April 2013

Women's Premier Soccer League, the largest women's league in the world, has a franchise coming to play its home games in West Seattle this summer.

The team -- called AC Seattle -- will be calling both Delridge Playfield and Chief Sealth High School its home territory.

Other franchised in the league include the Spokane Shine, Emerald City FC, Eugene Metro FC, Oregon Rush SC and the Issaquah Soccer Club.

The season will run June though July, with the home schedule launched with a match against the Spokane Shine at 7:45 p.m. Sunday, June 9.

Emerald City FC goes crosstown for a 7 p.m. game Thursday, June 13 and Eugene FC invades for 7 p.m. action Friday, June 21. The Oregon Rush comes to town at 6 p.m. Saturday, June 22 and the Issaquah Soccer Club will be here at 6 p.m. Sunday, June 30.

Ticket packages are being sold for $50 adults and $25 kids under 12 prices on the team's www.acseattle.com, website. They include entrance to home games, t-shirt and hat, access to a special ACS event and a soccer clinic for kids under ACS coaches and players. Shipping is free.

Women's Premier Soccer League, the largest women's league in the world, has a franchise coming to play its home games in West Seattle this summer.

The team -- called AC Seattle -- will be calling both Delridge Playfield and Chief Sealth High School its home territory.

Other franchised in the league include the Spokane Shine, Emerald City FC, Eugene Metro FC, Oregon Rush SC and the Issaquah Soccer Club.

The season will run June though July, with the home schedule launched with a match against the Spokane Shine at 7:45 p.m. Sunday, June 9.

Emerald City FC goes crosstown for a 7 p.m. game Thursday, June 13 and Eugene FC invades for 7 p.m. action Friday, June 21. The Oregon Rush comes to town at 6 p.m. Saturday, June 22 and the Issaquah Soccer Club will be here at 6 p.m. Sunday, June 30.

Ticket packages are being sold for $50 adults and $25 kids under 12 prices on the team's www.acseattle.com, website. They include entrance to home games, t-shirt and hat, access to a special ACS event and a soccer clinic for kids under ACS coaches and players. Shipping is free.

Friday, April 12
Baseball
Tyee 5, Highline 5
It's a time of suspense for the Tyee and Highline baseball teams.
The two teams fought bravely through the rain at Moshier Field this past Friday, only to have the score left in a 5-5 tie through seven innings of play after the rain and puddles became too much to continue.
For now the game will be left in a tie, although it may be finished at a later date.
"Hopefully we can finish the game," said Highline head coach David Johnson, whose team stands at 3-3-1 including the tie.
Johnson was impressed with the game's action on the field so far.
"It was a hard fought game," Johnson said. "The guys played solid defense. I have a lot of kudos for Jermaine, their coach. Tyee has come a long way."
Johnson, who is assisted by Ed Sullivan, is in his first year as the Highline coach.
"Hopefully things will pick up the last part of the season," he said.
Leading the way for the Pirates was Jordan Sagmoen, who struck out nine on the mound, while teammate Dave Erickson hit 3-for-4 with two doubles, two runs scored and one RBI batting in the leadoff position.
Tyee had four doubles.

Press release:

Gov. Jay Inslee has joined more than 90 community, business, labor and civic leaders in urging lawmakers to approve a new round of transportation improvements and projects.
Inslee and representatives from the Ports of Tacoma and Seattle, area legislators and long-time SR 509 and SR 167 stakeholders convened at the Port of Tacoma near the proposed SR 509/SR 167 Gateway project.

This project will significantly improve freight mobility for area businesses and connect the state’s largest ports to key distribution centers in King and Pierce Counties and to Eastern Washington.

Among the list of supporters of the SR-509 extension project are the cities of Burien, Des Moines, Normandy Park, SeaTac, Tukwila, Federal Way and Kent.

Additional 509 project supporters are the Port of Seattle, Teamsters Local 174, International Longshore & Warehouse Union Local 19, Professional & Technical Employees Local 17, Shuttle Express and Kent Chamber of Commerce.

This week I celebrated my dear departed brother Russell's birthday. I
will grieve alone. His wife succeeds him but lives in California. I
will send a message to her. Russ would have been 95.

He used to pound me a bit but never anything fatal. I was two years
younger and 30 pounds skinnier but I was his private punching bag; a
lot.

I was actually quite proud of his impatience with me and it was okay
that he soothed it by knocking me around. He also protected me.

He was skinny too but spent many hours trying to overcome his
shameful biceps and skeleton rib cage. He kept his store bought bar
bell set in the garage and worked out everyday all by himself.

I kept my bony body out of there and peered at him silently
through the window.

Russ loved to fight but never picked one. He got pretty good with his fists.

I had a large, red carbuncle on my back in grade school. A bully
heard about it and pulled my shirt up to smack it. I howled and he
grinned. His name was Rupert Reedy.

I told brother Russ about it but he did nothing. Years later, when
Russ was doing his stint in the Navy, he entered the Mid-Pacific

On Saturday, April 13, local brewery Hilliard's Beer was invaded by hip-hop as Grynch and Budo held a free concert for the release of their new single, "Treadin'," with Fin Records. (Click on the video above to hear it.)

"We're definitely in a brewery, surrounded by things I would not imagine while playing rap music," Budo joked. "A basketball hoop, a pool table, something that looks like it's from Jules Verne ..."

Throughout the concert, Grynch made sure to give shout-outs to Hilliard's. "I wake up every day thankful for Hilliard's Beer, because it's very, very tasty," he said at the beginning of a song.

For those who don't know, Grynch is a Ballard native, having graduated from Ballard High School and attended Pacific Lutheran University in Parkland. Some call him the "King of Ballard," and he represents the neighborhood with a humble, down-to-earth kind of charm. In addition to "Treadin'," he and Budo went through some of Grynch's more classic songs, such as "Volvo."

Trouble walking
On April 8 a man walked into a business on the 9400 block of Delridge Way S.W., stuck a can of fertilizer under his sweatshirt, walked to the back of the store to push it further down into his pants, and then tried to walk out the front door unnoticed. His plan failed as an employee confronted the man and asked him to return the product. The man denied any wrongdoing and a scuffle broke out between the two. The employee was able to pull the suspect’s backpack , sweatshirt and hat off in the melee, and the suspect retaliated by biting the victim’s arm (not breaking the skin) before fleeing west on S.W. Cambridge St. Responding officers, based on the information gathered on their suspect, believe it is the same man who recently threatened to create a bomb to blow up the McDonald’s in Westwood Village. An area check for the suspect was unsuccessful, but the victim in this case said she could identify him from a photo montage “easily.”

Not today

Press release:

Beginning Monday, April 15, Sea-Tac Airport neighbors can offer formal comment on the draft Federal Aviation Administration Part 150 Noise and Land-Use Compatibility Study and the State Environmental Policy Act (SEPA) review for this study.

The Part 150 Study is designed to evaluate existing noise levels, predict noise for the next five years, evaluate potential noise mitigation ideas and recommend targeted programs to minimize impacts on airport communities. 

The 45-day comment period is scheduled from April 15, 2013 to May 30, 2013.

These are also the dates for the environmental review comment period under SEPA. For information on ways the public can provide formal input and for all documentation connected to the study and the environmental review process, including a link to the complete draft study, visit the study’s website.

The fifth and final public meeting on the Part 150 Study and the SEPA environmental review is scheduled for May 15, 6 to 8 p.m., at Cedarhurst Elementary School (611 S. 132nd Street) in Burien.

Clearly Burien citizens are now seeing what appears to be the "old boys city staff network giving contracts to their friends".

The City Manager is now proposing (see page 97 of the Burien City council Packet for April 15, 2013) giving an extended contract to CARES.

This extended contract is to include;
1. Extending the contract for CARES from 2014 to 2016 with no explanation of what new services CARES will cover and what animals they will provide services to.
2. An increase in the amount to be paid to CARES from $120,000 to $170,000 per year to CARES (an increase of $50,000 a year to CARES) with no explanation of what this increase will cover. It can be paid in advance to them and in lump sums to remedy their problems as noted in the McVicker evaluation.
3. There will be no competitive bids allowed on this new/modified extended contract to be extended another two years

By Pete Treperinas

Look for some of Ballard’s homeless people on 17th Ave NW and NW 56th St at the end of April. They won’t be asking for money and they won’t be sleeping outside. They’ll be residents.

Ballard is the destination for the newest Compass Housing Alliance project -- a nonprofit organization that creates affordable housing for homeless and low-income individuals. Many tenants pay only part of their monthly rent, or, in some cases, none at all. Eighty homeless people will be selected for the Ballard building, many of whom were Ballard residents before becoming homeless. For these individuals, Compass provides a fresh start and an opportunity to once again be part of the community.

“These are not folks who got dropped off here from another planet. They have the same hopes, the same joys, the same dreams as anyone else … if they can’t have a house, at least they can have a home,” said Kim Sather, division manager at Compass Housing Alliance.