June 2017

Seattle Police have arrested an 18-year-old man connected to a homicide that occurred last night in Ballard.

Police were dispatched to an address near the 300 block of NW 47th Street around 9:30 p.m. after a family member found a 55-year-old woman dead inside a house they shared.

Police say the woman had “obvious wounds. “Medics were dispatched but the woman had already passed.

The King County Medical Examiners Office has not released the woman’s name or the manor of death.

Homicide detectives and Crime Scene Investigators discovered information that led them to an address south of Seattle. They arrested the suspect at that location.

The suspect was booked at King County Jail and this case remains an active investigation. Police are not releasing any other details at this time.

By Tim Clinton
SPORTS EDITOR

Highline's Bears took an 11-3 loss to the Everett Merchants in Pacific International League semiprofessional baseball action Friday.

The home loss at Mel Olson Stadium at Steve Cox Memorial Park in White Center dropped the Bears' early season record to 1-3. They were coming off a 9-6 loss to the Northwest Honkers in a road game last Sunday, after splitting their first two games at home.

Everett took a 1-0 lead in the top of the first Friday, but the Bears jumped into the lead at 2-1 with two runs in the bottom of the inning on an RBI single by Marco Calderon and an RBI sacrifice fly by Alex Sisley.
The lead was short lived, however, and Everett rallied for four runs in the top of the fourth to make it a 7-2 game at that time.

Highline got one of the runs back in the bottom of the inning to make it 7-3.

Cole Chambers legged out a triple to lead off the rally and stole home for the run.
But Everett held the Bears scoreless from there.

By Tim Clinton
SPORTS EDITOR

McCullough stands out as freshman

West Seattle High School graduate Morgan McCullough enjoyed a banner season as a freshman at the University of Oregon.
McCullough started at second base for the Ducks' baseball team, batting .271 (46-for-170) in 53 total games that included 51 starts.
McCullough led the team with eight stolen bases and also had six doubles, four triples and one home run. He walked 27 times, racked up 21 RBI and scored 24 runs.

Hellinger wraps up senior season

West Seattle graduate Sam Hellinger finished his senior season at Gonzaga University with a 4-3 record and a 3.79 earned run average.
Hellinger threw in 23 games for the Bulldogs, including one start, and had two saves.
Hellinger racked up 25 strikeouts in 40.1 innings of work and walked only nine.
Hellinger is a former draft pick of the Seattle Mariners who is eligible again for the Major League Baseball draft that starts Monday.

Brett back on disabled list

Deborah and Ryan Borchelt were pretty happy, living in Indianapolis, Indiana. They had a wonderful and successful restaurant on Fountain Square in Fort Wayne doing good business. After years of training and experience for Ryan (starting when he was 15) and a successful small chain of pizza restaurants for Deborah they had gone to New Orleans and came away with a deep appreciation for Creole and southern cuisine, though maybe it was in Deborah's blood to begin with, she was born in Little Rock Arkansas. The restaurant they built B's Po Boy features what Ryan said are, "Very flavorful," sandwiches, that are, "very simple and yet it does require skill to make it." He had gone to culinary school and worked in fine dining but found that kind of food "stuffy and not what I wanted to do." Now it's opening a Seattle location on Alki in the former Alki Bakery/ Fatburger location at 2738 Alki Ave SW. Monday June 13 is their opening day.

Crime Prevention Coordinator for the Southwest Precinct of the Seattle Police Dept. Jennifer Burbridge reminds us that "As the weather gets warmer, we often see an increase in residential burglaries," and had some advice not only on preventing crime but reporting it. Burbridge added "If anyone would like to receive this and/or my monthly newsletter directly to their email- they can email me at Jennifer.Burbridge@seattle.gov and, "If anyone is interested in having a free home safety assessment, please contact me via email."

For law enforcement - there is a difference between burglary and theft.
When you report a crime to 9-1-1 or to a Seattle Police officer, the language you use makes a difference!

Definitions:
Burglary
When someone enters physical property, not his or her own, without permission, with the intent to commit a crime
Theft
Whenever property is taken, that is theft

Types of Burglary:
• Residential burglary
• Non-residential burglary (commercial)

Burglary Prevention Techniques:

Past students and former employees are invited to take one last walk through part of the old Glacier High School at 1:00 p.m. on Saturday, June 17. The building will be demolished later this summer to make way for a new middle school opening September 2019.

Last November, voters approved a bond to build a new middle school on the district-owned Glacier site at 2450 South 142nd Street in SeaTac. Building the new school means saying goodbye to the structure that housed Glacier High School from 1960 to 1980.

Many Glacier alumni have expressed fond memories of their years there, before the school was closed in 1980 due to decreasing enrollment and SeaTac airport expansion. An alumni group is planning an all-school reunion at Azteca in Burien on Saturday, June 17. Alumni are invited to come and celebrate the school and its memories. Please contact reunion organizers to receive more information about the reunion.

By Peggy Sturdivant

“I need to take a break,” I told Ken Robinson, my nominal boss, Co-Publisher and General Manager of what will always be the Ballard News-Tribune to me. “I’ve been doing this for ten years.”

Ten minutes later I was at the scene of house fire in the neighborhood, proving several things at once. The daughter of a fire engine chaser cannot change, and my father’s journalist blood still pumps in my veins. At the corner of 28th NW & NW 58th the assemblage of Seattle Fire Department responders were putting away ladders and chainsaws, hoses still snaking through the intersection.

Lately I’ve been putting more thought into whether to keep writing this column than into writing one. Other than a title, I was considering “Swan Song, or Never Say Never.” I have so many other deadlines that the list of possible columns, wonderful suggestions from all sorts of people, seemed daunting versus enticing. But they are juicy; a retired Peace Corps woman who’s involved with a Vietnamese orphanage, the Jazz Vocal teacher, the graduating UW Design students who are going to activate the NW surplus substations later in the month…