The West Seattle Crime Prevention Council is sponsoring a public safety walk in Lincoln Park on Tuesday evening; May 28.
The walk will start from the North Parking lot at 7pm. Police officers from the SW Police Precinct will be on hand to provide information and answer questions.
West Central/Southwest Washington 3A bi-district featured tough competition that kept local athletes from notching state girls tennis berths.
Nhi Lam and Stephanie Anderson of Highline started strongly in girls doubles action by defeating S. Harris and C. Snyder of Timberline, 6-2, 6-4. This Pirate pair lost to Wilmington and A. Osler of Columbia River, 6-1, 6-0, and fell out of the tournament, 7-5, 6-2, to A. Blackman and B. Luu of Woodrow Wilson in their season ending match.
Rebecca O'Sullivan of Kennedy Catholic held the local banner in girls singles action. O'Sullivan fought hard, but drooped a 6-2, 6-1, verdict to Sidney Smith of North Thurston in the first round at Sprinker recreation Center in Spanaway. Next up for the Lancer singles player was Lesley Wong of Hazen who ended the JFK athlete's strong season, 6-3, 6-1.
Information on tonight's West Seattle Block Watch Captains' Network meeting (May 28):
Would you like to know more about the city 9-1-1 center?
Captain Sean O’Donnell, Director – Seattle Police Communications, will be the special guest speaker at our May monthly meeting tomorrow night! He and a staff member will be on hand to educate us about the city 9-1-1 center and how it operates, how to best communicate effectively when calling 9-1-1, and provide an insider’s view of what happens when calls are received. They will also gladly answer any questions you may have.
Meeting schedule (Come early, stay late!)
Tuesday, May 28th, 2013, 6:30-8 PM
SW Police Precinct, 2300 SW Webster Street (at Delridge Ave SW, next to Home Depot)
6:00-6:30 Arrive early for light snacks, socializing and networking with each other while we set up the room!
6:30-7:00 Introductions, updates, concerns, sharing ideas.
When Seattle-area resident and Ballard-frequenter Julia Anderson set off to research her family’s history, she had no idea it would result in a near-400-page self-published book entitled “Through Christina’s Eyes.” It was a project she didn’t even think about until just a year before she wrote it. (And in case you were wondering, Ballard gets a few mentions in the book, too.)
The subject she pursued was her great grandmother, Christina Nilsson, who journeyed from Sweden in the late 1800s to settle in the Chicago, Illinois area. In order to learn more, Anderson made the reverse trip, visiting her great grandmother’s home in Sweden.
“The area where her family home was is no longer there, none of our family has ever visited there, it was a really special moment for me and I was just interested in finding out what her life would’ve been like. And that was a real connection for me to go there and know what it was like to live there when she was a child,” Anderson said.
While a good season of Ballard High School baseball wound down to an end at the beginning of the month, the Ballard News-Tribune wanted to take a glance at baseball in the yesteryear.
In this photo, nine boys play baseball out in front of Adams Elementary circa 1910. The expressions on the children in the background are priceless. While some are waiting intently for the pitcher to hurl the ball, others look simply bored, waiting for their turn to take a crack at the bat.
Meanwhile, this year, Ballard High School’s baseball team was full of promise as a core group of talented seniors attempted to claw their way through to the championship. Unfortunately, they fell short, making it to the playoffs but losing early on against Skyline in a May 7 game that resulted in a 2-3 loss. A single tweet sent out by Ballard High School at the end of the game sums up the emotional moment: “Man! That stings. Great comeback Beavers! Heart you.”
Nonetheless, it’s clear that Ballard has a long tradition of playing baseball, and though the Beavers lost this year, they contributed their own moments and stories to that tradition.
Dear Editor,
I am writing this in reference to a article that was written in the online West Seattle Herald, May 12, 2013, It was a update on the nuisance house on 36th and Morgan street. A neighbor Mr. Andrew McCarty stated that a man living at the house was arrested for stealing. Mr. Andrew McCarty went on to say that the original owner was an elderly woman who was in a nursing home. According to Mr. Andrew McCarty the man was her son, and after he was arrested "They recovered a lot of stolen property."
Mr. Andrew McCarty does not know what he is talking about. The man was not the owners son, my husband is her son, nor was the man anyone in the family. The man was not even supposed to be in that house and he was evicted, I am writing this because we are upset that the facts were not checked with police to solve this whole thing and they the police would have known who the man was. It was quite embarrassing for my husband to have friends comment on this article, which we had not seen.
Snack addiction may lead to crime
Earlier in May a woman living on Sylvan Way S.W. said her daughter had a friend over (ages not given). After the friend left, the mother noticed a candy bar and her daughter’s house key, usually hanging on a door, were missing. A few days later the mother arrived home to find her front door wide open. Cautiously investigating, she found that only have a bag of Trail Mix seemed to be missing from the kitchen counter, estimated at $4.
Squatters find arsenal
Letter to Editor
It is my opinion that lowering standards for employment with SPD is doing a dis-service to all concerned.
This action not only will probably cause the DOJ along with Mr. Merrick Bob and his band of merrymen to remain in Seattle at absorbent cost to the taxpayers to see that this change is carried out as they have (unjustly in my and others opinions) determined that neither the Mayor, the City Council or SPD itself capable of the job.
One can certainly understand and agree that the SPD should reflect all members of our community.
That being said, I disagree that we need to make changes that are not necessary and lower standards. Mayor McGinn has said he wants the SPD to "reflect the community it serves."
Admirable. Is this saying there are NO APPLICANTS from different ethnic backgrounds or cultural backgrounds that can pass the existing requirements to make law enforcement a career? Definitely not true. Take a look at the current make-up of SPD.
To the editor,
It is untenable to support the so-called Nickelsville in any form. It is nothing more or less than a slum just like the favelas of Rio de Janeiro. Is that what we want Seattle to become, another Rio with its poor living in rickety homemade housing? It's time we stop wasting public money on frivolities like trying to get another ill-fated basketball team here and start paying attention to things that matter, things that have real bearing on the lifestyle of all of us. It's ironic that a big deal was made of flying salmon from Alaska in the same issue. Flip a few pages and you see people who have no hope of ever having a bite of salmon.
Walter Marquardt
Westwood
