April 2015

Salty's Seafood Grills will host a benefit event for Seattle Children's hospital on April 29 featuring more than 30 Washington wineries. "Sexy Syrah" Produced by Sommelier David LeClaire and Salty’s Sommelier Tim O’Brien, this very popular 14th annual event always sells out. A portion of your ticket will benefit Children’s Hospital working with John L. Scott Foundation. Salty’s Executive Chef Jeremy McLachlan is also presenting a menu of appetizers designed to showcase Syrah’s outstanding affinity for food.

The event will take place Wednesday, April 29, 6–9 p.m., $50 per person.

Participating Wineries:

• Ambassador Vineyard
• Animale Winery
• Armstrong Family Winery
• Beaumont Cellars
• Bunnell Family Cellar
• Celaeno Winery
• Chandler Reach Winery
• Corliss
• Cougar Crest Estate Winery
• Cuillin Hills Winery
• Des Voigne Cellars
• Dussek Winery
• Efeste Wine Cellars
• Gilbert Cellars
• Goose Ridge Estate Winery
• L’Ecole No. 41
• Mackey Vineyards
• Maryhill Winery

from the Seattle Police Blotter

by Detective Drew Fowler
A 16-year-old boy arrested this morning for pulling a gun on his family in West Seattle is also under investigation for a series of late-night drive-bys in the neighborhood.
Seattle police first received reports of gunfire around 8pm Wednesday in the 5400 block of Delridge Way SW. Officer did not find any damage, injuries or shell casings at the scene. Later, around 10:45 PM, police again received numerous reports a shooting, this time near 17th Ave SW and Delridge Way SW, where officers found several shell casings. Witnesses told officers a red four-door car had fled the scene, and police began searching the neighborhood for the vehicle.

As police continued their search for the gunman and red vehicle throughout the night, officers received a third report of a shooting around 11:30 PM at 23 Ave SW and SW Findlay St. Again, police found shell casings and were told a red car had sped away from the scene.

information from Admiral District Neighborhood Council

Emily Ehlers with Seattle Department of Transportation will present initial plans for a bike lane on Admiral Way between 63rd Ave. and California Ave.

She is seeking community input before a final plan is approved. On a separate topic, Shauna Walgren, also with SDOT, will describe a proposed 20 mph speed zone for residential streets around West Seattle High School.

This is part of the city’s Vision Zero plan to end traffic deaths and serious injuries by 2030. The Admiral 20 mph zone is one of eight sites across the city, and the only one in West Seattle.
Our April meeting will include introductions of two more candidates running for District 1 Seattle City Council.

Lisa Herbold and Tom Koch are just two in a large field of candidates. ANA will try to host all of the District 1
candidates at our monthly meetings before the August primary election.

The ANA meets at The Sanctuary at Admiral, at 2656 42nd Ave SW.

Our monthly meetings are held the 2nd Tuesday of each month at 7:00 pm.

information from West Seattle Kiwanis

The Kiwanis of West Seattle is bringing the spirit of service alive in West Seattle by hosting a canned food drive to benefit the West Seattle Food Bank on Saturday April 11th from 9am to 3pm. The canned food drive will take place at select West Seattle grocery stores including, PCC, Jefferson Square QFC and Morgan Street Thriftway. All community members are encouraged to come out and support this worthy cause.

For the past several years, West Seattle Kiwanis, alongside members of local high school Key Clubs and Scout Troops, have focused their efforts on Kiwanis ONE Day to help feed local families. All items collected will go to the West Seattle Food Bank.

By Georgie Bright Kunkel

Sure I know the signs of aging. Even without my glasses my mirror reveals a few wrinkles and what my doctor calls alligator spots. Once I clicked “restorative surgery” on the web where I learned the benefits and risks of going under the knife to update my out-of-alignment body. After considering the financial outlay and the pain and healing process, not to mention yearly touchups, I put my aging body on hold. I know what my mother always used to say, “It isn’t what you are on the outside, it is what you are on the inside that really counts.” For a control freak like me to have to do what all the counselors on aging tell us to do—LEARN TO LET GO--isn’t what I had looked forward to. I was never one of those who would give in to failing eyesight or hearing loss. That wasn’t going to happen to me. After all I was the youngest in the family and always looked younger than most people my age. But now my ten older brothers and sisters are all gone. My son comforted me by remarking that I could now be the matriarch of the family and no one was left to dispute the stories that I could tell about the good old days.

By Tim Clinton
SPORTS EDITOR

High schools
Boys soccer
Evergreen hosts Kennedy Catholic for a 5:30 p.m. game at Highline Memorial on Wednesday ahead of a 7:30 p.m. matchup between Highline and Lindbergh.
Foster hosts Renton at 7:30 p.m. as Mount Rainier travels to Kentwood, and Tyee goes to Hazen at 6 p.m.
West Seattle is at home playing Roosevelt at Walt Hundley on Thursday, then action resumes again next Tuesday with Evergreen battling Tyee at 3:30 p.m. at Valley Ridge.
Foster is home against Kennedy at 7:30 p.m. that day, when Highline hosts Renton. Mount Rainier entertains Kentridge at 5:30 p.m.

Baseball
West Seattle hosts Garfield and Chief Sealth goes to Roosevelt at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday and Mount Rainier hosts Thomas Jefferson at 4 p.m.
Mount Rainier turns around to visit Todd Beamer at 4 p.m. Thursday and Seattle Christian hosts a 2:30 p.m. double-header with Cascade Christian on Friday.
Chief Sealth hosts Roosevelt at 3:45 p.m. Friday as West Seattle travels to Garfield.
Seattle Christian comes home to play Eatonvllle at 12 p.m. Saturday.

State Senator Jeanne Kohl-Welles, D-Seattle, announced today that she is entering the race to succeed King County Councilmember Larry Phillips who informed the public that he is not running for re-election for King County Council District 4.

Kohl-Welles has served as state senator for the 36th Leg. District for the past 20 years. Prior to that she served in the state House of Representatives having succeeded Phillips when he won his election to the County Council in November, 1991.

The City’s decision to turn its back on Woodland Park Zoo’s elephants, Bamboo and Chai, and let the zoo send them to another zoo instead of a sanctuary, is just another abrogation of its oversight responsibilities. City officials reminded the zoo in a recent letter that the City had the authority under the Operating Agreement to set disposition policies for the zoo’s animals. They urged the zoo to send the elephants to a sanctuary to improve their quality of life rather than another zoo where the same damaging confinement would prevail.

Unfortunately, when the zoo blew the City off and announced the elephants’ transfer to Oklahoma City Zoo, the City failed to step up to the next level of leadership and order the zoo to transfer them to a sanctuary.

The City was provided with copious, science-based evidence showing zoo placement was clearly inappropriate for Bamboo and Chai. But all the facts and science in the world can’t compensate for lack of moral courage and leadership in city officials.

Attorney General Bob Ferguson’s proposal to ban “ticket bot” software has unanimously passed the state Senate, 49 to 0.

House Bill 1091, sponsored by Rep. Kevin Van De Wege, D — Sequim, passed the House 98 to 0 on Feb. 16. The Senate version, SB 5456, was sponsored by Sen. Jeanne Kohl-Welles, D — Seattle.

The legislation now returns to the House floor for concurrence, due to minor language difference between the bills. It will then be presented to Governor Jay Inslee for his signature.

Ticket bots — short for robots — are computer programs used by scalpers to buy large quantities of tickets online to popular concerts and sporting events. Bots often target the most desirable seats.

Scalpers then sell those same tickets on a re-sale website minutes later at inflated prices, sometimes quadrupling face value and even buying enough seats to control the secondary market.

“Consumers deserve a fair deal,” Ferguson said. “Outlawing ticket bots will keep fans’ hard-earned money in their pockets, instead of fattening the wallets of scalpers trying to game the system.”

There is lots happening at the Nordic Heritage Museum in the next few weeks. Here is detailed schedule of the events and fundraisers the museum will host:

Diana Velasco: Dual Exposures is on view April 4 – June 21, 2015

Dual Exposures by Diana Velasco explores two bodies of work: the “Portraits” series highlights subjects who have a Danish parent and a non-Danish parent, presented twice in each photograph to illustrate the two cultural and national backgrounds they carry. The “Family Album” feature snapshots from the photographer’s family albums, where she has manipulated and mixed pictures of her parents and herself. Through the pictures she imagine what her life would have been like if she had grown up in Spain instead of in Denmark. The exhibition is particularly timely, as Danish citizenship policies are currently undergoing a fundamental change. While traditionally dual citizenship has not been possible in Denmark– forcing people to choose between two identities–the Danish parliament recently voted to approve dual citizenship. The law change is expected to come into force in the summer of 2015.

Saturday, April 11