May 2016

By Peggy Sturdivant

Cynthia Chomos is a Feng Shui and color consultant. She specializes in designing spaces. It just happens that most of her is designing outdoor spaces for cats, and with the onset of summer this is her busy season.

When I told someone I was doing an interview about cat patios, or catios, she was surprised to learn they are “a thing.” The more you learn about them the more sense it makes. Especially if you want to be approved to adopt a cat by many shelters, and then want to increase the chance of the feline’s survival. As Chomos says, “A cat’s primal urge is to be outdoors.” Hence her company, Catio Spaces, which creates “safe outdoor enclosures” to give the “indoor” cat access to the outdoors, but without the ability to kill birds or dig in the neighbor’s lettuce starts.

If your mouth has been watering since you first heard Pecos Pit Bar-B-Que was coming to West Seattle, you've no doubt seen the work in progress at the corner of 35th SW and Fauntleroy Way. They've transformed the once humble building into a drive-through destination, set to open in "late June."

It will feature a drive through, and parking in a lot just adjacent for up to 16 cars, with seating inside for 37 and outside for 24 more.

The decor is distinctly American with signature Pecos touches, white tile with red trim tiles, marble, theater style lights, brushed copper trim on food service units, and lots of wood. The seating inside is on stools, outside at picnic tables. The design work was done by Sue Genty working with owner Gerry Kingen.

Kingen bought the rights to the name and of course the "only sauce" from Ron and Debra Wise who founded the brand and have operated under the name since 1980, building a cult following in their location at 2260 1st Avenue South.

The plans for this new location and others have been in the works for well over a year as the menu and processes of production were worked out.

By Tim Clinton
SPORTS EDITOR

Saturday, May 14

Boys soccer
Interlake 2, Chief Sealth 1
Chief Sealth's season ended with Saturday's loss to Interlake in a state pigtail playoff match at Interbay Stadium.
Kingston 2, Foster 1
The Bulldogs just missed out on state with Saturday's West Central District loss to Kingston at Franklin Pierce Stadium in Parkland.

Baseball
Port Angeles 2, Highline 1
The Pirates were edged by the Roughriders in a West Central District playoff Saturday at Franklin Pierce High School to end their season.
Bonney Lake 8, Kennedy 5
Bonney Lake beat the Lancers in a West Central District playoff game at Heidelberg Park in Tacoma on Saturday, ending their season as well.

Friday, May 13
Roosevelt 4, Chief Sealth 2
The Seahawks took a loss to Roosevelt in the match for third and fourth place in the Metro League tournament to fall into Saturday's pigtail playoff.

Fastpitch softball
Kennedy 15, Evergreen 0

By Tim Clinton
SPORTS EDITOR

Saturday, May 14

Boys soccer
Bellarmine 3, Mt. Rainier 0
Mount Rainier's run through the West Central District tournament ended with a loss to the Lions of Bellarmine in the match for third and fourth place played Saturday at Mount Tahoma High School in Tacoma.
The Rams still qualified for the state tournament, which opens Tuesday or Wednesday. Mount Rainier will be on the road at Pasco as the Class 4A West Central District No. 4 seed.

Baseball
Vashon 10, Seattle Christian 4
Seattle Christian's season ended with Saturday's loss to Vashon Island at Curtis High School. It was the game for the No. 2 state seed out of the Class 1A West Central District tournament.

By Tim Clinton
SPORTS EDITOR

High schools

Fastpitch softball
West Seattle opens the Sea-King District 2 girls fastpitch softball tournament Tuesday with a 6 p.m. game at the Southeast Athletic Complex located near Rainier Beach High School.
Tuesday's winner advances to play at 7 p.m. Thursday at the Southwest Athletic Complex near Chief Sealth, while the loser plays at the same time at the Southeast Athletic Complex.
Placement games are at 3 p.m. and 5 p.m. Friday at the SWAC with the championship scheduled for 7 p.m. on the same diamond.
Meanwhile, Seattle Christian visits Kennedy Catholic at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday with Kennedy dropping in on Bellarmine at 4 p.m. Wednesday.
Kennedy opens West Central District tournament play at 10 a.m. Friday at the Sprinker Recreation Center in Spanaway, with Highline and Tyee playing 12 p.m. games there and Evergreen opening against Sequim at 2 p.m.
The action continues Friday evening and Saturday at Sprinker.

Boys soccer

Article Courtesy of Gerardo Bolong

Nisqually 2016 1A League softball champion Seattle Christian is in the process of playing tough non-league opponents on the way to the May 20-21 West Central District III tournament as it attempts to earn a return visit to the state tournament after winning the first two games last season before bowing out.

As of Wed., May 11, the Lady Warriors had assembled a 9-0 first place league record and a 13-1 overall mark.

Among their league wins have been four victories by two runs or less and five blowouts with a differential of at least seven runs. Seattle Christian's non league wins show 6-5 triumphs against 3A Kennedy Catholic and 3A Hazen as well as a 7-0 defeat of Evergreen conference 1A Eatonville. A 17-1 pasting of 3A Metro League Bishop Blanchet rounds out the non league wins. 3A Metro League Ballard edged out Seattle Christian 8-7.

"We have outstanding depth," said head coach Rick Ronish. "Most teams have three or four top players, but we go deeper."

By Sam Brown
West Seattle High School
SpEd I.A.
Girls Soccer Head Coach
UNIFIED Co-Coach

This last Saturday, WSHS took two teams of Players (gen – ed students) and Athletes (special education students) to the King County Special Olympics District soccer tournament. Our “Player Development” team (more disabled, more playing for fun and modified competition) took the SILVER MEDAL losing to Mercer Island in a double overtime situation.

Our “Division 1” team (less disabled, more varsity-like competition) took the GOLD MEDAL beating Chief Sealth 3-1 – this allows our D-1 team to move on to the Washington State Special Olympics Championship Games, vying for an opportunity to take first place in the whole state.

By Tim Clinton
SPORTS EDITOR

High schools
Fastpitch softball
West Seattle opens the Sea-King District 2 girls fastpitch softball tournament Tuesday with a 6 p.m. game at the Southeast Athletic Complex located near Rainier Beach High School.

Tuesday's winner advances to play at 7 p.m. Thursday at the Southwest Athletic Complex near Chief Sealth, while the loser plays at the same time at the Southeast Athletic Complex.
Placement games are at 3 p.m. and 5 p.m. Friday at the SWAC with the championship scheduled for 7 p.m. on the same diamond.

Meanwhile, Seattle Christian visits Kennedy Catholic at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday with Kennedy dropping in on Bellarmine at 4 p.m. Wednesday.

Kennedy opens West Central District tournament play at 10 a.m. Friday at the Sprinker Recreation Center in Spanaway, with Highline and Tyee playing 12 p.m. games there and Evergreen opening against Sequim at 2 p.m.
The action continues Friday evening and Saturday at Sprinker.

Boys soccer

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By Lindsay Peyton

It was like a message in a bottle, the yellowed, handwritten story Tom Hebert found stowed away in a file box in his storage unit. After discovering the forgotten treasure from his childhood, he embarked on a mission to find its author.

The story was composed in 1953, when Hebert was attending James Madison Junior High School in West Seattle, by a teacher who would change his life and whose impact he would always remember.
Her name, however, had totally faded from memory.

The mystery instructor of ninth grade speech arts penned the piece titled “Beautiful Belinda,” a dramatic reading just for him to perform as a way to practice public speaking.

Hebert saw it as a personal challenge. His ever-supportive teacher agreed to play on piano the sound effects the script required, and he stepped up to the plate.

Hebert said the performance was the beginning of a life in the limelight. He graduated Madison as master of ceremonies for the school’s annual spring show, received his bachelor’s degree in speech and theatre arts at Linfield College and went on to graduate school at the Dallas Theater Center and Baylor University.