February 2014

By Tim Clinton
SPORTS EDITOR

Shorewood Christian slammed its way into the semifinals of the Northwest 1B Tri-District boys basketball tournament, defeating Grace Academy by a 47-34 score Tuesday.

The win lifted the West Seattle-based team to within one win of next week's state regional tournament action, with the first crack at the berth coming in a 3 p.m. Thursday semifinal against Tulalip Heritage in the Mount Vernon Christian gymnasium.

The winner advances to Saturday's 6 p.m. Tri-District championship game at Mount Vernon Christian, while the loser gets dumped into a loser-out, winner-to-regionals game at 4:30 p.m. Friday at Mount Vernon Christian.

Friday's winner plays for third and fourth place at 2:30 p.m. Saturday, also at Mount Vernon Christian.
Jordan King led the way to victory in Tuesday's game played at Mount Rainier High School in Des Moines, swishing in 17 points.

Stan Domingo was next with 11 points.

The Shorewood Christian girls team, meanwhile, dropped into the loser's bracket with a 48-37 loss at the Muckleshoot Tribal School on Tuesday.

information from SLHS

Seattle Lutheran High School Saint Football is not over for Grant Doerr ’14 and Jacob Fincher ’14. Both students were nominated for The National Football Foundation & College Hall of Fame Scholar-Athlete Award given to student athletes who exhibit academic, leadership and football talent.

Schools in King County may nominate a senior lineman and a senior back/receiver for these awards; four finalists are selected for each. Doerr was selected as a finalist in the Back/Receiver category.

Doerr and Fincher will be honored Sunday, February 23, 2014 at Century Link Field in the West Club Lounge at 10:00 am.

By Gerardo Bolong

Kennedy Catholic and Highline High School individuals captured state qualifying positions for the Feb. 21-21 gymnastics tournament at the Tacoma Dome Exhibition Hall after Feb. 15th competition of the Class 3A/2A WCD III district meet at Mount Rainier High School.

Leading the Highline School District state qualifiers was Danielle Carnahan of Kennedy Catholic who earned an individual state qualifying position No. 1 and district position of a seventh place tie at 7.55 on the balance beam plus a state qualifying position of No. 2 and district placing of seventh at 9.15 on the floor exercise.

"The floor was my best and I had a better bar routine," said Lancer Carnahan. "There's still a little room for me to add elements to my routines before state. I'm excited for the floor, especially, at state. My tumbling was strong and I'm looking to put in add ons for more points at state."

Besides praising Carnahan, Kennedy Catholic head coach Kim Katzenberger also praised Lancer non qualifiers on the floor exercise.

WHEN: Thursday, February 20th at 8:30 AM (rain or shine)

WHO: Tenants of the Lockhaven Apartments; Seattle City Councilmember Nick Licata, Joshua Koritz, representing Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant; Sharon Lee, Executive Director of the Low Income Housing Institute (to be confirmed); tenant from the Theodora Apartments in Ravenna, Seattle.

WHAT: Tenants facing displacement after the Lockhaven’s sale to Goodman Real Estate will hold a press conference at the Lockhaven Apartments, speaking about their 6-month struggle to save their homes and their plans for future action to maintain Lockhaven as one of Ballard's last bastions of market-rate affordable housing for workers, seniors, and people with disabilities.

WHERE: Lockhaven Apartments in Ballard, near the flagpole just east of 3038 NW Market St., Seattle, WA 98107

VISUALS: Tenants will hold a large banner and signs; photo opportunities in apartments and on grounds of Lockhaven. Media tour of Lockhaven to follow press conference with interview opportunities.

Friday, Feb. 14
Boys basketball
Enumclaw 59, Kennedy 57
Kennedy Catholic settled for the No. 2 seed out of the Seamount/South Puget Sound League sub-regional tournament with Friday's road loss.
Michael Sasonoff led the Lancers with 24 points as AJ McGrew scored 14, Parker Diller 10 and James Jolly seven.
JFK goes on to play a 6 p.m. West Central District game Tuesday at Rogers High School in Puyallup. The winner plays at 6 p.m. next Friday at Rogers and the loser plays at 7:45 p.m. Friday at Washington High School.
Steilacoom 58, Foster 43
The Bulldogs came up short in Friday's battle for the Seamount/SPSL sub-district's No. 7 seed, settling for the No. 8 spot into the West Central District tournament. They were set to open districts Monday.

Girls basketball
Aub.-Mtn. 50, Kennedy 42
The JFK girls also lost their sub-district championship game to advance as the No. 2 seed to district.
Kennedy opens WCD play Wednesday at 6 p.m. at Clover Park High School.
The winner plays another 6 p.m. game at Clover Park on Friday and the loser plays at 7:45 p.m. Friday at Franklin Pierce.

Saturday, Feb. 15
Girls basketball
Mt. Rainier 61, Tahoma 37

An anonymous tip came in today that shows a car2go vehicle vandalized outside the Sunset West Condominiums on Seaview Avenue Northwest. The photo was taken yesterday morning. It appears the vandals wrote "Go Home," on the vehicle and there is damage to the hood and mirrors. The Ballard News Tribune is looking into the incident for more details.

By Gerardo Bolong

Flowers on Valentine's Day provided heartfelt excitement in SeaTac.
With freshman sisters Zareya and Zakeya Flowers spearheading the quickness of their six-person squad on both sides of the court, the Tyee girls basketball team planted a 67-41 defeat on visiting Washington (Tacoma) to capture the Class 2A sub-district seventh seed to the bi-district tournament.

Tyee (13-6) moved on to a 1 p.m. loser-out opener against Olympic in a Monday match up at Curtis High School.

"we just lost back to back games for the first time all season," said first-year Totem head coach Amanda Segerman. "Tonight, they came out strong. This has been a building season and I'm proud of their progress. They have a lot of heart and are really trusting each other. I'm happy to see them smile out there."

In the first quarter, Tyee opened up in high gear, constantly stealing the ball and literally running away with the game. great accuracy on outside shooting, especially from beyond the three-point arc as the Totems established a 17-6 lead and finished the quarter ahead, 21-7.

By Peggy Sturdivant

Helen Dixon’s daughter Jan opened the door to me. “Somebody wants to interview mom,” I’d heard one sister call to another when I first set up our meeting.

“What do you want to know?” Helen Dixon asked me after we’d all introduced ourselves.

“Anything you’re willing to tell me,” I replied.

As far as Helen Dixon is concerned there has been an awful lot of fuss over her most recent birthday, with such a stream of visitors, “That by afternoon it was getting a bit tiresome.”

Helen Dixon is 100 years old. What’s so special about that? Still a neighbor has contacted the publisher, the publisher has contacted me, and her daughters have allowed me into the corner house just above Salmon Bay Park where the family has lived since 1948.

By Gerardo Bolong

In a strong throng of excellent athletes, a pair of Ram gymnasts bounded their way to the state gymnastics meet in the Tacoma Dome Exhibition Hall (Feb. 21-22) after qualifying action at the 4A West Central / Greater Spokane Bi-District state qualifying meet held on Feb. 15th at the Mount Rainier High School gym.

Ava Welch led the way for the Rams with a fifth place 34.95 in the all around which made her a No. 3 state qualifier after members of the state qualifying teams were factored out of the equation. The Ram gymnast was a tie for second place winner on the vault (9.35), a seventh place winner on the balance beam (8.8), 14th on the uneven parallel bars (7.825) and 22nd on the floor exercise (8.975).

"It was super exciting for me to qualify on the all-around," said a happy Welch. "I've never competed on more than two events at state. I had a lot of adrenaline on the vault and had a lot of block (height) off the vault table. On the bars I was able to cast higher. I'll add some things to my different routines."

By Katy Wilkens, MS, RD

Nothing says winter meals quite like heart-healthy dishes made with beans. They have been the staple carrying people through the winter for thousands of years. Slow cooking really develops beans’ flavor. If you use dried instead of canned beans, you can avoid lots of unhealthy salt, which is bad for your heart and kidneys.
I have been making the following bean soup for almost 40 years. A recipe from a good friend, it is one of my go-to meals on a cold wintry day. A slow cooker makes possible a healthy end-of-workday meal of beans.

The second recipe below will brighten up your winter meal with thoughts of sunshine and warm breezes. Whole cumin and coriander seeds give a nutty, earthy flavor to a Mexican bean chalupa.
You can buy packages of mixed beans for soup in most grocery stores, so no need to buy a pound bag of each type. Tailor the kind of beans depending on your preferences. Sometimes I substitute black-eyed peas or heirloom bean varieties, like Appaloosa or Christmas lima beans, available at bulk food stores.

Polly’s six-bean soup
½ cup large white beans