November 2013

South Seattle Community College, located on 16th Ave. S.W. in West Seattle, just announced a new Bachelor's Degree has been approved at the school, and this one is all about "running an energy efficient facility," according to SSCC Communications Director Kevin Maloney.

Here are the full details from Maloney:

The State Board for Community and Technical Colleges recently approved a new baccalaureate of applied science (BAS) degree in Sustainable Science Technologythat will be offered at South Seattle Community College in the fall of 2014.

In response to industry demand, the primary purpose of this program is to provide students with the skills needed to run an energy efficient facility. Industry leaders identified a gap that had formed between the skills of current facility operators and the highly advanced construction of those buildings that have made energy efficiency paramount. This course of study will fill that gap providing the students with the specialized skills that are needed and are now in demand.

The beginning of November marked the end of $5 billion in emergency food stamp funding implemented in 2009 to ease the burden of food security for Americans slammed by the financial crisis, and local food banks say the cuts will likely put severe pressure on their clients.

An estimated 47 million people will see their SNAP (food stamp) benefits shrink this month as a result of the cut and, according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, in Washington State it means $114 million less dollars that will directly impact 1,113,000 residents (16 percent of our population).

At the individual level, it breaks down like this: $11 less for an individual, $20 less for a household of two, $29 less for three and $36 less for a family of four.

Those individual numbers may not seem striking to some, but West Seattle Food Bank Operations Director Steven Curry said those few dollars lead to big rifts in people’s budgets.

Information from WDSOT

This week:
Friday, Nov. 8 – Monday, Nov. 11
Northbound SR 99 will be closed between South Spokane Street and Valley Street from 10 p.m. Friday to 5 a.m. Monday.
Southbound SR 99 will be closed from the north end of the Battery Street Tunnel to Spokane Street from 10 p.m. Friday to 5 a.m. Monday.
Southbound SR 99 will be reduced to one lane between Highland Drive and the north end of the Battery Street Tunnel from 10 p.m. Friday to 5 a.m. Monday.

Next week:
Friday, Nov. 15 – Sunday, Nov. 17
Southbound SR 99 will be reduced to one lane between South King and South Atlantic streets and the South Atlantic Street off-ramp will be closed from 10 p.m. Friday to 11 a.m. Sunday.

Friday, Nov. 2
Football
Ingraham 22, Foster 20

The Rams edged out the Bulldogs by two points in a non-league game played at Foster Friday.

Foster will play a crossover game at 7 p.m. this coming Thursday, hosting Sequim for a non-league crossover game.

Saturday, Nov. 3

Volleyball

Seamount tournaments

In the Class 3A Seamount League tournament, Kennedy Catholic opened by sweeping the Enumclaw Hornets aside in a 10 a.m. match, 3-0.

The Lancers turned around to take a 3-1 defeat at the hands of Auburn-Mountainview, but still advance to play in the West Central District tournament to be held at Auburn-Mountainview this coming Friday and Saturday.

Evergreen and Foster were both involved in the 2A Seamount tournament this past weekend and both will play in the West Central District tournament at Franklin Pierce.

Evergreen opened the league tournament with a close 3-2 loss to Franklin Pierce, then took a 3-0 defeat at the hands of White River before capping off the tournament with a 3-0 victory over Foster.

Before that game Foster lost to Fife, 3-0, and was edged, 3-2, by Lindbergh.

Girls swimming

4A West Central District

Evergreen High School started off its football regular season with a win and ended with a win, but the seven games in between got away.

The Wolverines opened with a non-league victory over Chief Sealth and ended their Seamount League and regular seasons with a 40-26 win over Highline at Highline Memorial Stadium this past Friday.

They finished with a 2-7 regular season record while Highline wound up 0-9.

Now both will face non-playoff crossover postseason games.

Highline will host Franklin of Seattle at 8 p.m. Thursday at Highline Memorial, while Evergreen's next date is still to be announced.

Evergreen started off the scoring in Friday's game between the Highline School District rivals by scoring a touchdown with 7:17 remaining on the first quarter clock.

Iveni Ngauamo ran 10 yards with the ball and plunged over the goal line for the score.

Derek Thao then missed right on the extra point to leave the score at 6-0, and three plays from scrimmage later the Pirates scored and took a 7-6 lead at the 6:06 mark.

Montae Rainwater went around the right side for a 62-yard touchdown and Kyle Tief kicked the extra point.

High schools

Football

Kennedy Catholic opens playoff action with a 7 p.m. home game against Seattle Prep this coming Friday.
Also at Highline Memorial, Mount Rainier plays a 5 p.m. non-playoff crossover game Thursday and Highline plays an 8 p.m. crossover the same nigiht.

Girls soccer

Kennedy plays in a loser-out playoff game Tuesday, going to Sunset Chevrolet Stadium in Sumner to take on Peninsula at 5:30 p.m.

The rest of the week's action is to be announced, with more playoffs Thursday and Saturday. Highline Memorial will host three 3A playoffs at 10 a.m. and 12 and 2 p.m. Saturday.

The 2A playoffs will take place at Franklin Pierce and Renton.

Volleyball

Kennedy will be involved in 3A West Central District action Friday and Saturday at Auburn-Mountainview as Evergreen and Foster take part in the 2A district tournament at Franklin Pierce.

Girls swiimming

The 3A West Central District meet will be held Friday and Saturday at Hazen High School in Renton, with the finals set to start at 5 p.m. Saturday.

Colleges

Football

By Shane Harms

North Seattle medical cannabis patients have a new safe access point: Herbs House, Ballard’s new cannabis collective on NW 65th St, opened last September.

Owner Sharon Jacobson, is new to the industry, but was inspired by what she wasn’t seeing at most cannabis collectives.

“I think that a lot of shops are very masculine with the dark leather sofas and six-foot glass shelves for the product. … Some of them are shady, so I wanted to provide an environment where someone can come and enjoy a space that is friendly and inviting and have a cup of coffee or smoothie, while also a patient can come upstairs and get their medicine,” said Jacobson.

Jacobson leased the space that was once Emerald City Orchids, redesigning the space to be what she calls “a boutique style collective.”

“I think how this place looks and the general feel of it has opened the eyes for some people that thought a business like this was going to be something else. But people come in and check it out and then they come back,” said Jacobson

The customs, traditions and history of the Quileute Tribe, based out of the La Push, Wash. area, resides in the memory of just a few elders these days. Ballard resident Howard Hansen is one of them. Or, as he is known in the Quileute language, cKulell, meaning “Seagull.”

Hansen, now 89, has collected his knowledge in his new book, “Twilight on the Thunderbird,” in an attempt to keep his people’s memory alive. While he admits himself the book may not win a Booker Prize for its writing prowess (it’s self-published and self-edited), it does serve as an interesting history of a fading culture. His target audience are the young Native Americans who, nowadays, have nary an idea of what life used to be like in the tribe.

“There’s nobody else out there to teach the kids about their family,” Hansen said. “They have no idea [what life used to be like], so I wrote about the things that we did when their grandparents were alive and I was a younger. So they have something to base their existence on.”

The first returns for the Nov. 5 general elections have been posted to King County Elections website. We've posted a few highlights of local interest below (full local results can be found here and statewide ballot measure results are found here).

Vote totals will be updated at 4:30 p.m. each day until Tuesday, Nov. 26 at which time final results will be posted.

Seattle Mayor race - Murray takes an early 13 point lead

Ed Murray - 56% with 50938 votes
Mike McGinn - 43% with 39124 votes

Charter Amendment No. 19 (Seattle Districts Now) with a strong early lead

Yes
64.47% - 54538 votes

No
35.53% - 30056 votes

The first returns for the Nov. 5 general elections have been posted to King County Elections website. We've posted a few highlights of local interest below (full local results can be found here and statewide ballot measure results are found here).

Vote totals will be updated at 4:30 p.m. each day until Tuesday, Nov. 26 at which time final results will be posted.

Seattle Mayor race - Murray takes an early 13 point lead

Ed Murray - 56% with 50938 votes

Mike McGinn - 43% with 39124 votes

Charter Amendment No. 19 (Seattle Districts Now) with a strong early lead

Yes
64.47% - 54538 votes

No
35.53% - 30056 votes