September 2015

By Amanda Knox

I’m not ready.

Sure, I’ve trained. I did a pretty good job too, the first four of eight weeks. I ran three days a week, two short days and one long day, each week adding another half mile to the short days and a mile to the long day. But halfway through my resolve was contaminated. Excuses became more and more obscure. Dance class counts as running. Biking to work counts as running. Moving my belongings to a new house counts as running.

It doesn't.

I know this from years of training for soccer. Shooting practice, strength training, even scrimmaging was negotiable, but the running that came at the beginning and end of the practice session was not. That’s because oftentimes, with all due respect to the game, it all comes down to which team can outrun the other. 

Nothing gets you ready to run 13.1 miles like running 13.1 miles. So far in my training, in one go I’ve only managed nine. 

By Pat Cashman

I knew the U.S. visit of Pope Francis last week was big when I even saw news of it on those shows like Entertainment Tonight, Access Hollywood and TMZ. I can’t swear to it but I thought I heard the following on-air exchange between two perky hosts:

“I just love the white cassock Francis is wearing! Is that Prada?”
“Actually I’m told that it’s Armani. However, my sources say that the previous Pope went with Versace all the way.”
Growing up Catholic, popes were always a pretty big deal in my family. My mom had a couple of pictures of any current pope on the walls. There was a smaller one above the stove in her kitchen. (Coincidence or not, she never cooked a bad meal---at least never one that gave us stomach cramps.)

She also kept a bowl of dried flowers and spices in the living room that she liked to call Pope-pourri. (There was one pope that she didn’t like so much. For him, she kept a bowl of sour cream out for a week.)

Next weekend, on Oct. 3rd, for the first time ever the Space Needle will open its doors to the public to climb the 832 steps that make up its stairways. To mark the occasion the Space Needle has teamed up with the Fred Hutch Cancer Research Center to raise funds for further cancer studies and research.

The West Seattle Herald's own Tim Clifford will be participating in the climb (donate here)and covering the event for our paper and website that day.

Every dollar donated goes straight to the Fred Hutch Cancer Research Center; whose fundraising goal for the event is a million dollars.

Please, most of us have been impacted personally in one way or another by cancer and if any readers could donate even just one dollar this event will benefit a very worthy cause.

Also, please follow along on social media or on our website during the day of the climb for pictures and coverage of the event.

Links:
classy.org/tcwestseattle

By Tim Clinton
SPORTS EDITOR

Ballard's Beavers battered Chief Sealth by a 46-0 score in a Metro League football battle Friday.
Antione Patton scored four touchdowns to pave the way for the victorious Beavers, with the senior running back scoring the first on a 66-yard pass connection from senior quarterback Davine Tullis with 3:58 to play in the first quarter.

Patton caught the pass across the middle and veered to the left and down the sideline for the score.
Senior placekicker Jack Dineen slipped the ball through the uprights for a 7-0 lead -- and Ballard took off from there.

Tullis ended the first quarter with an 18-yard left-side keeper for a touchdown and Dineen made it 14-0, then the Beavers scored two points on a safety on a bad snap caught over the back line of the end zone on a punt attempt to make it 16-0 at the 9:15 mark of the second quarter.
Senior Elijah Davis struck from 66 yards out to make what turned out to be the halftime score 22-0, with Dineen just missing the extra point as the ball bounced off the left upright and back out.

Thursday, Sept. 24
Girls soccer
Foster 4, Evergreen 1
The Bulldogs rallied for a 4-1 victory over Evergreen of White Center.
West Seattle 2, Garfield 0
West Seattle shut down Garfield in a Metro League contest Thursday.
Eastside Catholic 6, Chief Sealth 1
The Seahawks succumbed to Eastside Catholic.
Kennedy 2, Lindbergh 1
Kennedy Catholic emerged as a winner over the Eagles.
Evergreen Luth. 2, Seattle Luth. 1
Seattle Lutheran of West Seattle was edged by Evergreen Lutheran of Puyallup on Thursday.
Renton 7, Tyee 2
Tyee was topped by Renton in a Seamount League matchup.
Hazen 3, Highline 0
The Pirates suffered a shutout loss Thursday.
Todd Beamer 2, Mt. Rainier 0
Todd Beamer rolled past the Lady Rams, 2-0.

Volleyball
Seattle Luth. 3, Auburn Adv. 1
The Saints scored a win over Auburn Adventist.
Foster 3, Evergreen 1
It was the Bulldogs of Foster beating the Wolverines in Thursday action.
Hazen 3, Highline 0
Hazen hammered the Pirates in Seamount action.
Mt. Rainier 3, Kentlake 0
The Rams rallied to down the Falcons.
Quilcene 3, Shorewood Chr. 0

In a press release Equity Residential announced that it has executed retail leases with Bishops Barbershop and Kukai Ramen & Izakaya at Junction 47, the company’s mixed-use apartment complex located in West Seattle at 4706 California Ave. SW. The two regionally owned stores will open next year. Junction 47, which welcomed its first residents in June, includes 206 apartments and a total of 19,814 square feet of street-level retail.

Bishops Barbershop, a locally operated full-service barbershop that serves Generation X, Y and Z customers, will occupy 2,084 square feet on the ground floor of Junction 47’s east building, along 42nd Ave. SW. The company’s owner, Leo Rivera, says Bishops offers “high-end salon quality at affordable prices in a casual, fun environment that includes edgy artwork and music, and trend-setting stylists.” Bishops serves walk-in customers only, and offers an extensive a-la-carte menu of hair-care services.

A Design Review Early Design Guidance application for a 4-story structure containing 31 residential units within parking for 31 vehicles below & at grade at 9021 17th Ave. SW has been filed with the Seattle DPD.

The full design proposal is not yet available but the Early Design Guidance Review meeting is set for October 15, 2015 8:00 pm at the West Seattle Senior Center 4217 SW Oregon St, Hatten Hall.

All meeting facilities are ADA compliant. Translators or interpreters provided upon request. Please contact the Public Resource Center at prc@seattle.gov or (206) 684-8467 at least five business days prior to the meeting to request this service.

OPPORTUNITY FOR COMMENT

The Director will accept written comments to assist in the preparation of the early design guidance through October 15, 2015. You are invited to offer comments regarding important site planning and design issues, which you believe, should be addressed in the design for this project.

Comments and requests to be made party of record should be submitted to PRC@seattle.gov or

City of Seattle – DPD – PRC

The public is invited to join Mayor Ed Murray on the Mayor’s Find It, Fix It walk in Delridge on October 3. The walk will start at the Louisa Boren STEM K-8 School located at 5950 Delridge Way SW @ 11am.

This is a redux of a walk done in August whose purpose is to identify nuisance and safety issues including overgrown trees, graffiti, and litter.

See the City's page on this here: http://www.seattlechannel.org/Mayor?videoid=x58193

Update: 2:03 p.m.

North Seattle College released a statement on the status of the students involved in the crash.

Uninjured students were transported back to North Seattle College and were met by school counselors for trauma support.

"We are working to learn the status of all students and employees involved in the accident and will provide an update as soon as possible."

It's known at this time that a least two of the four fatalities were riding in the charter bus carrying the North Seattle College staff and students.

Meanwhile the Aurora Bridge remains closed as Seattle Police Department investigates the cause of the accident.

Witnesses reported seeing a red liquid coming from the Duck vehicle before the crash.

Update: 12:43 p.m.

Seattle Fire Department announced that there are two more dead after an amphibious tour vehicle crashed into a charter bus that was transporting foreign students from North Seattle College.

Thistle Theatre, a puppet theatre for families presents “Jack and the Beanstalk”. Based on an old English version of the story, Jack Spriggins trades his family’s cow for five colored beans. His long- suffering mother tosses the beans and they magically grow as tall as the sky. An amazing adventure ensues when Jack climbs to the top of the beanstalk and becomes a slave to the Cyclops wife of the Fee-fi-fo-fum Giant. A golden hen, a magic singing harp, a green fairy and a fool add to the musical merriment.

Bunraku puppets of all sizes tell this classic Medieval English tale. Thistle Theatre specializes in tabletop Bunraku puppets, an ancient Japanese style of puppetry. The puppeteers, dressed head-to- toe in black to suggest invisibility, manipulate the puppets from behind. Ben Burris, Andre Nelson and Gina Wilhelm are puppeteers in the production directed by Jean Enticknap. The story was adapted by Sue Ennis and Jean Enticknap with music and songs by Sue Ennis. The puppets were designed and build by Brian Kooser with costumes by Jean Enticknap. Funded in part by 4Culture/King County Lodging Tax.

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