April 2017

By Katie Wilkens

I’ll join my husband soon in Argentina where he will visit on business. The people of Argentina, the eighth-largest country in the world, enjoy a wide and varied cuisine. Argentinians eat a lot of meat, more than 120 pounds per person a year, and that number is actually lower than in the past!

I am looking forward to street food in Buenos Aires, Spanish-influenced food in the southern tip of the country and the hot, spicy food of indigenous peoples in the hot and humid north.

I also look forward to Italian food, such as wood-fired pizzas, homemade pastas and gnocchi. Argentina has perhaps the best Italian food outside of Italy, thanks to a huge influx of Italian immigrants in the 1900s.

Argentina reportedly also has the best ice cream, or gelato, in the world. I see it as my duty to thoroughly research the gelato. I will generously sample, take rigorous notes and report on the quality when I get back!
In the meantime, here is a recipe for choripan, an Argentinian sandwich consisting of a bread roll filled with a split, grilled sausage and topped with chimichurri, a sauce made of olive oil, parsley and garlic.

KCHA's Section 8 voucher program will accept applications from 12:01 a.m. on Wednesday, Apr. 5, 2017 through 4 p.m. on Tuesday, Apr. 18, 2017.

The free application process will only be available online through the KCHA website. A random lottery drawing will be used to select 3,500 of these applications for the Section 8 waiting list.

Any agency requesting a fee to assist you or who guarantees placement on the waiting list is fraudulent. Please report any such agency to KCHA. Learn more about the lottery process.

Any computer, smart phone or internet enabled device can be used to complete an application. Both the King County and Seattle Library Systems provide free access to computers. During the application period, KCHA will provide computer centers at the following locations:

YWCA Greenbridge Learning Center in White Center
9720 8th Avenue Southwest, Seattle, WA 98106

Firwood Circle Learning Center in Auburn
313 37th Street Southeast, Auburn, WA 98002

Burndale Homes Community Center in Auburn
1044 18th Street Northeast, Auburn, WA 98002

Birch Creek Career Center in Kent
13111 Southeast 27th Street, Suite 226, Kent, WA 98030

information from DNDA

This year Earth Day falls on Saturday, April 22, and from 10:00am until 2:00pm Nature Consortium and Earth Corps are co-hosting a fun volunteer opportunity within the vast West Duwamish Greenbelt as part of a Duwamish Alive! day of service. This celebration will be complete with live musicians, as well as creative art projects through Nature Consortium’s EcoARTs Progam. Located at Pigeon Point at the Pathfinder School (1901 SW Genesee St), you can still sign up for this volunteer work party here!

By Tim Clinton
SPORTS EDITOR

High schools
Baseball
West Seattle hosts Rainier Beach for a 4 p.m. game Wednesday as Chief Sealth travels to Nathan Hale, and Friday at the same time West Seattle is at home against Cleveland as Chief Sealth goes to O'Dea. West Seattle entertains Garfield at the same time Monday.
Mount Rainier, meanwhile, plays host to Kent-Meridian at 4 p.m. Wednesday as Kennedy goes to Kentwood, then Thursday Kennedy hosts Kentwood and Mount Rainier travels to Kent-Meridian.
Mount Rainier meets Hazen for a 12 p.m. game at Cheney Stadium in Tacoma on Saturday before visiting Hazen at 4 p.m. Tuesday, when Kennedy is home playing Tahoma.
Foster is at Ingraham for a 4 p.m. game Thursday, then Tyee hosts Orting at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday with Highline going to Eatonville at 4 p.m. that day.
Seattle Lutheran gets a 7 p.m. visit from Quilcene at the Southwest Athletic Complex next Tuesday.

Fastpitch

By Teanna Gentry

Lynn and Carmel first met because of their shared love of acupuncture.  Carmel had recently been diagnosed with a rapidly progressing terminal lung disease.  Her disease was "idiopathic," which means that it was naturally occurring within her body and also quite rare.  In a group of one million people, only about fifteen people will develop this disease. 

Carmel said, "I was living on supplemental oxygen twenty-four-seven and my life revolved around almost daily medical appointments and doing whatever it took to stay alive.  I had explored every possible conventional medical intervention and yet my health continued to decline rapidly.  Lynn had lost her father to a different incurable lung disease many years earlier, and has a special interest in lung health. Lynn and I fell in love at first sight. 

By Lindsay Peyton

Assuming the role of interim city manager of Burien was not much of a stretch for Tony Piasecki – after all, he served in a similar post just to the south in Des Moines for two decades.

“It was like I went to sleep and when I woke up they moved city hall and changed the staff,” he said. “There are a lot of similar things going on in both cities. I was able to come in and hit the ground running.”

In Des Moines, Piasecki served as assistant manager for five years and city manager for the rest of his term in town. He had planned to switch to consulting gigs after retiring from the position.

“And I had intended to take a little time off, but you can never predict these things,” he said. “I got a call that said, ‘We’re looking for an interim manager. Send in your resume if you’re interested.’”

He already knew the mayor, council members and staff from working side-by-side on a number of regional projects.

By Lindsay Peyton

Five finalists have made it near the finish line – all head-to-head in the race to become the next city manager of Burien.

The City Council hired executive recruiting firm Colin Baenziger and Associates to help them with the search.

The Council announced the following final applicants – Amy Arrington, John Burt, Matthew Fulton, Peter Troedsson and Brian Wilson -- at its March 27 retreat.

The public is invited to meet the candidates at a reception slated for 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. on Friday, April 7 at the Burien Community Center, 14700 6th Ave SW.

Interim city manager Tony Piasecki encourages residents to come out for the event.

“Residents should attend this event because they will get to meet the candidates and provide their thoughts to the Council,” he said.  “There will be comment cards available for residents to fill out. Council will see all comments that are submitted.”


A land use application has now been filed with Seattle's Department of Planning and Development to make long awaited improvements to Terminal 5 which has sat largely dormant since 2014 aside from hosting a few ships and notably the Polar Pioneer Shell Oil platform in 2015. The improvements expected to cost more than $200 million face a few more permitting hurdles before work can begin. That work, expected to take until 2020 to complete includes removing and replacing parts of the pier, dredging to make the channel deeper to accommodate larger the larger Post Panamax ships now in service.

It is application number 3019071.

The full description can be found here at this link.

Quoting from the decision:

SUMMARY OF PROPOSED ACTION

By Ken Robinson
Managing Editor

When Jerry Robinson took the role of editor and publisher of the White Center News in 1951, he was 31. The newspaper was three years younger, first published in 1923, Then, and for many years thereafter, the paper often featured what Dad called “ham dinner” stories involving a brief report about one couple visiting another for dinner. As the town grew, the details of news stories also grew. By 1962, what eventually became Robinson Newspapers included The Federal Way News, Des Moines News and then in the 1970's The West Seattle Herald, The Highline Times and later the Ballard News Tribune. Each community has a distinct character. And still does. But in the years since, the communities have grown together in a way.

By Jean Godden

I have been branded an enemy of the American people. In other words, I am a journalist, someone who worked reporting the news most of my working life. As a Seattle councilmember, I briefly changed roles and made the news, but I never stopped asking questions, seeking answers, taking notes and believing that news, truth-telling and newspapers matter.

It was President Trump who in February attacked the news media as "the enemy of the American people." While "the enemy" seemed just another example of Trump's hateful excesses, it, nevertheless, was an especially chilling statement.
Trump may not have known the history of "enemy of the people," a phrase used during the French Revolution's Reign of Terror to mark opponents for execution. It was also used by Joseph Stalin to kill and imprison millions and by the Third Reich's Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels who referred to Jews as "sworn enemies of the German people," prologue to the mass murders of the Holocaust.