November 2013

By Gerardo Bolong

KENT - On cool, dry, Nov. 5th night at French Field,the Seattle Christian High School Warrior girls soccer heated up its after burners in the second half to jet past the Falcons of South Whidbey, 2-0, in a first 1A round match up of the 1A Tri-District 1/2/3 tournament to earn an 8 p.m. encounter against Cedar Park Christian (Bothell) in a winner-to-fifth seed at state game at Orting Middle School on Novv. 7th.
"In the first half, we probably had better passes, but the girls played great the whole game," said Warrior head coach Melissa Dunckley. "In the second half, we created more opportunities and finished on more shots. Their goal keeper made some great stops."

First half action featured the Warriors (16-2) of the Nisqually League spreading out nicely for ball possession ground passes that produced constant side-to-side movement with nice switching action. SCS constantly carried the fight into South Whidbey (4-10) territory, but was unable to light up the scoreboard with any points. Creating good opportunities o9n each side and in close range in front of the net, Seattle Christian did everything but finish.

Car sale turns robbery
Anyone who has gone through the process of selling a vehicle privately has probably had those moments of worry about meeting and exchanging large amounts of cash for significant goods with a total stranger. In an incident on Nov. 2, those fears were well-founded.

A few days earlier the victim/buyer in this case was approached by man in White Center who said he was desperate to sell his vehicle so he could cover rent. The male buyer agreed to meet the seller at Westwood Village on the 2nd. The buyer and a friend met up with the seller and his girlfriend, where the seller said the car would cost $2000. The victim gave him partial payment of $800 and asked to do a test drive before paying the full amount. During the test run, the buyer said he only though the car was worth $1000. From there, it took a turn.

The potentially looming cuts in Metro service, and the dramatic increase in high density housing coming to West Seattle form a backdrop for the Nov. 12 public meeting of the recently formed West Seattle Transportation Coalition. The meeting will be held a the High Point Neighborhood House 6400 Sylvan Way S.W. from 6:30 to 9:00pm.

Here's the agenda for the meeting:

Agenda
6:30 Welcome and Updates
6:40 Introduction, Vote & Ratify Committees

Communications
Roles: Online presence; Annual/bi-annual Issues Surveys. Writing press releases. Managing and facilitating communications between other advocacy groups. Works in tandem with all other Committees.

Action
Roles: Calls Coalition to action, meets with elected officials, attends public hearings, and manages the Calendar, Works in tandem with all other Committees.

Outreach

  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!

By Kyra-lin Hom

Making friends was so easy in Kindergarten. The two of you shared a crayon box, a couple of germs and – bam – suddenly you’re inseparable. There were no excuses to be made, no ‘I’d rather have a lazy night in’ alibies. Your parents, desperate to occupy your time, arranged all the play dates, and the playground took care of the rest.

Even once autonomy set in, in the form of middle, high school and college we had all the things we needed for fast and easy friendships: proximity; repeated, spontaneous interactions; and easy and comfortable settings (sociologist consensus since about the 1950’s). Then we graduated into the real world and suddenly became fish without fins.

Discovery Shop
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White Center Library November Events
11220 16th Ave. S.W.
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Children & Families:

The Ballard Boys & Girls Club “Field of Our Dreams” fundraising event on Oct. 25 raised over $116,000 to support their baseball field renovation and scholarship fund.

“We are thrilled from the support we received from our sponsors, parents, and community,” says Shelley Puariea, Club Director. “We are especially grateful for the $25,000 contribution from our Presenting Sponsor, The Sports Medicine Clinic, and $10,000 from our Field Sponsor, The Mariners Care Foundation. Their funding and attendance helped us hit a grand slam for kids.”

Other sponsors included John and Shawn Goodman, Ballard Natural Gas Service, Inc., Carter Subaru, Jacobson Terminals, Inc., and Peoples Bank.

The Sports Medicine Clinic is celebrating 50 years of service in Ballard and is honored to generously give back to the community.

It took a couple of tries, but she finally did it. North Seattle Businesswoman Faye Garneau has changed the way Seattle elects its city council members.

On Nov. 5, even with just a portion of the votes in, it was as plain as day. The charter amendment to elect city council members by district instead of at large was passing overwhelmingly, 65-35.

Garneau and other supporters, who gathered at 125th St Grill on election night, were wowed by the results.

“When it was so overwhelming, I was really tickled,” she said. “I had my second drink of the day. I drink vodka martinis.”

The amendment is set to take effect in 2015, when all nine of the city councilmembers will be put up for reelection. Seven will be elected by district and two will be elected at large. Then, in 2020, after the U.S. Census, the district boundaries may be readjusted by a broadly represented commission.

By Jeremy Martin

West Seattle High School knew what was at stake going into its Saturday afternoon SeaKing District 2 volleyball match with Blanchet.

A loss at 1pm would mean the Wildcats season would be over, win and stick around the Chief Sealth gymnasium for two more games and a chance to move on in the state playoffs.

Maybe it was nerves, maybe it was youth but 4th seeded West Seattle fell to the 7th seeded Braves in straight sets (25-20, 25-16, 25-20) ending an otherwise successful season for the young Wildcat team.

“We try to put them in positions of being comfortable with being uncomfortable.

Through the season I try to get those younger players in there so they get accustomed to the pressure and to the crowd; their learning. We’re getting better and hopefully next year a lot of those younger players will step up,” West Seattle head coach Joe Baleto said of a wildcat club that will only be losing four seniors to graduation.

The Southwest Seattle Historical Society (SWSHS) Gala Champagne Lunch on Nov. 9 exceeded all previous annual SWSHS gatherings with more than 180 people in attendance and after all was said and done raise a total of $37,000 in revenue -- including Fund-a-Dream Challenge (which itself was more than $11,000), Silent Auction, Dessert Dash, raffle and tickets.

The event at Salty's on Alki featured speaker and West Seattle resident Dave Beck, of KUOW radio who took a comical look back at his own personal history here, and the three Hallberg Sisters, Aly, Nancy and Tia who spoke about their mother and father (founding members of SWSHS) and their own lives in the community. They talked at length about the tendency of West Seattle to retain people who never seem to move far away and cited their own other family members who all live nearby one another.

The event also featured a silent auction with all the items coming from area businesses, a dessert dash, and a raffle.

The Hallberg sisters presentation was full of local references and memories that will be familiar to many in West Seattle. Here's their speech:

TIA