February 2013

Northwest Symphony Orchestra is pleased to announce the third concert in its 2012– 2013 season. The March 16th concert, “Spotlight on the Orchestra,” will be presented at Holy Rosary Church in West Seattle, and includes Entry of the Gods into Valhalla, from Das Rheingold, one of the four operas that comprise Richard Wagner’s The Ring of the Nibelungen cycle. Also on the program will be Antonin Dvorak’s 8th Symphony and a selection of arias featuring soprano Cara Gabrielson.

Ms. Gabrielson is a student at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, where her operatic talents have been featured in Handel’s Agrippina, Guettel’s Myths and Hymns, and Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro. She has also performed at the Conservatory as soloist in Bach’s Magnificat, Britten’s Hymn to St. Cecilia, and with the Oregon Ballet Theater for Mendelssohn’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and the Portland Youth Philharmonic for Poulenc’s Gloria. She has won a number of national awards and is currently studying with Pamela Fry.


Spotlight on the Orchestra
Saturday, March 16th, 2013 at 8:00pm
Holy Rosary Church
4142 42nd Ave. SW, Seattle

Seola Gardens, the mixed-income community being developed by King County Housing Authority just east of Lakewood Park in White Center, is rising at a rapid rate in 2013 with rental housing nearing completion and developer Richmond American Homes signing on to build 54 properties for purchase.

Similar to the Greenbridge neighborhood in White Center, KCHA is developing Seola Gardens as a mixed-income community intended to “break up the concentration of poverty,” according to Rhonda Rosenberg, KCHA’s communications director.

Homebuilding at Seola stalled when the housing recession hit, but Rosenberg said Richmond’s commitment is a sign of changing tides.

Once completed, Seola will have a mixture of 177 subsidized workforce rental units, 107 homes sold at market value, and a senior housing and community center (operated by Providence Health and Services of Washington). There will also be public art installations, rain gardens, community gardens, play areas for kids and a Head Start program for preschoolers.

Rosenberg said KCHA hopes to have the rental housing completed in the fall of 2013.

Update, March 1, 2013:

The suspect's father, Henry Northwind, has said he was not being held hostage, did not have a knife to his throat and did not, in fact, feel in any particular danger, according to the Seattle Times, who spoke with him and the suspect's brothers. Northwind, however, did say his son was raging inside the home, pacing "fast and hard, jumping up and down and stomping on the ground," according to the Seattle Times.

In the report, Northwind also disputes the claim that an officer fell to the ground. He said he saw his son fall to the ground and pull out the piece of rebar from his pants, and then the officers surrounded him in a half circle and opened fire. "They killed him like a rabid dog," he told Seattle Times.

Original, Feb. 28, 2013:

30 seconds.

From the point that a suspect ran from the front porch of his house to the point that he was shot a total of approximately 8-9 times (the total is not final) by three different police officers, only 30 seconds had passed, said Seattle Police officials at a press conference today.

The West Seattle Eagles have been making some upgrades, improvements and are working at getting the word out about their frequent events.

The recently upgraded their entire security system. The upgraded digital HD sixteen camera system records around the clock every day and uses infrared imaging to see 80 feet in the dark and allows for offsite backup.

This news and more are now part of their outreach effort which you can keep up with on their newsletter, the West Seattle Talon Tribune which can be found here http://www.scribd.com/doc/127790664/March-2013-Newsletter or on their Facebook page here https://www.facebook.com/westseattle.eagles .

Some upcoming events you'll find in the newsletter are:

Bud Niemi Tribute Clam Chowder Dinner Mar. 4
Homemade clam chowder, toasted garlic bread, caesar salad & lemon pound cake with glaze $9
Proceeds benefit the Stan Murray Kidney Fund

Stan Murray Kidney Fund Benefit Dinner Mar. 9
Slow roasted prime rib, baked potato, vegetable, salad and dessert $15

Obie's Steak Night Mar. 8
Flame broiled steak, baked potato, vegetable, dinner roll and salad bar $13

The White Center Community Development Association’s current Business District Manager Mikel Davila is leaving his post on March 1st, making room for the next person interested in helping White Center’s business district and owners thrive.

Here is the WCCDA announcement:

Organization: The White Center Community Development Association (WCCDA) is a non-profit organization with a mission to develop authentic leadership, leverage resources and build economic and social equity to create a strong, connected and vibrant community.

Basic Function: WCCDA is seeking a full time, exempt Business District Manager responsible for successful program implementation and management of neighborhood revitalization in the White Center business district. Strategies including marketing and promotion, organizational development, appearance and pedestrian environment, community building, resident leadership development, clean and safe and business and retail development. Please see full job description below for more information.

The West Seattle Eagles are offering a very fancy dinner for a very good cause on March 2 for a good price.
From 5:30pm to 7:30pm they will serve flame broiled steak, prawns, twice baked potato, vegetable, caesar salad and brownies A la 'Mode for under $12. You can even get it for less with the non-perishable food donation.

It's all to benefit the West Seattle Food Bank.

Typically, after the holidays, food bank donations dwindle but people get hungry every day and the need continues.

The Eagles are even throwing in live music, starting at 8pm by the group No Left Turn.

Steak only $10
Prawns only $10
Steak and prawns $12
The food donation gets you a dollar off.

West Seattle Eagles is located at 4426 California Ave. SW

Second UPDATE, March 2:

Following the below press release issued by the EPA, Duwamish River Cleanup Coalition Policy Advisor Bj Cummings responded with her organization's own press release on the plan. She then shared her organization's positions on the plan with the West Seattle Herald:

"There is a lot to like in this plan," Cummings said. "It has gotten stronger through the last drafts I have seen. It is going in the right direction and has a lot of potential. But the problem all along has been that it does not provide adequate health protection for some of our most resource-dependent, vulnerable communities, particularly those who have any kind of cultural or subsistence relationship to the river. Fishermen and Tribes are not going to be adequately protected by the current plan.

"This doesn't necessarily mean do more and spend more," she said. "It means really look at who's benefitting and who's not. We're looking at this from an equity perspective, from a social justice perspective, and from an environmental perspective.

By Lindsay Pease

Peter Brown grabs the diving board rails, lifting and swinging his legs like a pendulum.

“Pull both legs up to your right, and you better feel this in your obliques or you’re not doing it right,” he says. Next he jogs, cross-country skis and does crunches on the pool deck. While he breaks a sweat out of the water, Hydrofit/Deep Water exercise students mimic his moves under water.

Brown, 21, teaches Hydrofit classes three times a week at the Ballard Pool. Deep water exercisers first clip on a buoyancy belt, then select foam weights to hold for more water resistance. Some more experienced students wear foot weights and resistance gloves. Once class starts, Brown leads the class in interval exercises, increasing in speed and intensity each time. He likes to keep the class fast-paced, despite that it’s harder to do the exercises in the water than out.

“If I go slow, I don’t seem like I’m trying and the class won’t meet my intensity.”

SDOT press release
The Seattle Department of Transportation will close a portion of Southwest Trenton Street starting this morning (Feb. 28) and the intersection of Delridge Way Southwest and Southwest Trenton Street starting Friday night. This work is part of the first phase of rebuilding Delridge Way Southwest.

February 28-March 4: Southwest Trenton Street will be closed between Delridge Way Southwest and 20th Avenue Southwest from 7 a.m. Thursday until 6 a.m. Monday at the latest.

March 1-March 4: The intersection of Delridge Way Southwest and Southwest Trenton Street will be closed from 7 p.m. Friday until 6 a.m. Monday at the latest. Crews will work around the clock. Local access will be maintained.

Crews will break and remove pavement on the east side of the intersection during the day on Thursday before proceeding with reconstruction of the intersection Friday night. The Thursday work will reduce nighttime noise impacts over the weekend and allow the concrete pour to begin earlier on Saturday.
For the Delridge/Trenton intersection closure, the detour is as follows (see map at link):

A planned power outage, started at 9:38pm on Wednesday night, Feb. 27 affected 533 Seattle City Light customers. The outage was expected to be over by 6:41am on Thursday, Feb. 28.

Messages received by the Highline Times indicated that not all residents were informed of the outage and that 24 hours advance notice is customary.

The area affected is from 136th SW at the north end to Ambaum Blvd down to 141st SW and over to between 12th SW and 13th SW. Also affecting parts of 137th SW