West Seattle’s generosity is helping the North Sound “puppy mill” rescuees in a big way. Here’s the latest update from Teri Ensley of West Seattle-based Furry Faces Foundation, including how you can still help:

Thanks to our West Seattle Community, four big loads of donated items have been taken to Everett Animal Shelter, S.P.O.T. and N.O.A.H, with another load going up this weekend. Both The Wash Dog and Muttley Crew Cuts have road-tripped it up to Everett Animal Shelter and N.O.A.H. to bathe, groom and love up the dogs.

Photo above is from the Muttley Crew Cuts crew’s trip up; Kelly Rothenbuhler explains: “Lacey and I left here after filling up the truck to the brim with all the donations, we stopped at the Feed Bag on Capitol hill and picked up some food that they donated. We arrived at NOAH and checked in and were told to pull up front and drop off the donations. As I pulled up they came running out and said they didn’t realize we had so much stuff-thanks West Seattle!! We then pulled around to the garage/storage area and unloaded all the stuff. We then got the tour of the place and were told what suite needed grooming. We took the dogs one by one into the grooming area and bathed and did what haircuts were needed. One little Yorkie really stood out-his name is Champ. He was about 2 years old and had an old spinal injury so he had a hard time standing. He was so sweet and loved all the attention and care he was getting. One dog actually fell over when I was bathing her because she was leaning against my hand enjoying the rubs and leaned too far. We will be going back up on Monday the 9th to help with more grooming and just giving out loves.”

If you would still like to donate, here are the requested items from the involved shelters and rescue groups. We are keeping a log of all the donations and will report out the GRAND TOTALS in the near future.

Items Most Needed:
• Wee Wee pads
• Towels, fleece blankets and dog beds with removable covers
• Small squeaky toys
• Small metal dog food bowls
• Monetary Donations for medical expenses and special needs

Items Still Needed:

• High Quality canned and dry dog food – preferred types are Pinnacle, Canidae, Natural Balance or Nutro Ultra lamb/rice, small bites
• Grooming tools and dog toys
• Freshly washed blankets, towels, beds and crate pads-all sizes
• Dishes—stainless steel preferable (for sanitation reasons)
• Laundry detergent and bleach
• Paper towels
• Monetary donations for veterinary care
• Heavy duty garbage bags (black leaf bags)
• Scrubbie sponges (dishwashing size)
• Exercise Pens (wire, collapsible)
• Xsmall dog collars and leashes

The following West Seattle businesses are still accepting the above donations, and cash donations:

Admiral District:
Mud Bay; 2611 Calif. Ave SW
Muttley Crew Cuts Co; 3707 California Ave SW

Alaska Junction:
Hotwire Online Coffeehouse; 4410 Calif. Ave SW
Petco: 4732 California Avenue SW

Alki: All the Best Pet Care; 2820 Alki Ave SW

Morgan Junction:
Pet Elements; 6701 California Ave SW
The Wash Dog; 6400 California Ave SW
Stella Ruffington’s, 7003 California SW

Westwood Village: Pet Pros; 9033 25th Ave SW

Lastly, F3 has received many emails asking which shelters and rescue groups are actually caring for the dogs. Some folks would like to donate money directly and want to ensure that the group they are donating to are truly involved.

Everett Animal Shelter
SPOT
NOAH
Skagit Humane Society
Old Dog Haven
Seattle Humane Society

Also, events are coming up including the Cathy Sorbo/Rod Long comedy show at the Admiral Theater at 9:30 pm next Friday (read more here), with proceeds benefiting this effort, and Valentine’s weekend events at Muttley Crew Cuts (details TBA) and The Wash Dog (donating half of self-serve dog wash proceeds to Everett Animal Shelter).

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Happy half-anniversary to partner site White Center Now!

February 7, 2009 8:00 pm

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Tonight marks exactly six months since we helped launch White Center Now, the blog about White Center. As we explained when it launched, it’s different from WSB – instead of a focus on high-volume community news, it’s a more eclectic site, and that’s due in no small part to the work of our fellow founding WCN team members, two local entrepreneurs, Ricardo Guarnero from Cafe Rozella and Justin Cline from Full Tilt Ice Cream. Enmeshed in the White Center community as they are, they provide a unique perspective and memorable stories, like the one Ricardo has posted tonight, recounting the five-year history of his coffeehouse, the neighborhood it anchors (map), and how Cafe Rozella “changed a small corner of the world.” Read it here – then scroll down the WCN home page for more stories you won’t see anywhere else, including Justin’s latest food review (bahn bao!), a new arts endeavor in White Center (with an upcoming tour), and ongoing news coverage of potential annexation. Thanks to everybody who’s supported White Center Now over its first half-year, and if you have ideas/questions/observations, we have a team mailbox for that site – whitecenternow@gmail.com – e-mail any time!

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When to call 911, and when not to? Find out firsthand

February 7, 2009 5:11 pm

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It’s been discussed here before: Southwest Precinct police leadership advises “call 911 if you see something/someone suspicious,” and we’ve reported that here, multiple times; then on occasion someone who does call, reports back that they were told that wasn’t an emergency and they shouldn’t have called 911. The West Seattle Crime Prevention Council has been pursuing such concerns with 911 system managers, and Lt. Greg Schmidt, who runs the SPD 911 center, will be the guest at the next WSCPC meeting a week from Tuesday, to explain how it works, to answer questions, to listen to concerns. The reason we’re telling you now is not just so you can mark your calendar, but also because, if you have a specific question they can get to him in advance, particularly about a specific case in which you called 911 and didn’t get the response you expected, they’d like to hear from you by next Thursday – e-mail the WSCPC’s staff liaison from Seattle Neighborhood Group (which by the way is NOT a city agency), Jennifer Duong, at jennifer@sngi.org. The council’s meeting also, as always, will include crime reports and neighborhood “hot spot” concerns; it’ll be at 7 pm February 17 at the SW Precinct meeting room.

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Followup: Firm chosen to build Alki Point sidewalks, traffic calming

February 7, 2009 12:04 pm

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This past week’s California Place Park meeting reminded us we hadn’t checked lately on another contentious issue we’d covered in Alki Community Center meetings last year — the plan to finish some sidewalk connections around Alki Point and install “traffic calming” measures as part of the project (past coverage includes these reports: 2/08, 4/08). So we called Sandra “Sam” Woods, the SDOT project manager. She says the contract for this project has been awarded – it’s part of a package of “several projects” around the city, to be handled by Construct Co. No date is set yet for construction to start – the “notice to proceed” has to be finalized – but as previously projected, it’s expected this spring/summer, Woods says. She calls the project “terrific” because of components including raised crosswalks at both ends (roughly, 65th/Alki and the start of Beach Drive) as well as work at 63rd/Alki to more clearly direct westbound traffic to turn south on 63rd rather than taking the existing “straight shot” ahead on the nonarterial section of Alki – this map marks those three spots:

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We’ll get a closer look at the specific plans during a walking tour with neighborhood leaders next week; the project’s page on the city website is here.

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Seattle Lutheran seniors’ project: Everything old is new again!

February 7, 2009 8:01 am

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Those are the two local students who recently posted a note in the WSB Forums that caught our eye. It read, in part:

Our names are Grace Puffert and Mary Griffin and we’re seniors at Seattle Lutheran High School. Every year, each senior is required to create and execute a senior project that should in some way give back and benefit the community. We decided to have a community Fashion Show in order to raise money for Providence Mount Saint Vincent Nursing Home (where we both are volunteers) here in West Seattle.

The theme of our fashion show is “Fashion through the Ages” (WORKING ON A BETTER TITLE!). Our hope is to exhibit clothing from each era beginning with 1900. So this is where you come in, if anyone would like to donate or lend clothing (era-oriented) or their services to helping us put this show on, it would be GREATLY appreciated. We really would like to bring together the entire West Seattle community on this project

Grace and Mary (left/right in the photo above) got some quick e-mail replies, and one was from us – to arrange a chat with them to find out more about what they’re doing and how you can help. So we sat down at a local coffeehouse one recent night to chat …Read More

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Weekend Lineup refresher: Today/tonight highlights

February 7, 2009 6:16 am

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Lots of options today, and clicking here will take you directly to our list of them, in the Saturday section of the latest West Seattle Weekend Lineup. Highlights include Neighbor Appreciation Day activities at Southwest Pool (free swim at 1 pm!) and 2 community centers, fundraisers including a student car wash and the Rocksport silent auction/live music tonight for Waunda from Sports Junction, and work parties where you can help spruce up West Seattle’s natural treasures, including Lincoln Park and Camp Long. Head directly to the Saturday lineup here.