July 2015

US Navy Blue Angels technicians will offer a free hour-long presentation and audience Q&A on Friday, July 31 as South Seattle College. The roughly hour long event starts at 8:30am.

South Seattle College’s Aviation Club, the Association for Women in Aviation Maintenance (AWAM,) will host.

The presentation, will provide a glimpse into the behind-the-scenes support that goes into Blue Angel performances, including the Seafair shows this weekend.

South Seattle College Olympic Hall Auditorium (OLY 120) at the West Seattle campus, 6000 16th Ave. SW (campus map link).

Friday’s presentation will be made by Petty Officer of the Navy 1st Class Zoltan Prestridge (aviation maintenance control team) and Petty Officer of the Navy 2nd Class Cyrille Sandusky (aviation electrician crew chief) who will discuss the background and training that led to their position with the Blue Angels, and what it’s like to ensure the safety of pilots’ planes as they perform aerial stunts.

By Peggy Sturdivant

I remember warning a young parent that from the time your child starts kindergarten time speeds up. The days that seemed too long walking back from Ballard, pushing the empty stroller and balancing groceries and giraffe toy while the toddler examined every blade of grass, you’ll miss them.

How did life get so busy I wondered? How did life and politics in Ballard become so hectic? I’ve stopped trying to pinpoint the moment of change. I used to wonder, was it that New York Times article? Was it Amgen’s campus? (Okay, is it the change to district elections?) It doesn’t matter anymore because we are changed. I asked myself this last crazy week, bouncing from one crowded meeting in Ballard to the next, did the circus come to town? Or are we the circus?

Discover Burien along with their Seasoned Chefs, are happy to welcome guest chef, Heidi Pomeroy to the Burien Farmers Market this Thursday. Heidi Pomeroy is the owner and head chef at Maven Meals and Maven Mercantile located at 641 SW 152nd St. The Seasoned Chefs have been a welcome addition to the market this year. Every week at noon they offer cooking demonstrations and prepare hundreds of samples featuring local seasonal produce available at the market. The recipes of the food they prepare are also available so guests to the market can prepare their own chef inspired creations at home. Cooking with fresh, local seasonal produce is not only healthy, it’s also quick and simple!

Author/Editor Jaimee Garbacik is launching a project called The Ghosts of Seattle Past, and anyone with memories of Seattle’s lost spaces is invited to be a part of the project.

Seattle has always been a boom town, shaped as much by the gold rush of the 19th century as by the explosion of the tech industry today. And yet, this most recent surge of development has provoked an outpouring of emotion and nostalgia, as week by week our beloved quintessentially Seattle haunts disappear. It seems the entire city is grieving its changing face, in conversation, on Facebook, through art installations and digital tributes. But what about something tangible that we can hold in our hands? What will preserve our stories and map the city’s immediate past before our memories fade? Nothing is being done to permanently compile the spaces that meant so much to us…until now.

“This is not an effort to stem the tide of change nor to debate Seattle’s future, but a suggestion that we reflect on its past“ said project curator Jaimee Garbacik, “Wherever this city may be going, may we remember what it’s been, and who we’ve been in it.”

Earlier this morning Seattle Firefighters responded to a fire at Deck 3 of Fishermen's Terminal at 1511 West Thurman St.

At approximately 7:30 a.m. SFD dispatchers received a call that there was a fire on a Un-Cruise cruise ship called the Safari Voyager. The ship is mooring at the terminal and undergoing construction.

The fire happened inside the ship and was limited to one room. SFD investigators are still determining what caused the blaze, but Lieutenant Johnson of SFD reported that there was welding work being dong on the deck when the fire started.

Station 27 units were dispatched to the scene. By the time firefighters arrived the welders had extinguished the flame.

Investigators have not reported just how much damage the vessel sustained.

By Tim Clinton
SPORTS EDITOR

WOODINVILLE--A second loss in as many games spelled the end of the line for West Seattle at the Majors age 11-12 baseball all-stars state tournament Sunday.

The Westsiders took a 10-3 loss to Stilly Valley at the Northshore Athletic Fields in Woodinville on the heels of a 6-1 loss to host Northwest on Saturday.

Northwest went on to pound Gig Harbor American, 11-1, to advance into a Tuesday winners bracket semifinal.
West Seattle came into the tournament as the District 7 champions after winning a four-team tournament.
Last year it hosted the state tournament at the Bar S complex and fared well but lost to Pacific -- the eventual Western Regional champion and a World Series participant -- to be eliminated.

The Westsiders were managed by Stan Debiec, who was assisted by coaches Brian Pare and Steve Joseph.
Players were Nat Ardales, Spencer Burgess, Diego Contratto, Max Debiec, JP Dufour, Chase Eldredge, Dylan Mastroianni, Reece McAllister, Jasper Mors, Gabe Palmer, Sam Pare, Nate Rasmussen and Jaden Sadis.

With the City Council moving to “pass the buck” earlier this month by signing off on a letter with recommendations for Mayor Murray’s proposed transitional homeless encampments and not moving toward a resolution, many Ballardites are frustrated with the actions of their city officials and feel they have missed an opportunity to have a say about the encampment location.

Back in March the council approved legislation to use public city land as transitional homeless encampments. The Mayors Office was charged with coming up with seven locations. Earlier this month the locations were announced and one is located in Ballard at 2826 NW Market Street.

The law did not require the Office of the Mayor to seek a resolution for the locations from the City Council. But the Office did seek a resolution, and the Council responded by “signing off” on the locations through a letter rather than moving toward a resolution.

By Tim Clinton
SPORTS EDITOR

WOODINVILLE--West Seattle did not get off to the start it wanted at the state Little League Majors age 11-12 all-star baseball tournament Saturday.

The Westsiders fell to the District 8 champion Northwest team by a 6-1 score in action at the Northshore Athletic Complex in Woodinville, dropping them straight into the losers bracket.

West Seattle now must win eight games in a row over seven days to take the title.

The long road back begins with a 5 p.m. Sunday game against Stilly Valley at the same location.

By Tim Clinton
SPORTS EDITOR

WOODINVILLE--A second loss in as many games spelled the end of the line for West Seattle at the Majors age 11-12 baseball all-stars state tournament Sunday.

The Westsiders took a 10-3 loss to Stilly Valley at the Northshore Athletic Fields in Woodinville on the heels of a 6-1 loss to host Northwest on Saturday.

Northwest went on to pound Gig Harbor American, 11-1, to advance into a Tuesday winners bracket semifinal.

West Seattle came into the tournament as the District 7 champions after winning a four-team tournament.
Last year it hosted the state tournament at the Bar S complex and fared well but lost to Pacific -- the eventual Western Regional champion and a World Series participant -- to be eliminated.

The Westsiders were managed by Stan Debiec, who was assisted by coaches Brian Pare and Steve Joseph.
Players were Nat Ardales, Spencer Burgess, Diego Contratto, Max Debiec, JP Dufour, Chase Eldredge, Dylan Mastroianni, Reece McAllister, Jasper Mors, Gabe Palmer, Sam Pare, Nate Rasmussen and Jaden Sadis.

The West Seattle president is Michael Grienauer.

By Tim Clinton
SPORTS EDITOR

LAS VEGAS-- A team of West Seattle and Burien-area players captured first place at an AAU basketball tournament played in Las Vegas, Nev. this past week.

The Seattle Pride age 16 and under squad swept all four games in the tournament by double digits -- over teams from Texas, Hawaii, Canada and California.

The final was Thursday.

Two Seattle Lutheran players (Josh Meyer and Roberto Duenaz) are on the team along with two from West Seattle (Nate Pryor and Tyler Lenzie), two from Shorewood Christian (JJ Young and Jovie Fevealaki), two from Kennedy (Matthew Sassanoff and Emilio Mancol) and one each from Chief Sealth (Evan Moe), O'Dea (Shea Carstens) and Seattle Prep (Jaxon Woodward).

Seattle stayed in Las Vegas through the weekend for another tournament -- the Big Foot Hoops Las Vegas Classic.

The tournament included 160 top 16 and under teams from around the nation and the world and the Reign made it all the way to the "Sweet 16" round of the overall tournament after winning its pool.