August 2016

Woman works at Ballard Safeway for 12 years, fired for trying to stop vandal, shoplifter

By Shane Harms

After 12 years of working for Safeway, Samira Othman, 48, never thought she would be fired for trying to prevent a shoplifter and vandal from taking liberties while on her watch, but that’s just what happened last May.

Othman told the Ballard News-Tribune that she has been a merchandise stocker at the store for years. She moved here from Jerusalem back in 2001 and got a job at a Capital Hill Safeway, but after a year she moved back to Jerusalem to care for her mother. She later returned in 2004 and asked her previous manager for a reference in order to get hired at the Ballard Safeway (1423 NW Market St.). She said she was hired immediately and stocked the shelves for over a decade.

“I’m very hard working, and I worked like a dog for them for years,” said Othman.

by Lindsay Peyton
Real estate broker Dan Mathews, with the firm Kidder Mathews, represented both seller and buyer in a recent transaction – selling 14 acres located at 1010 South 146th St. to Bridge Development Partners, LLC, a Chicago-based industrial and office developer.

The property sold for $3.5 million – with an additional $1 million spent for the purchase of two adjacent homes.

Western Distribution Services, a Renton-based logistics, cold storage, warehouse provider, will become the first tenant of the space. The company will build a 241,140 square foot food cold storage facility on the site.

The property is part of the Northeast Redevelopment Area (NERA) of Burien, an industrial-zoned site adjacent to the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. The area was created in 1997.

The City of Burien, in partnership with the Port of Seattle, shared a vision for using the land to build a sustainable development, which would be compatible with the needs of the airport.

Responding to market forces and regional economic realities, was key, Mathews said.

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When you walk inside Arbor Heights School, you find a 89,000 square foot, preK-5 school designed to not just accommodate 660 students, but foster connections between each one of those students, the community, and the natural environment while pioneering Seattle Public Schools’ (SPS) Environmental Science Technology Engineering Math (E-STEM) program. The building houses four small learning communities intentionally crafted to focus on 21st century learning and innovation. Each curve and corner supports Abor Heights’ education philosophy and values of the school community, including open-shared learning spaces featuring an IDEA lab, collaboration and project-based learning.

The district is growing at a rapid rate. Seattle Public Schools is opening five new school building this fall and 95 new classrooms. The new Arbor Heights building was funded by the $694.9 million dollar Building Excellence IV Capital Levy. The Levy was approved by over 72 percent of Seattle voters in February 2013 and reflects the district’s and community’s commitment to educational excellence.

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By Sarah Cecil

It’s almost back-to-school time. If you have young children going to public schools, your biggest expenditures may be on pens, pencils and notebooks. But if you want those same kids to go to college someday, you’ll eventually face considerably larger costs – so you may want to start preparing soon.

College is costly. For the 2015-16 school year, the average expense (including tuition, fees room and board) was nearly $20,000 at a public, four-year school, and more than twice that amount at a four-year private school, according to the College Board. Of course, cheaper alternatives are available – your children could go to a local community college for two years at a very reasonable cost, and then transfer to a four-year school.

Still, if your child does go on to get a bachelor's degree, those big bills will eventually arrive. As you consider how you can best deal with these costs, ask yourself these questions:

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In December 2012, the FBI launched its Bank Robbers website featuring a gallery of unknown bank robbery suspects wanted by the FBI. The FBI’s Seattle Field Office has posted multiple wanted bank robbers that have struck within Washington to the site. Public assistance in identifying the bank robbers listed on the site plays a crucial role in the FBI’s efforts to apprehend them.
Last week, the FBI enhanced its efforts to publicize these dangerous criminals by launching a mobile Bank Robbers app for iPhones (plus iPads and iPods) and Android smartphones, which should make it even easier for the public – as well as financial institutions, law enforcement agencies, and others – to view photos and information about bank robberies not only in Washington, but across the United States as well. The app, which works with bankrobbers.fbi.gov, can be downloaded for free from Apple’s app store or Google Play.
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Burglar takes off with jewelry

Officers were dispatched to the 9900 block of 35 Ave SW at 7:25 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 16, after receiving a call about a forced entry. The victim said that, before arriving home at noon, he spoke to an unidentified white female, who was pushing a baby stroller, about a nearby bus route. Once he entered the home, he found that the screen to the back window had been pried off.

The victim said that, while there was no damage to his property, multiple pieces of jewelry were missing, including a diamond engagement ring, silver locket, gold and silver bracelets and silver hoop earrings. A jar of change was also missing.

He explained that before leaving the house that morning, he had left the sliding glass portion of the window open and unsecured. He believes that the woman outside may have been acting as a lookout. He said she was about 25 years old, 5’3’ tall and had blonde hair. She was wearing jeans and a dark shirt.

By Amanda Knox

On a +95° cloudless day, the Washington Midsummer Renaissance Faire was a bustling strip stretched across a vast, dry, grassy, farming plot. Devotion won over reasonableness. A court of Lords and Ladies in full outfit—petticoats and collars—paraded to-and-fro between the royal tent and the half-timber towers of the front gate. Knights in full leather, chain mail, and plate armor grappled in the jousting field. Even the paying visitors braved the heat in wool cloaks and furr wraps.