September 2016

By Tim Clinton
SPORTS EDITOR

High Schools

Football
Mount Rainier goes into action Thursday this week, traveling to Federal Way Memorial to play Todd Beamer in a 7 p.m. game.
Evergreen hosts nearby Foster at 5 p.m. Friday at Highline Memorial ahead of an 8 p.m. game between Kennedy Catholic and Seattle Prep.
West Seattle entertains Ingraham at 7 p.m. Friday at the Southwest Athletic Complex with Chief Sealth going on the road to Nathan Hale and Highline to Eatonville at the same time.

Volleyball
Kennedy hosts Holy Names for a 7:15 p.m. match Thursday and Federal Way at the same time Tuesday, with Mount Rainier playing in a tournament at Auburn Mountainview on Saturday.
Chief Sealth will be at home facing Bainbridge at 6 p.m. Tuesday and West Seattle entertains Blanchet at 7 p.m. that day.
Foster, meanwhile, entertains Evergreen at 7 p.m. Tuesday and Seattle Christian visits Forest Ridge at 5:30 p.m. Friday before going to Bush at 6 p.m. Tuesday.

By Peggy Sturdivant

I need to get outside to pick tomatoes before the Labor Day weekend’s rainfall splits them open. Even without water the high temperatures of August have done their work in the garden, and in rising tempers over what happens on our increasingly precious land.

Seattle City Light is digging out the pad of the surplus former Sunset Hill substation. Meanwhile on 28th NW on the Loyal Heights Substation site sunflowers are blooming where the cherry trees were cut on Washington’s Birthday. With the end of summer comes an abundance of crops, events and contradictions.

Mayor Ed Murray came to the brand new Arbor Heights K-5 STEM school, a $40 million project (one of five new schools in the district), to welcome students to the new campus on the first day of school, Sept. 7.

The school held its ribbon cutting on Sept. 6.
For more photos and the full story see the Herald's coverage here.

He was joined on the playground by Principal Christy Collins and 3rd grade student Julian who rang the school bell to officially mark the beginning of the school year.

Mayor Murray expressed his pride in the fact that for the first time Pre-K education would be offered on the campus.

Hundreds of students and parents were on hand for the event.

Joining the Mayor were:
Stephen Nielsen, Deputy Superintendent, Seattle Public Schools
Cashel Toner, Director of Early Learning, Seattle Public Schools
Dwane Chappelle, Director of Education and Early Learning, City of Seattle
Leslie Harris, Seattle School Board Director

information from Seattle Parks

In celebration of the 75th anniversary of Camp Long and Seattle’s long-standing mountain and climbing community, Seattle Parks and Recreation (SPR) will open its historic Camp Long for a Mountain Festival on Saturday, Sept. 10 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. — where anyone, from the novice to the hard-core enthusiast, can put hands on the rocks and get feet off the ground. In tribute to Clark Schurman, one of the founders of Camp Long and a mountaineer and artist, the theme of this year’s Mountain Fest is “Climbing to new heights.”

Mountain Fest celebrates the vibrant climbing and mountaineering history of Seattle, and the importance of Camp Long to our climbing and environmental communities. Enjoy free activities including rock climbing, rappelling, arts and crafts, nature programs, falconry and the Camp Long Challenge Course*. There will also be a commemorative flag ceremony at 1:30 p.m. with guest speakers, including Mike Gauthier, the Chief of Staff of Yosemite National Park, who spent 19 years as the Supervisory Climbing Ranger at Mt. Rainier.

By Tim Clinton
SPORTS EDITOR

High Schools
Football
Mount Rainier goes into action Thursday this week, traveling to Federal Way Memorial to play Todd Beamer in a 7 p.m. game.
Evergreen hosts nearby Foster at 5 p.m. Friday at Highline Memorial ahead of an 8 p.m. game between Kennedy Catholic and Seattle Prep.
West Seattle entertains Ingraham at 7 p.m. Friday at the Southwest Athletic Complex with Chief Sealth going on the road to Nathan Hale and Highline to Eatonville at the same time.

Volleyball
Kennedy hosts Holy Names for a 7:15 p.m. match Thursday and Federal Way at the same time Tuesday, with Mount Rainier playing in a tournament at Auburn Mountainview on Saturday.
Chief Sealth will be at home facing Bainbridge at 6 p.m. Tuesday and West Seattle entertains Blanchet at 7 p.m. that day.
Foster, meanwhile, entertains Evergreen at 7 p.m. Tuesday and Seattle Christian visits Forest Ridge at 5:30 p.m. Friday before going to Bush at 6 p.m. Tuesday.

information from SDOT

The off-ramps to Harbor Island from westbound West Seattle Freeway and from southbound SR99 will be closed this coming weekend beginning Friday evening, September 9, at 7 p.m. The off-ramps will be reopened Monday morning, September 12, by 5 a.m. The closures are needed in order for the replacement of three railroad crossings at the south end of Harbor Island.

• Motorists who are not in large trucks/commercial vehicles can detour by taking the high level West Seattle Bridge, using the Delridge Way exit, then taking the right onto Chelan Ave SW, another right onto SW Spokane St, and eastbound across the Duwamish West Waterway and back onto Harbor Island.

information from King County Sheriff

On Sunday morning around 4:30 police responded to the area of S128 St and 21 Ave S for a report of shots being fired. Within minutes police were told that a man with multiple gunshot wounds had been driven by friends to Highline Hospital.

Detectives learned the victim, a 27 year old Sacramento man, had been at a party with friends in the area of S128 St and 22 Ave S. The victim left the party on foot and a short time later, friends found him on the ground with multiple gunshot wounds.

Police are asking anyone with information to call the King County Sheriff’s Office at 206-296-3311 or you can call Crime Stoppers and remain anonymous at 1-800-222-TIPS

The West Seattle Church of the Nazarene is moving ahead with plans that began about three years ago to construct a series of two car townhouses plus leave some land undeveloped as just open public space just adjacent to its property at 5911 42nd Ave SW.

It means the area needs to be rezoned specifically for this purpose. In the latest Land Use Bulletin from Seattle's Department of Planning and Development they note a "Council Land Use Action to rezone 18,681 sq. ft. of land from Single Family 5000 (SF5000) to LowRise1 (LR1). Project includes three townhouse structures (six units total) and a new park. Parking for 12 vehicles to be provided within attached garages. Existing structure to remain. Environmental Review includes future unit lot subdivision."

Getting that rezoning will require approval from the Seattle City Council.

The park area would have some playground equipment as indicated in plans on file with the city.

It is project number 3016200

The project is still subject to a design review.

As the sun sank last Sunday night the fountain at the Seattle Center was illuminated with a projector displaying bands who played at the main stage, and festival goers gathered around the blasting water under a crown of green balloons that had been strung up above the festival grounds.

This year's Bumbershoot was bigger than ever and artists like Billy Idol, Tame Impala, Death Cab for Cutie and Macklemore drew thousands of fans. Other offerings included a large group yoga session, an oyster eating contest and silent discos.

The Ballard News-Tribune checked in on the festival and captured some photos of the festival goers whooping it up and performers melting fan faces with utter rock raw power.

Yoga session under the Space Needle.

Dust off your lederhosen and get ready to put a little oompah in your day. The Ballard Oktoberfest is coming back for its second year!

On Saturday, Sept. 17, four Ballard breweries will bring a little bit of Bavaria to the Ballard corridor with a neighborhood Oktoberfest crawl!

This year, there’s one more brewery in the mix. Lucky Envelope Brewing has jumped on board to co-host with Reuben’s Brews, Stoup Brewing and Populuxe Brewing. Verity Credit Union also returns as the event’s sponsor.

“Verity Credit Union is delighted to once again to sponsor the Second Annual Ballard Oktoberfest celebration,” says Alicia Diefenbach, community relations specialist for Verity Credit Union. “Supporting the Ballard brewing community to serve up an afternoon of delicious brews, good times and oomptastic brass for our neighbors is the exactly the way we want to help the community celebrate this fun, fall tradition.”

The event will kick off in festive fashion with a traveling oompah band. The Oompah Machine will start playing at Reuben’s at 2 p.m. They will then will march revelers to Stoup Brewing at 3 p.m., Lucky Envelope at 4 p.m. and Populuxe at 5 p.m.