January 2014

By Gerardo Bolong

KENT - Poor shooting and late game weariness against a powerful inside presence were the core components against state fifth-ranked Mount Rainier in a 68-53 girls 4A basketball loss to No. 7 Inglemoor in the 2014 King Showcase presented by Ram Restaurant and Brewery held at the ShoWare Center on Mon., Jan. 20.

Leading by a wafer-thin 45-44 margin after three quarters, the Rams fell back for good in the face of an 11-2 Viking assault that was keyed by seven straight points from six-foot, four inch Deja Strother who had picked up her fourth foul midway through the third quarter.

"I've just learned how to play better when I'm in foul trouble," Strother said."I just keep playing through it."

Strother closed out with 22 points and 12 rebounds.

Like a continually rising tide, Inglemoor overwhelmed the tremendously tired Mount Rainier squad in posting the final score. The Mount Rainier squad closed within 55-51 before a Strother goal ignited a 13-2 Inglemoor rush to the finale.

The Seattle King County Coalition on Homelessness announced today that they have completed their One Night Count of homeless people in in King County.

The program is now in its 9th year of the 10 Year Plan to End Homelessness in King County.

The count took place early this morning. The coalition expressed much appreciation to volunteers and supporters whose careful work made the Count safe, respectful, and accurate.

Note: This One Night Count does not include those people sleeping in recognized emergency shelters and campsites such as Tent Cities.

Results:

Our teams counted 3,117 men, women, and children who were outside in the small hours of the morning. This is 381 more people than our volunteers counted outside one year ago ~ a 14% increase.

Ballard Community Taskforce on Homelessness and Hunger commented on the results.

“That painfully underscores the urgent unmet need in our own backyards. People were sleeping in doorways, on sidewalks, under bridges, in their cars, on public buses, and in temporary structures and makeshift campsites.”

By Jeremy Martin

During a loud and rowdy senior night, the Highline Pirates welcomed a split squad of Evergreen/Tyee to Burien for an exciting night of Seamount league wrestling.

The Pirates, despite falling behind, came back for an exciting 42-40 victory, sending its seniors home in style following a Josh Chase pin at 138 LBS during the final match of the night.

An evening opening forfeit, followed by a lightning fast Kean Lagate pin gave the Pirates an early 18-0 advantage, but Highline’s grasp on the lead would slowly become tenuous as Evergreen/Tyee muscled it’s way back into the match.

Evergreen/Tyee pulled to within two points, narrowing the score to 18-16 following Leonard Simmons’ victory over Connor Shea at 170, but the Pirates would take control right back with a dominating performance in the very next match.

However a 24-16 lead wouldn’t hold as the teams traded top position back and forth two more times before Evergreen/Tyee’s Jamal Cortez managed a pin of Trey Thach in the 120 division, giving the visitors a 34-30 edge.

press release

Commercial real estate developers Lennar Multifamily Communities and Weingarten Realty today announced the naming of their new West Seattle mixed-use project as ‘The Whittaker’ after famed West Seattle resident and mountaineering icon Jim Whittaker.

Located at the corner of Fauntleroy Way SW and SW Alaska St. in West Seattle, ‘The Whittaker’ will include a long-awaited Whole Foods Market for West Seattle. As a six-story mixed-use development, it is slated to break ground in 2014 and will generate an anticipated 1,000 construction jobs during development along with 400 new retail jobs.

information from Southwest Seattle Historical Society

Next up in the “Words, Writers & West Seattle” series is West Seattle author Lyanda Lynn Haupt, speaking about her nature book, The Urban Bestiary: Encountering the Everyday Wild (Little Brown, 2013).

Join us at this FREE series from 4 to 6 p.m. Friday, Feb. 7, 2014, at Barnes & Noble Westwood Village. From each purchase, our organization receives 10 percent of proceeds under the Barnes & Noble Bookfair program.
The Urban Bestiary coverIn “The Urban Bestiary,” acclaimed nature writer Lyanda Lynn Haupt journeys into the heart of the everyday wild, where coyotes, raccoons, chickens, hawks and humans live in closer proximity than ever before.

Haupt’s observations bring compelling new questions to light: Whose “home” is this? Where does the wild end and the city begin? And what difference does it make to us as humans living our everyday lives?

Q13 FOX reporter and on-air personality Kate Yeager will be the master of ceremonies at this year’s Gifts From The Earth fundraiser event at South Seattle Community College on Jan. 25, 2014. Q13 FOX is a news partner with the West Seattle Herald.

In addition to her duties as a feature/tech reporter for the Q13 Fox Morning Show, Yeager has a long history as a host and producer for Microsoft’s Xbox Live and Inside Xbox. She has also worked as an associate producer for E! in Los Angeles.

Gifts From The Earth is South’s largest annual fundraiser event, with proceeds benefiting South’s Foundation in its mission to provide support for students with scholarships, program equipment, tutoring, emergency funding and more.

Festivities for the sold-out event include live and silent auctions and a multi-course meal created by fifteen celebrity chefs, paired with wines from sixteen Washington wineries. Students from South’s Culinary Arts, Northwest Wine Academy and four-year Hospitality BAS programs help produce the event.

The annual 2014 White Center Community Summit is set for Saturday, March 1st from 10am-2pm at Mt. View Elementary School at 10811 12th Avenue S.W.

The theme for this year’s summit is “White Center: Past, Present and Future” where we will explore and hear stories about how great things formed in White Center, what new things we have here now and plan with us how to keep White Center a growing place for the future. All attendees that register will receive a free I Heart White Center t-shirt, lunch, and an opportunity to have family pictures taken by a professional photographer.

Registration and breakfast begins at 9 a.m. Organized by the White Center Community Development Association (CDA), this is a family event with workshops for youths and adults as well as free child care.

West Seattle environmental activist Judy Pickens understands that sometimes it's hard to do good.

She's been working in the Fauntleroy neighborhood of West Seattle for years as a steward of Fauntleroy Creek. But she's had a larger project in mind for some time now, the removal of invasive species from Kilbourne Ravine, a 59,000 square foot area of steep slopes, trees and a lot of vegetation. The project took shape last year as she got grants to help fund the work but she's hit roadblocks with the Department of Planning and Development due to the wording of the current Environmentally Critical Area ordinance. Now she hopes to have "boots on the ground" in June. The work, being done in association with Seattle Parks, will be done by Earth Corps trainees and the project is expected to take six years to complete.

Here’s an update on Land Use applications in Ballard area from Seattle Development and Planning Department.

There are three applications and two approvals. According to the DPP, your comments on proposed land use actions must be submitted in writing to the Public Resource Center either by email to prc@seattle.gov, by fax to (206) 233-7901, or by mail to:

Department of Planning and Development
ATTN: Public Resource Center or Assigned Planner
700 Fifth Ave, Ste 2000
P.O. Box 34019
Seattle, WA 98124-4019

Please include the project, project address, and your mailing address with your comment.

Applications:

For 2031 N.W. 60th St. there is an application to subdivide the site into two unit lots. The construction of residential units are under Project #6378346. This subdivision of property is only for the purpose of allowing sale or lease of the unit lots. Development standards will be applied to the original parcel and not to each of the new unit lots. The property is zones as LOWRISE 1, LOWRISE 2, URBAN VILLAGE OVERLAY, AIRPORT HEIGHT DISTRICT.

By Marjorie Young

To the overwhelming joy of so many in the region, the Seattle Seahawks are Super Bowl bound! The NFC Championship game against the San Francisco Forty-Niners was a true nail-biter, the outcome decided in the final seconds. Without doubt, myriad fans did more than simply cheer their team on; they carried out many a good-luck ritual to insure their victory. My friend Ann wore her lucky sweater. A neighbor refuses to change socks until the Hawks win it all. I’m hardly above such goings on. I habitually do not watch any sporting event if I am a fan of either side… believing if I do, bad luck will befall my heroes. In other words, I’ll ‘jinx’ them.