March 2013

TACOMA - Resilience and the desire to win rallied the top-ranked Class 4A Mount Rainier girls basketball team to a 61-56 quarterfinal win against fifth-ranked Inglemoor on Thursday, Feb. 28, in the Tacoma Dome in a featured match up of the 2013 WIAA/Les Schwab Tires state Hardwood Classic.

With her team trailing 56-51 after Brittany McPhee had absorbed punishing blows throughout three quarters, she decided it was time to deal out some deadly counter punches.

"Their big girls inside were tough and pushing me, so I decided I was going back inside and show strength," said McPhee, who closed out with 28 points on 7-for-14 field goal shooting and clutch 14-of-15 free throw conversions. "I just went in and shot them down."

McPhee also cleared 15 boards and blocked two shots.

The Rams (26-1) moved into a final four match up against Mead and the McPhee twins' cousin Mackenzie McPhee who is the Mead starting center. Inglemoor (21-3) went into the consolation bracket.

Press release:

Join the Burien Parks and Recreation Advisory Board and staff for a dog park planning meeting.

Come discuss a proposal for an off-leash dog play area.

Sites to be discussed include Hazel Valley Park and Salmon Creek Park.

This project also supported by the B-Town dog owners group.

When: March 13, 2013 @ 7 pm
Where: Saint Bernadette Parish Hall
1028 SW 128th ST, 98146

For more information call 206-988-3700

To the Editor:

Rhonda Johnson, in support of gun rights, makes the claim in the March 1 issue of The Herald that "FBI statistics clearly state more people are killed with knives, bats and crowbars vs gun homicides. Look it up." I did, and this claim is totally bogus. In fact, FBI figures for 2011 show 8,583 people murdered with handguns, 496 people killed with baseball bats, hammers, and other objects. The gun control vs. gun rights debate is not helped when people don't bother to check their "facts" and are willing to spread misinformation.

David Gardner
Genesee

Press release from KING FM 98.1

Ballardite and Classical King FM on-air host Lisa Bergman was named last week a winner of the 2013 Gracie Award for writing and hosting the original Exploring Music program on Classical KING FM 98.1.

Exploring Music is a two-minute adventure in music that airs every night at 6 p.m. and is designed to introduce all ages, including children, to the often fascinating and unusual stories behind classical music.

“Writing and hosting KING FM’s Exploring Music is for me a thrill,” Bergman said. “It is an opportunity to share the innermost secrets of over five centuries of classical music peppered with anecdotes about instruments, sound, disasters and hilarity –- all within an intense, two-minute sound byte. Winning the 2013 Gracie Award for ‘Outstanding Host for Entertainment and Information’ is really a reflection of the richness of classical music and the humanity that is at its core.”

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Professional cartoonist and popular teacher Greg Hatcher and his current and past students of the West Seattle YMCA after-school Partners With Youth Cartooning and Young Authors program ran a large booth at this year's Emerald City Comicon March 1 to 3 at the Washington State Convention Center. This was Hatcher's eleventh year chaperoning his artistic entourage.

Students represented Madison and Denny Middle Schools, West Seattle and Chief Sealth High Schools. Their cartoon book collaborations were on display and for sale, including their 2013 "Zombies!!" and 2012 "Draw In". Also available was the bound 2013 "Potpourri, A Young Authors Anthology" by Chief Sealth students.

Discovery Shop
4535 California Ave. S.W.
206-937-7169
The Division Sale runs March 7 through March 10 and almost everything in the shop is 50% off. This includes Antiques, Vintage and Collectibles which continue at half price through March 17. Also, Easter decorations will be featured starting March 11. All this and double stamps on your customer card every Monday from 10 to noon! If you enjoy shopping our store, please consider becoming a volunteer with us. In just a four hour shift a week you can make a big difference in helping us fund cancer research. The all volunteer run, non profit American Cancer Society shop is open Sundays 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. and all other days 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

West Seattle Herald photographers on display at Mt. St. Vincent
Photographs from David Rosen, Steve Shay, Greg McCorkle, Patrick and Kimberly Robinson are on display on the 2nd floor (just outside the main dining area of Providence Mt. St. Vincent at 4839 35th Ave. SW now through March. A reception with wine and snacks is set for March 7 from 5:30 to 7pm.

“Building a Better Home” Workshop
Ventana Construction LLC

By Scott Anthony

Is it me or are people on the road becoming more aggressive all the time?

Maybe it's full moon syndrome or spring fever. Tax time is nearing and that tends to make people cranky.
Or maybe it's gas prices, but whatever the reason I think I've had more tailgaters and rude, abrupt lane changers lately than ever before.

Typically for me, it goes like this; I'm on the freeway in the far left, fast lane when somebody in my rear view mirror appears moving well above the limit. I can see that they will be on my bumper in mere seconds, and I'm already nudging the speed limit by 5 mph myself.

Now my new friend is so close to my van that I can see he's alone and so he cannot go to the left for the HOV lane, also, he's on the phone.

As I slow to the exact speed limit, my mind naturally tries to make sense of the situation:
They have a loved one in the hospital and must get there before the afflicted one expires.
They're having a bad day and their anger is seeping into their gas pedal foot.
They're late for work, again.

By Georgie Bright Kunkel

When trapped in a chair with right leg elevated it takes ingenuity to use the computer but here goes. As I keep telling everyone that considers me a temporary invalid, “I am still fine from the ankles up.” I have had more time to ponder the history of personkind (note I have made this word more gender neutral than mankind). Even my computer manager put a red line under the word personkind. I must complain to the one who set up this spellcheck.

Now I am letting my mind wander into the great beyond with wonder about it all. I am fantasizing about living in the Stone Age when humans had just begun to walk upright. That was a mistake right there, walking upright. I can blame my weak back on that decision to walk on two legs rather than on all fours. And I realize that if I could go back to this era that I would be completely out of sync, as it were. Imagine, no formal language, only grunts and moans. I could identify with the moans which are like my moans when I don’t elevate my leg often enough and get swelling inside my cast.

Criminal condolences
On Feb. 26 a woman returned to her 34th Ave. S.W. home after attending her mother’s memorial service. She went to the backyard to place a flower arrangement from the funeral on the patio when she saw another woman. The victim asked the trespasser what she was doing, to which she replied, “I’m looking for my dog Bailey.” Before hurriedly leaving the home, the suspect told the victim “Sorry about the loss of your mother.” As the victim noticed a cut in one of her window screens, she realized she had not told the mystery woman about her mother’s death, but had posted the memorial date and time on the Internet.

Rottweiler tricked

After almost a year of being closed, Washington Federal bank is reopening their doors once more today, March 4.

In 2009, the bank, located at 2020 NW Market St, announced it would be tearing down the old building and build a new, updated, and larger one.

Built in 1945, the old building had experienced many floods over the years and black mold had developed inside the walls, said a branch employee in a previous interview with the Ballard News-Tribune.

The new two-story building has 9,000 square feet of space, a larger teller line, drive-up windows and a traditional brick façade.

During construction, Washington Federal had another, temporary location just a few doors down on 1718 N.W. Market Street. That location will no longer be in service.

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