 50, Evergreen 36
McCluskey scored 16 points and Sierhuis 15 for the Kennedy Catholic Lancers in Friday's win, while Evergreen was led by the 12 points of Mikel Abraha and the 11 of Christian Sainz.
Evergreen of White Center hosts Tyee for a 7 p.m. game Wednesday and entertains Foster at 7:45 p.m. Friday.

Girls basketball
West Seattle 50, Nathan Hale 32
West Seattle also journeyed up north and won Friday.
The Wildcat women entertain Eastside Catholic at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday and visit Blanchet at 8 p.m. Friday.
The Chief Sealth team hosts Bainbridge at 7 p.m. Wednesday before going to Blanchet for 6:15 p.m. action Friday.
Kennedy 57, Evergreen 23

Will Leonard sink an up and under jumper against Inglemoor

By Christopher Duclos

The week of Jan. 21 brought a frenzy of basketball action as high school teams geared up for what could be their final games of the season. To Ballard High varsity squads, the week was not easy, with both teams playing three total games. It was a test of endurance, especially with back to back evening games for both squads at the end of the week.

Tuesday, Jan. 22, Boys at Inglemoor

The boys brought their A-game to Kenmore on Tuesday night to take on the Inglemoor Vikings. A former basketball force to be reckoned with, Ballard had no trouble taking care of this particular Vikings team. Offense and defense, Ballard had complete control of all phases, outscoring Inglemoor by double digits in three out of the four quarters of the game. Inglemoor could not contain the Verduin-Berger duo, who each mustered double digits. Seth Berger led the evening in scoring with 20 and Johnny Verduin with 10.

  The latest Flu scare in the Northwest prompted me to recall an event from the days of my youth. 

     There was a lot of scarlet fever, mumps, chicken pox, diphtheria, small pox and pneumonia when I was growing up in Portland in the 20's and 30's. It was common to have doctors come out to the house and nail a cardboard notice on your front porch warning others not to enter if someone was sick.

      I was lucky. I never had any of those awful diseases but my sisters and brothers did. One day a doctor parked his 1927 Ford sedan in front of our house. 

      We weren't bad kids but we had a mischevous streak.
 My brother Russ opened the car door while the good doctor was tending to my little sis. Russ hopped in the driver's side. I got in on the other side.  
     
    We took an imaginary trip to the store, the park ,downtown, all the way making motor sounds and shouting ooogah, ooogah and yelling at imaginary people on the street. What ever Russ did, it got the car moving. I think he loosened the brake. We began coasting on a downhill slope.

By Kyra-lin Hom

America is fat. Surveys shows this fact is easy to ignore so I figured blunt is best. Very, very blunt. To be more specific, nearly 70% of the American adult population is overweight. About a third of the adult population is obese. And we've very successfully passed that onto our younger generations too. About one in three children in America are overweight, ushering in a wonderful world of early onset diabetes, asthma, joint problems, just pure laziness and even heart disease. Perfect.

To the editor:

I just want to take a minute to comment on your regular feature writers. Kyra-lin Hom never ceases to impress. Sometimes, I hate to confess, it seems to those of us who are a little older, that young people these days don't seem to know much! Kyra-lin is one of the best representatives of her generation that I know. Her articles are always substantive. She tackles a topic, researches it well and presents it excellently. She is a very good writer. Her discussion of gay marriage, when that issue was breaking, was one of the best I read. I am somewhat on one side of that issue but not with a totally closed mind. Her exposition was so well thought out that I cut the article out and saved it. It gave me a great deal to ponder. Her current article on e-readers vs. paper books is well researched and presented, another keeper.

One of these days, Mr Robinson, you'll lose her to the Times!

Dear Editor,

Thanks for the two informative pieces in the 1/25 issue of the Herald. The first (North Highline On the Road to What?) was a different perspective on the Burien annexation controversy. The second (Controversial 'Benchview' Neighborhood Development…) was a thorough examination of the zoning dispute in my neighborhood. Both were interesting and informative.

And thanx also to Patrick Robinson for his wonderful photos. I look forward to them!

Dave Gardner
Genesee

Dear Editor,

And now we learn "The mammoth Highway 99 tunnel machine will start its journey under Seattle a few weeks late...damage to the rotary drive.." (Seattle Times 1/24). Now, isn't that sad? Are we all in mourning? Sack cloth and ashes? I think not.

More than 29,000 of us signed a petition to stop the bloody thing in the first place.
Numbers of us voted for McGinn based on his strong position against the tunnel.
They listened to us not. And McGinn, will get our vote next time? Not.
They listened not to the soil/tunnel expert of international acclaim that said this was the worst situation he had seen in his career.

May the stars continue to be aligned as this ill conceived selfish and dangerous project continues to keep us, like the rotary drive, from having to drive in the wretched hole.

Andy Helman
West Seattle