November 2014

By Ed Shepherd
Sports Correspondent
Kennedy Catholic star and graduate Aminah Williams and Seattle Christian Schools standout and graduate Katie Collier played instrumental roles in helping the University of Washington women's basketball team devastate Ivy League school Yale, 81-51, on the Alaska Airlines Arena floor Sunday.

"They are two of our inside presences," said UW women's coach Mike Neighbors, who spoke of the 6-0 forward Williams and the 6-3 center/forward, Collier. "This year, Katie's made solid strides. Her sophomore year. She's coming back from a meniscus tear, last season, as a freshman. She's really progressing. Aminah Williams will have an opportunity to earn some money next year."

That latter thing said, about Williams, since she's a senior... Hmmm, if one does the math, that means she has the talent to play at the next level, in the WNBA, or 'Women's National Basketball Association.' So, high praise there for Williams from her coach.

By Ed Shepherd
SPORTS CORRESPONDENT

PARKLAND--Foster barked pretty loudly to begin its match against Washington, getting ahead, 20-14, in the first set.

But there was one problem, no bite, as the Patriots came back to win that first game and subsequently the match by scores of 24-26, 28-30, 25-18, 18-25, to eliminate the Bulldogs from the West Central District 3 2A Volleyball Tournament at Washington High School in Parkland Friday.

"We battled, missed some opportunities," said Buldogs' coach Brandi Travess. "First two games ahead and should have been able to put them away and win the match."

The Bulldogs began the match, in game one, battling, as, both they and the Patriots exchanged points via good serves from players on their teams for a 10-10 tie.

By Ed Shepherd
SPORTS CORRESPONDENT

SEATTLE--The University of Washington's excellent run into the Elite 8 of the NCAA men's soccer tournament can be partially attributed to the season success of two local players, Kennedy Catholic grad Ian Lange and Mount Rainier grad Darwin Jones, with Jones experiencing a quad pull five games ago but still did plenty this season for the Huskies.

Lange's been a force all season for the Dawgs, including helping the Huskies, on offense and defense, not to mention, the do-or-die PK ending of the round of 16 Furman University game. The UW beat the Paladins from Greenville, S.C., 6-5, after the 90-minutes of regulation play and two 10-minute "golden goal" overtimes and a penalty kick, sudden death, shootout, finale at Husky Field Sunday.

Update 9:30pm
The White Center portion of the power outage Thanksgiving night was dealt with in under an hour but the Burien portion will take longer. The cause was found to be a tree that took down power lines. No time of restoration was announced but a crew has been dispatched.

Original Post
A power outage put 3500 customers in the dark Thanksgiving night. There were two outages actually with the first primarily stretching from 16th Ave SW east to Hwy 509 and south to 122nd SW. A second outage hit Burien with Three Tree Point affected, extending up along Maplewild Drive and up to 152nd SW.
The outage began at 8:37pm.

The cause was not clear and no time of restoration was determined.
You can check on the status of the outage on the City Light system status page here: http://www.seattle.gov/light/sysstat/

Jim Winder, the mastermind behind the creation of the Helmstetler Family Christmas Spectacular is back at it again this year but is going bigger than ever.

When the show debuts tomorrow night at 7PM, located at 3908 SW Charlestown, you’ll hear new music including Meghan Trainor‘s “All About That Bass,” Taylor Swift‘s “Shake It Off,” Pharrell Williams‘ “Happy,” and Rock Sugar with “Don’t Stop the Santa”. We will have "Special Shows" on Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and New Years Eve, according to Winder.

Jim says he’s not planning a big ceremony this year, and that the light shows will run through New Year’s Eve.

Remember to turn you cars radio to 101.9 FM to hear the music synchronized to the spectacular light show and also to bring a donation for the West Seattle Food Bank, in which there is a bin out front.

You can also find out what time the show's will go on at westseattlelights.com

After extensive conversations with medical marijuana dispensaries, patient advocates, health care providers and community interests, Mayor Ed Murray’s Office of Policy and Innovation has drafted a proposed ordinance that would govern the production and sale of medical marijuana products in the City of Seattle.

“We want to strike the balance of protecting patients, ensuring access to medical marijuana and responding to concerns about the location and density of dispensaries,” said Murray. “We know the state legislature will be considering bills this session, but in the absence of a state framework, Seattle must act.”

The state Liquor Control Board (LCB) regulates the production and sale of recreational marijuana, but there are not similar regulations for medical marijuana. Even if the legislature addresses the disparity in the 2015 legislative session, a new system regulating medical marijuana is unlikely to be in place until 2016.

Ballard is keeping it local over this holiday weekend starting on Black Friday (Nov. 28) with Ballard Gives Black Friday. The festivities continue through Saturday with Shop Local Saturday and an afternoon filled with holiday events at Marvin's Garden Park.


Over 20 Ballard businesses are participating in Ballard Gives Black Friday the day after Thanksgiving. Instead of deal-crazed consumers camping out in front of Ballard stores before 6 a.m., customers can pay it forward with BGBF. Shop at any one of the participating Ballard businesses and a portion of what shoppers spend go to a local non-profit. Some businesses are continuing the holiday cheer through Sunday.

Ryan and Lanne Stauffer, owners of Market Street Shoes, spearheaded BGBF a couple years ago and since then it has gained momentum.

“We started a few years ago to move away from the big box, big discount mindset and to think about ways for people to give their shopping dollars depth and power. For us it made sense for us to give back to a non-profit instead of discounts,” said Ryan Stauffer.

Volleyball
Kennedy Catholic
The Lancers split four matches at the West Central District Class 3A tournament held at Auburn-Mountainview to fall short of this weekend's state tournament. Kennedy Catholic finished with a 25-3 overall record, but was without the talents of Shayne McPherson -- the Seamount League Most Valuable Player -- because of an ankle injury. The Lancers opened with a 3-0 victory over Kelso on Friday, Nov. 7 to set up a second match that evening with a state berth on the line. North Thurston got the best of the Lancers, however, by a 3-0 game score.
JFK rebounded to beat Bonney Lake, 3-0, the next morning but were eliminated by Prairie, 3-1.
The Lancers needed to win that much plus one more to get to state by way of the loser's half of the bracket.

Evergreen
The Wolverines were eliminated from the West Central District Class 2A tournament by a 3-2 loss to Seamount League rival Lindbergh Saturday. Evergreen had beaten the Eagles twice during the regular season.

By Tim Clinton
SPORTS EDITOR

Highline College polished off an impressive men's soccer season by taking the NWAC title Sunday, Nov. 16.
The Thunderbirds downed the Northern Idaho College Cardinals by a 3-0 score in the championship game played at the Starfire complex in Tukwila.

Highline finished with a 15-2-4 overall record including a 3-0 playoff run.

The Thunderbirds opened the playoffs with a 4-2 win over Whatcom on Saturday, Nov. 8 before downing Skagit Valley by a 4-1 score Saturday, Nov. 15 and then winning the final.

Four area graduates helped out the Thunderbirds' cause this season.

Armando Castillo is a sophomore defender from Mount Rainier and Alex Castillo is a sophomore midfielder from Mount Rainier.

Marco Manzon checks in as a freshman defender from Highline High School and Ben Clayton a freshman defender from Mount Rainier.

Scoring the three goals in the championship match in order were Brandon Madsen, Vinny Nguyen and Jacob Jones.

Nguyen was named as the NWAC tournament Most Valuable Player.

By Tim Clinton
SPORTS EDITOR

High schools
Boys basketball

Chief Sealth is hosting a preseason jamboree in its gymnasium Saturday.
Evergreen will take on Tyee at 3 p.m. followed at 4:30 p.m. by Chief Sealth taking on Franklin.
Mount Rainier and Foster, meanwhile, will be playing in the Garfield Jamboree.
Evergreen will then go to Auburn for 7 p.m. action Monday and Highline visits Ingraham at 8 p.m.
Tuesday Foster is at Chief Sealth for a 6:15 p.m. game, with Highline hosting South Kitsap and Mount Rainier entertaining Auburn-Riverside at 7 p.m.

Girls basketball
Mount Rainier journeys to White River for jamoboree action starting at 12 p.m. Saturday and Monday's schedule has Highline at Ingraham at 6:30 p.m.
Chief Sealth hosts Foster at 8 p.m. Tuesday and Mount Rainier travels to Graham-Kapowsin at 7 p.m.

Wrestling
Foster will participate in the Roosevelt Tournament that starts at 9:30 a.m. Saturday.

Pros and college
Seahawks
Seattle plays its Thanksgiving Day game at San Francisco starting at 5:30 p.m. Thursday.
Channel 5 will televise the action live.

Sounders