Holy Rosary's annual Fall celebration WestFest is back again Sept. 19-20.
The event will run from 6pm-10pm on Friday Sept. 19 and 10am-10pm on Saturday Sept. 20. Holy Rosary is located at 4139 42nd Ave SW.
The event features rides, kids games, an entertainment stage, specialty food booths, BINGO, a used book sale, a raffle, and much more.
The complete schedule and entertainment lineup will be posted when available.
What’s a kid in diapers to think?
From the time we arrive and our first toys are offered to us, very likely at least one of them will be some form of a bear. And they are always huggable and cute.
There are, of course, Teddy Bears—named for President Teddy Roosevelt (The President Fillmore “Milly Bear” was not commercially successful).
There are Paddington, Berenstain and Care Bears—not to mention Winnie the Pooh, which comes in all forms including the disturbingly named Baby’s First Pooh (I am sorry to say I am not making that up).
From one of those Toy Story movies comes Lots O’ Huggin’ Bear. Sounds a lot cuter than Lots O’ Maulin’ Bear, which is actually the more accurate behavior of your average ursine mammal.
Only later are kids informed that bears are, in fact, not good sleeping companions, and if you go nighty-night with a real one—not a toy—you are likely to wind up inside of him by morning.
Despite the fact that holiday-giving toy bears wearing graduation outfits, wedding clothes and Cupid’s bow and arrows are very popular, they are reportedly not so friendly when confronted in the wild - even when clothed.
BHS ACTIVITIES
5/11-16
Quote of the Week:
“If I read a book that costs me $20 and I get one good idea, I’ve gotten one of the greatest bargains of all time.”
~Tom Peter
Tuesday, May 12
· AP Testing
· Rotary SOM Luncheon, 12pm
Wednesday, May 13
· AP Testing
Thursday, May 14
· AP Testing
· BLT Meeting, Staff Lounge, 3pm
· PTSA Board and General Meeting, Library, 5:30/7pm
· Spring Play: Twelfth Night, PAC, 7:30 pm
Friday, May 15
· AP Testing
· Athletic Eligibility Check
· Spring Play: Twelfth Night, PAC, 7:30 pm
Saturday, May 16
· Spring Play: Twelfth Night, PAC, 7:30 pm
BHS ATHLETICS
Quote of the Week:
“Adversity cause some men to break; others break records.”
All playoff information can be found online on the Seaking District 2 website:
http://www.wiaadistrict2.com/index.php?district=2&league=0&page=17&page…
A worker at Fog Tite Meter Seal, 4819 West Marginal Way SW was injured in an industrial accident at the plant shortly after 10:45 am. Fog Tite is concrete casting company making various parts for industrial uses.
According to an employee of the plant who asked not to be identified, the worker had only been on the job for a week. He was sent over to dump concrete into a mixer. "The machine runs really fast," the employee said, " and he was tamping down on the bag, and the bag got caught and took his arm."
The employee said they had to partially dismantle the mixer to free the injured worker.
As they took the injured man to the ambulance it was visible that he had injured his wrist but no other injuries were disclosed.
The Central Ballard Residents Association met last Thursday, September 11, to discuss parking changes in Ballard.
SDOT’s Jonathan Williams and Margo Polley addressed parking and recent studies. SDOT has been doing parking studies in Ballard for the last five years, and completed one last May that determined who is parking in Ballard and where.
SDOT has been monitoring parking in Ballard through the Community Access and Parking Program, and has a goal of making parking in the commercial sector of Ballard more predictable for customers and visitors.
At the meeting, SDOT reported that the data shows that parking south of Northwest Market Street is congested after 10:00 a.m. on most days. Furthermore, areas within the core are 90 percent full for more than three hours during the day and completely full at night. Also, the current parking time limits in place are not creating vehicle turnover. Currently, on Ballard Avenue parking is often completely full after 10:00 a.m., and 20 percent of vehicles stay longer than posted time limits.
The Ballard District Council met on Wednesday, September 10, after taking a summer break in August. Topics up for discussion were the City’s budget and use of funds, parking changes in Ballard, and a presentation from Mike Stewart - Executive Director of the Ballard Chamber of Commerce – updating the council on the Ballard Partnership for Smart Growth’s (BPSG) next move.
Ben Noble, City of Seattle Budget Office Director, started out the meeting with an analysis of the City of Seattle annual budge, how the city obtains the funds, and how they use them.
Jonathan Williams and Mary Catherine Snyder of the Seattle Department of Transportation Mobility Program discussed parking research and changes happening in Ballard.
Stewart presented the BPSG goals and implementation strategies for 2014. The partnership is a collaboration between local businesses, property owners and the Ballard Chamber of Commerce. The partnership is in the process of formulating a proposal that would designate an area of the Ballard core as a business improvement area.
The Port of Seattle was courteous enough to invite the Ballard News-Tribune out on the water of the Lake Washington Ship Canal for their annual Ship Canal 101 tour.
Over one hundred guests boarded the Argosy Lady Mary on a sunny afternoon September 10th. Among them were leading maritime business owners, so called "Captains of Industry," including Warren Aakervik from Ballard Oil. Aackervik and other Captains of Industry narrated the cruise and revealed the rich wealth of history and economic significance of the maritime industry.
Attendees listened intently to the rich history of the Lake Washington Ship Canal aboard Argosy's Lady Mary. Photo by Shane Harms.
Heartstone Studios is running a crowd funding campaign for a short documentary film based on the memories of Dutch holocaust survivor Ernst Van Gelderen.
At 3 years old, Van Gelderen was sent into hiding for his own safety. On September 7, 1943, a Dutch policeman working for the Nazis discovered him. He and the couple hiding him were locked up in Scheveningen Prison. He was then sent on to the Dutch Theater or Hollandsche Schouwburg. Finally, he was put on a train headed to the concentration camps. By some miracle he was snatched off of the train by a member of the underground resistance and saved from certain death. Hence the title of both Van Gelderen’s memoirs and the film, I Missed My Train.
by Rob Clay and Sharon Burkhart*
From Ohio in 1902, Jacob Ambaum arrived with his wife Mary, found work helping clear land for part of the Cedar River rail line near Renton that same year. He also helped clear the land along SW Roxbury St. up to the intersection of McKinnon Rd. (now Delridge) and 16th S.W. in what is virtually downtown White Center.
Seattle was a bustling place at the turn of the century. The city had streetcars all the way to the tide flats at Spokane Street. and across them to the shores of Harbor Avenue. The growth of immigrant families, Italians, Germans, Slavs and a few Irish were intent on developing the south end. Chicken farms became popular along the streetcar line, especially from 120th to 128th in what became part of Burien.
Update -- September 25, 4:54 p.m.
After the original article was posted on September 16, the Ballard New-Tribune did a follow-up story with details that were revealed by commenters on BNT website: http://www.ballardnewstribune.com/2014/09/23/news/bnt-readers-respond-m…
One of the commenters responded to Justin Dean's statement (Mars Hill spokesperson): "The Ballard church has been growing and is in a strong position to support those coming in from other churches.”
The commenter wrote," Ballard has been growing? That's not true. In fact when I attended there a couple of weeks ago the entire back half of the auditorium was curtained off. There might be an attendance decline at the university campus but that campus has always had a small and fluctuating attendance due to the majority of attendees are students. When school is out attendance is down when school is in session attendance is up. The reason they are consolidating is to give them a reason to pull Drew Hensley (lead pastor of the u-district campus) out or the lead pastor role because he was one of the nine signers of the charges submitted against Driscoll."
