July 2017

Li’l Woody’s, Seattle’s independent burger joint, will open their 4th location on Wednesday, July 19.  The newest addition to the family can be found at 9807 16th Avenue SW, Seattle, WA 98106.  

It will be one of two restaurants sharing the building with Beer Star, the expansive, 40-tap beer hall. The other will be Chinese Take Out now nearing completion too. 

 Li’l Woody’s will be cooking-up their well reviewed grass-fed burgers, shakes using local ice cream from Full Tilt, and hand-cut fries using potatoes grown in Pasco, Washington from Harvest Fresh Produce.

{See the video of Li’l Woody’s recent potato field trip here}. 

By Tim Clinton

SPORTS EDITOR

Semipro

Highline Bears

Highline's semiprofessional baseball team visits the North Sound Emeralds for 7 p.m. action at Edmonds Community College on Wednesday before dropping in on the Seattle Studs for a 5:30 p.m. game at the University of Puget Sound on Thursday.

The Bears come home to Mel Olson Stadium at Steve Cox Memorial Park in White Center to play the Everett Merchants at 7:05 p.m. Friday and the Northwest Honkers at 7:05 p.m. Saturday.

Pros

Mariners

Seattle is in Houston for an 11:10 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time game against the Astros on Wednesday before coming home to Safeco Field to face the New York Yankees at 7:10 p.m. Thursday, 7:10 p.m. Friday, 6:10 p.m. Saturday and 1:10 p.m. Sunday.

The Boston Red Sox come to town for 7:10 p.m. games Monday and Tuesday.

By Tim Clinton

SPORTS EDITOR

Two area Little League teams did the splits to open state all-star baseball tournament play.

The PacWest Majors age 11-12 squad opened state action at the Federal Way National complex with a 17-3 victory over Montesano on Saturday before taking a narrow 6-5 defeat at the hands of Queen Anne on Sunday.

South Highline National's Juniors age 13-14 team, meanwhile, journeyed to Shorewood High School in Shoreline and also split.

National opened with a 16-9 victory over Glenwood on Saturday before losing to host Shoreline on Sunday, 12-7.

Both teams are still alive in the loser's bracket and set to play Monday.

PacWest plays Bainbridge at 6 p.m. at the Federal Way National complex and South Highline takes on South Snohomish.

Softball

West Seattle Kiwanis July Events

Concert Under the Stars 

Delridge Playfield 

Mon., July 24, 7:30–9 p.m. bring a meal, snack, and or beverage, bring a seat or blanket.

West Seattle Grand Parade

California Ave. S.W.

Sat., July 22

For more information visit www.kiwanis.org.

Discovery Shop

4535 California Ave. S.W.

206 937 7169

We have Antiques, Vintage and Collectibles, quality re-sale clothing and housewares and weekly unadvertised specials.  The all volunteer run, non profit American Cancer Society shop is open Sun. 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. and all other days 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. More on our blog www.discoveryshopwestseattle.org and LIKE us on Facebook.

By Pat Cashman

    The school year is well, well over---and young people everywhere have an important choice to make: 1) Get going and hustle to find a good summer job (perhaps three weeks ago would have been good)---or, 2) Spend the rest of the summer resting-up.  

    When I was a kid, I highly favored the resting-up option. The father in our household had an entirely different notion. In fact, if his wife---my mom---had not intervened, he would have had me up and at it---pulling down a paycheck---by the time I learned to walk. (Spoiling his plans, I purposely crawled until I was 12.)

     But isn’t there always at least one kid around town whom your parents can use as the ideal? “Why can’t you be like that Jenkins’ kid?” They will say. “That Jenkins’kid has three summer jobs---all of them full-time! What a worker!” 

By Jean Godden

When I was growing up reading comics like Spider-Man and Wonder Woman, they shushed us and said that children should be seen and not heard. Today there's a twist on that old saying. Women -- many of them wonderful -- are struggling with a gender version of "seen not heard." 

We are seeing rooms, filled with our countrymen -- overwhelmingly white men -- trying to silence, interrupt or ignore women. Examples of the silencing of women abound.

The phenomenon became most glaring during Donald Trump's campaign. Candidate Trump singled out women for mockery and ridicule. There is a long list of those he tried to disparage. Prominent among them: Carly Fiorina, Megan Kelly, Heidi Cruz, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Senator Elizabeth Warren and his election opponent Hillary Clinton. 

Chat line romance turns violent

By Tim Clinton

SPORTS EDITOR

SALMON CREEK--The if-necessary game was not necessary.

West Seattle took care of Kirkland American in one game Saturday morning, 6-4, to capture the state age 9-11 Little League baseball all-star tournament title.

The win gave the Westsiders an undefeated sweep through the tournament after coming in as the District 7 champions.

Had they lost, Kirkland American would have also needed to win a second game to wrest away the championship.

West Seattle's state championship team is managed by Mike Fahy, who is assisted by coaches Sean Eley and Brian Sherick.

Players are Tristan Buehring, Parker Eley, Cady Fahy, Robbie Foisy, Wyatt Glover, Miles Gosztola, Matthew Hazlegrove, Matthew Henning-Dierickx, Joseph Sherick, Will Skibitzke, Blake Taft, Bobby Trigg and Simon Vance.

The West Seattle league president is Jason Earls.

West Seattle's Summerfest on Saturday brought the usual mix of music with a broad range of music styles and sounds. The day was led off by West Seattle's School of Rock that had the students trading places on stage as they churned through some rock classics like the Doors Break on Through and Paul McCartney's Maybe I'm amazed. But the capper was the blistering performance of The Hives Because I Wanna by the students led by Nico Sound (his stage name) who brought to mind Mick Jagger before he became famous. "I just live for the audience" he said after his set.