April 2016

Sunset of the week 4-4-16

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By Jerry Robinson

    Oh, Warren, Warren, Warren.  As our senior senator, we are very aware of your importance to our state, and judging from the attendance at your testimonial dinner (I watched you on television in one of the Olympic Hotel’s broom closets), your importance to the nation.

    But the other day I received by free government mail a group of catalogs from the government printing office.  And judging from your note attached which read “thought you might enjoy receiving these,” you must have had something to do with their printing.

    Now, Warren, I appreciate your thoughtfulness and if I can find time I shall attempt to wade through all 1,166 pages of Richard Nixon’s campaign speeches.  And after I finish that I shall try to cram in all 500 pages of the Kennedy-Nixon television debates.  What I shall learn from these voluminous tomes I’m not quite sure.  But I am sure of one thing:

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WSHS Class of 1966 Reunion Weekend
Various locations
June 2–4. The West Seattle High School Class of 1966 50th Reunion weekend will include informal gatherings, golf and a party at Normandy Park Cove. For more information contact Kathy Braymer Sherpard, kathy@westseattle66.com

Alki Beach:
Rethink Reuse Installation
Alki Beach
59th Ave. S.W. & Alki Ave.
(across from Spud’s)
Fri., April 22, 8 a.m.– 7p.m. Value Village wants you, your family, kids and friends to join them at Alki Beach for an installation that encourages everyone to take action to prevent landfills from becoming laundry piles. This is an interactive installation using thousands of pieces of used clothing to represent the amount of clothing that ends up in the landfill, instead of being reused or recycled.

Style ‘16 Fashion Show Benefit
Showbox SODO
1700 1st Ave. S.

Breaking up with a break-and-enterer

A man walked up to the front desk at the Southwest Precinct on Mon., March 28 to report a burglary in his garage. A neighbor had seen that the door was open and went over to check it out, finding a car fob on the ground.

The man said that the car fob did not belong to him and that there was a metal tab on the car key ring. He thinks the entry and the keys may have been made by an ex-girlfriend. The car key fob was placed into evidence.

Brass knuckles and apartment complex drama

Police responded to an assault call around 11:20 p.m. on Wed., March 30 on the 7700 block of Delridge Avenue S.W.

An apartment manager said she heard there was fight on the property and approached the individuals involved, telling them to stop or she would have to call the police. One person threatened to fight her in response and swung at her. She ducked and the suspect dropped the brass knuckles he was carrying. She picked up the brass knuckles, ran and called the police.

By Amanda Knox

While cataloging new inventory at the bookstore, I’m consistently surprised by the market value of individual books. Sure, textbooks tend to be expensive, mass market paperbacks tend to be cheap. Most of the time, I’m dealing with titles somewhere in the middle—paperbacks going for $7-15, hardcovers going from $15-25, depending on the condition, the author, the publishing house, the date of publication, the earlier or later the printing, the popularity. But there are a surprising number of surprises. A dusty hardcover in frayed dust jacket going for at least $200. A pristine art tome coming in at a penny.

People are so much more complicated than books, very much thanks to our ability to discern meaning from pattern. But there’s a fine line between discerning meaning and injecting it, and I’m so sensitive about it. Even making inaccurate assumptions about the market value of a book reminds me that I’m ever confronted by situations where I discover people, including me, making this same mistake.

By Pat Cashman

I showed up for an afternoon meeting a few weeks ago and immediately apologized. “Sorry I’m late,” I told the other five people sitting around the table. I was 25 minutes late for the 1:30 meeting. I tried to blame Siri.
“No problem,” said the guy who had called the meeting. “It’s actually a 2 o’clock meeting---we just told YOU that it was a 1:30 meeting.” That hurt---but that’s the way it is. I am the late Pat Cashman.

I was born almost three weeks past my due date, and have been trying to catch up ever since. My mom said, “Frankly, by the time you finally showed up, your dad and I had pretty much lost interest. We had a really nice name all picked out for you, but forgot what was by the time you were finally born.”(What a lucky break for me---I found out later the name was Tiffany.)

I was so late in fact, that by the time of my birth I had sideburns.
I began crawling within weeks, was walking at six months, starting skipping at ten months---and then went back to crawling until I started school---late, naturally.

By Tim Clinton
SPORTS EDITOR

High schools
Baseball
West Seattle hosts Blanchet for a 3:30 p.m. game at Hiawatha on Wednesday as Tyee travels to Hazen and Foster hosts Renton.
At 4 p.m. that day Chief Sealth is at home playing Eastside Catholic, Tahoma at Mount Rainier and Seattle Christian at Cascade Christian, with Highline hosting Lindbergh at 6 p.m. and Seattle Lutheran entertaining Mount Rainier Lutheran at 6:30 p.m. at the Southwest Athletic Complex.
Seattle Lutheran turns around to visit Muckleshoot Tribal at 4 p.m. Thursday, then at 3:30 p.m. Friday Roosevelt is at West Seattle, Chief Sealth at Garfield, Kennedy at Foster and Renton at Highline. Seattle Christian hosts Cascade Christian at 4 p.m. that day.
Kennedy and Mount Rainier meet for a 12 p.m. game at Cheney Stadium on Saturday and West Seattle plays Olympic at 12:30 p.m. at Safeco Field.
West Seattle then pays a 3:30 p.m. visit to Lakeside on Monday as Highline hosts Foster, Kennedy goes to Hazen and Tyee to Lindbergh. Chief Sealth hosts Bainbridge at 4 p.m.
Mount Rainier pays a 4 p.m. visit to Thomas Jefferson on Tuesday.

Fastpitch softball

The King County Water taxi celebrated the service of the new Doc Maynard foot ferry on Sunday, April 10 with a Customer Appreciation Day providing free rides to and from downtown for the entire day.. It entered service on January 7 but the county chose to wait until spring to hold the official thank you event.

Officials from the King County Transportation Marine Division were on hand for the event including King County Marine Division Director Paul Brodeur who said, "This is our way to celebrate with the community their new vessel, the Doc Maynard."

Future runs for the water taxi, including one to Ballard's Shilshole Bay and two potential runs across Lake Washington from Kirkland and Kenmore await decisions by the voters on taxes that would support such service.