October 2013

Sports Roundup

Tuesday, Oct. 22
Girls soccer
SCS 6, Charles Wright 2
Seattle Christian blasted past Charles Wright in a Nisqually League game this past Tuesday.
Hazen 6, Foster 0
Foster fell to the Highlanders in Seamount League action on Tuesday.
Highline 4, Renton 3
The Pirates slipped past the Indians this last Tuesday.
Kennedy 10, Evergreen 0
The Lancers were convincing winners against the Wolverines this past Tuesday.
Lindbergh 2, Tyee 0
Lindbergh topped Tyee Tuesday.
Tahoma 3, Mt. Rainier 0
Mount Rainier was blanked by the Bears in a South Puget Sound League match Tuesday.
Volleyball
Kennedy 3, Tyee 0
Kennedy cruised past the Totems on Tuesday.
Foster 3, Renton 0
The Bulldogs were big winners over the Indians this last Tuesday.
Kentridge 3, Mt. Rainier 0
The Chargers got the best of the Rams on Tuesday.

Thursday, Oct. 24
Volleyball
Mt. Rainier 3, TJ 0
Mount Rainier swept the Raiders aside Thursday.
Highline 3, Foster 2
The Pirates edged Foster in a five-set match on Thursday.
Kennedy 3, Hazen 0
Kennedy clobbered the Highlanders this past Thursday.
Girls soccer
Mt. Rainier 2, Kent-Meridian 0

King County Housing Authority and Homesight announced groundbreaking for eight new homes at the Greenbridge mixed-income housing community located on 8th Ave. S.W. in White Center.

According to Rhonda Rosenberg with KCHA, "The Homesight homes are intended to be affordable to families earning at or below 80 percent of the King County median income of $64,400 for a family of four."

Rosenberg said the homes are being built as a partnership between the housing authority and Homesight, "a community-based real estate developer and mortgage lender that works with first-time homebuyers."

Help with loans is being offered from multiple sources for homes ranging from three-bedroom, 2.25 baths starting at $265,000 to four-bedroom, 2.5 baths starting at $285,000, according to KCHA.

Presales are happening now and the homes are expected to be complete in April of 2014. For more details contact HomeSight at 206-723-4355 or www.homesightwa.org.

Sports Roundup

Friday, Oct. 25
Football
Kennedy 51, Highline 0
The Lancers made quick work of their close rivals Friday, putting away the Pirates by a 51-0 score in Seamount League action.
Kent-Meridian 45, Mt. Rainier 21
Mount Rainier took a 45-21 loss at the hands of the Kent-Meridian Royals in a South Puget Sound League North Division football game Friday.
It was the second game of a football double-header at Highline Memorial following the Kennedy-Highline game.
Hazen 55, Foster 6
The Foster Bulldogs also went down to a lopsided
defeat Friday, dropping a Seamount League game played at Renton Stadium by a 55-6 score.

Saturday, Oct. 26
Football
Renton 21, Evergreen 7
Evergreen lost a close Seamount League game to the Renton Indians by a 21-7 score at Highline Memorial on Saturday afternoon.
Girls swimming
South Puget Sound League meet
Mount Rainier captured third place as a team at Saturday's SPSL meet held at Rogers High School in Puyallup, scoring 186 points behind the 199 of Kentlake and the 209 of Curtis.
Megan Kawaguchi of the Rams won the 100-yard backstroke in a time of 58.96 seconds and Mount Rainier won the 200 medley relay in 1:56.23.

High schools

Football

Kennedy will travel to Renton Stadium to play Lindbergh in a 7 p.m. game this Thursday and Mount Rainier will go to Sparks Stadium in Puyallup to play Emerald Ridge at the same time.

Friday's schedule includes the annual Evergreen-Highline game at 7 p.m. at Highline Memorial and a Foster home game against an opponent to be announced.

Seattle Christian/Life Christian visits Bellevue Christian on Saturday in this the final weekend of the year for regular season football.

Volleyball

Evergreen visits the Foster gymnasium for 7 p.m. action Tuesday as Highline hosts Lindbergh, Kennedy goes to Renton and Tyee to Hazen.
That will mark the end of the regular Seamount League season.

Girls soccer

Foster hosts Highline and Tyee visits Evergreen in 7:30 p.m. action on Tuesday.

Evergreen plays Foster in a 3:30 p.m. match at Valley Ridge as the regular Seamount League season concludes Thursday and Tyee takes on Hazen at the same time on the other Valley Ridge field.

The following is an excerpt from a published book:

Listen To Your Father

 After my dad died in Portland, in 1963, I went down to his musty basement, switched on a light to see a long bench covered with scores of boxes. I decided to go through every one. At some point I just poked my hand into a file in the middle of one box. It was the only piece of paper out of the entire collection addressed to me and never sent.

A letter to Gerald:

Son--the gifts of the gods are scattered for those who will.
Only the man who struggles attains the highest hill --
And strength must come thru effort -- I'll try, I'll try, I'll try has won life's greatest battles -- when the spirit says do or die.
And the gods of vision will whisper in an hour of despair
look up and on and forward for I am the One to care.
And a boy with hope and real worth is the pride, the joy,
the Best of Earth.

   Those words by my dad in his Spenserian scrawl are framed and and hanging on my study wall.

About my dad

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From U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

The Hiram M. Chittenden Locks in Ballard will close to much or all marine traffic at various times Oct. 31, Nov. 1 and Nov. 5-20.

Vessel operators should pay close attention to times, vessel-size restrictions and impacts caused by railroad bridge maintenance.

On Oct. 31 and Nov. 1, U.S. Navy divers are scheduled to prepare the Adult Salmon Exclusion Structure for normal winter operations. Both locks are scheduled to be closed on Oct. 31 a maximum of four hours from 8 a.m. to noon. The large lock only is scheduled to be closed from approximately 8 a.m. to noon Nov. 1.
The large lock at the Hiram M. Chittenden Locks in Ballard is scheduled to close to all marine traffic from 9 a.m., Nov. 5, to 5 p.m., Nov. 20, for annual maintenance. The small lock will still be available for vessels less than 115 feet in length and 26 feet in width throughout the large lock maintenance period.

By Kyra-lin Hom

If all that foreigners knew of America was our pop music, they’d think our entire national existence revolved around “da club.” Turn on your radio, channel spaz between the top stations and you’ll get my drift (exceptions aside of course). Based on our mainstream musical choices, all we care about is “where ‘da party at” – not my words, the words of a homeless refugee fleeing the genocide in his home country.

Living on the streets of Seattle, he’s facing nothing but continued homelessness, disease and deportation if our immigration laws are not reformed. I can see why he might be a tad bit bitter...I don’t get this clubbing obsession, and I like clubs – unlike a number ofmy friends. I like dancing; I like having to yell over music; and I like... Okay so I don’t like strange Bollywood/Kesha remixes, but I do like laughing with friends over the random MC Hammer musical cameos.

By Peggy Sturdivant

You know those stressful dreams in which you are on your way to some important event and realize you’ve forgotten 1) wallet, 2) clothes, or 3) how to drive? Fill in your own nightmare. I just had mine this morning. After last November’s Big Event for Ballard Writers the Sunset Hill Community Association suggested that we set a date for the following year. It’s Friday, November 1. But I forgot to invite anyone.

We’ve had the date for a year. Ballard Writers Collective has been planning the event for months. But did I send out Save the Date cards? Give timely notice to the Seattle Times calendar? No. Sure, the other 100+ members of Ballard Writers know about Friday’s 4th Annual but it’s supposed to be for the public, not for us.

Then again, who are we? We are your neighbors. If there’s anything I’ve learned since the 2010 launch of Ballard Writers is that we are legion. It’s the woman next to me at yoga and the man who walks past my house with his dog. Either everyone has a story to tell or they have already been trying to write it, publish it, sell it, get it accepted by Modern Love in the New York Times Styles section.

A Ballard News-Tribune reader witnessed a hit and run accident yesterday on 14th Ave NW, between NW 45th and 46th streets. She said it "looked pretty serious" -- airbags were deployed and both cars were mangled. She said that the driver and passenger in the silver car apparently ran away from the scene.

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