May 2016

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West Seattle Timebank Open House and Potluck
Senior Center of West Seattle
4217 SW Oregon St.
Thurs., May 19, 6 p.m., Join us for our monthly Open House and Potluck. This month’s speaker is West Seattle resident Kellie Phelan. Enjoy an interactive presentation about how she uses her interests to connect with others including passing along knowledge via Seattle Farm School, swapping homegrown veggies with neighbors, and most recently, sharing essential oils with people. You’ll get a chance to explore these plant-based products. Come learn how they can help reduce your toxic load, promote more peaceful sleep, boost your immunity, and so much more. Kellie will share some of her knowledge of essentials oils with us and there will be tons of sampling time! Check out more about what Kellie is up to on Facebook at www.facebook.com/kelliephelan/ or her website www.kelliephelan.com. for more information contact Tamsen Spengler at 206.261.3586 or visit www.westseattletimebank.com.

Discovery Shop
4535 California Ave. S.W.
206.937.7169

By Pat Cashman

It’s odd that ‘funeral’ would contain the word ‘fun’ within it. Of course, it’s not the only strange example in the English language. There’s ‘die’ in ‘diet’; ‘ant’ in the middle of ‘gigantic’ (which is sort of the opposite of ‘mall’ being included in the word ‘small.’); and no matter how many times I see the word ‘legend’, I see TWO words: Leg End.

But funerals, of course, are anything but fun. Yet, in order to endure them, levity is not only useful but also inevitable.

Last week a Seattle woman suggested the idea that rather than caskets, vaults or cremation---we should compost our dearly departed. It is an idea certainly worth considering:

“Hey, remember those tomato plants we put in Uncle Ed’s compost? I’ll be darned if that one heirloom tomato doesn’t kind of look like him!”

By Amanda Knox
 
It’s easy to become absorbed in Steven Universe, an animated series that I’ve been binge-watching ever since another favorite animated series, Gravity Falls, came to its epic “weirdmageddon” conclusion on February 15th. Like the Gravity Falls’ magic- and mystery-riddled Pacific Northwest, Steven’s universe is only a little different from our own. The earth is populated by normal people with normal jobs, and Steven is a tubby pre-teen who’s noteworthy only because he’s uncommonly kind, and he’s half-human. His other half is Gem, an ageless, technologically advanced, and magical alien species of sentient gemstones who take on humanoid form. Steven’s guardians are the three Crystal Gems—Amethyst, Pearl, and Garnet—whose missions are to protect the earth, even against their own kind, and to raise Steven, the unnatural offspring of their beloved leader, Rose Quartz.
 

Police officers ask White Center residents for help

Sergeant Jason Houck, spokesman for the King County Sheriff’s office, said that the department hopes to interview as many witnesses as possible for information about a knife fight that ended with an officer shooting a man around 5 p.m. on Monday, May 9.

“We definitely want to take our time and make sure we get all the facts,” Houck said. “We want to speak to as many people who were on the scene as we can.”

He said that officers responded to several calls about two men fighting in front of a bus stop in the 9900 block of 15th Ave SW in White Center on Monday afternoon.

Multiple King County sheriff deputies responded. Upon their arrival, individuals began running away from the scene.

“From the time we dispatched to the time sergeants got there, it was about a minute,” Houck said. “It happened very quickly – and people scattered.”

One of the sergeants got out of his vehicle to talk to one of the men, who then began walking towards the officer, holding a knife at waist level.

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
Kennedy Catholic finished undefeated in the regular Seamount League season at 14-0 with Friday's win over the Wolverines.
Evergreen came in fourth with a 9-5 record.

information from WSCO

West Seattle Community Orchestras invites the community to enjoy a fabulous family-friendly evening of soulful and exciting orchestral and vocal music, Friday, May 20 7:30 PM at Chief Sealth High School Auditorium.

Wellspring Ensemble, a 40 voice choral ensemble under the direction of Evan Norberg, will begin the night with a set of gorgeous, richly harmonied choral pieces, all composed since 1900, and including the delightful “Animal Crackers,” several of Ogden Nash’s hilarious poems set to music by Eric Whitacre.

The concert will include a wide variety of orchestral pieces conducted by Kim Roy. The music includes Haydn’s Horn Concerto No. 2, featuring local soloist Andrew Emory, and Rimsky-Korsakov’s “Cappricio Espagnole” with colorful and virtuoso use of the full orchestra.

The featured highlight of the evening is the presentation of Ralph Vaughan Williams’ beautiful and rich, “Serenade to Music,” with the full orchestra and Wellspring Ensemble choir on stage together. This is the first collaborative effort of the two groups.

Dear Editor,
Here’s an update on my story since you published it at the end of April.

http://www.westseattleherald.com/2016/04/30/features/village-green-nurs…

The money for arrears is due by May 26th to cancel thel auction scheduled for June 17. I'm meeting with my real estate agent soon. Listing houses Tuesday. I finally got the amount to reinstate my loan with Ditech

It's big numbers

I've cobbled together the money from generous private lenders but any contributions
would be helpful.

I want a hammock. To rest in. For a week. Maybe daily for a month.

The impact this has had on me??? It's cost me my joy and peace. This took on a life of its own. Became my focus.

I've put so much into making it work that I stopped enjoying it for quite sometime.

Setting goals to create something I wanted that just couldn't come together.

I've learned you can't stay attached to potential.

By Tim Clinton
SPORTS EDITOR

West Seattle reigns as Metro League girls fastpitch softball tournament champions for the first time ever after beating Ballard by a 5-3 score Friday.

The Wildcats trailed, 2-1, from the first inning until the top of the sixth, when they erupted for four runs.
Gabby Wenn sparked the rally by blasting a majestic home run over the fence in left field at the Southwest Athletic Complex.

Wenn, who is this year's Metro League Most Valuable Player, also won on the mound.

"Gabby really helped herself out with that home run," said West Seattle head coach Trevor Leopold, whose team improved to 18-5 overall.

"I think I finally saw it," Wenn said. "It was my third at bat, I saw it, and connected with it."
Brynn Snodgrass followed Wenn's blast with a single and moved to second on a Berit Syltebo grounder before scoring on a triple into the gap in right center by Emma Atkinson.

Rosa Grossi grounded to second, with the throw home too late to nab a charging Atkinson.
Grossi stole second and scored on a base hit by Lucy Mead.

West Seattle held on to win, despite a one-run Ballard rally in the bottom of the seventh.

What will become of Schmitz Park Elementary once it closes this fall? The students will all move to the new Genesee Hill elementary which according to the Seattle Public Schools is at or near capacity. The same question looms over Roxhiil Elementary whose attendees, teachers and staff will all move to the now empty E.C. Hughes building in the fall of 2017. Westside School moved from there to their new facility in Arbor Heights this past fall.

The issues of meeting capacity, and what do with empty school buildings are those that districts across the nation face as populations shift, programs shrink or expand, budgets are reduced or altered.

Seattle School Board member Leslie Harris said, “We’re looking into things but there is no solid plan right now.”

By Tim Clinton
SPORTS EDITOR

Thursday, May 12

Fastpitch softball
Blanchet 12, Chief Sealth 11
Chief Sealth came up one run shy in its effort to claim the ninth and final district berth out of the Seamount League tournament.
Chief Sealth 7, Ingraham 4
The Seahawks scored a victory over Ingraham earlier Thursday.
Forest Ridge 17, Evergreen 1
Evergreen took a beating against Forest Ridge in a Thursday non-league game.

Boys soccer
Foster 3, Sequim 1
The Bulldogs of Tukwila kept their season alive with a victory over Sequim on Thursday and will now play a 2:30 p.m. winner-to-state, loser-out match at Franklin Pierce on Saturday.
Mt. Rainier 1, Curtis 0
Mount Rainier also stayed alive with a playoff victory Thursday at Curtis.
The Rams will take on Bellarmine in a battle for a state berth at 1 p.m. Saturday at Mount Tahoma.
Franklin Pierce 2, Evergreen 1
The Wolverines were edged out of the West Central District 2A tournament by host Franklin Pierce.
Auburn-Riverside 3, Kennedy 0