March 2016

Last week Ballard resident, Diane Bedell, spoke to third grade students at St. John School about surviving a heart transplant and how it led to her participating as a tag sled driver in the opening ceremony of Alaska’s legendary Iditarod dog sled race.

The race was held March 5, and Bedell drove a tag sled for the ceremonial start of the race behind the sled of racer, Jan Steves of Edmonds, Wash.

The Ballard News-Tribune spoke with Bedell before she flew to Alaska.

“This is definitely a bucket list item,” said Bedell. “But each day to me is a bucket list item since getting my new heart. It is the greatest gift I ever could have hoped for.”

During the ceremony Bedell honored organ donation and Life Center NW, an organ procurement organization.

Bedell is a ranger for the National Park Service at the Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park in Seattle. She was delighted to share her experience with the students.

In celebration of National Farmworker Awareness Week, join the Delridge Grocery Co-op and your neighbors for a screening of the film, Food Chains.

This award-winning documentary chronicles the fight of farmworkers from the Coalition of Immokalee Workers as they battle to earn $0.01more per pound of tomatoes and reveals the rampant abuse of farm laborers in the U.S.

Saturday, March 26, 2016
03:00-05:30 PM
Free!

Delridge Library
5423 Delridge Way S.W
Seattle, WA 98106

Stay after the film for a discussion and refreshments!

RSVP to http://tinyurl.com/DelridgeFoodChainsFilm

Questions? Email info@delridgegrocery.coop

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By Lindsay Peyton

Marijuana is not just for stoner kids anymore.

The typical user has changed -- now that buying weed is legal and has a growing menu of ways to consume it.

“If you spend a day in our store, you’ll see that anyone out on the street could be coming in,” Steven Ode, chief operating officer of Seattle Cannabis Co. said. “We get a lot of professional people and a lot of your stereotypical users.”

Clifford Gehrett, manager at the West Seattle Marijuana Store, 10825 Myers Way S., said most of his customers are middle aged.

“But we do have customers coming who are 21 years old all the way up to 80-plus,” he said. “We get everyone from your landscaper coming in straight after work to people wearing suits who just came from those high rises downtown.”

Some shoppers are surprised to find that prices in the store are comparable or even less than what street dealers offer.

“Certainly the quality is better – and what people get on the streets is not lab-tested or regulated,” Gehrett said. “People want the comfort of knowing what they are getting – and what dosage they should be buying.”

By Amanda Knox

By the end of our four-day trip to Detroit, Chris, Gavin and I were silly giddy. It was that state of exhaustion when you really should go to bed but instead linger a little longer. It was not enough sleep, sensory overload. It was getting a sense of Motor City by incessantly weaving our way through, around, and back again. We were there to scout locations for their next novel, and it was the joy of having made a point to take in as much as we could, details both striking and subtle, until our notes blurred before our eyes and we finally melted into the deflated cushions of row 31 on the 737 bearing us home again.

Over the weekend Ballard High School’s Concert Choir and Advanced Women’s Chorale participated in a festival at Queens College and performed onstage at Carnegie Hall in New York City.

Led by Director Courtney Rowley, the choirs performed at the 2016 COA Nationals for Top Choirs on March 17-19. Ballard was among a special group of schools from across the country invited to participate.

Students also attended master classes and participated in clinics and adjudications with world-class choral conductors, which included renowned conductor, Dr. Anton Armstrong of St. Olaf College in Minnesota.

The culmination of the trip was a collaboration performance with other top U.S. choirs at Carnegie Hall’s Stern Auditorium. The concert was directed by Dr. Armstrong and included a premier composition by composer, André Thomas called, “Credo.” Thomas played gospel piano for the performance.

In addition to Thomas’ piece, BHS choirs joined other choirs in singing, “Let Thy Deeds Be Glorious,” by Handel, "Flight Song," by Kim Arnesen and “True Light,” by Keith Hampton. They also sang “The Sweetheart of the Sun,” by Eric William Barnum, under the direction of Rowley.

Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band are bringing their “River Tour” to Key Arena, this Thursday, March 24th. While in town they’ve chosen the West Seattle Food Bank as their partner charity.

If you are lucky enough to have tickets to Bruce’s sold out show, please look for the West Seattle Food Bank volunteers with the signs in the arena, say Hi and give generously to help the adults and children in our community that are in need of nutritious food and other services

By Tim Clinton
SPORTS EDITOR

Saturday, March 19
Baseball
Chief Sealth 6, Hazen 5
Chief Sealth's Seahawks slipped past the Highlanders Saturday.
Foster 5, Mt. Tahoma 4
Foster also won a close non-league game Saturday.
West Valley 10, Kennedy 0
Kennedy Catholic dropped the second and final game on its road trip to Yakima this past Saturday.

Fastpitch
Mt. Rainier 14, Franklin Pierce 0
The Rams rallied for a lopsided non-league win.

Friday, March 18
Fastpitch
Seattle Christian 6, Kennedy 5
Seattle Christian edged the Lancers in a non-league game Friday.
Prairie 8, West Seattle 7
West Seattle journeyed to Southwest Washington and took a non-league loss Friday.
Kent-Meridian 50, Tyee 30
Tyee was outslugged by the Royals in a wild affair Friday afternoon.

Baseball
Kennedy 5, Davis 3
The Lancers posted a non-league win in Yakima on Friday.
Foster 15, Clover Park 5
The Bulldogs in Friday non-league action at Clover Park High School in Lakewood.
Bellevue Christian 3, Highline 2
Highline was edged by Bellevue Christian in a non-league game.

Creeper threatens to slash diner’s throat, shushes 911 caller

By Katy Wilkens

This year, instead of an Easter basket filled with chocolate rabbits and marshmallow chicks, try making a healthy, salt-free gourmet gift basket. The same ideas work to celebrate a birthday, going away, wedding or baby shower.

Not only will you have fun selecting the items, but most of them are as handy as your local grocery store. I stock up on inexpensive baskets at the thrift store. When I see good “stuffer” items on sale, I buy a big supply since most will keep a long time.

Experience the joy of giving and know that everything in your gift basket is low in sodium – which means it won’t contribute to high blood pressure, diabetes or kidney disease.

To make the basket extra memorable, cook up a homemade treat with an easy and tasty recipe from the Northwest Kidney Centers website, www.nwkidney.org.

Here are some ideas to get you going.

Fancy crackers: brown rice crackers, flatbread, pita bread or chips.

To top your crackers: fig jam, jalapeno jam, lemon curd, imported unsalted butter.