October 2022

Four reasons NOT to rake up your leaves

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

 

Good news, gardeners! Here’s a gardening tip that involves less work, not more.

Instead of bagging fall leaves or dumping them into the yard waste bin, just rake them into your garden beds.

Sounds kind of lazy, doesn’t it? But this minimal approach to fall clean up has definite benefits for the environment and your garden.

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Nina Marie Daugs

Nina Marie Daugs was born April 7, 1948, in Anchorage, Alaska. She passed away peacefully, October 10, 2022, at her home in Santa Barbara, California, surrounded by love, with her husband Dennis Daugs and daughter Jamie Kern Lima by her side. 

Casa Caffe at Italian Cultural Center in Burien will reopen Oct. 29

The grand re-opening of the Casa Caffè and Market at the Italian Cultural Center in Burien will take place Saturday Oct. 29 from 9am to 5pm.

Visitors are invited to enjoy a variety of treats from the Caffè- some old favorites and new including some new Gelato selections.

October is Italian Heritage Month. They have been closed for the last month for some remodeling of the cafe and this will be the first day in October to be open, They now have an expanded line up of Italian pastries, cookies, and desserts. An expanded lunch menu will be added next week including sandwiches and soup.

They will be grilling sausages for sausage sandwiches.The beer and wine garden will also be open. There will be new items in the Market, including some fall treats like Pumpkin Pantone.

They will also have Halloween candy for the kids

The Italian Cultural Center is located at 13028 1st Ave South in Burien.

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UPDATE: Small boat capsized at Don Armeni boat launch removed

Update 6pm

After some trial and error a boat that was piloted by two "older" men, according to a witness and abandoned at the Don Armeni Boat Launch in West Seattle, was finally removed. Seattle Police managed to drag it out of the water, then Lincoln Towing arrived with a flatbed truck to remove the boat which was a total loss. The boat appeared to be stolen.

Original Post 10:42 am

A small motorboat capsized while tied up at the Don Armeni boat launch on Thursday morning. Wind gusts of up to 31 mph may have contributed to the partial sinking. Debris, presumably from the boat was along the shore near the piers. It bears an out of date, 2004 Idaho license and according to a witness the boat had two people who tied it up and walked away. The police have been notified.

 

 

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Best of Hands Barrelhouse announces closure as of Nov. 30

The Best of Hands Barrelhouse at 35th and Webster opened on March 8 2019, about a year before the pandemic really took hold and just before the closure of the West Seattle Bridge.

But they announced via social media and citing pandemic recovery, and rising costs that they will close as of November 30.

 

"Best of Hands Barrelhouse will be closing our doors for good on November 30th of this year.

As many of you know we were only open for normal operations for a year before the pandemic hit. Unfortunately, among other things, the toll of the pandemic, the slower than expected recovery, and the skyrocketing costs of everything from CO2 to raw ingredients has made it unsustainable for us to continue to operate even with our current skeleton crew.

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Two major projects at SEA get approved; $4.6 billion will be spent on improvements

Information from the Port of Seattle

Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (SEA) recently wrapped up improvements to one million square feet of new and upgraded facilities. That was just the beginning.

Over the next five years, SEA plans to invest over $4.6 billion on projects to make the travel experience more predictable and convenient, and to elevate your experience from curb to gate. To help passengers prepare for changes during construction and anticipate the completed improvements, the airport introduced a new “Upgrade SEA” capital campaign.

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Drug busts nab eleven in Washington and California with arrests made in West Seattle, Ballard and SeaTac too
Three interconnected drug trafficking groups – 17 total defendants indicted since late September 2022

Information from United States District Attorney

Three significant drug trafficking groups responsible for trafficking more than 1,000 pounds of methamphetamine and hundreds of thousands of fentanyl pills are facing federal charges tonight, announced U.S. Attorney Nick Brown. Two indictments charging a total of eleven defendants were unsealed late yesterday following law enforcement activity in two states. Six additional defendants were indicted and arrested in September. Despite the arrests tied to a wire-tap investigation, the traffickers named in the most recent indictments continued their trafficking activities.

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