August 2015

The 2015 Delridge Day Festival kicks off this Saturday, August 8th from 11AM-3PM at the Delridge Community Center and Park. This year’s festival will feature a large vendor area, food trucks where you can grab a bite to eat, kid- and family-friendly field games, bouncy houses, the wading pool, and much, much more!

Alki Bike & Board will host a skate competition taking place all day with registration beginning at 9:45am

At 11am, 12 and under will begin the skate competition, followed by men's 13 and over at noon, then at 1pm women’s 13 and under will take center stage. At 2pm get ready for the pro/am main event and at 3pm the awards and all-star best trick competition will begin.

With the continuing support of The Seattle Police Foundation the Southwest Precinct Picnic will be back for the third consecutive year. The Seattle Police Department plans to make many officers and units available. Last year, they brought cars, a canine police officer, their mounted patrol, a Bomb Squad robot that was offering candy, and free ice cream and popcorn.

The state’s first LGBT, culturally competent memory care community, Quail Park Memory Care will break ground next spring in West Seattle at 4515 41st Ave SW.

The facility will have 45 rooms for dementia, Alzheimer’s residents with a capacity to hold 63 residents.
Living Care Senior Lifestyle Communities said the building will have three self-sustained floors.

The facility will have a centrally located common space on each floor.

Some of the amenities will include a dining area, sitting lounge, theater, activity space, small outdoor patio, water features, putting green, distinct “neighborhoods” reflecting the West Seattle heritage and city and much more.

It is being designed by NK Architects and will have 9 parking spaces.

information from Waste Management

After weeks of picking up marine debris along the Alaskan and Canadian shoreline, the 300-foot-long barge Dioskouroi arrived at its final destination, Seattle, on Thursday, August 6, 2015. A diverse group of governmental, nonprofit and commercial organizations collaborated to implement the complex month-long helicopter and barge operation. Funded in large part by a goodwill gift from the Government of Japan, the State of Alaska contracted with Gulf of Alaska Keeper (GoAK), an Alaskan non-profit organization, to coordinate the complex project. “The tragedy of the tsunami really brought this issue to the forefront and gave us needed resources to put together a large-scale clean-up effort,” said Janna Stewart, Tsunami Marine Debris Coordinator, Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation.

If you are an individual who contributes to Seattle's arts and culture or know someone who does, you have an opportunity to build a richer arts culture in West Seattle.

The City of Seattle Office of Arts & Culture wants to hear from you in its online Cultural Space Inventory.

This survey is supported by a new group, Kulture and Arts in West Seattle (KAWS).

ArtsWest, along with other local arts and heritage organizations, has already taken the survey.

information from ArtsWest

From Seattle's biggest stages to Broadway and back again, Laura Griffith makes her first appearance at ArtsWest for our one-night only cabaret, After Hours with Mathew Wright.

Back by Artistic Director Mathew Wright on piano, Laura wows with her powerfully stunning vocals. In between songs, she'll dish with Mathew about what it's like to play Julie Jordan (Carousel), Marian the Librarian (The Music Man), Maggie the Cat (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof), and other leading ladies that have stolen our hearts and stirred our souls.

Tickets
General Admission: $25
Reserved Table for Two: SOLD OUT TONIGHT!

Upcoming After Hours with Mathew Wright

8/17 Katherine Strohmaier

About After Hours with Mathew Wright
Hosted by Artistic Director Mathew Wright, these one-night only cabaret-style events feature five of the fiercest leading ladies in Seattle theater: Sarah Rose Davis, Laura Griffith, Cayman Ilika, Jessica Skerritt, and Katherine Strohmaier.

Update with photos:
As other news outlets are reporting the DEA has released the photos of 5 fugitives that are still wanted in connection with the day's massive bust.

View the photos below with the suspect's names, age and last known locations.

Anyone with information about their whereabouts is asked to contact the DEA by text at TIP411 (847411), start your message with TIPDEA, then send.

Original post:
The Department of Justice, U.S. Attorney’s Office, and Western District of Washington issued a press release on Aug. 6 outlining the details of an outsized drug bust involving state, local and federal agencies. 17 people were arrested within 36 hours, with 53 pounds of narcotics, over $178,000 in cash, and 16 firearms being seized.

As of today the voting results show the two lead candidates for the Seattle City Council District 6 seat are the incumbent, Mike O'Brien, and Ballard resident, Catherine Weatbrook.

So far results show 22.27 percent of District 6 voters chose Weatbrook (3402 votes) and 58.57 percent of the voters chose O’Brien (8949 votes).

The voting results are collected every day and will continue to be updated until certification on August 18. View full results at here.

Weatbrook is a Seattle native and has lived in Ballard since 1994. She is the co-chair of the City Neighborhood Council in Ballard and also works as a facilities manager for a group of non-profits. She has an Engineering Degree from University of Washington. Weatbrook’s campaign has centered on addressing issues in housing and transportation.

A seven-story, 14 unit apartment building containing 104 bedrooms to be built at 3050 Avalon Way SW has been given the go ahead by the Seattle Department of Planning and Development.

According to the decision two of the seven floors contain mezzanines.

This project has been in the works since 2012 and has seen other development along Avalon Way SW and elsewhere in West Seattle get approval in the interim.

Quoting from the decision:

By Peggy Sturdivant

My sister says that I exaggerate my stories. I am not exaggerating when I say that in high school French we spent an entire semester just reading, Voltaire’s Candide, or Optimism (1758). I think this experience culled all but one potential French major from the same group of 24 girls and two boys tracking their entire way together through 4-5 years of French.

Nor do I exaggerate when I confess that after even more French in college I landed at a University in the Southern France incomprehensible to native French speakers and essentially illiterate in the language. I blame Voltaire.

I’m kidding. What is to blame is a non-immersive curriculum and a vapid American teenager in the 70s who had to blow-dry her hair every morning. And yet, the last words of Candide always run through my mind like one of those songs you can’t get unstuck. Il faut cultiver notre jardin.

It’s a bird, it’s a plane – actually, it’s a brand new Mighty-O donut café opening in Ballard! The Seattle-based company, which is known city-wide for their Super Delicious made-from-scratch all-organic donuts, is opening their second storefront on the corner of NW Market and 17th. For their grand opening weekend Friday, August 14th – Sunday, August 16th, they are inviting the community for a super special celebration. From Super Mom to Super Man, everyone who attends the weekend-long event will receive a free donut. Plus, those dressed as their favorite superhero will be entered to win a donut a day for a year.

“Our customers are our superheroes—they’re the reason we are here and we can’t thank them enough,” said founder Ryan Kellner. “We are excited to celebrate the grand opening of our new Ballard café with our community and look forward to giving away as many free donuts as possible for everyone to enjoy.”