October 2014



Ella Finkle-Weaver of West Seattle was recently selected to participate in the 2014 Miss Jr. Teen Seattle pageant competition that will take place Saturday October 11, 2014, 4:00pm at Highline Performing Arts Center in Burien. Ella learned of her acceptance into this year's competition when the pageant announced their selections following interviewing in the local Seattle area.


Personality is the number one aspect that each contestant is judged on during all phases of competition, including an interview held the evening prior to the pageant. Ella will also have two modeling routines; casual wear and formal wear.



If Ella were to win the title of Miss Jr. Teen Seattle, she would represent Seattle and the surrounding communities at the National Competition that will take place in Orlando, Florida. Over $30,000.00 in prizes and awards will be presented at the National Competition while each winner enjoys this expense paid trip of five nights and six days in Orlando, Florida.



The Burien Community Center is now showing the paintings of artist Keli Sim-DeRitis. Keli has been a graphic designer and artist for over 25 years. She has dabbled with oil and acrylic painting since childhood, but it was not until an art retreat in 2008 that she discovered acrylic mixed media which reawakened her creative spirit and inspired her to start painting again. Keli works with acrylic paints and mediums and incorporates elements of collage and found objects in many of her pieces.

Keli has traveled extensively in Italy and France for pleasure and on buying trips as owner of Poggi Bonsi, a local gourmet kitchen store and direct importer of Italian and French products. In June, 2014 Keli teamed up with fellow artist Janet Crawley to teach “Art Affair in France” a week-long artist retreat in southern France. The landscapes in this show represent the beautiful landscapes they visited in the French countryside.

Keli is a mother, artist, teacher, entrepreneur, and adventurer. Learn more about Keli and her work at kelisimderitis.com. For more information on art her retreats in France visit www.artaffairinfrance.wordpress.com

By Georgie Bright Kunkel

From the beginning of time various creatures roamed the earth. Some grew to enormous proportions during the period of the dinosaurs. Then, because of circumstances beyond their control, they were wiped out. Gradually human beings began to fence off areas and declared these areas private property. Until that time people freely roamed, living off the land, the rivers and oceans. When agriculture developed and people began to dwell on pieces of land rather than roaming about then ownership of land became an issue.

By Scott Anthony

At Fred Meyer, we passed the freezer case and some organic sour cream caught my eye.

“Honey,” I said conspiratorily, “how about we break the Sunday night spaghetti dinner tradition and have Turkos?” She gives the ok, and so I grab a container of the creamy stuff, then pick up some shells and taco seasoning in the next aisle. For the uninitiated, tacos made with turkey meat are what I have branded as ‘Turkos’…just as tacos made from buffalo meat are ‘Bufcos’ and, I suppose, if you made them from, say, duck, they’d be ‘Duckos’. But beef, ‘cowcos’ don’t sound that good. Still with me?

We get home and I begin the preparations, cooking the ground turkey in the skillet with the seasoning mix, chopping the red peppers and tomato, the red onions, and as I work, I sing a little song. ‘Turkos, Turkos, sure is fine, I’d eat Turkos anytime.’

Seattle Christian High School principal, Matt Althoff, has announced that Karl Stahlfeld of Burien, has been named a Semifinalist and Parker Bowen (Normandy Park) and Nolan Swain (Burien), have been named Commended Students in the 2015 National Merit Scholarship Program.

As a National Merit Semifinalist, Karl Stahlfeld is among the top one percent, approximately 16,000 high school students across the country, eligible to compete for some 8,000 National Merit Scholarships to be offered in the spring.

Semifinalists are selected based on performance on the Preliminary SAT, taken their junior year of high school. About 90 percent of Semifinalists will become Finalists in the competition by demonstrating outstanding academic achievement and performing well on the SAT.

Everyone knows King County to be a high tech hub today, but our region’s first brush with cutting-edge technology occurred well before Bill Gates and Paul Allen. A century and a half ago, the first high tech endeavor to put down roots in King County was the telegraph, which came up from Olympia along Military Road, and arrived in Seattle on October 25, 1864.

To mark the occasion, a flag was raised, a cannon was fired, and the newspapers crowed that the Puget Sound region was now “tied by lightning” to the rest of the world. The next day a dispatch was sent to President Lincoln, commending “the suppression of rebellion and the extension of Science.” At last this western outpost could receive up-to-date news about the Civil War, and settlers could connect with family, friends, and business relations on a nearly instantaneous basis.

By Tim Robinson

Much of my "short" liife in high school (I was 5-3" as a sophomore) centered around hero worship. Sitting in P.E. class that week I listened at roll call. "Bamburg--here", "Baldwin--here," etal. When the coach got to "Salterelli", my ears perked. I'd heard about a boy named Salterelli who was a very fast runner at Cascade Junior High.

Though I never turned out for the track team in junior high, I always thought I was a fast runner. I was small and light, maybe 105 lbs. Larry Salterelli was built kind of square, not heavy, not lean. He had a chiseled jaw line, even at age 16.

Out on the track that Spring we were running test sprints. I think the coach was looking for track stars of the future. I sprinted my best while the coach timed us. Twelve seconds for 100 yards. I knew that wasn't very fast. I'd done that the year before too
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Larry got down in a crouch, sprinting out at "go" finishing with a grimaced look in his face. "ten-five", the coach yelled. Whew! That was fast. That began my hero worship. I knew I could never run that fast but I really enjoyed watching Larry run.

Thursday, Oct. 2
Girls soccer
Kentwood 4, Mt. Rainier 0
The Rams were blanked by the Conquerors on Thursday.
Renton 8, Evergreen 1
Evergreen was routed in a match against the Indians Thursday.
Lindbergh 7, Tyee 1
The Totems absorbed a loss Thursday.
Highline 7, Foster 0
The Pirates cruised past the Bulldogs on Thursday.
Roosevelt 3, West Seattle 1
The Roughriders ran away with a win against the Wildcats on Thursday.
Volleyball
Foster 3, Highline 0
Foster swept the Pirates in three sets in a Thursday match.
Kennedy 3, Hazen 0
Kennedy Catholic posted a shutout win Thursday.
Lindbergh 3, Tyee 0
Tyee was topped by the Eagles on Thursday.
Evergreen 3, Renton 0
Evergreen towered above Renton on Thursday.
Boys cross country
Kennedy 40, Lindbergh 19
Thursday the Lancers sped to a victory over Lindbergh.
Highline 37, Renton 19
Highline won against the Indians Thursday.
Girls cross country
Highline 50, Renton 15
The Pirates posted a victory on Thursday.
Foster 50, Highline 15
Foster won when compared to Highline Thursday.
Kennedy 38, Lindbergh 21
The Lancers were winners against the Eagles Thursday.
Tyee 50, Kennedy 15

By Gerardo Bolong
CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Seattle Christian High school embraced the attitude of aggression well to post a 5-0 home girls soccer victory against Cascade Christian High School at Valley Ridge Park Field No. 1 in SeaTac on Thurs., Oct. 1.
"We're getting goals from lost of different people," said Warrior head coach Melissa Dunckley. "They have a good goalie and it took time to figure out how to finish. We had to work hard for our goals. The challenge makes us better."

From the opening moments, Seattle Christian swept the field with ongoing offensive assaults that forced Cascade Christian goalkeeper Kierstin Patefield and the Cougar defense to stave off scoring threats .
For nearly 20 minutes, the teams stayed scoreless despite constant bombardment from Warrior strikers.

In addition to the CC defense, the SC offense fired off more than half a dozen shots from 20-25 yards out after clearing defenders instead of dribbling through open spaces closer to the goal. Several shots were close to going in with one try hitting the left post and another denting the cross bar.

By Ed Shepherd
SPORTS CORRESPONDENT

Seattle Lutheran looked like an eight-man football team with a lot of momentum on its side after an onside kick on the opening kickoff was recovered by the Saints' Brandon Lulow, but everything proved uphill from there. A three and out first possession led to the Evergreen Lutheran Eagles scoring 36 unanswered points by halftime, en route to a 56-22 win in a Seatac 'B' League game at Franklin Pierce High School in Tacoma Saturday night.

"We really need to put points on the board first, and excecute our offense," said Saints head coach Anthony Stordahl, whose team dropped to 1-3. "And we will learn. It's really been a learning process for the coaches, like myself, and for the players. This is our school's first season in eight-man football and it's been a tough go."

Seattle Lutheran lost its last two games by scores of 60-12 and 58-0, respectively, preceding this blowout loss to the Eagles.