March 2013

For the bus rider without a smartphone, a bit of good news: King County Metro has updated the electronic RapidRide signs along C and D lines to include arrival information for other buses other than just RapidRides.

According to their blog, "It’s important to us to keep improving our technology to help our riders travel as smoothly and swiftly as possible."

Next, they say, they'll be working with their vendor to get larger digital signs for stops that serve many routes, so riders can see arrival times for several routes at once.

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Friday, March 22
Boys lacrosse
Overlake 14, Kennedy 10
Barrett Jenness scored six goals to lead Overlake to its first win of the spring with a 14-10 boys high school lacrosse defeat of Kennedy, Friday at Foster High School in Tukwila.
The Owls jumped out to a 4-2 lead after the first and added four unanswered goals in the second for the 8-2 lead. In the third, Overlake again jumped all over Kennedy 5-2 to take a 13-4 lead before the Lancers attempted a comeback.
Down by nine goals in the fourth, Kennedy opened scoring right from start at Ashton Pieris scored off the opening face off. His scored was the first of three goals that eventually made it 13-7 before Overlake’s Kinori Rosnow made it 14-7 with 3:54 remaining on his only goal of the night.
Again ignited by a Pieris goal at 3:40, Kennedy went on another three-score run to make it 14-10, but that was all the Lancers had as Overlake hung on for the win.
Jenness finished the night with seven points (6g, 1a) and four ground balls to lead Overlake in scoring.
Kennedy’s Sebastian Ferraro had five goals and five ground balls to lead the Lancers.

MONDAY, MAR 25, 2013

Baseball: JV Conf. Game, 3:30pm, Away vs. Garfield @ Garfield High School

Fastpitch: C Team Non-Conf., 3:30pm, Away vs. Bothell @ North Creek Ballfields

Baseball: Varsity Game, 3:45pm, vs. Garfield @ Whitman Middle School

Fastpitch: Varsity Game, 4:00pm, Garfield @ Lower Woodland - Lower Woodland Softball Field #3

Fastpitch: JV Non-Conf., 5:00pm, Away vs. Bothell @ Bothell High School, C – white

Soccer: Boys C Team Conf. Match, 6:00pm, Away vs. Liberty @ Liberty High School

TUESDAY, MAR 26, 2013

Golf: Girls Varsity Conf. Match, 3:30pm, vs. Skyline @ Ballard

Baseball: C Team League, 3:45pm, vs. Roosevelt @ Soundview Playfield

Tennis: Girls Varsity Game, 3:45pm, Away vs. Skyline @ Skyline High School (Location Changed)

Tennis: Girls JV Game, 3:45pm, vs. Skyline @ Ballard High School

Fastpitch: JV Non-Conf., 4:30pm, Away vs. Interlake, @ Interlake High School

Soccer: Boys JV Game, 5:30pm, Inglemoor @ Interbay

Soccer: Boys Varsity Game, 7:30pm, vs. Inglemoor @ Interbay

WEDNESDAY, MAR 27, 2013

EDITORS NOTE: A man who stopped a potential arson in progress on March 18 feels the story we published online did not convey the serious nature of the incident.

Editor

I read the article and although it is accurate I think it was kind of downplayed. It was a serious offense on the perpetrators part and there actually, in the light of day and with the pile of wood out of the way, was some damage to the siding of the building that could not be seen that night.

I touched it and it flaked off because it was charred. Also there are 2 upstairs apartments and 1 downstairs apartment where a woman and her young son live. He was sleeping right behind the wall where the fire was being started and everyone else in the building was unaware of what was going on until the fire trucks and the police cars showed up with lights flashing (...) The siding was beginning to catch on fire and it would have gone up very quickly had I not stopped the guy from proceeding.

Chivalrous push?
A patient at a medical facility on the 2600 block of S.W. Holden Way was arrested on March 20 after an alleged pushing incident. The victim (also a patient) told police he was walking down the hallway two days earlier when the suspect, without warning, pushed him in the back. He fell to the floor and ended up breaking a bone in his right forearm. When police interviewed the suspect he told them the victim was acting inappropriately towards a female patient, which acted as a “trigger” that forced him to physically push the man. Police decided to arrest the patient for investigation of assault.

Did anyone bring a forklift and a truck?
On March 15, sometime after a business on the 400 block of S. Cloverdale St. in South Park closed for the day, someone cut through the chain link fence and broke into a trailer where they pulled four large stainless steel pieces of equipment out. Apparently unable to move the heavy equipment any further, the unknown suspect(s) gave up and left the scene. Employees arrived in the morning to find the trailer door open and the nearly-stolen equipment in a patch of grass nearby.

Maybe you heard shots in the North Beach area early in the morning on Sunday. It turned out to be an intoxicated elderly man who fired shots inside his house.

SPD Blotter has the story:

"An intoxicated elderly male fired shots and barricaded himself inside his residence. This morning just shortly after 1:00 a.m. officers responded to the 8900 block of 31st Av NW to a call of shots fired.

"Officers arrived and were setting up containment /arrest teams, when they heard two shots from the home. Hostage Negotiators eventually made telephone contact with the subject who voluntarily left the home. He was taken into custody without incident.

"The handgun was found inside the home and two fresh bullet holes were found in the basement apartment. A handgun and six rifles were taken into custody for safe-keeping. The male subject was taken to the hospital on 72 hour Involuntary Commitment.

"There were no reported injuries."

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WSHS "Taste of The Arts", Friday, April 5, 2013

This annual event celebrates the art programs at WSHS; culinary, visual and performing. The evening starts with the culinary art students preparing and serving delicious appetizers as attendees view the visual art (Student photography, ceramics, painting, drawing, and wood shop) on display that has been judged by 4 local artists. The musicians and cast of the spring musical, "25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee" are present for a short time to mingle before the attendees are escorted to the high school theater for the evening's 8:00 pm performance. Tickets are $20 (advance, $25 at the door) and include appetizers, 2 beverages and entrance to the spring musical.

TO PURCHASE TICKETS VISIT: http://wshsptsa.org/events/taste

Location:St. John’s Church Hall
3050 California Ave SW ,
Seattle, WA 98116

TICKETS INCLUDE:
Appetizers, 2 Beverages (wine, beer, soft)
1 ticket to the 8:00 Performance

Stop ‘N Shop
4504 California Ave. S.W.
Volunteers Needed:

Bearcats gear up for new season

"Who are we? BEARCATS! Where are we from? BURIEN!"
That Is the chant you will hear at the Bearcats' practice field which is located at Glacier High School off Des Moines Memorial Way located at 2450 S 142nd St. (Behind the school). The Bearcats are searching for Alumni, along with new faces to join the league.
Football season is around the corner and the Bearcats are already in the mist of gearing up for their 2013 season. The Burien Bearcats have been around town for roughly 50 plus years and are still going strong. The Burien junior football program is hoping that some of the previous alumni will see this article and contact them, as they would love to have some background and fun stories to put up on their website, which is burienbearcats.org.
The franchise is open to 6 - 14 year olds and the teams are put together based on age and weight.

The Yanks are coming and Army cadet Taylor Goucher is among those trying to stop them.

That would be the New York Yankees of Major League Baseball fame, while Goucher is a pitcher for the Army squad of West Point, N.Y. that will host them for a 2 p.m. game at Doubleday Field on Saturday, March 30.
Goucher is certainly excited about the prospect.

"Being able to say that I will be playing against the New York Yankees is a dream come true," said Goucher, a graduate of Mount Rainier High School in Des Moines. "I have been a Yankees fan for as long as I can remember, and playing against a team that has produced some of the greatest players in Major League Baseball is something that I never imagined I would be able to experience. This game really shows how great the New York Yankees organization is to take time out of their spring training schedule to come up to Doubleday Field for this game."

By Georgie Bright Kunkel

No, I don’t ever sit and suffer writer’s block. There is always something in my active mind to share with you. After sorting my memorabilia that has rested peacefully on shelves in my office—some for many years—my mind is churning with ideas in proliferation.

What a wonderful body part is the mind with its capacity for storage—years of it. But it only takes a brief reminder to bring a temporarily forgotten thought back to the conscious mind. Don’t you hate it when you forget something and a younger person exclaims, “My, you must be getting old!” I reply by reminding that younger person that I have many years of memories stored and it may take a little longer to retrieve what is in that crowded brain of mine.

Why did you think I wrote about sharing wisdom? If I don’t occasionally unload my years of wonderful learning, it spills over without being shared as it was meant to be shared. Fortunately, no matter what age, we celebrate special days together. The recent St. Patrick’s Day went by this year without my offering to share the song I wrote about it.