November 2016

Please join us for a party this weekend at Ballard Corners Park! Gabriella sends you all this message:

Please join us for a work party at Ballard Corners Park (17th Ave NW & NW 63rd Street) on Saturday, November, 12th from 9am-2pm, rain or shine.

We'll be weeding, spreading wood chips, cleaning up debris, (and possibly planting some new plants). Some tools and refreshments will be provided. If you have your own gloves and tools please bring them. Any questions, please contact Gabriella: gabriella@seanet.com or (206) 782-3238. We look forward to seeing you there!

In homage to its roots, Seattle’s award-winning Reuben’s Brews is launching the “Hop Idol” Homebrew Contest. Do you think your beer has what it takes to be the next great homebrew?

“Homebrewing is where it started for us,” says Adam Robbings, Co-Founder and Head Brewer of Reuben’s Brews. “Homebrewing competitions gave me the confidence to take a chance at opening a brewery. We’ve wanted to start a competition like this for some time as a way to try new beers, support the homebrew community, all while having a lot of fun!”

The winner will receive $250 and get to brew their beer with the Reuben’s Brews team at their brewery in Seattle’s Ballard neighborhood. The finished brew will available on tap in the Reuben’s taproom and see some distribution around the Pacific Northwest. It is also planned to be entered in the Pro-Am category at one of the most prestigious beer competitions in the country – the Great American Beer Festival (GABF).

How will they choose a winning beer? Like a former reality show with a similar name, the judging will be led by a Brit with a high standard of excellence – U.K native Robbings.

Highland park improvement club Holiday Bazaar Nov. 12
Who: The Highland park improvement club,
What:we are having our annual holiday bazaar
When: November 12th from 10 am to 3pm
Where: 1116 SW Holden St., Seattle, Wa 98106

More information? Christie Sjostrom csjostrom@hotmail.com

We have over 20 vendors all selling handmade items, we have breakfast and lunch for sale as well as Highland park t-shirts and hoodies.

Fauntleroy Art Show
Fauntleroy Church UCC
9140 California Ave. S.W.
Nov. 11–13, Fri., 5–8 p.m.; Sat., 10 a.m.–4 p.m.; Sun., 11 a.m.–2 p.m. The ninth annual Fauntleroy Fine Art & Holiday Gift Show will feature 17 West Seattle artists and creative crafters showing and selling their work.

Holiday Concert
and Bazaar
Breath of Life Adventist Church
9807 26th Ave. S.W.

Residents of the Highline School District are being asked to vote in favor of a $299 million bond issue Tuesday.

We're hearing some grumbling from the community on this issue -- and a few of our readers have raised some challenges to the administration's claims.

These challenges warrant examination.

Let's start with the basics. The bond totaling nearly $300 million is for Phase 1 of three major sets of improvements in the district. If the bond passes, the district would build a new Glacier High School, a new Des Moines Elementary School and a new Highline High School. Some of the funds ($23 million) would be reserved for building design for Evergreen, Tyee and Pacific schools. The balance would be used for "critical needs fund," interim student housing and security and communication improvements for all schools in the district.

Also in the administration's plan book are Phases 2 and 3. Opponents claim that combined, local taxpayers would be paying nearly one billion dollars over the next eight years to put these plans in place.

Residents of the Highline School District are being asked to vote in favor of a $299 million bond issue Tuesday.

We're hearing some grumbling from the community on this issue -- and a few of our readers have raised some challenges to the administration's claims.

These challenges warrant examination.

Let's start with the basics. The bond totaling nearly $300 million is for Phase 1 of three major sets of improvements in the district. If the bond passes, the district would build a new Glacier High School, a new Des Moines Elementary School and a new Highline High School. Some of the funds  ($23 million) would be reserved for building design for Evergreen, Tyee and Pacific schools. The balance would be used for "critical needs fund,"  interim student housing and security and communication improvements for all schools in the district.

Also in the administration's plan book are Phases 2 and 3. Opponents claim that combined, local taxpayers would be paying nearly one billion dollars over the next eight years to put these plans in place.

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?”
 

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
Seattle hosts Calgary for 7:35 p.m. Canadian Hockey League action at the Showare Center in Kent on Friday before visiting Vancouver at 7 p.m. Saturday.

Shed robbed on 38th Avenue S.W.

Police were dispatched at 3 p.m. on Sun., Oct. 30 to investigate a burglary on the 5900 block of 38th Avenue S.W. The victim said that on Thur., Oct. 27, he put away lawn tools used for his business into a shed around 10 p.m. When he opened the shed the following day, he noticed that the door had been pried open and property was missing. Officers were not able to locate any evidence of the suspect.

Barroom brawl at Corner Pocket

By Pat Cashman

“Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.” Rick Blaine in Casablanca

“Sincerity---if you can fake that, you’ve got it made.” George Burns

As the election season has finally stumbled---breathless and cramping---across the finish line, it is time for a reset. Let us put the acrimony and fist waving aside; let us restore fellowship and plain civility; let us be friends.

A few months ago, I found a new friend---or rather, he found me.

His name is Cody. I don’t know his last name, but he knows mine. In fact, I got a lovely letter from him. Well, not a letter---it was lovely email. Cody works for an online company I recently ordered a product from---and he has been staying in touch ever since. Like several times a day since.

Here’s the latest email I received from Cody---verbatim---I’m not making it up:
“Hey Patrick! Cody from [name of the here again! How have you been?”
(Such a nice, personal opening. He asks about ME. That feels pretty darn good.)

By Tim Clinton
SPORTS EDITOR

Federal Way High School graduate and former Robinson Newspapers freelance sports reporter Gordon Wittenmyer became a part of history when the Chicago Cubs won their first World Series title in 108 years Wednesday night with a wild 8-7 win in 10 innings in Cleveland.

Wittenmyer was in the press box as he has been the entire postseason as the Cubs' regular beat reporter for the Chicago Sun Times.

"I can't remember the last time I had a day off, but I wouldn't have missed it," Wittenmyer said. "It was a crazy ride."

Wittenmyer previously covered the Seattle Mariners, Los Angeles Angels and Minnesota Twins for various newspapers before moving to Chicago to cover the Cubs team he grew up as a fan of.

"You know I've covered four different teams over the years. Who would have believed I'd have to go to the Cubs to cover one in the World Series," said Wittenmyer, who started off as a freelance reporter for Robinson Newspapers in the early 1980s.