August 2022

Information from the Seattle Department of Transportation

A first for White Center, the Defy Summer Bash presented by Lariat Bar as part of White Center Block Party is set to happen from 1pm-3:30 & 4:30-6pm

Wrestlers participating in an outdoor ring are the tag team C4 (Cody Chun & Guillermo Rosas) located directly outside Lariat Bar on 16th SW inside the Beer Garden.

If you want get a taste of what this is all about visit:

https://www.defywrestling.com

All ages will be able to experience it outside the beer garden. The Wrestlers will be signing autographs and selling merchandise too. 

More information will announced soon.

Information from Furry Faces Foundation

Update 8-19-22

The famous and much loved Paws and Paint event has now been re-scheduled for Aug. 28 from 2pm to 6pm at the Beveridge Place Pub.

Karaoke Host: Christopher Mychael

Update 8-12-22

Due to a family emergency Paws and Paint has been postponed! Organizer Teri Ensley of Furry Faces Foundation said, "We are hoping to be able to confirm the new date in the next few days." So keep your fur babies happy and healthy till a new date is announced. This event has been overwhelmingly popular in past years and is as much fun for the pets as it is for people. Stay tuned.

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Information from Seattle Police Department

Seattle police arrested a man late Thursday after he allegedly fatally stabbed his wife at a Ballard apartment building.

Shortly before 10 p.m., officers responded to the 7000 block of 15th Avenue Northwest for a report of a domestic violence assault.

Officers found a deceased woman at the scene and arrested her husband in the area a short time later.

Detectives continue to investigate.

By Patrick Robinson

If you were raised in a home where food was scarce, the clothes were hand me downs and you had no advantages you would develop a world view that in order to get something you had to earn it. That’s largely the world view of what came to be called The Greatest Generation, people who were born during the Great Depression of the 1930’s and lived through World War II. There was no shortage of competition, no shortage of hardships and it made people in that time pragmatic, clear eyed and grateful.

When the Baby Boomers arrived we had come to the 1950’s and 60’s and jobs were plentiful, wages were going up, and it was a time when the parents of those people wanted to spare their children those kinds of life lessons. That’s a natural instinct but it breeds a kind of attitude of ignorance of how truly hard life can be.

information from Defenders of North SeaTac Park

Defenders of North SeaTac Park will host a community celebration of the park’s 24th birthday (1998 - 2022) at the picnic shelter in the park at S. 128th St. and Des Moines Memorial Dr. S. on Sunday August 21 from 1-4 p.m. Occupancy limit by park facility rental is 50. Local media are invited to cover this event.

The theme is ‘celebrate to protect.’

This 200+ acre park, one of the largest open green spaces in South King County, contains forested areas, multiple wetlands, tributaries of Miller Creek, one of the few true bogs left in King County (Tub Lake), and a wide variety of recreational amenities, walking trails, and gathering spaces. Highline SeaTac Botanical Garden is within it.

The FAA wrote in 2016 that, according to the Port of Seattle “the Park is the culmination of a long term and very open planning process to compensate the area’s residents for cumulative airport impacts.” (1)