May 2013

From BurienARTS:

THREE EXCITING WORKSHOPS COMING UP IN MAY AND JUNE 2013!

LEARN HOW TO FACE PAINT
When: May 11th, Saturday, from 1:30 - 5:30 pm
Where: Moshier Art Center, 430 South 156th St. Burien, WA.
What: Learn face painting techniques from world famous CONTOURS
Who: Ages 15 - Adult
Cost: $60
FOUR (4) HIGH SCHOOL SCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE, CALL 206 963-3072 to apply
Teachers are from Contours Face & Body Effects (www.contoursfx.com)
SiIGN UP BY CALLING LAURIE HASLUND 206-963-3072

SPRING ART WORKSHOPS FOR STUDENTS ages 9-11, 4th-6th grade
When: Saturday May 18, 25 and Sunday June 1, 8 from 10 am to noon
Where: Burien Library 400 SW 152nd. St. Multi-purpose room
What: Soft Sculpture; collage, pattern making, drawing basics
Who: Students 4th - 6th grade; 9-11 years old
Cost: FREE

Free Drawing Workshops for K-12 Teachers Thursday, Friday, June 27 & 28 2-5 pm Burien Library Call 206 244-7808 to sign up

Suite Arrangements, a consignor of fine furnishings, was recognized Thursday, May 9, with a ribbon cutting in front of its new, spacious store, 136 SW 152nd St., just off 1st Ave. S., in the old Parker Paints store. Following the ribbon cutting, Discover Burien officials and (other) customers came into the shop to socialize and check out the furniture and art, including a round, red velvet couch, a purple s-curved sectional, as well as more traditional offerings.

Owner Geoffrey Abdian, an Alki resident, opened his shop almost three years ago at 4706 California Ave sw, in the West Seattle Junction. Several stores there have had to close, and some relocated, because of a new, large residential development there.

Suite Arrangements welcomes furniture that is clean and in good shape. You can drop off, or they can pick up. The items belong to the consignors until sold. If sold within two calendar months they share the profit 50/50.

If the item is unsold for one month, the price is reduced by 10-percent, and by another 10-percent if unsold for two more weeks.

Suite Arrangements (206) 420-7350

Get ready to challenge your taste buds and maybe add a notch to your belt as it's time for the Taste of West Seattle again, on May 16 at the Hall at Fauntleroy.

This year the event will feature 48 participants, primarily restaurants from all across the West Seattle peninsula offering an enormous array of delectable items. All proceeds from the event go to help the West Seattle Helpline. The money from this event will provide the following for West
Seattle families facing one-time emergencies:

• Rent & Utilities
• Clothing at the Clothesline
• Metro bus tickets
• Back to school supplies
• Referrals to other agencies

Tickets are on sale now but be aware that last year they sold out.
Here's the link to get your tickets.

$45.00- General Admission (Advance online purchase) with entry at 6:30 pm

Press release from Seattle Parks and Recreation

As May weather teases us with summerlike sunny days, thoughts turn to fires on the beach.

Seattle Parks and Recreation provides fire rings at two beaches, Golden Gardens Park, 8498 Seaview Avenue NW in Ballard and Alki Beach Park, 1702 Alki Avenue SW in West Seattle.

Parks encourages users to have fun, and provides a reminder of the rules that keep the parks clean, safe, and usable for everyone:

• Please light fires ONLY in designated fire pits, available on a first-come, first-served basis.
• Please burn only clean firewood (bare, clean, dry cordwood).
• Please douse your fire completely (with water, not sand!) before you leave.
• Please don’t remove anything from the park, beach, or dunes.
• Please dispose of trash and ashes in the containers provided for each.
• Please be considerate of others – amplified music is not allowed!
• Please remember that alcohol is not allowed.

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It’s that time of year when beach fires along the Alki waterfront seem like a good idea, and Seattle Parks and Recreation has some rules to abide by if you fire one up:

• Please light fires ONLY in designated fire pits, available on a first-come, first-served basis.

• Please burn only clean firewood (bare, clean, dry cordwood).

• Please douse your fire completely (with water, not sand!) before you leave.

• Please don’t remove anything from the park, beach, or dunes.

• Please dispose of trash and ashes in the containers provided for each.

• Please be considerate of others – amplified music is not allowed!

• Please remember that alcohol is not allowed.

Chung “Joe” Van, a long-time resident, community volunteer and leader, has announced his candidacy for SeaTac City Council.

Joe and his wife, Leslie, grew up in SeaTac, and have lived in SeaTac for over 23 years. The Van family lives only a few blocks from Joe’s parents, and their 3 children attend local Highline Schools. Joe is a graduate of Tyee High School, Highline Community College and the Des Moines Police Reserve Academy.

Joe has strong ties to the SeaTac Community and has been recognized and awarded for his local civic leadership. As winner of the statewide Molina Healthcare Community Champions award in 2011, Joe was honored for his civic involvement.

At McMicken Heights Elementary, Joe implemented the Watch D.O.G.S program, a father involvement initiative of the National Center for Fathering, geared toward providing positive male role models for students.

Joe has put into practice the value of giving and volunteerism in numerous ways, including:
-Coaching SeaTac youth in soccer and baseball
-Providing 6 years of leadership as Coalition Organizer for the Back to School Fair

Two social service agencies WestSide Baby and Eastside Baby Corner, are teaming up to bring 2 million disposable diapers to children in need in King County over the next two years the agencies said in a press release today.

According to the release, the diaper need continues to grow with over 10,000* children under three living in poverty in King County, forcing many families to choose between buying diapers and paying bills as diapers are not covered by any government aid program, including food stamps and Women, Infant and Children (WIC) programs. Struggling parents with children in daycare cannot go to work or school when diapers average approximately $100 per month per diapered child and a daily supply of diapers is often required to drop children off at daycare. Having to make these difficult choices adds stress for families, impacts infant and community health and can easily increase the risk of abuse when children need a diaper change and cry. One local social service provider said, “We serve teen moms and buying diapers when they have little to no income sometimes means that they can’t buy food.”

The measure of any contending team is the willingness to win no matter how bad things look. The Sealth softball team showed why they deserve to be in the post season.

Down 5-0 to the Panthers of Seattle Prep in the first inning the Lady Hawks all but shut down Prep over the next six innings of play to win an astounding come from behind victory and go into the next round of the Metro Playoffs as a team to be reckoned with.

Allowing one run in the second inning and another in the fourth, the Seahawks battled back to a 10-7 thrashing of Seattle prep on the pitching of Chloe Behar.

Behar recovered from the first inning to pitch a game that would impress any fan of softball. Throw out the first inning Behar gave up only runs while her team mates found their stride offensively and defensively. Behar contributed with her bat as well, hitting a two RBI home run in the third and a three RBI home run in the sixth inning to break a 7-7 tie and win the game 10-7.

Sealth will play their next post season game at the lower woodland Park Field tomorrow at 3:30 against the winner of today’s Bainbridge- Ingraham matchup.

When Ballard High School Senior Baritone Logan Monson first learned that the men's quartet won first place at the prestigious State Solo and Ensemble Competition on April 26-27, his reaction was, "What? No way."

And then, he says, he started getting weird looks because he found himself skipping from joy.

Senior Bass Spencer Johnson had a similar story. He hadn't checked his phone all day, so when it was about 10 p.m. at night, he received two texts from choir director Courtney Rowley. The first said that they placed. The second said they got first.

He cheered in his car.

"It was disbelief at first," said Senior Tenor II George Chrisafis.

The kids had good reason to be shocked. It's the first time that Ballard High School has ever placed first in the competiton. The quartet -- consisting of Monson, Johnson, Chrisafis and Senior Tenor I Gerson Tschider -- had to beat out 21 other men's vocal ensembles across the state to win the spot.

"It's cool for the program because we've had a lot of great success and it just builds on the work we've been doing here," Rowley said.

Adding to the remake of West Seattle’s Fauntleroy Triangle , an 8-story apartment complex at 4745 40th Ave. S.W. is starting up the design review process.

An early design guidance meeting is set for May 23, 6:30 p.m., at the West Seattle Senior Center (4217 S.W. Oregon St.) and additional details on the size, shape and features will be first unveiled at the meeting.

The project, being built by Alliance Realty Partners, LLC, will consist of 150 residential units with 9 live-work units and underground parking for 100 vehicles. It is just west of a proposed six-story project with a Whole Foods grocery store and 370 apartments. Also nearby, across the street at 3922 S.W. Alaska St., the long-stalled “Hole” is revitalized and on it’s way to become a 7-story building with 216 apartments and a fitness center.

To offset urban growth, Seattle’s City Council approved the Parks Department plan to purchase a portion of a vacant lot at 4731 40th Ave. S.W. (just north of the 4745 40th Ave. S.W. project) and turn it into a city park, paid for by the Parks and Green Spaces Levy.