August 2014

Ink-addicts are sure to swoon at an opportunity to show off and celebrate their permanent peregrinations of expression at the Seattle Tattoo Expo.

The expo is set to celebrate its 13th annual event August 15 to 17 at the Fisher Pavilion at the Seattle Center.

“This signature Seattle event is a colorful, loud, fun way to spend one of our beautiful Northwest weekends,” says Gloria Connors, Founder and Producer of the Seattle Tattoo Expo. “We love seeing both the familiar and new faces each year, and can’t wait for another one.”

Ballard’s Slave to the Needle and Rabid Hands will have a few of their artists showing off their skills while tattooing clients.

The event will feature art contests, music and burlesque entertainment. The main attraction is artists showing off their skills. The expo attracts artists from all over the world. Some of this year’s artists include Damon Conklin of Super Genius Tattoo (Seattle, WA); Shawn Barber of Memoir Tattoo (Los Angeles, CA); Big Gus of Big Gus Ink (Hesperia, CA); and Jeff Gogue of Off the Map Tattoo – Northwest (Grants Pass, OR).

Seattle holds high standards for sushi. In this city you can encounter places that offer the purist experience at $250 a head or patrons can venture a hole in the wall dive offering “crispy” and “spicy” rolls deluging with sauce.

Bento Sushi (8501 15th Ave N.W.) leans more toward the latter, however, diners should not let that stop them from trying the tasty cheap eats offered.

The sushi menu offers a broad selection of preparations, and prices hang close to $6 for an 8-piece roll. Sauce heavy, Americanized favorites like the Spider, Dragon and the Philly Roll are offered, but Lee switches it up with not so “fishy” rolls like the Beef Teriyaki Roll and Crispy Chicken Roll. More over, Lee said that the Seattle Roll, made with apples, carrots, cucumber and sesame seeds is a house favorite. Staying true to the “hole-in-the-wall village sushi shop” -- as one online reviewer put it – the prices rarely breach $10, making it a perfect stop for lunch. They also have outdoor seating.

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Southwest Suburban Sewer District Board of Commissioners

Regular meetings are held on the First and Third Tuesdays of each month at 6:30 p.m. at the district office located at 431 S.W. Ambaum Boulevard, Burien, WA. Contact number: 206-244-9575.

August B-Town Beat

Downtown Burien
Thurs., Aug. 7, 6-9pm. Each Burien business participating with visual art will host an artist. This free event is held every first Thursday of the month. The B-Town Beat is an independent not-for-profit organization formed in 2013 with the mission of supporting the development of arts, economic stability and community in Burien. www.b-townbeat.com / www.facebook.com/BTownBeat

SeaTac Music in the Park Summer Concert Series

By Matt Wendland

King County Sheriff’s deputy wounds suspected Burglar in SeaTac

Seniors helping seniors

By: Betty Rose Cortes

Every third or fourth Wednesday of the month, Normandy Park residents at Fernwood at the Park turn their “Fieldtrip Day” into a “Giving Day” by extending a generous gesture to the residents at St. Martin de Porre Men’s Shelter on Alaskan Way in Seattle.

Since June, the senior residents have dedicate their last Wednesday of the month to making 300 sandwiches for the shelter, which provides warm meals, clothing and housing for homeless men 50 and older. For the residents, this is just an added bonus to their already fun-filled Wednesday schedule.

“It is a lot of fun and it went by very quickly,” Fernwood resident Nancy Reddekopp said, “It’s a good time to be social, too.”

By Scott Anthony

With four police cars and a dedicated sign saying, ‘Accident Investigation’, I knew the accident on Military Road was messy.

I peeled off to take a side road and the detour took me past the other side of the crash scene. In the distance I could see a motorcycle on it’s side and I silently sent out an affirmation for the well being of the rider as I turned off for the house. Mrs. Anthony came home shortly afterwards and together we took the dogs for a walk through the neighborhood. I tugged my dog up a side road and Mrs. A followed with her dog and soon we were at the accident scene again. I snapped a pic to send to my editor and Mrs. A asked a lady bystander what had happened. “Guy on the motorcycle couldn’t stop… I guess… got tangled up with that gold colored car. They airlifted him to Harborview, he was conscious.”

(Bellevue) – The Washington State Patrol Criminal Investigation Division (CID) is seeking the public’s assistance in their investigations of three collisions which occurred in the Seattle area over Seafair weekend.

Detectives often receive valuable information from witnesses who might have been nearby or seen the vehicles involved just before the crash, even if they didn’t witness the event itself.

The first case is a motorcycle fatality collision that occurred on August 2. The collision occurred in the northbound lanes of Interstate-5 south of State Route 599 in Tukwila at approximately 4:47 PM.

If you saw anything or have any information about this collision please contact Detective Russell Haake at 425-401-7717 or Russ.Haake@wsp.wa.gov.

Detectives are also investigating a serious injury collision that occurred the next day, on August 3. The one car serious injury collision occurred in the northbound lanes of Interstate-5 at Lake City Way (milepost 170) at approximately 3:09 AM.

The playground updates for Pathfinder K-8 are finally seeing some more momentum. Here's an update provided by Holli Margelli.

"The Pathfinder Playground Revamp was awarded the Seattle Department of Neighborhoods Matching Fund large grant. Thanks to the City of Seattle’s Department of Neighborhoods for helping us really get the ball rolling with our new design. Our playground is now 40% funded, and our fundraising team has kicked into gear to help us get the rest of the way there.

August Paint Party:

August 21st the playground is getting a little facelift in preparation for our new design. With a Capital One $4,000 grant for the school, we are having a work party to do projects all over the school–and the playground is one of them. That means we can get started painting the braided stream and adding new features like a labyrinth and accurate US map. The four-squares, hopscotch and old markings will be refreshed too.

The latest in a series of benefit events for the upcoming Delridge Grocery, is set for Aug. 9 at the Skylark.

The event will feature Midnight Idols (metal music at its best), Kings of Cavalier and Wrecking Yard with the music beginning at 8pm.

It's $5 at the door.

The Skylark is located at 3803 Delridge Way SW.

Sports Watch
Aug. 6-13

Junior football
Four area youth football programs have training camps underway in the area.
The SWAC Cougars meet at the Southwest Athletic Complex at 5:30 p.m. each weekday and the West Seattle Wildcats start at 5 p.m. at the Hiawatha Playfield.
Burien's Bearcats converge at 5:30 p.m. at the old Glacier High School site and the Pacific Highway Chargers start at 6 p.m. at Chinook Middle School.
See the respective program web pages for information, including continued tryouts.

Mariners
Seattle gets a 12:40 p.m. visit from the Atlanta Braves Wednesday before hosting the Chicago White Sox at 7:10 p.m. Thursday and Friday.
Saturday's action against Chicago starts at 6:05 p.m. and Sunday's at 1:10 p.m.
The Toronto Blue Jays come to Safeco Field for three important games with Wildcard playoff berth implications at 7:10 p.m. Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.
Mariners games can be seen on ROOT Sports cable television and heard on 710 AM.

Rainiers