January 2017

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Burglary of construction site on 20th Avenue S.W.

Police received a report of a burglary to a construction site located on the 9000 block of 20th Avenue S.W. around 7 a.m. on Mon., Jan. 16. The victim said he came to work at 5:30 a.m. and saw the garage gate was open. The suspect cut a fence and crawled into the g garage, leaving with several tools. The victim said he would follow up after he assessed which items were missing.

Collecting money gets sticky

By Lindsay Peyton

West Seattle chef Brian Clevenger has a vision.

He wants every neighborhood to have a top-notch restaurant that serves homemade pasta and fresh seafood – and he’s ready to do his part in making that dream a reality.

Clevenger has already achieved success with Vendemmia and East Anchor Seafood in Madrona and about a month ago, opened the doors to his new place in his own neighborhood, Raccolto, 4147 California Ave SW.

“I want people to have the most simplistic approach to pasta, meat, seafood and have a beautiful product,” he said. “It’s healthy, it’s sustainable and it’s at a price point where people can go more than a couple times a year.”

In fact, the plates of pasta and dinners served up at Raccolto are reasonably priced by most standards and the restaurant is already bringing in a crowd to the contemporary, cozy spot with an open kitchen, located just past the Junction.

By Pat Cashman

Dean and I were eleven years old that long-ago Saturday. (Or, as I would have written that sentence back then,“ Me and Dean…”) We walked out of the movie theatre matinee that day knowing exactly what we were going to do: Run away and join the circus.

We were always heavily influenced by the movies we had just seen. Every time we saw a John Wayne western, we wanted to be cowboys and walk funny. We saw Ben Hur and decided to become chariot drivers. After watching Robin Hood we both signed up for archery lessons---planning to spend the rest of our days out in the woods with other guys eating berries and squirrels.

Fortunately, we never attended The Boston Strangler.

But it made sense that Dean and I wanted circus careers after seeing a movie called Toby Tyler. In that Disney film, young Toby decides he’ll escape a tough home life by sneaking off with a traveling circus. We didn’t notice that the movie was set in the 1880’s---nor did it matter that our own home lives were just dandy. We were joining the circus---and that was that.

Sports Roundup

By Tim Clinton
SPORTS EDITOR

Saturday, Jan. 21
Wrestling
Willie C. Stewart Invite
Evergreen/Tyee took seventh place as a team in Saturday's 15-team tournament, scoring 71 points to finish just behind the 72 of Eatonville. Curtis won with 257.
Lazaro Lombillo led Evergreen/Tyee by winning the 120-pound championship match by an 8-7 score over Nathan Hiatt of Curtis.
Conrado Barrera took second at 195 pounds, losing the championship to Colton Ferro of Arlington by pin in 35 seconds.

Friday, Jan. 20
Boys basketball
West Seattle 54, Ballard 45
The Wildcats were winners against the Beavers on Friday.
Lindbergh 76, Evergreen 61
Evergreen came up short in Friday's battle with Lindbergh.
Kennedy 70, Kent-Meridian 56
Kennedy Catholic came away with a victory over the Royals on Friday.
Mt. Rainier 66, Hazen 49
The Rams downed the Highlanders in Friday's game.
Highline 65, River Ridge 58
The Pirates prevailed over River Ridge on Friday.
Steilacoom 56, Tyee 39
Steilacoom's Sentinels topped the Totems.

By Greg Whittaker
Mountain to Sound Outfitters

As winter kicks into full gear, people are coming into the shop daily getting ready for their first mountain ski or snowboard session in 10 years. Not only has this year been great for snowpack in the NW, it is getting people out into the mountains which is one of the reasons we who work in the industry are involved. It's healthier than staying in the grey dreary lowlands.

The warm front which broke the freeze down here in town was pretty eventful in the mountains as well. A massive inversion led to freezing rain up high, strange deep groppel, and dense heavy snow down low. Mt Baker received 20 inches for Fridays opening. Layers of unstable snow may be observed and those of you headed into the backcountry need to proceed with knowledge on aspect and potential slide layers.

This week we saw good skiing at Crystal on piste where the groomers were layed down, but spotty crust conditions off piste. Snoqualmie Pass (and I-90) was closed for cleanup after the warm inversion storm, and this weekend we had decent on piste skiing with crust layers as you got off the trails.

By Tim Clinton
SPORTS EDITOR

McPhee cruising for Cardinal

Mount Rainier High School graduate Brittany McPhee is enjoying a solid season as a junior with the Stanford University women's basketball team.
The 6-foot guard is average 13.3 points per game over her first 17 games for the Cardinal this year along with 4.7 rebounds and 1.8 assists.

Jordan starring for SPU

Brittany McPhee's twin sister Jordan McPhee is also having a good season only with the Seattle Pacific University women's basketball team.
The 5-10 junior guard has a 10.9 scoring average per game and has hauled down an average of 5.1 rebounds. She also has 35 assists over her first 17 games.

Gandy a senior at Western

Yet another Mount Rainier graduate -- Kiana Gandy -- is enjoying a standout women's basketball season.
Gandy is a senior forward for Western Washington University, averaging 12.8 points per game and 4.1 rebounds. She also has 30 assists, 10 blocks and 13 steals, also over 17 games.

Collier contributing for UW

District 1 City Council member Lisa Herbold shared news about the potential annexation of North Highline and the Duwamish area near South Park in her recent newsletter on Jan. 20:

"On Wednesday I attended the Education, Equity, and Governance Committee briefing on the potential annexation of both the North Highline area and the Duwamish area (or Sliver by the River). You can see a map of both proposed annexation areas here, a memo describing the process and timeline here, and a document outlining the impacts to service providers such as school districts, utilities, fire, police and other emergency services here.

An estimated 80 students from West Seattle High School exercised their First Amendment rights to protest on January 20 the inaguration of Donald Trump. The students skipped school to take part.
Carrying signs that said, "Love Trumps Hate," "My body, my choice" and "Hate has no place in America" the peaceful but loud demonstration was organized by Senior Maxwell Lemke.

The group marched around the block of Calfornia Ave. SW and SW 42nd Street then gathered and spoke their minds. The protest lasted around 30 minutes.

"I organized this walk out as representative of a statistic that's really unhappy with the choice of the American people. There are a lot of issues in this country right now and we feel that the intentions of Donald Trump are not aligned properly with what we think would help make a better future. We believe that by coming out and protesting we show ourselves as part of something much larger. There are protests happening all over the country."

Lemke has organized such protests in the past and said he will do so again as the need arises.

After the Ballard News-Tribune published an article covering the concerns of business owners as the Center for Sex Positive Culture moves into a warehouse in the Ballard industrial zone, a conversation has started online.

Comments on the article webpage ranged from opposition, support and even criticism of the BNT.

The City and the CSPC have now joined the conversation after not seeing emails from the BNT last week. The City reported that the nature of the content directed the emails to a spam box.

Jeanette Hotes-Aprato, Managing Director of Center for Sex Positive Culture responded to some of the questions and issues raised in the report. She also said the BNT emails went to a spam box.

Where was the CSPC located before the Ballard location and how long was the organization there?

We were located in the Seattle Interbay area at 1608 15th Ave. W. for 17 wonderful years. We enjoyed cooperative and congenial relationships with our landlord and neighbors.

What drew CSPC to Ballard? Is there anything different about the Ballard community compared to the previous community you were in?