November 2015

Friends bid farewell well to longtime friend, maritime workmen and Ballard resident, Jan Anders Vilhelm Anderson (aka John the Swede) on Friday October 30 at Market Arms.

There was a somber fundraising event for Anderson to help pay for medical expenses and a trip back to Sweden where he will get the medical treatment he needs after he suffered a accident. Swedish meatballs were served and friends donated what they could to raise funds for Anderson.

Anderson was hit by a car on Sept 26th while riding his bicycle in Ballard. He was crossing the 24th Avenue NW and NW Market Street intersection when a car struck him while he was in the crosswalk. He suffered a broken tibia and fibula that resulted in a surgery that consisted of bone grafts and the placing of pins and plates in his leg. He was treated at Swedish Hospital in Ballard and has been convalescing at Hearthstone near Green Lake while recovering from surgery.

A rash of power outages in Ballard has some residents and business owners wondering if there is a problem with the City’s electrical infrastructure.

Christy MacDonald, owner of Secret Gardens Book Store on NW Market Street, reported that she had to close her store last Monday October 26 after the power went out at around 8 a.m. and didn’t come back on until around 5 p.m. that evening.

MacDonald believes that the reason for the outages is because the city has not kept up with maintaining its electrical infrastructure while Ballard continues to grow way past the projected 2024 density goal by more than 300 percent.

The outage was one of four that have happened in the last two months. The cause of the outage was an underground transformer failure. The transformer is located at 22nd Avenue NW and NW Market Street. It had a short and burned out after water leaked through a hole in the insulation.

Scott Thomsen with Seattle City Light, said that the recent outages in Ballard were not caused by lack of infrastructure amid a density boom; He said they were caused by a series of different, unrelated events.

By Peggy Sturdivant

My relationship with Seattle Parks began the afternoon my two-door Chevy Chevette pulled into town, moving me here sight unseen. Within hours I was on the beach in Madison Park aware of palpable joy due to a cloudless day in March.

Within two days my late husband had found his disc golf tribe and been introduced to even more Parks & Recreations offerings in Seattle. Our first house was a half-block from the Ballard Community Center. From the cake on the opening day, before Emily was born, then through ballet, piano, Foosball and Pilates together, the center raised us a family. Peek-a-boo in the boat, the swings at night; the front area was her playground and the back was her playing field. It’s where Emily learned to ride a bicycle, and there was always company.

By Pat Cashman

I once went to a Halloween party where a guy came as the Invisible Man. At least I think he did since I never saw him. But the familiar odor of garlic suggested he was there (he ate it on everything)---and the smell was strong enough that three people dressed as vampires left the party hurriedly. (See, vampires are afraid of the stuff.)

Garlic is one of those unique fragrances that smell fabulous---or horrible---depending on when and where you encounter it. On freshly prepared food it is close to Heaven; on breath---the following day---it’s close to the other place.
The summertime smell of fried onions at the fair is mouth-watering---yet is virtually the same aroma as the boy’s locker room after a P.E. class.

My brother loved pasta as a kid, but would always turn down the Parmesan cheese. “It smells like someone barfed,” he would elegantly say. No wonder he lost his waiter job at the Old Spaghetti Warehouse.

And while I know many people delight in the fragrance of now-legal marijuana, there are just as many who will note how similar the odor is to what an agitated skunk tosses into the air.

With only the early returns to go on some election results were in doubt while others were virtually certain.

In the District 1 City Council race Shannon Braddock went out in front with a more than 5% lead over Lisa Herbold. The next report will happen after 4:15 pm on Wednesday Nov.4.

You can track the results at this link.

in the District 6 race for Seattle School board, Leslie Harris vs. Marty McLaren, Harris held a commanding lead of 75%, over incumbent McLaren with 25%

Photo by Patrick Robinson

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By Tim Clinton
SPORTS EDITOR

Saturday, Oct. 31

Volleyball
Puyallup 3, Mt. Rainier 2
The Rams were outlasted, 25-9, 25-16, 25-27, 23-25, 15-10, by Puyallup to open South Puget Sound League tournament play Saturday.
Kentridge 3, Mt. Rainier 0
Mount Rainier finished eighth in the SPSL tournament with Saturday's second loss, but still qualified for this week's West Central District tournament.
The Chargers put the Rams away, 25-20, 25-23, 26-24.
West Seattle 3, Chief Sealth 1
The Wildcats won against the Seahawks in a loser-out Metro League tournament match Saturday.
West Seattle 3, Bainbridge 2
West Seattle followed up on its win over Chief Sealth by defeating Bainbridge in the contest for the Metro League's ninth and final berth into the Sea-King District tournament.

Boys cross country
Westside Classic 4A
Mount Rainier took eighth place as a team in Saturday's West Central District action held at American Lake with 256 points, but had no qualifiers for this coming Saturday's state meet.
Westside Classic 3A

By Tim Clinton
SPORTS EDITOR

Still earns shutout for SMU

Mount Rainier graduate Chelsie Still earned her first shutout of the year as a goalkeeper for the Saint Martin's University women's soccer team in its 1-0 wiin over Northwest Nazarene this past Saturday.
Still is in her senior season.

McPherson hits double figures

Kennedy graduate Jennica McPherson, who is also in her senior season of college, scored 12 kills and 14 digs for the Western Washington University women's volleyball team in its 29-31, 25-20, 25-1, 25-21 victory over Simon Fraser last Tuesday.

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By Tim Clinton
SPORTS EDITOR

Kennedy Catholic put the wraps on an 8-0 regular season with a 51-0 victory over Hazen this past Friday, but the game was not as pretty of a package as it may sound.

The two teams stumbled and fumbled their way through the first quarter -- with the Lancers only managing a 9-0 lead because of a safety on a bad snap plus a fumble return for a touchdown.

The second quarter was not much better as JFK only led by a 16-0 score at halftime, only this time after an offensive touchdown.

The Lancers finally got on track late in the third quarter, then poured it on in the fourth quarter for the lopsided final margin.

Now Kennedy advances into loser-out postseason play, taking on Metro League No. 5 Roosevelt in a 7 p.m. opener Friday at Highline Memorial Stadium.

The Lancers enter as the Seamount League champions and as the No. 1 and only Class 3A seed out of the league.

Kennedy got onto the scoreboard first with 3:16 remaining on the first quarter clock.

A Hazen snap sailed over the punter's head for a two-point safety.