August 2015

A sewage pipe passing under the parking lot of the Luna Park Cafe on Avalon Way SW backed up in the early morning on Tuesday Aug. 25 causing the cafe to shut down as repairs were being made. Work being done near the West Seattle Bridge may have been a contributing factor.

The line is not connected to the cafe.

The backup caused sewage to spill into the parking lot and out to the sidewalk.

Crews were called in to clean up the mess and get the line flushed out.

Cafe management said they hoped to resolve the problem and be open as soon as possible

By Tim Clinton
SPORTS EDITOR

Chief Sealth graduate Keone Kela continues to play a key role for the Texas Rangers, who surged into the lead for the second American League wild card spot with a sweep of the Detroit Tigers over the weekend.
The rookie right-handed reliever picked up his 14th hold of the season Sunday, throwing a scoreless eighth inning and striking out two.
Kela has lowered his earned run average to 2.84 over 50.2 innings pitched in 56 games.
He has a 6-5 record and one save with 55 strikeouts.

Mann playing independent ball

Mount Rainier graduate Brandon Mann is now pitching for the Fargo-Moorhead Redhawks of the American Association of Independent Professional Baseball.
Mann was originally drafted by the Tampa Bay Rays in 2002 and the left-hander toiled as a farmhand for them until he spent two seasons with the Yokohama Bay Stars in Japan (2011 and 2012).
Mann received an invitation to spring training with the Washington Nationals that and spent time in the Pittsburgh Pirates organization last year before being cut and going to the independent ranks.

By Tim Clinton
SPORTS EDITOR

High schools
Football
Kennedy Catholic will kick off its football season Friday, playing in the Ballard Jamboree at 4 p.m.
The Highline Public Schools Jamboree follows at 11 a.m. Saturday, with Mount Rainier, Evergreen and Highline doing battle at Highline Memorial.

Pros
Seahawks
Seattle pays a 5 p.m. visit to San Diego on Saturday as it continues exhibition play.
The action can be seen live on Channel 7 TV and heard on 710 AM.

Mariners
The Seattle Mariners wrap up their current homestand Wednesday, hosting the Oakland A's for 12:40 p.m. action at Safeco Field.
Seattle then goes to Chicago for four games against the White Sox.
Games start at 5:10 p.m. Thursday and Friday followed by a 4:10 p.m. game Saturday and an 11:10 a.m. contest Sunday.
From there it's on to Houston for 5:10 p.m. action Monday and Tuesday.
Mariners games are carried on the ROOT Sports cable television network and 710 AM radio.

Rainiers
Tacoma is in its final homestand of the year at Cheney Stadium.

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By Pat Cashman

“Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.” David Thoreau, seminal figure in the history of American thought.

“I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.” Thomas Jefferson, 3rd President of the U.S.

“I dreamed I showed up for my SAT’s in the nude.” D.W. Clark, a guy I know who showed up for his SAT’s in the nude while wide awake.

Maybe you’ve never had my nightmare. It’s probably necessary to have once been a radio DJ---but here’s the bad dream: The song you are playing is coming to an end, and you suddenly realize you don’t have another tune cued up. Not only that, but you can’t even think of anything to say. There are no commercials to play, no news to read---as the song fades and there is nothing but dead air. Then I wake up, sweating.

It turns out, as I talk to others from the radio trade, the dream is a typical one---although it not so common among talk show hosts---who don’t usually play music and could never imagine themselves with nothing to say.

By Tim Clifford

Sucker punched in Roxhill Park
Police received a call just before 7 p.m. on Aug. 15 from Roxhill Park concerning a man who was assaulted, robbed and left unconscious in the bushes. Officers responded to the 9400 block of 30 Ave. S.W. just as medics were beginning to examine the victim. The victim was very lethargic and gathering the details leading up to his assault was a timely process.

On Aug. 14 the victim had gone to Key Bank and withdrawn over a thousand dollars from two tellers. He then went outside and withdrew an additional $200 from the ATM. The victim explained that his rent was due this week and he was trying to gather the $1500 he needed before the end of the weekend. The next day he went to a Bank of America ATM and attempted to withdraw another $200 but was declined since his account was overdrawn.

By Amanda Knox

When I think about watching Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, I remember cuddling up with my mom and sister in Mom’s big (or so it seemed at the time) bed after popping the VHS into the built-in slot of a chunky, 32” TV perched on her dresser. Warm in our fleece pajamas, we passed between us a freshly microwaved bag of extra-butter popcorn and endlessly sucked on our salty, oil-stained fingertips. After the previews, a conspiratory hush settled, and I tempered my giddy anticipation in order to dutifully recite the opening crawl, “A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away...”

The Skylark Cafe is taking a big step up in the music world by presenting for the first time the International Pop Overthrow Music Festival Aug. 27 through 30.

The festival, held all over the world is making its Seattle debut at the Skylark and will feature some of the top pop artists from both the greater Seattle area and touring bands.

Artists From Seattle/Tacoma area

Accidental Heroes – A four piece pop-rock combo from the South Puget Sound featuring the talents of Tim Monaghan, who some may remember as one of the main men of GE5. Mixing a high energy stage show with dynamic musicianship and harmonies, and throwing in a classic powerpop cover or two amidst their originals, it’s no – pardon the pun – accident that fans of Cheap Trick, Train, or Tom Petty will love them!

The annual Northwest Hope and Healing 5k on Alki on Sunday Aug. 23 was won by Kelly Spady for the men with a time of 16:23 and by Kelly Lakemen for the women with a time of 19:25.

The top finishers for the men:
1. Kelly Spady - 16:23
2. Travis Gradijan - 16:47
3. Michael Drogalis - 17:02

The top finishers for the women:
1. Kelly Lakeman - 19:25
2. Margaret Lang - 21:18
3. Emily Ehlers - 21:20

The event saw more than 1000 people pay their $40 entry fee to run from the Alki Bathhouse to Anchor Park and back to support the work of the organization whose mission is to help women who are fighting breast cancer. The event raises money to help women get back on track financially, while dealing with the emotional and physical effects of the disease.

By Amanda Knox

As I take up the reins of Kyra-lin Hom’s weekly column, I am riding a warm wave of romanticism after reading the story of another columnist of a local paper, albeit a fictional one—the unnamed protagonist of Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s Memories of My Melancholy Whores.

It is a credit to Marquez that he could inspire a feminist like myself to feel butterflies when the novella’s premise is so repulsive. The opening words are the protagonist’s: “The year I turned ninety, I wanted to give myself the gift of a night of wild love with an adolescent virgin.” Standing on the upper landing of the bookstore, pausing in the process of shelving a stack of fiction titles to read this line, my eyebrow rose in the way a cat’s back-fur bristles. “Oh, really…” I thought.