May 2017

Dr. Flip Herndon, Associate Superintendent for Capital Projects and Planning and Enrollment Planning, will meet with the Louisa Boren K-8 STEM School Community on June 1st from 6:30-7:30 at Louisa Boren School to provide information and answer questions.

Tom Redman, speaking for the district said, "With growing student enrollment and the McCleary class size student-teacher ratios for grades K-3 issue, we'll need additional classrooms in our elementary school buildings. With this in mind, we need to identify short and long term capacity solutions for Genesee Hill, Alki and Lafayette elementary schools.

At the same time, we need to identify interim locations for future school capital construction projects: we will consider the use of Schmitz Park, Louisa Boren and Roxhill school buildings as options."

Update: 2:45pm
Seattle Public Schools said that the 911 callout this morning to the former Schmitz Park Elementary school building was a "steam value issue: it’s designed to emit steam when there is a boiler malfunction. Our engineers are working on it."

Original Post
Seattle Fire Dept. crews responded to a 911 call Wednesday morning just after 9am to the former Schmitz Park Elementary School at 5000 SW Spokane Street. There was no smoke reported but the Incident commander said that "It appears it was some kind of steam leak inside the boiler room" at the building that had caused staff to call. Tom Redman, facilities Manager for Seattle Public Schools said that Pre-school classes at the school were being moved to another site likely Genesee Hill Elementary for the day but no word yet on whether or when they will resume at the Schmitz Park site.

Update 6:00am
The young man shot following some kind of incident on Alki Tuesday evening has died. He was 23 years old. Seattle Police say reports of a suspect or suspect vehicle are not yet verified. The police believe it was not a random shooting.

Original report
A young man in his 20's was shot multiple times suffering life threatening injuries according to people near the scene on Alki Beach at 61st and Alki Ave SW Tuesdsay night. He was taken to Harborview Medical Center. Earlier reports that he had died at the scene were inaccurate.

The area was cordoned off by police as the investigation into the incident began.

Traffic was stopped in the area.

According to scanner traffic shortly after the incident a suspect vehicle was being sought. UPDATE: The vehicle was described by police on scanner as a "low rider" style vehicle. Last seen going across West Seattle Bridge eastbound around 9:15pm. That vehicle was later checked out and found not to be involved according to Seattle Police.

Navos Mental Health and Wellness Center is presenting a free Community Health Fair Thursday, June 1 at their location in Burien at 136th Street and Ambaum Blvd. SW. Exhibitor booths will feature resources for mental health, diabetes and blood pressure, lung health, HIV and Hepatitis C testing, affordable housing, LGBT, financial services and more.

The event will feature family friendly kids activities from 3pm to 6pm with an outside bouncy house and fun games.

Molina Healthcare of Washington is the sponsor of the event.

SEATTLE – Port of Seattle Commissioners Stephanie Bowman, Fred Felleman and Sound Transit CEO Peter Rogoff will gather Wednesday, May 24 at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport to highlight accessibility improvements made to the walkway in the airport parking garage.

Local transit accessibility advocate Cindi Laws will also be on hand to discuss how improvements, including a free shuttle cart from the light rail station to the airport, are a major boost for airport users with mobility issues.

The Port Commissioners and Sound Transit CEO will also discuss the future of regional transit and how record passenger totals at Sea-Tac make taking light rail more attractive than ever.

Sea-Tac Airport Transit Walkway Accessibility Media Availability

When: Wednesday, May 24 – 10 a.m.

Where: Sea-Tac Airport - entrance of transit walkway inside parking garage on west side.
(Take Skybridge 1, near Alaska ticketing counters, turn left toward walkway)

Who:
Port of Seattle Commissioners Stephanie Bowman and Fred Felleman
Sound Transit CEO Peter Rogoff
Transit accessibility advocate Cindi Laws

From a press release:

Ken Rogers is announcing he will run for Position Four on the Port of Seattle Commission. With an aviation industry career spanning three decades, Rogers is a uniquely experienced candidate. He would be the first port commissioner with an extensive background in international aviation and passenger airline transportation.

“I am running for Port Commission because I want to make a contribution to my community using the experience I’ve gained over the past 30 years in aviation,” says Rogers. “Nearly eighty percent of the port’s total revenue is related to aviation, and yet none of the current commissioners has experience in the aviation industry. I bring an understanding of aviation safety and security, as well as airline operations, labor relations and international business economics.”

Rogers is a former airline pilot and labor leader who held leadership positions in the Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA) throughout his flying career. For ten years, he served on the Board of Directors of one of the world’s largest passenger airlines.

Rogers believes:

By Peggy Sturdivant

Some of the people crowded into the west corner of Ballard Bauhaus looked like they didn’t know what had hit them when it came to the small print of City of Seattle Land Use code. Others looked worn down by years of attempting to close loopholes dating back to 2010, but they were there too.

Magnolia resident, a UW Capital Project Planner and 25-year Architect David Moehring was delighted to have 30 people show up to discuss a land use application. A project with 19 new dwellings on a 17,800 square foot lot has touched a nerve.

Opposition to a project is often framed as single-family against multi-family. The neighbors who strained to hear Moerhing, and one another, were a cross-section of Ballard Hub residents. There were townhouse residents, apartment dwellers, and yes, the increasingly rare single-family homeowner in the Ballard Urban Village overlay.

“It’s not about the density,” one attendee said. “That ship has sailed. It’s about not having any say about design or short plats until it’s too late.”

By Tim Clinton
SPORTS EDITOR

High schools
Golf
State high school golf action is taking place Tuesday and Wednesday of this week for all classifications at a wide variety of locations.
The 4A boys are playing at Liberty Lake in Spokane and the girls at Meadowwood in Spokane, while the 3A boys are at Columbia Point in Richland and the girls at Canyon Lakes in Kennewick.
The 2A girls are at Indian Canyon in Spokane and the 2A boys at Qualchan in Spokane.
The 1A boys are at Sun Willows in Pasco with the 1B/2B boys and 1B/2B/1A girls at Horn Rapids in Richland.

Track and field
State Class 2A, 3A and 4A action is being held at Mount Tahoma High School in Tacoma this Thursday, Friday and Saturday, while the 1A, 2B and 1B competition is taking place the same days at Eastern Washington University in Cheney.
Field events at Mount Tahoma start at 3 p.m. Thursday with running events getting underway at 3:30 p.m.
Friday's schedule has field events starting at 9 a.m., with a second session starting at 12:30 p.m.

When the weather gets good around here people flock to the beach. We live on a peninsula after all and in keeping with our reputation for fitness and health a group of West Seattle mom's made their way down to Me Kwa Mooks on Beach Drive SW to exercise . They are part of FIT4MOM the country's largest fitness program for mothers offering pre and post natal fitness classes for every stage in motherhood.

Editors Note: These are the remarks delivered by Robert Skotheim at the Centennial Celebration for Fauntleroy School that was held on May 21. Skotheim, an alumnus of the school was one of the featured speakers at the event, and went on to become President of Whitman College, Director of the Huntington Library, and winner of the Guggenheim Fellowship for Humanities. His remarks are reproduced here with his permission.

By Robert Allen Skotheim

I want to take us back 75 years to 1942, World War II, the beginning of the most important years in Fauntleroy for the oldest of us gathered here today. Though a tragic event in many ways, the Second World War enhanced life for most Americans, including those in Fauntleroy, bringing them out of the Great Depression and ushering in the prosperity of the post-war era.