February 2016

By Tim Clinton
SPORTS EDITOR

Tyee grad took talents to Alaska

Tyee graduate Arinesha Smith is a Nanook of the North.
Smith is in her senior season playing for the Nanook women's basketball team at the University of Alaska Fairbanks.

Smith tallied 12 points for Fairbanks in its 57-49 loss to Western Washington University Thursday, Feb. 16, and is averaging 8.3 points per game.

She also has a 2.8 rebounding average and a 3.0 assist average for the Nanooks.
Smith made the Greater Northwest Athletic Conference all-academic team recently with her 3.37 grade point average in Business Administration.

Saling wrestling for Pacific

White Center's Wyatt Saling is now a college wrestler for the women's team at Pacific of Oregon.

Penner pummels net for 23

Kennedy graduate Mitch Penner scored 19 of his 23 points in the first half of a 93-67 Seattle Pacific University win over Montana State Billings on Saturday and added four assist.
Penner hit 12 points with six rebounds in a 58-51 win over Western Washington University on Thursday.

South Seattle College introduced the public on Monday to a remarkable piece of equipment that Boeing has donated to the Aviation Maintenance Technology (AMT) program. It's a a Pratt & Whitney 777 engine, that was damaged in transport and not able to be used on an aircraft. It's value, as part of an educational program, makes the aircraft maintenance program at SSC among the elite in the nation. Every year the program graduates between 60 to 80 students.

“As the only school in the state with a 777 engine, we are able to provide on the job training in our classroom,” Aviation Dean Kim Alexander explained. “We wouldn’t be able to prepare our students for the real world without such strong support from partners like Boeing.”

This is first new engine that Boeing has ever donated to a college. In total, South’s AMT program has 13 aircrafts and 70 engines to provide students with a hands-on learning experience in the classroom. The 777 engine is the largest in the fleet.

information from VIEWS

On Saturday, March 12th, at 9:00am at Youngstown Cultural Arts Center, VieWS (Visualizing Increased Engagement West Seattle), Southwest Youth & Family Services, and the Delridge Neighborhood Development Association will present the 2016 edition of the Gathering of Neighbors. Our theme is “Growing Pains” and will focus on the challenges facing West Seattle as we see rapid growth in populations, jobs, and housing and the benefits and drawbacks that growth brings to our neighborhoods.

This year’s event will feature opportunities to learn about the recommendations by the Mayor’s Housing Affordability & Living Agenda (HALA) Committee, recent updates proposed for the 2035 Comp Plan, plans to renew and double the Housing Levy, what a Sound Transit 3 package might look like for your vote in November, and the recent declaration of a Homeless State of Emergency by Mayor Ed Murray and County Executive Dow Constantine.

information from King County

King County Executive Dow Constantine proposed installing cameras on all Metro Transit buses, building on the progress the agency has made to dramatically decrease the number of driver assaults in recent years.

Metro currently has cameras in 44 percent of its buses, which has contributed to the agency cutting the number of drivers who are assaulted by more than half since 2008. Executive Constantine will request funding in the supplemental budget needed to install cameras in 80 percent of Metro’s bus fleet by early 2019 and 100 percent by early 2021.

“It is intolerable that anyone would harm one of our dedicated, professional drivers who work hard each day to safely and reliably get passengers to their destinations," said the Executive.

“I’m proud of the work we’ve done in recent years, in partnership with our unions, to significantly reduce the number of drivers who are assaulted. Now it’s time for us to build on our progress, investing more in what works. That’s why I am requesting the funds needed to install cameras in every Metro bus as soon as possible.”

This Saturday, February 27th, marks the first-ever Ballard Hullabaloo event which will be held at Leif Erikson Hall from 10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Ballard Hullaballoo is a clearance sale event featuring products from Ballard area retailers provides a great opportunity to shop local and save. In addition to the shops, we'll also be serving some hops, as in a tasty malted beverage provided by Fremont Brewing. Beer is $5.

Leif Erikson Hall is located at 2245 NW 57th Street.

PARTICIPATING LOCAL MERCHANTS

Prism | re-souL | Horseshoe | Market Street Shoes | Kavu | Secret Garden Books Camelion Design | Jax Joon | Fair Trade Winds | His Word Found Here | Iris Guy Jewelry | KuKuRuZa | Baraka Gemstones & Jewelry | Saucony and Optic Nerve | And More...

STAY IN THE HOOD AND GET 15% OFF
All event attendees will receive a voucher to get 15% off at local participating shops.

PARKING
There is a small parking lot at Leif Erikson Hall, otherwise neighborhood street parking is the closest free parking to the Hall.

MORE INFO

By Amanda Knox

ArtWest’s penultimate production of the 2015-2016 season returns to the musical spirit with which it started, with Green Day’s American Idiot. Violet dissects and develops another facet of the American Dream, this time through the perspective of a wounded woman in search of healing. Based on Doris Betts’ short story, The Ugliest Pilgrim, the musical premiered Off-Broadway in 1997 with music by Jeanine Tesori and book by Brian Crawley.

Director Andrew Russell is the artistic director of Intiman Theatre, a writer for the Fifth Avenue Theatre, and director for ACT Theatre, Washington Ensemble Theatre, and now ArtsWest Theatre. Confident, put-together, and purposeful, Russell met with me twenty minutes before rehearsal on his Chipotle break, and gave the impression that Violet is in capable hands.

Getting straight into the show, the main character is female. How are you working with that, as a man?

A community fundraiser celebrating the life of Joey Clayton will be held Sunday, Feb. 28 at Duo's Lounge on Avalon Way SW from 12 to 3pm

Joey Clayton died on February, 7th 2016. Joey was diagnosed with a stage four astrocytoma brain tumor at only seven years old. Joey’s tumor was inoperable therefore he underwent aggressive chemotherapy and radiation. After only fourteen months, Joey passed away.

Joey was courageous from the start. No matter how tough life had become, his smile and remarkable spirit always remained. Joey was a very active kid and his love of life was infectious to all who were around him. Joey loved sports. He played soccer, basketball, and especially loved watching WWE wrestling. Before he passed, one of his ultimate wishes came true…he met WWE wrestling champion, John Cena. Joey also enjoyed miniature golf, BBQ ribs, and cheering on the Philadelphia Eagles, but nothing was more important to him than being a big brother to his little brother, Robbie.

By Peggy Sturdivant

She claims it started with the ladybug painted in the Wallingford intersection. But given that Megan Helmer moved to Seattle with her Geologist husband Ryan Kellner to start a doughnut business I suspect the combination of drive and whimsy dates back farther. Kellner and Helmer own Mighty-O Donuts, and Megan is set on creating a parklet to adjoin their new Ballard location on 17th NW.

Although she’s still very much an artist and graphic designer Helmer’s husband no longer works as a Geologist. His 2000 plan to start Mighty-O has resulted in three café locations as well as their wholesale business. The first Mighty-0 Café location was in Wallingford. The last two years have been incredibly busy, opening on Capital Hill last fall and in Ballard last August, at the southeast corner of 17th & NW Market. But ever since Helmer learned the City of Seattle was accepting applications for “Parklets” she has been pursuing that as well.

By Amanda Knox

This week I found myself in a state of agitated pause. I had hurt my friend’s feelings, and my friend had hurt mine. What had taken place—a disagreement—had been mangled by something else—a misunderstanding. In the moment, we hadn’t been clear-headed enough to clarify. Now we were taking space from each other, at a loss for how to bridge the gap. I started a draft of an email.

I love you. How many ways can I say I love you? And why?

My first impulse was to tell my friend exactly how they had hurt me. Not in a judgmental way, or in a vengeful way, but in a useful way. For the sake of clarification. In the future, when we’re still friends, we can avoid misunderstanding by avoiding X, Y, and Z. By acknowledging the source of my hurt and resolving it, I could bridge the gap between me and my friend. Done deal. Still, I held off on pressing SEND. Every message merits a pause for breath.

There was a time when a husband beat his wife to show he loved her. The reasoning was: I am invested in you, so you will conform your will to mine. I exercise force on you because I really care.

By Greg Whittaker

Hope you snow lovers have been getting up in the mountains during the last week. If you haven’t, it’s time to reconsider your priorities. We have had it all from sun to snow to groppel to fog to freshies to ice, and all of it has been fun.

Those of you new to the sport, whether you are “groms” (pre-teen) or just a new skier or snowboarder, have had breakthrough days where everything comes together. With the good visibility and the consistent snow conditions, those learning are starting to take their appreciation and skills to the next level. Keller my 5 year old is now able to navigate all blue runs at Alpental with the power wedge, and is incorporating the hockey stop at the bottom of the hill so he can white wash me.

With a warming trend and HEAVY rain earlier in Feb, we had a great consolidation of the snowpack, and the snow that fell last weekend definitely was needed and freshened up the turns. 28” fell at Crystal, and now we have beautiful groomers and sunshine up there today.