June 2015

Ms. Annette Duvall has been named Athletic Director at Kennedy Catholic High School. Ms. Duvall has 19+ years of high school athletics experience serving athletes at all levels of district classification. Ms. Duvall currently serves as the Metro League Secretary and has served on the Sea-King District II Executive Board. She holds a Master of Science degree in Sport Pedagogy from Seattle Pacific University and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Physical Education from Western Washington University.

Annette has most recently served as Athletic Director at Cleveland High School and was previously the Athletic Director at Bainbridge High School. She received Metro Athletic Director of the Year honors in 2010 and 2012 and the District Athletic Director of the Year award in 2012.

In an unfortunate case of “wrong place, wrong time” a cab driver was seriously wounded in Des Moines Monday night after being caught in the crossfire of a drive-by shooting.

The 50-year-old driver, whose name has not been disclosed at this time, had just dropped off a fare at a home in the 21800 block of 30 Ave. S., a residential area that is close to the SeaTac city line. As the cabbie was driving away he noticed a green Ford Expedition, with its passengers hanging out of the windows and armed with guns, coming in the opposite lane. At the same time the driver also noticed three men standing across the street in front of a small apartment complex.

As the Ford was passing the cab its passengers opened fire in the direction of the three men on the street with an estimated fifteen rounds being fired. One bullet blew out the driver’s side window and hits the cab driver in the upper body, exiting through his lower right abdomen. The cabbie sped away and sought help at the 7-11 on 216 St.

The Northwest Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS) nominated 18 Ballard High School film students for High School Awards of Excellence. By the end of the ceremony, five awards were presented to Ballard High School students.

Awards included:

Long Form Non-Fiction
“Clipped Wings” : Duncan Gowdy, Producer/Editor/Concept • Leo Pfeifer, Producer/Editor/Director of Photography • Coleman Andersen, Producer/Editor

Photographer/Editor
“Clipped Wings “: Duncan Gowdy, Producer/Editor/Concept • Leo Pfeifer, Director of Photography/Producer/Editor • Coleman Andersen, Producer/Editor

Writer
“Stolen”: Coleman Andersen, Writer/Concept/Director/Editor • Leo Pfeifer, Writer/Director/Editor/Director of Photography

Short Form Non-Fiction
“GeoFORCE: A Journey to Understanding”: Leo Pfeifer, Producer/Cinematographer/Editor • Raven Two Feathers, Producer

Short Form Fiction
“Stolen”: Leo Pfeifer, Director/Writer/Editor/Director of Photography • Coleman Andersen, Director/Writer/Editor/Concept

The city of Seattle's Vision Zero program which launched earlier this year, got a boost on Wednesday morning at the temporary home of Arbor Heights Elementary on Delridge Way SW when the Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) and Seattle Police Department (SPD) came out to visit.
The goal for both SDOT and SPD is to educate drivers, pedestrians, and cyclists about safe travel methods, as well as rewarding people for traveling safely and following the rules of the road. SDO T Director Scott Kubly was there to to hand out bags full of safety related items to the kids.

See the full program description at the link.

The program will continue this week elsewhere in Seattle:

Thursday, June 11th
12pm – 1pm
Downtown Seattle: 2nd Avenue & Spring Street of 2nd Avenue Protected Bike Lane
SDOT staff will be out talking with and re-enforcing safe travel behaviors along the 2nd Avenue protected bike lane.

Friday, June 12th
8am – 9pm
Fremont Bridge, west side of the Bridge
SDOT staff will be out talking to residents and re-enforcing safe travel behavior at a popular and crowded bridge crossing.

In 1956 President Dwight Eisenhower created the people-to-people exchange program between Americans and citizens of other countries. President Eisenhower's intention was to foster personal citizen diplomacy in the hope of lessening future world conflicts. Seattle is proud to have been one of the innovators in promoting and developing sister city relationships, and in 1967, a sister-city relationship was forged between Seattle and Bergen.

Throughout the years, the Seattle-Bergen program has featured many outstanding cultural and educational exchanges. In 1970 Sister Cities International honored the association with an award for best overall program. Bergen's Nordness Park has a totem pole from Seattle, and the Seattle community of Ballard has a park at Bergen Place in Ballard dedicated by King Olav of Norway. Only last month the fully restored mural at Bergen Place was rededicated by King Harald V of Norway on his visit to the Pacific Northwest.

By Peggy Sturdivant

It was timely in many ways to meet Susan Towle for coffee early in the day that would deposit me at Boston’s Logan airport by the following morning. She just completed four years of work on a book that will make its formal debut at Secret Garden Books on Friday, June 12th 6 p.m. Its subtitle is “A Guidebook for the Journey Through Old.

Writing “Old Is Not a Four Letter Word” has been her working journey the last five years. After 40 years in nursing, the last 20 of which were in eldercare, Towle retired with at least a book’s worth of information to share. She has witnessed the typical American’s approach to aging, of ourselves or of our parents, and she knows we are unprepared.

By Amanda Knox

I think there were four kinds of scotch. The reason I’m not completely certain about that number is because I am certain we each had a glass of each. Discussing characters, conclusions, and the measure of literary success degenerated into comparisons of Star Trek: The Next Generation to Moby Dick, a trip to QFC for roast chicken, a roof-top hang-out overlooking the Space Needle, and finally, a quiet meandering back to our respective Capitol Hill apartments in the wee hours of the next morning. This was the context of my interview with Christopher Robinson and Gavin Kovite about War of the Encyclopeadists, published May 19th. What follows is what fans can look forward to next:

Kovite: We’re going to write a book about Amazon in Detroit.

Why?

information from Seattle Parks

Seattle Parks and Recreation will replace the small craft launch at Seacrest Park after more than 20 years of use. To help increase public safety, part of the park’s parking lot, the bike racks, and the outside seating area on the deck will be closed while work is being performed.

Seattle Parks anticipates the affected areas to be closed from 7 a.m.-3 p.m. on Monday and Tuesday, June 15 and 16.

Seacrest Park is located at 1660 Harbor Ave. SW in West Seattle. For more information about the park, please visit http://www.seattle.gov/parks/park_detail.asp?ID=455.

West Seattle's ArtsWest Theater held it's annual fund raising gala dinner and auction at the Seattle Design Center June 6 exceeding their goal of $160,000 of gross revenue. More 220 people attended (not including 45 volunteers).

Here's the list of the upcoming plays for the 2015-2016 season:

Green Day’s American Idiot
Lyrics by Billie Joe Armstrong
Book by Billie Joe Armstrong and Michael Mayer
September 10 – October 11, 2015
2011 Tony, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Circle nominated Best Musical

My Mañana Comes
By Elizabeth Irwin
October 22 – November 15, 2015
Just released! Off Broadway September 2014
Northwest Premiere

Wonderful Life
By Helen Pafumi & Jason Lott
December 3 – 27, 2015
2012 Helen Hayes Award Nominee for Outstanding New Play or Musical

Really Really
By Paul Downs Collaizzo
January 21 – February 14, 2016
Northwest Premiere

Violet
Music by Jeanine Tesori
Lyrics and Book by Brian Crawley
March 3 – April 3, 2016

Two suspects that had outstanding warrants were arrested by Seattle police when they were spotted by an officer patrolling the area of 46th and Genesee SW. The suspects fled the officers so a K-9 unit and the King County Guardian One helicopter were called in to join the search. The suspects were found hiding under a stairwell at a home on 44th SW and were taken into custody without incident.