November 2015

The North Play Area of Lincoln Park is due for renovation and Seattle Parks is holding an Open House Nov. 19 at 5:30pm at the SW Teen Life Center located at 2801 Thistle Street.

They will have their own in-house landscape architect and project planner at the event and will show design options, with the goal of gaining public input. The project will replace play equipment, provide access improvements and other features at the park. It will also bring the area into compliance with ADA standards.

The Open House will be followed at 6:30pm with a Thanksgiving Community Dinner.

For project information visit www.seattle.gov/parks/projects/lincoln/north_pa/

Teen Ambassadors have been selected by the West Seattle Hi-Yu organization for the coming year. Their duties will be to accompany the West Seattle Hi-Yu float and carry the banners or flags in all of the parades that the West Seattle Hi-Yu float will appear in throughout the year in Western Washington.

Ambassadors are selected from applicants that live in West Seattle and are age 13 to 16.

West Seattle Hi-Yu is an All Volunteer non profit organization celebrating the 82nd. year with community festival activities throughout the year. Volunteers are welcome to join in the fun, help design and build the traveling float and assist in fund raising activities. More information is available on the website: westseattlehiyu.com or by contacting the Hi-Yu at info@westseattlehiyu.com

Business and corporate as well as service club memberships help to fund the scholarships and operating costs to keep the West Seattle Hi-Yu going. Individual memberships are just $20. per year.

Meetings are held on the first Monday of each month at 7:00 pm at the Admiral Congregational Church 4320 SW Hill Street.

Friends bid farewell well to longtime friend, maritime workmen and Ballard resident, Jan Anders Vilhelm Anderson (aka John the Swede) on Friday October 30 at Market Arms.

There was a somber fundraising event for Anderson to help pay for medical expenses and a trip back to Sweden where he will get the medical treatment he needs after he suffered a accident. Swedish meatballs were served and friends donated what they could to raise funds for Anderson.

Anderson was hit by a car on Sept 26th while riding his bicycle in Ballard. He was crossing the 24th Avenue NW and NW Market Street intersection when a car struck him while he was in the crosswalk. He suffered a broken tibia and fibula that resulted in a surgery that consisted of bone grafts and the placing of pins and plates in his leg. He was treated at Swedish Hospital in Ballard and has been convalescing at Hearthstone near Green Lake while recovering from surgery.

A rash of power outages in Ballard has some residents and business owners wondering if there is a problem with the City’s electrical infrastructure.

Christy MacDonald, owner of Secret Gardens Book Store on NW Market Street, reported that she had to close her store last Monday October 26 after the power went out at around 8 a.m. and didn’t come back on until around 5 p.m. that evening.

MacDonald believes that the reason for the outages is because the city has not kept up with maintaining its electrical infrastructure while Ballard continues to grow way past the projected 2024 density goal by more than 300 percent.

The outage was one of four that have happened in the last two months. The cause of the outage was an underground transformer failure. The transformer is located at 22nd Avenue NW and NW Market Street. It had a short and burned out after water leaked through a hole in the insulation.

Scott Thomsen with Seattle City Light, said that the recent outages in Ballard were not caused by lack of infrastructure amid a density boom; He said they were caused by a series of different, unrelated events.

By Peggy Sturdivant

My relationship with Seattle Parks began the afternoon my two-door Chevy Chevette pulled into town, moving me here sight unseen. Within hours I was on the beach in Madison Park aware of palpable joy due to a cloudless day in March.

Within two days my late husband had found his disc golf tribe and been introduced to even more Parks & Recreations offerings in Seattle. Our first house was a half-block from the Ballard Community Center. From the cake on the opening day, before Emily was born, then through ballet, piano, Foosball and Pilates together, the center raised us a family. Peek-a-boo in the boat, the swings at night; the front area was her playground and the back was her playing field. It’s where Emily learned to ride a bicycle, and there was always company.

By Pat Cashman

I once went to a Halloween party where a guy came as the Invisible Man. At least I think he did since I never saw him. But the familiar odor of garlic suggested he was there (he ate it on everything)---and the smell was strong enough that three people dressed as vampires left the party hurriedly. (See, vampires are afraid of the stuff.)

Garlic is one of those unique fragrances that smell fabulous---or horrible---depending on when and where you encounter it. On freshly prepared food it is close to Heaven; on breath---the following day---it’s close to the other place.
The summertime smell of fried onions at the fair is mouth-watering---yet is virtually the same aroma as the boy’s locker room after a P.E. class.

My brother loved pasta as a kid, but would always turn down the Parmesan cheese. “It smells like someone barfed,” he would elegantly say. No wonder he lost his waiter job at the Old Spaghetti Warehouse.

And while I know many people delight in the fragrance of now-legal marijuana, there are just as many who will note how similar the odor is to what an agitated skunk tosses into the air.

With only the early returns to go on some election results were in doubt while others were virtually certain.

In the District 1 City Council race Shannon Braddock went out in front with a more than 5% lead over Lisa Herbold. The next report will happen after 4:15 pm on Wednesday Nov.4.

You can track the results at this link.

in the District 6 race for Seattle School board, Leslie Harris vs. Marty McLaren, Harris held a commanding lead of 75%, over incumbent McLaren with 25%

Photo by Patrick Robinson

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Saturday, Oct. 31

Volleyball
Puyallup 3, Mt. Rainier 2
The Rams were outlasted, 25-9, 25-16, 25-27, 23-25, 15-10, by Puyallup to open South Puget Sound League tournament play Saturday.
Kentridge 3, Mt. Rainier 0
Mount Rainier finished eighth in the SPSL tournament with Saturday's second loss, but still qualified for this week's West Central District tournament.
The Chargers put the Rams away, 25-20, 25-23, 26-24.
West Seattle 3, Chief Sealth 1
The Wildcats won against the Seahawks in a loser-out Metro League tournament match Saturday.
West Seattle 3, Bainbridge 2
West Seattle followed up on its win over Chief Sealth by defeating Bainbridge in the contest for the Metro League's ninth and final berth into the Sea-King District tournament.

Boys cross country
Westside Classic 4A
Mount Rainier took eighth place as a team in Saturday's West Central District action held at American Lake with 256 points, but had no qualifiers for this coming Saturday's state meet.
Westside Classic 3A