May 2015

The third annual West Seattle Bee Festival in the Highpoint neighborhood saw a healthy, turnout of families and lots of kids (and others) in full bee regalia, who buzzed around the park to visit information booths, learn more about bees and beekeeping, join a fun run, or a parade or just enjoy a fun day at the park.

The event included a costume parade, a lunchbox picnic, and lots of ways to get decorated in your favorite Bee look for the day.

The 16th annual Gala & Auction themed Illumination is set for June 6 at the Seattle Design Center

The evening will include:
Cocktail Auction & Silent Auction, Dinner, Dessert Dash
Exciting Live Auction Featuring VIP experiences, vacations, outdoor adventures, theater packages and more.
PLUS: Presentation of the Alhadeff-Kongsgaard Award, Performances from some of Seattle’s hottest theatre talent, Raise the Paddle, and more.

Their goal is to raise more than $160,000.

Up for auction are :

• VIP Experience with Richard Sherman Vacations to Spain, Hawaii, Sedona & more Mariners Diamond Club
• Chef’s Tasting Menu at Canlis
• Stock your Cellar with Wine Outdoor Adventures
• Cultural Experiences
• Theater Packages

and more.

COCKTAIL HOUR & SILENT AUCTION
Enjoy a full hosted bar, wine, and delicious hors d’oeuvres while you bid on fantastic auction items.

DINNER
Your choice of the following:
Pork Tenderloin with Port Cherry Wine Sauce Salmon Salmoriglio
Eggplant Parmesan (vegetarian)

DESSERT DASH
Bid on delicious, decadent desserts!

Chris Dearth, a (former) Sheriff’s deputy working with the SeaTac Police Department was fired May 1 following an investigation into a boating incident that occurred along the Tacoma Narrows in January. Reportedly Dearth got drunk, operated a small motor boat, left his gun and badge on the dock and assaulted police officers who confronted him.

On Jan. 19, around noon, the 28-year-old off duty deputy took off in a small motor boat from the Narrows Marina in Tacoma. Dearth was spotted by marina workers, who also observed that he appeared drunk, speeding towards an off limit area of the marina where there are low hanging electrical wires. After getting his boat tangled in the lines and causing over $300 worth of damage Dearth left the scene.

About 90 minutes after this sighting a group of teenagers and a photographer reported to marina staff and police that they had found Dearth’s badge and gun sitting on the dock.

Around 3 p.m. the Tacoma Fire Department received a call from a resident who lives near the water that Dearth’s boat was now floating aimlessly and inoperable in the water with Dearth passed out on the deck.

By Tim Clinton
SPORTS EDITOR

Ballard bested West Seattle, 3-1, Friday night to capture the Metro League softball tournament championship.
The win at the Southwest Athletic Complex advanced the Beavers into next week's Class 3A Sea-King District 2 tournament as the Metro League's No. 1 seed while the Wildcats go on as the No. 2 seed.
West Seattle had beaten Ballard and Bainbridge in a tiebreaker the previous week for the regular season division crown.

Ballard awaits Monday's winner between Roosevelt and Seattle Prep for its opener at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the Southeast Athletic Complex near Rainier Beach High School.

West Seattle plays at 5 p.m. Tuesday at the SWAC near Chief Sealth High School against the winner of Monday's battle between Holy Names and the Kingco No. 3 team.

Both Ballard and West Seattle are in the double-elimination portion of the tournament that skips to Thursday and Friday after their openers.

Chief Sealth, meanwhile, also took a loss Friday, being outslugged by Roosevelt, 14-11, in the game for seventh and eighth place in the Metro League tournament.

The King County Sheriff’s Office is desperately searching for Dale Shewmaker, 56, who failed to appear in court on May 8. Shewmaker was waiting to hear the verdict in his trial on three counts of Child Molestation that he was facing stemming from incidents that occurred from 2008 to 2011.

He was last spotted riding along the Chinook Pass on a black Suzuki motorcycle with a license plate reading 9B1265. Shewmaker has access to other vehicles however along with connections in Yakima, where he lives, and the southeast area of King County.

He is described as being 56-years-old and standing 6’1. He has grey hair, brown eyes, and weighs around 220 pounds.

It is believed that he is still in the area and numerous jurisdictions have been told to be on alert.

The third annual West Seattle Bee Festival is set to take place in the Highpoint neighborhood on Saturday May 16 with a run, educational activities, a lunch box cook off, tours of the West Seattle Bee enclosure and more.

Here's the list of events and times:

*The Honey Run starts at 9 am at High Point Pond, SW Juneau & 30th (no registration necessary, just show up)

*Come to Neighborhood House (6400 Sylvan Way SW) at 10 am and make your own bee or flower costume (materials and help provided) so you can march in the Kids and Pet Parade in High Point Commons Park at 11 am

*Learn about Bee-Friendly gardening, food, books and activities at the Information Fair from 11:30 am-2 pm

*Taste healthy, delicious, easy-to-prepare food at the Lunchbox Cook Off from 11:30-1:30

*Take a tour of the West Seattle Bee Enclosure (SW Graham and Lanham Pl. SW) and Garden from 11:30-2 pm, where you can buy honey from the Puget Sound Bee Keepers Association

*Kids can participate in the Bee-Ball Tournament or Field Games in Commons Park

The third annual West Seattle Bee Festival is set to take place in the Highpoint neighborhood on Saturday May 16 with a run, educational activities, a lunch box cook off, tours of the West Seattle Bee enclosure and more.

Here's the list of events and times:

*The Honey Run starts at 9 am at High Point Pond, SW Juneau & 30th (no registration necessary, just show up)

*Come to Neighborhood House (6400 Sylvan Way SW) at 10 am and make your own bee or flower costume (materials and help provided) so you can march in the Kids and Pet Parade in High Point Commons Park at 11 am

*Learn about Bee-Friendly gardening, food, books and activities at the Information Fair from 11:30 am-2 pm

*Taste healthy, delicious, easy-to-prepare food at the Lunchbox Cook Off from 11:30-1:30

*Take a tour of the West Seattle Bee Enclosure (SW Graham and Lanham Pl. SW) and Garden from 11:30-2 pm, where you can buy honey from the Puget Sound Bee Keepers Association

*Kids can participate in the Bee-Ball Tournament or Field Games in Commons Park

information from Vigor Seattle

The 14,000-long ton capacity drydock Vigilant that will support hundreds of family-wage industrial jobs at Vigor Industrial’s shipyard on Harbor Island is scheduled to arrive in Elliott Bay late Saturday or early Sunday.

The 528-foot long drydock, which is being towed from Portland by tugs from Seattle’s Harley Marine Services, will enable Vigor to continue to compete with California and U.S. Gulf Coast shipyards for ship repair, maintenance and construction contracts. The Vigilant replaces a sister drydock that was decommissioned in February.

“This is a needed and valuable asset for our Seattle yard, our workers and the local maritime economy,” said Adam Beck, Vigor’s executive vice president of ship repair. “We were temporarily down to one drydock and getting back to two will enable us to continue to perform construction, repair and maintenance work of a scope that few other shipyards anywhere can match.”

Vik Puri and Nikhi Aum are idealists.

When they closed their printing business in Vancouver B.C. in 2008 they wanted to pursue ways of fulfilling the mandates of their heroes Mahatma Gahdhi and Martin Luther King Jr.

Both of Indian descent the couple did some volunteering and chose to explore an opportunity to serve the "food desert" along Delridge Way SW by opening a fruit, spice and vegetable stand they called Martin's Way in 2012. But when the Delridge Produce Co-op came along with plans to do it as well, the couple chose to bow out.

It's been difficult admits Puri, but through it all, their idealism survived, and so did the purpose of Martin's Way.

Now it's being put to a new use in the form of what Puri calls "The People's Republic of Music" now under construction in White Center at the corner of 112th SW and Ambaum Blvd. SW. in what was once the Firedog Inn.

A Memorial Day ceremony is planned for 3 p.m. on May 25 at Washington Memorial Park. Per the release:

Please Join Us for Our Annual
MEMORIAL DAY CEREMONY

3:00 PM on Monday, May 25, 2015 Washington Memorial Park POW/MIA Living Memorial Plaza

This event, regularly attended by hundreds of visitors, will feature speakers from various Veterans organizations, a ceremonial dove release and performances by the Keith Highlanders Pipe Band.

Bonney-Watson • Washington Memorial Park
16445 International Boulevard • SeaTac, WA 98188
Questions? Call us at (206) 242-1787.

Enter for your chance to win an American flag, flown over the U.S. Capitol on your behalf, in a beautiful wooden flag case. Or, win a framed commemorative poster featuring Tuskegee Airmen of the Northwest.