information from North Highline Fire Dept.
It is with profound sadness that the Washington State Council of Fire Fighters, Burien Union Fire Fighters Local #1461, and King County Fire District #2 report the death of Captain Eric Boutwell in Walla Walla on Wednesday, September 11, 2019.
information from Highline Public Schools
On the first day of school this fall, students and staff of Des Moines Elementary started the year in a new school building. Now, the Highline community is invited to tour the new facility!
information from ArtsWest Theater
ArtsWest is excited to be kicking off their new season, Agents of Change, with the Seattle premiere of SUNSET BABY— an emotional and powerful play examining internal retrospection and change by acclaimed playwright Dominique Morisseau, running from September 26 through October 20.
This season ArtsWest continues to dig into their mission statement to produce artistic events that provoke conversation, incite the imagination, and use live theater as a powerful agent of change, focusing a lens on the idea of revolutions and the characters who participate in them - unpacking the concepts of change and renewal in shifting paradigms of the contemporary American experience.
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By Peggy Sturdivant
The Ballard P-Patch is Ballard’s Eden. It is a hidden gem just one block northwest of NW 85th & 24th NW. With its weekly bounty of produce delivered to the Ballard Food Bank, its free worm compost, its gnome mural by Henry the Ballard P-Patch is nonetheless stealth. It’s an official City of Seattle emergency preparedness hub and a garden laboriously reconfigured to be ADA accessible. The P-Patch is also endangered. The possibility of its loss to development feels like the last stand for me.
By Peggy Sturdivant
Although there third generation gardeners at Ballard P-Patch there is a growing need with increased density for Crown Hill residents. Nicole Stoddard shares the importance of this community for her family, husband and daughters eight and ten, after they moved from a house with a yard to an apartment with no yard.
“I love to garden and grow things, and had been involving the kids in it since they were quite small. It seems they really started to enjoy it, too. When we got our plot at the Ballard P-Patch we were overjoyed (we had to wait quite a while!). A dedicated space to plant whatever we wanted to grow, and making some new friends in our local community who liked to garden was very exciting to us.
A forum set for Sept. 25 will provide elected officials and candidates in the November Election with the opportunity to engage as well as meet and greet with the people who live and do business in the Seattle Southside. All candidates for the positions below have been invited to attend, as well as to complete a brief questionnaire:
September 25, 2019
5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
DoubleTree Suites By Hilton Southcenter
16500 Southcenter Pkwy, Tukwila, WA 98188
Register Online Here
By Jean Godden
One of the most urgent pieces of unfinished business before this nation is an imperative to do something about gun violence. Our gruesome summer of mass shootings has intensified pressure on Congress and especially on congressional Republicans to take up gun safety legislation.
There is widespread agreement that we must act to stop this constant carnage. Nor should we allow mealy-mouthed politicos to offer "thoughts and prayers" before they place blame on video games and mental illness.
These convenient scapegoats -- mental illness and video games -- may figure marginally in some crimes. But, far and away, the main culprit remains easy availability of assault weapons and large-capacity magazines that increase the number of rounds that can be fired. In the Dayton, Ohio, shooting, Connor Betts used an assault rifle fitted with a 100-round drum magazine to kill nine and injure 27 in just 32 seconds.
