Richard Carl Spangler (Dick) was born in Seattle on April 7, 1931 to Carl William and Julia Wittkowsky Spangler. He passed away in Tacoma at the age of 84 on May 2, 2015, a victim of ALS.
By Tim Clifford
Brutally violent assault in Delridge restaurant
An especially violent assault was committed against a worker at a restaurant located in the Westwood Village Shopping Center in the early morning hours of May 10. Just after 4:22 a.m. the 23-year-old suspect, described as a white male with a red beard and appearing very intoxicated, entered the restaurant and immediately began a confrontation with a male employee.
Calling the worker a “faggot” and spewing a slew of obscenities the suspect was quickly told to leave. The employee attempted to escort the suspect to the door when suddenly the suspect began punching him. Both men ended up on the ground fighting each other. During the struggle the suspect pulled out a knife and went for the employee’s side.
By Pat Cashman
There was very nearly an ugly confrontation at a Fred Meyer store the other day---it’s fortunate old Fred wasn’t there to see it.
Two guys who apparently had never met before came face-to-face in the frozen food aisle.
The men stood staring at each other---thunderstruck, and both scowling---because they were wearing identical t-shirts, with the same wording emblazoned across the front: World’s Greatest Dad!
The men looked like a pair of aging gunfighters with itchy trigger fingers. One store patron ran to get talcum powder---just the thing for for such fingers. But everyone else stood and watched nervously as the men slowly inched closer to each other.
Then, at the last moment, an announcement came over the store intercom: “Attention Fred Meyer shoppers! The world’s greatest deal on corned beef hash is going on right now in our canned food aisle!” The confrontation ended as everyone went scurrying.
The Northwest Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS) has announced nominees for the High School Awards of Excellence. These awards celebrate the most outstanding student productions from five Northwest states: Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana and Alaska. Productions are nominated by NATAS industry professionals. Students from the Ballard High School Digital Filmmaking Program earned eleven nominations, more than any other school or organization in the five-state region. The winners will be announced on June 6 at the 52nd Annual Regional Emmy Awards ceremony.
Ballard’s nominations span six categories, reflecting the diverse skills students learn in the program. These are the nominations by category.
Short Form Fiction:
Fly Me to the Moon by Miles Andersen, Jasper Cote, PJ Hase & Gideon Wolfe
Stolen by Coleman Andersen & Leo Pfeifer
Short Form Non-Fiction:
Audio Input by Duncan Boszko, Jack O’Neal, Piper Phillips & Sho Schrock-Manabe
GeoFORCE: A Journey to Understanding by LeoPfeifer & Raven Two Feathers
Raven Rock by Rachel Cole, Jaya Flanary & Meagen Tajalle
Woman discovers her stolen items on Craig’s List
A Ballard woman is looking for her electronics and other items after a burglar entered her apartment while she was sleeping and grabbed the gadgets. Seattle Police responded to the scene located on the 8000 block of 19th Avenue NW. The complainant told officers that the night before, she was sleeping in her room but woke after hearing a noise. She assumed it was her landlord doing laundry. Then she heard the sliding glass door close in the living room. She got up and found the door open. She didn’t notice anything missing and went back to sleep. The next day she realized there was a litany of things missing from her apartment: one Behringer Piano Amplifier, one Toshiba Laptop computer, a pair of Audio Headphones, two mason jars containing coins, a black leather purse and a BECU checkbook. She told police that she spotted the amplifier on Craig’s List and has planned a meeting with the seller. She reported the valued loss at almost $1000.
Burglar makes off with family heirlooms and camera
Hundreds of protestors massed on Spokane Street early Monday, May 19 to protest the plans by Shell Oil to drill in the Arctic Ocean this summer using the Polar Pioneer exploratory drilling rig that arrived at Seattle's Terminal 5 last week. In a made for media event, camera crews and reporters, photographers and others joined what appeared to be well over 700 people who first massed on Spokane Street near the Duwamish Channel fishing dock.
The group had no formal leader but various people spoke to the crowd through a portable public address system that also played environmentally themed music. The crowd was told their legal rights and told to write down a legal help phone number on their arms in the event they were arrested.
One of Ballard’s favorite breweries, Reuben’s Brews, has expanded to a second location, which means one thing to imbibers: more delicious, locally produced beer.
The new and larger brewery and taproom is located at 5010 14th Ave. NW, and they opened the doors and taps to the public May 9.
“We’re really excited to show people the new brewery,” said Adam Robbings, co-founder and head brewer of Reuben’s Brews. “We’ve aimed to make the new taproom really comfortable but still open to the wonders of the brewing space. We are excited to brew more styles, add to our line-up with sours and lagers and expand our barrel-aging program.”
Reuben’s has come a long way since Robbings, wife Grace and brother-in-law Mike Pfeiffer opened in August of 2012. Back then they had just five beers on tap. After opening within six months they maxed out their production capacity and started looking for a new location. They found it in a space that used to be a garage.
Thousands crowded the streets of Ballard for the 17th of May Festival Syttende Mai parade last Sunday. Norwegian flags flew in the hands of spectators and waved like cod tails behind vintage vehicles cruising before the whooping throng. Children cried, “Hipp, hipp, hurra!” Bunaders were brandished. Pirates screamed. Lutefisk was eaten with the zeal and exorbitance only observed in typical Scandinavian stoicism; not at cringe was seen in the crowd after every delightful bite of the fish.
Indeed. The celebration turns up 20,000 people every year and is the largest Norwegian Independence Day party second to Oslo. The annual tradition started in Ballard in 1974.
The procession started at the corner of NW 62nd Street and 24th Avenue NW and followed NW Market Street past Bergen Place Park to Ballard Avenue. Crowds lined the streets and showed up hours before the spectacle in hopes of planting a prime seat to watch the Norwegian showing.
information from the West Seattle Garden Tour
The West Seattle Garden Tour celebrates the Art of Gardening’s 21st Anniversary this year. Our renown garden tour, showcasing eight spectacular NW residential gardens in West Seattle, will take place on Sunday, July 19th 2015 from 9:00am to 5:00pm
About the West Seattle Garden Tour
The West Seattle Garden Tour (WSGT) is an annual fund raising event benefitting a variety of local non-profit organizations. As an annual tradition since 1995, WSGT is proud to donate net proceeds to Seattle-based community gardens and other non-profit organizations that promote horticulture, educational or artistic endeavors. WSGT is a registered non-profit 501 (c) (3) organization.
This year's beneficiaries include:
Ticket Booklets will be available at the following locations by June 5th, 2015
Thousands of kayaktivists took to the water on Elliott Bay to protest against Shell's massive oil drilling rig, The Polar Pioneer on May 16, 2015. People from sHellNo.org, Greenpeace, and other organizations as well as many media outlets from around the US showed up to support and document the huge flotilla event.
Seattle Police, US Coast Guard, and other security vessels were out and set a safety perimeter from the kayaktivists from getting too close to the drilling platform and all of the protesters were peaceful and respectful.
The safety zone around the rig was 500 yards and the protestors couldn't enter closer than that.
Zoe Buckley Lennox, a student/volunteer for Greenpeace spoke to the Herald, " My mission is to stop Arctic drilling of course and at the moment I'm here to help shine a light on the fact that Shell has already brought their rigs here and planning on heading up to the Arctic and drilling for oil in the next 60 days, knowing well that there may be a 75 percent chance there might be a massive oil spill if they do go up there and develop."
