October 2022

by Ethan Bancroft for SDOT 

We are excited the West Seattle Bridge has reopened for everyone who lives, works, and visits West Seattle. During the closure, we completed more than 300 traffic mitigation projects to reduce the effects of detour traffic in South Park, Georgetown, Highland Park, and throughout West Seattle.

To date, we have completed 63 of the 70 Reconnect West Seattle Implementation Plan projects from 2020-2022. We’ve also completed 55 of the 64 Home Zone project elements. You can read more about these projects in our latest quarterly report (Q3 2022) or in the upcoming work section below.

Overview

Sunday, October 23 from 2-5 PM at The Hall at Fauntleroy for music, food, games, and activities for all ages are all part of the Faunteroy Fall Festival.

If you'd like to volunteer, sign up here: https://tinyurl.com/FFFVolunteer2022.

With people's eyes burning, breathing made difficult the Air Quailty Index in Seattle on Wednesday reached hazardous levels. Only Lahore Pakistan was worse.

Seattle's average air quality was ranked at 209 meaning PM2.5 concentration.  Seattle is currently 31.7 times the WHO annual air quality guideline value. That is considered "very unhealthy" by the Airnow.gov website.

https://www.iqair.com/us/ has a more granular view and shows the area near West Seattle High School at 3pm as 257. Among the worst in the city.

Hey there West Seattle neighbors!

I have lived here for 20 years and am a Seattle Fire Fighter who works in the West Seattle district. Currently we have had an additional Ladder Truck (L13) and Medic unit (M26) assigned to this area (which we've needed for a long time) while the WS bridge was closed. At the end of the year these two rigs will be discontinued. I'm writing in hopes that your voice will be heard. Did you know that there is only 1 medic unit assigned to the entire West Seattle area? What happens to those medical emergencies while that unit is transporting a patient to Children's Hospital or Northwest Hospital.....it leaves ZERO medic units in West Seattle to respond. The next units would be coming from Rainier Valley, Downtown or north of the ship canal. Some emergencies can't wait that long.

Information from the City of Burien

By Patrick Robinson

Over the course of your life you’ve probably had some close calls with disaster. If not you then you certainly know somebody who has.

In my case, I probably should have been gone more than ten times.

Six car wrecks in which the car was completely destroyed (I wasn’t driving in all of them), three heart attacks, a gall bladder that was 15 minutes from failing requiring emergency surgery, a moment when I was nearly swept under a log jam in a river and numerous traffic incidents where a swerve or a quick foot on the brake stopped what might have been.

Is there a conclusion to be drawn? A lesson to be learned? An understanding about chance, or fate or purpose that can be reached?

In Greek mythology it was thought that there were three goddesses who presided over the birth and life of humans. Each person's destiny was thought to be determined by the three Fates, the sisters Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos.

information from King County Assessor

King County property owners who pay their property taxes themselves, rather than through a mortgage lender, have until Monday, October 31 to pay the second half of their 2022 bill. After that date, late charges will be added to the tax bill.

To make the payment process easier, King County provides several ways for property owners to pay their taxes quickly and conveniently. Payments can be made: