March 2015

High School
Baseball
Seattle Christian hosts Tyee for a 3:45 p.m. game Thursday and Mount Rainier visits Kent-Meridian at 4 p.m.
Kennedy Catholic drops in on Davis at 3 p.m. Friday and West Valley of Yakima at 6:30 p.m., with West Seattle going to Rainier Beach at 3:30 p.m. and Chief Sealth hosting Ingraham at 4 p.m.
Mount Rainier goes to Kentlake at 4 p.m. Friday and Seattle Christian to Auburn-Mountainview at 7 p.m.
JFK comes home to play Roosevelt at 3 p.m. Saturday, then Monday at 3:30 p.m. West Seattle hosts O'Dea and Chief Sealth goes to Franklin.
SCS is at Vashon and Tyee at Kent-Meridian at 4 p.m. that day, before Mount Rainier hosts Thomas Jefferson at 4 p.m. Tuesday.

Fastpitch
Kennedy hosts Seattle Prep at 3:30 p.m. Thursday and Highline visits Lincoln at 4 p.m.
Friday's schedule has Highline at Decatur and West Seattle at Mountain View at 4 p.m., SCS at Auburn-Mountainview at 6 p.m. and Chief Sealth at Eastside Catholic at 7 p.m.
Mount Rainier hosts JFK at 12 p.m. Saturday and West Seattle goes to Evergreen of Vancouver at 2 p.m.

By Peggy Sturdivant

Last spring a woman returned books at the Ballard Library but went home with homemade pickles and jam. By choosing the return slot in the lobby she got pulled into the Backyard Barter dance. Last year she happened upon the event, this year she’ll probably be there when the doors open at 1 p.m. on Saturday, March 28, 2015.

Backyard Barter is a nonprofit group formed in Ballard in 2011 by Creagh Miller, Ericka Sisolak and a steering committee. They received start-up funds through a grant from Seattle’s Department of Neighborhoods, with Seattle Tilth as their fiscal agent. It’s now a city-wide movement for people wanting to exchange their grown, gleaned and/or homemade goods with one another. On any given month, in locations deliberately chosen to be north or south of downtown, the tables could have wild mushrooms from out Snohomish way or eggs laid within blocks.

By Katy Wilkens, MS, RD

While the rest of my family was on vacation last month, I was reminded of how hard it can be to get motivated to cook for one.

I can spend hours in the kitchen for people I care about, but when it comes to cooking for just myself, a peanut butter sandwich seems enough. Why is that? I think it’s because there is such inherent joy in cooking for others.

To motivate yourself to cook for one, remember that you not only eat healthier when you cook from scratch, you save a lot of money and time. Follow these tips.

1. Make a plan. Knowing you have everything you need at home can save you a grocery store run, or divert you from fast food.

2. Cook fresh. Buy nice cuts of meat, fresh produce and herbs. Sign up for a produce delivery service – a box every other week is a great incentive to cook so you don’t waste any food.

3. Cook fast. Develop a repertoire of five recipes you can fix in 15 minutes or less, and keep the ingredients on hand.

Fresh Alaskan Halibut first catch of the season is now available at Seattle's Pure Food Fish Market, a fourth generation, family-owned specialty seafood shop, first established at Pike Place Market in 1911. Fresh Halibut will be available through November 2015 for in-person pick-up at the shop counter, or customers can choose to order online at FreshSeafood.com and have their products delivered by FedEx. Pure Food Fish Market offers overnight shipping anywhere in the United States; for those shipping to the greater Seattle area, same-day shipping is newly available.

Pure Food Fish Market sells premium fresh seafood, specializing in seafood of the Northwest, including fresh King Salmon, jumbo King and Dungeness Crab, as well as fresh Halibut. Every fresh seafood order is custom cut and packed there at the market at the time of purchase, and overnight shipments are packaged with gel-ice to ensure freshness upon delivery.

Alaskan Halibut is adored around the world for its white flakey meat; it has a delicious, mild flavor and is easy to prepare baked or broiled. Pure Food Fish Market offers whole Halibut, fillets, steaks and cheeks while supplies last.

Seattle Police have arrested a man who robbed two women in Ballard early this morning. Officers recovered credit cards the suspect had taken at gunpoint.

Two women were sitting in their car at 5300 block of Ballard Avenue Northwest at around 1:15 a.m., when a man walked up to them. He pointed a gun at the women. He shattered the window with a brick and demanded their money.

One victim threw her purse out the window. The suspect gabbed the purse and fled the scene.

The woman called the police and officers combed the area. They were unable to immediately locate the suspect.

Officers took statements from the victims. One woman received a notification from her bank; someone used her credit card at an ATM nearby.

The ATM was at Northwest 85th Street and 15th Avenue Northwest. Police found the suspect. He fled and Officers chased him on foot. Police apprehending the suspect and found the victim’s stolen credit cards. They booked the suspect at King County Jail.

Officers still need to conclude the man they arrested is the same man who robbed the woman.

The Southwest Seattle Historical Society, with funds provided by 4Culture is conducting and survey of the h historical character of the West Seattle Junction.

The survey launched on Wednesday, March 18, 2015, will interview property owners in the two-block Junction core to elicit data and anecdotal information and contract with an architectural historian to identify elements that define The Junction’s character, give it uniqueness and allow it to thrive as the business hub of the West Seattle peninsula.

The project teams the Southwest Seattle Historical Society (the survey’s fiscal agent) with the Southwest District Council, West Seattle Junction Association, Junction Neighborhood Organization and ArtsWest.

The 4Culture grant totals $10,000, most of which will pay for the evaluation services of a professional architectural historian. The grant states that while The Junction “has undergone dramatic changes,” elements such as “the low-story look, the traditional narrow and deep interiors and the compression of multiple businesses into small spaces” have allowed the district to retain a distinctly “small-town feel.”

The West Seattle Wildcats managed a 1-1 tie in their season opener with Chief Sealth in a rain-slickened soccer match at Walt Hundley Field Tuesday afternoon.

Right from the opening, the Wildcats struggled to move the ball upfield. Pressure by the Seahawks led to the first score when Chief Sealth freshman Abdiaziz Hursane beat West Seattle goalkeeper Akili Kasim in the seventh minute.

“We were a little shell-shocked in the beginning because this is our first game. They came out hard and swinging,” West Seattle head coach Tony Coronado said.

Hursane’s score, though, energized West Seattle. The Wildcats challenged the ball better and forced play in the Chief Sealth end of the field, and the defense kept the Seahawks from pressuring Kasim going into the half.

“Once we settled down and realized we could play with these guys, the team seemed to go a lot better,” Coronado said.

West Seattle knotted the score early in the second half when senior Carter Mensing scored off a penalty kick in the forty-fifth minute. Afterward, though, neither team could establish any dominance on the slippery turf.

Burien – On Friday, May 8th, Seahurst Elementary School will be hosting its 2015 Elementary Math Bonanza, a math contest for students in grades four through eight.  This will be their sixth year hosting the event, in which local elementary school students (4th-6th grades) are exposed to problems and topics that go beyond their standard curriculum and share their enjoyment of extracurricular mathematics with like-minded students.  

Proceeds from the contest raise money for the Seahurst PTA, to help pay for educational assemblies, field trips, and other projects around the school.  Competitors will participate in a variety of tests in different formats: an individual test in which students will attempt to solve thirty problems in thirty minutes, a mental math test in which individuals will try to solve problems in their heads, and two team tests (Algebra & Probability and Geometry & Potpourri) in which teams of four students will attempt to solve twenty topic-focused problems in fifteen minutes.

Information from Seattle Police Blotter

Seattle Police have arrested the armed female suspect in a Fremont area stabbing that happened Tuesday afternoon.

A witness called police reporting that a woman was attacking another woman with a knife near North 44 Street and Woodland Park Ave North around 2:15 PM. Officer located the armed suspect and took her into custody within three minutes of the first call.

Medics have transported the female victim with multiple stab wounds to Harborview Medical Center with potentially life threatening injuries.

Detectives are processing the scene now for evidence and will be interviewing the suspect at headquarters shortly.

This investigation is active and on-going with detectives and officers still on scene.

information from Seattle Public Utilities

Come enjoy the first day of spring and celebrate the installation of four new RainWise rain gardens in West Seattle with free, family-friendly activities.

Bring the whole family, rain or shine. The groundbreaking celebration takes place on Saturday, March 21, from 10-11 a.m. at 9009 34th Ave S.W. in Seattle.

There will be planting projects for kids, garden demonstrations and a champagne or apple juice toast.

WSU Extension master rain gardener Lisa Haglund and Home Grown Organics will offer demonstrations and advice on selecting plants and attracting pollinators.

RainWise Program experts with King County’s Wastewater Treatment Division will be available to answer questions about eligibility for rebates that may cover up to 100 percent of the cost to install a cistern or rain garden in certain parts of Seattle. (Take a virtual tour online)

Besides being pretty, rain gardens help control stormwater, a significant source of pollution in Puget Sound and the Duwamish River.