February 2014

Now installed and complete, Luna Girls, the cast iron sculpture by artist Lezlie Jane celebrates West Seattle's history. It portrays three female bathing beauties, all in bathing suits from the early 20th century sitting on life preservers. The art celebrates the history of Luna Park, a 12 acre amusement park built at Alki in 1907. At low tide pilings for the park are still visible. It closed in 1913 but its swimming pools remained open until 1931.

It is located atop a small knoll, just north of Salty's at Alki restaurant on Harbor Ave. S.W.

The work was funded by private donations.

You can learn more about it on the website for the project. http://www.lunagirlsonalki.com/Luna_Girls_on_Alki/Welcome.html

Update from the Seattle Animal Shelter, April 9th

We did receive several tips, but none of them led us to the previous whereabouts of Penny. Here are a couple updates on Penny, the American Bully.

· We received many tips about Penny and each of those tips was investigated fully.
· At this time, we still don’t know where Penny had been before she was found on the 8600 block of 8th Ave SW
· After a week with the vet, Penny recovered and was adopted! She now has a loving family with another dog to share her time with.
· The $5,000 reward is still available, so please call 206-386-4288 with any tips about Penny and her whereabouts before 2/20/14
Original story posted February 25th
information from the Seattle Animal Shelter

Update

The motive and context to thestabbing is now known. SPD reported that the "Preliminary investigation indicates that two men who are known to each other got into an argument. The argument escalated and the suspect produced a folding knife and stabbed the victim in the chest (the wound appeared to be."

Update:

Police are still investigating the stabbing and the motive is still unreported, however SPD believes the man that perpetrated the stabbing may have already been known by the victim. The true nature of the altercation has yet to be revealed, but look to the Ballard News-Tribune for an update.

Update:

According to Kyle Moore with Seattle Fire Department, Seattle Police Department was first to arrive on the scene and secured the area.

Moore said the victim was a 48-year-old male who was stable (conscious and talking) when they arrived and was transported to Harbor View Medical.

The victim was not moved to Swedish Hospital because the man sustained injuries considered level one trauma and SFD is only licensed with Harbor View for treatment of those types of injuries.

information from WSDOT

Drivers traveling through downtown Seattle this weekend, Friday, Feb. 28, through Sunday, March 2, should expect delays. Long sections of State Route 99 will shut down with the inspection of the Alaskan Way Viaduct, road construction and thousands of chocolate-loving runners.

Washington State Department of Transportation bridge crews will close both directions of SR 99 between Denny Way and South Spokane Street during the day Saturday, March 1, and Sunday, March 2, to inspect the viaduct. This is the first of two regularly scheduled, semiannual inspections in 2014. WSDOT will release preliminary inspection results on as soon as they are available.

Additionally, from Friday night to Sunday morning, contractor crews working for WSDOT will close both directions of SR 99 from Valley Street to the south end of the Battery Street Tunnel to start building future connections to city streets at the north portal of the SR 99 tunnel.

Finally, on Sunday morning, the Hot Chocolate 15/5k race will extend the SR 99 closure north to the Woodland Park Zoo.

Closure details

Move King County Now, a broad coalition of labor, environmental, social justice, business, and education leaders, added its endorsement of King County Council’s recent unanimous vote to place a transportation funding measure on the April ballot—and launched their campaign to approve the measure.

Prop 1, set for an April 22 vote, is intended to prevent deep service cuts to King County Metro and invest in critical improvements for city streets, rural roads, and local bridges.

“The King County Council did its job,” said Dave Freiboth, executive secretary and treasurer of the Martin Luther King County Labor Council. “Now, it’s our turn. I’m a co-chair of this campaign because of the jobs at stake, but also because our region needs a transportation system that works for everyone.”

Information provided by BHS

The Feb. 27 deadline to purchase tickets for Ballard High School's opening Night Gala for Urine Town is fast approaching.

The event occurs Thursday, March 6 to benefit Ballard High School Performing Arts.

Tickets sales:

Tickets just $45
Patron Tickets $75
Tables for 8 $360
Patron Tables for 8 $600

All tickets include dinner and reserved seating for Opening Night.

For more information, please contact Dick Lee at rjlee@seattleschools.org or
206-391-5555 or order online here.

Evening Schedule

5:00 ­
A meet and greet reception with the cast,
outside the second floor library

5:45 ­
Buffet dinner with special guest speakers and performances followed by URINETOWN: The Musical

One of the most uproariously funny musicals in recent years...

Editor's note: This is the second installment in the life saga of Cindi Rinehart, who for 24 years was the Queen of the Soap on KOMO TV. This segment is about her visit to New York as a guest of Forbes Magazine publisher Malcolm Forbes.

Later in the summer, I took some time off to go down to Los Angeles to do a pilot for Disney. But that’s another story. While I was there, I checked in with my office as I did each day. When the intern answered my call she positively screeched over the phone. “Oh I was hoping it was you! You have a gold embossed letter from someone in New York. “Open it! Open it!” I told her. Then I heard another big squeal. “OMG, Cindi, It’s a formal invitation to go to a party on Malcolm Forbes’ yacht in September and I gotta tell you it’s the most beautiful invitation I’ve ever seen!”

“You have to be kidding! Are you sure it’s for me?” “Yup,” she bubbled, “It’s for you and a guest. Are you going?” “Hell yes!!” was all I could manage.

By Peggy Sturdivant

“This is big,” I thought when I finally got a look at the old Webster School boiler. Then I heard the same message an hour later from the Treasurer of the Nordic Heritage Museum Board.

There are years I haven’t set foot in the old Webster School, and then there are weeks when I’ve been there almost every day. Ever since last year’s “Scissors for a Brush” exhibit I’ve been a member. (Member discount in the gift shop has really increased my attendance).

I was in the old school auditorium last Saturday for the reception following the memorial for Anne Marie Frodesen Murphy Steiner. One wall was lined with photographs, starting with her mother Inga’s childhood in Norway all the way through Anne Marie’s 77 years as a member of the Daughters of Norway. The room was filled with old friends but also lots and lot of cousins. Each of Anne Marie’s six children had attended grade school in the very building where Norse Home catering spread a smorgasbord for the reception.

It was obvious from the obituary, the photographs, the memories being shared that Anne Marie had lived a big life.

Boyfriend blames and beats girlfriend for alleged attack

Feb. 15 at the 8th Avenue Northwest and 52nd Street, a public disturbance was reported. A man and women were in an argument and the woman was reportedly kicking and chasing the male down the street. When officers arrived on the scene she told officers that after drinking alcohol for most of the night, on the way home a man stole her purse and threatened to rape her. When she got home her boyfriend asked her about the offender and became jealous. The boyfriend said that “if she hadn’t left on her own she never would have been threatened.” She told officers that her boyfriend had “punched her in the face” repeatedly and was later taken to the hospital.

Evicted tenant breaks into previous apartment

At 8:30 a.m. on Feb 20, the Lockhaven Union and supporters demonstrated in front of the Lockhaven buildings on Market Street (3038 NW Market St). The group was protesting the evictions and what they said is the “immoral action” by the new owner, John Goodman of Goodman Real Estate (GRE).

The demonstration i the latest action to come after Goodman purchased the property last September and gave the residents a 20-day eviction notice in order to make updates and renovations. The group says the renovations are being made to increase the rent cost of building residents. Rents have doubled. Since September, the union has tried to negotiate ways to keep the rent low and keep current residents living there. GRE met with the union and later said that they would not budge on their plans.

Lockhaven is made up of 22 buildings and 138 units. Currently just under 100 tenants live there and
all but 10 would be displaced. Moreover, two thirds of tenants would not be able to afford the new rents and would not be able to return.