Our hearts are saddened as we have to say goodbye to our dear, sweet Auntie Dot. She peacefully went home to be with her parents, sister, friends and beloved husband, Andy, Saturday, August 22, 2015.
A land use permit for the proposed CVS Pharmacy, intended to be built at 4722 Fauntleroy Way SW, across the street from The Whittaker/Whole Foods project and taking the place of West Seattle Produce and Suite Arrangements has been filed with Seattle's Department of Planning and Development.
It is DPD project #3019746.
The 12,200 sq.ft. retail building would have surface parking for 17 vehicles. An additional 32 surface parking stalls to be provided at 4721 38th Ave SW.
An early design review was held June 25.
The following approvals are required:
SEPA Environmental Determination (This project is subject to the Optional DNS Process (WAC 197-11-355) and Early DNS Process (SMC 25.05.355). This comment period may be the only opportunity to comment on the environmental impacts of this proposal.
Design Review
Other permits that may be needed which are not included in this application:
Building Permit
Demolition Permit
2016 West Seattle Garden Tour Committee Members Needed
The West Seattle Garden Tour needs new committee members to help produce our July 2016 Garden Tour. Volunteer opportunities include PR & Marketing, Sponsorship, Graphic Design, as well as several administrative positions. We meet monthly to discuss the business of the WS Garden Tour, which benefits many local non-profits. If you love gardening and meeting new friends, come have fun with us. For more information: Clay Swidler 206.669.4653
Holy Family Community Street Fair
9622 20th Ave. SW
Sat., Sept. 12, 11-8 p.m. & Sun., Sept. 13, 9:30-4:30 p.m. Bring the Family! Live music and dance from around the world, karaoke, pony rides, food, fun, vendors, prizes and games.
Summer Concert ”The Illusion of Elvis” Rescheduled
Providence Mount St. Vincent
4831 35th Ave. SW
(between SW Hudson & SW Edmond)
206.937.3700
By Amanda Knox
On a hot and sunny Saturday morning in early August, families wearing shorts and baseball caps basked in lawn chairs on the grassy knolls above the rocky beach flanking Salty’s restaurant on Alki and wielded binoculars to better glimpse the formations of the Blue Angels soaring across the Puget Sound. Clusters of fledgling divers stumbled across the pebbles, clunky in their thick, black suits and encumbered by their shiny tanks, and dipped forwards and backwards in the rolling water like ducks. Schools of yellow kayaks and white paddle-boats slowly glided by in the near distance.
By Pat Cashman
I sneaked up to my young son’s bedroom door and peered inside. There he was, with his tiny toy toolbox, pretending to do home repairs. He was pounding away with his plastic hammer---and I remember thinking how very cute that seemed.
Then he spoke.
“Damn it!” he shouted as he purposely hit his thumb---and then continued hammering.
I barreled through the door as if to arrest him. “Where did you learn language like that, young man?”
Like I didn’t know.
If they ever start a hall of fame for lousy handymen, I’d be the Babe Ruth of the place. Fixing stuff is what men were put on this planet to do. It’s not easy to think of another reason. Yet, some men---well, this one---have no talent for it.
On the other hand, if home do-it-yourself projects didn’t exist, much of our most color language and popular one-syllable words would never have been invented.
By Amanda Knox
Having been born, grown up, and lived in Seattle for the majority of my life, I am both familiar and comfortable with a cloudy sky. Where transplants from sunnier states can find the rain oppressive and are disconcerted by the enduring swathes of dull to bright grey blanketing the sky, I am comforted by the introspective mists and the silver depths of the clouds rising above. I can breathe.
Last Sunday was different. Last Sunday was something I do not remember seeing in all my twenty-eight years. It was a weird, dry, harsh, cough-inducing haze—like fog, but the opposite of fog.
“It’s really L.A. out right now,” Colin observed in the car on our way home from running errands.
“What do you mean?” I asked, squinting.
“I mean, the weather, it reminds me of Southern California.”
“All the weird dust in the air?”
“That’s smoke, babe.”
My heart clenched, probably in the same instinctual way that a field mouse’s heart clenches when it senses the same thing: smoke. Fire.
By Tim Clifford
Hamilton Viewpoint shooting suspect arrested
On Aug. 26 police announced on the SPD Blotter page that they arrested a man they believe committed an armed robbery and shooting in Hamilton Viewpoint Park the week before. The suspect is currently believed to be connected to a string of armed robberies in the North and South precincts as well as being the main suspect in a Capitol Hill street robbery.
Reportedly on Aug. 19, around 10:45 p.m., two men were parked in Hamilton Viewpoint Park waiting to meet up with friends when one of them got out of the car. As he was standing outside of the vehicle the suspect reportedly came up to him almost immediately with a gun out and demanded the victim hand over his backpack. The victim complied after which the suspect demanded he take off his belt and hand it over as well. To this request the victim balked and quickly headed back to the car.
A 21 foot Boston Whaler, known for their unsinkable nature, took on water off the 5000 block of Beach Drive SW on Saturday and the Seattle Fire Department responded with a fire boat to help the ailing vessel. One of the boat owners said she and her son had gone out to the boat earlier after they realized it had taken on water, and attempted to bail it out. "The port side pump had failed," she said. But that was inadequate.
Seattle Fire used their onboard pump to pump out the water and right the craft. No one was hurt.
Update: 3:00pm
Power has been restored
Original Post
Power went out for around 190 City Light customers near Alki Point around 12:25pm on Saturday, as strong winds buffeted the area knocking out power for many more in North Seattle.
No exact cause was stated by City Light as it was still under investigation. No time for restoration has been determined.
All over the peninsula, branches were downed with debris littering roads across the area.
The National Weather Service has issued a High Wind Warning for today Aug. 29 as a fall like storm sweep into and across the Puget Sound. The warning in in effect from 8 am to 6pm.
High Wind Warning
URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SEATTLE WA
357 AM PDT SAT AUG 29 2015
...HIGH WIND WARNING IN EFFECT FOR THE PUGET SOUND REGION AND SOUTHWEST INTERIOR FROM 8 AM THIS MORNING TO 6 PM PDT THIS EVENING...
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SEATTLE HAS ISSUED A HIGH WIND WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 8 AM THIS MORNING TO 6 PM PDT THIS EVENING. THE WIND ADVISORY IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT.
* WINDS...INCREASING FROM THE SOUTH AT 20 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS OF
45 TO 50 MPH.
* SOME AFFECTED LOCATIONS...SEATTLE...EVERETT...TACOMA...BELLEVUE...AND OLYMPIA.
* TIMING...THE STRONGEST WINDS ARE LIKELY TO OCCUR BETWEEN 10 AM AND 4 PM PDT.
