July 2017

White Center’s makeover continues with the opening of Popeye’s Louisiana Kitchen  at the corner of 15th SW and 100th SW. 

During the West Seattle Summerfest, there's far more than music, food and booths to peruse. You have a chance to learn, share, and engage in civic action too. At Junction Plaza Park, A group of motivated West Seattle sponsors are presenting a varied menu of offerings on the Greenlife Stage. The highlights will be Diver Laura James Tox-ick presentation at 5pm Friday, a Seattle Mayoral Debate at 2 pm Saturday, the West Seattle Meaningful movie at 8 pm Saturday, Bill Moyers of Backbone Campaign and the co-author of Solutionary Rail at 10 am Saturday and meditation/yoga in the park Sunday 10 am.  The Sponsors are Alki Bike and Board, West Seattle Natural Energy, PCC Natural Markets, Full Circle Farms, Car 2 Go and Waste Management. 

The Mayoral candidates participating will be:

The Gateway Arch that greeted visitors to downtown Burien, but that was destroyed by a crane truck in Feb. of 2016 is about to be replaced. 

The City of Burien said on their website that the "Fabrication of the new archway is complete and ready to be installed.

Next Tuesday, July 18 between 7:00 am and 5:00 pm, SW 152nd Street will be closed between 1st Avenue South and 2nd Avenue SW to install the new Gateway Arch.

Please use SW 150th Street or SW 153rd Street as detours on this date.  Local access to businesses in the immediate area will be limited but available. Flaggers will be onsite to guide most guests to businesses.  Visitors/owners/employees should also consider alternate parking for the day or adjust schedule/appointment for the day.

By Tim Clinton

SPORTS EDITOR

SALMON CREEK--West Seattle waltzed over Federal Way to the tune of a 12-2 victory Tuesday evening in a winner's bracket semifinal of the age 9-11 Little League all-star baseball state tournament.

With the third straight win in the tournament the Westsiders will now face Kirkland American in the winner's bracket final at 4 p.m. Wednesday in Salmon Creek.

The winner advances straight to Saturday's 10 a.m. championship and would need to be defeated twice by the loser's bracket champion to be knocked off. The if-necessary championship would follow at 1 p.m.

Kirkland American also rides a lopsided victory into Wednesday's game against West Seattle, having dealt Mill Creek an 11-4 defeat in its game Tuesday.

information from SWSHS

Restoration of the art-deco underwater murals of West Seattle’s Historic Admiral Theater will get another boost this summer with a one-night presentation by a West Seattle native whose orchestral scores for classic movies of the pre-sound era have earned him the title of the “Silent Film Music Guru.”

The event is called “Timothy Brock Returns to West Seattle with Music of the Silent Giants.”

It will take place at 6:45 p.m. Tuesday, July 25, 2017, at the Historic Admiral Theater, 2343 California Ave. S.W., sponsored by the Southwest Seattle Historical Society.

The King County Sheriff's office said today that a man  found dead early this morning in a ravine near 17 Pl S. and Des Moines Memorial Drive was murdered.  King County Sheriff’s detectives are not releasing how the man died.  A citizen walking in the area discovered the body just before 6am and called police. It is case number C17034134

The King County Medical Examiner will determine cause and nature of death as well as the identity of the man.   More information will be released as soon as it becomes available.