June 2017

Discovery Shop
4535 California Ave. SW
206 937 7169

Flag Day is June 14. Shop and pick a U.S Flag to determine your discount.  Also, all men's clothing is reduced 40% starting June 12.  The all volunteer run, non profit American Cancer Society shop is open every Sun., 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. and all other days 11 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.  Follow our blog at www.discoveryshopwestseattle.org and LIKE us on Facebook.

Disaster Book Club: Eruption
Location: West Seattle Library
2306 42nd Ave. S.W.
Wed., June 7, 6–7:30 p.m. Join Seattle Office of Emergency Management and author Steve Olson to discuss his award-winning book “Eruption: The Untold Story of Mount St. Helens.” We’ll delve into the history of Washington’s volcanoes and what we can do to better prepare for volcanic eruptions and other disasters. Free for tickets visit www.disasterbookclubmay.eventbrite.com.

Free Kids’ Fishing Event
Seacrest Park
1660 Harbor Ave. S.W.

By Jean Godden

Twenty years ago, Newsweek Magazine famously announced: "Everyone's swimming to Seattle." Pictured on the magazine cover was Washington, D.C., pundit Michael Kinsley, face to face with a salmon and wearing a yellow rain slicker.

That cover appeared during one of Seattle's boom years (1996) when hundreds were moving here to work for Microsoft. Kinsley wasn't just another photogenic poster child, he had been hired to cyberedit Microsoft's Slate magazine.

That was several economic cycles ago. Since then, Seattle has experienced boom and bust, bust and boom and now we're in boom times again. The Seattle Times recently reported that Seattle is now the fastest growing big city in the nation. In a single year (2016), Seattle acquired 2,100 new residents, averaging more than 57 newbies per day and bringing the city's population to 704,352.

Given this overheated population growth, it's small wonder that, despite a forest of construction cranes, we have been unable to keep pace with housing demands nor to stem the wave of rising rents.

By Tim Clinton
SPORTS EDITOR

Resiliency is a good quality to have for a baseball team, and the Highline Bears appear to have it.
After losing their season opener to the North Sound Emeralds by an 11-2 score Friday, the Bears returned to Mel Olson Stadium at Steve Cox Memorial Park in White Center the next night and proceeded to pound Laces Baseball Club, 9-1.

Saturday's game was knotted at 1-1 before the Bears exploded for five runs on five hits in the bottom of the third.
Sam Trend-Beacon blasted a three-run home run in the rally and Cole Chambers ripped a two-run single.
The Bears never relinquished the lead from there but gradually built on it instead.

It was a different story against the Emeralds the night before.

Alec Kisena and Henry Lin of the North Sound team combined to four-hit the Highline team and rack up a total of 14 strikeouts.
Kisena struck out 10, including the first three batters he faced in the bottom of the first inning.

By Jamie Margolin

It’s a crazy time to be a teen.

President Trump just announced that the US is withdrawing from the Paris Climate Agreement. But that is only one of the many actions his administration has taken to give a proverbial middle finger to all young generations, who will suffer the devastating impacts of climate change.

Today's teenagers are growing up at a time where everything generations before us took for granted-- clean air, potable water, and life as we know it-- are on the verge of destruction. Teenagers, or “Generation Z” as we’re sometimes called, are growing up during a time where our future is more uncertain than it was for any generation before us.

And among our internet surfing, Snapchat-addicted populace, are warriors. Many of today’s teenagers are defying stereotypes, fighting tooth and nail for our futures. Some teenagers are more civically active in one month than most adults are in a lifetime.

I am one of them.

Criminal. Offender. Suspect. These are the words we have used to describe the people who have broken into our houses, stolen our goods, someone who’s slashed my tires with a machete, some who’s killed, raped, maimed and the like.

However, the City of Seattle and State of Washington have adopted new names for these perpetrators; criminals, killers, rapists will now be called “community members” and once convicted, they will be called“students.”

In an effort to be more politically correct and not offend criminals, law enforcement in Seattle will now write in police reports that a “community member” has broken the law.

We can picture the police officer, coffee addled, munching on a donut and writing the report:

By Chef Jeremy McLachlan

Fresh herbs are the true key to any great dish. They are very special ingredients that all chefs hold dear to our hearts. In my restaurant kitchens we have at least 15 different fresh herbs on hand at all times. For cooking at home, I have pots of herbs in my backyard and I’ll go out and snip a little freshness to either finish a salad or start an amazing reduction. Herbs also have remarkable health benefits like in Kathy’s Blog this Month, Herb Garden Cheerleader.

The issue I think all home cooks face is what to do with all their fresh herbs. This month I want to give you my 3 favorite recipes to use with herbs. These recipes are fantastic when used in salads, on chicken, beef, poultry, lamb, pasta and seafood…

Hazelnut Cutting Board Pesto
Note: I like to rough chop my herbs for pesto so you have a thick and chunky pesto instead of the pureed style. This gives you POP of flavors when eating.

8 leaves basil, plucked
6 stems italian parsley, plucked
2 cloves garlic
1/2 cup hazelnuts, toasted
1/4 cup parmesan cheese, ground
1/2 cup olive oil
salt to taste

By Kathryn Kingen

I’m late to plant my garden, but I don’t feel all that guilty. It seems I’m in good company, because all of nature is delayed this year. It's like there was a huge traffic jam and team sunshine got caught in it. Oh sure, apologize, but we've all had to wait, so pale and patiently. Now we are late to the garden game. The tulips missed their tulip festival, the rhododendrons missed their rhody-fest and the snarl up made it all the way to my yard. But now that it’s June I am finally planted. As I went out to take a look today I noticed my garden was in full game mode. Check out my lively chive cheerleaders with their purple pom-poms. Go team!

Herb planting can give you the joy of a big garden even if you don’t have a big yard. Any old pot will do. I love the ability to gather these delicious additions and take whatever I’m cooking from blandly routine to deliciously memorable.

Hundreds of West Seattle High School Alumni came to the school to see old friends, celebrate the 100th birthday of the WSHS building and to take part in a group hug photo to commemorate the event. The event, like those held for the Admiral Theater, the Alki Homestead, the Fauntleroy School was organized by Clay Eals, Executive Director for the Southwest Seattle Historical Society.

King County Executive Dow Constantine spoke briefly at the event recalling the 1980 group hug photo he was part of, holding up a special copy of the school newspaper The Chinook with the photo and joking that this was everyone's chance to "wind up in a drawer in somebody's basement someday."

The West Seattle Big Band, led by Jim Edwards provided entertainment with great vocals for 50's and 60's pop songs provided by Sarah Ackers and Jeff Carter.

The school itself opened in 1902 and was originally called West Seattle School.

A building was later constructed and appropriate to the celebration opened to students in 1917 and then becoming West Seattle High School.

A dog’s growl was enough warning to get its owner to stop casually chatting with a stranger.

At 8 p.m. on Friday, May 5, a woman was out walking her canine companion at Highline High School, 225 S 152nd St. The campus was busy. A sporting event had just ended and the attendees were piling out of the game and starting to leave the area.

When a man approached her and asked her how to get to the game, she simply gave him directions. He walked away, stood by a tree for a couple of minutes and then returned and tried to pet the dog.

The dog responded with a growl – and the woman picked up her dog and started running away.

The man chased after her, eventually catching up to her and wrapping his arm around her neck, choking her. She struggled to breathe.

Eventually, the victim was able to run away and made it back to her home. She sustained a fractured jaw during the struggle.

Volunteers spread out across Seattle Parks on Saturday June 3 with a specific mission: fix the trails.

Seattle's reputation as a place that celebrates and looks after nature is driven in part by our relationship with it in our own parks. To honor National Trails Day and to get trails ready for the summer season the Seattle Parks Department sent teams out to restore trails and keep them walkable. Natural processes like erosion and decay can make trails in parks not only uncomfortable but dangerous so it's important work.

Schmitz Preserve Park in North Admiral/Alki is probably West Seattle's most naturalized park with 12 trails comprising around 4 miles of trail length. Jacobo Jimenez, Senior Forest Maintenance Lead for Seattle Parks said, "This is truly an old growth forest. People usually think of just 'big trees' but that only means that the forest has reached its maturity and it has everything from the oldest to the youngest in every stage."