February 2015

By Anastasia Stepankowsky

The No. 3 West Seattle Wildcats (17-2) put on a clinic Wednesday night, schooling the Seattle Prep Panthers (9-10) in girls basketball action Wednesday night.

West Seattle scored first off of a shot from Lexi Ioane. It was followed by the first of Prep senior Olivia Morrow’s four three-pointers of the night to give the Panthers a 3-2 lead. Prep kept it close for the first half, but the Wildcats took command in the second half to claim a lopsided 52-29 victory.

Both Ioane and junior Lydia Giomi were solid shooters for the Wildcats all night with Ioane making two 3-pointers with a total of 11 points while Giomi netted a total of 19 points for the game.

Seattle Prep kept within striking distance largely because of the aggressive rebounding and ball thievery of sophomore Chinwe Ezeonu and senior Andraya Flor. Prep trailed only 12-10 after the first 8 minutes.

“I knew that this would be a tough team. They’ve had a lot of close games and have won some games,” West Seattle head coach Sonya Elliott said following the victory.

by Ed Shepherd
SPORTS CORESPONDENT

Kennedy Catholic and Evergreen played just about even the first four minutes of the first quarter, 7-6, Lancers leading, but, from there, the Lancers went on a 10-0 run to end that frame en route to a 17-6 lead that was never threatened after that inside the Wolverines' gym Wednesday.

The Lancers won, 56-25.

The Seamount first-place, team, Lancers, 12-0, league, 15-4, overall, will host Columbia River or Kelso for a district game next Wednesday while the third-place team, Wolverines, 12-7, 9-3, will entertain Sequim at 7 pm Friday.
"They gave it a lot of heart," said Wolverines' coach, Natasha Hicks McCray of her team, playing without its usual complement of players.

Kennedy led, 17-6, after the first quarter, and, after that big 10-0 run to end the first, continued that way of play with an outscoring of the Wolverines, 16-6, in the second quarter, to lead, 33-12, going into halftime. And, that score only worsened after that for the Wolverines.

Lancers' coach, Greg Caldwell liked his team's effort.

By Peggy Sturdivant

“Those folks are all gone,” a friend still working with the Nordic Heritage Museum’s Oral History project told me recently. Evidently “Voices of Ballard: Immigrant Stories from the Vanishing Generation” was aptly titled. Their voices have stayed with me so thoroughly I can’t compute that it’s nearly 20 years since I interviewed the “Old Ballard” folks in person.

Still, the undeniable math didn’t hit me until I stood outside the front door of Dodie Leach (“spelled like peach”). As of New Year’s Day, Dodie has lived in her Ballard home for 50 years. She’s lived there long enough to know the former neighbor who was born in what has been her bedroom for half a century. She’s raised children who went to the original Adams Elementary, but also scraped the side of her car getting out of “new” QFC’s underground parking.

Update: Feb. 4, 4:51 p.m.
Kyle Moore with Seattle Fire Department told the Ballard News-Tribune that once the man was out from the container he said very little about why or how he managed to lodge himself in the space. The man sustained no visible injuries.

"He was stuck in there with very little space to move his muscles for 18 hours, so I imagine if he was injured it was more psychological," said Moore.

Moore reported that the man's head was stuck but open to the ground underneath the container with a portion of his legs sticking out of the upper side of the entry point. Moore said the man was lucky; if the containers had been moved the man could have sustained serious injuries.

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Earlier this morning Seattle firefighters rescued a 25-year-old-man who was trapped headfirst in a small hole of a dry goods container.

According to Seattle Fire department the man climbed in a dry goods container and slid head first down an incline, lodging his head in a small hole.

The man was trapped for 18 hours before people walking by heard his calls and called 911.

For the week of Feb. 4-10

By Tim Clinton
SPORTS EDITOR

High schools

Boys basketball
The regular Seamount League season comes to a close Wednesday with a full slate of games.

Evergreen is at Kennedy Catholic for a 7 p.m. game as Tyee hosts Hazen, Foster goes to Renton and Highline to Lindbergh.

Seattle Lutheran entertains Evergreen Lutheran at 7:30 p.m. Thursday and at 8 p.m. Friday Chief Sealth hosts Eastside Catholic and West

Seattle entertains Franklin.

Shorewood Christian is at home at Chinook Middle School playing Mount Rainier Lutheran at 7:45 p.m.

Girls basketball

Evergreen will be at home playing Kennedy Catholic at 7 p.m. Wednesday as the regular Seamount League season concludes.

Foster entertains Renton and Highline hosts Lindbergh at the same time as Tyee travels to Hazen.

West Seattle visits Seattle Prep and Chief Sealth goes to Holy Names at 7:30 p.m.

West Seattle will be at home Friday playing Franklin at 6:30 p.m. as Chief Sealth hosts Eastside Catholic.

The once home of Edith Macefield will be bid on at the foreclosure auction March 13 if the present owner does not pay off almost $200,000.

Macefield refused to sell her home to developers after they offered her $1 million for her modest 1,000-square-foot house. She had lived in the dwelling since 1952. Developers of the now, Ballard Blocks, built the behemoth structure around Macefield’s property.

Barry Martin, Construction superintendent, and Macefield became friends and she willed her property to him before she died June 15, 2008 of pancreatic cancer. She was 86.

The home was later sold in 2009 to a company called Reach Returns. There were plans to elevate the home to the height of the Ballard Blocks, and open the bottoms level for open space, housing, plantings and water features. However these plans never got off the ground.

According to a foreclosure notice, the company now owes $185,956.04 on the property. Reach Returns has until March 13 to pay off the sum, otherwise the property will be open for auction bid.

Before the Super Bowl regulars at The Scoop at Walter's on 32nd NW took to the street with golf clubs to show their support "fore" William Wingate, the retired Metro driver arrested on his daily walk using a golf club as a cane. Sporting clubs that had all been "re-gripped," they urged Seattle Police Officer Cynthia Whitlatch to do the same.

By Anastasia Stepankowsky

For much of the first half, the West Seattle Wildcats (6-8) had the No. 5 ranked Seattle Prep Panthers (12-2) on lockdown. West Seattle raced out to an early 11-point lead, but ultimately the Wildcats succumbed to Seattle Prep, 66-59, in boys Metro Conference basketball Tuesday night.

After a quick two-pointer by Seattle Prep, a shooting spree boosted West Seattle to a 13-2 lead halfway through the first quarter. With six minutes left in the first half, the Wildcats still had a comfortable lead, 25-15. But that marked the end of West Seattle’s domination.

With 1:40 left in the half, a tip-in by Seattle Prep senior Jordan Kitchen brought the Wildcats’ lead to only 27-25, and the Panthers entered halftime ahead, 32-31.

The Panthers finally hit their rhythm in the second half and built an 11-point lead. West Seattle whittled it down to 3 points in the last 90 seconds, but ultimately the Wildcats could not overcome Prep’s height and other advantages.

It may be a while before the next time Chief of Police Kathleen O’Toole visits the S.W. Precinct. Joining the WS Block Watch Captains’ Network for a public discussion tonight, the meeting was ended early due to outbursts and interruptions from the audience.
Beginning at 6:30 p.m. and originally scheduled to end at 8:30 p.m., the meeting was abruptly called to a close 40 minutes in.
For the first 25 minutes things seemed to be going smoothly. With nearly 80 people in attendance the focus was kept on crime issues in the West Seattle area with O’Toole and S.W. Precinct Captain Steve Wilske managing to address numerous issues that have recently plagued the community (more info to come).
While addressing progress that is being made in the Mental Health Court system in Seattle O’Toole was stopped mid-sentence by Cynthia Whetsell, an activist with the Stop Mass Incarceration Network (SMIN).

By Tim Clinton
SPORTS EDITOR

High schools
Boys basketball
The regular Seamount League season comes to a close Wednesday with a
full slate of games.
Evergreen is at Kennedy Catholic for a 7 p.m. game as Tyee hosts
Hazen, Foster goes to Renton and Highline to Lindbergh.
Seattle Lutheran entertains Evergreen Lutheran at 7:30 p.m. Thursday
and at 8 p.m. Friday Chief Sealth hosts Eastside Catholic and West
Seattle entertains Franklin.
Shorewood Christian is at home at Chinook Middle School playing Mount
Rainier Lutheran at 7:45 p.m.

Girls basketball
Evergreen will be at home playing Kennedy Catholic at 7 p.m. Wednesday
as the regular Seamount League season concludes.
Foster entertains Renton and Highline hosts Lindbergh at the same time
as Tyee travels to Hazen.
West Seattle visits Seattle Prep and Chief Sealth goes to Holy Names
at 7:30 p.m.
West Seattle will be at home Friday playing Franklin at 6:30 p.m. as
Chief Sealth hosts Eastside Catholic.
Shorewood Christian gets a 6:15 p.m. visit from Mount Rainier
Christian at Chinook Middle School that day.

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