June 2017

By Tim Clinton
SPORTS EDITOR

Highline's Bears took an 11-3 loss to the Everett Merchants in Pacific International League semiprofessional baseball action Friday.

The home loss at Mel Olson Stadium at Steve Cox Memorial Park in White Center dropped the Bears' early season record to 1-3. They were coming off a 9-6 loss to the Northwest Honkers in a road game last Sunday, after splitting their first two games at home.

Everett took a 1-0 lead in the top of the first Friday, but the Bears jumped into the lead at 2-1 with two runs in the bottom of the inning on an RBI single by Marco Calderon and an RBI sacrifice fly by Alex Sisley.
The lead was short lived, however, and Everett rallied for four runs in the top of the fourth to make it a 7-2 game at that time.

Highline got one of the runs back in the bottom of the inning to make it 7-3.

Cole Chambers legged out a triple to lead off the rally and stole home for the run.
But Everett held the Bears scoreless from there.

By Tim Clinton
SPORTS EDITOR

McCullough stands out as freshman

West Seattle High School graduate Morgan McCullough enjoyed a banner season as a freshman at the University of Oregon.
McCullough started at second base for the Ducks' baseball team, batting .271 (46-for-170) in 53 total games that included 51 starts.
McCullough led the team with eight stolen bases and also had six doubles, four triples and one home run. He walked 27 times, racked up 21 RBI and scored 24 runs.

Hellinger wraps up senior season

West Seattle graduate Sam Hellinger finished his senior season at Gonzaga University with a 4-3 record and a 3.79 earned run average.
Hellinger threw in 23 games for the Bulldogs, including one start, and had two saves.
Hellinger racked up 25 strikeouts in 40.1 innings of work and walked only nine.
Hellinger is a former draft pick of the Seattle Mariners who is eligible again for the Major League Baseball draft that starts Monday.

Brett back on disabled list

Deborah and Ryan Borchelt were pretty happy, living in Indianapolis, Indiana. They had a wonderful and successful restaurant on Fountain Square in Fort Wayne doing good business. After years of training and experience for Ryan (starting when he was 15) and a successful small chain of pizza restaurants for Deborah they had gone to New Orleans and came away with a deep appreciation for Creole and southern cuisine, though maybe it was in Deborah's blood to begin with, she was born in Little Rock Arkansas. The restaurant they built B's Po Boy features what Ryan said are, "Very flavorful," sandwiches, that are, "very simple and yet it does require skill to make it." He had gone to culinary school and worked in fine dining but found that kind of food "stuffy and not what I wanted to do." Now it's opening a Seattle location on Alki in the former Alki Bakery/ Fatburger location at 2738 Alki Ave SW. Monday June 13 is their opening day.

Crime Prevention Coordinator for the Southwest Precinct of the Seattle Police Dept. Jennifer Burbridge reminds us that "As the weather gets warmer, we often see an increase in residential burglaries," and had some advice not only on preventing crime but reporting it. Burbridge added "If anyone would like to receive this and/or my monthly newsletter directly to their email- they can email me at Jennifer.Burbridge@seattle.gov and, "If anyone is interested in having a free home safety assessment, please contact me via email."

For law enforcement - there is a difference between burglary and theft.
When you report a crime to 9-1-1 or to a Seattle Police officer, the language you use makes a difference!

Definitions:
Burglary
When someone enters physical property, not his or her own, without permission, with the intent to commit a crime
Theft
Whenever property is taken, that is theft

Types of Burglary:
• Residential burglary
• Non-residential burglary (commercial)

Burglary Prevention Techniques:

Past students and former employees are invited to take one last walk through part of the old Glacier High School at 1:00 p.m. on Saturday, June 17. The building will be demolished later this summer to make way for a new middle school opening September 2019.

Last November, voters approved a bond to build a new middle school on the district-owned Glacier site at 2450 South 142nd Street in SeaTac. Building the new school means saying goodbye to the structure that housed Glacier High School from 1960 to 1980.

Many Glacier alumni have expressed fond memories of their years there, before the school was closed in 1980 due to decreasing enrollment and SeaTac airport expansion. An alumni group is planning an all-school reunion at Azteca in Burien on Saturday, June 17. Alumni are invited to come and celebrate the school and its memories. Please contact reunion organizers to receive more information about the reunion.

By Peggy Sturdivant

“I need to take a break,” I told Ken Robinson, my nominal boss, Co-Publisher and General Manager of what will always be the Ballard News-Tribune to me. “I’ve been doing this for ten years.”

Ten minutes later I was at the scene of house fire in the neighborhood, proving several things at once. The daughter of a fire engine chaser cannot change, and my father’s journalist blood still pumps in my veins. At the corner of 28th NW & NW 58th the assemblage of Seattle Fire Department responders were putting away ladders and chainsaws, hoses still snaking through the intersection.

Lately I’ve been putting more thought into whether to keep writing this column than into writing one. Other than a title, I was considering “Swan Song, or Never Say Never.” I have so many other deadlines that the list of possible columns, wonderful suggestions from all sorts of people, seemed daunting versus enticing. But they are juicy; a retired Peace Corps woman who’s involved with a Vietnamese orphanage, the Jazz Vocal teacher, the graduating UW Design students who are going to activate the NW surplus substations later in the month…

By Peggy Sturdivant

“I need to take a break,” I told Ken Robinson, my nominal boss, Co-Publisher and General Manager of what will always be the Ballard News-Tribune to me. “I’ve been doing this for ten years.”

Ten minutes later I was at the scene of house fire in the neighborhood, proving several things at once. The daughter of a fire engine chaser cannot change, and my father’s journalist blood still pumps in my veins. At the corner of 28th NW & NW 58th the assemblage of Seattle Fire Department responders were putting away ladders and chainsaws, hoses still snaking through the intersection.

The 2017 Jubilee Days festival has announced the main stage line up and it includes several bands based out of White Center.

The 2017 Main Stage will be located at 16th Ave SW & SW 100th St and there will be a rockin' beer garden (21+, with proper ID required) running from noon-10pm each day.

MAIN STAGE LINEUP
Please see www.jubileedays.org/main-stage-beer-garden for more information about the bands, including links to their websites and Facebook pages.

SAT, JULY 22
HOBOSEXUAL - 8:30pm
THE BLACK TONES - 7:30pm
ACAPULCO LIPS - 6:30pm
SKATES! - 5:30pm
TOUGH TIMES - 4:30pm
DYNAMITE NUGGET - 3:30pm
THE DEAD LETTERS - 2:30pm
TWICE NICE - 1:30pm

SUN, JULY 23
DELVON LAMARR ORGAN TRIO (DLO3) - 7:30pm
THADDILLAC - 6:30pm
THE SPOILS (of Seattle) - 5:30pm

By Lindsay Peyton

Replacing the Alaskan Way Viaduct with a tunnel through the center of Seattle has been a monumental job.

Joe Hedges, Washington State Department of Transportation’s administrator of the project, compared the task with another giant step during his address to the West Seattle Chamber on Thursday, June 8.

“It was deemed to be, in the tunneling world, going to the moon,” he said.

Hedges added that the $1.4 billion tunnel, which is 60-ft. in diameter and 5 stories high, is “within the five top projects in the nation right now.”

The structure will house a two-story, two-lane road with 8-ft. shoulders. A ventilation system will extract 1.14 billion cubic feet of air per minute.

“A tunnel this diameter has never been bored in soft dirt before – the first of it’s kind,” Hedges said.

In fact, he believes that the Alaskan Way Viaduct Replacement has been inspiring to others in construction and engineering industries.

“Seattle’s set the new gold standard for tunnels,” Hedges said.” As a result, the interest in tunneling is piquing.”