July 2014

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Discovery Shop
4535 California Ave. S.W.
206 937 7169
You won't want to miss Sandal Sunday on August 3.  If you come into the shop wearing sandals or flip-flops, take 40% off any item of your choice and again on August 7 when it's Thirsty Thursday and you can take 40% off any item you can drink from.   All items with blue tags are $1.00 through the end of the month and items with yellow tags are half price starting August 1. When you're in the shop, don't forget to check our Vintage Finds corner for one of a kind gifts and a stroll down memory lane.  Please remember when you shop, donate and volunteer with us, you support important cancer cure research.  The all volunteer run, nonprofit American Cancer Society shop is open Sundays 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. and all other days 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

2014 West Seattle Outdoor Movies
4410 California Ave. S.W.
Between Hotwire Coffee & Dr. Wolff

Police blotter

By Tim Clifford

West Seattle officers assist in arrest
On July 17 a teller at a bank in the 1200 block of 5 Ave. called police to report an attempted robbery by a homeless man. The suspect passed a note to the teller that read “Homeless, hungry, I need your money, give it to me now”. Officers from the southwest precinct were asked to assist in the investigation.

When officers arrived at the scene the teller and a witness described the suspect as a black male in his 40’s or 50’s with dred locks and a dirty jeans and sneakers. The suspect left the building after being told by the teller “we don’t do that”.

Bike officers were able to locate the suspect on 4 Ave and Seneca. This time the suspect was holding a sign that read “homeless could you spare some lill money?”. The suspect was arrested and taken into custody for investigation of bank robbery.

Commercial trucks broken into

By Kyra-lin Hom

Stockpiling food, water and bandages used to be for the paranoid. Burying homemade caches of money and weapons used to be alien concepts associated with survivalist crazies and backyard neighborhood militiamen. Hand-crank radios and portable solar panels used to be for techno enthusiasts more than your standard outdoorsman. But times are gradually changing.

Whether our recent social obsession with zombies and apocalypses, our sensational crime reporting, the rocky global economy, or the planet-wide meteorological meltdown are to blame, survival is on everyone's mind. Even FEMA's.

By Scott Anthony

We stopped at Taco Bell for lunch yesterday and while in line, we saw the girl behind the counter chatting with a customer about a coin she received in payment from a previous customer.

When I got up to give my food order, I asked her what it was, a Russian coin?

‘It’s a centavo, I think’ she said. While we ate, I told my friend that a centavo is worth about 1/10 of a U.S. penny, and we considered the event together. Not uncommon to get a foreign coin in your change, as we have been getting Canadian coins in our pockets for many years, and they used to considered it legal coinage in this country, though now some businesses will not accept them if they’re found. I asked the girl about whether the coin was Russian because I had learned recently about the influx of Russian currency into this area as well. Mostly, it’s counterfeit $20s and $100s, according to a guy I spoke with at the auto parts store.

UPDATE 3:15pm
The fire investigator estimated the damage at $150, 000 to the structure and $50,000 to the contents. The house is considered a total loss.

It took more than 50 firefighters 15 minutes to control the flames. The crews were able to protect the homes to the north and south of the burning house.

All of the occupants safely evacuated. Two of the occupant’s cats escaped the fire. Firefighters rescued a third cat found in the basement bedroom. The tenants say all half dozen of their backyard chickens survived the fire.

Firefighters will remain on scene as a Fire Watch to ensure the house does not rekindle.

Original Post

A fire that began in the basement of a single family home in the 6500 block of Delridge Way S.W. shortly after 11am essentially destroyed the home though no cause or damage estimate has been announced. The fire produced heavy smoke that could be seen at a distance.

The one day wonder of Delridge Day will celebrate the vibrant neighborhood on Aug 9 from 11am to 4pm with live music, skatepark events, group games (think three legged races) and much more.

It will happen at Delridge Community Center and Park (at Delridge Way S.W. and S.W. Genesee St.).

The event hosted by the North Delridge Neighborhood Council and Seattle Parks will feature vendor tents, food trucks, a kid zone and more.

The Seattle Police SW Precinct will be back combining their annual picnic appearance with the event this year.

A portion of the sponsorships and vendor fees are gifted back to the community by providing scholarships for community center classes through the Associated Recreational Council.

The night before, Aug. 8, the Southwest Family Resource Center is presenting a FREE OUTDOOR MOVIE night showing The Lego Movie. The movie will show at dusk.

Music lineup:

11:00 Bill Wolford - world music, alt folk
12:00 Ellis Brothers - jazz
1:00 The Slags - rock and reggae
2:00 Roo and the Few - Americana

Former Denny International Middle School scholar, Jasmine Smith, 14, is the 2014 winner 4C's Seattle Youth Violence Prevention Initiative Group Mentoring was the 2014 winner of the National Mentoring Summit “Spell It like It Is" competition recently held at the National Youth Mentoring Training Summit in Orlando, Florida.

As part of the 4C Coalition, Smith traveled from Seattle to Orlando, Florida with other students, two mentors and two parents to attend the National Alliance of Faith and Justice's 6th annual Take a Stand to Keep a Seat National Youth Mentoring Training Summit in collaboration with the 41st Annual Conference and Training Institute of the National Association of Blacks in Criminal Justice. This summit/conference and training institute officially launched a multi-year national collaborative focus on the cooperation of law enforcement, incarcerated parents, mentors, and youthful stakeholders in reducing the “school to prison” pipeline from America’s classrooms, particularly for African American males.
 

The Angle Lake Shore Club of SeaTac, WA held their annual 'Clean Sweep' on Saturday, July 26th, 2014. The Clean Sweep is a volunteer event focused on clearing the lake area community of litter, trash and debris.

This year nearly 30 members and friends gathered at the Angle Lake Park boat ramp to collect bags, trash grabbers and gloves furnished by the City of SeaTac Parks Department. The group was split up with part heading out to the main streets and thoroughfares and the rest equipped with snorkels, fins and dive tanks took on the job of clearing the shoreline and deeper waters of Angle Lake.

When complete, the trash recovered filled the back end of a Parks Department Flat Bed Service truck. Content were mostly litter, cans and bottles but also included a few unique finds recovered from under the water. That which included half a wooden boat; a complete lawnmower; plus a Browning 30 caliber machine gun acquired adjacent to the fishing docks at the public park.

The USN Blue Angels will buzz the west side of the Seattle coastline, passing the Space Needle, at approximately 12:30 p.m. in the afternoon while en route to Boeing Field where they are stationed at The Museum of Flight for their appearance at Seafair's biggest weekend Aug 1-3 2014.

There are multiple viewing spots around West Seattle to see them fly in. Some good spots are Jack Block Park on Harbor Ave SW, Admiral Viewpoint off off SW Admiral Way, Hamilton Viewpoint Park, and anywhere along Alki Avenue.

It is with great sadness that Seattle Mayor Ed Murray announces the passing of Seattle’s 50th mayor, Paul Schell, who served from 1998-2002. Schell died this morning surrounded by family and friends at Swedish Hospital. He was 76 years old.

Schell will be remembered as one of the great city builders of the Pacific Northwest. As a citizen activist, lawyer, director of community development, port commissioner, dean of architecture and mayor he directly shaped the civic infrastructure of Seattle for more than 40 years.

Schell’s greatest professional accomplishment has been the infrastructure that he built and influenced. The first Libraries for All campaign was a brainchild of Schell’s, establishing and building a new downtown library and rebuilding branches throughout the city. He led the effort to fund Seattle’s first parks levy, rebuild the opera house and was instrumental in building the Olympic Sculpture Park, Seattle’s City Hall and Justice Center.