July 2017

The Delridge Neighborhoods District Council, in partnership with the Highland Park Improvement Club will host a candidate forum for Seattle City Council Position 8 & 9 candidates on Tuesday, July 25th from 7-9 PM. This forum is intended to engage and inform the residents of the West Seattle Peninsula, who comprise roughly 1/7th of Seattle's total voting population. This event is open to the public and the media.

The format is intentionally very simple - each candidate will be given 5 minutes and a microphone to present their platform. There will be no audience or panel questions during presentations, and once all presentations have finished candidates will be able to mingle with the audience. Snacks and non-alcoholic beverages will be available for purchase, and an area will be set aside for adults who are accompanied by children.

Local nonprofit WestSide Baby will be making a fun difference to the lives of local babies in need at their upcoming Stuff the Bus Bash, celebrating the closing weeks of Seattle’s largest diaper drive. The fun family event, which takes place on July 23rd will be an outdoor celebration for the whole family, featuring food, entertainment, trike races, a diaper dash, and more, takes place to coincide with White Center’s Jubilee Days. The price of admission is a package (or box) of diapers for local kids in need.

Li’l Woody’s, Seattle’s independent burger joint, will open their 4th location on Wednesday, July 19.  The newest addition to the family can be found at 9807 16th Avenue SW, Seattle, WA 98106.  

It will be one of two restaurants sharing the building with Beer Star, the expansive, 40-tap beer hall. The other will be Chinese Take Out now nearing completion too. 

 Li’l Woody’s will be cooking-up their well reviewed grass-fed burgers, shakes using local ice cream from Full Tilt, and hand-cut fries using potatoes grown in Pasco, Washington from Harvest Fresh Produce.

{See the video of Li’l Woody’s recent potato field trip here}. 

By Tim Clinton

SPORTS EDITOR

Semipro

Highline Bears

Highline's semiprofessional baseball team visits the North Sound Emeralds for 7 p.m. action at Edmonds Community College on Wednesday before dropping in on the Seattle Studs for a 5:30 p.m. game at the University of Puget Sound on Thursday.

The Bears come home to Mel Olson Stadium at Steve Cox Memorial Park in White Center to play the Everett Merchants at 7:05 p.m. Friday and the Northwest Honkers at 7:05 p.m. Saturday.

Pros

Mariners

Seattle is in Houston for an 11:10 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time game against the Astros on Wednesday before coming home to Safeco Field to face the New York Yankees at 7:10 p.m. Thursday, 7:10 p.m. Friday, 6:10 p.m. Saturday and 1:10 p.m. Sunday.

The Boston Red Sox come to town for 7:10 p.m. games Monday and Tuesday.

By Tim Clinton

SPORTS EDITOR

Two area Little League teams did the splits to open state all-star baseball tournament play.

The PacWest Majors age 11-12 squad opened state action at the Federal Way National complex with a 17-3 victory over Montesano on Saturday before taking a narrow 6-5 defeat at the hands of Queen Anne on Sunday.

South Highline National's Juniors age 13-14 team, meanwhile, journeyed to Shorewood High School in Shoreline and also split.

National opened with a 16-9 victory over Glenwood on Saturday before losing to host Shoreline on Sunday, 12-7.

Both teams are still alive in the loser's bracket and set to play Monday.

PacWest plays Bainbridge at 6 p.m. at the Federal Way National complex and South Highline takes on South Snohomish.

Softball

West Seattle Kiwanis July Events

Concert Under the Stars 

Delridge Playfield 

Mon., July 24, 7:30–9 p.m. bring a meal, snack, and or beverage, bring a seat or blanket.

West Seattle Grand Parade

California Ave. S.W.

Sat., July 22

For more information visit www.kiwanis.org.

Discovery Shop

4535 California Ave. S.W.

206 937 7169

We have Antiques, Vintage and Collectibles, quality re-sale clothing and housewares and weekly unadvertised specials.  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. More on our blog www.discoveryshopwestseattle.org and LIKE us on Facebook.

Provided by Sarah Cecil

By Pat Cashman

    The school year is well, well over---and young people everywhere have an important choice to make: 1) Get going and hustle to find a good summer job (perhaps three weeks ago would have been good)---or, 2) Spend the rest of the summer resting-up.  

    When I was a kid, I highly favored the resting-up option. The father in our household had an entirely different notion. In fact, if his wife---my mom---had not intervened, he would have had me up and at it---pulling down a paycheck---by the time I learned to walk. (Spoiling his plans, I purposely crawled until I was 12.)

     But isn’t there always at least one kid around town whom your parents can use as the ideal? “Why can’t you be like that Jenkins’ kid?” They will say. “That Jenkins’kid has three summer jobs---all of them full-time! What a worker!” 

By Jean Godden

When I was growing up reading comics like Spider-Man and Wonder Woman, they shushed us and said that children should be seen and not heard. Today there's a twist on that old saying. Women -- many of them wonderful -- are struggling with a gender version of "seen not heard." 

We are seeing rooms, filled with our countrymen -- overwhelmingly white men -- trying to silence, interrupt or ignore women. Examples of the silencing of women abound.

The phenomenon became most glaring during Donald Trump's campaign. Candidate Trump singled out women for mockery and ridicule. There is a long list of those he tried to disparage. Prominent among them: Carly Fiorina, Megan Kelly, Heidi Cruz, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Senator Elizabeth Warren and his election opponent Hillary Clinton.