March 2017

By Tim Clinton
SPORTS EDITOR

McPhee stands out for Cardinal

Mount Rainier High School graduate Brittany McPhee is having a solid season for the Stanford Cardinal women's basketball team, helping it to the Pac-12 tournament title and into the NCAA tournament.
McPhee carries a 12.7 points per game average into NCAA action over 32 games. She has also averaged 4.8 rebounds and 1.8 assists and has a total of 23 steals and 27 blocks.
McPhee is a 6-foot tall junior guard.
The Cardinal opens the NCAA tournament with a 10:30 a.m. Saturday contest against New Mexico State.

Jordan leads Falcons in tourney

McPhee's twin sister Jordan led the Seattle Pacific University Falcons in scoring in their two GNAC tournament games.
She scored a team-high 15 in their 71-60 opening win over Northwest Nazarene on Thursday, March 9 before leading with 11 in a 76-68 semifinal loss to Alaska Anchorage the next day that ended their season.
McPhee averaged 11.2 points over 30 games with 5.2 rebounds and had a total of 56 assists, 53 steals and 10 blocked shots.

SDOT is offering a Delridge Rapid Ride H Line Online Survey, running from March 13-31 on the proposed RapidRide H Line.

King County Metro and SDOT are collaborating to convert the 120 bus line into a new rapid ride line in 2020. The webpage links to a description of the Delridge Corridor, opportunities and constraints, and tradeoffs.

SDOT has listed two options, which can be viewed here.

Option 1

• Adds all-day bus-only lanes from the West Seattle Bridge to SW Alaska St
• Adds peak bus-only lanes from 23rd Ave SW to SW Holden St

3257 Harbor Ave SW is the proposed site of 34 townhouse units with 21 shared parking spaces. This is a project spanning three lots. Pending LBA 3026219. An Early Design Guidance meeting with a combined agenda is set for April 6 at the West Seattle Senior Center.

This property was once owned by Michael Mastro, a well-known Seattle developer and real-estate agent who declared bankruptcy in 2009 with assets in excess of $249 million and liabilities of more than $586 million.

He and his wife fled to France in 2011 shortly before they were indicted on charges of bankruptcy fraud.

The property is now owned and is being developed by Jonathan Lemons
Lemons Architecture PLLC in Seattle.

Four project numbers are involved:
3026267 Nine townhouse units in two structures
3027133 Nine townhouse units in two structures
3027135 Eight townhouse units in two structures
3027140 Eight townhouse units in two structures

MEETING

Date: Thursday, April 6, 2017

Time: 6:30 p.m.

Location: West Seattle Senior Center
4217 SW Oregon St
Hatten Hall

Sponsored by Sarah Cecil

When you retire, some of your expenses may go down – but health care is not likely to be one of them. In fact, your health care costs during retirement may well increase, so you may want to plan for these costs well before you leave the work force. How much can you expect to spend on health care during your retirement years? Consider these statistics:

A 65-year-old couple who retired in 2016 will need about $288,000 (in today’s dollars) during retirement just to pay Medicare Parts B, D and supplemental insurance, according to HealthView Services, a company that provides health care cost projections for financial services firms. If out-of-pocket costs such as deductibles, co-pays, hearing, vision and dental are included, the lifetime figure rises to about $377,000 in today’s dollars.

The national average for a private room in a nursing home is more than $92,000 per year, according to a survey by Genworth, an insurance company. And the services of a home health aide cost more than $45,000 per year, according to the same survey. Medicare typically pays very little of these costs.

Recently installed outside Tap Station and Locol at the corner of 35th SW and SW Kenyon.. this new bike rack! Locol BTW mentioned they are featuring MARCH SANITY for the next couple of weeks, no TV, no basketball, just great beer, wine, food and peace and quiet..wink wink.

Seattle police reports
Shane Harms

Speaker equipment taken while wife asleep on couch

Police are investigating after a burglary occurred at a home located on 27th Avenue Northwest on March 3. The complainant told police that he left his home that night and locked his front door. When he returned later that night he found the door open. He found his bedroom door open and a carrying case containing an electric power supply for his Bose speakers gone. The total value of the loss was $1,300. He also discovered a clear cap cover for a hypodermic needle in his bedroom. The complainant’s wife was asleep on the couch during the incident. Police did not find any sign of forced entry. They were unable to recover any fingerprints from the scene.

Thief swipes keys, comes back for car

Funded by the Special Art Projects Grant from the City of Bellevue and the City of Seattle’s Neighborhood Matching Fund, Ballard Civic Orchestra will present their second performance of its 2017 concert series entitled “Celebrating Hispanic & Latinx Cultural Heritage,” featuring two notable guest artists, including top contemporary Brazilian musician, Jovino Santos Neto, three-time Latin Grammy nominee, master pianist, composer and arranger and countertenor José Luis Muñoz whose expression has been described as “amazing and powerful.” Ballard Civic Orchestra is a multi-generational, intercultural orchestra with a motto “Building Community through Music”. Its mission is to enhance community life, by sharing their passion for music to benefit the diverse Seattle-area immigrant and refugee communities. Conductor Paula Nava Madrigal is recently arrived from Guadalajara, Mexico.

Currently based in Seattle, Jovino Neto has performed around the world with personal style that is a creative blend of energetic grooves, deep harmonies, improvisation, lyrical melodies and great ensemble playing, always inspired and informed by the colorful richness of Brazilian music.

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.

Please join us for a work party at Ballard Corners Park (17th Ave NW & NW 63rd Street) on Saturday, April 8th from 9am-2pm, rain or shine.

We'll be spreading wood chips and getting the park ready for spring. Some tools and refreshments will be provided. If you have your own gloves and tools please bring them. Any questions, please contact Gabriella: gabriella@seanet.com or (206) 782-3238. We're looking forward to seeing you there!