December 2014

By Gerardo Bolong
CONTRIBUTING WRITER

AUBURN - Seamount League 2A Evergreen used suffocating defense to build a huge lead and stave off third quarter challenges to post a non league 63-53 girls basketball win at SPSL 3A Auburn on Mon., Dec. 22.
The Wolverines are in 5-0 Seamount first place tie with Kennedy Catholic and now stand at 6-1 overall. Auburn's overall record is 2-4.

"The team is learning and we have great bench support," said Evergreen head coach Natasha Hicks McCray, who was a standout athlete in her Auburn High School days. "Everyone played a role for us."
In the first quarter, the Evergreen defensive pressure yielded a multitude of steals that combined with efficient ball movement for a 14-0 scoring run and a 20-7 Wolverine lead with less than two minutes left. Marleisha Cox was pushing up 12 points in the quarter on the way to 15 first half points.

Puget Consumer's Co Op (PCC Natural Markets) pulled Snoqualmie Gourmet Ice Cream & Full Tilt Ice cream from their shelves today due to a potential Listeria contamination. Full Tilt shops were closed as a result.

The announcement forced the closure of all the local Molly Moon Ice Cream shops in the area as well.

The Vanilla flavor was affected. No illnesses have been reported.
Owner of Full Tilt Justin Cline said they would have to dump "around 9 or 10 tons of ice cream," and that while the shops would be open the day after Christmas it would be around 10 days to get their product back into stores for commercial sale.

In their official announcement they said:

"All Snoqualmie Gourmet Ice Cream products have been voluntarily recalled due to a potential Listeria contamination.

Out of an abundance of caution, all Full Tilt Ice Cream products have been pulled as well. "

Please discard, or return products purchased at PCC for a full refund.

For further questions, call PCC at 206-547-1222. After hours call, 206-390-6657.

An accident involving two trucks and two cars at the base of the hill where Highland Park Way SW and West Marginal Way SW meet snarled traffic and sent 4 people to the hospital on Tuesday. None were seriously injured according to Seattle Police.

The accident happened shortly before 4pm in a steady rain. The two trucks collided with heavy damage to both vehicles while two passenger cars also collided in a what appeared to be a rear end impact.

One driver according to Seattle Police had to be cut out of his truck. One person was taken from the scene via ambulance to the hospital

Seattle Fire EMT's and multiple tow trucks responded to the scene.

Traffic southbound on West Marginal Way was blocked and limited to one lane eastbound on Highland Park Way SW.

By Peggy Sturdivant

Just think how many people stop the intersection of Market and 24th Avenue every day, waiting at the long traffic signal, by car or on foot. Even before the seven-story apartment building enveloped the Spirit gas station on the northwest corner, it seemed mysterious.

When I finally ventured into the service station for the first time last week Harold Hezel told me that people either know him as a nice guy, or think there’s an ogre holed up in that corner and the service station is a drug front. Those people definitely don’t know him. After a few hours I realized I’d met one of those hidden heroes in Ballard–hidden in plain sight.

To walk past the one island of gas pumps, past the collection of older cars along the side and into the office is to learn that Harold Hezel is a product of an earlier time in Ballard, and of the American tradition of service stations. Or as Ballard Oil’s Warren Aakervik thinks to himself every day when he drives by the Spirit Station, “It’s Scotty.”

For the week of Dec. 24-30

By Tim Clinton
SPORTS EDITOR

High schools
Boys basketball
Kennedy will host tournament action Friday, Saturday and Monday, while Seattle Christian will participate in a tournament at the Yakima Sun Dome Friday and Saturday.
Seattle Lutheran hosts an Alumni game at 8 p.m. Monday.
Tuesday's schedule has Highline hosting Cleveland and Mount Rainier going to Bethel at 7 p.m.
Shorewood Christian is in Napavine that day.

Girls basketball
Tyee goes to a tournament at Meridian starting with a 2 p.m. game Friday and stays for more action at the same time Saturday.
Kennedy Catholic, meanwhile, has its own tournament starting with a 1 p.m. game against Emerald Ridge on Saturday. The tournament concludes Monday.
Seattle Christian is at Lindbergh for a 7 p.m. game Saturday as Foster travles to Juanita to participate in the Rebel Challenge tournament. That tournament concludes Tuesday.
Seattle Christian hosts Auburn for a 6 p.m. game Tuesday and Highline travels to Interlake at 7 p.m.

Wrestling

By Tim Clinton
SPORTS EDITOR

High schools
Boys basketball
Kennedy will host tournament action Friday, Saturday and Monday, while Seattle Christian will participate in a tournament at the Yakima Sun Dome Friday and Saturday.
Seattle Lutheran hosts an Alumni game at 8 p.m. Monday.
Tuesday's schedule has Highline hosting Cleveland and Mount Rainier going to Bethel at 7 p.m.
Shorewood Christian is in Napavine that day.

Girls basketball
Tyee goes to a tournament at Meridian starting with a 2 p.m. game Friday and stays for more action at the same time Saturday.
Kennedy Catholic, meanwhile, has its own tournament starting with a 1 p.m. game against Emerald Ridge on Saturday. The tournament concludes Monday.
Seattle Christian is at Lindbergh for a 7 p.m. game Saturday as Foster travles to Juanita to participate in the Rebel Challenge tournament. That tournament concludes Tuesday.
Seattle Christian hosts Auburn for a 6 p.m. game Tuesday and Highline travels to Interlake at 7 p.m.

Wrestling

By: Tim Clinton

Saturday, Dec. 20

Boys basketball
Seattle Lutheran 63, Darington 39
Seattle Lutheran delivered a 63-39 defeat to Darrington Saturday.

Girls basketball
Darrington 46, Seattle Lutheran 27
Seattle Lutheran lost to Darrington on the girls side Saturday.

Friday, Dec. 19

Girls basketball
West Seattle 74, Ingraham 24
West Seattle flattened another opponent this past Friday, outscoring Ingraham by a 25-6 margin in the first quarter and leading by a 45-11 score at halftime.
Lydia Giomi led the Wildcats with 16 points as Emily Fiso scored 13 and Lexi Ioane 10.
Evergreen 36, Highline 22
Evergreen slipped past the Pirates in a low-scoring game Friday.
Kennedy 73, Tyee 15
The Lancers trounced the Totems this past Friday.
Lindbergh 48, Foster 46
The Bulldogs were edged by the Eagles on Friday.

Boys basketball
SCS 49, Overlake 42
The Warriors outlasted Overlake in Friday action.
Evergreen 59, Highline 56
It was Evergreen outgunning the Pirates in this past Friday's game.
Kennedy 59, Tyee 39

by Ed Shepherd
SPORTS CORRESPONDENT

Styling in every way one can in a basketball game, the Seattle Lutheran Saints' junior, captain, 6-2 guard, Xavier Turner, put up 29 points to lead his team to a 68-49 win over the visiting Tacoma Baptist Crusaders on Monday.

The Saints improved to 5-2 this season, with still having a first league game to be played, with that action starting at home against visiting Shoreline Christian on Jan. 3.

"Xavier played really well," said Saints' coach, Brett Kapels. "And, the boys played really well together. Defense is improving."

by Ed Shepherd
SPORTS CORRESPONDENT

There was a desire to win and a lead, early on, to support that desire, for the Seattle Lutheran girls basketball team, but a six-point lead midway through the second quarter for the Saints, crumbled, via a murderous third quarter of scoring for the foe, as, Tacoma Baptist came back to win, 51-29, on Monday.
The Saints dropped to 1-5 overall, but, 0-0 in the SeaTac B division, having yet to play a league game, with their first one of those against visiting Shoreline Christian on Jan. 3. Tacoma Baptist improved to 4-2, overall, this season, and, were 1-0 in it's division entering this non-league game versus the Saints.
The Saints' coach, Bruce Carlson, really didn't need to say too many words about this one, for in this game a picture could tell a thousand words. He used two time-outs in the second quarter to try and stop the bleeding, raising his hands in the air toward the Saints' girls on his team, all standing, in the huddle, watching. He was demonstrating what can only be said something like this: "Defense. Get your hands up when they are taking shots."

information from King County

Concrete pours scheduled to begin this week have been postponed. King County contractors have tentatively rescheduled the first pour for the facility’s underground storage tank for Tuesday, December 30.

A second pour is planned for early January 2015.

No work is planned for Thursday, December 25. Crews will work on Friday, December 26 and Saturday, December 27 to maintain secant piles and place rebar. Schedule updates will be provided as necessary.

On pour days, about 10 trucks an hour will deliver 2,000 cubic yards of concrete to the site — less than half the amount delivered for the base slab pours in early December. The site will look as it did during those earlier pours. Concrete will be delivered to the site between 7 a.m. and 6 p.m. Two concrete pump trucks on the east side of the 7000 block of Beach Dr. S.W. will pump concrete into the hole. Crews may continue working in the tank area after 6 p.m. if necessary. Traffic delays and congestion can be expected near the project area on pour days.

What to expect during concrete pours:
• Work hours between 7 a.m. and 6 p.m. on: