March 2019

information from Seattle Parks

All Seattle Parks and Recreation community centers, pools, teen life centers and small craft centers will be closed on April 4 for an all-staff Recreation Division training. In addition, all Recreation programs will be canceled, and the Camp Long visitor center will be closed.

School Age Care programs (Before and After School), Preschool programs, and Community Learning Centers will run as usual at the centers and school facilities where they are normally held. 

West Seattle High School’s Drama Club & Music Department proudly present our spring production

information from Seattle City Council

Councilmember Rob Johnson (Dist. 4 – Northeast Seattle), Chair of the Select Committee on Mandatory Housing Affordability, or MHA, together with his colleagues voted today to approve a trio of bills as amended in Committee earlier this month.  Taken together, the Mandatory Housing Affordability legislation links affordable housing to growth across Seattle by requiring new commercial or multi-family development to contribute to affordable housing in exchange for additional development capacity (increased height or floor area).  As a result, developers must either build affordable housing on-site or pay into a fund for affordable housing.

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Seattle Police Department SW Precinct Crime Prevention Coordinator

Tax season is in full swing- and during this time we often see an increase in tax fraud and various forms of scams. In order to combat this, the SW Precinct would like to provide our community with some helpful prevention information about these scams, as well as the most effective way to report them! Certain subsets of the population are more vulnerable to these types of scams- but everyone can help protect themselves by keeping the following ten practical suggestions in mind, provided by the Federal Trade Commission: 

By Jean Godden

When I was 12 years old, I got my first newspaper job. I was a "paperboy," delivering the Lebanon, Missouri, Daily News on weekday afternoons and the St. Louis Post Dispatch on Sunday mornings. I used my brother's red wagon -- a Radio Flyer -- to cart the ad-heavy Sunday papers.

I had inherited the paperboy route from a seventh-grade classmate, Thelma Jorgenson. Her dad -- like mine -- was an army officer, stationed at nearby Fort Leonard Wood. Because her dad's battalion was headed overseas, she and her family were moving home to North Carolina. Thelma wanted me to carry on, delivering papers daily and collecting a couple of dollars bi-weekly. The job paid but not well. Some army families would leave suddenly, still owing for the paper.