July 2020

Sourdough without yeast

By Katy G. Wilkens

I have been amazed and pleased at the number of people who have decided to bake bread during the COVID-19 outbreak. That’s because bread is one of the “Salty Six” in the American diet, one of the foods with the highest levels of salt. Making it yourself means you can avoid that salt overload.

Consider that a healthy goal for sodium is about 1,500 milligrams a day, and that most slices of bread from a grocery store have 200 to 250 milligrams of sodium. Toast at breakfast, a sandwich for lunch and a roll with dinner adds up to about two-thirds of the recommended daily salt intake.

When you make your own bread, you can cut way down on the salt or leave it out completely. I like to add fresh rosemary to my recipe for a more complex flavor without any salt.

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Alleged arsonist in White Center funeral home fire will be arraigned July 30
Arrested on July 16, his bail is set at $200,000

Matthew Robert-David Hicks, 35 was arrested on July 16 and accused of arson and burglary in the July 8 fire in White Center that destroyed the former Yarington's Funeral Home at 107th and 16th Ave SW. 

Hicks will be arraigned July 30.

The fire was set in the early morning hours and advanced too quickly for firefighters to save the building. 

Hicks was arrested and booked into King County Jail for the crimes.

According to charging documents from the King County Prosecutor's office Hicks is accused of breaking into the building a charge of Burglary in the Second Degree and then starting or causing a fire, Arson in the First Degree.

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Do you know these men? They pulled a smash and grab robbery at Wyatt's Jewelers in Westwood Village

Crime takes no holidays and is happening around us all the time. It happened to the new owners of Wyatt's Jewelers in Westwood Village on July 14, when they were the victims of a smash and grab robbery.

Lauren and her husband Tyler have owned the store since November of last year and have been steadily expanding their business. But this was their first experience with such a blatant and violent act.

Lauren writes:

"Around 2:30pm on Tuesday July 14th, two young men walked into the store looking for a gift, one short and one tall. The shorter man had on a dark blue button up, black Air Jordan baseball cap, and yellow gold watches on both wrists.

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Work platforms are up for repairs to the West Seattle Bridge; Carbon fiber wraps and post tensioned steel to be added

Crews from Kraemer North America and the Seattle Department of Transportation worked together in the early morning on Monday, July 20 to get two work platforms hoisted into place beneath the West Seattle Bridge. 

The platforms will allow workers to have direct access to the exterior of the concrete girders that over time have developed shear cracks forcing the bridge to close on March 23. The tasks ahead include applying carbon fiber wrapping, with high strength epoxy to the outside plus the addition of post tension steel cables, both in an effort to secure the bridge and halt the cracking.

If their efforts are successful they hope to be able to make a decision this fall as to whether or not to go further with shoring and reinforcement efforts to potentially open the bridge to at least some traffic.

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LETTER: Corrections needed to Councilmember Herbold's statements on Police staffing

Dear Editor:

I am writing in response to Councilmember Lisa Herbold's "2020 Budget rebalancing deliberations; No call for SW precinct closure" piece that was published on Friday, 7.17.2020.

Specifically, where she stated:

"Finally, I want to address the size of our police force. A recent report by the Vera Institute of Justice titled What Policing Costs compiled data from fiscal year 2020 adopted budgets from 72 of the largest cities in the US. There are two data points I want to highlight:

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Herbold: 2020 Budget rebalancing deliberations; No call for SW Precinct closure

District 1 Seattle City Councilmember Lisa Herbold clarified her position on recent budget rebalancing in her letter to constituents:

There has been a lot reported in the media recently about the 2020 budget rebalancing deliberations as it relates specifically to the SPD budget.  Unfortunately, some of which has been reported doesn’t reflect my, or the Council’s, efforts. I’d like to set the record straight regarding my position on the Seattle Police Department’s budget.

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1st Ave South Bridge repairs mean even fewer ways to leave West Seattle over night starting July 19
Fourteen bridge deck metal grid panels must be replaced

Bridge deck repairs are set to start on the SR 99 Duwamish River / 1st Ave South Bridge on July 19 which means the bridge will close for brief periods. That's going be yet another pain point for drivers trying to get out of West Seattle. There are alternatives of course but with the high rise bridge closed it means detours are necessary.

It will help that the Spokane Street low bridge is open to all traffic after 9pm when the 1st Ave South Bridge work is taking place.

The replacement work will take place Sunday through Thursdays from 10 pm-5 am with a fourteen day work schedule planned. 

Fourteen of the metal grid panels (hence the number of work nights) that make up the bridge deck of the northbound lanes of the bridge must be replaced  The highway is a critical route between cities like Burien, Normandy Park and SeaTac, and Sea-Tac Airport to downtown Seattle. It carries about 62,000 vehicles each day.

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Neighborhood Matching Fund information available at upcoming virtual workshops
Fund supports community-building projects in Seattle’s neighborhoods

information from Seattle Department of Neighborhoods

The city of Seattle’s popular Neighborhood Matching Fund is relaunching after a pause in funding cycles due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Beginning July 16, applications will be available for the program’s Community Partnership Fund, which provides up to $50,000 to support community-building projects in Seattle’s neighborhoods.

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