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With the West Seattle Hi-Yu Festival American Legion Grand Parade just days away, your resident parade maniacs here have to kick the countdown machine into gear. And now that our favorite e-mail of the year — the sneak peek at the parade running order — has arrived, we can start with reason #5: More than 75 entries, including the only Seattle-area performance by the ever-wild Vancouver (B.C.) Motorcycle Police Drill Team (VPD photo at right from an ’06 appearance).

WS Gas Price Watch: When it’s good to be “below average”

July 16, 2007 5:33 pm

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| Gas prices | Transportation

We haven’t updated WS gas prices for a while; the price situation has stayed relatively stable. Arco on Delridge by Home Depot retains the title of WS Gas Station With The Lowest Posted Price, $2.87 as of early this afternoon (photo left); more than half a dozen other stations are in the $2.90s. This all puts us way below the state that now has the highest prices in the nation (Nebraska!), and even below the national average.

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Slog takes on Alki nightlife, again

July 16, 2007 4:00 pm

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| West Seattle beaches | West Seattle news

The Stranger’s bodacious blog paid a visit to The Beach and concluded that anyone whining about Alki nightlife trouble should pretty much just shut their pie hole. They checked back on last year’s controversy spots; guess they hadn’t heard about this year’s radio-fueled controversy spot, which the Alki Beach Community group on Yahoo! has been discussing for a couple weeks.

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Next Design Review meeting set on Charlestown Cafe site

July 16, 2007 12:49 pm

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| Charlestown Cafe | Development

Everyone watching the Charlestown Cafe site/potential Petco project has been waiting forÃ‚ another city Design Review Board meeting to be scheduled, as a key next step in the process. According to the city website, that meeting is now set for August 9th.

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Playing in the park

July 16, 2007 11:00 am

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| West Seattle festivals | WS culture/arts

More Hi-Yu Festival fun tomorrow night: The West Seattle Big Band concert at Hiawatha Park (hopefully the weather will hold), following a speech by Hizzoner in honor of West Seattle’s annexation centennial. It all starts 7 pm. NOON UPDATE: A little more info from the mayor’s office – he will dedicate a commemorative plaque and tree as part of the pre-concert festivities.

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Liberty sooner or Liberty later: Meeting #2 tonight

July 16, 2007 7:37 am

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| Alki Statue of Liberty | West Seattle history | WS culture/arts

You have another chance tonight to hear organizers make their case for keeping the recast Alki Statue of Liberty on hold till a “plaza” and new base can be built for it. We reported on their meeting last Wednesday; they say the gathering tonight by the old statue base, 7 pm, will be similar, and they’re planning to be at the Alki Community Council meeting this Thursday as well. Here’s an updated architect rendering of what the plaza would look like (more here):

And here again is the e-mail address for the Parks Department (which has the final say) person who’s on the project — write to let ’em know what you think.

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