November 2013

The Ballard District Council on Wednesday, Nov. 13 will be a little bittersweet for us here at the BNT. Bitter, because it'll be my last district council meeting (I'm moving up to Alaska! More on that later). Sweet, because we'll be officially introducing our new lead reporter and web editor: Shane Harms.

In other news, we'll have plenty of other hot topics to discuss: Possible Metro Transit cuts, public safety and microhousing.

As usual, it'll be at the Ballard Branch Library at 7 p.m.

Agenda

7:00 Introductions & Short Announcements - please hold announcements to not more than one min.

7:20 King County Metro Transit

• Reductions in Metro Transit services. More info: http://kingcounty.gov/transportation/kcdot/NewsCenter/NewsReleases/2013…
• D Line implementation

7:40 Seattle Police Department – Community Police Team Officer Tim Wear

• North Precinct Crime Prevention Coordinator update
• New North Precinct Station proposal (http://www.seattle.gov/northprecinctstation)
• Q & A

8 well-to-do families have cleaned the goodies out their garages and are taking them to a central location so that you can do all of your garage sale shopping at one place!

Such great deals you'll think of it as an early Christmas Gift for yourself!

Tools, power Tools, Camping gear, furniture, tents, rods & reels, fishing poles, leather coats & stylish clothing, collectible toys, pool cues, jewelry, stereo equipment, video games, Seahawks gear and sports collectibles, paintball, bikes, kitchenware, and so much more! Indoors so you can shop and stay dry!!!

We don't want to take anything home so it's cheap!!!

Saturday November 23rd, 10am - 5pm
Inside the WSCC Gymnasium at 4400 42nd AVE SW, West Seattle, 98116

Dear West Seattle and White Center communities,

These are my final days as a reporter for the West Seattle Herald and White Center News and I just want to take a moment to thank you, our readers, for letting me write about your world.

My three years here were an honor. I was given the opportunity to interview and write about some of our most colorful and historically significant residents and events, to do my best in keeping you informed on day-to-day happenings, and to learn more about my community than I ever could have with any other job.

Moving to West Seattle in August of 2010, I was shocked to realize how passionate and active a community can be. From banding together as block watches and giving property criminals their comeuppance to collective fronts encouraging smart development and transportation choices to gathering en masse for fun events like West Seattle Summer Fest, this is one great neighborhood.

There has been much discussion of housing projects without any parking spots either being built or in the process of being built throughout West Seattle.

One project in the spotlight of late, and representative of others around the peninsula, is a 30-residential unit structure planned at 6917 California Ave. S.W., where neighbors are up in arms about the added parking pressure when it’s already tough to find a spot. The developer, Blueprint, has said he is simply following the rules established by Seattle’s City Council.

After the Herald wrote about some of these projects (that story is found here), West Seattle resident Jamie Gardner (who lives near the one mentioned above) read about it in the Westside Weekly print edition and decided to reach out to Seattle City Councilmember Tim Burgess for more details on why parking isn't required for certain buildings. Gardner sent her conversation along to us and we are sharing it here.

UPDATE 10 am
People began lining up early, as early as 4 am in the shivering cold, for the Eastridge Church turkey and grocery giveaway Nov. 23. Volunteers arrived at 5:30 to prepare for the annual event. They split the total number of turkeys between two locations, Issaquah and West Seattle, but at 1500 birds, that means lot of people will have a genuinely thankful turkey day.

Original Post Nov. 11
As they've done for several years now Eastridge Church will provide 1,500 free Thanksgiving turkeys and bags of groceries to families in need on Saturday, November 23, beginning at 9 a.m. (while supplies last) at their two locations: Issaquah and West Seattle. The church will also be giving free haircuts from licensed stylists (Issaquah only), coats and gloves for children and adults, and Bibles.

One afternoon, a few weeks after I took over the paper in 1952, I got a call at the office. "Good morning, White Center News," I proudly answered. The man on the line said " This is Dick Scrawge and I want to place an ad in your paper," he said.

"Okay Mr. Scrawge, I'd be delighted to help you," I replied. He proceeded to explain that it would be better if I came over to his place to discuss. I said I would be happy to come over and where exactly would that be was my next question. "What do you mean, we're where we've always been, you idiot!, right here next to Harney's store!"

"Oh, I said, I am quite sorry, I thought you said your name was Scrawge!, but you meant you are calling from Dick's Garage," I answered.
He wondered how the Kent News-Journal had let me go!

Sports Briefs

Gandy gets off to a good start

Mount Rainier High School graduate Kiana Gandy has had a solid start to her redshirt freshman women's basketball season at Western Washington University.

Gandy scored 12 points and hauled down eight rebounds in a 93-89 loss to the University of Frazier Valley, then hit a game-high 15 points as the Vikings defeated Fresno-Pacific by a 75-46 score this past Friday.

Pitching camps offered

Young baseball pitchers ages 9-18 are being offered six camps of 22 dates each by the EnFuego Baseball Academy at the EnFuego Sports Indoor Facility located at 661 So. Orcas Street in Seattle.

The cost is $500 for the camps, with Camp 1 for ages 9-12 going from 4:30-5 p.m. each day, Camp 2 for ages 9-12 from 5:15-5:45 p.m., Camp 3 for ages 13-18 from 6-6:30 p.m., Camp 4 for ages 13-18 from 6:45-7:15 p.m., Camp 5 for ages 13-18 from 7:30-8 p.m. and Camp 6 for ages 13-18 from 8:15-8:45 p.m.

Dates for each camp are Nov. 17, 21 and 24; Dec. 5, 8, 12, 15 and 19; Jan. 9, 12, 16, 19, 23, 26 and 30; and Feb. 2, 6, 9, 13, 20, 23 and 27. The days are Thursdays and Sundays.

High schools

Volleyball

Kennedy will be taking part in the Class 3A tournament, opening with a 1:30 p.m. Friday match against Mercer Island at St. Martin's University in Lacey. Win or lose the Lancers will play again Friday. They play at 8:15 p.m. if they win and at 6:45 p.m. if they lose.
The tournament will conclude Saturday.

Girls swimming

The state girls swimming and diving meets will take place this coming Friday at Saturday at the King County Aquatic Center in Federal Way.
The Class 4A preliminaries begin at 9:45 a.m. Friday, followed by the 2A preliminaries at 2:30 p.m. and the 3A preliminaries at 6:15 p.m.
Finals will be held Saturday, with the 4A meet starting at 10 a.m., the 2A at 2:30 p.m. and the 3A at 6:30 p.m.

Girls soccer

Seattle Christian travels to King's High School north of Seattle to play in the Class 1A state tournament opening round this Tuesday.

Winter sports

Tryouts for gymnastics start Tuesday of this week, with the other sports -- boys and girls basketball, wrestling and boys swimming -- getting underway next Monday.

Colleges

Football

Saturday, Nov. 9

State cross country

The state cross country meets were held at the Sun Willows golf course in Pasco this past Saturday, with Alem Belete of Foster coming through with the top area finish.

Belete placed 10th in the Class 2A girls race with a time of 19:21.37.
Jordan McPhee of Mount Rainier also came through with a strong finish in the Class 4A girls portion of the meet, capturing 13th place with a time of 18:34.04.

Two Evergreen runners competed in the 2A boys race, with Marcus Chacon taking 18th place for the Wolverines in 16:20.20 and Matthew Chacon finishing 40th in 16:42.17.

Albachew Shiferaw of Tyee took 58th in the same race in a time of 16:55.26.

Alexis Sata of Tyee came in 116th in the 2A girls race with a 21:56.37 effort.

Tyler Ridings of Seattle Christian took 53rd in the 1A boys race in 17:24.4 and teammate Brandon Seeger was 74th in 17:49.1.

On the girls side, Gabby Watson of the Warriors finished 54th in 21:06.73.

Girls swimming

West Central District 3A

By Gerardo Bolong

ORTING - Two second half goals propelled the Seattle Christian girls soccer team to a 2-0 winner fifth-to-state and loser out win against Nisqually League foe Cedar Park Christian (Bothell) in a Nov. 7th match of the 1A Tri-District 1/2/3 tournament held at the Orting Middle School field.

In their third win in as many tries against Cedar Park Christian, the Warriors exercised steadily stronger pressure as the the game took its course.

Megan Nielsen assisted to Abigail Kim in the 55th minute for a 1-0 SC lead. Two minutes latter Morgan Gaston fired home another score off a nice assist from Tanna Brinkman.

Offensively, Seattle Christian created numerous chances and the defense stood tall in goalkeeper Erin Swain's shut out.

Players for state-qualifying Warriors are Danielle Mumm, Payton Hibbard, Abigail Kim, Megan Nielsen, Maegan Fox, Cassisy Stobart, Morgan Gaston, Tanna Brinkman, Taelor Perkins, Shaina Mitchell, Julia Eng, Isabella Responte, Ally Zimmer, Erin Swain and Karissa Kleps.