By David Rosen
Shortly before 8 am on Monday April, 15 a Honda Accord heading westbound on SW Andover street collided in a T-Bone type impact with a Toyota Prius that was heading southbound on 48th Ave SW, resulting in the Prius flipping.
Emergency crews arrived and freed the Prius driver.
Both the drivers were taken to Harborview with minor injuries.
As construction of the Ballard Lofts apartments approaches, 2 and 1/2 Happy Barbers has left Ballard for a new spot in Ravenna, on the corner of NE 65th and Ravenna Blvd (502 NE 65th). According to the sign, it's a 10-minute drive East.
If you haven't been in the loop, the Ballard Lofts is the five-story, 72-unit apartment building set to be constructed at 24th Ave NW between NW 64th and NW 65th streets. It's generated some recent controversy because it will be developing over the Viking, a tavern established in 1950 which people either love or hate.
While we don't know for certain the future of The Viking, at least one piece of the story, a well loved community barbershop, has been settled.
If you need to catch up on the story, you can read columnist Peggy Sturdivant's sit down interview with developer Bill Parks here and our initial coverage of the development here.
Zachariah Bryan can be reached at zachb@robinsonnews.com
After being deployed for a year Army First Lt.Edgar Nicolau, surprised his two kids Jamie Gabrielle and Dylan by showing up at Menchies Frozen Yogurt in the Admiral District on Sunday April 14 for an emotional reunion.
The surprise was set up by his wife Jenet Januto who was not certain about his exact return date from the year long deployment in Kuwait. Nicolau has served as reservist for the last 12 years.
Jamie works at Menchies so the surprise was planned to happen when she was distracted. "It was toward the end of her shift and I called her manager prior," said Januto, "He thought it was great."
Januto gathered her whole family, to come to Menchies and meet in the party room there. The plan was for the Lieutenant to come in the back door and just walk up while she was not looking. "She went to the cash register and that's when I signaled my husband, 'come in!'," Januto explained.
UPDATE July 8
The Westy Sports and Spirits has posted their land use permit and liquor application outside their location at 7098 35th Ave. SW and the permit is up for public comment. It's project #3015354 for land use.
You can check it on the DPD website or contact them via phone at 684-8467 or email to PRC@seattle.gov.
The owners must go through the process of acquiring building permits and once approved they can do the construction necessary.
Original Post April 15
If all goes according to plan, by the time football season rolls around next fall West Seattle sports fans will have a new destination to enjoy the game. The Westy Sports and Spirits is now in the planning stages at 7908 35th SW just adjacent to Kenyon Hall and Locöl Vine and Barley.
The new bar at 2500 square feet will be built in a former L-Shaped electronic repair shop, which means there is plenty of room to accommodate up to 100 to 130 people.
The bar is being helmed by one of the partners of the nearby Locöl, Shane Whittall and his new partner in the venture Paul Ritums. "We're hoping for a six month process of build out and permitting," said Whittall.
Scott Depew is a West Seattle resident who loves to feed seagulls and brought his family down to the beach on Sunday April 14 to do just that.
By Scott DePew
Our daughter has experienced the Duwamish Head and Alki beaches since before she could crawl. We would bring a picnic lunch to our outings, and it is from the sandwich crusts that our family grew into what it is today.
At first we had some friendly pigeons and sparrows. Then came 'little-big squawk', a medium sized black bird with a yellow beak that would return over and over. And then came our favorite friends, the seagulls.
The gulls would gather around us, and would later seem to anticipate our next visit by greeting us before we even found a place on the sand. It wasn't long before a few tried to get our attention from the air by hovering over our heads. And that's when the game started. They would fly toward us from random directions in hopes of getting the bread before another could get there first.
Seattle Police have arrested a man for suspicion of stabbing his ex-girlfriend several times on Delridge Way S.W. on the evening on April 13.
Det. Mark Jamieson with SPD shares the details from the Blotter:
Southwest Precinct officers responded to a stabbing at a residence in the 8400 Block of Delridge Way SW last night at 9:00 pm. The suspect was arrested.
Officers were dispatched to the reported stabbing and arrived quickly. They found that the victim had been stabbed several times and provided aid to her until Seattle Fire arrived where they treated her and then rushed her to Harborview Medical Center. The suspect, the victim’s ex-boyfriend, had fled on foot.
Officers immediately set up containment and a K-9 team responded for a track. However, the suspect returned to the the scene and was immediately arrested. The two young children in the apartment were unharmed and a family member is now caring for them. The suspect was later booked into the King County Jail.
The Ballard News-Tribune had just finished covering Grynch and Budo's free concert at Hilliard's Beer (we'll have photos and story up tomorrow) and was just headed home when the clouds seemed unusually dark.
While waiting for the 44 Bus with a few other folks, a lightning flash could be seen up to the north around the North Beach area. One or two seconds passed and we heard thunder.
A young twenty something with gauged ears and his hair pulled back into a ponytail exclaimed, "I've never experienced thunder and lightning in Washington state."
A middle-aged woman with thick-framed glasses concurred. "I'm from Tennessee, we used to see it all the time. But not here."
"Thunder in Ballard ... it's rare," said an older gentleman.
As the bus pulled up, that's when the hail struck.
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Back in 1990, Westmark Development Corporation filed an application with King County for a permit to construct a 216-unit apartment building to be known as “Emerald Pointe on the Sound” on 9.6 acres of wooded ravine property in then-unincorporated King County, adjacent to Seahurst Park, at 13401 12th Av. SW, near 136th St., in what would become Burien. Burien officially incorporated on February 28, 1993 and assumed responsibility. Westmark believed King County was close to issuing a decision on its application when the project was transferred to Burien, which didn't issue a decision on Westmark's revised application for three more years. Westmark sued for intentional interference. In 2007, the state Court of Appeals upheld a $10.7 million judgment against Burien, plus interest and other expenses. The city's insurance carrier, Washington Cities Insurance Authority paid most of the award.
UPDATE WEDNESDAY APRIL 17
The whale was towed off the Seahurst Park beach about 11 p.m. last night to an undisclosed location.
UPDATE TUESDAY, APRIL 16:
Burien has arranged with NOAA and West Seattle-based Global Diving and Salvage to tow the whales remains's at about midnight or 1:00 a.m. tonight, Tuesday night/Wednesday morning, to a secure location for it to decompose naturally.
A Global Diving & Salvage spokesperson told the Highline Times that the timing for removal of the whale is based on high tides.
NOAA will collect samples from the whale and an organization will collect the whale’s skull.
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A "mid size" Fin whale washed ashore on the public beach at Seahurst Park in Burien Saturday morning. Experts guessed that the whale was struck by a boat or ship as the cause of death.
The carcass drew the attention of hundreds of people who clambered over rocks to reach the scene.
Kaddee Lawrence, Executive Director for Highline Marine Science and Technology Center said , "We are part of the Marine Mammal Stranding Network and this beach is part of our coverage area so we get called first to come down."
A 51 year old white male was stabbed six times at the Barton Place Apartments at 1725 SW Barton on Saturday just after 11am. His injuries were said to be life threatening.
His alleged assailant, also a white male was apprehended about a block away by Seattle Police after being identified by neighbors and was taken to be interrogated.
The weapon was recovered according to police.
The victim was taken to Harborview Hospital.
UPDATE THIS AFTERNOON BY SEATTLE POLICE:
The 51-year-old male victim called 911 reporting that he had been stabbed several times by a known male. The first officer arrived in the 1700 Block of SW Barton Street within two minutes of the call being dispatched. The officer obtained a description of the suspect and the direction he had fled from the victim and additional witnesses. The officer began an area search and located the suspect. The 48-year-old male suspect was taken into custody without incident after he was positively identified by witnesses.
