June 2013

Two early design review meetings will occur on Thursday night, June 27, at the West Seattle Senior Center staring at 6:30 p.m.

Here are the details from Seattle's Department of Planning and Development:

3210 California Ave SW - 2nd early design review
Design Proposal (19.0 MB)

Description: Design Review Early Design Guidance Application for a 5 story building containing 155 residential units above 4800 sq. ft. of commercial space and 3700 sq. ft.of live work space at ground level. Parking for 171 vehicles to be provided below grade. Existing structures to be demolished.

Review Meeting: June 27, 6:30 PM
West Seattle Senior Center
4217 SW Oregon St.
Hatten Hall
Review Phase: EDG--Early Design Guidance past reviews
Project Number: 3014176
Planner: Michael Dorcy

4400 SW Alaska St.
Design Proposal (7 MB)

With the U.S. Supreme Court overturning the Defense of Marriage Act on June 26 (giving American citizens who are legally married and gay equal federal rights), King County Councilmember Joe McDermott issued a statement in response. McDermott lives in West Seattle and represents West Seattle and White Center to the council.

Here is his statement:

“I am filled with simply overwhelming pride today as the US Supreme Court overturns DOMA!

'King County has been a leader in equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people, so it was with sheer joy that my fiancé Michael and I celebrated with hundreds of couples as King County issued the first marriage licenses to same sex couples in the state last December.

“Now the federal government will treat those couples equally as well! This equality extends from military couples to seniors on Social Security, reaching so many hardworking families and providing them the security they deserve.

“This will indeed be a happy Pride Weekend!”

A male Pit bull mix dog was found in the area of South 126th Street and 12th Avenue South on Sunday afternoon, June 23.

If you are the owner or have any information about the dog, contact Burien CARES at 206-81CARES.

Compiled by Katie Nelson

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Art Exhibits

Artists United June Show--Burien Community Center, 14700 6th Ave. S.W. Through July 5. Recent paintings & photography by Barbara Benedetto, Harry Langen, Sharon McConnell, Judy Olson, Janie Sevela, Carole Shankland, Dorothy Wayne, and Nancy Wood. http://www.artistsunitedclub.com
Burien Community Center—Burien artist Kim McCarthy (aka Urban Soule) 14700 6th Ave SW, Through July 31. The Community Center is open Monday-Thursday from 8:30 a.m.-8 p.m. and Friday from 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. For more information please call 206-988-3700.
Residences at Burien Town Square--Marianne Maksirisombat: Art Installation. Retail Space at SW 151st St and 5th Pl SW. Runs to June 30.

By Katie Nelson
HIGHLINE TIMES

Trevor Cox of Forden, Wales, wanted to name his newborn son Rainarc, after a character in a science fiction movie. But his mother hated it, and instead suggested the name Burien, after the Washington state city where Cox spent several years during his childhood.

“I didn’t want to call him John or Peter or Sam. So it was Mom who put the idea into my head, and it was absolutely brilliant,” Cox said. “Probably the happiest time of my life was when I was here [in Burien].”

Now, 44 years after his family left the United States when his father was laid off from the Boeing Company in Renton, Cox and his wife, Marilyn returned to Burien for the first time this week to vacation with their friend, longtime Gregory Heights resident Dorothy Herley.

Cox first met Herley when she was a frequent customer at a British-themed store in downtown Burien called “British Imports,” which Cox’s mother owned up until 1969, when the family returned to the United Kingdom.

Why not celebrate the national holiday locally this year?
Independence Day events will explode all over Highline on Thursday, July 4.

Des Moines is throwing an Independence Day-eve community barbecue. SeaTac is reopening newly renovated Angle Lake Park and hosting a 4-day carnival. Burien is marching along with its traditional parade. Normandy Park is having a down-home celebration with a kids parade and ice cream social. Tukwilians will gather again at Fort Dent Park. Tukwila’s Museum of Flight will offer free evening admission.

As for fireworks, you have your choice of seeing them over the Sound, lake or fort.

Celebrating locally is a lot cheaper than filling up the old gas-guzzler. It’s also easier than traveling afar, especially if you didn’t schedule an extra long holiday weekend and have to trudge back to work Friday morning.

Burien
Nothing is more of a Highline holiday tradition than the Burien Independence Day Parade.
Spirited marching bands, energetic dance teams elaborate floats and vintage cars will swell community pride.
It’s election season so expect to see a lot of familiar elected officials and wannabe electeds.

By Sharon Hofstra Haugen
SPECIAL TO THE HIGHLINE TIMES

Faith Enyeart Ireland, a 1960 Highline High graduate, has been named by the school’s alumni foundation as its 2013 Alumnus of the Year.

Alumni foundation president Howard Call, a 1957 graduate, said the foundation is proud to have Ireland join the others who have won this award.

Faith Enyeart graduated with the class of 1960 and went on to the University of Washington, earning her B.A. degree and then attended Willamette University College of Law, graduating in 1969 with a law degree.

Eventually she went into private practice after working for a time with a law firm in Seattle and was a founding member of the Washington State Women Lawyers Organization. Ireland was a trial lawyer for 13 years.

She was appointed as a King County Superior Court judge in 1983 and then elected to four terms, serving 15 years.

Ireland was elected to the Washington State Supreme Court for one term from 1999-2005.

By Katie Nelson
HIGHLINE TIMES

Beginning June 28, watch for a “post-apocalyptic love story” being shot on the streets of Burien.

Burien resident Kevin Schilling, 19, is producing “When the World Finally Ended” along with 20-year-old Kent native and director KJ Knies.

The 15-minute independent film centers around two teenagers searching for the concept of home in a world in which they are the sole inhabitants. The idea stemmed from Knies’ experience in leaving home to attend college at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA.)

“I actually started writing this film about a year ago during my transition from high school to college,” Knies said. “I was really looking for what home meant to me, because when you go to college … it’s kind of hard to discover what actually makes a home to you.”

Knies and Schilling met their freshman year of high school through the Hi-Liners Theater at Highline High School in Burien. Their mutual interest in film eventually led the decision to make a movie together.

By Katie Nelson
HIGHLINE TIMES

Bans on the personal use of fireworks this holiday still apply in Burien, SeaTac, Des Moines and Tukwila. Fireworks discharge laws in Normandy Park have become slightly stricter while unincorporated North Highline residents also face tight regulation.

In Normandy Park, setting off fireworks on a personal level is only lawful between June 28 and July 4, according to a statement released in May 2013 by the Washington State Fire Protection Bureau. In previous years, residents of Normandy Park were allowed to discharge fireworks up until July 5.

On June 28, individuals in Normandy Park are allowed to use fireworks between noon and 11 p.m., and from 9 a.m. to 11 p.m. between June 29 and July 4.

Fireworks sales for unincorporated King County and Normandy Park begin June 28 at noon until 11 p.m., then between 9 a.m. and 11 p.m. up until July 4, according to Washington State law RCW 70.77.395.

To purchase fireworks from an approved stand, one must be at least 16 years old with a valid identification card.

UPDATE: Workers will be working hard on Friday, June 28 at Angle Lake Park so that the park will be "substantially complete" for the opening of the International Festival the next day, according to City Manager Todd Cutts.

Cutts told SeaTac lawmakers the extensive park renovation is a six-month project that is being competed in four months.

He said officials expect the new water spray feature will be ready for festival-goers.

Officials will formally dedicate the park on July 4 at 1 p.m. Independence Day at the park will also feature live musical entertainment, a carnival and fireworks display at 10:15 p.m.

Here is our previous coverage:

Angle Lake Park in SeaTac will re-open after an extensive remodel with a weekend-long International Festival June 29 and 30, celebrating ethnic and cultural diversity.

The annual festival features live entertainment, musical performances, arts and craft vendors, float plane demonstrations, cultural displays and a 5k/10k Volkswalk.

Attendees can satisfy their appetites with a variety of ethnic and festival food vendors on-site.

For a $5 wristband children can play in the children’s play areas.