January 2014

High schools
Boys basketball
Evergreen High School of White Center is scheduled for a 7 p.m. Monday road game at North Kitsap, and at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday Chief Sealth will be at home playing Lakeside as West Seattle visits Seattle Prep.
Evergreen then goes to Hiighline for 7 p.m. action Wednesday before hosting Tyee at the same time Friday.
Friday's Metro League schedule has Chief Sealth at Nathan Hale and West Seattle at Franklin for 8 p.m. action.

Girls basketball
Evergreen is scheduled for a 7 p.m. non-league visit to Foss on Monday before hosting Highline at the same time Wednesday and going to Tyee this coming Friday.
Chief Sealth goes into action Wednesday with a 7:30 p.m. visit from Lakeside as West Seattle goes to Seattle Prep. Friday both teams are on the road for 6:15 p.m. games, with Chief Sealth at Nathan Hale and West Seattle at Franklin.

Gymnastics
Evergreen has a 7 p.m. home meet against Tyee and Lindbergh scheduled for Tuesday and West Seattle will entertain Holy Names and Ingraham at 4 p.m. Friday with Chief Sealth visiting Nathan Hale.

A fire did substantial damage to a home in the 3100 block of S.W. Webster on Monday Jan. 6. No one was in the house at the time of the incident.

The call went out about 5:46pm and drew more than 14 Fire Department units to the scene.

Neighbors said the home is owned by a Washington State Ferries employee and Seattle Firefighters on the scene confirmed that the owner had been contacted and they were on their way back.

Firefighters said that the home was being remodeled and that an overheated extension cord was the cause. The fire did an estimated $45,000 in damage.

By Katy Wilkens, MS, RD

I read cookbooks at night in bed. I love reading about food and looking at recipes and photographs of food. I am not alone. Americans buy more cookbooks than any other type of book.

I have shelves of cookbooks, baskets of cookbooks, notebooks full of recipes torn from years of cooking magazines. I have recipe cards, my own and those inherited from my grandmother and my sister, and people keep giving me more. And of course, there is the Internet. When I want to make something new, now I can explore five to seven totally different recipes at once, then compare and combine them into something that is really “my” recipe.

I use only two cookbooks day to day. I love my old “Betty Crocker Cookbook” (the 1970s version, with real, fresh foods and no mixes) and “Gourmet Grains,” written by one of my professors at the University of Washington. Other than those two, I have a revolving door of recipes I am trying out, from cooking magazines, websites, recipes passed along by friends, recipes I want to try, and recipes I probably won’t ever get a chance to make.

By Cindi Rinehart

In my business, it is said that any press is good and I've had my share of really great press ,but there was this one entertainment reporter that didn't think much of what I did for a living. He said and I quote:” Cindi Rinehart, who EKES out a SEMI CAREER talking about soap operas ..blah….blah…blah.

EKED!

I eked out a living????? I was furious!

My Program Director, Dick, was not only my boss, he was my mentor and friend. I have many stories to tell you about our relationship but, then, this will do for now.

Anyway, I immediately stormed into Dick’s office, read the article to him and said..”Dick, this guy is just a horse's ass to say that I eke out a living,eke!! What the hell does he mean? …eke…I’m gonna call him and” Dick immediately held up his hand and said, “Nooooo Cindi, slow down. I don’t blame you for being upset but don’t jettison off! The viewers will read it and probably deluge his phone with angry retorts. Let the viewers take care of him you need to take the high road on this one.”

High schools

Boys basketball
Evergreen is scheduled to visit North Kitsap for a non-league game Monday before visiting Highline in 7 p.m. Seamount League action Wednesday.
Also at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Tyee will be at Kennedy and Foster at Renton,
Friday's schedule has Tyee at Evergreen, Highline at Foster and Kennedy at Hazen at 7 p.m.
Mount Rainier of the South Puget Sound League North Division entertains Kent-Meridian at 7:30 p.m. Friday and gets a visit from Kentwood at the same time Saturday.

Girls basketball
Shorewood is at Highline for a 7 p.m. Monday game and Evergreen is at Foss at the same time.
Highline visits Evergreen at 7 p.m. Wednesday as Kennedy goes to Tyee and Foster hosts Renton.
Evergreen is at Tyee for a key Seamount League game at 7 p.m. Friday when Foster visits Highline and Kennedy hosts Hazen.
Mount Rainier plays a 5 p.m. game at Kent-Meridian on Friday and a 5:45 p.m. home game against Kentwood on Saturday.
Foster visits Hazen at 7 p.m. next Monday as Lakeside entertains Kennedy.

Gymnastics
Evergreen hosts Tyee and Lindbergh for a 7 p.m. meet this Tuesday as Kennedy travels to Renton with Hazen.

Sports Roundup

Friday, Jan. 3
Boys basketball
Auburn-Riverside 73, Mt. Rainier 69
Jamil Wilson-Jones poured in 33 points for Mount Rainier on Friday, but the Rams still came up short at Auburn-Riverside by a 73-69 score.
Andrew Lenneberg also reached double figures for Mount Rainier with 15 points in the South Puget Sound League North Division contest.

Saturday, Jan. 4
Boys basketball
Hazen 65, Mt. Rainier 56
Mount Rainier got big efforts from Wilson-Jones and Lenneberg again Saturday, but took another close loss.
Wilson-Jones led the Rams with 20 points and Lenneberg came in right behind him with 19 in the action against the Rams' former Seamount League rivals.

By Gerardo Bolong

DES MOINES - Defensive mastery ushered in the new year for the Class 4A SPSL North Division leading Mount Rainier girls basketball team in a 61-39 destruction of second place Auburn Riverside at the Ram home court on Friday, Jan. 3.

"Our man-to-man defensive pressure defense was the key," Ram head coach Bob Bolam simply stated. "It was really good defense."

Mt. Rainier (6-0 league, 7-2 overall) sowed the seeds of victory by virtue of a 14-0 first quarter run that catapulted it into a 14-4 lead. This opportunistic aggression was fueled by the swarming defense, Jordan McPhee's running of the offense and Brittany McPhee's scoring from all areas and venues of the court.

Brittany McPhee scored 14 points and marshaled the Ram rebounding forces on both ends of the court in the initial quarter's action.

Auburn Riverside ran off five consecutive points to open the second quarter and trail by only seven points at 20-13.

Any pretense of a tight, competitive match up was mightily dispelled at this point.

Gloveless door dinger leaves prints on bulb
On Dec. 20 at the 7500 block of 24th Avenue  N.W.  officers responded to a burglary forced entry at an apartment building.  Officers found the complainant and she explained that her friend lived at the apartment and has motion sensor cameras at his address that alerts his cell phone. He was alerted when the cameras recorded a man in a gray jacket attempting to break through his apartment door with a pry bar. He called the complainant she arrived on the scene to see the damaged door.  She said that the motion activated porch light was off when she arrived due to a partially unscrewed light bulb. The complainant showed the officers the video and it was apparent the suspect was not wearing gloves to the light bulb was submitted for evidence.
 
Temporary resident gets robbed at church

By Allyce Andrew

On Jan. 1, Dozens gathered on the shore outside of the Ballard Beach Club to witness the fourth annual Ballard Elks Pledge or Plunge. Though the number of the plungers themselves were few compared to others around Seattle, their motives for jumping into the frigid water were far more altruistic than masochistic.

As a recent annual tradition, the Elks decided to use the trendy event for ringing in the New Year as a fundraising effort for children’s hospitals, therapy and scholarships. During the inaugural plunge, the elks raised $3,000, but this year they raked in more than $7,000.

Cindy Olsby, a six-year member of the Elks, said she thought of implementing the plunge into their fundraising efforts about five years ago.

“Anyone can do it,” Olsby stated, “We do have non-members who actually plunge and that’s fine, too (but) most of them are Elks and want to raise money for charity. It is a social thing, but people want to get involved. This is an easy way to do their part for the year.”

Burien Arts, operators of the gallery in Olde Burien, have invited the Top 5 selling artists from their successful Vision 20/20 Art Event in November to showcase two to three larger pieces each. The show will runs through Feb. 2.

The gallery is located at 826 S.W. 152nd St. Hours are noon-6 p.m., Wednesday through Saturday and Sunday, noon to 5 p.m. It is closed Monday and Tuesday.

The All-Stars are Alida Schuh, Abstract, Encaustic; Alexis St. John, Whimsical, Heat Set Oil; Lisa West, Impressionist, Oil, Alexis Nasya Prall, Fantasy Realism, Oil, and Kim Gunns, Abstract, Oil.

Artists United will also present a January gallery show with artists to be announced.

The mission of Burien Arts is to engage, enrich and entertain all the communities, generations and visitors to the Burien and Greater Highline area through creative and innovative arts programming. The non-profit was founded in the 1960’s and for years operated a gallery in the little blue house at Dottie Harper Park.

This fall, they opened an exciting new gallery in Olde Burien.