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10:38 PM: SPD and SFD are in the 6400 block of 30th SW in High Point with a person who is reported to have a gunshot wound to the abdomen.

10:44 PM: The victim is being taken to the hospital. We haven’t heard a suspect description yet; dispatch told police one person had called in to report they’d heard gunshots, possibly from the “sidewalk or street.”

12:20 AM: We’re still waiting to hear back from SFD on the victim’s condition when transported. Dispatch audio from early in the incident describes him as a “juvenile male.”

1:30 AM: SFD spokesperson Kaila Lafferty tells WSB the shooting victim is 15 years old and was assessed in critical condition when being transported to the hospital.

(SPD photo)

7:20 AM: SPD says the teen died at the hospital. No arrest so far.

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THEATER: ‘Rake’s Progress’ opens Thursday at Chief Sealth IHS

December 4, 2024 9:32 pm

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(WSB photos from Tuesday’s dress rehearsal)

Bayfest Youth Theatre‘s Robert Shampain says his students in the Chief Sealth International High School drama program are about to open “one of our best shows ever”! We stopped by last night for their dress rehearsal of “The Rake’s Progress” – here’s how they’re inviting you to come see:

What do Mozart and Lady Gaga have in common? Their music is great, they both like to have a good time, and they’re both featured in our fall play, “The Rake’s Progress” – a modern 18th century fable about Love, Temptation, Greed, and the wages of sin.

Sound heavy? IT’S NOT!!!!

It’s fun, sweet, rollicking, funny and a little devilish (at times…) With great costumes, sets, and lights in our newly-upgraded Performing Arts Center, this is fun for the whole family, and by buying tickets you will be supporting the Sealth Drama Program, which has lost a huge amount of funding this year due to school district budget cuts. Come and support our very hard working teen actors, designers and techs, and crew, who have been putting this show together since September.

Showtimes in the CSIHS auditorium (west side of campus, 2600 SW Thistle):

Thursday, December 5th – 7:30 PM,

Friday, December 6th – 7:30 PM,

Saturday, December 7th – 2:00 PM,

Saturday, December 7th – 7:30 PM,

Sunday, December 8th – 2:00 PM

You can buy advance tickets online here – $14 adults, $9 students – or at the door, $17 adults, $12 students.

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TONIGHT’S SKY SIGHT: Venus, close to crescent moon

December 4, 2024 8:28 pm

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| Skies Over West Seattle | West Seattle news

The waxing crescent moon was part of a sky show again tonight:

If you weren’t looking up around 5:30 pm, this is what you missed. Christopher Boffoli sent the image above, and Robin Sinner sent the image below.

Will we see this again tomorrow? Part of the forecast looks like a rerun – dense morning fog followed by some sun.

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COUNTDOWN: Two nights until you can help Our Lady of Guadalupe ‘Light Up the Night’ – and its tree – as ‘Good Tidings Festival’ begins

December 4, 2024 6:30 pm

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(WSB file photo)

A big holiday-season weekend is ahead in West Seattle – including the lighting of the city’s highest-elevation Christmas tree on Friday night, outside Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church at 35th/Myrtle. The lighting – with caroling, a food drive, Santa, and more – starts OLG’s three-day “Good Tidings Festival” – here’s the announcement we received:

Friday-LIGHT UP THE NIGHT, 6 pm-8 pm – Pizza for sale, kids craft tables, holiday gift and bake sale, singing of carols, lighting the tree, story time with Santa & hot chocolate & cookies!

Fri. 6-8 pm, Sat. 4-8 pm & Sunday 9 am-1 pm- HOLIDAY GIFT SALE. The sale will feature ethically sourced gifts and food, including chocolates, garden décor, nativities, jewelry, holiday décor, scarves and more. By buying Ethical Trade, you support the efforts of skilled farmers and artisans, empower communities, and affirm the dignity of the workers. The proceeds from the sale will benefit Our Lady of Guadalupe’s Outreach efforts in our community.

Sunday, 11 am – 1:30 pm – Feast Day Mass and Fiesta. Join us for Mass as we celebrate our Feast Day. The OLG Student Body will portray the Guadalupe story at the Mass and followed by our annual “Fiesta” – a delicious lunch hosted by the Multicultural Ministry and the Knights of Columbus. We will also have a “bouncy house” to keep our little ones occupied as we share conversation and community with our friends and parishioners.

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HOLIDAY SCENE: West Seattle Rotary’s Festival of Mini-Trees in Admiral

December 4, 2024 5:17 pm

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You have until 6:45 to bid, until 7 pm to view, at the Rotary Club of West Seattle‘s Festival of Mini-Trees, happening right now at Brookdale Admiral Heights (2326 California SW). More than 20 trees are being auctioned to raise money for the Rotary’s community work. The trees have themes – like this one for Huskies fans:

You can enjoy beverages, treats, live acoustic holiday music, and just enjoy browsing the trees:

Other tree themes include everything from movies to coffee! Wreaths are being auctioned off. Everything was donated to support the Rotarians’ work with students and other community projects.

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FOLLOWUP: Highland Park RV camp ‘remediation’ report from Unified Care Team

December 4, 2024 4:36 pm

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| Highland Park | Safety | West Seattle news

(WSB photo, Tuesday morning)

On Tuesday we reported on city crews at 9th/Henderson for an encampment “remediation.” Unified Care Team spokesperson Callie Craighead said the city’s tally of results would be available today. Here’s what she told us:

The Unified Care Team conducted an RV remediation at 9th SW and SW Henderson yesterday morning. There were 3 RVs at the location, and 2 moved voluntarily from the area prior to start of remediation. Our teams towed the one remaining RV and removed almost 2,200 pounds of debris from the site. Offers of shelter were made but none were accepted at that time.

I wanted to note that the 2 RVs that moved voluntarily moved several blocks away, so constituents may feel like the situation was not taken care of. UCT parking enforcement works to keep vehicles in compliance with the City’s 72-hour parking regulations and they will be closely monitoring this area.

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WEST SEATTLE CRIME WATCH: About the big police response on Puget Ridge

December 4, 2024 2:42 pm

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| Crime | Puget Ridge | West Seattle news | West Seattle police

A texter asked about a big police response near 18th/Dawson on Puget Ridge at midmorning. Took a while to get the info but here’s what happened, according to police: It was a person-in-crisis call involving a 20-year-old man who was reported to be armed with a knife and threatening at least one family member. He was then reported to be out on foot in the neighborhood, possibly under the influence; police responded, finding him and talking with him. They asked him if he had a knife on him and though he didn’t answer, officers say he eventually took out a sheathed knife – with a four-inch-long blade – and tossed it into grass nearby. He was taken into custody without incident, according to police, for investigation of domestic-violence felony harassment, which the report says is cause for a mandatory arrest. They later also found pepper-spray gel in the suspect’s possession, according to the report narrative. The suspect was booked into jail. No one was reported injured.

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WEST SEATTLE GIVING SPIRIT: White Center Pride’s ‘inclusive space for all’

December 4, 2024 2:09 pm

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| How to help | West Seattle Giving Spirit | West Seattle news | White Center

The West Seattle Giving Spirit sustains thousands of people in our neighborhoods – and in White Center too. Three times a week through year’s end, WSB is bringing you this special holiday-season opportunity to learn more about, and support, some of our area’s tireless nonprofits, in partnership with the Learning Communities Foundation. Today – White Center Pride, whose work stretches into West Seattle, not just centered south of the city-limit line:

At White Center Pride, our mission is to foster a diverse LGBTQIA+ community in White Center through year-round events, grassroots efforts, and community initiatives, creating an inclusive space for all.

We strive to help create a vibrant and welcoming White Center where LGBTQIA+ individuals are embraced, valued, and empowered to live authentically, contributing to a community that thrives on diversity and inclusivity.

Our 5th annual Pride Street Festival saw record attendance, more than one hundred vendors, highlighting the strength and unity of our community.

Please join us in celebrating our community spirit at our Winter Fundraiser: Ho-Ho-Ho-Down at the Lumberyard from 4 pm to 8 pm on Friday, December 6th, at the Lumberyard Bar. It’s a $20 donation and we’re planning a rocking good time with food, fun and friends.

We’re always looking for help for this and future events, so please reach out to info@whitecenterpride.org and let us know how you’d like to support us as a volunteer.

We are entirely community-sponsored, so please donate. It’s Your Pride!!!

DONATE HERE
VOLUNTEER SIGNUP – email info@whitecenterpride.org
LEARN MORE HERE

Scroll through our archive of West Seattle Giving Spirit spotlights here (newest to oldest), and watch for the next one on Friday!

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BIZNOTE: West Seattle Thriftway’s second holiday-season tasting event

December 4, 2024 12:59 pm

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(WSB photo, November ‘Taste’)

In addition to last month’s pre-Thanksgiving holiday “Taste,” West Seattle Thriftway (California/Fauntleroy; WSB sponsor) is inviting you to a second “Taste” event! It’s set for 4-7 pm tomorrow night (Thursday, December 5) with more than two dozen vendors around the store, offering samples of food – from snacks to main dishes to desserts – and beverages for you to consider as the holiday season continues. Free, all welcome! (Here’s our coverage of the pre-Thanksgiving “Taste” at Thriftway.)

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WEST SEATTLE ART: Genesee Hill’s student-designed street mural

December 4, 2024 11:58 am

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11:58 AM: Thanks to teacher Vincent Della Pella for the photo! That’s the newly installed street mural on SW Dakota in front of Genesee Hill Elementary. The mural features fox tracks in honor of the school’s mascot, and we’re told the tracks were all designed by GHE students! (Students at GHE have been involved in a mural before, too – here’s our report on a 2023 project.)

12:45 PM: Just talked to GHE principal Liz Dunn by phone, and we learned the mural has quite a backstory – “three years in the making,” she says. It’s part of a “School Street” – closed to through traffic during school hours – she’s long been working toward, in collaboration with SDOT. After that was settled, principal Dunn says, she asked how she could get some art on the street, and SDOT worked with her on that too. The mural components are actually thermoplastic applied to the street, not paint (so we updated the original report to “installed” rather than “painted”). In addition to the fox pawprints, other aspects of the school’s logo – trees, books, music – are incorporated into the mural. Overall, Dunn says, it’s intended to help bring more joy to the school and its students. “This really frames the school beautifully!”

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UPDATE: Fire response at 18th/Roxbury

December 4, 2024 10:25 am

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10:25 AM: Seattle Fire is sending a full “fire in building” response to the 9400 block of 18th SW, to investigate a possible fire. The initial dispatch described a “house filled with smoke.” Updates to come.

10:29 AM: First unit on scene is seeing “smoke in the area” and “acidic light haze in the basement,” and looking for the source.

10:33 AM: Firefighters say it’s a dryer fire and will be reducing the response.

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Fauntleroy YMCA town hall, Rotary’s Festival of Mini-Trees, more options for your West Seattle Wednesday

December 4, 2024 9:49 am

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(Photo by Michael Rohter)

Here’s our list of what’s happening, mostly from the WSB West Seattle Event Calendar and WSB West Seattle Holiday Guide:

DONATION DRIVES: Our Holiday Guide has a growing list of ways you can share your bounty this season – from giving the gift of warm clothing to dropping off new, unwrapped toys at Toys for Tots and other collection locations around West Seattle.

WALKING FOR WELL-BEING: Meet at 47th/Fauntleroy at 10 am. Details in our calendar listing.

TODDLER READING TIME AT PAPER BOAT: 10:30 am at Paper Boat Booksellers (6040 California SW).

SILVER SOUNDS HOLIDAY SHOW: 1 pm at the Center for Active Living (California/Oregon), “Santa Claus can grant one special wish to a deserving icon—which one will it be? Join the West Seattle Silver Sounds for another unexpected holiday performance and enjoy the music, skits, jokes, prizes, free raffle and sing-along.” RSVP required.

REJUVENATE YOGA: Weekly class at Viva Arts, 1:30 pm. (4421 Fauntleroy Way SW)

TODDLER STORY TIME: At Southwest Library, 3 pm, for kids ages 1-3. (9010 35th SW)

TWELVE DAYS OF CHRISTMAS AT ARTHUR’S: The Admiral District café is paying homage to the 12 Days of Christmas with a different feature starting at 4 pm daily – today the “four calling birds” make it “Wine Tasting Wednesday.” See the full list here. (2311 California SW)

HOMEWORK HELP: Volunteer helpers are available 4-7 pm at High Point Library (3411 SW Raymond).

FESTIVAL OF MINI-TREES: Admire – and bid on! – decorated mini-trees at the Rotary Club of West Seattle‘s holiday event at Brookdale Admiral Heights (2326 California SW), 5-7 pm – bid by 6:45 and if you win, take your mini-tree home tonight!

FIX-IT WORKSHOP: Fix it, don’t toss it! Weekly event, free (donations appreciated), 5:30-7:30 pm at West Seattle Tool Library (4408 Delridge Way SW, northeast side of Youngstown Cultural Arts Center).

FAUNTLEROY YMCA TOWN HALL: Almost a year after the town hall that made it clear the community wanted the Fauntleroy YMCA to stay and thrive, how are things going? Tonight’s your chance to hear, and talk, about that, 6 pm in the co-housed <strong>Fauntleroy Church Fellowship Hall. (9140 California SW)

TRIVIA x 4: Four Wednesday trivia locations: At 6 pm, Locust Cider (2820 Alki SW) has trivia … Larry’s Tavern (3405 California SW) hosts Wednesday-night trivia starting at 7:30 pm … Quiz Night begins at 8 pm at Beveridge Place Pub (6413 California SW) … and at 8:30 pm, trivia with Phil T at Talarico’s (4718 California SW), all ages until 10 pm.

FREE GROUP RUN: All year ’round! All runners, all levels, are welcome to join the weekly West Seattle Runner (2743 California SW; WSB sponsor) group run – meet at the shop by 6:15 pm.

LIVE MUSIC AT THE LOCOL: 6:30 pm. 21+. Rotating performer slate. (7902 35th SW)

MUSIC BINGO X 2: Two places to play on Wednesdays! Play at The Good Society (California/Lander), 7 pm … Or, at Three 9 Lounge (39th/Oregon), you can play MINGO music bingo, hosted by Mingo Maniac, at 7:30 pm Wednesdays.

SKYLARK OPEN MIC: Your turn at the mic! 7:30 pm signups for West Seattle’s longest-running open mic. (3803 Delridge Way SW)

Planning an open house, reading, tour, fundraiser, sale, discussion, show, meeting, presentation, etc., that’s open to the community? Please send us info so we can add it to West Seattle’s only comprehensive event calendar! westseattleblog@gmail.com – and if it’s a holiday event, send it for the Holiday Guide – thank you!

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Books on your gift list? Alki Co-op Preschool book fair this week at Paper Boat Booksellers

December 4, 2024 8:56 am

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If you have books on your gift list – or games, art supplies, and other items carried by West Seattle independent bookstore Paper Boat Booksellers – shop there through Sunday and your dollars can do double duty, benefiting nonprofit Alki Cooperative Preschool. Through Sunday (December 8th), tell Paper Boat when you’re checking out an in-store purchase that you’re there for the Alki Co-op Preschool Bookfair, and they’ll donate a percentage of proceeds. Gift cards are not included but if you order something that’s not in stock and pay for it in full this week, that purchase can be counted. Paper Boat Booksellers is at 6040 California Ave SW, in north Morgan Junction.

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TRAFFIC, WEATHER, TRANSIT: Wednesday notes

December 4, 2024 6:03 am

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| West Seattle news | West Seattle traffic alerts

6:03 AM: Good morning! Welcome to Wednesday, December 4th.

WEATHER + SUNRISE/SUNSET TIMES

Same forecast as the past few days! Some frosty fog again this morning, then again mostly cloudy, and again becoming sunny, again with a high in the mid-40s. Today’s sunrise will be at 7:41 am, while sunset will be at 4:18 pm.

TRANSIT

Water Taxi today – Regular service today.

Washington State Ferries today – 2-boat service on the Triangle Route with M/V Issaquah and M/V Cathlamet, plus M/V Sealth as the “ghost boat.” Check here for last-minute changes.

Metro buses today – Regular schedule.

ROAD WORK/CLOSURES

*Beach Drive gas-pipeline work continues for at least another month – here’s our update.

*The Admiral Way Bridge seismic project continues; the south half of the bridge is closed, with one lane each way on the north side. Fairmount Avenue remains closed beneath the bridge.

*The Delridge pedestrian-bridge earthquake-safety project also continues, with narrowing at Delridge/Oregon. (We’re checking with SDOT to find out how this is going.)

*Friday night/early Saturday closure planned for the Highway 99 tunnel – details here.

SPOTLIGHT TRAFFIC CAMERAS

High Bridge – Here’s the main camera, followed by the Fauntleroy-end camera:

Spokane Street Viaduct – This view usually looks westward, with eastbound lanes at left and westbound lanes at right:

Low Bridge – Looking west:

1st Avenue South Bridge:

Delridge cameras: Besides the one below (Delridge/Genesee), cameras are also at Delridge/Juneau, Delridge/Henderson, Delridge/Oregon, and video-only (so you have to go to the map), Delridge/Holden and Delridge/Thistle.

MORE TRAFFIC CAMS: All functioning traffic cams citywide are here; West Seattle and vicinity-relevant cameras are on this WSB page.

See trouble on the bridges/streets/paths/water? Please text or call our hotline (when you can do it safely, and after you’ve reported to authorities if they’re not already on scene) – 206-293-6302. Thank you!

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