September 2015

By Tim Clinton
SPORTS EDITOR

High schools
Football
Friday's double-header at Highline Memorial has been halved, as the Evergreen vs. Fife game will not be played.
That leaves a single 7 p.m. game between Highline and Nathan Hale for that day.
Foster will be at home against Sammamish at the same time as Seattle Lutheran hosts Oakville at West Seattle Stadium and West Seattle goes to Parkland to play Washington.
Chief Sealth goes to Kingsway Christian for a 6 p.m. game.
Kennedy travels to Seattle Memorial to play Seattle Prep at 5:30 p.m. Saturday.

Volleyball
Seattle Lutheran entertains Eastside Prep for a 6 p.m. match Wednesday and West Seattle hosts Franklin at 7 p.m.
Mount Rainier travels to Blanchet at 7 p.m.
Thursday's schedule has Evergreen hosting Thomas Jefferson at 7 p.m. with Chief Sealth entertaining Federal Way and Mount Rainier hosting Bethel at 7:15 p.m.

By Tim Clinton
SPORTS EDITOR

High schools
Volleyball
West Seattle hosts Chief Sealth for a 7 p.m. battle Wednesday as Highline entertains Seattle Christian.
Mount Rainier gets a 7:15 p.m. visit from Todd Beamer the same day.
Seattle Lutheran visits Shorewood Christian at 6 p.m. Thursday at the old Glacier High School gymnasium, then at 7 p.m. Foster is at Tyee, Highline at Kennedy and Evergreen at Hazen.
Mount Rainier hosts Lake Washington for a non-league match at 7:15 p.m.
Friday's schedule has Seattle Christian entertaining Bush at 5:45 p.m., Chief Sealth hosting Franklin at 7 p.m. and West Seattle going to Ballard at 7 p.m.
West Seattle turns around to host Roosevelt at 7 p.m. Monday and Tuesday Seattle Lutheran is at Quilcene at 5 p.m. and Shorewood Christian home against Rainier Christian at 6 p.m.
In the Seamount League matches at 7 p.m., Highline plays host to Tyee as Evergreen entertains Lindbergh, Foster hosts Hazen and Kennedy travels to Renton.

Girls soccer
Mount Rainier visits Renton at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday as Seattle Christian goes to Eastlake.

By Tim Clinton
SPORTS EDITOR

Saturday, Sept. 12
Football
Seattle Lutheran 52, Oakville 0
Seattle Lutheran slammed another Class 1B opponent Saturday.
Kennedy 42, Seattle Prep 0
Kennedy Catholic journeyed to Seattle Memorial and came away as a lopsided winner over Seattle Prep, running its record to 2-0.

Girls soccer
Bothell 2, Kennedy 0
The Lancers took a non-league loss at home.
Kentlake 4, West Seattle 0
The Wildcats were blanked at Kentlake on Saturday afternoon.

Friday, Sept. 11
Football
West Seattle 17, Washington 13
West Seattle evened its record at 1-1 with Friday's win over the Patriots in Parkland.

Kingsway Christian 53, Chief Sealth 35
The Seahawks were outgunned in Friday's game in Vancouver.

Sammamish 30, Foster 29
One point proved to be the difference for the Bulldogs against Sammamish.

Nathan Hale 43, Highline 14
Highline had a ray of hope early against the Raiders from Nathan Hale of Seattle on Friday.

information from South Seattle College

Since graduating from high school a few years ago, Chantz Hegemann has worked odd jobs here and there, but nearly all of them have left him wanting more.

Hegemann found what he was looking for in a new seven-quarter program at South Seattle College that is a public-private partnership to train heavy diesel repair technicians and starts Fall Quarter of 2015. The program was created to satisfy the industry’s growing need to hire employees with these skills.

South’s Diesel and Heavy Equipment program was in talks with some of the other companies to do similar work for them. Dean Duncan Burgess came up with the idea to join these companies to go into this project together.

A Diesel Industry Sector Cohort, or DISC as the program is being called, provides students with a foundation of skills needed to enter into the diesel technician profession under the guidance of South’s Heavy Diesel program. Employers from the private sector sponsor a student of their choosing with an eye towards employment during (and at the completion of) the program.

By Amanda Knox

ArtsWest Theatre’s latest production, Green Day’s American Idiot, is so ambitious it’s hard to know where to start to describe it.

Ninety percent of the theatre facility is actively in use. Seventy members comprise the cast and crew. With a full house, there are 180 audience members, sixty of which are split up into three immersive tracts herded through a stage comprised of main floor, scaffolding, traveling staircase, trap doors, underground rooms, and back hallways.

The organization that went into this production is impressive. Stunning, even, considering that Mat Wright’s cabaret series ran all summer and the production team had full access to the performance space for only a few weeks prior to opening night. In true punk-rock spirit, the production team, directed by Eric Ankrim, brought together the biggest show possible with lots of small parts and under the most pressure.

information from SDOT

Addressing concerns raised by residents, Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) crews are moving forward with in-street work to improve roadway safety on SW Roxbury Street and 35th Avenue SW. To make the roads safer for all users, SDOT crews are modifying current pavement markings and adding new 30 m.p.h. speed limit signs.

This work is part of the 35th Avenue SW and SW Roxbury Street Road Safety Corridor Project, which aims to make streets safer and more accessible for everyone. Using proven methods to lower vehicular speeds and reduce collisions, the on-street changes will feature one travel lane in each direction, a center turn lane to accommodate left turning vehicles and new transit lanes. Residents will also see longer signal cycles for pedestrians and vehicles, along with new transit signal systems and signs.

“At our community meetings this summer, residents were vocal in their support for safer streets in West Seattle,” said Mayor Ed Murray. “We are reducing speeds and changing lane configurations to make us all safer – drivers, cyclists and pedestrians.”

"It's a great place to have bad things happen to you" said Andrea Ramirez, owner of Cafe Osita on 35th Ave SW. The cafe has been broken into twice in recent weeks but the response from the community has been impressive.

Last June the Cafe, at 7349 35th SW, was broken into resulting in a loss of $1200. Then this past Thursday the cafe was burglarized again but, "In this case they didn't get any cash so it's more like $700 to $800, " said Ramirez.

The criminals broke through the glass front door both times, in the very early morning hours.

But following the most recent break in, neighbors have been coming forward and not only recognizing the cafe as a community asset, offering many ideas on how to help but making cash donations, over tipping and lots of support for the small business. There's even a fund raising page set up on CrowdRise.com for that purpose if you'd like to donate to help them recover some of their losses.

They are making changes both internally and externally to improve security from cameras to better locks and other measures.

By Tim Clifford

Friday, Aug. 28, proved to be a very bad day for 24-year-old Demarcus Linwood. Sgt. Stan Seo with the King County Sheriff’s Office tweeted out at 11:24 a.m. that day “citizen arrested Demarcus Linwood in White Center this morning then called KCSO. Saw fugitive on Washington’s Most Wanted”.
Linwood, nicknamed “Charm”, is a level 3 sex offender and between Aug. 25 and Aug. 28 was a fugitive from the law. After pleading guilty to failing to register as a sex offender Linwood was granted release to attend a funeral. He never showed to his next court date after that and apparently went into hiding.
A citizen who watches Washington’s Most Wanted recognized Linwood in White Center and apprehended the sex offender. After restraining him this good Samaritan called the King County Sheriff’s Office and turned Linwood in.

At the time of his arrest Linwood was facing 43 months for the failure to register charge and an additional 43 months for a rape that he plead guilty to. Linwood has been in trouble with the law since he was 14 and his other offenses include attempted robbery, criminal trespass and multiple assault convictions.

By Amanda Knox

The first dance lessons I ever took were swing dance lessons in middle school. At the time, Explorer West was still a tiny, start-up, independent middle school that rented out the caboose-end of the then Westside Elementary School building. Our class numbered an intimate fifteen, almost evenly divided between male (seven) and female (eight). Now, as an adult, I wonder how gleefully conniving it must have been for our first-name-basis teachers to decide to suddenly introduce awkward hand-holding and bunny-hopping into the curriculum.

“It’s not that we didn’t want to dance,” Colin astutely recalls. “It’s that we weren’t willing to.”

Fast forward and you’ll find me at a loss at high school homecomings, tolos, prom…Without regular access to the choreography of, say, MTV music videos, I sang along more than danced along to the DJ’s rehashing of KUBE 93’s afternoon line-up, and limped away in the bunion-bruising black heels I had bought at Payless for the occasion.

Evening Walk with Owls, Ravens & Other Life Forms at Lincoln Park
8011 Fauntleroy Way S.W.
(north parking lot across from Rose St.)
Sat., Sept. 19, 6:30-8:15 p.m. Join naturalist Stewart Wechsler and learn about Lincoln’s Barred Owls. We many hear and see Seattle’s first new parent or fledged Ravens in many decades. We’ll learn the story of any plant or animal along the way! $10-$15/person suggested donation (pay what you can). Info: 206.932.7225 or ecostewart@gmail.com.

2016 West Seattle Garden Tour Committee Members Needed
The West Seattle Garden Tour needs new committee members to help produce our July 2016 Garden Tour. Volunteer opportunities include PR & Marketing, Sponsorship, Graphic Design, as well as several administrative positions. We meet monthly to discuss the business of the WS Garden Tour, which benefits many local non-profits. If you love gardening and meeting new friends, come have fun with us. For more information: Clay Swidler 206.669.4653

GriefShare Support Group
Grace Church
10323 28th Ave. SW
Lower level