January 2016

By Tim Clinton
SPORTS EDITOR

High schools
Boys basketball
Tyee hosts Evergreen for a 7 p.m. game Wednesday as Kennedy entertains Foster and Highline travels to Renton.
At the same time Friday Kennedy is at Highline and Tyee at Foster with Evergreen hosting Hazen. Mount Rainier visits Kentwood at 7 p.m. as well and Seattle Lutheran hosts Mount Rainier Lutheran at 7:30 p.m.
Chief Sealth is at home against Nathan Hale at 8 p.m. Friday as West Seattle travels to Bainbridge and Shorewood Christian hosts Muckleshoot Tribal.
Highline pays a 4:30 p.m. visit to Seattle Christian on Saturday.
At 1 p.m. Monday West Seattle meets Eastside Catholic at Garfield and Tyee visits Seattle Prep at 7:30 p.m.
Then at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday Thomas Jefferson is at Mount Rainier, Bainbridge at Chief Sealth and Rainier Beach at West Seattle.

Girls basketball
Tyee visits Evergreen for a 7 p.m. game Wednesday as Kennedy visits Foster and Highline hosts Renton.
At 7:30 p.m. Chief Sealth is at Franklin and West Seattle at Cleveland.

A final public meeting for the Lincoln Park North Play Area renovations is set for February 2 at Gatgewood Elementary. The purpose is to gather additional input on the schematic design and play features.

The project wil replace play equipment, provide access improvements to the play area and improve other features at the park. The scope of these projects provides improvements to bring the play area into compliance with current play area safety standards and ADA access.

LOCATION
8011 Fauntleroy Way SW, 98136

BUDGET
The Seattle Park District provides $600,000 in funding for planning, design and construction.

SCHEDULE
Planning: Second & Third Quarters (Q) 2015
Design: Fourth Q 2015 – Second Q 2016
Construction: Third & Fourth Q 2016

PROJECT DESCRIPTION
Install updated play equipment and improve access at the Lincoln Park north play area. The play equipment will include play structures and seating accessible to children of all ages and abilities and also other elements for play.

The Edith Macefield “Up” house may be coming down after reports of looming construction were made earlier this month.

The Puget Sound Business Journal reported King County's website states "new construction coming."

The property was sold for $450,000 in August of last year to PEFB Ballard at 46 LLC, an affiliate of the Ballard Blocks.

According to Seattle real estate broker Paul Thomas (The No B.S. Broker), who brokered the sale of the property, the house is in its final days and is so run down that it’s not worth saving. Thomas compared the house to the Kalakala, the Puget Sound ferry that couldn’t be saved after it partially sunk.

“At this point it’s not an economic perspective, and it’s time to get it recycled into something else,” said Thomas.

Thomas reported that the roof of the structure is not sound and that there is major water damage inside the house.

By Nancy Farnam

Woodland Park Zoo (WPZ) has, once again, shown contempt for public opinion by recently transferring legal ownership of its elephants to two other zoos. Sri was sent to the St. Louis Zoo in 2002 on a permanent breeding loan and Bamboo and Chai were sent on loan to the Oklahoma City Zoo last April. Although WPZ claims the elephant ‘donations’ were requested by the other zoos, the timing makes it far more likely that our zoo wanted to prevent a newly elected, more animal-friendly Seattle City Council from ordering the elephants to a sanctuary and wanted to make sure they would be permanently trapped in the zoo system. A public majority favored sanctuary placement where the elephants would have enjoyed vast natural space and freedom.

In its press release, Woodland Park Zoo claimed the elephants are all “thriving” at the other zoos. That is not true. Sri was impregnated in St. Louis, her calf died just before birth and she has been unable to expel the dead fetus for over 10 years. She stands in a small, overcrowded exhibit, with no quality of life – waiting to die.

By Tim Clinton
SPORTS EDITOR

Saturday, Jan. 9

Boys basketball
West Seattle 64, Stadium 39
The Wildcats scored a decisive win over the visiting Tigers from Tacoma.
Mt. Rainier 66, Tahoma 55
Mount Rainier managed a win over the Bears of Maple Valley.
Seattle Lutheran 68, NW Yeshiva 31
Seattle Lutheran posted a SeaTac League victory Saturday.

Girls basketball
Seattle Lutheran 50, NW Yeshiva 24
Seattle Lutheran cruised past Northwest Yeshiva in Saturday action.
Tahoma 43, Mt. Rainier 24
The Bears shut down the Rams' offense Saturday.

Friday, Jan. 8

Boys basketball
Kennedy 66, Evergreen 45
The Lancers got by the Wolverines on Friday.
Hazen 66, Tyee 63
The Highlanders handed the Totems a close loss Friday.
Lindbergh 58, Highline 53
Highline also came up just shy of victory Friday.
Renton 62, Foster 37
Foster fell to the Indians on Friday.
Seattle Prep 76, Chief Sealth 66
The Seahawks took a 10-point loss to Seattle Prep.
Shorewood Christian 84, Evergreen Lutheran 65

By Katy Wilkens, MS, RD

On these cold, rainy days, I have been craving that wonderful Vietnamese soup called pho (pronounced “fuh”).

A few years ago a colleague and I did a home visit to one of my patients. His lovely Vietnamese wife insisted on cooking us lunch. I insisted on watching how she made it. It was truly eye-opening – almost every ingredient added to the soup pot was high in sodium, from the canned beef broth to the Asian sausage to the fish sauce. Even the precooked noodles were high in sodium.

My colleague and I estimated the bowl of yummy broth, noodles, meat and sausage we consumed probably contained over 6,000 milligrams of salt. That was enough for each of us for five days! We had to put ourselves on strict low-sodium diets the rest of the week, since all that sodium can wreak havoc on blood pressure, heart and kidneys.

Born September 18, 1961 at Burien General Hospital, Dean died December 7, 2015 at home in Federal Way, WA. Raised in Des Moines, he attended North Hill Elementary, Olympic Junior High and graduated from Mount Rainier High School in 1980.

He worked at the Boeing Company for 35 years.

Dean is survived by his parents, Robert and Mavis LaBounty; forner wife, Colleen; children, Preston and Vanessa; sister, Susan and family; and brother, Jeff and family of Chandler, AZ.

Dean’s Celebration of Life will be held Saturday, January 16, 2016, 3 p.m., at Southminster Presbyterian Church, 19834 8th Ave. S. Remembrances suggested to: Wounded Warrior Project.

Published in The Highline Times Section of The Westside Weekly January 15, 2016.

Anytime a political, personal or social issue needed more analysis, Hal wanted to discuss it with God's auditor. He has been given his chance, and knowing the loquacious disposition of this man, the long awaited conversation will go on awhile.

The son of William and Jean (Goehrs) Fernandez, Hal Fernandez was born at Bremerton Naval Hospital November 24, 1948. His father's Naval career transported Hal to 17 different schools, including classrooms on Midway Island, Guam and remote Adak, Alaska. He graduated from West High in Bremerton, Washington at the age of 16, while taking classes at Olympic Junior College. Hal signed up for Air Force ROTC (Reserve Officers’ Training Corps) while enrolled at the University of Washington, where he earned a BA degree in Political Science and Russian language.

A hand grenade was found in box along side a road in SeaTac. The incident took place on the the morning of Dec. 29 when a construction worker found a box located near the intersection of S. 168th Street and 37th Avenue S. around 8 a.m. Officers from the King County Sheriff’s Department and FBI bomb technicians arrived on the scene. The grenade was x-rayed but it was unclear if it contained explosive materials. It was determined that the grenade contained no explosive materials once it was detonated. According to representatives from the King County Sheriff’s Office, though the grenade contained no explosive materials and was likely an old cast-iron training replica, it is illegal to place a hoax device. Anyone with information about the grenade is asked to call King County Sheriff’s Office at 206.296.3311.

Crimes reported between 12/20/15 and 1/3/16

Home and Business Break-in/Burglary:

by Tim Robinson

Walt Blair has Albert Einstein hair and a bristling intellectual curiosity. He would like to get an audience with Jeff Bezos or Elon Musk, in Seattle to talk about space travel. For credibility Walt has rubbed working shoulders with the great Werner Von Braun (German scientist famous for working in highly secretive U.S. Missile program in the 60’s).

Now 90, Walt has lived a rich life.

 Born in Spokane to a working class family (dad was a welder), Walt was driving a car by age 10 and dreaming of learning to fly an airplane in the depression, before entering Cheney High School (class of '43). Once his academic standards were met, he was offered Navy aviation training but was rejected for sinus problems. For whatever reason, the U.S. Army was not that particular. They accepted Walt with little more than a sniff of a health check.