December 2013

Discovery Shop
4535 California Ave. S.W.
206 937 7169
Still lots of Glam and Glitter clothing and accessories for all your holiday festivities and a good selection of holiday decorations, all reduced 50%. Red clothing is half price through December 14, all items with pink tags are 50% off. Of course, double stamps on your customer appreciation cards Mondays 10 to noon, 20% off for seniors all day Tuesday and high schoolers with student I.D. all day Saturday. How about a New Year's resolution to join us as a volunteer to cashier or help prepare items for the sales floor in the back room? In just a four hour commitment a week, you can help us raise money for cancer cure research. The all volunteer run, non profit American Cancer Society shop is open until 8:30 Thursday, the 12th, along with other junction stores. We are open Sundays 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. and all other days 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

American Sewing Guild Monthly Meeting
The Kenney
7125 Fauntleroy Ave. S.W.

Update 5:45 pm
Jenny Amulkhtar, General Manager of the Bridge restaurant and bar shared this today "
We have finalized our grand opening to be this Thursday at 5pm!"

Original post

The business recently closed it's original location on 35th S.W. after getting close enough to completely remodeling the former Chuck and Sally's Tavern to make it possible.

Owners Rita Dixson, Trevor Garand, and Jenny and Ahmed Almukhtar did some soft open trial days including opening for the Seahawks game on Dec. 8 for invited guests but since there are a few things yet to be done (sound panels to soften reflected voices) and more they chose the 13th as the official day.

Four weeks ago, Amanda Kay Helmick, Chairperson of the Westwood/Roxhill/Arbor Heights Community Council wrote an open letter to Kevin Desmond, General Manager of Metro Transit expressing the Council's concerns about safety and security in West Seattle. These concerns were expressed against a backdrop of recent violent incidents involving transit. Desmond's reply follows the original inquiry. In that reply, Desmond outlines what measures Metro has taken and hopes to take to improve matters.

Amanda Kay Helmick, Chairperson of the Westwood/Roxhill/Arbor Heights Community Council's original inquiry to Kevin Desmond of Metro:

Good Morning Metro,
I am the Chair of the Westwood / Roxhill / Arbor Heights Community Council. We had our monthly meeting on Tuesday of this week, where our main focus was Roxhill Park. We had community Members from Roxhill Elementary, Daystar Retirement Village, Seattle Parks, Westwood Village as well as many concerned Neighbors.

About 30 people gathered to watch the White Center Christmas tree Lighting on Dec. 7 on a night cold enough to make you think twice about going outside.

White Center Chamber of Commerce President Aileen Sison had the honor of plugging in the tree to the delight of the crowd.

The Triangle Tavern, White Center Tool, and McLendons Hardware donated the hardware needed to make the tree lighting happen.

The tree was decorated by Boy Scouts from the area.

"Cookies & Cider on the Porch" brought young and their elders to the Log House Museum Dec. 7 as a kind of warm up both before and after the visit of the Christmas ships to Alki Beach.

It was a welcome respite from the frigid temperatures that have gripped the area for the past few days.

According to Clay Eals, Southwest Seattle Historical Society Executive Director they had a total of about 50 people visit from 4 to 6 p.m., before and after the Christmas Ship from 5:10 to 5:30 p.m.

The Argosy Cruises Christmas ships paid their annual visit to West Seattle on Dec. 7 with a stop at both Lowman Beach and Alki Beach delighting crowds of people at both locations despite the frigid temperatures.

Seattle Parks provided a bonfire (though at quite a distance) but the ships did what they always do, stopping off shore and letting the Christmas music pour out over the water to the waiting ears of the crowd.

The ships will be back to dazzle the diners at Salty's on Alki on Dec. 16 at 9:15pm.

The 10th annual West Seattle Junction Tree Lighting event Dec. 7 for the first time in a long time faced temperatures in the 20's but that didn't prevent about 240 hardy souls from bundling up and making their way to the Junction Plaza Park for the festivities.

They weren't disappointed.

The Chief Sealth Marching Band put on a rousing show of amazing songs and arrangements as led by their director Marcus Pimpleton. People had a chance to enjoy some hot cider, cookies and granola bars as the band played. The event was led off by Easy Street Records owner Matt Vaughn who expressed his gratitude to the crowd for showing up and for "recycling the money locally to support local business."

Master of Ceremonies Brent Amacher, local State Farm Insurance agent and leader of his own wildly popular musical act, introduced the other musical acts for the evening, the Endolyne Children's Choir, Jay Cates and friends and Mark Pickerel.

The organizers, understanding that it was cold, got to the actual tree lighting and even had a shorter countdown. With a count of five it was lit and the crowd cheered...then quickly found their way to a warm place.

The 10th annual West Seattle Junction Tree Lighting event is set for 5pm with host Brent Amacher and performances by Mark Pickerel, Jay Cates, the Sealth Marching Band,

There will be hot cider and other refreshments so bundle up and come out to enjoy this community event.

It will get underway at 5 pm at Junction Plaza Park at 42nd and Alaska.

One of the few remaining cannabis collective in Ballard closed last week. Green Ambrosia, the medical marijuana store on 15th Avenue N.W. is shutting its doors while they rethink their business plan.

One of the store’s owners, Dante Jones, said he is staying in the industry but refocusing what he will be doing.

“Oh, I’m just as busy as I was before, I don’t get to go home when I want to,” said Jones.

Jones, who has a background in technology and marketing, is originally from California but grew up in Seattle.

Jones said he has closed his MMJ shop after being a collective for two and a half years, one of which was in Ballard. Jones said he and his partners are now opening a hydroponic equipment retailer and servicer.

The store will be named Grow Ambrosia, and will be opening in a few weeks.

Jones said what spurred the closure was the zoning for all three types of licenses declared by the Washington State Liquor Control Board (WSLCB). Jones is in the process of applying for a grower/processor license.

information from Earth Corps

In September, EarthCorps launched the Fall Planting Challenge, with the goal of planting 10,000 native shrubs and trees before Dec. 15. That milestone will be reached on Saturday at Camp Long in West Seattle.

With support from the Alliance for Community Trees, local governments and corporate sponsors including the Boeing Company, Google, IKEA, Real Networks and, REI, over 2,000 EarthCorps volunteers have already installed 9,681 plants in just 6 weeks this fall. The cool, rainy Pacific Northwest weather is ideal for the establishment of the new plants.

“This is a great program,” said Darcy Nothnagle, Western Region Public Affairs and Government Relations Manager for Google. “These hands-on efforts to restore an important urban forest in Seattle will make a big difference in reducing carbon emissions and protecting our region’s environment.” Google has provided support to EarthCorps through their community grants program.