January 2016

A man working in a trench adjacent to a house at 3041 36th SW was trapped by the collapse of the trench and later died despite rescue attempts by emergency responders

According to the Seattle Fire Department spokesperson Corey Orvold, 911 was called at 10:47am and arrived at a home, set back and up above the street where a worker had been trapped in 10 foot trench that had collapsed. SFD said that there were "signs of life" but after a 20 minute rescue effort it was determined that he had not survived and the mission changed from rescue to recovery.

The work being done was sewer repair.
A vacuum truck was on scene to help remove dirt and recover the man's body.

Last week, construction broke ground on The Adriana, the newest in the Village Concepts series of community-focused retirement and affordable senior housing. The $23 million project is scheduled to break ground this September in Des Moines, Wash.

The Adriana will be co-owned by Brian Scalabrine, a former NBA Boston Celtics player, Highline College student and elder care advocate. The project is named after his two daughters, Elliana and Adria.

Scalabrine and Village Concepts share a common mission; to provide outstanding housing for seniors where they can feel comfortable, valued, and safe. At Village Concepts, a family business, this philosophy has been passed down to Chief Executive Officer Stuart Brown, the third in a line of strong advocates for the elderly and those in need of assisted living facilities.

A patrol officer for the Burien Police Department made a major drug bust Wednesday afternoon after responding to reports of a disturbance in southwest Burien. 

According to Sergeant Cindi West of the King County Sheriff’s Office, police received reports of a disturbance at a residence on the 1800 block of Southwest 169th Street near Burien’s Gregory Heights and Three Tree Point neighborhoods just before 1:45 p.m. on Wednesday, January 20. A patrol officer arriving on the scene found a car at the location as well as a window smashed next to the home’s entryway. The officer was able to make contact with someone in the home and upon smelling the strong scent of fresh marijuana during the conversation, he called for detectives to be dispatched to the scene. Detectives from Burien’s Street Crimes unit responded to the home after obtaining a search warrant to serve to the occupants of the home. 

A patrol officer for the Burien Police Department made a major drug bust Wednesday afternoon after responding to reports of a disturbance in southwest Burien. 

According to Sergeant Cindi West of the King County Sheriff’s Office, police received reports of a disturbance at a residence on the 1800 block of Southwest 169th Street near Burien’s Gregory Heights and Three Tree Point neighborhoods just before 1:45 p.m. on Wednesday, January 20. A patrol officer arriving on the scene found a car at the location as well as a window smashed next to the home’s entryway. The officer was able to make contact with someone in the home and upon smelling the strong scent of fresh marijuana during the conversation, he called for detectives to be dispatched to the scene. Detectives from Burien’s Street Crimes unit responded to the home after obtaining a search warrant to serve to the occupants of the home. 

By Amanda Knox

Makaela Pollock is the director of ArtsWest’s latest production, Really Really by Paul Downs Colaizzo. It is a play that, when it was first produced in 2013, the New York Times described as “Lord of the Flies with smartphones.” Pollock, who describes herself as quietly ubiquitous within the Seattle theatre scene, sat down with me to discuss what audiences may expect of the play with her steering the helm.

Tell me about Really Really.

Really Really is a little bit dangerous. It’s a play that I think ArtsWest is brave to be doing, because it asks us to look at culpability, gender roles, class roles, and the issue of sexual assault in really complex and grey ways. It’s a play that doesn’t come out with a right or wrong kind of morality. Things are really compromised for everyone. You see everyone make objectionable choices.

Is greyness and culpability supposed to define the millennial generation?

By Katy Wilkens

In these dark winter days, we need something to help us think of sunnier climates! Head south by cooking up some warm and filling Cajun food. Cajun is a style of cooking from the American South, and comes from the name for the French Acadians who were displaced from Canada to the Louisiana territory. Cajun food is a wonderful mix of cultures and woven into the dishes is a rough and rustic cuisine using local ingredients.

My husband loves Cajun food, but it can be high in sodium, which is tough on your body. (One Cajun standby, Tabasco sauce, is actually low in sodium.) After I gave him the recipe below for low-sodium Cajun seasoning, it became his go-to seasoning for everything from oven-blasted Brussels sprouts to baked chicken breasts.

Another hallmark of Cajun cooking is salty sausage, but a flavorful substitute that is much lower in sodium is smoked turkey breast. When you’re ready to spice up a winter dinner, make a dish that uses the four primary flavors of Cajun food – green or red bell peppers, onions, celery and garlic – along with this great salt-free Cajun seasoning.

Have you ever been out for a walk in the neighborhood and wished for a place to just rest for a few minutes? A chair to sit in to take it all in? Thanks to a clever effort by VIEWS (Visualizing Increased Engagement in West Seattle) people will have exactly that. It’s kind of social experiment put on by the organization using colorful chairs to see if people will visit the VIEWS website and tell their story. Their exact location is not being publicized, they are meant to be discovered.

Organizer Pete Spalding said, “We are not chaining them down at all. If they sprout legs and walk it will just be part of our social experiment.
 We are leaving them in one location for no more than two weeks.”

While five are out there now, in three locations, they will move either individually or in groups to new spots.
Pending approval from Seattle Parks you may well see chairs in a park setting. They came from donations or garage sales and were all made secure and painted for the purpose.

By Amanda Knox

Paul Downs Colaizzo’s Really Really gnarls your viscera. It’s a psychological thriller you want to look away from, but can’t. You think you know what’s happening, but then your expectations are so utterly dashed that all you can do is gawk in horrified stupefaction and lean forward, gripping your knee caps, bracing for the last.

Modern twists turn about a timeless violence. At an average college house party, Leigh (Jessi Little) follows Davis (Riley Shanahan) into his bedroom. They have sex. Leigh says she was raped. Davis was so drunk he can’t remember, but he’s a good guy, he wouldn’t do that. Their friends are forced to take a stand, as witnesses, defenders, prosecutors. What really happened? Each new scene informs and challenges the last. The stakes are ever-raised. You feel like you’re watching a plane plummeting from the sky, you know it’s going to crash, but you can’t see the ground and you don't know why.

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A petition on Change.org has collected 155 signatures in an effort to get an unpaved part of Beach Drive SW finally re-paved. Created by West Seattle resident Jim Unland, It cites the deteriorated nature of the road and calls on newly elected City Councilmember Lisa Herbold and others to address the matter.

The text of the petition reads:

We, the citizens of the City of Seattle - Alki neighborhood, petition the City to repave Beach Dr. SW from the intersection of Beach Dr. SW and 61st Ave. SW south to the intersection of Beach Dr. SW and SW Genesee St.

This section of roadway has received numerous "pot hole repairs" but the condition of this stretch of Beach Dr. SW has deteriorated to the point that spot repairs are no longer sufficient. This roadway is frequently used by bicycle riders and the condition of the road poses many hazards to the them and liability to the City of Seattle.