March 2017

Discovery Shop
4535 California Ave. S.W.
206 937 7169
We have lots to offer you this week. Our awesome Antiques Events ends March 19 and there are still many treasures to choose from. We’re having Winter’s Last Hurrah and all winter coats, jackets, sweaters, hats, gloves, scarves and boots, and all items with pink tags are reduced 75%. Spring is here and that means Easter, too, so all Spring and Easter items will be on our racks and shelves starting March 22. The all volunteer run, non profit American Cancer Society shop is open Sun. 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. and all other days 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Follow our blog at www.discoveryshopwestseattle.org and LIKE us on Facebook.

Resource Open House For Business Owners And Entrepreneurs
Seattle Public Library–Delridge Branch
5423 Delridge Way S.W.,

By Jean Godden

"The greatest publicity stunt of all time" (or so they said) took place on Seattle's waterfront in the midst of a gridlock. The traffic jam occurred in 1947 after a tanker car filled with sweetened corn syrup broke its coupling and spilled gallons and gallons onto Alaskan Way at Columbia Street.

Ever the salesman, restaurateur Ivar Haglund donned hip boots and waded into the sticky mess. He was carrying a stack of pancakes and, while chowing down, he proclaimed, "Eat at Ivar's. We never spare the syrup."

It was a silver-lining moment in the midst of an ugly traffic backup, a moment like one in Seattle on February 28. That recent incident starred El Tajin, a Mexican food truck, that, when stuck in a massive I-5 backup, fired up its grill and began selling tacos.

The taco episode, reported nationally, was the sole silver lining in that epic backup. The February roadblock had occurred when a semitruck carrying propane gas plowed into four vehicles, rolled over and sprawled across the Southbound lanes of Interstate 5.

Assault on 61 Ave SW

When police arrived on the assault 3200 block of 61 Ave SW around 7:22 p.m. on Saturday, March 4, they found the woman who called waiting inside her home with her son. The son had been playing at a park with two friends, when he noticed an adult male behind the bushes nearby. He decided to leave the area because he did not know the man or what he was doing there. All three friends started to run home. Three unidentified males started to run after the boys, firing a bb gun at the children and striking one of their backpacks. The victims were not able to see who was chasing them. Police were checking the area for evidence, when they were flagged down at the intersection of 60 Ave SW and SW Stevens St by a man and his husband. They explained that they were having dinner when they heard BB gun shots. They went outside and saw a black sedan driving quickly by their house. A passenger in the car shot the man with a BB gun, striking him in the left arm. Another witness was also shot at his home window.

Dangerous driver

By Amanda Knox
 
We did it! This week, Chris and I finally finished all seven books of the Harry Potter series. For the last six months or so we’ve been immersed, listening to the audiobooks during car rides and at the breakfast table, and watching the films. Now that it’s over, I feel the same confluence of emotions that I felt after closing the cover of last book for the first time. On the one hand, deflation. What in the world do I read after Harry Potter? On the other hand, reverberation. A good story sticks with you, but a great story is a world you want to continue exploring—in all directions, at all depths—long after the last word was read. In other words, a great story inspires fandom, and in that regard, Harry Potter is one of the greatest.
 

By Pat Cashman

If you are reading this while driving at a high-speed down the freeway, you might not necessarily be breaking the law---although you ARE living dangerously. But if you are reading this while driving at a high-speed down the freeway---AND not wearing your seatbelt---you are definitely dead meat.

Specifically, you are 124 dollars worth of dead meat---the fine a policeman could slap on you for driving seat beltless. (If you are reading this while driving sleeveless, no problem. Your right to drive while wearing a short sleeve tee shirt is constitutionally protected under the 2nd Amendment: “...the right of the people to keep...bare arms, shall not be infringed---regardless of whether those short sleeves have fringes or not.”)
The mandatory seat belt law is something like enacting a mandatory PANTS belt law. It’s a law to protect people from themselves. In the case of seat belts, from injury or worse in a car accident. In the case of pants belts, from embarrassment or worse in a dancing accident.

What is the perfect recipe for a drink? If that’s the quest of brothers Jimmy and Johnny Rolfe they seem to have hit on the perfect recipe for a neighborhood cocktail bar on the way. The Nook at 2206 took over the space previously occupied by Mind Unwind and Treehouse Lounge is the product of years of preparation and four months of build out resulting in a two floor space that is warm, woody, classic and fun. The brothers bring allied but somewhat different strengths to the new business not unlike the drinks they produce as well. Both from Chesterton Indiana, Jimmy, 34, joined the Coast Guard and came to Seattle more than 15 years ago. Johnny, 31, worked in in Chicago at Alinea (named as the Best Restaurant in America more than once) learning about food and beverage pairings, then partnered with a friend and went to Charleston, South Carolina where he created a Farm to Table concept business.

information from Southwest Seattle Historical Society

Just two years shy of 100 years old, the Historic Admiral Theater will celebrate its recent $1.7 million renovation with a unique evening saluting four key periods in the history of the art-deco, nautical-themed moviehouse.
The event on the evening of Wednesday, March 22, is called “The Ship Sails Again: Four Screens, Four Eras.” Launching the event will be an indoor ribbon-cutting (using film instead of ribbon!). Also, the long-dormant outdoor ticket booth will come alive with public office-holders and volunteers distributing keepsake postcards commemorating the evening.

On the bill for this special evening will be four programs, each representing a turning point in the theater’s history and featuring films that have played the Admiral or its predecessor, the Portola Theater (which was in the building that is the current theater’s lobby):

On Friday March 10, King County, City of SeaTac and Burien leaders celebrated with a ribbon cutting the completion of the first segment of the Lake to Sound Trail, which will connect communities from the southern end of Lake Washington to Puget Sound in south King County:

The ceremony highlighted the completion of the first 1.5-mile-long segment of King County’s Lake to Sound Trail – a 16-mile-long non-motorized recreational corridor.

The trail provides an alternative to motorized transportation for walkers, runners, commuters and others, stretching from Renton at the southern end of Lake Washington to Puget Sound in Des Moines.

King County Senior Deputy Executive Fred Jarrett was joined by King County Councilmember Dave Upthegrove, former Councilmember Julia Patterson, and members of the SeaTac and Burien city councils.