West Seattle (and/or West Seattleite) scenes: Catching up

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Alki Point’s Guy Smith – known most recently for the tale of the newly returned brant as well as for the Joy D. Smith Wildlife Raft – photographed the aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis this morning as it headed back to Bremerton. Further east along the shoreline, we stopped by the West Seattle/Alki Wildlife Habitat Project demonstration garden weeding/planting party on Saturday morning.

If you hadn’t guessed from the photos, the garden’s at Seacrest:

Now to the rainforest – actually, Arbor Heights second graders doing a rainforest ballet as part of a recent event at Pacific Northwest Ballet:

Teacher Angie Nall explains the McCaw Hall performance: “Kayti Bouljon, Manager of the Pacific Northwest Ballet Community Education Programs, led Arbor Heights’ students in a 2-month study of dance that connected ballet with a rainforest unit. What culminated was a rainforest ballet!” Not far from there, last week a group of West Seattle moms and babies were at Seattle Center to join in a call for action against toxic household products:

Those are some of the moms and babies in the West Seattle Stroller Strides group. Proprietor Athena Frederick says more than 40 Stroller Strides moms from around the city showed up to join in the “Million Baby Crawl” event – she shared photos including this one of West Seattle rocker Chris Ballew, performing his family-friendly music as Caspar Babypants:

Eilene Hutchinson November 24, 2009 (2:06 pm)

My husband and I were by there today. We noticed all of the work that has been done, the weeding and planting of native plants. It really looks nice with these placed around the large driftwood logs. Many “Thanks” to those willing to give of their time to this project.

Athena Frederick November 24, 2009 (9:46 pm)

Thanks for posting the pictures of the Million Baby Crawl, West Seattle moms included in the pic are Davina Dilley & Zoey Minkove

Josh W. November 25, 2009 (8:08 am)

I love the blog but we should give respect where its due. The ship is called the USS John C. Stennis
Im anal about it because I spent a few years on different ships and not giving the USS to the name demotes the ship and its crew.

WSB November 25, 2009 (8:20 am)

Thanks, I’m actually usually pretty good about that and also about people’s titles, ranks, etc. but I will confess this was put up in a hurry for some reason that I can’t even recall now a couple days later, no excuse, fixing – TR

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