May 2014

By: Christy Wolyniak

Two local coffee aficionados have made it their civic duty to educate Seattle and beyond on the finer things, especially on slowing down with an experience that has a ring of nostalgia to it.

Handlebar Coffee – a human-powered café on wheels caters pure, specialty black coffee through the streets of Seattle thanks to founders David Rothstein and Alex Johnstone, who saw a serious lack in specialty coffee carts.

“We loved the idea of coffee on the go. We always took coffee camping and we took good coffee, so we were excited about bringing this to a few places and kind of being like a flash-mob coffee shop that pops up and stirs people’s curiosity,” said Johnstone.

“Coffee facilitates community, as do small businesses and bikes, so it’s really the natural crux of who we are and a reflection of the city,” commented Rothstein on Handlebar’s beginnings.

The baristas began with what they already possessed: an avid love for coffee and the great outdoors, and some mad box-making skills thanks to high school woodshop.

The public is invited to attend the Mount View Elementary Carnival, benefiting its PTA and its sister school in Honduras.

Money raised at the carnival will go to Light of Esperanza, a non-profit that is renovating the village school in Vega Redonda, Honduras, Mount View’s sister school. A portion of the proceeds will go to the school’s PTA for the 2014-2015 school year.

The carnival will also celebrate the scholastic achievements of Mount View students throughout the school year.

“These students deserve recognition and a reward for all of their hard work,” said Reading Instructor Shoshanna Cohen. “What better way to do so than with a day of fun with the Seattle community.”

Carnival details:
• Mount View Elementary School
• 10811 12th Avenue SW, Seattle, WA 98146
• Friday, June 6
• 5-7 p.m.

Event activities include carnival games and prizes, face painting, circus acts with lessons, live music, art projects, raffle drawing, and more.

Carnival game tickets will be $0.50 per game. Many students earned free tickets at school based on good grades and behavior. Raffle tickets will be $1.

So you think you can draw!?!?

Check out “Classical Drawing - The Art of the Atelier,” the June Show at the Burien Arts Gallery, 826 S.W. 152nd St. in Olde Burien.

Drawings by the students and graduates of the Aristides Atelier at Gage Academy in Seattle are presented to illustrate how drawing provides the foundation for quality works of art.

Students come into the Atelier with what they think are the basics, many having Bachelor of Fine Arts or Master of Fine Arts degrees. They may have experience in the Gaming and Design industries. They find there is much more to learn!

Learning to draw correctly involves a thorough understanding of the use of pattern, proportion, value, line, form and volume.

By mastering these drawing skills, the artist is able to provide the viewer with an image that will convince them they are looking at a three-dimensional scene on a two-dimensional surface. Painting brings color to art, but a clear, well-composed drawing provides the base from which the magic develops!

By Matt Wendland

Drunk driver pulls over to sleep it off in Police Academy driveway
According to the Burien Police Department, a drunk driver decided to pull over for some sleep in the driveway of the Criminal Justice Training Center in the early morning hours of May 18. The Washington State Criminal Justice Training Center, often referred to simply as the “police academy” is located in the southeast corner of Burien at the intersection of 1st Avenue S. and S.W. 192nd Street. The facility is used to train law enforcement students and police from across Washington and is the location for the primary training is done for both the Burien Police Department and the King County Sheriff’s Department. Police reported that concerned citizens reported the driver of the vehicle after noticing that the man was unconscious with his truck blocking the entrance to the academy. Police arrived to find the driver heavily intoxicated. When officers ran the man’s information, they found that he was wanted for a felony warrant from previous drug charges.

Student brings unloaded handgun to Sylvester Middle School in Burien

Highline Public Schools will provide free breakfast, lunch, and snacks to children during the summer through the Simplified Summer Food Program (SSFP). Nine Highline schools will join five community organizations to serve children living in South King County.

Meals will be free to children 18 years old and younger. A child does not need to be a Highline Public Schools student to participate.

Registration is not required. There are no forms to fill out and no names are written down. Food cannot be taken off the premises.

Meal service will be at the following sites:

Location Meal Service Time Dates Day
Bow Lake Elementary
18237 42nd Ave. S.
SeaTac, WA 98188 Lunch
Snack 11:30 – 12:00
3:15 – 3:45 June 23 – Aug. 22 Mon. – Fri.
Cascade Middle
11212 10th Ave. SW.
Seattle, WA 98146 Breakfast
Lunch 8:30 – 8:55
10:45 – 11:15 June 30 – July 24 Mon. – Thur.
Chinook Middle
18650 42nd Ave. S.
SeaTac WA 98188 Breakfast
Lunch 8:00-8:30
12:00-12:30 July 7 - July 24 Mon. – Thur.
Highline High School
225 S. 152nd St.
Burien, WA 98148 Breakfast
Lunch 8:00-8:30
12:00-12:30 June 23 – July 25 Mon. – Fri.
King County Parks
1321 SW 102nd St.

Proclamation

WHEREAS, participation in a partnership combining academic and varsity athletic competition at the college level is an opportunity available to a limited number of individuals, and

WHEREAS, there is an added responsibility for the participants to balance and maintain priorities while making the experience a meaningful one, and

WHEREAS, they represent themselves, their coaches, the athletic program, the student body and their community’s college as athletes and college students while competing against teams throughout Washington, and

WHEREAS, what they accomplish in their athletic competition creates pride for their school and their community, now therefore;

By Shakira Ericksen

The current ordinance regarding tree-trimming is too vague, the new one could be the most restrictive one in the state-- if anyone could truly understand it.

The ordinance was sent back to committee for further review. Most people were not opposed to tree trimming rather they were opposed to the ordinance. Audience members asked for a simpler version, one that clearly stated when permits were needed and what permits would cost.

A public hearing was held at last Thursday’s Des Moines City Council meeting where confusion about the 47 page code was evident. Many that chose to speak could not fully articulate their objections as they found the code overly complex, unclear and confusing.

Councilmembers Melissa Musser and Bob Sheckler were strong supporters of the ordinance citing science and strenuous objection to tree topping.

Gerald Stanley Robinson, Publisher of Robinson Newspapers including the West Seattle Herald, White Center News, Ballard News Tribune and Highline Times, and Westside Weekly died today at home. He was 94.

"Jerry" Robinson began his newspaper career when he was 31 with the purchase of the White Center News. Throughout a 60-plus year career, he built one of the most successful community newspaper groups in the state, at one time employing more than 400 people.

He wrote a weekly column, "Borderlines" for many years. He wrote two books about his life and was still writing weekly until weeks before his death.
A more extensive story will be published in the future.

Gerald Stanley Robinson, Publisher of Robinson Newspapers including the West Seattle Herald, White Center News, Ballard News Tribune and Highline Times, and Westside Weekly died today at home. He was 94.

"Jerry" Robinson began his newspaper career when he was 31 with the purchase of the White Center News. Throughout a 60-plus year career, he built one of the most successful community newspaper groups in the state, at one time employing more than 400 people.

He wrote a weekly column, "Borderlines" for many years. He wrote two books about his life and was still writing weekly until weeks before his death.

A more extensive story will be published in the future.

Our news partner Q13 Fox News reported that one person was shot and killed in Monday afternoon in White Center, in the 10700 block of Myers Way South the King County Sheriff’s Office said.

Sheriff’s officers were called to the scene of a homicide around 5 p.m.

According to police, witnesses said two men were arguing about some property. The fight escalated until the man was shot.

Neither the suspect nor the victim’s identities have been released.