September 2013

Ballard resident, award-winning Classical KING FM host and well known Northwest Pianist Lisa Bergman has expanded her hours as host.

Now, she is on air from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. six days a week. She brings decades of experience as a soloist, chamber musician, accompanist, and educator to her new position, sharing her insights and experience with the growing KING FM audience. She won a 2013 Gracie Award for hosting and producing the KING FM Exploring Music program.

As host and writer for the award-winning Exploring Music program on KING FM, Bergman has received ongoing positive feedback from listeners. Program Director Bryan Lowe, says that, “Lisa is an amazingly accomplished and experienced musician. She will share more of her rich musical experience as a regular host on KING FM. Adding Lisa 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. daily is a natural addition, given our close relationship with the Northwest classical music community. Her voice and insights are a tremendous addition.”

The following fundraiser announcement is for West Seattle Junior Football and Cheer, shared by parent volunteer Annie Higgins:

We are the Westside Wildcats and we are raising money to support our junior football and cheer league.

All money will go towards player scholarships, safer gear, and other franchise expenses.

Join us for some fun, exciting raffle items, and a delicious breakfast.

September 8, 2013. 9 am to Noon
Masonic Lodge - 4736 40th Ave SW, Seattle, WA 98116

Only $6 per individual. $25 for the whole family (immediate family)

website: www.westseattlejrfootball.com

From Seattle Department of Transportation

Tomorrow, Sept. 4, weather permitting, crews will begin installing three of five South Ballard Corridor safety improvements announced by the City in December 2012. The project addresses longstanding pedestrian and cyclist safety concerns and creates Seattle’s first advisory bicycle lanes.

A road with advisory bicycle lanes operates as a two-way street with no painted center lane. A painted dotted line and sharrows (bicycle symbols with chevrons that aim to remind drivers to share the road with people on bicycles) are used to highlight the bike lanes. Because the bike lane line is dotted, motorists can enter the bike lane as they pass oncoming vehicles when no people riding bikes are present. Advisory bike lanes are typically used when the right of way is too narrow for standard bike lanes and two travel lanes.

High schools

Golf

Golf is leading off the fall sports lineup this year -- coming one day earlier than the football openers.

The Mount Rainier High School Rams of Des Moines will do the honor Thursday, hosting Kentlake for a 3:15 p.m. girls match at the Riverbend course in Kent as the boys go on the road to Kentlake.

Football

Highline Memorial will be the site of a football double-header as the season opens Friday.

Mount Rainier will host Auburn-Riverside in a 5 p.m. South Puget Sound League North Division game, followed by close neighbors Chief Sealth and Evergreen going at it in a non-league game at 8 p.m.

Chief Sealth is a member of the Metro League and Evergreen is in the Seamount League.

In other action at 7 p.m. that day, Highline visits Yelm as Foster travels to Bremerton and Kennedy to Mount Si. West Seattle will be closer to home at Fife as the combined Seattle Christian/Life Christian squad goes north to LaConner.

Seattle Lutheran will be at home against Evergreen Lutheran at 7 p.m. Saturday at West Seattle Stadium.

Volleyball

Foster visits Decatur High School of Federal Way for a 7:15 p.m. match next Monday.

Colleges

Football

Ballard is changing. Just ask Steve Hunsinger, whose family has owned Limback Lumber since 1930.

He remembered when the fishing industry was booming; when Ballard was a quiet, peaceful place to live; and when AMLI's gigantic seven-story, 309-unit apartment building under construction next to the lumberyard on Market St and 24th was Jacobsen’s Marine and Archie McPhee’s.

Looking over at the construction, Hunsinger was both rueful and understanding.

“It’s really too bad. I’ve been here for 36 years,” he said. “Obviously, Ballard’s becoming quite the place to live. It’s a great community: you got the nightlife, you got the water, you can get to Seattle easy; pretty peaceful. It’s amazing, really.”

The apartment building, which was approved March 29 of 2011, is set to open in the summer of 2014. Along with the AVA Apartments, at the site of the old Sunset Bowling Alley on the east side of 15th Ave NW (as well as other projects), it will effectively bookend downtown Ballard with high-rise apartments.

The Ballard News-Tribune editorial, "Seattle Times attacks against McGinn disheartening," stirred conversation within the media the past couple of weeks.

In the editorial, Associate Publisher Ken Robinson accused the Seattle Times of biased reporting, with journalists mounting an attack on Mayor Mike McGinn by omitting any due credit and pinning blame on him when they can.

In the editorial, Robinson writes, "But we get it. Whose bread I eat, his song I sing. All those writers want to keep their jobs and you do that by writing what the boss tells you to write."

Over at the Seattle Times, columnist Danny Westneat retorts this claim. In his column, "The Seattle Times does not have it in for Mayor McGinn," he denotes the idea that publisher Frank Blethen comes into the room and tells him to dismantle McGinn.

Repo gone awry
Two repossession company employees approached a home on the 3500 block of S.W. 98th St. on Aug. 24 because the silver 2005 Pontiac Grand Prix parked out front was marked for a take back. As an employee positioned his tow truck to haul the delinquent machine away, a woman emerged from her home. A female employee said “Hi” to the woman, but she was in no mood for conversation as she hurriedly jumped into the Grand Prix, fired it up and drove directly into the woman. The victim rolled onto the hood as the suspect took off. She drove an estimated 20 feet with the victim on her hood until slamming on the breaks, sliding the woman off the car and onto the street. The suspect fled while the victim, luckily, only suffered minor abrasions. Police took down the repo order information, including the suspect’s details.

“Walk with us, this is a stick up”

information from the American Lung Association of the Mountain Pacific

On Saturday, September 14, cyclists throughout the region will take part in the second annual Ride Around the Sound bike ride to benefit the American Lung Association in Washington—and there’s still time to sign up. Starting in West Seattle, the water-hugging routes provide spectacular views on fully-supported 75-mile or 30-mile courses with extra optional loops.

One of the most scenic rides of the year, Ride Around the Sound leaves West Seattle and heads directly to the water in Normandy Park and Redondo Beach, past the Browns Point Lighthouse and through Tacoma (where the 30-mile option starts) and over the Tacoma Narrows Bridge and through the historic maritime community of Gig Harbor. From there the course rides through the rolling, gentle hills of the Kitsap Peninsula, past Long Lake and meets up for a festive ferry ride back to a delicious feast, beer and music at the finish line party in West Seattle.

By Maggie Nicholson

In 1934, twins were born to a Swedish couple named Axel and Anna. Anna died in childbirth, and Axel gave the boy and girl up for adoption. They were taken in by Dietrich and Peggy Schmitz. The process was different in the thirties; Alan and his twin sister Margaret Ann’s birth certificates read that they were born to the Schmitz family. When they were five, their birth father Axel was killed in a work accident, digging a well in Kirkland.

The North Delridge Neighborhood Council (NDNC) wants the K-5 STEM program at the Boren School to stay there citing its positive impact on the area as a primary reason. There for just a year the school has had a stabilizing effect on the area. Seattle Public Schools is looking at a number of options for school reassignment as part of their Growth Boundaries Project. The NDNC has written a letter expressing their support for the school to stay at Boren (see below).

SPS has previously made three recommendations regarding this issue: