November 2016

By Tim Clinton
SPORTS EDITOR

Saturday, Nov. 5

Football
Mariner 51, Kennedy 6
The visitors from Mariner of Everett spoiled the Lancers' playoff party Saturday, ending their season in the preliminary round.

Friday, Nov. 4

Football
Lincoln 54, West Seattle 22
West Seattle's playoff run also ended early as the Wildcats took a preliminary loss at Lincoln High School of Tacoma on Friday.
Skyline 41, Mount Rainier 7
Mount Rainier's magical season coming off years of struggle ended with Friday's preliminary playoff loss at Skyline.
Highline 21, Evergreen 18
Highline won Friday's non-playoff crossover against a crosstown foe with a fourth quarter field goal.
The two teams were tied at 18-18 by the end of the first half.
Foster 35, Renton 3
Foster prevailed against Renton in another non-playoff game Friday.

Volleyball
Curtis 3, Kennedy 1
The Lancers opened West Central District action with a loss to Curtis on Friday at the Kentwood gymnasium.
Kent-Meridian 3, Kennedy 0

Article courtesy of Gerardo Bolong

PUYALLUP - It took more than 90 minutes of action, but the NPSL 4A John F. Kennedy Catholic girls soccer team used its high energy battle techniques to batter down the walls in gaining a penalty kick shoot out 2-1 victory against SPSL 4A Olympia Thurs., Nov. 3, at Carl Sparks Stadium, earning a 2016 first round Washington state high school first round match.

The Lady Lancers moved on to a Nov. 5 West Central III/Southwest IV showdown versus Sumner for a No. 6 or No. 8 seeding into state.

In the shoot out, Olympia received the first shot. Rosie Augsburger attempted to shoot to her right side of the net, but Lancer keeper Jaclyn Seifert dove to her left for the stop. Lancer Natalie Gagne then stepped up to deliver a lightning-like shot right into the middle of the goal.

After Bella Hood evened the score for Olympia, Bailey Hall scored for Kennedy. On Killman's turn for the Bears, Seifert smothered the ball on the shooter's attempt to go right side.

For the Lancers, Julianna Trejo-Lamphere notched a left corner goal.

By Tim Clinton
SPORTS EDITOR

High schools

Girls swimming
State meets
The King County Aquatics Center in Federal Way is hosting the state girls swimming and diving meets for Class 4A, 3A and 2A this Friday and Saturday.
Class 4A preliminaries start off the day at 9:45 a.m. Friday, followed by the 2A preliminaries at 2 p.m. and the 3A preliminaries at 6:30 p.m.
Saturday's finals get underway with the 4A at 9:30 a.m., followed by the 2A at 2:15 p.m. and the 3A at 7 p.m.

Pros

Seahawks
Seattle hosts the New England Patriots in a rematch of the Super Bowl two seasons ago at 5:30 p.m. Sunday on Channel 5 television.

Sounders
Seattle won its Western Conference semifinal series against Dallas and will advance to play the Colorado Rapids in the conference finals series. The Sounders will be at home Tuesday, Nov. 22.

Thunderbirds

information from the Duwamish Tribe

The Duwamish Tribe invites the public to its Longhouse Thanksgiving weekend for a Native Holiday Gift Fair. Buy directly from native artists and craft persons. Lots of holiday spirit and a big lighted tree. Unique gifts in every price range– fine art, native crafts, regalia, cards, jewelry, t-shirts, smoked salmon and more. Snacks: soup of day, hot chocolate and more. Celebrate National Native American Heritage Day on Nov. 25th! Free admission and parking for shoppers.

WHAT: Duwamish Longhouse Native Holiday Gift Fair

WHEN: November 25-27, 2016
10 a.m. – 4 p.m. | Free | All Ages

WHERE: Duwamish Longhouse & Cultural Center
4705 W Marginal Way SW
Seattle, WA 98106
www.duwamishtribe.org, 206.431.1582

EVENT WEBSITE: https://www.facebook.com/events/297110830670886/

By Peggy Sturdivant

What I love about writing this column is that nine times out of ten what’s underneath the surface facts is a love story. It can be a love story between a neighborhood and a tree, a pet and its owner, a volunteer and a cause, and yes, between humans.

I was invited to a lunch below the original chapel at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in order to meet a few members of their Edible Hope Program. Doug Owens and Elizabeth Denison glow like newlyweds, some sort of quiet, shared radiance. They are going to cook as team, one of two representing Edible Hope in “Bringing in Ballard’s” final event on November 18, 2016.

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Information provided by the City of Seattle

Repairs to five sections of the Burke-Gilman Trail that runs through the University District will begin on Monday, Nov. 7. Seattle Parks and Recreation (SPR) awarded the construction contract for repairs to Westwater Construction. Work is scheduled to be completed in early 2017. This project will repair sections of the trail, remove areas of asphalt in disrepair, remove invasive roots that are causing upheaval, and replace those sections with new asphalt. Trail sections were determined by 2015 condition-assessment work done in collaboration with Seattle Department of Transportation.

Cyclists and pedestrians will be detoured around the construction area onto side streets. The contractor will work on one section at a time, from east to west, to reduce the impact to trail users. Please visit www.seattle.gov/parks/about-us/current-projects/burke-gilman-trail-repa… for more information about the detour routes.

By Amanda Knox

I accelerated into the mostly empty parking lot and veered a wide arch into a spot. I pulled up the parking break at the same time that I unclipped my seat belt. Chris already had the passenger side door open. We were on a last-minute mission to buy temporary black hair dye for my Jessica Jones costume, before heading to a haunted house with my family, and we were running a little late. We bounded toward the entrance to Walgreens when, suddenly, I jerked to a halt. Chris swept by me, but paused after a few steps, looking back. “What’s up?” he asked.

I stared through the passenger side window into the other lone vehicle in the parking lot. Inside, a man—tall, lean, white, 30s, with short, dark hair, wearing jeans and a plain, long-sleeve T-shirt—was slumped in the reclined driver’s seat, apparently passed out. His right arm lay stretched out in his lap, and his left hand curled limply around a needle sticking into the cubital fossa of his outstretched right arm. I stared. “Look!” I said to Chris. “He’s…Should we do something?”