March 2016

By Tim Clinton
SPORTS EDITOR

Kennedy Catholic bumped off No. 3-ranked Bellevue by a 77-68 score Thursday morning to open Class 3A state boys basketball tournament play in the Tacoma Dome and earn its way to Friday's semifinals.
The Lancers shot 27-for-50 from the field including 9-for-22 from 3-point range and made 14 of 19 free throws -- despite playing in a 9 a.m. game.

"I'm glad we liked it," said Kennedy head coach Don Hoffman of the early draw. "We shot the ball really well. The kids did the rotations that they had to."

Emilio Mancol led the way to victory for the Lancers, scoring 24 points on 9-for-15 shooting from the field including 4-for-8 from 3-point range.

"He just plays the game with a ton of emotion," said Hoffman of Mancol. "All he does is play basketball. I like having that enthusiasm out there."
Simon Harris of Kennedy was also impressive from 3-point range, shooting 3-for-6 for his nine points off the bench.

"He's a streaky guy," said Hoffman of Harris. "He'll knock a few down."

By Sarah Cecil

We’re just a few weeks away from the first caucuses and primaries, so presidential election season is in full swing. As a voter, you may be keenly interested in the election process. But as an investor, should you be concerned?


If you take a look back, you might be somewhat encouraged over the prospects of the financial markets this year. In the last 12 presidential election years, the Dow Jones Industrial Average has been up nine times and down just three. So, election years must be good for the financial markets, right?


Not necessarily. In every year, the markets are influenced by a variety of factors: interest rates, inflation, corporate profits, geopolitical events, economic growth, even the weather. And it’s safe to say that 2016 will be no different. At this early stage of the year, one could say that some of these factors, such as continued low interest rates and a reasonably strong economy, might bode well for investors. But there’s a lot of 2016 ahead of us – and it’s notoriously difficult for anybody, even so-called experts, to accurately predict the market’s performance over a relatively short time, such as a year.

By Pat Cashman

If you think you’ve never seen a presidential campaign as nasty as this one, you must not be old enough to have voted in the election of 1800.
While today’s republican candidates discuss building border walls, who is the toughest---and the size of their hands, it is not the first time presidential runs have devolved into cage matches. Jumping ugly is as American as America. And that’s been true from the start.
Thomas Jefferson and John Adams were pals and colleagues. They had worked together in the 2nd Continental Congress. They were among the founding fathers of our country. They both liked teriyaki.
In 1796, Adams was elected president---but under the rules of the time, Jefferson as the runner-up, became vice-president. Things seemed hunky-dory---until the election of 1800 came along. That’s when Jefferson decided he would be a better president than the guy he was serving under.

By Amanda Knox

It had been a while since I visited Discovery Park. Years? It was one of those first days of Spring, when for the first time in a long time I was wearing too many layers of clothes. I walked down curving, narrow channels of soft turf, foliage on either side. The sun shined through the trees, lush and green and, here and there, blossoming. A bald eagle flew overhead, just above the treetops. It’s beautiful, I thought. Because somehow the random juxtaposition of these elements—sun, earth, trees, sky, bird—felt like it meant something. Health, maybe? The health of the world? And then I thought, just how many of you bald eagles are there? The last I saw there were two of you in a Youtube video, perched on a terrace railing, communing with a cat. I realized my mind is a vortex of associations, of varying degrees of firmness or looseness, ever intelligent, because intelligence is simply the ability to recognize and memorize patterns.

By Amanda Knox

I’ll be the first to admit that ArtsWest productions usually blow me away. This season has been both entertaining and thought-provoking about a subject that is particularly relevant in an election year, the American Dream. My top three favorites, Greenday’s American Idiot started the season off with a bang, turning the theatre inside out and taking the audience on a wild ride through post-9/11 millennial melancholy. My Mañana Comes was a riveting and real drama, pitting American dreams against each other. Really Really revealed the harsh and complicated reality of how American youth consume and take advantage of each other.

Violet is supposed to be a kind of feel good, middle-America, Cinderella story. Disfigured girl seeks unattainable beauty, finds love instead. Because she’s beautiful on the inside.

information from SWSHS

Two buildings at the heart of the West Seattle Junction will be the focus of a new landmark campaign that the Southwest Seattle Historical Society has launched.

Supported by a unanimous vote of its Board of Trustees, the historical society plans to nominate the Campbell Building (1918) and the Hamm Building (1926) for designation as city landmarks by the Seattle Landmarks Preservation Board.

The historical society also has formed a “We (heart) The Junction” Task Force, which will lead a multi-faceted public-awareness campaign to support the landmark effort.

Co-chairs of the task force are Peder Nelson, vice-president of the board; Brad Chrisman, former vice-president and board member; and Crystal Dean, board member.

The task force will hold its first Town Hall Meeting at 6 p.m. Wednesday, March 16, 2016, at the West Seattle Library, 2306 42nd Ave. S.W., to gather supporters – newcomers and oldtimers alike – to organize “We (heart) The Junction” button sales, information outreach and other campaign activities.

The West Seattle High School’s Drama Club & Music Department is presenting The Addams Family,
a musical comedy based on The Addams Family characters created by Charles Addams in a series of now famous cartoons, which depict a ghoulish American family whose tastes run to the macabre. The television show from the 1960's and later films became well known but this musical, which is the first stage show based on the characters, is based upon the cartoons rather than the television and film characters

Composer & Lyricist: Andrew Lippa
Playwrights: Rick Elice, Marshall Brickman

Dates:
March 31, April 2, 6, 7, 8 at 7:30pm
Special Benefit Performance, April 1st, 8pm

Tickets:
$7 with reservation (email tickets@westsidedrama.com)
$12 at the door

About the Show:

Information from the City of Seattle

If your neighborhood is participating in Spring Clean, Seattle Public Utilities’ annual clean-up campaign, Seattle Department of Neighborhoods has a fund to support your activities.

The Small Sparks Fund provides matching dollars for neighborhood-initiated projects that promote community engagement. Community groups can request up to $1,000 to help enhance your activities with funding for publicity, planting materials, or special clean-up supplies, to name a few. The deadline for applications is six weeks before your event.

For information on the application process, visit seattle.gov/neighborhoods/nmf/smallsparks.htm or call 206-233-0093. Make sure to register in our web-based application system at least two days before applying.

The 88th annual Blessing of the Fleet has been scheduled for Sunday, March 6, 2016 at 2:00pm at the Fishermen’s Memorial site at Fishermen’s Terminal in Seattle, Washington.

Originated by the late Pastor O.L. Haavik of Ballard First Lutheran Church 88 years ago, the service will be conducted by Pastor Erik R. Wilson Weiberg and Pastor Laurie A. Jones, both of Ballard First Lutheran Church. We will offer thanks to God for the fishing community, remembering the risks they take each day to provide seafood for our tables. We will also pray that their families will be healthy and protected during their time of separation. Of course, we will remember those who went out to sea and never returned. As in past years, various representatives from the government and the fishing industry have been invited to bring greetings.
The spring departure of the commercial fishing fleet for the sometimes dangerous Pacific and Alaska waters has been regularly observed since Pastor Haavik started the tradition. National media coverage has brought country-wide attention to the festival during its uninterrupted annual celebration.