August 2014

By Ed Shepherd
SPORTS CORRESPONDENT

Tick, tick, tick...
It's time for the SWAC Cougars to play ball after they began practicing back on July 28.

They are getting ready to host the Greater Seattle Youth Football League's Jamboree on Sunday, Aug. 24 before the CD Panthers come to Chief Sealth High School for the first game of the season Sept. 6.

Seniors coach Shon Sweet leads the group of players who mostly were together winning a Juniors division championship last season, beating the Kent Cobras, 19-18. But one learns from talking to him that there's a lot more to be learned in football than just winning the championship.

"We want to teach these kids about winning in life," said Sweet, who coached as an assistant on that Virgil Riley coached Juniors champion team.

Riley's been coaching SWAC a long time, 17 years, and he turned the reins of the Juniors over to another coach and stepped in under Sweet this season as an assistant on the Seniors team.

One Purpose Chiropractic www.http://onepurposechiropractic.com is a little like an oasis. It’s a calm, nicely designed and surprisingly large facility located on the second floor of a building on the northwest side of Westwood Village.

For the last four years it’s been the office for Lisa Grasman D.C. But her husband works in Alaska and she’s been aiming at making a transition to the town of Wasilla Alaska for the past few months.

Enter Tom Williamson D.C. He’s been looking to transition from his own Georgetown Clinic too. As doctors do they talked and found that their mutual transitions would work out well for both of them.

So, effective this September, One Purpose Chiropractic will be Dr. Williamson’s home base.

When Luna Park Cafe owner John Bennett opened the restaurant 25 years ago at 2918 SW Avalon Way he admits, he didn't have a clue as to how to run a restaurant. "I had the building next door (now a coffee shop), and I was running Jukebox City out of it but I was out of room. So I called the owner of the building here and asked if he wanted to sell. He said, 'Hell yes I want to sell,' because the tavern here, Pat and Ron's hadn't paid rent for six months and the apartments were run down and the scene of a lot of illegal activity Bennett explained.

So, he took on the task of creating the restaurant and his first partner, Sandra suggested borrowing the name from the amusement park that existed at Duwamish Head around the turn of the century. "It took us like half the time to figure out that we need to hire professionals," he said chuckling.

He already had a lot of memorabilia, acquired during his forays to find Jukeboxes a business he created. One of them is still central to the cafe's theme of retro wonderfulness.

By Ed Shepherd
SPORTS CORRESPONDENT

Seatac Sharks Junior Football is about hitting and tackling and throwing and catching and running, and, cheerleaders cheering.

But under that skin of what was a 2013 Sweet Peas championship and a Juniors runner-up finish is the community of it all as franchise president, Clarence Presley, explained.

"We are trying to build a relationship with others around us," said Presley, mentioning Teri McMahon, who is involved with Highline schools, and Lyn Higginbotham, who is team president of another area Junior Football League franchise, the Burien Bearcats. "Highline has one of the highest free and reduced lunch programs in the state, so that speaks of the economy in this area."

Presley wants people to understand all the fundraising and getting fields and everything is hard work, and likes the other sports in the Fall that are getting its players' locations to play. However, Presley also wants football able to share that field fun, too, in complementary fashion.

By Joan Casanova

Warm weather, continued care and robust plants have yielded a bounty of beautiful, fresh vegetables – and personal satisfaction – from your garden this season. As the weather cools and fall approaches, it is not time to hang up your hat, gloves and trowel for the year. Autumn provides optimum weather and ample opportunity to keep growing and harvesting delicious, healthy produce well into the season.

Some gardeners assume that when fall arrives and kids return to school, they’ll have less time to garden, and may experience less success from their garden plots. But cooler temperatures and fall conditions can actually make gardening easier and more enjoyable. Many of fall’s best-producing vegetables are also colorful, making them great additions to flower beds and containers.

If you loved summer gardening, you can keep your garden growing right through fall. Here’s how to make the most of fall season gardening:

Size up the soil

By Joan Casanova

Warm weather, continued care and robust plants have yielded a bounty of beautiful, fresh vegetables – and personal satisfaction – from your garden this season. As the weather cools and fall approaches, it is not time to hang up your hat, gloves and trowel for the year. Autumn provides optimum weather and ample opportunity to keep growing and harvesting delicious, healthy produce well into the season.

Some gardeners assume that when fall arrives and kids return to school, they’ll have less time to garden, and may experience less success from their garden plots. But cooler temperatures and fall conditions can actually make gardening easier and more enjoyable. Many of fall’s best-producing vegetables are also colorful, making them great additions to flower beds and containers.

If you loved summer gardening, you can keep your garden growing right through fall. Here’s how to make the most of fall season gardening:

Size up the soil

By Ed Shepherd
SPORTS CORRESPONDENT

With one year under their belt in the Greater Seattle Youth Football League, the Pacific Highway Chargers hope to command a little more attention this season from its foes in its respective divisions, Pee Wees, 89ers, Juniors and Seniors.

They practice at Chinook High School Monday through Friday from 6-8 p.m. until the opening Jamboree this Sunday at Chief Sealth High School.
The season starts Sept. 6 against Kent at French Field and the first home game is Sept. 21 against SWAC of West Seattle at Highline Stadium.
"This is our second year in existence, and all of our numbers are pretty maxed out," said Chargers president Donald Wallace.

"Pretty maxed out" is a good way of putting it, with two divisions -- Pee Wees and Seniors -- with closed rosters and the other two divisions approaching those filled-up numbers, too.

Two years ago, Wallace created the Chargers franchise from having coached in the Burien Bearcats' organization a few years in a row.
Wallace just wanted to do things differently, go out on his own, and put into reality what he felt could happen with a lot of hard work.

Seattle Mayor Ed Murray’s ‘Find It, Fix It’ Community Walk, focused on several crime hotspots, makes its way to a sixth neighborhood in Seattle on Monday, Aug. 25.

At the walks, community residents, police, and city officials walk together to identify physical disorder and solve it. As a result of these walks, Seattle City Light, the Seattle Department of Transportation, the Department of Planning and Development, and Seattle Public Utilities have worked – and continue to work – to make improvements in Seattle’s neighborhoods. Watch videos, view photos and read actions taken as a result of these walks at: http://murray.seattle.gov/finditfixit

The next Find It, Fix It Community Walk:
Monday, Aug. 25, 7 – 8:30 p.m.
NE 125th & 30th St NE
Meet at the Lake City Mini Park (Map)

7 – 7:15 p.m.
Short program featuring Mayor Ed Murray, City Councilmember Bruce Harrell, Sen. David Frockt, Seattle Chief of Police Kathleen O’Toole, and department representatives.

7:15 – 8:30 p.m.
Walk commences along the following route:
· Head East on on NE 125th
· North on 33rd Ave NE
· West on NE 130th St
· South on 30th Ave NE

The Department of Planning and Development announced pending land use applications today. One application is for a property subdivision into five unit lots. The other application asks to change a retail space into a drinking establishment. In addition, there is also an appeal for an AT&T antenna project.

Applications:

10434 8TH AVE NW:

Land Use Application to subdivide one development site into five unit lots. The construction of residential units are under Project #6383289. This subdivision of property is only for the purpose of allowing sale or lease of the unit lots. Development standards will be applied to the original parcel and not to each of the new unit lots.

7003 3RD AVE NW:

Land Use Application to change the use of 734 sq. ft. of an existing building from retail to a drinking establishment.

The following approvals are required:
Administrative Conditional Use to allow a drinking establishment in an SF5000 zone.

A special musical treat direct from North Norway is in store for Pacific Northwest residents in September. The Hålogaland Mandssangforening, one of the most outstanding men’s choruses from near the Lofoten Islands in North Norway, will present three area concerts. The chorus will perform a concert in Seattle at Ballard First Lutheran Church at 7:00 PM Wednesday, September 10 (sponsored and joined by the Norwegian Male Chorus of Seattle). Tickets available at the door: $10 per person.

Where: Ballard First Lutheran Church (2006 NW 65th St, Seattle 98117)
When: Wednesday, September10, 2014, 7:00 PM

Hålogaland Mandssangforening (Hålogaland Male Chorus Association) is a collaborative chorus of 39 singers representing eight different municipalities north of the Lofoten Islands in North Norway. The dedicated singers come together for practices from a widespread geographic area: Kvæfjord, Harstad, Målselv, Narvik, Andøy, Tjeldsund, Evenes, and Balsfjord, and are visiting the Pacific Northwest for the first time.