October 2014

by Jeremy Martin
Sports Reporter

Eight games; that's two full months of action. In most years that's all the time needed to decide who will be marching towards the playoffs and who will be staying home, dreaming of next year.

This year however, Chief Sealth, Nathan Hale and Ingraham all needed a couple extra outings to test their mettle and to break a three way Metro League knot in order to punch a post season ticket.

The squads, all tied for second in the Metro League, entered Memorial Stadium Tuesday night for a mini tournament, consisting of up three games, each consisting of two eight minutes halves and each team needing to win at least one game in order to advance to the league playoffs.

Sealth managed to go 1-1 on the night, making the playoffs by defeating Ingraham 27-0 after falling earlier in the evening to Nathan Hale 22-10.

The Seahawks seemed not only fresh but fired up as it took on Nathan Hale in the night's opening game; alas the Raiders came prepared as well knocking off Sealth behind a vicious two headed rushing attack.

On Wednesday, November 5th, King’s Hardware is teaming up with Sailor Jerry give you the raddest (and only) tattoo party on Ballard Avenue! From 6 to 9, we’ll have local tattoo artists Jake Whitson of Liberty Tattoo and KC Lange of Old Gold Tattoo on site etching awesome things on your body forever! Stick around for fun raffle prizes and sip on Sailor Jerry drink specials all night long to celebrate your good choices.

We know what you’re thinking: the last tattoo party you attended involved a case of Hamm’s, a sewing needle and some misspelled Miley Cyrus lyrics forever emblazoned on your lower back. But rest assured: here at King’s Hardware, we like to do things right.

The King’s Tattoo Party is for one night only, so get here early if you want some ink! All the cool kids are doing it. (or we could say “It’s not peer pressure, it’s just your turn.”)

With the start of Seattle’s first red bus lane, the City of Seattle today highlighted a package of improvements being installed this year to help buses move around the city faster and more reliably. Throughout the remainder of 2014, transit riders will benefit from enhanced transit only lanes, new right turn pockets to reduce blockages, and bus stop upgrades on Holman Road and Northgate Way. This will be followed by additional transit improvements planned for 2015 on Market and 45th, in South Lake Union and along Greenwood Avenue N.

“With these targeted improvements, we’re supporting faster and more reliable bus service to accelerate everyone’s trip,” said Seattle Mayor Ed Murray. “The red transit lanes alone will help nearly 600 buses each day reach their destinations more quickly.”

Ballard singer and songwriter, Kristin Chambers, will be performing her title track "Everything Woman" on King 5 TV's NewDay Northwest, Wednesday Oct. 22, kicking off a week of donating all music download sales from www.kristinchambers.com to the Susan G. Komen Organization.

Kristin's Mother in law is a 21 year survivor and two of her close friends have just come out of treatment cancer free. Kristin would like to continue to help researchers make sure everyone can join them in the survivors circle.

“Everything Woman” is a new compilation of original songs that captures Kristin's poetic, heartfelt lyrics and her authentic folk-pop melodies as never before. Produced by Eric Eagle(Jesse Sykes)of Seattle's Skoor Sound, "Everything Woman" comes to life with the all-star musical artistry of Keith Lowe(Fiona Apple), Jeff Feilder(Amy Ray), Michael Stegner, Steve Moore(Sufjan Stevens), Al Keith and the arranging brilliance of Hans Teuber.

Some neighbors in Seattle think it’s just a “matter of time” before their neighborhoods change from the widespread density development. That’s just the case for a group of neighbors in Ballard. They never thought that a housing application on their block would literally be determined by an element of time, or rather a historic boundary line.

The Department of Planning and Development is in the process of reviewing a housing proposal at 819 NW 70th St. that hinges on parcel boundaries made before the 1950’s.

A boundary line adjustment is required for the project. With the DPD’s approval, a developer with Blueprint – a company that provides funding for builders in Seattle and financed 32 percent of the new homes in Seattle priced between $400,000 and $1 million in 2011 – will build a six unit work/live structure on two different lots.

By Tim Clinton
SPORTS EDITOR

High schools
Football
Kennedy Catholic will host Foster for a 7:30 p.m. game at Highline Memorial on Thursday.
Highline Memorial will be the site of a double-header Friday, with Highline hosting Renton at 5 p.m. and Mount Rainier entertaining Kent-Meridian at 8 p.m.
Evergreen is on the road at Bainbridge at 7 p.m. that day.

Volleyball
The Metro League regular season concludes Wednesday, with Chief Sealth hosting Franklin and West Seattle visiting Ballard at 7 p.m.
Metro League seeding playoff action will start Thursday.
Also on Thursday, Evergreen is at Highline and Tyee at Kennedy with Foster at home against Lindbergh.
All of that action starts at 7 p.m., as does Tuesday's Highline at Foster, Renton at Evergreen, Tyee at Lindbergh and Kennedy at Hazen matches.
Metro League tournament play also continues Tuesday.

Girls soccer
The Valley Ridge complex next to Tyee will host two games at 3:30 p.m. Thursday.
Highline and Evergreen meet on one field and Kennedy and Tyee do battle on the other.

by Ed Shepherd
Sports Correspondent

West Seattle fought a good fight but surrendered in battle to Chief Sealth, in three, competitive sets, marking a 25-23, 25-22, 25-20, match sweep for the Seahawks on the Wildcats' gym floor in Metro 'Valley' League action Monday Oct. 20.

Chief Sealth improved to a 5-2 record while West Seattle dropped to 4-3 in league. One more game for both these teams on Wednesday before a seeding game on Thursday propels them into Saturday's Metro League Tournament, with 16 teams in the three divisions, Valley, Sound, Mountain, competing for spots into the following weekend's district tournament.

"Always tough when we play West Seattle," said Seahawks coach, Lorna Considine. "Especially when coming on their last home game and seniors night. You never know what is going to happen. They definitely never gave up."

Never.

It was a three-set sweep of games for the Seahawks, but the Wildcats were in every single game, losing by no more than five points in any of the three miniature battles, if one wants to think about the finer details of why this match wasn't over until it was over, even with the word 'sweep' in there.

by Matt Wendland

Two men who had been drinking at the Mick Kelly’s Irish Pub on S.W. 152nd Street early last Sunday morning were wounded by gunfire while crowds of others were left reeling from what they had just witnessed. Shots rang out and echoed all throughout the neighborhoods near downtown Burien.

Initial reports of a shooting were called into police just after 1:25 a.m. on Sunday, October 19. Within minutes, phone lines were flooded with callers being put on hold while 911 operators listened to each account. Reports came from more than a mile away from the source with some callers unsure if the gunfire was in their neighborhood or somewhere nearby.

Editor's note: Last week we presented information from Highline School Board President Michael Spear on the merits of passing a $385 million bond. Here is a response from an opposition group.

Who is HIGHLINE?

We are a very diverse community and we are proud of it.
We take pride in living together harmoniously although we know that our differences only make us stronger.
We try to learn from our mistakes and hope not to repeat them.
We are not wealthy but we are all focused on giving the very best education to our children. They are our future.
We set the examples to teach our children about honesty and integrity.

In South King County, we have some of the lowest incomes in the State of Washington. In fact, that is why 75% of our students are provided free meals. For this reason, we must be diligent and careful about what kinds of burdens are placed on our population because they cannot afford any more taxes and rent increases than they are already paying.

Two girl golfers from Mount Rainier High School will advance into state qualifying action next spring after placing high enough in South Puget Sound League action held at Gold Mountain near Gorst and Belfair.

The qualifier that will also be held at Gold Mountain will take place the week before the state tournament in May. State action will be in Spokane.
Taylor Prkut qualified 18th out of this past week's SPSL tournament and Mount Rainier teammate Amanda Inthavong qualified 27th.

A third Mount Rainier girls golfer -- Jill Ringoen -- is also on the cusp of going to the spring qualifier after taking 35th. Ringoen was involved in a tiebreaker playoff for 34th place.

Alyssa Metzger of the Lady Rams finished 41st.

Two Mount Rainier boys reached the second day of SPSL tournament play but did not qualify for spring play.

Zack Lockhart came in 40th and Seth Barnett tied for 42nd.
Both are freshmen.