July 2017

Shopping at Summer Fest is one of the many reasons people from all around the region visit West Seattle over the 3-day festival. Now in the festival's 35th year, Summer Fest started as a merchant sidewalk sale. Many of the West Seattle businesses still hold that tradition true by offering sidewalk sales throughout the event.

Some of our recommended highlights are the famous Easy Street Records sale - there's always plenty for everyone! Zamboanga has imported clothing from around the globe. Fleurt and City Mouse offers everyday clothing and decor for gift giving all-year round.

As a preamble to Summerfest this weekend, the streets will close Thursday night and West 5 Restaurant & Lounge and Jazz Night School will present a free live performance from one of Seattle’s top-level, big band jazz groups, Big Band Blue.

Led by Erik Hanson, Executive Director of Seattle’s Jazz Night School, Big Band Blue was launched in 2013 by band-directing icon, Hal Sherman as his final big band mentorship.

Big Band Blue will be performing a lively set of music ranging from jazz standards and swing to new works from local composers/arrangers.

The event is free and open to the public. 

Who: Big Band Blue

What: Free big band jazz performance on the streets of West Seattle 

Where: on California Ave in front of West 5 Restaurant (4539 California Ave SW)

When: Thursday, July 13th, 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.

In celebration of their 90th birthday 7-Eleven stores across the nation are giving away FREE Slurpee frozen drinks from 11am to 7pm.

7-Eleven said they will likely hand out 9 million free small Slurpees during the promotion

7-Eleven was started in 1927,with the Slurpee's introduction coming in 1966. They have sold 7.4 billion Slurpees.

West Seattle locations:

• 3280 SW Avalon Way
• 1600 SW Holden St
• 9041 Delridge Way SW
• 4812 Erskine Way SW
• 3801 California Ave SW
• 2429 Harbor Ave SW

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By Tim Clinton

SPORTS EDITOR

Little League

State tournaments

The Normandy Park City Hall fields will be the site of the eight-team age 9-11 all-star softball tournament starting Friday, although it does not include any local host District 7 team.

PacWest plays in the Major Little League baseball state tournament that opens Saturday at the Federal Way National complex and South Highline National will be in the Junior age 13-14 tournament that opens Saturday in Shoreline.

PacWest takes on District 3 (Southwest Washington) at 6 p.m. Saturday in the Majors age 10-12 tournament. 

Semipro

Highline Bears

Highline wraps up a long string of road games Wednesday when it visits the North Sound Emeralds for a 7 p.m. baseball game at Edmonds Community College.

Tim Clinton

SPORTS EDITOR

SALMON CREEK--West Seattle has slammed its way into a winner's bracket semifinal after winning its first two games at the age 9-11 Little League baseball all-star tournament.

The District 7 champion Westsiders opened the tournament at Salmon Creek with a 9-5 victory over the District 5 champions on Saturday before downing host Salmon Creek of District 6 in its second game Sunday, 6-3.

West Seattle will play District 10 champion Federal Way at 4 p.m. Tuesday in a winner's bracket semifinal. The winner advances to the winner's bracket final at the same time Wednesday.

The championship is scheduled for Saturday.

Age 8-10

ABERDEEN--PacWest of Burien and SeaTac dropped its opener of the age 8-10 all-star baseball state tournament to the Larch Mata team by a score that was unavailable Saturday.

By Marjorie Young

One of the pleasures I relish this summer are the frequent updates from my great-nephew Sam, currently backpacking through Europe with his best friend Aidan. In addition to gorgeous photos on Instagram, entertaining and descriptive text messages arrive daily. The two eighteen-year-olds are clearly having a marvelous time while gaining valuable experience along the way.

Following their journey vicariously caused me to reflect on my own first solo venture; three months in Europe and North Africa when I was nineteen. Unlike Sam and Aidan, I’d never traveled till then, though harboring a burning ambition to explore the world since earliest childhood. At the time, there was no internet, texting, cell phones, or the like, so I was truly on my own…which proved both terrifying and liberating.

In its forty-third year of attracting seafood lovers from the region, Ballard SeafoodFest had a strong showing this year and festivalgoers thronged the streets in search of salmon, crab, and a smorgasbord of sea fare.

But more importantly, whether the crowds knew it or not, the festival reflects the history of the community with strong ties to the fishing and maritime industries.

Victim interrupts burglary

Around 3 p.m. on Mon., July 3, officers were dispatched to the 3000 block of S.W. Charleston Street to investigate a robbery.  The victim saw an unknown silver vehicle parked in his driveway, then walked up to his front door and found someone inside his home. He had recently rented the place and only had a few tools and some beer in the garage. He explained that the home was clean the last time he had been there. He found it, however, with trash strewn on the floor, the alarm pulled off the wall and locks removed from the doors. His tools and beer were stolen as well. A neighbor had seen a suspicious man around. Officers explained that the home looked vacant – due to the overgrown yard and need for external repairs.  They told the victim that transients sometimes squat in abandoned homes and suggested that he ask the landlord to make repairs. 

Forced entry on Delridge Way