The West Seattle Hi-Yu float this year, which featured an Alice in Wonderland theme (complete with a teapot that put out steam and playing card characters on board), won the Workmanship Award in the annual Seafair Torchlight Parade in downtown Seattle.
Hi-Yu's Denise Winch Davis said, "very rare and privileged honor to win an award at Torchlight."
326 possible names were submitted by the public for the new water taxis set to enter service next year for both Vashon Island and West Seattle and the King County Ferry District has narrowed them down to 11. They are hoping to get the public to vote.
The two new vessels are currently being built by All American Marine in Bellingham, WA.
The Vashon options include Sally Fox, Betty MacDonald, Lisabeula, Barbara Durham, and Lucy Gerand.
The KCFD offered these explanations:
Sally Fox fought tirelessly as a passionate advocate for passenger-only ferry service to Vashon. She organized the community and fought at the forefront of the movement to protect and expand this valuable service. Fox passed away in 2007 from esophageal cancer, but her spirit lives on through the results of her activism.
Tonight's West Seattle outdoor movie is Spice World a 1997 British-American musical comedy film directed by Bob Spiers and written by Kim Fuller and Jamie Curtis. The film stars the British pop girl group the Spice Girls who all play themselves in the film.
It's a comedy and it depicts a series of events leading up to a major concert at London's Royal Albert Hall, interspersed with dream sequences and flashbacks as well as surreal moments and humorous asides.
A swimsuit fashion show and Photo Booth are part of the event.
Bring some food, low beach chair and participate in the raffle.
Located at in the courtyard at 4410 California Ave SW by Hotwire Online Coffeehouse.
All movies start at dusk and are FREE.
Gates open at 6:30pm.
The Marine Corps Mural Team is scheduled to unveil a mural to celebrate the commencement of Marine Week Seattle and the connection between community, country and Corps. The ceremony will begin Fri., July 25 at 4p.m. at Brown Bear Car Wash located at 1800 15th Ave W.
Each Marine Week Mural is unique to its host city and is this year’s mural is intended to serve as a gift on behalf of the Marine Corps to the citizens of Seattle for their support during Marine Week. The ceremony will last approx.. 20 minutes and will feature Randy Engstrom, The Director of the Office of @rts and Culture as the guest speaker. Also in attendance will be Victor Odermat, the owner of Brown Bear Carwash, and a representative of Sherwin Williams, the donors of the paint used to craft the mural.
Local actress Jessica Martin, and Queen Anne photographer John Ulman, are recreating iconic photos of famous film stars.
“We do our best to get the wardrobe right to the best of our ability. The lighting, the poses, everything,” Martin says. This included renting a boys sized tuxedo to pull off the classic Marlene Deitrich publicity photos for the film Morocco. “I much prefer men’s formal wear to women’s now: It’s so much more comfortable!”
The whole project started several years ago when Martin was between acting jobs. To keep her creative energy flowing, she started the photo series.
“It is hard to stay inspired when you are between jobs and don’t have a lot going on. So I thought, why not go back to the people that inspired me from the beginning? I loved, loved, loved Old Hollywood and classic movies as a kid. It has been a fun challenge to channel these women as an adult. It’s also been an opportunity to educate people on these iconic women and hopefully they will go out and see their films.”
She approached fellow actor and renowned photographer Ulman to see if he would be interested in the project.
The Capitol Hill Block Party is set to kick off today, July 25 at 4 p.m. with the Shy Girls melting faces at the Main Stage.
The much anticipated music festival ends Monday, July 28 at 2 a.m., and some Ballardites plan to see the festival through until the finish.
The Ballard New-Tribune caught up with the Capitol Hill Block Party owner Jason Lajeunesse, and he shed light on the history and future of the party.
What are the origins of the Block Party?
The CHBP started pretty small. In 1993, a Capitol Hill skate shop called Crescent Downworks hosted a small block party with a skateboard street course and carnival games. The first official CHBP came in 1997 and had only one small stage on 10th between Pike and Union. The festival had a handful of DJs and five bands, including Flight to Mars and Mavis Piggott. Thrift store furniture was used to help seat the many attendees. We actually didn’t start doing three-day festivals until 2010, when several participating bands like Queens of the Stone Age and The Dead Weather couldn’t all play on the same day. We expanded to fit their schedules and the rest is history.
Tonight you can take part in another Delridge Grocery Friday Farmstand. It's a weekly event at 5435 Delridge Way SW, two doors south of the Delridge Library, from 4:30-7:30pm.
Available this week:
Come by every Friday all summer:
4:30-7:30
5435 Delridge Way SW
two doors south of the library, across the street from the Delridge Grocery future full-service grocery location
Want to be more involved?
Volunteer and take home free produce!
Help run the produce stand and take home some leftovers! It’s easy and fun, and they will provide training.
Sign up for volunteer shifts online
Join the Canning Club!
The Ballard News-Tribune staff are avid campers with a voracious appetite for action. They can be found at trailheads across the state at 4:32 a.m., waiting for the sun to rise while reading an Evel Knievel biography, sipping coffee brewed in-car using an oil funnel, a worn out map and an old tin can.
Our advertising representatives are mushroom foragers and were disappointed with the lack of morels this season, but are busy plucking berries with the bears.
The Art Department staff are most comfortable white water rafting, mud-diving and shredding trails -- risking it all for the thrill of kicking-out over fallen trees at break-neck speeds down the throat of mountain.
Jeepers! We sure do have stories to tell at the office.
Washington State is abundant with vibrant space. We can't help but have fun. If you feel like having fun with us, share your favorite photos of you camping, "risking it all" or just enjoying the environment in your own way. We will post them! Send your photos to shaneh@robinsonnews.com.
Visitors of the Ballard Boys & Girls Club will probably notice something extra special thanks to Swanson’s Nursery. A new rain garden, lush with native species and edible plants, has been added in place of a shabby grass rain garden that was in need of some attention. Swanson’s also turned a high-traffic area that once was dead grass into a parklet with a four-sided cedar bench resting on paving stones.
Indigenous flowers, grasses and edible plants were planted and a walkway was constructed, beautifying the site. Different species included Sword Fern, Grandma Grass, Chocolate Cosmos, Echinacea, blueberry and evergreen huckleberry bushes. In addition, the bed also serves as an art walk where club members' art is displayed.
The project was a collaboration between Mike Peacore, Board Member of the Boys & Girls Club and Swanson’s Nursery. Peacore wanted to create a gardening program for the kids and Swanson’s was looking for a community space to beautify as part of their new community gardening campaign called Grow with Us. The campaign was launched in the spring and is a rooted in helping community members get the most out of their garden spaces.
By Tim Clinton
SPORTS EDITOR
Evergreen High School of White Center will kick off its football season Friday, Sept. 5 with an 8 p.m. non-league game against Nathan Hale of Seattle at Highline Memorial Stadium.
The scheduled second game for Friday, Sept. 12 has been switched from Fife High School to Highline Memorial because of construction at Fife.
The action will start at either 5 p.m. or 8 p.m.
Regular Seamount League action begins Friday, Sept. 19 with a 7 p.m. home game against Hazen.
Evergreen goes to Renton Memorial Stadium to play the Renton Indians at 7 p.m. Friday, Sept. 26 and comes home to Highline Memorial to play the Highline Pirates at 8 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 3.
Evergreen returns to Renton Memorial for a 7 p.m. game against Lindbergh on Thursday, Oct. 9 and is home again playing Kennedy Catholic at 7 p.m. Friday, Sept. 17 at Highline Memorial.
The Wolverines will journey to Bainbridge Island High School for a 7 p.m. non-league game on Friday, Oct. 24 before going to Foster for 7 p.m. action Friday, Oct. 31 in Tukwila.
