October 2014

Bartell Drugs, which currently operates two stores in Ballard, has announced plans to open a new store in 2016 at Ballard Commons, an innovative mixed-use development planned for the site currently occupied by the Bartell Drugs store at 5605 22nd Ave NW.

The new 14,000-square-foot location will be the major retail anchor at Ballard Commons and will include convenient underground parking for Bartell Drugs customers.

Earlier this year, Seattle-based, family-owned Bartell Drugs opened a full-service “next generation” store at 1500 NW Market Street (15th & Market), introducing new services, product offerings and customer convenience features.

Upon closure of the store at 22nd Ave NW in January 2015, Bartell Drugs will continue to serve the store’s customers with pharmacy services and a full range of drugstore features at the recently opened Bartell’s location at 15th & Market.

Bartell Drugs has a lengthy history of serving the health and wellness needs of Ballard area residents.The new store will mark the sixth Bartells location in Ballard since 1911.

In November 2013, the Seattle School Board approved various changes to elementary and middle school attendance area boundaries (Growth Boundaries). These changes are being made over time. Planning is now underway for the boundary changes proposed for implemented for the 2015-16 school year. Students will be grandfathered at their current school.

A community meeting on the changes is set for Nov. 3 from 6:30 to 7:30 at Alki Elementary, 3010 59th Ave SW.

In September, letters, including translated versions, were mailed to the families living in the affected areas who currently have students enrolled in Seattle Public Schools. The letters invited families to come to community meetings in early October to learn more. Enrollment projections show that these changes affect up to 1,172 current students.

Like the “canary in the coal mine,” animals getting sick may hold an important message for people about shared environmental health risks.

The Zoobiquity 2014 Conference, "Human and Animal Health in a Changing Global Environment" on Nov. 1 in Seattle, will bring together human, veterinary, and environmental medicine experts to explore the linkages and overlaps between these disciplines.

Humans and animals get many of the same diseases and share similar conditions, which make them sentinels for each other. With proper communication and collaboration between human and animal health professionals, environmental health threats can be better detected and lead to a better response.

"Health-care providers and veterinarians need to communicate about diseases occurring in multiple species so that we can detect and prevent unhealthy environments--this is known as a ‘One Health’ approach," said Dr. Peter Rabinowitz, who is one of the organizers behind the conference and heads the new Center for One Health Research at the University of Washington (UW). He is an associate professor of environmental and occupational health, and global health in the UW School of Public Health.

By Amanda Knox

“Farewell to corner stores, apple pies, waffle cones, and chili fries,” chant the Marines on the eve of their deployment to Vietnam. Little do these soldiers realize that they are not only about to lose access to these emblems of childhood, but they really are saying goodbye to their innocence. From the outset, Dogfight proposes situations and characters rife with dramatic ambiguity. Soldiers with the emotional maturity of middle schoolers compensate for their instinctual yet unconscious fear by buying into the propaganda of entitlement and objectification drilled into them by macho military culture. They flex their muscles and hump the air, remind each other “You’re a Goddam hero!” but sing with high voices and quaver in the face of tattoo needles and condoms.

by Ken Robinson

If you have ever fancied yourself as an author--"You should write a book!-"-then this story might make you a little jealous.

Lee and Bob Casazza are a West Seattle couple who have just published Big Mamma's Italian-American Cookbook, a two-year project that began when they married in 1967. Big Mamma isn't Lee Casazza, but her husband's grandmother.

"Family dinners at the Noviello house were special to me. Once I tasted their 'Sunday Gravy'' , I was hooked. This is where I discovered my 'Italian Heart' and the dream of writing my first cookbook."

Raising a family filled in the gap between those early dinners and Lee's opportunity to fulfill her dream. At their getaway cottage on Saltspring Island in British Columbia, Lee wrote her book. She also took all the excellent photographs (with technical guidance from her photographer son). Bob helped, too, working on the design format.You might want to bite the cover.

Sports Roundup

Wednesday, Oct. 22
Volleyball
Chief Sealth 3, Franklin 0
Chief Sealth capped off its regular season with a victory over Franklin on Wednesday.
Ballard 3, West Seattle 0
The Wildcats were beaten by the Beavers in their Metro League finale Wednesday.

Tuesday, Oct. 21
Girls soccer
SCS 0, Cascade Christian 0
The Warriors battled to a scoreless tie Tuesday.
Hazen 4, Highline 1
Highline went down to defeat against Hazen on Tuesday.
Federal Way 3, Mt. Rainier 0
The Lady Rams were blanked at Federal Way this past Tuesday.
Renton 6, Tyee 3
The Totems were topped by the Indians Tuesday.
Kennedy 8, Lindbergh 0
The Lancers upped their Seamount League record to 4-0-0 with Tuesday's win over Lindbergh.
Foster 5, Evergreen 1
Foster flew past the Wolverines on Tuesday.
West Seattle 2, Garfield 2
The Wildcats played to a 2-2 tie in Tuesday's action.
Eastside Catholic 6, Chief Sealth 0
Chief Sealth was clobbered by Eastside Catholic on Tuesday.
Volleyball
Bellevue Christian 3, SCS 0
Seattle Christian was shut down by Bellevue Christian this past Tuesday.
Evergreen 3, Foster 0
Evergreen topped the Bulldogs in Tuesday action.
Renton 3, Tyee 1

By Ed Shepherd
SPORTS CORRESPONDENT

Mount Rainier gave it a good go against a team with a much better record in Todd Beamer on Tuesday.

The Lady Rams scored a third game victory off the Titans, but that was too little, too late, in a momentum sense, anyway, as the Rams went on to lose the match in four sets, 11-25, 17-25, 25-22, 16-25, in South Puget Sound League North Division volleyball action inside the Todd Beamer gymnasium in Federal Way.

The Rams dropped to 3-6 in the South Puget Sound League North Division while the Titans improved to 8-1.

Mount Rainier coach Tom Wells put the blame not on players, per se, but on passing, which, as a whole, the team did not do a very good job at a lot of the time.

"Bad passing," said Wells, "It's a spot we have to work on."

Kalvin Zane Rutagengwa is a self-taught painter and sculptor who discovered his artistic talent as a 6-year-old boy in Rwanda. Tamara Stephas is a landscape painter and sculptor whose work is deeply rooted in the Pacific Northwest.

You can meet both artists at the exhibit’s Opening Reception on Friday, Nov. 7, 4-8 p.m. The show runs Nov. 4-Nov. 30.

Artists United’s November display at the Gallery features acrylic painters Judy Eckhardt and Janet Price. Eckhardt uses many layers of paint to achieve rich colors and vibrant paintings. Her exhibit focuses on boats and beach houses. Price is a painter and print maker. In honor of the Day of the Dead, she will feature some of her work from Mexico.
Fine-art ceramics and jewelry will also be on display.

As a member of the Tutsi tribe that was nearly eradicated in the Rwanda genocide, Rutagengwa let peace and reconciliation be his motivation during this time. He used his artistic talents to help orphans build their lives on art rather than as street beggars.

By Erin Bosetti

Meet Cyndee Thielitz, bartender of the Sloop Tavern for the last twenty years. Owner, Patrick Files, calls her the “best bartender in Ballard,” and she has a firm but graceful reign over her regulars. Head to the Sloop once or twice (or many many times), and you’ll look forward to her smiling face and witty banter.

The Sloop is a solid fixture in Ballard’s nautical bar scene, with decor that hasn’t been changed for decades and an unassuming attitude to match. Some of Thielitz’s regulars have been coming to the Sloop for over 50 years, and she’s seen three different owners take the helm, including the beloved and much missed Charley Files who bought the bar 16 years ago (Files also owned a portion of Lenny’s in Tangletown). It was under Files, and now his son Patrick, that the Sloop has seen its most recent success.

The Sloop’s comfortable atmosphere makes it an easy place to run into an old friend or make a new one. Located on the quieter west end of Market Street, the bar draws Ballardites of all ages, from fishermen and sailors to local college aged kids.

Sportswatch

Sports events worth keeping an eye on

For the week of Oct. 22-28

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.