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Senior Center of West Seattle announces September-October events

August 24, 2009 2:17 am
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From Carol Johnston at the Senior Center of West Seattle:

FREE lunch for Falls Prevention Event
(co-sponsored by Park West Care Center)
on Tuesday, September 29 from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
* 11am-1 pm Doc Talks on meds, podiatrist, etc.
* Park West Physical and Occupational Therapists
* Balance & Foot Care Assessments

Easy Pilates – call for dates and costs.

Three series each $30 (a Special FALL offer) on Wednesdays from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m.
on Sept 2, 9, and 30. Digital Photography-Creative Vision with instructor Joanne
Murray. Learn to get better pictures in different types of light, how to change he
ISO and WB settings, how to access the menus . Bring camera, manual, etc. Space
limited. Details – 206-932-6064 Register – 206-932-4044.

Wednesday, September 9 from 4:30 to 6:00 p.m. “Rooftop Roundup” at Merrill Gardens
West Seattle – 4611 – 35th S.W. 4:30 p.m. Arrive at the Rooftop and Get your photo
taken with the Seattle skyline backdrop Mix and mingle with assorted beverages
5:00-6:00 p.m. Honky tonk Music by Joe and Lou (guitar/fiddle) for listening and
dancing while enjoying appetizers by Chef Lisa Yates.
6:00 pm Free Shuttle service for those who park at West Seattle Golf Course parking
lot.
Donation $6 members/$8 non-members. Paid reservations – 206-932-4044. Proceeds
benefit the Air Conditioning Fund for the Senior Center West Seattle

Wednesdays, and September 2 and October 7 from 6:00 to 8:30 p.m. Lauren Petrie
plays for a Dance time. Lauren Petrie, popular keyboard player and vocalist from
the closed Corner Inn, plays for dancing and listening. Suggested donation $5. The
following are sponsors of various evenings are Terry Ward and Mary Back and the West
Seattle Line Dancers.

Rainbow Bingo with a “Fall Sports” theme on Friday, September 25 and a “Halloween”
theme on Friday, October 23 starting at 7:00 p.m. for donation of $15 in advance and
$20 at door. Doors open at 5:00 p.m. with food, beverages,entertainment and viewing
of decorated baskets that are prizes. Celebrity caller Sylvia O’Stayformore will be
assisted by the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, and there will be an Auction, Split
the Pot, and much more. Reservations only with prepayment of cash or credit card.
Sponsors are: Merrill Gardens, Dignity Memorial. Park West Care Center, Helene
Robertson of CFP Social Responsible Investments, Dawn Leverett of Windermere

Mondays, September 28 and October 26 starting at 5:30 p.m Strawberry Waffles and
Sausage Dinner for only $6 and Big Band music Reservations requested.

FREE “Harvest Festival” on Tuesday, October 13 from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Crafts,
flu shots for $30, Bake Sale, and other vendors. Contact Carol at 206-932-4044 ext.
3 for vendor tables.

Call D’Vorah Kost, Social Workers at 206-268-6704 for following services: Vision
Loss, Diabetes, Caregivers, Hearing support Group, Breathe Well, Matter of Balance,
Living Well with Chronic Condition, Easy Yoga, Transitions and counseling.

Alki Duplicate Bridge Club meet on Mondays from 10:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. For info
call Nick 425-387-2610 aor Mark 206-328-3408.

Call 206-932-4044 for dates for day and Casino trips to Tulalip Rochester,
Clearwater, Emerald Queen, etc

Extended Trips are planned for: 4 star overnight at Suncadia Resort Sept. 9-10;
Tropical Costa Rico Nov. 11-19; Branson at Christmas Dec. 10-14 and Heart of Texas
May 9-17, 2010.
Hikes to Chehalis Western Trail on Monday September 14 from 9:00 am to 2:30 p.m.;
and Rattlesnake Ridge on Monday, October 5 from 9:00 a..m. to 2:30 p.m. Register
with Mari at 206-684-4664
Pinochle with no partner needed played on Mondays, 9:30 am to 12:00 noon; and
Thursdays from12:30 to 3:30 p.m. Donations.

Bridge with no partners needed on Wednesdays from 9:00 a.m. to noon. Donations

Mondays, 1:00 to 3:00 pm Poker for fun has been started with variety of games and
easy rules. Call for details
Tuesdays, September 9 and October 13 starting at 10:00 a.m. Appointments needed for
Senior Rights Assistance with Medicare questions.
Fridays, September 25 and October 23 from 9:00 am to 12 noon Dental Access Program
for Seniors 60 and over. Free Education presentations, evaluation of teeth and gums
and dental hygiene , personal oral hygiene and cancer screenings. Complete a packet
to receive affordable routine * therapeutic dental cleanings by licensed dental
hygienists and fluoride applications. Call for an appointment.
Mondays at 1:00 to 2:30 p.m. The Ukes play ukulele music to singalong songs joined
by various instruments. Ukulele players, singers and musicians are invited to this
Open music session. Dancers are invited too. SUPA (Seattle Ukulele Players Assoc.)
will meet from 1:30 to 4:30 pm. on SUNDAY, September 13 at Northwest Senior Center
and SUNDAY, October 4 at Senior Center West Seattle Hatten Hall.
Computer classes on Basics and other computer classes are offered at nominal fee.
Call for dates, times and costs. Every Monday from 9:00 to 11:00 a.m. is a Free Open
Lab with computer helpers.

Mondays starting at 9:00 a.m. Foot Care for $22. Appointments needed.
Monday, Wednesday, Fridays at 8:00 and 9:00 a.m., Enhance Fitness Exercise classes
of aerobics, balance, stretching, and using wrist and ankle wrights are offered to
those with a filled out form from their doctor.
Mondays, at 9:30 a.m. and Thursdays at 12:30 p.m. ongoing, Pinochle, no partner
needed, cost $1 member / $2 non-member. Poker for fun is also played at 1:00 p.m.
Tuesdays at 11:45 a.m. – Blood Pressure Readings by Dr. Catherine Orsi, ND, LMP
Tuesdays 9:30 to 10:00 a.m. Food Outlet for residents in zip areas of 98116, 98126
and 98136
Tuesdays at 10:00 a.m. Hardanger (Scandinavian embroidery)
Tuesdays (second and fourth) at 7:00 p.m. Quilting group meets and has 3 day
Quilting Retreats four times a year.
Eight hour workshops over two days for Defensive Diving with Trained volunteers from
AARP. Cost: $14, payable to AARP. Register for available classes.
A CPR & First Aid Trainings-An Ounce of Prevention. Cost is $50/$55. Register
Scott 206-734-7484
Call for Free 20 minute Legal Consultation. Several dates available.
Tuesday and Thursday at 10:30 a.m. ongoing Tai Chi; cost $10 walk in or monthly fee.
Call for dates and costs for Chair Massage
Wednesday mornings Meals on Wheels are delivered to homebound seniors. To order food
or to volunteer call 206-448-5767 .

Thursdays, ongoing 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. Line Dancing classes with Alice Crawford for
$3 or $2 members.

Fridays, ongoing, 11:00 a.m. – 2:30 p.m., Bingo played by 18 years and older for
$$’s; only $6 plus additional games.
Fridays at 1:00 p.m. – Free Movies . Call for titles.
Call for days and times Wii games are available to play. Center has Sports games
i.e. bowling, baseball, boxing, tennis and golf.

Senior Center West Seattle promotes Generation BIG with Big Brothers and Big Sisters
of Puget Sound. Seeking peope who can spend time having fun with a child at
Highland Park Elementary School. Call 206-763-9060

The Duwamish River needs you, for October 17 cleanup

August 24, 2009 2:09 am
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Received from People for Puget Sound:

Hundreds of volunteers are needed to work at nine
restoration sites along Seattle¹s Duwamish River at the semi-annual Duwamish
Alive! work day set for Saturday October 17.

³This is the last big volunteer outdoor event of the year and a great chance
for families to get out and pitch in to make our community and our hometown
river a better, healthier place,² said Dhira Brown, People For Puget Sound
Restoration Ecologist and event coordinator.

Over a thousand volunteers worked at 12 sites at the Duwamish Alive! Earth
Day in April weeding, mulching, planting and cleaning up. Volunteers are
provided tools, gloves, instructions, and refreshment. Work on October 17
begins at 10 AM and ends at 2 PM.

October work sites include: Herrings House Park, West Seattle Greenbelt,
Brandon Street Restoration Area, Gateway Park North, Roxhill Park, Hamm
Creek Estuary, Duwamish Riverbend Hill, and Codiga Farm. A cleanup work crew
using kayaks will also be organized.

For complete program information and instructions on how to sign up for work
crews, go to www.duwamishalive.org.

The Duwamish Alive! Coalition includes the following organizations:

Alki Kayak Tours | Cascade Land Conservancy | CleanScapes | City of Seattle
| City of Tukwila | Duwamish River Cleanup Coalition | EarthCorps | Edwards
Mother Earth Foundation | Elliott Bay Restoration Panel | Environmental
Coalition of South Seattle | EOS Alliance | U. S. Environmental Protection
Agency | Friends of Duwamish Riverbend Hill | Green/Duwamish and Central
Puget Sound Watershed Forum of Local Governments | Green Seattle
Partnership | Georgetown Community Council | IM-A-PAL Foundation | King
County | King Conservation District | Longfellow Creek Watershed Council |
Nature Consortium | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration | People
For Puget Sound | Port of Seattle | REI | Restore America¹s Estuaries |
Seattle Parks and Recreation | Veterans Conservation Corps | Washington
State Department of Ecology.

West Seattle Crime Watch: Targeted by taggers, and ticked

Those are portions of three photos sent by Mark – we’re not showing or publishing the entire three-letter tag on the fence, or the spray-paint vandalism on the van (a face on the hood and a splotch over the gas cap), but he’s wondering if anyone else had anything similar happen to them:

I live at the corner of 39th/Stevens [map], in the Admiral district. (Saturday) night someone tagged my fence and my neighbors’ van. Seattle police were called and the officer mentioned another incident with the “T(-)X” tag being used. Needless to say I am quite pissed and if anyone else has seen the same tag please notify Seattle PD.

Mark says it’s all been “removed” now, and while his neighborhood has not had a tagging problem before, a recent break-in has neighbors “on edge” and now they’re stepping up their vigilance even further.

Photos: Sounders FC Beach Blast — Soccer on the sand at Alki

August 23, 2009 10:24 pm
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Beach volleyball is an Alki fixture – now, beach soccer has hit the sand. West Seattle photojournalist Matt Durham from mattdurhamphotography.com covered today’s first-ever Sounders FC Beach Blast Tournament for WSB. The event was for amateur, adult players; 30+ teams signed up. Top photo: “Baranoff FC” (in red) threads the needle through two “West Side” (in white) players as sand flies. Next: Rory Sheehan from Buckley, sporting a “soccer mullet” and soccer-ball tattoo. Rory told Matt he’s been an avid soccer fan since childhood and has had the tattoo for 12 years:

The action was fast-paced and high-scoring, with short fields and small goals – here, in green, Seattle team “Synergy,” and in peach, the “What The’s,” also from Seattle:

Members of the same two teams are in this photo, showing the high level of sportsmanship that accompanied the high level of competitive action:

One more photo – captioned by Matt: “West Side launches a tremendous distance, off the sand, to head the ball toward Baranoff’s goal.”

Haven’t found a list of results online yet – send ’em if you have ’em, or else we’ll check with the tournament sponsors tomorrow.

In Delridge? Meet your neighbors & neighborhood advocates

The idea for this event hatched on the North Delridge Neighborhood Council e-mail list this past week – and they’re ready to trumpet the news:

ICE CREAM SOCIAL
Thursday, August 27th, 6:30-8:30 p.m.

Cottage Grove Park
( 5206-26th Ave. SW , 2 blocks west of Delridge Way , between Brandon and Puget) [map]

Come have fun, meet your neighbors, play your favorite lawn games, and enjoy a sweet treat.

Bring your own bowl and a favorite game (Frisbee, horseshoes, bocce, croquet, badminton, etc.).

All are welcome–we look forward to seeing you there!

The North Delridge Community Council meets the 1st Wednesday of every month, 6:30-7:45 pm, at the Delridge Library to engage in local issues, build community, and much more.

Contact us at northdelridge@gmail.com

West Seattle restaurant news: Brickyard expected to open Wed.

(WSB photos by Christopher Boffoli)
The Admiral District’s next new restaurant is days away from opening: 4 months after first word that Brickyard BBQ was moving into space just south of Admiral Pub (map), WSB Forum members have been wondering when they’ll open. So Christopher Boffoli stopped by this afternoon on behalf of WSB to check, and reports that this Wednesday (August 26) is expected to be its official opening day. He reports that the activity spotted there in recent days has been “soft opening” activity for friends and family, as is traditional in the restaurant business. For our last report in late July, the owners told us they’d be serving Texas-style barbecue, likely 11 am-10 pm.

Delridge problem-properties followup: City rule change in progress

Four months ago, North Delridge Neighborhood Council co-chair Mike Dady led a tour of “problem properties” in the area – including rundown homes that sit vacant (like the one above at 3804 23rd SW, where another complaint is under investigation now), often frequented by squatters, posing safety and sanitation risks to neighboring residents and businesses. (Here’s our detailed report.) Two City Councilmembers — Sally Clark and Tim Burgess — plus one council candidate (David Bloom) and two city department heads were along for the tour; action was promised on several fronts, including a potential city rule change to allow properties to be demolished even if a plan for their replacement has not been approved. Dady followed up with the city this past week and learned that rule change is making it through the system; here’s the “determination of non-significance” published last month as part of the process – according to Department of Planning and Development director Diane Sugimura, one of the city officials who joined April’s tour, no one appealed that notice, so the ordinance went to the mayor’s office last week – you can read its full text here. Mayoral and council approval are required; we’ll follow its progress through the system.

West Seattle Farmers’ Market: Everything’s coming up … flowers

(Photos by WSB contributing journalist Kathy Mulady)
If you haven’t been to West Seattle Farmers’ Market yet today … as always, it continues till 2 pm, with a profusion of late-summer flowers, including sunflowers and gladiolus.

The next special event at the market, by the way, is Tomato-Tasting Day, two weeks from today, with the Zucchini 500 races a week after that.

Call this West Seattle Noise Watch: “Never-ending burglar alarm”

August 23, 2009 11:02 am
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We have received half a dozen notes now about this – some wondering what’s happening, and one with a little information, so we are sharing that info to let people know it is being checked out: An audible alarm has been going off for more than 12 hours at an Admiral-area home. (We will not get more specific about the address – if you are in the area, you know; any comments that get more specific will be deleted, since this is obviously a currently unoccupied house.) According to one nearby resident, whose note had the subject line “The never-ending burglar alarm,” police have checked it out repeatedly, but the alarm does not seem to be tied to any particular company, so it can’t be disabled, and no one’s been able to reach the residents by phone so far. Another nearby resident, Kristen, described the situation: “It’s been going ALL night…kinda putting a buzz kill on our Sunday morning.” 11:26 AM UPDATE: Just got word it’s finally stopped.

Historical Society’s Talk/Walk event: Me-Kwa-Mooks’ pre-park past

Story and photos by Keri DeTore
Reporting for West Seattle Blog

West Seattleites had the chance to learn the story behind a popular park on Saturday morning, as the Southwest Seattle Historical Society presented a Live History Talk and Walk at Me-Kwa-Mooks Park, featuring Alan Schmitz — grandson of Ferdinand and Emma Schmitz — describing the area as he came to know it as a child.

He was joined by SWSHS president Judy Bentley (photo below) and by Joan Hockaday of the Olmsted Society, author of Greenscapes—Olmsted’s Pacific Northwest (photo above with Schmitz), about the famed designer of parks in Seattle and elsewhere.

Sharing stories and memories, Mr. Schmitz painted a picture of Me-Kwa-Mooks very different from what we see today.

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Also today/tonight: Farmers and Mobile Markets, nurses’ benefit

August 23, 2009 7:06 am
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 |   Delridge | How to help | West Seattle Farmers' Market | West Seattle news

WEST SEATTLE FARMERS’ MARKET: Not only will fruit and vegetables abound at today’s market (10 am-2 pm, 44th/Alaska, map) — here’s the Ripe ‘n’ Ready lineup — but fresh fish is in the spotlight too — Loki says via Twitter that it’s selling its last fresh Alaskan salmon of the season.

DELRIDGE PRODUCE CO-OP MOBILE MARKET: Third day of its second 4-day week, which means you’ll find them today next to Cottage Grove Park (map/address), 11 am-3 pm. The photo at left is from Saturday’s session, with rainbow carrots among the offerings again. If you’ve missed our earlier reports, this is a four-week experiment to see if Delridge can support an enterprise that would offer fresh, healthy food, explained here, and while it’s in the experimental stage, the produce is free (just fill out a quick survey!).

BENEFIT FOR NURSES’ TRIP TO SENEGAL: Tonight’s your chance to support nurses Syd and Susie‘s trip to provide health care in Africa (previewed here) by donating supplies and/or money – and the place to do it is The Bohemian, starting at 5:30 pm.

More in the West Seattle Weekend Lineup.

Arts-in-Nature Festival updates: Air and fire, from The Cabiri

Fire-dancing at dusk was featured again this year at the Nature Consortium‘s Arts-in-Nature Festival, which opens its second and final day at Camp Long at 11 this morning – last night, however, a different act ignited the fire … The Cabiri. These photographs are by Greg Wright, who also caught the aerial troupe in a less-incendiary moment:

Though The Cabiri isn’t on today’s Arts-in-Nature schedule, so much more is — see the schedule by looking here — including the Camp Long cabins in their temporary new roles as art zones:

Arts-in-Nature Festival runs 11 am-6 pm today at Camp Long (map/address); admission is by donation, $5. (Here’s our earlier report with WSB photojournalist Christopher Boffoli‘s video and photos; added Sunday morning – Christopher has put together another video with scenes from the end of Night 1:)

West Seattle weekend scenes: Saturday in The Junction

August 23, 2009 2:30 am
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First – from Saturday night’s Outdoor Movies on the Wall finale – iPhone snaps shared by Hotwire Coffee (WSB sponsor) proprietor (and Movies on the Wall ringleader) Lora Lewis, who estimates 250 people parked themselves in the courtyard for “Cars,” including the ones shown above as they waited for the free barbecue offered before the movie by West Seattle Christian Church. Also on hand, reps from the West Seattle Food Bank and White Center Food Bank – WC Food Bank’s Rick Jump and WS Food Bank’s Heather Hsu:

The food banks were the beneficiaries of Saturday night’s raffle proceeds. (As a Movies on the Wall co-sponsor, we’d also like to thank everybody who made this a spectacular season – dating all the way back to the springtime call for movie suggestions.) Meantime — earlier Saturday in The Junction, the “Big Bonanza end-of-summer sale took centerstage. We brought you an in-progress report Saturday morning; here are more photos and vignettes from WSB contributing journalist Kathy Mulady — first, canine companion Cooper eager to move along as Carolyn Magoon checked out the table outside Capers:

Kathy also reports that “the West Seattle Junction Association booth at California/Alaska, hay bales and all, was the scene of spontaneous squirt gun battles between volunteer Meghan Sykas and nearly anyone who could do with some cooling off. Little Anna Morris, 3, was more than willing to accept the challenge, dousing not only Sykas, but some who were standing too close.”

The Junction’s booth also offered sheriff badges and bandannas, like the ones that 2-year-old Riley Yip is sporting here:

Next big event in The Junction: The second annual West Seattle Junction Car Show (co-sponsored by WSB), closing the streets to celebrate cool wheels on September 20th (we hear pre-registration’s going well; if you want to get in on it, here’s where to start).

Coyote sighting north of Lincoln Park

They’re by no means rare, but when coyote sightings are brought to our attention, we pass them along as a reminder that you’ll want to make sure your pets are inside, etc. Just got a call from Pam, who lives along lower Lincoln Park Way, north of Lincoln Park, east of Lowman Beach (vicinity map), and says a coyote’s been hanging around behind her house for going on an hour now, so she wanted to make sure others got the word. (Past coyote reports, some with photos, are archived here.)

Wondered about those fireworks? Answer: A wedding

We’ve received a flurry of notes/texts asking about those fireworks a bit earlier tonight; here’s what they were all about – a wedding, per Magnolia Voice.

Video: The Great Cross-Sound Race, round-trip from Alki

WSB photojournalist Christopher Boffoli covered today’s Great Cross-Sound Race from Alki to Blakely Rock and back — an annual tradition for Sound Rowers — with video and photos. Here’s his shot of the nautical chart of the course:

And a still shot of the winners, in #4, Rainer Storb and Todd Silver, who finished in 52:24:

In second, 16 seconds behind (according to the published results), the rower who’s finished first as a solo the past two years, Evan Jacobs; third place, 29 seconds behind 1st place, Tyler Peterson; fourth, at 54:36, race directors Jeff and Theresa Knakal. The competitors spanned a wide age range; here’s Jack Fleming emerging from Elliott Bay:

Also, a diverse range of watercraft:

In addition to Christopher’s video, photos and reporting above — Greg Wright e-mailed photos to share – here’s the always-impressive crowd shot, looking out from shore:

For Sound Rowers’ full-season race schedule, go here. (Added early Sunday – link to full results from Saturday’s race.)

Mysterious Ivar’s sign fished out of Elliott Bay

The WSB Forums have been abuzz about this – and we finally have a link to share from one of the photographers who caught it on camera: An (apparently) old Ivar’s sign fished out of Elliott Bay off West Seattle shores last night. See it here at seattletimes.com. Whether it’s history … is for now a mystery.

Video/photos: Arts-in-Nature Festival at Camp Long

WSB photojournalist Christopher Boffoli reports from the Nature Consortium‘s Arts-in-Nature Festival – which continues through 9 tonight (with evening performers including fire dancing by The Cabiri, shown above in an aerial performance earlier) and again 11-6 tomorrow:

Beautiful weather for the 11th Annual Arts in Nature Festival going on at Camp Long this weekend. I stopped in for an hour around noon on Saturday and each event going on had a healthy audience though it definitely wasn’t crowded. I’d advise people to park on 35th though as open spaces in the Camp Long parking were scarce.

More photos from Christopher, before his report continues:

Lots of crafts for the kids. Coloring, painting, printmaking and face-painting, etc. Music and performance shows inside the geodesic dome on the meadow and down by the pond. The cabins are featuring art installations, including multimedia presentations in some of them.

Christopher also recorded video of one performance, by Lelavision:

For the full Arts-in-Nature Festival schedule, tonight AND tomorrow, go here. Admission is by donation, $5; the Nature Consortium is a West Seattle-based nonprofit whose major work involves restoration of the West Duwamish Greenbelt, the largest remaining stretch of contiguous forest within the city limits.

Update: West Seattle Helpline/Clothesline back-to-school help

We’ve got an update on the West Seattle Helpline back-to-school backpack drive (sponsoring WSB right now to help get the word out) from Helpline director Anna Fern – including information on how you can help, not just with backpacks, but also with clothing donations:

We have collected about 130 backpacks towards our goal of 200. Along with the backpacks, people are donating lots of school supplies. The community response has been overwhelming. The West Seattle Rotary made a large contribution towards the program and the Helpline. A local attorney donated money for over 20 backpacks. Members of the First Lutheran Church of West Seattle donated over 60 backpacks. And individual donations from West Seattle residents are still coming in!

We have over 150 requests for backpacks with appointments for picking them up (including) next Tuesday and Thursday. (But we are receiving over 10 requests a day…so we will end up having more than 200 requests by the middle of next week. We have limited it to just families in the West Seattle area–98106, 98126, 98136 and 98146 zip codes.) …

We still need more backpacks, but even more than that we really need “gently used or new clothing” for school age children. Most families will be picking up the backpacks and then shopping at the Clothesline at the same time.

You can donate backpacks by dropping them off at Capers in The Junction (map/address), Coffee at the Heights (WSB sponsor) in Sunrise Heights (map/address), or Helpline HQ (map/address). To donate money so Helpline can buy more backpacks, use the button atop its website. And to find out how to donate clothes for Clothesline (we’ve reported on this “clothing bank,” here and here), here’s how to contact them.

Door-to-door alert: Magazine sellers

Just got a phone call from a resident in a neighborhood southwest of The Junction – saying two young woman are selling magazine subscriptions door-to-door, claiming to be raising money for a “trip to Holland” (a destination also mentioned in this recent alert). He says neighbors gave them money, then looked up the information online and found claims of a suspected scam, and “ran after them to get their checks back.” Past door-to-door alerts (including comments, where more stories usually emerge) are here; city rules for door-to-door solicitors are here.

Happening now: “Big Bonanza” sale day in The Junction

August 22, 2009 11:32 am
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 |   West Seattle businesses | West Seattle news

As mentioned earlier, it’s “Big Bonanza” end-of-summer sale day in The Junction. Kathy Mulady is covering it for WSB with updates and photos, and sends this vignette:

Balloons brighten the West Seattle Junction Saturday morning as the Big Bonanza event gets underway. Rob Wastman with the Skate Church (in the red shirt), and a member of the merchants’ association, delivered balloons to businesses and had an extra one in his bunch for Sam “Samster-the-Hamster” Seidl, 4, who was out and about with her dad, Mark Seidl. More than 30 businesses in The Junction have sales and special events planned today. We will be standing by for the Junction Showdown at high noon.

More later!

Tibbetts UMC celebrates centennial by digging in, digging up

Several West Seattle churches have celebrated their 100th anniversaries in the past year; among them, Tibbetts United Methodist Church, whose Rev. Dr. Joanne Carlson Brown is shown in the top photo, shovel in hand, as she and church members worked to help spruce up Lincoln Park earlier this month. All ages pitched in:

(Kathryn Ushimaru and Nora Hallmon)
Sara Carter shared the photos, explaining, “As part of (our) centennial celebration, we wanted to give back to our community.”

(Amy Hallmon and Howard Bogie)
She added, “Tibbetts is proud to have been living the Way of Jesus in West Seattle for 100 years and we’re looking forward to the next 100 years.” They invite anyone interested in finding out more about their church to check them out online at tibbettsumchurch.org; the church is at 3940 41st SW (map). Other West Seattle churches that have recently celebrated their centennials — or are still in the midst of festivities now — include Fauntleroy Church, Alki UCC and Holy Rosary. And by the way, you don’t have to be part of a group to help beautify a West Seattle park – there are work parties every weekend, always listed in our West Seattle Weekend Lineup, and browsable even sooner at greenseattle.org.

Phone scam? West Seattleite shares a warning

Just out of the WSB inbox, from Carole:

At 9am on 8/22 (Sat) I received a robocall indicating it was from Cardmember Services and informing me I was eligible for a reduced rate (as low as 6%!) on my credit card and all I had to do to take advantage was press “9.” I do have a Chase card managed by Cardmember Services, but wary of a scam and not about to give out personal info over the phone, I hung up and called the number on the back of my Chase card. Customer service informed me that they are not offering rate reductions and are not making these robocalls. IF YOU GET A CALL LIKE THIS DO NOT PRESS “9.” Call your credit card company directly and inform them. I have sent a similar message to the AG’s office asking them to confirm the scam and put out a consumer alert.