August 2016

By Katy Wilkens, MS, RD

Frosty treats can make you feel cool on hot days. Frozen pops and sorbets are fruit-filled ways to cool off. Most need little if any added sugar, so they’re healthy and delicious.

You can buy molds or make your own using paper cups. Fill a 3-ounce paper cup, cover it with foil and poke a plastic spoon or wooden stick through the foil. You can also buy reusable plastic tubes and make your own pops.

Sorbets can be served at the start of a meal or between courses and are great along with barbecued meat on a warm summer evening. You don’t need a fancy ice cream maker, just a flat pan or ice cube tray without dividers. The secret is to stir the ingredients while they are freezing for that sorbet-like texture.

Chocolate banana pops
4 bananas, peeled and halved
2 cups melted dark chocolate chips or one package hard chocolate shell covering
2 tablespoons peanut butter or Nutella
Chopped nuts
Wooden Popsicle sticks

By Tim Clinton
SPORTS EDITOR

High schools
Football
Tryouts for the upcoming fall high school football season will get underway across the state of Washington on Wednesday, Aug. 17.
Contact respective schools for more information.

Pros
Mariners
Seattle wraps up its series against the Detroit Tigers with a 7:10 p.m. Wednesday game at Safeco Field, then goes on the road for three in Oakland.
The M's take on the A's at 7:05 p.m. Friday, 6:05 p.m. Saturday and 1:05 p.m. Sunday.
Then its on to Anaheim for four against the Los Angeles Angels, starting with 7:05 p.m. games Monday and Tuesday.
All Mariners games can be seen on the ROOT Sports cable television network.

Rainiers
Tacoma concludes its series against Federal Way High School graduate Travis Ishikawa and the Sacramento Rivercats at 11:35 a.m. Wednesday at Cheney Stadium.
The Rainiers go to Memphis to play the Redbirds at 5:05 p.m. Friday, 4:35 p.m. Saturday, 4:05 p.m. Sunday and 4:35 p.m. Monday.
Then its on to Nashville to take on the Sounds at 5:05 p.m. Tuesday.

By Georgie Bright Kunkel
 
    Over the years I managed to travel widely to destinations all around the world. Racking up memories is what I did and now I can look back on it all and conjure up visions of past delights mixed with some downtime, for sure.  Now that our TVs are filled with the Rio games it brings back memories of the time when I was there in person, gazing up at the monumental statue of Christ.

It was interesting wending my way up the myriad of steps to the top.  I had no idea that the huge statue was sitting on a postage stamp of space leaving little room for more than one to stand there at any one time. Christianity made its mark on South America as exemplified by the imposing statue of Christ which can be seen for many miles away.

On 8/7/16 at 8:38 a 26-year-old Somali male was trespassing at the basketball courts of the Abu Bakr Mosque. A security officer asked him to leave; he refused. A struggle ensued and the security officer was stabbed. He sustained non-life threatening injuries. All involved parties are from the local community and community leaders are cooperating with the police. The suspect was booked into jail for felony assault.

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Mike Murphy

Tukwila Police Department

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By Amanda Knox
 
About a fortnight ago, some friends and I decided to watch The Maltese Falcon together. Seeing as Who Framed Roger Rabbit? has always been one of my favorites, I thought I would like it. Instead, I ended up storming out of the living room. It turned out I couldn’t stomach sitting through this moment:

Brigid: It's more than I can ever offer you if I have to bid for your loyalty.
Spade: That's good coming from you. What have you ever given me beside money? Have you ever given me any of your confidence, any of the truth? Haven't you tried to buy my loyalty with money and nothing else?
Brigid: What else is there I can buy you with?
[Spade kisses her roughly]

By Pat Cashman

Surely you have things you believe fervently.

Me too.

I believe those supposedly healthful magnetic wrist bracelets do not do anything except set off airport metal detectors. I believe the main reason people wear the bracelets is because they look cool. Which they do, by the way. I believe Wonder Woman wears something like them---but I’m certainly not going to tell her my opinion.
I believe that astrology has about as much to with real science as pixie dust. I believe a Virgo is just as likely to behave like a Sagittarius. A Pisces is not demonstrably different than an Aquarius. And a Taurus would not be a thrilling car even if it were called a Leo.

I believe that there is no way to successfully eat a meatball sandwich---which by design is intended to squirt meatball bullets out all sides.

Car thief arrested in Highland Park
A K9 team worked alongside patrol officers tracking and eventually arresting a car thief around 2 a.m. on Thurs., Aug. 4 in Highland Park.

Officer Bryan Grozav received a report of a stolen 2006 Subaru Legacy and then found the vehicle driving on South Roxbury Street. He tried to follow the car, but the driver quickly took off.
About 10 minutes later, Sergeant Tamara Floyd saw the Subaru speeding down Roxbury and emitting a strong odor caused by the driver burning the clutch.

The same smell caught the attention of Officer Sam Specht around 2:40 a.m. The officer was around 9th Avenue S.W. and S.W. Trenton Street and saw the stolen car drive into an alley near 11th Avenue S.W.
Specht found the Subaru unoccupied in the alley and requested a K9 team to respond and additional officers for containment.

K9 Officer Mark Wong and Police Dog Ziva responded and were able to pick up a scent from the suspect at the stolen car. They followed his trail to a nearby garage and found the suspect hiding behind the door. 

A juvenile humpback whale that was seen in the waters off West Seattle on Saturday Aug. 6 stranded in early morning hours of Aug. 7 within feet of the South side of the Fauntleroy Ferry Dock, and died.

The whale, estimated by local whale observer Mark Sears as "around a year and a half old" was "very emaciated" but Sears said that the normal diet for humpbacks, schools of fish like herring, is plentiful in Puget Sound. He said, "I'm not the expert in these things but I'd guess it was sick. Sears was the manager of Colman Pool on Point Williams for more than three decades and has been working with a variety of agencies over time to keep an eye on the habits of marine mammals and whales in the area. "It was out here last night and we saw it and photographed it and it was doing fine."

On site measuring and examining the whale were members of the Marine Mammals Stranding Network including the Cascadia Research Network, Washington Dept. of Fish and Wildlife Marine Mammals Investigations Unit, Seal Sitters. and others.

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