February 2015

By Tim Clifford

On Feb. 10 the first SeaTac City Council meeting for the month was held at SeaTac’s City Hall. With nearly 20 people in attendance the meeting kicked off 15 minutes late due to the 4:30 p.m. study session running longer than usual. Deputy Mayor Tony Anderson continues to be physically absent and skyped into the meetings.

The meetings are held every two weeks at 6:30 p.m. and are viewable live on Channel 21.
Here are the highlights:
• Judy Beste was appointed as an alternate for the Senior Advisory Committee. Following a unanimous vote from the Council an official certificate was presented to Beste.
• A presentation for amendments to the MasterPark lot development was given by International Boulevard, LLC. These included an extension that would add eight years with a $210, 000 delay fees. An additional $100K if the option for 2 extra years is exercised. There will be no refund if construction is completed prior to the eight years. After a unanimous vote the motion was passed.

To the editor:

Saturday, Feb. 14
Boys wrestling
Chief Sealth Regional
Four wrestlers from West Seattle High School and three from host Chief
Sealth qualified for this coming weekend's state competition at the
Tacoma Dome out of regional action Saturday.
Daron Camacho of Chief Sealth led the way out of the local athletes,
capturing first place at 195 pounds by way of a pin of Joey Richards
of O'Dea in 1 minute, 25 seconds.
Teammate Anthony Chiles qualified third at 182 pounds and Nicholas
Outley of West Seattle took fourth at 138.
Ryan Davis of Chief Sealth finished fifth at 132 pounds, Miguel
Carvantes of West Seattle fifth at 160, James Applewhite of West
Seattle sixth at 182 and Anthony Tran of West Seattle sixth at 120.

Marysville-Pilchuck Regional
Kennedy Catholic qualified two athletes for state out of the Class 3A
Marysville-Pilchuck regional Saturday.
Sebastian Ferraro captured third place at 220 pounds for the Lancers
and Bowen McConville qualified fifth at 182.

River Ridge Regional
Highline captured four state berths and Foster and Evergreen landed

Cooper Inveen, Reporter WNPA Olympia News Bureau

Gov. Jay Inslee’s proposal for regulating greenhouse gas emissions has cleared its first of several hurdles in a 6-to-5 party-line vote Feb. 10 in the Democrat-controlled House Environment Committee.

House Bill 1314, the Carbon Pollution Accountability Act, would establish a statewide cap on carbon emissions, requiring Washington’s 130 largest polluters to buy credits in order to continue releasing carbon and other gasses into the atmosphere. With credits starting at $12 per-ton of emissions, the program is estimated to bring in $1 billion its first year.

The narrow vote on the bill was the first concrete action on the governor’s signature climate proposal this session.

Last night’s “performance” at the SeaTac Council Meeting was yet another example that some of our Council Members are NOT taking care of City business at our Council Meetings. We need to hold the offenders’ feet to the fire … they supposedly are working for us, and we are paying them to do so.

Firstly, once again Council Member Tony Anderson participated in the meeting via
telephone. He has not physically attended a Council Meeting for many weeks, but he continues to create a technology distraction for those who do attend with irritating microphone squeals, audible background noises and poorly timed comments. He stated last night that his repeated absences have been a result of him having to fill in as an instructor for some class that one of his colleagues has been unable to lead. This suggests that Mr. Anderson is an employee elsewhere and is being paid to perform this conflicting duty while he concurrently is being paid to attend our regularly scheduled Council Meetings.

If he is unable to perform his latter obligation for an extended time, he should terminate his duties with the City of SeaTac.

By Tim Clifford

A recent news tip from an anonymous source who contacted the Westside Weekly concerned a group of men who have been spotted regularly viewing pornography on the public computers at the Woodmont Library on the 26800 block of Pacific Highway S.

According to this source the group of “regulars” is known for viewing sexually graphic video and images with parents and children nearby. As this anonymous source explained it is obvious that the voyeuristic experience is what excites these men and that the more people who observe what they are viewing the better.
One story that this source related involved a “regular” sending pages and pages worth of print jobs to the library’s print station; pages and pages worth of pornographic images. Since the printing system completes a “job” in the order they are received anytime there was a lull in this regular’s clicking the print jobs for other patrons would be shuffled in between. This resulted in one angry woman complaining to the library staff that she had been forced to dig through pages of porn in order to find her papers.

Review by Randy Clark

I LOVE YOU, YOU’RE PERFECT, NOW CHANGE, at Burien Actors Theatre, is a musical about love and life in 21st Century America. It’s the second time the theatre has produced the play. They did it back in 2008. For those who saw it back then, you won’t be disappointed.

The show, by Joe DiPietro, with music by Jimmy Roberts is a review of small scenes, most with musical numbers, of the mostly, secret thoughts of people going through the tumultuous rigamarole of, first, dating, then sex, then marriage, then child rearing etc. It ranges from cynical to sweet. Everyone will recognize, and most will identify with, many of the situations depicted.

If you went to Glacier High School and graduated in 1965, you are invited to the 50th Class Reunion of that school.

According to Kathy (Dinwiddie) Walsh, the reunion will be a thee-day affair, including a cruise to Vancouver, B.C., where the grads will have a special room in which to celebrate.

They will spend the night in Vancouver, then take Amtrak home the next day.
The event is scheduled for Sept. 12, 2015. About 140 people are already signed up for the party.

There is a website that has a little more information:
https://sites.google.com/site/glacierhighschoolclassof1965/home

By Tim Clifford

On Feb.12 a count of the ballots collected showed that the Highline School district levy will pass with over 58% of the vote while the bond measure is on track to fail with a current count of 54.65 %. Votes are still being counted at this time with a final tally to be announced in the coming days.

Voter ballots were collected on Feb. 10.

With a majority of the votes having now been counted it would be nothing short of miraculous for the final count to approve the bond measure. The vote for levies is required to surpass 50% while bond measures are required to tally 60% or more.

A similar bond measure for the school district also failed to pass last November by a mere 215 votes.

Proponents were hopeful this time around with the new bond measure having been shaved down by approximately $9 million dollars from the previous package.

By Tim Clifford

On Feb. 11 at 1:30 p.m. shoplifting suspects from the Fred Meyer in Burien were involved in two short vehicle chases with King County Sheriff’s deputies and responding officers from cites nearby. After a successful PIT maneuver was used by officers on Highway 518 four suspects were taken into custody. The incident began earlier in the day when four suspects were spotted by store security shoplifting from the Fred Meyer in Burien at 14300 1 st Ave. S. These same suspects had been spotted at the same location stealing days earlier.

They are all believed to be professional shoplifters who are suspected in crimes in Renton, Burien and SeaTac.

Security guards managed to give officers a clear enough description of the getaway vehicle that deputies were able to spot the vehicle getting onto 518. A short car chase, around 5 to 8 minutes, ensued with the suspects managing to escape after ramming one officer’s vehicle.