November 2020

If you would like to obtain some well considered financial advice, contact Sarah Cecil 206-938-6017.

Brought to you by Sarah Cecil Financial Advisor with Edward Jones Investments.

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Vision 20/20, Burien's biggest art auction of the year is virtual and amazing. The event will run through special phone app called Auctria and it will run from Nov. 14th thru 16th, 2020. Here's what to do to take part

• Install the Auctria App Now. Here for IOS and Here for Android.
• View All the Fabulous Art in the Fundraiser.
• Sign into Vision 20/20 with the link you will be sent and be ready for bidding.
• Nov 14th - Bidding Begins at 6:30 PM

You will be sent the link via email and it will also be on BurienArts.org

Turn your at-home classroom into an African savanna, subarctic tundra or even a tropical rain forest! Each week, Woodland Park Zoo’s Zoo to You is now bringing your family fun and educational activities for animal lovers of all ages. 

Head to zoo.org/zootoyou for creative activities and learning opportunities for the whole family to enjoy at home. There’s so much to discover: explore activity packets including word searches, coloring sheets, yoga exercises, virtual backpacks and more. This week, it’s all about spiders — learn how to identify all the spider webs around you and even learn a spider dance! 

By Katy G. Wilkens

As we continue social distancing because of COVID-19, most of us will not be traveling to visit family or friends over Thanksgiving. Think of that as your gift to the people you care about: their health. 

So if you are planning a smaller Thanksgiving, or if a whole turkey seems daunting, consider scaling back to a turkey breast, a turkey leg if you like dark meat, or both. Parts are a lot easier to cook than a whole bird because they won’t dry out nearly as much. 

Another idea for a small Thanksgiving is to use Cornish game hens as your miniature turkeys. Usually one bird will serve two people, but if you want some leftovers, you might cook one bird per person.

Mini-Turkeys/Cornish Game Hens

1 Cornish game hen per 2 people

2 tablespoons butter

Fresh herbs, chopped (sage, rosemary, thyme)

By Jean Godden

Boards and commission -- there are more than 70 of them -- are a mixed bag in Seattle. 

Some, like the Pike Place Market Preservation and Development Authority Council, have a quasi-judicial role, regulating appearances in historic districts. Others like the Seattle Fire Code Advisory Board, are staffed entirely with professionals.

According to the website California Headline The Ledger Law Firm, a wrongful death law firm with offices in Seattle, announced that its attorney David Mann, Esq. will be taking on the case of Jessica Lewis and Austin Wenner whose dismembered bodies washed ashore inside suitcases on a West Seattle beach in June. Both had been shot multiple times. Their landlord, 62-year-old Michael Dudley of Burien, has been charged with two counts of first-degree murder and entered a not guilty plea. He remains in King County Jail on $5 million bail.

Within weeks of closing the West Seattle High-Rise Bridge, we have had crews on top, underneath, and inside the bridge working around the clock, six days a week, to stabilize the center span. 
We reached a critical milestone in this work this week as crews “released” damaged bearings on Pier 18, one of the bridge’s four main support structures. We previously discussed the importance of this work on Pier 18 in a blog in April. 
Lateral bridge bearings distribute pressure and allow the bridge to move in response to traffic loads, normal concrete creep and shrinkage, thermal variations, or even an earthquake. 
The lateral bearings on Pier 18 were compressed and bulging, locking together two critical parts of the bridge which normally independent of each other.  
Our bridge engineers worked with the contractor to determine the best way to “release” the bearings so they are no longer compressed.  

information from City of Seattle

Mayor Jenny A. Durkan and Councilmember Lisa Herbold have announced new, expanded roles for the City’s police accountability partners and City Council staff in police contract negotiations. In the upcoming contract negotiations with the Seattle Police Officers’ Guild (SPOG) and the Seattle Police Management Association (SPMA), a City Council representative will be at the bargaining table and Office of Police Accountability Director Andrew Myerberg, Inspector General Lisa Judge, and a member of the Community Police Commission will serve as bargaining advisors. This is the first time a community representative from the Community Police Commission has an official role in the bargaining process.