May 2016

By Tim Clinton
SPORTS EDITOR

Garfield got the best of Chief Sealth, 3-1, in a Metro League boys soccer tournament semifinal Wednesday.
The Seahawks dropped into a 4:30 p.m. Friday match against Roosevelt for third and fourth place.
That action will take place at Interbay Stadium.

Garfield, meanwhile, will play Lakeside for the tournament title at 2 p.m. Saturday at the same location.
Wednesday's semifinal was played at the Southeast Athletic Complex near Rainier Beach High School.

A Land Use Application to allow a six-story structure containing 71 residential units has been filed with Seattle's Department of Planning and Development (DPD). Parking for 20 cars would be provided below grade. Existing structure would be demolished.

The early permits for the project were filed last year but this is the first full land use application.

According to the DPD page on project number 3022717 The owners are Ken Knight 4202 SW Holly ST LLC, 4170 Sunnybank Ct, Chelan, WA 98816 and Matt Orr, Union Street Investments 1326 Fifth Ave., Suite 438 SEATTLE, WA 98101

Councillmember Lisa Herbold explained:

"There is a MUP application and they are accepting public comment through 5/25. If people want to impact the decision-making around this project, they should know that they have that opportunity.

Go to

http://web6.seattle.gov/dpd/edms/

Enter project number 3022717

If the MUP application is approved, there will still be, Design Review, Building Permit, Demolition Permit – each requiring some level of public involvement.

A Ballard carpentry student is learning his trade by building houses for the Othello homeless encampment in Rainier Valley.

Anthony Heath is a student at the Seattle Central College Wood Technology Center, and part of their school curriculum is building tiny houses for the city-sanctioned encampment at 7544 Martin Luther King Jr. Way South and 7529 Renton Ave. South.

The Low Income Housing Institute (LIHI) owns the property, and they donated the materials for the project through fundraising.

Heath, 25, is from Olympia and has been living in Seattle for six years. He currently lives in Ballard. Heath started his carpentry training last quarter. Before that he studied marketing at North Seattle College. Partially through his studies he decided to make the switch to working more with his hands and building things.

“I love being outside and working with my hands. The biggest thing for me was that I wanted to actually build something and maybe give a family a home and look back and know I made a concrete stamp on the community, “ said Heath.

By Tim Clinton
SPORTS EDITOR

High schools

Baseball
Seattle Christian will pay a 4 p.m. visit to Foster on Wednesday, then the Metro League tournament opens Thursday with Chief Sealth playing a 4 p.m. game at Ingraham.
West Seattle waits until the second round to play a 7 p.m. game at the Southwest Athletic Complex on Friday and the survivors in the single-elimination go on to a day full of action at Steve Cox Memorial Park in White Center on Saturday.
The West Central District tournaments for the Seamount League and South Puget Sound League will also take place Saturday with opponents, times and locations to be announced.
Meanwhile, Seattle Lutheran will pay a 3:15 p.m. visit to Crosspoint on Friday.

Fastpitch softball
Chief Sealth wraps up its regular season with a 4 p.m. home game against Franklin on Wednesday as West Seattle travels to Ballard, with the Wildcats facing their finale at 4 p.m. Thursday at Seattle Prep.
The Metro League tournament then opens Saturday.

By Tim Clinton
SPORTS EDITOR

Saturday, May 7

Baseball
Eastside Catholic 3, West Seattle 2
Jamie Maples of the Wildcats struck out 11 Eastside Catholic batters, but West Seattle still came up one run short in a low-scoring game.
The Wildcats' season ended with the Metro League playoff loss.
Kennedy 13, Prairie 0
The Lancers shut down Prairie in West Central District 3A playoff action at Art Wright Field in Kent on Saturday.
Enumclaw 6, Kennedy 5
Kennedy Catholic was edged by Enumclaw later Saturday to fall into a loser-out game against North Thurston at 7 p.m. Tuesday at Heildelberg Park in Tacoma.
Sammamish 10, Highline 2
The Pirates were knocked into the loser's bracket right off the bat in the first game of the 2A West Central District tournament.
Highline 10, White River 2
Highline bounced back to beat the Hornets on Saturday evening, advancing them into another loser-out game scheduled for 2:30 p.m. Tuesday at Franklin Pierce High School in Parkland against Olympic.
Olympic 15, Tyee 0
The Totems were blanked by Olympic as they opened 2A West Central District tournament action Saturday.

By Katy Wilkens, MS, RD

Dining salt-free isn’t always easy, especially when you eat out. Just one meal at a restaurant can quickly put you over your daily requirement of 1,500 to 2,000 milligrams of salt (a good, healthy level for everyone). That’s because most restaurant food is highly processed, using heavy doses of sodium.

At my day job, I recently talked with a kidney patient who eats all of his meals out. Aside from costing an amazing amount of money (about $30 a day), all that over-salted food literally pushed him into kidney failure and onto dialysis. That’s a lifesaving treatment he now requires three days a week, four to five hours a day. Think of it like flying to Chicago three times a week. Now he is struggling with serious health complications - a high price indeed for repeated restaurant meals.

I try to spread the “salt-free” message everywhere I go: if you want to stay healthy and do the things you love, cut salt out of your diet.

With a little planning, you can avoid toxic salt, and have meals that are fresh, wholesome and tasty.

By Tim Clinton
SPORTS EDITOR

Saturday, April 30

Boys soccer
Mt. Rainier 3, Todd Beamer 1
The Rams topped Todd Beamer in Saturday's South Puget Sound League action at Highline Memorial.

Friday, April 29

Baseball
Kennedy 10, Tyee 0
Kennedy Catholic crushed the Totems in a Seamount League baseball battle Friday.
Lindbergh 15, Foster 5
Foster fell to the Eagles on Friday.
Shoreline Christian 11, Seattle Lutheran 1
Seattle Lutheran took a SeaTac B League loss to Shoreline Christian on Friday.

Fastpitch softball
West Seattle 11, Garfield 0
West Seattle wound up as a winner against the Bulldogs by shutout Friday.
Holy Names 11, Chief Sealth 5
Holy Names hammered the Seahawks Friday.
Highline 12, Tyee 2
The Pirates posted a win over Tyee in Friday action.
Evergreen 11, Lindbergh 1
Evergreen stood tall over the Eagles on Friday.
Kennedy 17, Renton 0
Kennedy cruised to a lopsided win Friday.
Hazen 1, Foster 0
The Highlanders barely slipped by the Bulldogs.

Boys soccer
Lakeside 5, West Seattle 1

By Tim Clinton
SPORTS EDITOR

High schools

Baseball
Kennedy Catholic will journey to Heidelberg Park in Tacoma (next to Cheney Stadium) to play North Thurston in a 7 p.m. loser-out game Wednesday. The winner plays again at 10 a.m. Saturday at the same location.
Highline, meanwhile, will go to Franklin Pierce High School in Parkland to take on Olympic in a loser-out game at 2:30 p.m. Wednesday. A win would mean a return trip to Franklin Pierce for the Pirates at 10 a.m. Saturday.
Tyee meets Sammamish at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the Kitsap County Fairgrounds, also in a loser-out game. The winner plays at 1 p.m. Saturday at Franklin Pierce.

Fastpitch softball
Foster visits Highline for a 3:30 p.m. game Wednesday as Evergreen entertains Renton, Kennedy goes to Hazen and Tyee to Lindbergh.
Chief Sealth will play Ingraham in a 3 p.m. Thursday Metro League playoff at the Southeast Athletic Complex with the winner playing again at 7 p.m.
Highline gets a 3:30 p.m. non-league visit from Seattle Christian that day as Evergreen travels to Forest Ridge.

By Peggy Sturdivant

The day I heard the City of Seattle’s Arts & Culture office was looking for a Writer in Residence for the Fremont Bridge I joked, “This is what I was born to do,” and added, “Now I know why I was born.”

I put aside whatever I was supposed to be doing and started writing the first of several essays on my qualifications, starting at birth. (Once again I’d confused 2000 character limit with 2000 words). As to why I should be Writer in Residence in the North Tower (Rapunzel Suite) of the Fremont Bridge for an Arts & Culture opportunity I said: I’m a writer who grew up on an island, fascinated by the mechanics of transport, between the mainland and the island, the drawbridge across the lagoon and all the stories that connect people and their surroundings. Although I’ve written all of my life it has been my profession (along with working with students) since 2004. A friend once said that I wouldn’t stop until I had connected everyone in Seattle; that drives me as a public writer.

Ken Christensen, former resident of the Burien and Des Moines area
passed away at Emerald Heights Retirement Community in Redmond, 
Washington on May 6, 2016.



Ken was born November 4, 1924 in Lyons County Kansas to Minnie
Reichardt Christensen and William Christensen. He served in the Navy
during World War II.



Ken graduated from the University of Washington in 1949 with a BA in
Business Administration. He obtained his certified public accounting
license in 1951.

He spent 41 years in public accounting before
retiring in 1992.

Ken was active in the Burien Chamber and served as president in
1967-68. He also served on the Board of Trustees of Highline Community
Hospital Foundation from 1982-1986.

Ken was preceded in death by his beloved wife, Doris and survived by 
his son Maurice, daughter Kendra Ledesma, four grandsons and one great-granddaughter.

A committal service will be held 11:00 a.m., Friday, May 13, 2016 at Tahoma National Cemetery, Kent.
Full obituary and on-line guest book at WWW.FLINTOFTS.COM