August 2018

Zoo introduces new low-cost ticket and membership pass
Expanded program represents ongoing commitment to diversity and inclusion

 In its ongoing commitment to better serve Puget Sound, Woodland Park Zoo is expanding its diversity and inclusion program. A new $5 admission ticket, Discover Ticket, and a new $35 family membership, Explorer Pass, are being introduced this year. The specially priced admission and membership are part of Woodland Park Zoo’s greater commitment to making the zoo a place of inclusion in which people of all backgrounds and abilities feel welcome and inspired to make conservation a priority in their lives.

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Burien felon sentenced to prison for trading drugs and guns
Defendant Arrested in Apartment filled with Stolen Liquor, nearly 2 Pounds of Meth and Nine Stolen Firearms

 A Burien, Washington felon was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Seattle to seven years in prison and five years of supervised release for three drug and firearm related crimes, announced U.S. Attorney Annette L. Hayes. JERMAINE HICKLES, 46, pleaded guilty in May 2018 to being a felon in possession of firearms, possession of methamphetamine with intent to distribute and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime.  When King County Sheriff’s Detectives executed a court-authorized search warrant on HICKLES’ Burien apartment and storage locker, they found 17 firearms, most of them stolen, and nearly two pounds of methamphetamine.  HICKLES is prohibited from possessing firearms due to prior felony convictions.  At the sentencing hearing, U.S. District Judge John C. Coughenour said HICKLES, “was in possession of one of the largest collections of dangerous weapons that I’ve seen in my three or four decades on the bench.”

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Romanesco — cauliflower from Mars?

 

 

By Katy Wilkens, MS, RD

I planted my first Romanesco plants accidentally a few years ago. The tag at the nursery said they were cauliflower. So I brought them home, planted them and waited.

Imagine my surprise when these chartreuse, pointy sort of cauliflower-crossed-with-broccoli emerged. I thought they were cauliflower from Mars!

Since then I have come to love Romanesco. It’s easy to grow in our region and it ripens earlier than cauliflower or broccoli. Better still, the leaves, like those of most plants of the Brassica family, are edible. So I get a rich green, kale-like veggie along with the heads, which are like cauliflower or broccoli. It’s like having two veggies growing in the space of one.

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Where's the Real Fake News?

By Jean Godden

There are all sorts of things I learn by reading newspapers. I check world news, developments in North Korea, Iran and Africa. I scan national news, reading about demonstrations in the nation's capital and the first delivery of merchandise (a frozen popsicle) via a drone.

Locally I inspect stories about attempts to save our Puget Sound Orcas, about the bizarre plane heist at Sea-Tac Airport and the Seattle City Council's vote to preserve the Showbox Theater for the next ten months.

My reading goes beyond world and national news. I also check community reports. Just last week I read a story in the West Seattle Herald about Ruth DeGabriele, a 98-old woman who once allowed her North Admiral home to be used as a neighborhood polling place. They wheeled in a voting machine and Ruth draped a table cloth over the washer and drier to make the place look more official.

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Sub Pop Guitar gets SWSHS $2,225 from winning bidder

John Stephens is the winning bidder for the exclusive Sub Pop Guitar auctioned off on Ebay for the benefit of the Southwest Seattle Historical Society. Stephens lives on the Eastside, and came by the Log House Museum to pick up this one-of-a-kind instrument which was donated by Terry and Ryan Martin of Walla Walla Guitar Company.

The sale of the guitar has generated a $2,225 donation value for the historical society, plus buyer John has even donated the $50 shipping fee which he was entitled to getting back since he picked it up locally.

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