November 2013

Boy Scout Troop 375, chartered by Saint Francis Assisi Catholic Church will hold an American flag retirement ceremony Monday,November 11, Veterans Day, at 4 pm on Alki Beach in West Seattle (across from Dukes restaurant).

They will provide a final color guard to an American flag that requires respectful retirement. Scouts will read statements about the history of our flag, honor attending veterans, play taps, and respectfully incinerate the flag in a proper and affirming manner. The public is welcome to attend. The ceremony will last about 15 minutes.

West Seattle, White Center and Burien families who have old American flags that need respectful retirement, are encouraged to bring their flags to the event and our scouts will collect them, and arrange a second ceremony later this winter to retire the collected flags. Families who bring worn or torn flags are asked to consider contributing $20 to the troop's scout jamboree travel fund, but it is not mandatory.

Tuesday, Nov. 5
Girls soccer
Seattle Prep 2, West Seattle 0
The Wildcats took a shutout loss to Seattle Prep in a Metro League 3A tournament semifinal game this past Tuesday.

Volleyball
Tacoma Baptist 3, Seattle Lutheran 0
Seattle Lutheran was slapped with a loss by Tacoma Baptist in Class 2B volleyball tournament action on Tuesday.

Thursday, Nov. 7
Girls soccer
Bainbridge 3, West Seattle 0
West Seattle missed out on the Metro League's No. 3 state seed with Thursday's loss to Bainbridge at the Southwest Athletic Complex.

Now the Wildcats must journey to Liberty High School in Issaquah to play for the final berth in a "pigtail" playoff at 3 p.m. Saturday.

Volleyball
West Seattle 3, Juanita 2
The Wildcats knocked off their half bracket tournament hosts in Thursday's Class 3A Sea-King playoff opener.

Seattle Prep 3, West Seattle 0
West Seattle's Wildcats were defeated by Seattle Prep in their second Sea-King tournament game Thursday.
Now they play Blanchet closer to home at Chief Sealth at 1 p.m. Saturday in a loser-out match.

Celebrating what has become a West Seattle traditional favorite, the West Seattle Nursery is back again with it's Holiday Open House Saturday Nov. 9.

The event runs from 11am to 3pm and features complimentary appetizers, free espresso and seminars all themed for the holiday season.

11 am is Holiday Wreath Making with staffer Mary Holdsworth (runs until 2pm)
12 pm is the start time for Holiday Centerpieces will feature floral arrangement expert Jennifer Dowell (over at 1pm)
and Crazy for Conifers starts at 1pm with Sam Pratt of Rare Tree Nursery. He will show you and talk about dwarf conifers and preview new varieties available in the spring.

West Seattle Nursery is located at 5275 California Ave. S.W.

Don' miss the Providence Fall Bazaar sponsored by the Providence Mount St. Vincent Auxiliary.

The Bazaar—with an amazing bake sale—is taking place today and tomorrow from 10 am to 4 pm at The Mount, 4831 35th Ave SW. 1st floor lobby area.

Roxhill Park in West Seattle has a lot to offer: a new skatepark and top-notch playground, wide open green space with mini-soccer goals for little ones to learn the game, the headwaters of Longfellow Creek and a shining example of plant diversity thanks to the wooded wetland “bog” taking up the east side of the park.

Amongst the positives, however, there are growing public safety concerns at Roxhill and the Westwood Village shopping center just north, due in part to a handful of violent exchanges – from stabbings to beatings – taking place recently and ongoing nuisances including youth and transient drug and alcohol use in the thickets of the bog. Gang tensions have been identified in some incidents and with King County Metro turning Westwood/Roxhill into a transit hub, many citizens say the increase in activity has brought increased crime along with it.

What's cuter than one lion cub turning 1?

Four lion cubs turning 1.

Today, Woodland Park Zoo's "frisky foursome" turned 1. In celebration, the zoo spoiled the quadruplets with toys, bones and bloodsicles -- "frozen carnivore ice pops" -- in festive birthday boxes.

Nobuhle, Busela, Pelo and Rudo couldn't help but pounce (hah!) on their presents. Their mom, Adia, was also treated.

According to the Zoo, the cubs became an international sensation immediately after their birth and quickly grew a loyral fan base. Visitors came in droves to see the young felines. (This reporter was one of them.)

Sadly, for us anyway, the Zoo's animal management staff is making plans to move the cubs to other zoos in 2014, where they will become part of the Species Survival Plan. This means that they themselves, one day, will birth new cubs of their own.

West Seattle is home to many artists but generally speaking they operate independently, coming together only at exhibitions or local art walks. Coming up Nov. 16 you have the unique opportunity to see what has essentially become an artist's colony here.

The Building is a working artist building located at 4316 S.W. Othello Street, consisting of 12 private studios right here in West Seattle. They have decided to open up their doors pre- holiday and have their First Annual Art Opening with the community. Artwork & unique holiday gifts will be for sale and you will have a chance to meet the artists. The work on display and for sale will include encaustics, oil paintings, fiber art, mixed media, photography, hand cut paper, custom guitars, printmaking, and you'll see art demonstrations taking place too.

Local musicians Joe Ross and Timothy Scallon will be playing music throughout the evening.

The artists for this evening will include

• Shaun Doll
• Steve Shelton
• Flora Carlile-Kovacs
• Kimberly Miller
• David Myka

The owner of a Junction restaurant and bar known by locals for serving stiff drinks at a fair price is facing felony charges in King County Superior Court for allegedly trafficking stolen alcohol taken from retail grocery stores.

Eduardo Morales-Cardenas, owner of the Puerto Vallarta, was charged with first degree trafficking in stolen property and first degree attempted trafficking in stolen property. Four alleged accomplices were charged with the same, in addition to organized retail theft. Charges were filed at the end of October.

Cardenas, 46, was arrested by King County Sheriff’s Office deputies on Sept. 26. Cases upon cases of alcohol were removed from the bar and placed into a moving van that day before being driven off to an evidence locker.

Others charged include Amber Camille Vincent,22, Shaye Benjamin Glenn-Nitschke,24, Eric Richard Olson,51, and Michael Allen Jensen, 41, who allegedly stole alcohol from numerous grocery stores throughout King County and sold it to Cardenas.

FRIDAY, NOV. 8

Rope

What: Two Gatsby-era ivy-leaguers decide to murder a friend of theirs, just to prove they can get away with it. They put the body into a trunk, and proceed to serve dinner off of the trunk, at a party consisting of the victim’s friends and family. Tensions are high as the boys wonder if they’ll be discovered. The play is loosely based on the Leopold and Loeb murder case of 1924.

Where: Ballard Underground (2220 NW Market Street Lower Level)

When: 7:30 p.m.

More info: http://ghostlighttheatricals.org/season-11/rope/

KRAM’S BINGOmatic Improv Machine

What: The show takes 16 short improve scenes and puts them against the backdrop of a twisted bingo game. The audience controls the order of the show and prizes are won by a lucky few. Each show is a completely fresh non-stop evening of improvisational scene- and game-based comedy, driven by the suggestions of our all-powerful audience. $10

Where: Ballard Senior Center (5429 32nd Ave NW)

When: 8 p.m.

More info: Tickets at http://KRAMBingoMachine.brownpapertickets.com or at the door., event details at http://www.facebook.com/KRAMimprov

Details from the West Seattle Food Bank:

It's easy to forget that BOOZE, BALLS & BINGO, a hilarious bingo-in-drag send-up raises a ton of money for a variety of charities, due to the high entertainment value of their show.

The boys have raised over $10,000 this year and Sunday night, November 10th at 5:30pm at the Feedback Lounge will be for the WEST SEATTLE FOOD BANK, who is in dire need of funds and food because of the recent government cuts to the SNAP (food stamps) program.

Bring 5 cans of food of $5 and get a discount on your game card package.

Come support the WEST SEATTLE FOOD BANK and be prepared to have insane amounts of fun.