August 2020

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information from Woodland Park Zoo

Congratulations to this year’s class of 24 western pond turtles (Actinemys marmorata) that graduated from a head start program at Woodland Park Zoo. Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) and the zoo released the 2020 graduates to the wild at a local protected site.

The heroes in a half shell are a part of the collaborative Western Pond Turtle Recovery Project, a head start program initiated in 1991. Washington state listed the western pond turtle as endangered in 1993. It is the state’s longest-running species reintroduction project.

information from Wesley Homes 

 Wesley retirement communities is excited to announce the opening of the first wings of the new Gardens building, a 312,000 square foot addition to Wesley Des Moines.

The layout of the new building takes advantage of the views of Puget Sound from multiple apartments, the dining room and the fifth floor club room, which also features a demonstration kitchen. Additional amenities include a Town Center with a library, craft room, fitness center, theater/classroom and bistro. There is also a chapel/community room that will have a custom-made pipe organ by Paul Fritts & Company Organ Builders in the balcony.

by Rob Clay

Does anyone remember the old Spudnut shop on the corner of Roxbury and 17th SW in White Center? Do you recall the small deli, west up Roxbury, owned by Harold Hopkins? Or Walt Coy's White Center Theatre?  What about Max Borgeson at Avalon Auto or Perry Clemens furniture store on 17th?

If you did, then you are in league with Bobby Beyers. Bobby was friends with the aforementioned businessmen in White Center. He's also the guy who built the Spudnut Shop and apartments above, one hammer and one nail at a time.

That work ethic  was grew from being a kid of the Depression earning a nickel for selling golf balls through the fence at the old Lakewood Golf Course near where Evergreen High School is today. Bobby could make 90 cents caddying at Rainier Golf or Glendale Golf Club. When not doing that, he helped his dad at the Feed Store.

To the editor:

Thanks SO much for your recent columns re: masks and more recently about Democracy. 

    You'll receive hate mail,  of course, but you are doing the correct thing, and that is warning us about our government. Plus you are encouraging us to do the right thing re: masks.

   And kudos to Ms Godden for her fine article on the progressive AOC and her fabulous 'take down' of Mr Yoho.

    Great stuff and worth saving in my journal. 

    Thanks and forget the 'crazies' who send you threats (and worse).

Richard Meyers 

To the editor:

I received my copy of Westside Seattle today, read it and realized that there is not a single article or opinion about the idiotic things the Seattle City Council is doing. The Times is covering that topic well. If you can excoriate Trump (well deserved)  it seems that you can do the same thing to the City Council for many of The same actions. Seattle is losing its democracy to knee jerk decisions, very limited input only from the progressive left and it’s special interest groups. I realize that you put Carmen Best’s speech in but also added several pages of Lisa Herbold glossing over her and the council’s behavior without a counter opinion. She is trying to make herself look better in the midst of a horrible mess that she is partly responsible for.  You know what she promised to the people of West Seattle to get elected and that she is in no way following through with her campaign promises. The council have all turned into