March 2024

Itto's sponsoring fundraiser to help family of Justin Cline
Sunday March 17, at West Seattle Eagles Club; 5pm to 7:30 pm

Join us this Sunday, March 17th at the West Seattle Eagles Club as we will be serving dinner and drinks.

We will also be hosting an auction and all proceeds will go towards the family of Justin Cline. If you can't make it feel free to drop off a donation at a time convenient for you. For any information please contact Khalid at 206-226-3184.

Looking forward to seeing everyone there!

What: $30 dinner, cash only please

When: March 17, 2024

5pm - 7:30pm

Where: West Seattle Eagles Club

4426 California Ave SW

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Pat's View: The Dickhead Adjustment

By Patrick Robinson

You’ve seen this many times. 

A new building goes up and somebody decides to make it their spray paint canvas with some barely legible tag.

Somebody parks across two parking spaces and you have to keep looking for a place to park. 

Backing out of a parking spot, a car races to get past you rather than wait, forcing you to stop.

Someone walks their dog and leaves their droppings on your lawn.

You are walking on the sidewalk and others don’t give you room to pass.

Someone stands up in meeting and launches a highly personal verbal attack on someone.

You are driving in slow traffic and somebody speeds past you, driving in the oncoming lane to get ahead of you, then you see them at the next stoplight.

Someone on the road with a bicycle share lane on a curve decides to race past them veering into the oncoming lane.

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Want to ride your bike on the West Seattle Bridge?
Cascade Bicycle Club Emerald City Ride May 5 includes the high bridge.

The Cascade Bicycle Club is about to answer some cyclists dreams. Coming up May 5 is the Emerald City Ride that will take riders over the West Seattle Bridge for the first time plus Alki Beach and the low bridge as well. 

More information and registration here.

From the the event page:

See Seattle by bike from a state highway! We're taking over southbound SR-99 and the West Seattle Bridge for an early morning spin around Alki and a jaunt south to Fauntleroy. This 20-mile ride offers a car-free experience for the first three and a half miles and takes you past some of the best lookout points and views of the Seattle skyline and Puget Sound's islands.

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Vicki Schmitz shares her family history and how it became part of West Seattle

By Patrick Robinson

If you know anything about West Seattle, you will recognize the last name Schmitz. While the name is known, the story behind it is less so. 

The standard bearer of the name for decades now has been Vicki Schmitz and in a conversation with Westside Seattle we explored her personal history and how the Schmitz family came to be woven into the fabric of the West Seattle community.

Vicki was born in Seattle in 1940 as Vicki Lee living in Riverton Heights and at age five, moved to 44th SW and SW Graham Street in West Seattle. Her father was a King County Sheriff and her mother was a homemaker. The family moved to Kent when she was eight, for her father to take the job as first Chief of Police. She attended school in Kent, graduating from Kent Meridian High School in 1957 and moved on to the University of Washington, where she studied English.

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Derek Sheen headlining Jokes at the Junction March 7
Great American Diner; Show starts at 8pm

This Thursday March 7 - Live comedy with comedians appearing in WA State comedy competition, with headliner Derek Sheen.

 An affordable evening of comedy is happening at the Great American Diner corner of California and Edmunds Street SW in the West Seattle Junction.  

 Tickets are available right over here, currently on early discount!

Auditioners are coming back to Great American Diner and closing the show is Derek Sheen who has released four critically acclaimed comedy albums: Holy Drivel(2012), Tiny Idiot (2016), Disasturbation (2017), Macho Caballero (2020).

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Can you help? West Seattle Elementary School teacher's car stolen

WestsideSeattle's news partner Q13 Fox News shared this notice

Rose Glen is an instructional assistant at West Seattle Elementary School. While she was working Thursday her car was stolen from the school parking lot in broad daylight.

She says no officer has been assigned to her case since the department doesn't have resources to dedicate to an auto theft. She's hoping through using GoFundMe that she can either locate her car, or buy a replacement.  

The fundraiser can be found here: 

Car Stolen From WS Elementary Not Recovered

The GoFundMe Page states:

MY CAR WAS STOLEN FROM WEST SEATTLE ELEMENTARY

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Sound Transit Open House on Link Light rail shares feedback
Meeting materials now posted

Hundreds of people took an interest in and attended the Sound Transit open house on the West Seattle extension of the LInk LIght Rail March 5. The Alki Masonic Hall was full of easels showing the current state of the plans for the project set to be complete by 2032.

Learn more at the Sound Transit page for this here.

The full set of meeting materials was set to published online on Wednesday but the current plans call for 148 housing units and 66 businesses to be removed to accommodate the project. 

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