July 2022

This is part of a series of columns prepared by the staff at the award winning West Seattle Nursery.  The Nursery is open for shopping, offering an array of trees, shrubs, bedding plants, house plants, garden supplies, and thousands of decor and gift items. They are located at 5275 California Ave SW and you can find them online at https://www.westseattlenursery.com

Spring planting was disappointing for a lot of people this year. The weather was cold and unusually wet. Everything was late blooming. Some things just didn't survive. All is not lost, however. We are having a cool, pleasant summer and so much is in bloom that planting now provides instant gratification. No waiting for seeds to germinate or buds to open.

The abundance of summer has arrived. If you want shrubs with big flowers and a long season of enjoyment, add hydrangeas to your garden.

Fire gutted both floors of an apartment building still under construction near White Center on Saturday around 1:40pm 

The building occupies the block between 18th SW and 20th SW on Roxbury Street.

The  building owned by BT Investments  is partially occupied but the half that faces on 18th SW was the one involved sending flames and a tower of smoke skyward according to witnesses on the scene.

While no injuries were reported one firefighter was taken to Harborview for observation.

No cause or damage estimate was offered by Seattle Fire officials.

Information from Seattle Department of Transportation

This week, we finished installing the nearly 250,000 feet of steel cable needed for the new post-tensioning system inside the bridge. With these cables in place inside the protective ducts, we started the process of tightening the post-tensioning system by pulling on the cables with hydraulic equipment.

A bicyclist was struck and killed near Spokane Street and Klickitat Street SW on Friday evening by a hit and run driver around 6:55pm.

Twenty minutes later near 34th SW and SW Myrtle street in Highpoint a pedestrian was hit by a black sedan. The driver  pulled over and stole the victim’s cell phone.

The phone was traced using the location data it transmitted and the location was reported as 31st and Othello Street SW. The driver is still at large at last report.

Coming July 16 is the 2022 Chief Sealth All School reunion at Lincoln Park

This event is open to all Chief Sealth alumni and their families. The reunion will held on July 16, 2022 at 3:00 pm, at Lincoln Park in West Seattle. We have reserved Picnic Shelter 3 (on the south end of the beach) from 3:00pm-10:00pm.

Come reunite with old classmates and make connections with those you haven’t met before. Please pass along the information to any alumni you know - the more the merrier!

Food will be available from Pizza Addicts. Pizza Addicts is a small, family-owned pizzeria with unrelenting love for great pizza. An authentic wood oven was imported all the way from Naples, Italy to bring you creative and delicious pizzas which cook at 900° and are ready in minutes. Prices range from $10-$30 depending on the pizza you get and if you add additional toppings. Payment will be accepted in cash or cards at the Pizza Addict trailer.

The Ballard Seafood Fest is back for 2022 and the music will be loud and plentiful as headliners NiteWave take the stage on Friday night at 7:45, with northwest favorite Thunderpussy at 8:30 pm on Saturday. Hundreds of vendors will line the streets of Ballard too with lots to eat and shop and learn about during the three day event.

2022 Gravity Payments Mainstage Music Lineup

***All Gravity Payments MainStage concerts in our 2022 lineup are free, all ages and all are welcome***

Friday, July 15th

6:00 – 7:30 p.m. — DJ
7:00 – 7:30 p.m. — #All4Doras
7:45 – 10:00 p.m. — Nite Wave

Saturday, July 16th

Being a largely beach centric community on a peninsula means West Seattle takes the tides perhaps more seriously than many other places. The so called "Buck Moon" on Wednesday is responsible for causing the wider swings than usual so at 2 a.m on July 13, the moon reached at its closest point to the Earth for 2022: a perigee distance of 221,994 miles away. 

That resulted in a low tide at 11 am of minus 4 and on July 14 around noon an even lower tide of minus 4.04 at Alki Beach Park. The high tide on Wednesday was forecast to be plus 12.07 at 6:51pm with Friday at 8:14pm a plus 12.37, on Saturday the same high level will be reached at 8:54pm

But at the low tides, marine life you don't normally see is revealed and many people are drawn to see that otherwise hidden world.