May 2016

By Tim Clinton
SPORTS EDITOR

Four area Seamount League teams entered West Central District play at the Sprinker Recreation Center in Spanaway on Friday -- and all four bowed out in two games.

Kennedy Catholic, the regular season Seamount League champion, came the closest to winning playing in the Class 3A tournament.

The Lancers were edged by Prairie in their opener, 4-3, before being eliminated by Shelton, 15-5.
Three area teams played in the Class 2A tournament at Sprinker.

Evergreen of White Center took an 18-0 loss to Sequim in its opener before falling to North Kitsap, 10-0.
Highline, meanwhile, opened with an 18-0 loss to Bear Creek and then lost to Steilacoom by only a 7-0 score.
Tyee also earned its way into the tournament but took an opening 25-0 loss to Sammamish and a 23-2 defeat at the hands of Olympic.

All four area teams played their final games with 4 p.m. starts.

By Amanda Knox

Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman was first performed in 1949 and has since been celebrated as one of America’s greatest plays of the 20th Century. Presumably this is because of its subject matter—the debunking of the American Dream—and because of the urgency felt by the audience to witness the dissolution of this false idol depicted in a relatable way. In the play, Miller fluidly juxtaposes scenes of the promising past of an average American family, the Lomans, against their disappointing present through the eyes of the emotionally and mentally unraveling father, Willy. Their tragedy is meant to feel all too familiar, serving as an everyman example refuting American idealism: that each one of us is special, that the top of the food chain is within reach, that success is the source of happiness. The Lomans’ tragic loss of innocence finally allows for a new kind of truth to emerge—that Americans may be “a dime a dozen,” but at least we know what we truly are.

The Seattle Southside Regional Tourism Authority (RTA) and the Southwest King County Chamber of Commerce have announced a partnership in order to better promote the regional destination, bolster tourism and drive economic vitality.

The partnership is made effective through a memorandum of understanding in which both organizations will leverage the Seattle Southside name. What was known as the Southwest King County Chamber of Commerce will become the Seattle Southside Chamber of Commerce.

“There is an increasing understanding of the value of a singular place brand,” said Katherine Kertzman, president and CEO of the Seattle Southside RTA. “The more we can all rally around the Seattle Southside region the more we will all benefit.”

By Tim Clinton
SPORTS EDITOR

Wednesday, May 18
Fastpitch softball
Bellarmine 7, Kennedy 2
Kennedy Catholic took a non-league loss to Bellarmine on Wednesday in a final tune-up for West Central District tournament action to be held Friday and Saturday at the Sprinker Recreation Center in Spanaway..

Tuesday, May 17
Boys soccer
Pasco 4, Mt. Rainier 0
The Rams' state playoffs appearance ended with a 4-0 shutout loss in action that took place over the Cascade Mountains at Pasco on Tuesday.

Friday, May 13
Track and field
Metro League meet
West Seattle finished fourth on the boys side and eighth on the girls side at the Sea-King District 2 tournament that concluded Friday, May 13 at the Southwest Athletic Complex. Chief Sealth and other results were not available.

Louisa Boren STEM K-8 held a Project Based Learning Science Extravaganza on May 19, exhibiting an amazing array of innovative inventions that displayed K - 6th grade student knowledge of science, engineering, mathematics and techololgy well beyond their years. Students from Kindergarten to the 8th grade showed off their work on topics like Exploring Force and Motion, Space Exploration, Plants and Animals, Fairies and Gnomes (a model community), How organisms adapt, Plant and Salmon lifecycles, Cause and Effect, The Scientific Method, created an Eco-Mural, and range of applied science exhibits.

The biggest exhibit was a fully functional wind tunnel built in partnership with Seattle-based engineering firm McKinstry to further the school’s engineering curriculum.

Measuring 24 feet long and 20 inches in diameter, the wind tunnel will be used by students to test their model tower cranes—like the kinds dotting Seattle’s skyline—for architectural and structural integrity.

By Tim Clinton
SPORTS EDITOR

West Seattle was dunked by Lake Washington, 6-1, in the semifinals of the Sea-King District 2 girls fasrpitch softball tournament Thursday.

The Wildcats fall into the game for third and fourth place at 5 p.m. Friday at the Southwest Athletic Complex near Chief Sealth, where Thursday's game was also played.

West Seattle will play Eastside Catholic.

The Fourth Annual West Seattle Bee Festival is set for May 21, from 9:30am to Noon at High Point Commons Park. The event celebrates our amazing pollinators and invites us to help them thrive.

Start with the Honey Run where anyone can roll, stroll, run or walk around Commons Park. No fee, no pre-registration (check in at 9:30). Everyone can enjoy local, organic food from Patti Pan Grill, Wicked Pies and Full Tilt Ice Cream. Kids can get their faces painted and dress up at 10:00 for the Parade around the Park which starts at 11:00.

From 11:00 on, there will be lots of great information about organic gardening, and sustainable practices from Nature’s Consortium, Weed Warriors-Nature Stewards Program and Mariposa Naturescapes. Tilth’s Master Composter will bring the worm bin again this year! Seattle Made affiliates such as Soulever Chocolates (vegan truffles, yum!!) and Seattle Burlap, as well as other local businesses will entice you with sustainable goods and services.

Mayor Edward Murray is looking for four new members to serve on the Landmark Preservation Board in the following positions: Historian, Structural Engineer, Finance, and Real Estate.

The 12-member Landmark Preservation Board makes recommendations to the Seattle City Council for landmark designation and reviews all proposed physical alterations to designated features of landmark properties.

The Board is composed of two architects; two historians; one structural engineer; one representative each from the fields of urban planning, real estate, and finance; a Get Engaged member (a position for adults ages 18-29), and three members at-large. All appointments are made by the Mayor, subject to City Council confirmation.

Board meetings are held on the first and third Wednesdays of each month at 3:30 p.m. The Architect and Historian board members also serve on the Board’s Architectural Review Committee (ARC). In general, Board members must commit approximately 10 hours per month to Landmark Board business.

A Shoreline Substantial Development Application has been filed with Seattle's DPD to allow a six story, eleven unit apartment building in an environmentally critical area. Parking for 16 vehicles will be provided, at grade. Existing structures at 1118 and 1122 Alki Ave SW will be demolished.

Attollo Development in Bellevue is behind the plan.

Comments may be submitted through: 06/17/2016

The following approvals are required:

Shoreline Substantial Development to allow a six-story apartment building in an Urban Residential Shoreline environment.
SEPA Environmental Determination (This project is subject to the Optional DNS Process (WAC 197-11-355) and Early DNS Process (SMC 25.05.355). This comment period may be the only opportunity to comment on the environmental impacts of this proposal.)

Other permits that may be needed which are not included in this application:
Building Permit Demolition Permit

Your written comments are encouraged and should be submitted to:

PRC@seattle.gov
Seattle Department of Construction and Inspections

information from King County Sheriff

At around 12:13am, on Thursday May 19th, 2016, King County Sheriff 911 communications received reports of the sounds of gunfire in the area of SW 116 St and Ambaum Blvd SW, in Burien Wa. Very shortly thereafter, they received updates that a man had been shot in the chest and was laying in a parking lot of an apartment complex in that same area.

Deputies from Burien arrived in the area within minutes and found the victim, later learned to be 17yoa male, lying near an apartment complex in the 11400Blk of 16th Ave SW. The victim had a single gunshot wound to his chest. Deputies as well as medics from North Highline fire and King County Medic-1 provided aid to the victim at the scene before he was rushed to Harborview Medical center for emergency surgery.