July 2018

West Seattle, Southwest outslug foes

By Tim Clinton

SPORTS EDITOR

West Seattle and Southwest of White Center both came out slugging as the District 7 Major Little League baseball all-star tournament opened Saturday at the Bar-S complex in West Seattle.

The Westsiders routed PacWest by an 18-0 score and Southwest swung its way to a 20-10 win over Seattle Central.

Renton edged South Highline National, 5-4, in Saturday's other opener.

Winner's bracket semifinals Sunday feature West Seattle against Rainier District at 9 a.m. and Southwest against Renton at 12 p.m.

South Highline National meets Seattle Central in a 9 a.m. loser's bracket game Sunday. PacWest awaits the Southwest-Renton loser at 6 p.m. Monday.

The Rainier District vs. West Seattle loser plays the South Highline National vs. Seattle winner in another 6 p.m. Monday game.

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Herbold: Transportation Benefit District changes allow for additional service for Delridge

District 1 Seattle City Councilmember Lisa Herbold shared this news about a change in transportation spending that will permit more transit service to the Delridge corridor:

"Last week the City Council passed legislation amending the criteria for Seattle Transportation Benefit District (STBD) spending; under state law, these funds can only be used for transportation purposes.

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Seafair Pirates take Alki Beach before huge crowd
Seattle football great Sonny Sixkiller named King Neptune
The Seattle Seafair Pirates made their traditional landing at Alki Beach on July, 7 before a crowd of thousands who welcomed their annual visit. Taking the stage, they named Seattle football great Sonny Sixkiller as King Neptune, and being given the "Key to the County" by King County Executive Dow Constantine. "It must come as quite a shock to people who are new arrivals here at some tech firm when they look at this event and say 'WHAT?!' but this is what we do around here!," said Constantine.
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Special Olympics highlight the power and joy that come with inclusion and acceptance

By Gwen Davis

Seattle was given a challenge this past week: to support, celebrate and include athletes of all abilities and talents. 

The 2018 Special Olympics USA Games, taking place from July 1-6 in the Seattle area, brought 3,500 athletes from all over the country, 1,000 coaches, 10,000 family members, 10,000 volunteers and an estimated 50,000 spectators. 

Fortunately, Seattle rose to the occasion, and championed the athletes, highlighting the power and joy that come with inclusion and acceptance.
 

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Review meeting July 6 for three story expansion of building at 20th SW and Delridge Way

A design review meeting is set for July 6 on a project aimed at expanding an existing building at 9049 20th Ave SW.

Review Meeting
July 6, 2017 8:00 p.m.

West Seattle Senior Center

4217 SW Oregon St
Hatten Hall

The expansion includes an increase of the building footprint and an additional 3 stories. The proposed uses are 22 apartments, 6 small efficiency dwelling units and 7,777 sq. ft. of office on the ground floor. Parking for 35 vehicles will be provided off-site at 9051 20th Ave SW.

The architect is Atelier Drome Architecture. The owners are Craig & Mara Haveson.

The first design review meeting took place in March.

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SeaTac Family Fourth was a real family event

The Fourth of July is always patriotic, always marked by BBQ's and fireworks, but it's not always a near perfect family occasion. The City of SeaTac managed to produce that kind of event this year on the shores of Angle Lake Park. No alcohol in the park helped. As did a happy group of King County Sheriff's deputies and Explorers. They didn't have a lot to do. This was a very mellow event. 

Event Sponsors, Hosts and Financial Contributors
The Family Fourth of July is presented by the City of SeaTac.  We'd like to thank the following business and community groups for their sponsorship and for their community spirit!  

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Rodney Dan Skoglund, MD 1940 - 2018

 

Rod Skoglund, born January 6, 1940, passed away the morning of June 24, 2018 from complications related to metastasized ocular melanoma and its treatment.  He was married to Janice Montgomery Skoglund for 50 years until her passing in May of 2014.  He is survived by his children, Paul Skoglund (wife Liz) of Bellevue, WA, Susie Young (husband Brian and daughters, Abbie and Zoe) of Portland, OR, and Scott Skoglund (wife Allison) of Seattle, WA; as well as by his brother Albert Skoglund (wife Ann) of Walla Walla, WA, and sister Donna Koziol (husband John) of Bend, OR.  

 

Cars that fell in river after fire to be recovered; Global Diving has been hired

The fire that took place on a barge in the Duwamish River June 26 did send materials into the water. At least two cars could be seen plunging into the water during the blaze. Now Seattle Iron and Metal has hired Global Diving and Salvage to boom the barge and conduct an underwater survey for any solid material that fell into the river, according to the Washington State Dept. of Ecology. They said on the morning after the fire that an, "Oil spill containment boom was placed around the barge at our direction once it was safe to do last night so as a precaution in case there are any further spills from that vessel. Also, boom was set in place at the outfall of the Seattle Iron and Metals industrial wastewater treatment system to provide additional control for any possible pollution run-off from the dock."

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