November 2016

One of the most anticipated events of the season the West Seattle Thriftway "Holiday Taste" will feature more than 50 vendors offering specialty products at the store from 4pm to 7pm. Nov. 3.

The store is located at the corner of Morgan Street SW and California Ave. SW.

Every department is involved and you can expect a wide array of cheeses, meats, and tastes of hundreds of products. Appetizers, main courses, sides and desserts will all be sampled.

Best of all, it's FREE.

Update: Work on the lower Spokane Street roadway has been cancelled for this weekend according to SDOT

information from SDOT

The Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) advises travelers that crews will close lower Spokane Street in both directions on Harbor Island this weekend for paving.

From Friday, November 4 at 6 p.m. to Monday, November 7 at 5 a.m., travelers can expect the following:

· Lower Spokane Street will be closed in both directions between 11th St and E Marginal Way.
· Detours will be in place:
o Westbound surface traffic will be detoured down E Marginal Way to the 1st Ave S Bridge and back up W Marginal Way.
o Westbound traffic from SR 99 or the Spokane Viaduct will detour via the West Seattle Delridge Way SW exit to eastbound SW Spokane St.
o Eastbound traffic will be detoured locally within Harbor Island.

This work is part of the SW Spokane St Arterial Paving Project. For more information, please visit: http://www.seattle.gov/transportation/pave_spokane.htm.

By Greg Whittaker
and By Hannah Letinich – Communications Manager & Beth O’Connor – Web Associate - Mountain to Sound Outfitters

As the team at Mountain to Sound Outfitters helps our community to get ready for the winter skiing and snowboarding season we are getting the newbies up to speed on some helpful hints.

Do you know your local mountains? Which one has the best lines or the best view? The staff at Mountain to Sound Outfitters is diverse and each member chooses a mountain based on various factors. First is travel time, how far are you willing to drive for snow? Second is what the mountain has to offer, does the mountain have kids lessons, food and speedy chair lifts? Third is annual snow fall, do they have regular pow and/or regularly serviced runs?

ELVA JEAN LaPLANTE

information from King County

King County’s contractor recently completed the majority of road restoration in the intersection of 48th Ave S.W., Beach Dr. S.W., and Lincoln Park Way S.W. Last week, the contractor began restoring Beach Dr. S.W. This work is expected to take approximately two weeks to complete.

The road will be restored in phases and narrowed to one lane during work hours. Flaggers will maintain two-way traffic. Expect delays of up to 10 minutes and variable road conditions, including loose gravel, pavement cuts, uneven surfaces, and steel plates. Flaggers directing traffic may ask cyclists to walk their bikes on Beach Dr. S.W. during work hours. Cyclists should use extreme caution when traveling near the project area.

Upcoming activities

By Gwen Davis

The Port of Seattle finally held a public meeting regarding the nearly 3,000 trees it will cut down. The meeting took place Tuesday evening at Bow Lake Elementary. More than 100 people attended, along with a handful of elected officials. 

In the first part of the program, five stations were set up detailing the project, name the Flight Corridor Safety Program. The stations discussed the project from several perspectives, including how the plan related to Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) regulations, and the trees and shrubs that will be planted in the trees’ place. Two Port representatives manned each station, and talked to attendees. The stations also featured charts and diagrams regarding the plan.

The Port’s presentation:

In the second half of the program, all participants sat in the school’s gymnasium, and viewed the Port's PowerPoint presentation of the plan, which was displayed on two large screens. A panelist of Port commissioners was seated at the front.   

“We haven’t been good about public engagement, and that’s why we’re here tonight,” Lance Lyttle, Sea-Tac Airport Managing Director began.

By Chef Jeremy McLachlan

First telltale sign of a great restaurant is the crusty van that pulls up full of hand-foraged mushrooms. Every time I see our mushroom guy pull up at Salty's, I get a pit in my stomach like the first time I asked a girl to dance. These mushrooms are hand foraged which means they are not farmed and are picked by wandering through the woods. Many varieties of mushrooms come from our forests in the Pacific Northwest and they have some crazy names. The varieties you might see around are fried chicken, lobster, delicious milkcap, bear's head tooth and hawks wing. Yes, these are all mushrooms and not superheroes. Today I want to go over the most common of the foraged mushrooms, the chanterelle. The chanterelle mushroom is a staple on every fall menu and adds richness to any stew or steak dish. Chanterelle mushrooms have a nice fruity aroma with a wonderful peppery finish. Here are tips on how to buy and cook these amazing fungi.

Buying Mushrooms

Dear Editor:

I enjoyed Jordan Royer's article about Seattle City Hall needing adult supervision. Unfortunately, Seattle is not the only place it is needed.

Our State government makes housing more expensive on purpose. They require urban growth boundaries, which put rings around cities. Housing and schools can only be built inside those rings.

The shortage of buildable land makes the land more expensive, greatly increasing the cost of housing. The State is requiring this so local governments don't have to build so many new roads.

The Highline School District could also use some supervision. They want an impact fee for new students. You would think an impact fee for schools would be a fee when new babies are born in the District or when someone first enrolls at a District school.

Instead, the District wants apartment and house builders to pay about $7,000 for each new house they build and about $6,000 for each new apartment. This cost is passed on to the house buyer or tenant, who may not have any children.

By Tim Clinton
SPORTS EDITOR

High schools

Football
Seattle Lutheran travels to Orcas Island for a 3 p.m. non-playoff game Thursday, then Friday's schedule includes a 7 p.m. non-playoff between Highline and Evergreen at Highline Memorial Stadium.
West Seattle is facing a 7 p.m. playoff at Lincoln High School in Tacoma Friday and Mount Rainier journeys to Skyline for a playoff at the same time.
Renton is at Foster for a 7 p.m. non-playoff game that night.
Kennedy Catholic will play Mariner in a playoff at 5 p.m. Saturday at Highline Memorial Stadium.

Girls soccer
Highline visits Olympic in Silverdale for a 5:30 p.m. playoff on Tuesday and Kennedy Catholic will go to Sparks Stadium in Puyallup to play Olympia at the same time Thursday.

Volleyball
Seattle Christian goes to Klahowya for a 6 p.m. loser-out playoff Thursday with the winner going to Coupeville for 1:30 p.m. action Saturday.