December 2016

By Tim Clinton
SPORTS EDITOR

High schools

Boys basketball
West Seattle hosts Blanchet for an 8:30 p.m. game Friday in the Metro League as Chief Sealth entertains O'Dea, then Saturday at 7 p.m. West Seattle is at home against O'Dea with Chief Sealth getting a visit from North Kitsap at 5:15 p.m. Tuesday.
Mount Rainier, meanwhile, hosts Lindbergh at 7:15 p.m. Thursday and Kennedy Catholic gets a visit from Kent-Meridian at the same time Friday before visiting Mount Rainier on Tuesday.
Foster hosts Foss on Friday at 7 p.m. in the South Puget Sound League as Evergreen travels to Lindbergh, then Tuesday Evergreen goes to Franklin Pierce and Foster to Lindbergh.
Highline hosts River Ridge at 7 p.m. Friday as Tyee travels to Steilacoom and Tuesday Highline is at Clover Park and Tyee at Renton.
Seattle Christian gets a 6 p.m. visit from Lynden Christian on Saturday and goes to Cedar Park Christian at 6:15 p.m. Tuesday.
Seattle Lutheran entertains the Aussie Basketball Travelers team at 7:30 p.m. Thursday before visiting Neah Bay at 4 p.m. Saturday and hosting Tacoma Baptist at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday.

By Tim Clinton
SPORTS EDITORS

High schools

Boys basketball
Chief Sealth hosts Cleveland and West Seattle entertains Ingraham at 8:30 p.m. Friday, then Chief Sealth gets a visit from Seattle Lutheran at 7 p.m. Saturday.
Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. West Seattle is at Eastside Catholic and Chief Sealth at Ingraham.
Kennedy drops in on Kentridge for a 7:15 p.m. game Thursday and Mount Rainier goes to Kentlake at the same time Friday, with Kennedy hosting Kings at 7 p.m. Saturday at Highline. Highline plays host to Tahoma at 10:30 a.m. that day.
Tuesday Kennedy is at home playing Hazen at 7:15 p.m. as Mount Rainier travels to Kentridge.
Evergreen visits Highline at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday and Friday at 7 p.m. Evergreen is at Washington and Foster at White River. Evergreen entertains Foss and Foster hosts Washington at 7 p.m. Tuesday.
Tyee visits Highline at 7 p.m. Friday and Tyee is at home against Clover Park at the same time Tuesday as Highline travels to Orting.

By Lindsay Peyton

West Seattle will serve as the launching pad for GarageHop, a collaborative parking startup.

The brand new company has set its sights on reducing parking woes and while protecting the environment – and has selected the apartment complex Residences 3295, located at 3295 SW Avalon Way, as its first partner.

“We’re a home for your car,” the property’s community manager Jonathan Allen said.

By joining with GarageHop, Residences 3295 can now to rent out parking spots that otherwise would have sat vacant.

And members are able to keep their cars in an assigned place, secure and accessible at all times.

The company is the brainchild of Hélène Costa de Beauregard, who noticed an excess number of empty parking spots in her downtown apartment complex after moving to Seattle three years ago.

“At that time, I thought it was just a fact of life,” she said. “But then I started digging around.”

By Katy G. Wilkens

Some of my favorite weekend breakfasts entail coffee cake, a misnomer as this treat is usually full of fruits and nuts rather than coffee. I try to use whole grains in mine, and often serve them with yogurt or scrambled eggs, which gives me a stick-to-the-ribs breakfast that keeps me going well into the afternoon. If I have friends coming for dinner, I might serve the leftover cake with ice cream or whipped cream for a delicious dessert.

To cut down on the salt to preserve kidney and heart health, I always use low-sodium baking powder and low-sodium baking soda. Seattle-based Ener-G Foods makes both low-sodium baking powder and baking soda. Rumford Reduced Sodium Aluminum-Free Baking Powder is another brand to try.

Walnut Orange Coffee Cake
½ cup butter
1 cup sugar
2 eggs
¾ cup whole-wheat flour
¾ cup white flour
2 teaspoons low-sodium baking powder
½ teaspoon cinnamon
Zest of one orange
1 cup oat flakes or oatmeal
1 cup milk

Glaze:
¼ cup butter
½ cup brown sugar
½ cup chopped walnuts or pecans
¼ cup orange juice from fresh orange

Man leaves laptops in car, stolen by prowler

Seattle Police responded to a car prowling at the 8000 block of 15th Avenue N.W. on Dec. 6. The complainant told police that he parked his car in the secure parking garage of the building where he lives. He left two Dell work laptops in a bag on the front seat of his car. The next day he discovered his car window had been broken out, and the computers were gone. The complainant said there are security cameras in the garage and that he would talk to the building manager about recovering the footage.

Bicycle taken from secure parking garage

Seattle Police responded to a bike burglary at the 1500 block of N.W. 52nd Street on Nov. 24. The complainant told police that sometime during the night someone broke into the fenced off area in the covered parking lot of the apartment building where he lives. The stolen bicycle is a black 2011 Ridley, and the reported value lost is $1,500. There were no security cameras monitoring the garage.

By Peggy Sturdivant

At a holiday party a woman asked me where I get ideas for my columns. “Do people send you suggestions?” The short answer would be yes. I gave her the long version, which could be summarized to, “it varies every week.”

I told her about the next column I’d be writing. How I’d seen a door-sized drawing of a bird at Ballard Mailbox, and tracked down the artist to learn more about his work, which appeared to be on a chalkboard. The bird was signed Dozfy; Ballard Mailbox knew he lived next door. I told the woman that I’d found an email for the artist online and that we were going to meet.

A few nights later my husband went with me to meet the artist and his wife at Brimmer & Heeltap, the gastropub that opened on the hallowed ground of the former Le Gourmand. Its 27-year owner Bruce Naftaly had warned us that very morning, “You’ll find the layout disconcerting.” The layout wasn’t the only thing that was disconcerting. We were meeting people we’d never met, invited to join them while he did menu art.

By Amanda Knox

When Chris mentioned this great film we should watch called “Spring Breakers,” I made a face. The title brought to mind an easy, lewd, slap-stick romantic-comedy, like “Bridesmaids” or “Wedding Crashers” except, instead of a dirtied-up wedding, it’d be a cleaned-up episode of “Girls Gone Wild.” Not a bad genre of film, seeing as films like that seem to entertain a lot more people than they bore, and find reiteration year after year. But certainly not my piece of cake.

But seeing as Chris and I had been pleasantly surprised by the ingenious meta-comedy of “Dave and Tucker Vs. Evil” just last week, I decided to trust Chris and give “Spring Breakers” a shot. Sure enough, it was a film that followed four young hotties clad in candy-colored bikinis hell-bent on partying hard, playing rough, and letting loose on a criminal rampage. But while this log-line describes the kind of film I typically HATE, “Spring Breakers” is now one of my favorite films EVER.

Carrying on a tradition that is more than a decade old Nucor Steel rallied it's people and others to contribute nearly 4200 pounds of food and a check for $15,000 to the West Seattle Foodbank on Dec. 10.

A crew of volunteers was on hand to unload the trailer and accept the check. Stephanie Sanchez, Senior Accounting Clerk of Nucor Steel brought the money and delivered it to Executive Director Fran Yeatts.

The breakdown was:

Food donation from employees 4,180 lbs
Cash/check donations from employees, $2,306
Nucor Match at $2 per total employee donation $12,972
Additional Nucor contribution $872

Total amount: $16,150

If you would like to obtain some well considered financial advice, contact Sarah Cecil 206-938-6017.

Brought to you by Sarah Cecil Financial Advisor with Edwards Jones Investments.

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