October 2013

One dangerous home
It was early afternoon on Oct. 17 when a man living on 12th Ave. S.W. saw two people snooping around a neighbor’s dilapidated home that had been vacant for a year after the owner passed away. Knowing the deceased owner’s daughter, the witness called her and asked if anyone should be at the house. Nope. And furthermore, she said, the house needed a lot of work done before it could be rented or sold, including decontamination since the home had allegedly been used for drug production and trafficking by a “local motorcycle club,” leaving a toxic mess behind. The witness walked outside and took a photo of the suspicious characters’ vehicle license plate and called police, but by the time they arrived the suspects were gone. Upon further investigation, police learned someone had attempted to burn the house down shortly after the owner passed away. “It is not known if this incident was a scouting job for arson attempt,” the police report said. Police took the vehicle photos back to Southwest Precinct burglary detectives.

Real-life reminder about ladders

Sports Briefs

Tyee, Evergreen alumni to meet

Friday, Nov. 8 Tyee High School will be hosting a fundraiser basketball game.

The night will be filled with former student alumni and current staff members from each school competing in a crosstown rivalry basketball game.

The action will start at 7 p.m. at the Totems' gymnasium located at 4424 So. 188th St.

For questions contact your respective school's athletic director.

Bearcats host championships

The Burien Bearcats youth football program will host their league championships at Highline Memorial on Saturday, Nov. 2.

Admission is free for the all-day action that runs from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Softball Factory hosts tryout

The ASA/USA Softball National Identification Program, powered by Softball Factory, will take place Sunday, Nov. 3 at Valley Ridge Park next to Tyee High School.

All athletes ages 13-18 are encouraged to attend.

Players are asked to report to the field at 9 a.m. for registration and the event is scheduled to begin at 10 a.m.

The regisration fee is $99.

By Shane Harms

A throng of thirsty patrons arrived Wednesday Oct. 23 ready to taste and celebrate the opening of Ballard’s ninth brewery, Stoup Brewing (1108 NW 52nd St).

Owners, brewer Robyn Schumacher, PR person Lara Zahaba and head brewer Brad Benson poured beer and chatted with patrons as more and more of Seattle’s beer enthusiasts arrived.

“I’m from the Northwest but all my brewing experience is on the east coast. I followed my now wife to New York and she got a job in the wine industry, and so I brewed in Manhattan and New Jersey,” Benson said.

The start for Stoup began when Benson and Zahaba (married) were looking for a change in careers, and they considered brewing

“I worked as a professional brewer for about six years, and then I got out of it about a decade ago and went back to my regular career as an environmental chemist. I wasn’t enjoying that too much, so my wife and I were talking about what we should do next and she kind of elbowed me a bit and said, ‘Why don’t we do a brewery?’” Benson said.

For the first time in its history, the Southwest Seattle Historical Society has established an online preview of the exciting items that will be available for bid at its biggest fundraiser of the year, the Champagne Gala Lunch.

Also, for the first time, anyone whether or attending or not has the opportunity to bid now on the most unusual items, including two that are too big to bring to the event venue, Salty's on Alki.

The online auction preview can be found at: http://www.loghousemuseum.info/events/auction-preview-alki-lighthouse-f…. At this page, visitors can get an early peek at and make an early bid on several unusual items in the silent auction.

Each item has a description plus a photo or short video. Bidding is easy ? just one click to e-mail a bid, including credit-card information (name on card, account number, expiration date, security code and zip code) along with the bid.

Here are the major items available for viewing now:

Monday, Oct. 21
Girls soccer
Seattle Lutheran 1, Evergreen Lutheran 0
Seattle Lutheran of West Seattle beat Evergreen Lutheran of Puyallup (formerly Des Moines) in an all-Lutheran bout last Monday.

Tuesday, Oct. 22
Girls soccer
Kennedy 10, Evergreen 0
Evergreen took a lopsided loss to the Lancers this past Tuesday.
Chief Sealth 6, Franklin 1
The Seahawks scored a big win over the Quakers on Tuesday.

Volleyball
West Seattle 3, Nathan Hale 0
The Wildcats blanked Nathan Hale in a victory Tuesday.
Ingraham 3, Chief Sealth 1
Chief Sealth took a defeat at the hands of the Rams this last Tuesday.
Seattle Lutheran 3, Crosspoint Academy 0
Seattle Lutheran shut down Crosspoint Academy in a decisive win Tuesday.

Wednesday, Oct. 23
Volleyball
West Seattle 3, Chief Sealth 2
Eastyn Baleto racked up 21 kills, three blocks, 10 digs and five aces for the Wildcats in their victory over their close rivals on Wednesday.
Aspen Knowles added seven kills.
Seattle Lutheran 3, Auburn Adventist 0

The annual West Seattle Harvest Festival got a soggy start under a steady mist but by the time the kid's costume parade rolled around at 11:30am the weather had cleared a bit so all the little ones could take part.

Thousands came to the Junction to take the kids trick or treating at area merchants and enjoy the dozens of booths from the relocated farmers market (normally behind the junction on Sundays) and many others.

The costumes on display were remarkable anyone's estimation from the usual prepackaged version of skeletons and cartoon characters from mutant turtles to Minions to home made versions of heroes, or even more creative efforts. A mother and daughter even dressed up as a car hop and a hot fudge sundae.

The event also offered a chili cook off between area restaurants including:

• The Bridge
• Beer Junction
• Easy Street Café
• Elliott Bay Brewery
• Feedback Lounge
• Husky Deli
• Terra Cole Butchery
• West 5

By Paul Moseley

The 2-4 Seattle Lutheran Saints had a happy homecoming as they took on the winless Chief Leschi Warriors at West Seattle Stadium Saturday afternoon.

Hampered with injuries throughout the season, the Saints put a strong team on the field. The Saints attacked from the opening kick-off, and it was #32 Abijah Smith who answered the first call. Smith, who was out earlier this season due to a bell ringing head-to-head tackle in game 1, was back in full form. Taking the ball on the first 3 plays from scrimmage, Smith took the Saints 60 yards and put them on the board in the first minute of the game and had his first of his 3 TD's in the game.

One possession later, the Saints #5 Grant Doerr got the call as QB Cody Jones connected with him on a pass for Doerr's first of two TD's to put Seattle Lutheran up 14-0.

The Warriors came with an unorthodox game plan, faking almost every punt. At 5:40 in the first, Seattle Lutheran #4 JJ Young intercepted a pass off a fake punt and scored, making it 20-0.

By Jeremy Martin

There was a lot on the line Friday night when Chief Sealth bussed North to take on Ingraham in the final regular season game of 2013.

One week after an exciting Huling Bowl victory over West Seattle, the Seahawks hoped to build momentum heading into the playoffs by dismantling a Rams squad celebrating both homecoming and senior night.

Though Ingraham had several generations of fans in attendance, it was Chief Sealth and the unforgettable first quarter of its junior tailback Daron Comacho that won the day, giving the Seahawks a 28-6 win.

Having already scored one first quarter touchdown, on a ten yard run off tackle, Comacho than showed off his special teams talents by picking up another first quarter score when a blocked Ram’s field goal attempt bounced into his hands and the sophomore was able to follow a series of key blocks en route to a 90 yard, crowd silencing score.

Comacho finished the game with 108 total yards while also managing an offensive fumble recovery that helped the Seahawks (4-4) extend a drive deep into Ram territory.

Jaroslav Makovicka, known as Jerry to his many friends and customers of the Little Prague Bakery at 6045 California Ave. S.W. in West Seattle passed away suddenly, Oct. 19. He was 67.

Married to Marie, his wife for 45 years, Jerry was also an iron worker whose many stairway railings and other metal creations can be found all around West Seattle.

Makovicka came from what was then called Czechoslovakia (now the Czech Republic) in 1985 to Seattle and worked at Paccar and then in 1990 opened an iron design and fabrication business called B.S.D. European Iron Design making garden gates, railings, security doors and window iron. Right around the same time he and wife Marie leased space on Calfornia Avenue from Stuffed Shirt Catering and opened the Little Prague Bakery in the front. They began to take their product to the area farmers markets as they opened and the business grew. In 2003 they took over the whole space. For now the business will stay open.

information from the Seattle Fire Department

The Seattle Fire Department will be conducting a series of Citywide Earthquake Drills on four separate dates. Starting at 10 a.m. on the days of the drill, dispatchers will announce” This is a drill, this is a drill; we have experienced an earthquake”. For several hours, you will hear Seattle Fire radio traffic related to the mock earthquake. The purpose of the drill is to practice natural disaster emergency response procedures.

During the drill, firefighters will continue to respond to all emergencies in the City. This will not have an impact on our response times or operational readiness.

The dates of the drill are Saturday October 19, Sunday October 20, Saturday October 26 and Sunday November 2.