October 2015

The notice of a Design Review Board second recommendation meeting has been scheduled by the Seattle DPD following a Land Use Application to allow a five-story structure to be located at 4106 Delridge Way SW containing 3,700 sq. ft. of retail at ground level and 36 residential units above in an environmentally critical area. Parking for 36 vehicles would be located within the structure. Planning for this project began in 2008 when the plan called for 4,000 sq. feet and 30 residential units.

MEETING

Date: Thursday, November 19, 2015

Time: 6:30 p.m.

Location: West Seattle Senior Center
4217 SW Oregon St
Room: Hatten Hall

(A recommendation meeting was previously held on February 5, 2015.)

All meeting facilities are ADA compliant. Translators or interpreters provided upon request. Please contact the Public Resource Center at prc@seattle.gov or (206) 684-8467 at least five business days prior to the meeting to request this service.

information from King County Sheriff

King County Sheriff’s detectives are asking for the public’s helping identifying three men who attacked and then stabbed another man in White Center Sunday night, leaving him paralyzed.

The stabbing occurred around 6:30 pm near the Bartell’s Drug store at 15th Ave SW and SW Roxbury. When police first contacted the victim after he had been stabbed he thought he had been on a bus with the suspects. During recovery in the hospital he told detectives that the suspects had not been on the bus. The victim told police he had gotten off the bus and gone to a smoke shop near the Bartell’s Drug store. He went back to the bus stop near Bartell’s and was smoking when the suspects bumped into him. He said words were exchanged and an altercation ended with him being stabbed multiple times.

When the first deputy on the scene arrived he found the victim, barely conscious, with a blade stuck in his back near his spine. The victim told the deputy that he could not feel his legs.

information from WFIA

Candice Lastimado, a courtesy clerk at the West Seattle Metropolitan Market, took home a first place trophy and a check for $2,000 in a heated competition at the Washington Best Bagger Battle held in Spokane last night.
Washington’s Best Bagger Battle is sponsored by the Washington Food Industry Association (WFIA). Metropolitan Market is a member of the association.

In February 2016, Ms. Lastimado will vie for the national title and $10,000 in prize money at the 30th Annual National Grocers Association Best Bagger Competition in Las Vegas, NV.
“Candice is seasoned grocery bagging competitor,” said Jan Gee, WFIA President and CEO. “Last year she was the first runner-up in our state Best Bagger Battle, taking home $1,000 in prize money. She will represent us well in Las Vegas next year.”

Update: 5:34 p.m. 10/28/2015
The suspect is set to be released soon. The King County Prosecutor's Office has decided not to file formal charges at this time and will continue to investigate the suspect and his connection to this homicide pending his release. This afternoon was the deadline for the Prosecutor's Office to file charges before the suspect is released.

Original story:
One man is dead and another man was admitted to Harborview Medical Center in critical condition following a shooting in West Seattle on Sat., Oct. 24, over $200. The suspect is currently being held in King County Jail with a bail amount set to one million dollars. As of this writing the suspect has not yet been formally charged and thus will remain unnamed in this piece.

By Gwen Davis

Will the highly-anticipated West Seattle charter school actually open, now that charters have been deemed unconstitutional? No one knows, but many are hopeful.

To garner more hope and support, on Wednesday morning Summit Sierra Public School, part of the organization that would host the West Seattle charter school, put on an info session where families, prospective families and other interested individuals could get an inside look into a typical school day.

The school wanted to show the public what the classrooms, teachers and children looked like.

Roughly 30 attendees showed at the fresh, new building on S. King Street. Staff first gave the crowd a history of the founding of the Summit Public School nonprofit organization, as well as an overview of charter schools in Washington State. They made an emotional appeal as to why they loved charter schools so much.

The 6th Annual Ballard Writers Event will be held Friday November 13 at the Sunset Hill Community Association Clubhouse.

Thirteen new works written especially for the event plus authors with new books available for sale. Young adult friendly. Raffle for gift baskets. Free admission. Refreshments including beer and wine (available by donation).

Writers and readers include: Dara Bramson, Kristina Cerise, Natalie Singer-Velush, Elisabeth Fredrickson, Lauren Ziemski, Jay Craig, Michele Bacon, Alison Krupnick, Nancy Schaltz-Alton, Sam Shultz, Matthew Sirois, Ingrid Ricks, Don Kentop, Elsie Hulsizer, Susan Towles, Carl Deuker, Rita Bresnahan.

Sunset Hill Community
3003 NW 66th.
Doors open at 6:30 p.m.
Program starts at 7 p.m.

Ballard Writers Collective
Follow us at https://www.facebook.com/ballardwriters/
www.ballardwriterscollective.org

By Katy Wilkens, MS, RD

Halloween isn’t just for kids. Adults can also enjoy some treats this holiday.

Homemade candies can bring memories of sweets people no longer hand out to trick-or-treaters. Get nostalgic with the recipes below for popcorn balls, caramel apples and peanut brittle. These treats all make use of sugar with fruit, high fiber popcorn or healthy nuts, so you get the sweet treat, but at a sugar discount. Plus, these homemade treats are low in sodium, good for our kidneys and our hearts – no tricks involved!

All you need are a heavy-bottomed pan, a pastry brush and family or friends to share in the fun. If you have a candy thermometer, it’s handy to help you know at what stage your candy is in the boiling process.

Halloween popcorn balls

1 1/2 tablespoons butter
1/ 1/2 cups brown sugar
6 tablespoons water
6 cups of popped popcorn
Food coloring, optional

By Peggy Sturdivant

I’ve been away. Doesn’t everyone need to get perspective on the life they are leading by stepping outside of it from time to time? Within nine hours of leaving for Sea-Tac on a Wednesday night I was standing in a pumpkin patch in Topsfield, Massachusetts. Not just any pumpkin patch: the growing grounds of a contender in the highly competitive Giant Pumpkin Contest at the 197th Annual Topsfield Fair.

Neighbors gathered to watch Woody’s pumpkin winched up and out the vines. Cracks or bruises could get the orange beast disqualified. My summer until then had been colored by Ballard turmoil and City Council debates. But on the first morning in New England, on a day that had started 24 hours earlier, the color was distinctly orange. The pumpkin looked like an elephant at rest rather than a giant gourd, if baby elephants were orange and ten times larger.

“Going for the pumpkin lift?” my sister’s neighbors had all asked one another as they emerged from their homes. All that was missing was a town crier.

By Amanda Knox

Sometimes there is melancholy. Explicable or inexplicable, there just is. There’s no shame in it, though to bear melancholy is to feel uncomfortable, awkward, pained, disquieted, humbled. At least this is how I feel, also because I cannot help but to bear my emotions legibly. Where uplifting emotions move across my face with exuberant animation, opposite emotions that cause me to feel weak and vulnerable freeze my features. A blank expression on my face is as sure a sign of distress as tears. When I experience a negative emotion such as melancholy, my solution is often simply to brace myself and hope to get through it.

My coworkers recognized it a mile away. A gentle, sympathetic discussion arose.
“It must be something in the air,” Phil said. “The change of the season.”

Dean said, half-jokingly.“You should go on an epic quest for happiness,”
An epic quest for happiness? I wondered. That’s just melodramatic enough that it might work.

The fund started to provide financial support for Ramon Apetitia has exceeded the $10,000 goal and is now more than $12,000 but more is needed. Aspetitia was gravely wounded in a brutal knife attack in White Center Oct. 25. At last report his legs were paralyzed with no further news on his prognosis. The fund page was set up by one of his employers Ben Jenkins owner of Shadowland. If you can donate visit the page here:

https://www.youcaring.com/ramon-aspeitia-458306#.Vi_7poPL-2E

Original Post
Ramon Aspeitia is fighting for his life at Harbourview Medical Center following a stabbing in White Center Oct. 25. He was attacked by three hispanic males after he got off a bus and flagged down a King County Sheriff deputy who called paramedics. Now, his boss at Shadowland in the West Seattle Junction Ben Jenkins is hoping people will help him. Jenkins has set up a fundraising page to provide some financial support for him as he recovers. That page and the link are below.

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