September 2011

Press release:

The 11th annual Lobsterfest at The Church of the Good Shepherd in Federal Way on Sept. 17 will raise funds for safe utilities through two humanitarian programs.

The fresh lobster is flown in live from Maine that day.

Registration deadline is Saturday, Sept. 11.

You can support this event by serving lobster at home. Just choose the entrée take out selection, at only $27 per lobster.

Or pick the full dinner, served between 5 - 7 pm. Order your entrée choice of lobster or BBQ ribs for $32, or the surf and turf combo at $40. All three dinners include Caesar salad, fresh corn-on-the-cob, rolls and butter, desserts and beverages. Also, wine and beer will be available for only $3 a glass!!

For information call the church at (253) 839-6100 or Barry and Karen White at (253) 854-6808.

UPDATE: SLIDESHOW

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Star Anna and the Laughing Dogs were a huge hit Thursday night at Hiawatha Park. Friday they fly to Wisconsin to open for Pearl Jam which headlines its 20th anniversary concerts Sept. 3-4 at Alpine Valley Music Theatre in East Troy, Wis.
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The Summer Concert at Hiawatha for Thursday Sep. 1 features rising musical act Star Anna and the Laughing Dogs, who appeared in West Seattle at Easy Street Records on July 11 with her record release party.

Anna, who is from Ellensburg has been praised by musicians such as Mike McCready of Pearl Jam and Duff McKagan of Guns and Roses, Velvet Revolver and his own band Loaded.

McCready said, "Star Anna is an American original. I am a huge fan of her music and especially her voice. She sings from a place of beauty that takes me to a higher place. Her CD's rarely leave my player."

Starting mid-September, Mayor Mike McGinn will write a weekly column for the Ballard News-Tribune and our sister paper, The West Seattle Herald.

This column will be exclusive to our newspapers and websites and will cover anything going on at city hall without limitations.

Start looking for the mayor's column on September 16.

Note: PAWS (Lynnwood, WA), Pasado's Safe Haven, Friends of Woodland Park Zoo Elephants (FOWPZE), a Northwest Animal Rights Network (NARN) campaign, and the Sound Animal Rights Alliance (SARA) are joining animal welfare agencies in California to call for a public boycott of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. They cite the abusive and neglectful treatment of the circus animals and the inhumane living conditions they must endure. Ringling Bros. is scheduled to perform in Kent (September 1-5) and in Everett (September 8-11).

Washington State animal welfare groups agree that using animals to perform in circuses is an outdated and inhumane practice. Handlers routinely use tools such as whips, bullhooks and electric prods to force the animals to perform unnatural tricks and confine them in chains and cages when they are not on stage. Baby elephants are cruelly separated from their mothers for training in what the circus itself has referred to as "breaking" the baby elephant. Covert videos and photos have surfaced showing Ringling trainers brutally beating elephants with bullhooks and electric prods.

By David Rosen

The Seattle Police Department and King County Sheriff's Department responded to a fight disturbance just after midnight outside of Papa's Pub in White Center on September 1.

The King County Sheriff's Department told the West Seattle Herald, " The call originally went out as 30 Samoan's fighting in the street with possible weapons and baseball bats and that shots were fired. As soon as we arrived we learned that there wasn't any shots fired or any weapons but that a guy got hit in the head with a baseball bat. He was taken to the hospital to be checked out. There weren't any witnesses or suspects as to what actually happened."

The investigation is on going.