August 2021

By Patrick Robinson

I think we are in a new era of crime. By that I mean it's well beyond just stealing stuff to sell it, though that happens and is facilitated by sites like Offer Up and Craigslist.. We are in the era of angry crimes. It's not enough to just take your property.. there's no elegant cat burglar thievery here.. this is smash and grab writ large. They want to mess you up and hurt you because you have a better life or because they simply have nothing to lose.

It’s painfully obvious that the era of synthetic opioids is fueling many of these crimes. When heroin is unavailable the prevalence of Fentanyl either on its own or more commonly combined with Xanax or other drugs is at levels that are killing an unprecedented number of people.

Update 12:50pm

Power has been restored

Original Post

Power was lost for 155 West Seattle residents starting around 8am on Aug. 5. The outage was caused by an equipment failure according to City Light.

Customers near the south end of Westcrest Park and spotty outages extending to the east across Hwy 509 were seen.

Restoration is expected this afternoon.

Check on the status of the City light grid anytime by visiting https://www.seattle.gov/city-light/outages

By Ruby Tuesday Romero

Son Doung has been a mixed media artist for years now, but only in the past decade has he begun to work with paint. Offering high contrast in his realistic portraits, the final products always seem effortless, natural, and demand attention from the viewers. The influence from his professional background in graphic design shines through in his vividly colored backgrounds and heavy black overlays.

Specializing in portraits, Duong has the ability to take a subject and add an ominous tone, almost creating mythical creatures. In his iconic rendition of Soundgarden’s Chris Cornell (on the outdoor south wall of Easy Street), Duong evokes pain and glory-with the use of just four colors. Periodically on that wall album art will be brought to life by muralists and then painted over for the next new release, but Son Duong’s portrait of Cornell has remained, no matter what album is coming soon.

By Jerry Robinson

Publisher Emeritus 1920 ~ 2014

EDITORS NOTE: What follows is an excerpt from the Autobiography of Jerry Robinson entitled Listen to your Father which was published in 1996. Hence some of the references to "current" events are now out of date. Nonetheless it provides some insight into what White Center was like in the 1950's

It was my first month as Publisher, Editor, Reporter, Salesman and Janitor of the White Center News. It was January of the year 1952. White Center was just emerging as a bustling shopping center on the southern border of Seattle, and remnants of its salty past still clung to its merchant body.

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