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All three community councils meeting this week have announced their agenda highlights:
TUESDAY – WEST SEATTLE CRIME PREVENTION COUNCIL: This meeting’s scheduled guest is Benjamin Kinlow, Crime Prevention Coordinator for the Southwest Precinct, which means he also helps coordinate the Block Watch program. The newly formed West Seattle Blockwatch Captains’ Network – which you can join on Facebook – is urging members to be there. This meeting also routinely includes a crime-stats update from local police leadership, and time to discuss your neighborhood concerns. 7 pm Tuesday, Southwest Precinct (Delridge/Webster; map).
WEDNESDAY – DELRIDGE NEIGHBORHOODS DISTRICT COUNCIL: Scheduled guests include City Councilmember Sally Bagshaw, Nathan Torgelson from Seattle Parks (to discuss the Camp Long Lodge renovations), and Mark Ufkes and Peggy Weiss from the pro-Seattle-annexation White Center Homeowners’ Association. DNDC members also will discuss their recent retreat, as they meet at 7 pm Wednesday, Youngstown Cultural Arts Center (4408 Delridge Way; map).
THURSDAY – ALKI COMMUNITY COUNCIL: West Seattle’s school board rep Steve Sundquist is a scheduled guest, along with Seattle Parks staff. ACC meets at 7 pm Thursday, 6115 SW Hinds (map); get the latest info at alkinews.com.
ONE MORE BIG MEETING NEXT WEEK: Monday night, 7 pm at Denny International Middle School, it’s the next in a series of meetings around the cities to talk about Mayor McGinn’s Youth and Families Initiative (explained here). Previous meetings in other neighborhoods have drawn hundreds of people. This initiative involves almost every issue you can imagine – safety, education, health, environment – so whatever you care most deeply about, be ready to advocate for it.
Story, photos and video by Randall G. Hauk
Reporting for West Seattle Blog
While some people spent the morning in line for the Safeco Field box office or on their computer in an attempt to get tickets for Seattle Mariners games that are at least a month away, others chose to take advantage of the rare March sunshine and the offer of free food at the Southwest Athletic Complex while watching the Chief Sealth High School Seahawks baseball program scrimmage with the Cleveland High School Eagles.
In his second year as the head coach of the Seahawks, Ernest Policarpio says the event was imagined as a way to bring the community closer to the school’s growing baseball program, hopefully stimulating more popularity of the game among parents and students.
Today’s event also featured a barbecue as a chance for community mingling.
This year, Chief Sealth will have enough athletes to field three teams for the first time in recent memory. Growing interest in the sport is not, however, the only positive momentum working in the Seahawks’ favor. The results on the field are also showing improvement.
While today’s game will not count in the standings, Sealth managed 17 runs in just two innings of play today, albeit against a very short-handed Cleveland squad. However, combined with yesterday’s jamboree in which Sealth outscored Foster 5-1 and Franklin 7-1 in a pair of three-inning sessions, there is reason for optimism.
“We wanted to play good baseball,” said Policarpio (photo) about the team’s mission for the day. “When they had the chance, the kids were hitting the ball.”
Policarpio will need those hits to continue next week when his Seahawks officially open their season by hosting the defending 3A champions, O’Dea High School, scheduled for 3:30 p.m. Friday at SWAC.
ALSO NEXT WEEK: West Seattle High School boys’ varsity baseball team plays Blanchet at Lower Woodland, also 3:30 Friday … Seattle Lutheran High School‘s winter-athletics awards night is Monday at 6:30 pm (the SLHS baseball team is leading a clinic at the school this weekend for younger players).
Via e-mail from the Engine 29 “B Team” – that’s Lt. Paul Andrews and Eli. They explain:
We came across this super-cute kid named Eli down at Alki Beach earlier today and just thought this photo turned out great. He was all dressed up in his fire gear patrolling the beach. Someone suggested we send it to you guys and so we decided we would.
Thanks for sharing! (Station 29 is the one in North Admiral.)
Marisa e-mailed this morning to ask about that new sign over the downhill lanes of bridge-bound Admiral Way. It’s one of three SDOT “Dynamic Messaging Signs” that should all be complete by midweek along major West Seattle paths to The Bridge; the work was mentioned in the list of traffic alerts we wrote about last Thursday, with work on Admiral as the week ended, plus two more:
That’s the not-yet-finished sign on Fauntleroy Way, just east of SW Alaska. And another one is slated for 35th SW at SW Snoqualmie (by the golf course and Merrill Gardens [WSB sponsor]). We can’t find one good overview of the program online anywhere, but docs like this give you a hint. SDOT is expanding use of these signs in time for the major construction work to come on the Highway 99/Viaduct corridor, so that you will theoretically get enough warning of trouble, from crashes to travel times, to make an informed decision on high bridge vs. low bridge, etc. (We can’t help but wonder if there will be a programming option such as “JUST TURN AROUND AND GO HOME” or “GO TAKE THE WATER TAXI” …)
While stopping by Hotwire Coffee (WSB sponsor) in The Junction, we got that photo of some of the pet food dropped off there for the White Center Food Bank pet-food drive that wraps up today. Food’s been collected at Hotwire and two Burien locations for the past few weeks – and today you can drop off donations at WCFB (which serves part of West Seattle too) until 4 pm, 10829 8th SW (map). Read more about the pet-food drive here; also remember that donations to the WC and West Seattle Food Banks through the end of next month count for MORE because of the Feinstein Challenge (explained here).
(Alki photo by Chas Redmond, taken last Wednesday)
From the West Seattle Weekend Lineup and from post-WSWL arrivals in the WSB inbox last night, some of today’s highlights:
WATERFRONT VISION: Mayor McGinn called four meetings around the city to invite citizens to help plan a “great central waterfront.” The third one is 2:30-4 pm today at High Point Community Center; the concept’s explained here.
PLAY BALL! Anthony sent word that Chief Sealth High School‘s baseball team will be in action at Southwest Athletic Complex (across the street from Sealth’s permanent home on SW Thistle) at 12:30 pm, including a free barbecue, and they’d love to see community support!
MADISON STUDENTS AT EMERALD CITY COMICON: Perhaps the biggest event in the city this weekend is the comics/pop-culture gathering at the Convention Center downtown (official website here), and Greg Hatcher will be there with Madison Middle School students he teaches. As he writes here, their afterschool program is partly funded by Partners With Youth from the West Seattle YMCA (WSB sponsor), and he says they’re collecting donations at Emerald City Comicon to help make sure the program continues.
CHURCH SALES: Turns out THREE local churches are having sales this weekend – got late word of one for the Westside Unitarian Universalists – it’s at 2008 California SW, Unit B, 10 am-4 pm today, 1-6 pm tomorrow (and will continue the next two weekends as well – watch the WSB Events calendar). Meantime, it’s day two for two churches’ rummage sales – we dropped in for the overviews to show you HOW big – here’s the Tibbetts United Methodist Church scene:
They’re selling from 9 am-3 pm today at 3940 41st SW (map); and the other sale’s a few blocks away at West Side Presbyterian Church:
WSPC’s rummage sale is 9 am-2 pm at 3601 California SW (map).
BOOK SALES: As per this reminder last night, the Sanislo Elementary used book sale is 10 am-2 pm at 1812 SW Myrtle. And Kristi Keithly has a used book sale 9 am-noon at Seaview Methodist (4620 SW Graham; map) to raise money for the Breast Cancer 3-Day.
SCHOOL INFO EVENTS: “Option schools” including West Seattle’s Pathfinder K-8 are represented at an info event at Seattle Public Schools HQ in SODO, 10 am-noon; Three Tree Montessori in Burien (WSB sponsor) has an open house this afternoon, 1-3 pm.
BUSINESS BIRTHDAY: Max and Quinn’s Atomic Boys Shop-O-Rama in the Admiral District marks its second anniversary today, with fun extras for shoppers. 10 am-6 pm.
MUCH, MUCH MORE … in the West Seattle Weekend Lineup . (And remember to set your clock ahead an hour tonight – Daylight Saving Time officially arrives at 2 am.)
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