July 2016

Calls claiming you owe for missing Jury Duty are a scam

information from King County Sheriff

The King County Sheriff’s Office wants to warn you of a SCAM that has been occurring in the Seattle area over the last couple of years.

Someone may call you and identify themselves as a King County deputy or detective and tell you that you failed to show up for jury duty.

But wait there’s more…. once they have your attention they will threaten you with jail unless you pay a fine immediately. Usually they will request a credit card number over the phone or even ask you to go to a nearby store to purchase a gift card and then tell them the card number. THIS IS A SCAM!!!! Do not give them any money.

Fortunately most of the citizens who have called the Sheriff’s Office checking the validity of the call have not given any money to the scammers. So what should you do if you get one of these calls? Hang-up! Yes, that’s right, hang-up!

The Sheriff’s Office would NEVER call you about a warrant and ask you to pay over the phone. The scammers are very convincing but, DO NOT FALL FOR IT! Do not pay anyone over the phone for an alleged warrant for failing to report for jury duty.

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Do not be fooled by the Jury Duty SCAM!

Be warned this is a SCAM and is NOT the King County Sheriff’s Office!

Story- The King County Sheriff’s Office wants to warn you of a SCAM that has been occurring in the Seattle area over the last couple of years. Someone may call you and identify themselves as a King County deputy or detective and tell you that you failed to show up for jury duty.

But wait there’s more…. once they have your attention they will threaten you with jail unless you pay a fine immediately. Usually they will request a credit card number over the phone or even ask you to go to a nearby store to purchase a gift card and then tell them the card number. THIS IS A SCAM!!!! Do not give them any money.

Fortunately most of the citizens who have called the Sheriff’s Office checking the validity of the call have not given any money to the scammers. So what should you do if you get one of these calls? Hang-up! Yes, that’s right, hang-up!

The Sheriff’s Office would NEVER call you about a warrant and ask you to pay over the phone. The scammers are very convincing but, DO NOT FALL FOR IT! Do not pay anyone over the phone for an alleged warrant for failing to report for jury duty.

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SLIDESHOW: Native American Canoe Journey comes to Alki Beach

The annual Northwest Native American event, Canoe Journey made a stop at Alki Beach on July 27 with 78 canoes that included representatives from tribes as far away as Montana and even New Zealand.

The Muckleshoot Tribe hosted the event on Alki but it's all part of a much larger event that eventually comes to a conclusion in Olympia on July 30. The various canoe routes from both sides of Vancouver Island, Georgia Strait, and the Olympic Peninsula converged at Alki.

All the canoes are hand carved, dugouts. Many carry tribal talismans, or have other hand made decorations that carry meaning for the tribal members.

After a sack lunch on the beach the tribal members were shuttled to the Muckleshoot reservation.

The tribe hosted honored and fed about 1,000 guests at their reservation between Auburn and Enumclaw afterward. Singing, dancing, and various honoring ceremonies followed. The canoes will return to Alki Beach and depart for the Puyallup Reservation on Thursday morning.

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Get ready for the #SouthKingSlowdown Hokey Pokey this weekend

News from WSDOT

By Tom Pearce

Here’s how the paving and restriping dance will go: We’ll start closing the lanes at 8 p.m. Friday, July 29. By 10 p.m., southbound I-5 will be reduced to the two left lanes, starting just south of SR 518 and ending near SR 516. Then, on Sunday, they’ll shake it all about and switch traffic to the two right lanes. All lanes will reopen by 5 a.m. Monday, Aug. 1.

Get ready for the #SouthKingSlowdown Hokey Pokey this weekend
Switching a work zone from one side of I-5 to the other can be a bit tricky. We’ve got move a lot of orange traffic barrels, all while keeping traffic moving. That’s what the crews will do this weekend between 6 and 10 a.m. Sunday, depending on how quickly crews complete paving the right lanes.

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Seafood boil is August 13 at Seahurst Park

Discover Burien's 2nd annual event

Discover Burien’s second annual ‘Boiling Point’ seafood boil and fundraiser will be begin at 5 p.m. on Saturday, August 13th on the beach of Seahurst Park located at 1600 SW Seahurst Park Rd in Burien.
The event will include a magical night of music, fine wine and of course, fabulous seafood. Tickets are $75 and are all inclusive. Each event ticket also includes a chance to win a bountiful basket filled with a great selection of wine! New this year will be a shuttle provided by Discover Burien Member, Boulevard Park Place, from the upper parking lot to the event entrance.
We would like to thank our sponsors Berkshire Hathaway Home Services and two of their professionals, Calvin Mark and Maura Costello for their hard work on the event as well as one of our table sponsors Linn, Schisel and DeMarco, PS.
Tickets are available for purchase in person at the Discover Burien Office, located at 427 SW 152nd Street in downtown Burien or over the phone by calling (206) 433-2882.

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Groundbreaking for new Nordic Heritage Museum to be held July 30

Museum to open public funding campaign

The Nordic Heritage Museum has announced that the groundbreaking celebration for the new museum is set for July 30 at 3 p.m.

The new 57,875 square-foot facility located at 2655 N.W. Market St. is the culmination of years of planning and will take the place of the Fenpro studio space. Tenants of the Fenpro facility were asked to vacate the space earlier this year. NHM is currently operating in a Seattle Public School building. SPS has plans to refurbish the school and reopen it as an elementary school to meet the growing student demand.

According to NHM, the facility will have larger exhibition and educational spaces. Along with core exhibits, the museum is designed with an auditorium, a café, classrooms, museum store and a cultural resource center.

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SeaTac City Council agrees to pass resolution to protect ethnic diversity

By Gwen Davis

At the last city council meeting, Councilmember Peter Kwon asked council members to agree to pass a resolution to protect ethnic diversity, especially in the wake of recent council decisions and unflattering news coverage. However, it failed due to other council members' vote. But tonight, he brought it up again, and after a debate among the council, the resolution was approved.

“I’d like to make a motion that should not come as a surprise,” Kwon said as a preface, near the end of the meeting.

He said he’d like to again draft a resolution to establish a tolerance for diversity resolution.

Residents were indeed asking for this, the mayor said of Kwon’s request.

But Councilmember Kathryn Campbell was “fearful” that “someone would be left out." Is it solely ethnic, or does it encompass other facets of humanity such as age and disability, she asked.

Kwon said SeaTac is one of the most diverse cities in Seattle. He said that all other cities in Seattle have an ethnic resolution.

But other council members also did not want a diversity resolution.

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Redmond North blanks West Seattle

By Tim Clinton
SPORTS EDITOR

West Seattle's state title hopes took a hit with a 3-0 loss to Redmond North in a Major Little League baseball all-star winners bracket semifinal Tuesday evening.

The close loss dropped the Westsiders into the losers bracket of the state tournament beginning with a 5:30 p.m. Wednesday game against Montesano.

West Seattle must win that game, then must win again at 5:30 p.m. Thursday to reach Friday's 5:30 p.m. losers bracket final. The Westsiders would need to win Friday also, then beat whoever comes through the winners bracket undefeated two times beginning at 10 a.m. Saturday to win the state title.

West Seattle had opened the tournament played at Hidden Valley in Bellevue with a 7-2 victory over Walla Walla Valley on Sunday. It entered the tournament in the second round after receiving a first round bye.
West Seattle earned its way into the tournament as the District 7 champions.

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Council expands cannabis retail zoning and constricts production and processing in rural residential areas

News from the King County Council

Yesterday, the Metropolitan King County Council adopted legislation to create more geographic equity in the placement of retail marijuana locations while reducing the number of residential areas that will be available for the production and processing of cannabis in the unincorporated communities of King County.

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Highline School District students receive new books

– This summer in Burien and the surrounding areas, 2,359 students in the Highline School District received 28,308 new books for summer reading.
Book Up Summer, a program of Page Ahead Children’s Literacy Program, combats summer learning loss by helping students at high-poverty elementary schools maintain their reading skills over the summer, and return to school in the fall ready to learn. Kindergarten, first and second grade students at the following elementary schools received books through the Book Up Summer program this summer:
Beverly Park Elementary, Highline School District, Seattle
Bow Lake Elementary, Highline School District, Seatac
Cedarhurst Elementary, Highline School District, Burien
Hazel Valley Elementary, Highline School District, Burien
Hilltop Elementary, Highline School District, Burien
Madrona Elementary, Highline School District, SeaTac
McMicken Heights Elementary, Highline School District, SeaTac
Midway Elementary, Highline School District, Des Moines
Mount View Elementary, Highline School District, Seattle
Seahurst Elementary, Highline School District, Burien
Southern Heights Elementary, Highline School District, Burien

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