August 2014

By Tim Clinton
SPORTS EDITOR

VANCOUVER--District 7/Pac West dropped its first two games coming out of the gate at the Junior Little League Western Regional all-star age 13-14 baseball tournament being played at Kindsfather Field.

The Burien-based team was shut out by the Arizona state champion Nogalas National team by a 10-0 score in a 9 a.m. Thursday game after opening with a 12-2 defeat at the hands of the Southern California champions from Manhattan/Hermosa Beach on Tuesday afternoon.

Pac West came in as the Washington champions after winning the state tournament, which was also played in Vancouver.

Pac West has two games left in round-robin play at the Western Regional.
The squad will take on the Nevada state champion Centennial Little League team from Sparks at 3 p.m. Friday before facing the host East County Little League team from Washougal at 6 p.m. Sunday.

Semifinal play follows for the top four seeds out of round-robin action at 10 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. Monday. The third-place consolation games takes place at 1 p.m. Tuesday with the one-game championship at 4 p.m. Tuesday.

In response to Metro Bus route 61 set to be cut this fall, the Sunset Hill Community Association (SHCA) wrote Councilmember Larry Phillips and King County Executive Dow Constantine a letter requesting the route cut be reconsidered.

In the letter, SHCA argued that Route 61 is the only off peak transit service for Sunset Hill residents for midday, a.m. peak northbound, p.m. peak southbound, nights and weekends.

If 61 is eliminated the only remaining route to downtown would be the 17 express in the morning and from downtown in the afternoon. 


Another issue addressed in the letter was parking and how eliminating a key bus route would exacerbate parking in Ballard.


“As I'm sure you are aware, parking in Ballard is becoming very difficult. Route 61 enables Sunset Hill residents to travel to/from Ballard by transit thus avoiding a car trip, and having to search for a hard-to-find parking space,” wrote Thomas Friedman, 
Public Affairs Chair of SHCA.

Discovery Shop
4535 California Ave. S.W.
206 937 7169
We've worked to find specials to share with you and present, at 40% off regular price, Thirsty Thursday, August 7, offering anything you can drink from (and we invite you to practice creativity), Full Moon special on August 10 for any item of your choice and White Wednesday on August 13 for any white clothing. Plus, check out our Vintage Finds for a unique gift or special addition to your home, half price if it has a yellow tag as is every yellow tagged item in the shop. We think of you with our specials and hope you think of us when you shop, donate and volunteer at our shop as all our profits fund cancer cure research. The all volunteer run, nonprofit American Cancer Society shop is open Sundays 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. and all other days 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

2014 West Seattle Outdoor Movies
4410 California Ave. S.W.
Between Hotwire Coffee & Dr. Wolff

If the name Rat-faced McDougal means nothing to you, you may not be a flyfisherman. If it does, you may know it was once ‘fly of the week’ and that it was tied by a Harry and Elsie Darby or Roscoe, N.Y. many years ago. True flyfishers relish this sort of knowledge.

Still no frame of reference? That’s okay. Because you can learn about the Rat-Faced McDougal, Brad’s Brat, the Skykomish Sunrise, the Green Butt Skunk and and even the Egg-Sucking Leech when you visit the new flyfishing adventure shop, Emerald Water Anglers at 42nd and Oregon SW in West Seattle.

Opened just two weeks ago, the shop features high-quality gear for the adventure flyfisher. That is the top dressing of the shop. What lies beneath is an interest in guiding people seeking an flyfishing adventure here, there and everywhere.

The company was started 15 years ago by Dave McCoy, a West Seattleite who had a passion for flyfishing. He began by offering guide services. He gathered other like-minded young men and women and was taking trips with clients to places like Belize, Hawaii, Honduras, the Olympic Peninsula and other exotic locales in pursuit of fishes that bite flies.

By Tim Clifford

Ambush by man with shotgun
Just after midnight on July 25 police received multiple calls from the 1000 block of S. Director St. that a man was being held at gunpoint by another man with a shotgun. A later call would update police with the identities of the suspect and victim as well as inform them of a gunshot being heard.

When police arrived at the scene with a S.W.A.T. unit they immediately made contact with the victim. The victim told police that as he was walking to his truck parked on the 1000 block of S. Henderson St. the suspect jumped out of some nearby bushes with a shotgun. Pointing the gun at the victim the suspect took him back to his backyard (the suspect lived only a few hundred feet away). After talking to the victim the suspect released him and fired a “warning shot” into the air.

During the interview process police figured out that the victim was lying about his name. When police finally got the victim’s real name they discovered that there were multiple warrants out for his arrest and he was arrested at the scene.

By Kyra-lin Hom

Ladies, tell me if this sounds familiar. You spend hours in the gym a week. You buy the workout tapes. You attend the yoga or Pilates classes and do all the proper stretches. You follow your nutrition plan to the letter…

… And then you go to open a jar only to find some unholy powers have all but super-glued it shut.
Then out of the dark, dank depths of some windowless basement comes a male friend. He might have moved a box or walked up a flight of stairs at some point in the last week. But suddenly, like the mythic sword in the stone, with a quick, effortless twist of his wrist, the jar and lid part magically beneath his hands.

…And you resist the urge to yank the jar back and clock him upside the head with it.

By Tim Clinton
SPORTS EDITOR

VANCOUVER--Pac West showed why it is one of the best teams in the West when it won, 2-0, over Centennial Little League of Sparks, Nev. on Friday.

The shutout win gave the District 7 and Washington state champions a 1-2 record at the Junior League Western Regional all-star baseball tournament being played at Kindsfather Field in Vancouver.

Burien-based Pac West had opened with a 12-2 loss to Southern California champion Manhattan/Hermosa Beach on Tuesday before taking a 10-0 loss to Arizona champion Nogalas National on Thursday.

Now it is aiming to break even in the round robin portion of the tournament when it plays host East County Little League of Washougal at 6 p.m. Sunday.

The top four round-robin finishers go on to the state semifinals to be played at 10 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. Monday.
Monday's winners play for the Western Regional championship at 4 p.m. Tuesday following the third-place game at 1 p.m.

Tonight's West Seattle outdoor movie is the romantic comedy Sleepless in Seattle starring Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan.

Directed by the late Nora Ephron, Sleepless which was shot largely in Seattle of course was inspired by the 1957 film An Affair to Remember and used both its theme song and clips from the film in critical scenes.

The climactic meeting at the top of the Empire State Building is a reference to a reunion between Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr in that famous film.

This Saturday, the charity is the Loghouse Museum. Westside Dermatology is donating $203 worth of skin care and a gift certificate for a 60-minute facial, which has a $109 value. Plus, gift cards from Pagliacci Pizza, Leo Smith Architects, and Dr. Heidi Horwitz.

Cast:

• Tom Hanks as Sam Baldwin
• Meg Ryan as Annie Reed
• Bill Pullman as Walter
• Ross Malinger as Jonah Baldwin
• Rosie O'Donnell as Becky
• Gaby Hoffmann as Jessica
• Victor Garber as Greg
• Rita Wilson as Suzy

By Chef Jeremy McLachlan

You may consider yourself an upstanding citizen, but like the rest of us, I know that you have probably picked blackberries from somebody's else's land! Whether you are walking through your favorite park, jumping into the neighbor's yard or stopping on the side of the road, everyone knows what you have done! Wild blackberries are one of the last free things on this planet (besides air), and no one ever questions what those people on the side of the road are looking for in the bushes this time of year. (It's even more understandable now that blackberries top the list for bioflavonoids in a study that food blogger Kathy Kingen highlights in her Berry Juicy News.)