Don’t forget the Poverty Bay Wine Festival is this weekend, March 1-3, at the Landmark Event Center in Des Moines.
It features 25 Washington wineries and local food delicacie
More info at www.dmrotary.org.
Taking a peek inside Patrice De La Ossa’s Chief Sealth International High School classroom on the afternoon of Feb. 21, it looked like your average arts and crafts activity hour. Inside, a mix of Sealth students and 4th graders from Tilden School worked feverishly as scissors cut, rolls of tape secured, and unused scraps of newspaper wafted to the ground.
Closer inspection of the end product revealed they weren’t making Paper Mache dolls or prepping for Easter, but making bones. Femurs, fibulas, tibias and the like were overflowing out of boxes, leading to the obvious question: “What exactly is going on here?”
Crafts with a purpose. The students were building bones for a national social arts practice called One Million Bones. From June 8th to June 10th, 2013, one million hand-crafted bones (including an estimated 3,000 from Sealth and Tilden students) will come together and be laid out for the world to see at the National Mall in Washington D.C., all in the name of raising awareness about genocide.
Right after the big war, which I had won nearly single handed, I left Boeing in spite of their pleas and my promise to never drive my fork lift truck on the soft asphalt portion of the airport runway near the hangar.
And I was looking around for an occupation.
I had three little kids and had once worked after high school at a big department store helping a crew dress windows.
I figured I knew how to do that and printed up some business cards that read “Window Dresser: We Create Displays That Sell."
I handed them out when I walked door to door in downtown Renton, White Center, Des Moines and Burien. I did not go to West Seattle because I was driving a 1928 DeSoto with a leaking radiator and that was a long way from home in case I had to walk.
Wonder of wonders, one day I got a call. This man needed someone to glaze the big windows on the street level floor of Seattle's Smith Tower. He also asked me to cover some tables with crepe paper. He was going to sell some things, I guess.
By Steve Shay and Shara Wallace
HIGHLINE TIMES
Car plunges down SeaTac ravine
A rescue team aided a driver seriously injured when his car plunged 100 feet down a ravine early Friday, Feb. 22 in SeaTac, officials said.
Medics and firefighters responded in the 15600 block of Des Moines Memorial Drive South at about 2 a.m. after a report of a car veering off the roadway and down an embankment.
The first emergency unit on the scene found a car with the injured driver still in the car about 100 feet down the ravine. A rope rescue took place by trained personnel, with neighboring fire departments assisting.
Rescuers found the driver still awake and able to tell them he was the only person in the car at the time of the crash.
The man was extricated from the vehicle and lifted up the slope with the rope system. He was taken to a local hospital for treatment of serious injuries.
Runway copper stolen
Seattle Public Schools press release:
On Saturday, February 23, six Ballard High School video students won two of the top prizes at the 17th Annual Derek Freese Youth Media Film Festival at Temple University in Philadelphia.
The award for Best Documentary went to Deep Down by Isaiah Hoban-Halversen, Kaila Lafferty & Oona Lowe. As a fourteen-year-old Ballard High School student, Alessandro Gelmini was exploring an ice cave with a friend when it collapsed, burying both boys beneath piles of shattered ice and debris. Deep Down tells the story of his rescue and recovery through interviews with Gelmini, his mother, and an emergency response professional, as well as news footage and expressive use of light and sound.
Best Editing went to Great Mimes Think Alike, a comedic short by Will Slater, Michael Vitz-Wong & Kiana Wyld. The story (by Kiana Wyld) concerns a mime content to earn his living on Market Street until a rival mime stakes a claim nearby. The short uses visual storytelling techniques so well it’s easy to see what characters are thinking. In good mime tradition, nobody says a word.
By Ryan Hueter, UW News Lab
Ever since he was raised in Southern California, Scott McGinnis has been a fan of Mexican food. Now, he is turning that love for the food and a passion for cooking into his first full-service restaurant.
McGinnis started the El Camion family of taco trucks with the North Seattle truck about six years ago, followed by one in Sodo, and three years ago, the truck in Ballard. Now, he is trying to bring the same model of serving their customers that has been successful with their trucks to their inside location. After all, El Camion translates to simply “the truck.”
“It’s our truck inside,” McGinnis said.
McGinnis has applied for a liquor license and hopes to open a bar in this area. The posters on the wall are authentic posters from Mexican movies.
Spinning off El Camion’s popular line of taco trucks throughout the city, owner McGinnis opened up a sit-down likeness of El Camion restaurant in north Ballard on Feb. 8 after four months of remodeling.
The twelfth annual Fauntleroy Food Fest is set for March 19 at the Hall at Fauntleroy at 9131 California Ave. SW starting at 6 PM. The event is free, and has a no-host bar but Fauntleroy Community Association dues are encouraged at the event.
food samples from local restaurants and information from neighborhood and government organizations are all part of the event. Last year, The Original Bakery, Endolyne Joe's, Tuxedos and Tennis Shoes Catering, Bird on a Wire Espresso, Guadalajara Mexican restaurant and Giannoni's Pizzeria were all present. Also on hand in previous years were YMCA, Little Pilgrim Daycare Center, The Fauntleroy Children's Center, Fauntleroy Community Service Agency, The Barton Pump Station Project, ArtsWest and others.
The full list of participants this year will be provided as the event date nears.
All Fauntleroy neighbors are invited to the event. One goal was to prompt neighbors to join the FCA or renew their current membership. Memberships start at $25 per household.
Press release:
Discover Burien will be hosting their 2013 Annual Awards Dinner and
Silent Auction Fundraiser March 1, 2012 at the Burien Community Center (14700 6th Ave SW, Burien) from 6 – 10 pm. Tickets can be purchased for $40 in advance or $50 at the door.
The 2012 Leadership awards were selected from nominations from the community and voted upon by the Discover Burien Board of Directors.
The award recipients are as follows:
Business Leader of the Year – Scott Schaefer, SoKing Media/B-Town Blog
Student Leader of the Year – Sierra Flanagan, Senior, Highline High School
Discover Burien Volunteer of the Year – Denise Ferguson
Team Clean Sweep Recognition of the Year – Alestaire Echavia
Non-Profit Leader of the Year – NAVOS
A new "tweet map" created by Microsoft researcher and social media expert Andrés Monroy-Hernández reveals, in the style of "Ork Posters," what each Seattle neighborhood is like in the twitter-sphere. Geekwire has the story here.
In the Geekwire story, Monroy-Hernández explains a bit about how he came up with the tweet map, which is based on volume of tweets.
The 4th Annual Alki Kindergarten Film Festival featuring the actual short films conceived and created by students will be held Thursday, Feb. 28 at the Admiral Theater. Showtime is 6:15pm, doors open at 6pm. The theater is located at 2343 California Ave. SW.
The brainchild of teacher Terry Kegel and through his efforts plus that of Alexis Boeger and Stevie Kramer the festival will display the work of more than 70 students. Most films last approximately 30 seconds with a few longer ones.
This year the festival is featuring the WORLD PREMIERE of…
“When My Mommy Saw Seaweed”
“The Day I Fell Off My Scooter”
“I Farted on the Plane”
and many more!
Each film reflects ideas and experiences the students chose to write about and many feature their own artwork. Kegel assembled all the films, originally captured on iPod Touch devices, did all the editing and produced a film trailer for the festival.
Donors Choose provided a grant for the acquisition of the gear.
