November 2020

Community Policing Teams gone; Where to take concerns or issues now

With the elimination of our Precinct Community Policing Teams, we have received many questions from community members about where to turn when they have a question, concern or inquiry. We put together the following resource list to hopefully assist going forward.

As always, please let us know if you have any questions. 

Stay safe and well. 

Crime Prevention Coordinators - Police | seattle.gov

About Crime Prevention Coordinators. Crime Prevention Coordinators (CPCs) are experts in crime prevention techniques. You can contact your CPC to inquire about general crime prevention tips, get involved or start a Block Watch group, request their presence at an upcoming community meeting and to discuss ongoing crime concerns in your neighborhood.

www.seattle.gov

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No Scandinavian sunset for Doug Warne
The host of radio's 'Scandanavian Hour' is retiring

By Peggy Sturdivant

How can you leave Scandinavians in the lurch?

The year was 1959 and sixty-one years later history is in danger of repeating itself. In 1959, Doug Warne, all of 21 years old, had just returned from the University of Oslo and discovered The Scandinavian Hour on local radio. Then host Svein Gilje announced he was taking a paying job, and it would be his last show. “How can you leave Scandinavians in the lurch?” Warne asked the radio station at the time. 

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Where you can get a copy of Westside Seattle in print

We get asked frequently where people can get a print copy of Westside Seattle, especially in West Seattle.

The easiest way of course is to subscribe! CLICK HERE!

A uniformed person from the U.S Government, in a white, red and blue vehicle will bring it directly to your mailbox! It's $56 a year.. for 52 issues. 

We've been continuously publishing since 1923 so that means something. We bring you local news in a way others never will. BUT, if you'd rather just pick up your copy from a retail outlet here are the locations.

 

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Ruth Bader Ginsburg gets the Graves Hansen treatment in the Admiral District

West Seattle artist Graves Hansen has been reminding people about the best of us for some time now. Through the simple, memorable and highly visible act of painting portraits of well known people on otherwise blank traffic signal boxes he keeps memories alive, promotes what they have represented, and honors them. It's because his art is so public, so unexpected that it always striking and a reminder to stay engaged in the world. But he is not getting paid for this work.

He does it for free. 

So far he has honored such diverse figures as Paul Allen, Ray Charles, Sir Mix-A-Lot, Nikola Tesla and Chuck Berry. But among his more recognized was a recent painting of George Floyd, who died at the hands of Police in Milwaukee WI.

Perhaps inevitably he has just turned his attention to a beloved figure and cultural icon for many, the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. It's located on the Northwest corner of Calfornia Ave. SW and SW Walker streets. 

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