July 2017

Dear Gatewood Elementary School community, 

I am pleased to announce that Kyna Williams has been selected as the new principal of Gatewood Elementary School. 

Kyna Williams was one of multiple candidates interviewed by a hiring committee that included school staff, parents, principals, and central office staff before being recommended for the consideration of the Superintendent and Chief of Schools. The committee was impressed with her commitment to social justice and her experience with school culture building. She is a strong instructional leader and relationship builder. 

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Fri., July 28, 5–8 p.m. Second annual Chief Sealth High School multi-class reunion for all classes form the 60’s–80’s. For more info contact David Katt, 206.650.0863, djk@comcast.net.

A Grand Night for Singing

Alki United Church of Christ (Alki UCC)

by Georgie Bright Kunkel

       Since we use the decimal system it is considered a real accomplishment to live to be a centenarian. I don’t know anyone personally who is 100 but that is soon to change.

My late husband’s oldest friend who used to live here in West Seattle is celebrating her 100th birthday in just a few days. I may even pick up some tips

for celebrating my own 100th birthday which I will celebrate in just a few years. My friend lives in a care center in California near to her only offspring who is there for her whenever she is needed. I feel very fortunate that I have three grown children who are looking out for me. But I feel as if our former roles are being reversed these days. Gone are the days when I used to be the parent looking out for them.  Now they are attempting to look out for me.

By Katy Wilkens, MS, RD 

I picked a bouquet from my garden the other morning. It wasn't the kind you put in a vase. It was the kind you put on your plate - a salad plate, to be exact.

When I plant early veggies in the mud in early March as rain drips down my neck, it seems unlikely that a beautiful head of lettuce would emerge from that squishy stuff. So I end up overplanting, hoping some seedlings will make it through our spring rains. 

The rain this year was truly amazing, the most in recorded history for our area. My lettuce and green veggie harvest has also been truly amazing. I have beautiful heads of butter lettuce, bronze oakleaf lettuce, a green leaf lettuce with red spots called Freckles, fantastic spinach, snap peas and asparagus. 

By Pat Cashman

    Question posed to a fifth grader in 1969: “Who is the first person to walk on the Moon?”

    Fifth Grader: “Neil Armstrong.”

    The same question was posed to a fifth grader yesterday. The answer: “My dad says the first moonwalker was Michael Jackson.”

    Answers change over time---and some would say, so do the facts. Cab Calloway was doing the moonwalk dance move in 1932. Michael Jackson came along later---like Buzz Aldrin.

    I am not old enough to remember when the moon itself was formed---but nearly so. And like the first caveperson that knuckle-dragged his way out of a cave thousands of years ago, the moon has always fascinated mankind. Except for a particular kind of man---named Carl. 

By Jean Godden

When I first walked into City Hall as a neophyte councilmember in 2004, workers had just started demolishing the old Public Safety Building. The building was a crumbling structure infamous for its abandoned city jail and for its erratic people-trapping elevators. 

Once the last debris was carted off, a boarded-up pit was left behind. The yawning cavity occupied the full block between Third and Fourth and Cherry and James. That hole in the heart of the city still blights the neighborhood, just as it has for a dozen years. 

Greg Nickels, who was mayor at the time, envisioned a public-private development. The site would house a 43-story office/residential building, a jointly-owned underground garage and a civic square, rimmed with retail spaces.