March 2015

By Tim Clifford

Nearly a hundred protesters marched from the Burien transit center to the Burien City Hall and Library at 7 p.m. on Feb. 23 to speak out against city ordinance 606. Homeless citizens marched with members from S.A.F.E., the A.C.L.U., and numerous other activist organizations to address councilmembers during a study session for the Burien City Council.

“Burien City Council you can’t hide! We can see your greed inside!” shouted S.A.F.E.’s Joshua Farris from a bullhorn as the line of protesters wound their way into city hall.

Some homeless citizens brought their dogs. One man even brought his pet rat “Link” and introduced him to a few police officers standing near the entrance. As he put it while petting Link “it’s not just people that can be homeless.”

The vast majority of those gathered in the council chambers were there to speak out against the ordinance with only a handful of local business owners attending to support it. Filling the chambers to capacity demonstrators began chanting and calling out for the councilmembers to come down from the second level and begin the meeting.

by Paul Moseley

It seems like the West Seattle Wildcats have been trying to get comfortable since their last game of the regular season against Franklin. That’s the game where All Metro point guard Gabby Sarver went down with a knee injury, and Metro MVP Lydia Giomi sat out with the flu. Giomi came back two games later to help the Wildcats win the Metro League title, but then West Seattle dropped two games in a row in the District Tournament. The Wildcats were battling additional injuries across the team and seemed to be off balance, trying to figure out how to play what Head Coach Sonya Elliot described as ‘point guard by committee’ to fill the gap left by Sarver.

Tonight, the Wildcats finally got comfortable.

A deep frier in an apartment at 6512 35th SW caught fire, according to the resident and got out of control. "I tried to throw a rug over it but by that time the sprinklers were set off," he said.

He suffered a minor burn to his hand and said while the fire did no apparent damage to the apartment, the water damage from the sprinklers was likely.