Seattle Woman is a free magazine (but glossy and very nicely produced) – not sure where you can find it but the July cover story is about four Seattle women who are considered “masters of social media,” and two are from West Seattle – Shauna Causey and your editor here. Not online yet but Shauna kindly found a couple extra copies and got them to us – here’s the pic (if you don’t know Shauna, that’s her at left, with Monica Guzman, formerly of seattlepi.com and now of Intersect, and Lara Feltin of Biznik, whom I think may be a former West Seattleite):
Pioneer Square photographer Ingrid Sheldon-Pape did the photos, including the one in the pic, which involved each of us having posed separately under the Viaduct behind the building where she has an artist loft, wielding our social-media gadgets.
Fried bird! That wasn’t in the detail I got from Seattle City Light but I’ll add the forum link…
https://westseattleblog.com/2010/06/from-the-in-case-you-wondered-file-power-outage-explained
World’s longest closing sale – been more than a month (had been under way a while even before we wrote about it)
https://westseattleblog.com/2010/05/west-seattle-business-news-hollywood-video-closer-to-closing
They do balayage at Ola Salon. We have been very happy with the cut and color my daughter and I had done on Saturday. Ross is, in a word, BRILLIANT!
http://www.olasalon.com/ His prices are not over the top. You get MORE than you pay for!
https://westseattleblog.com/forum/topic/rave-ross-at-ola-salon
https://westseattleblog.com/forum/topic/rave-ross-at-ola-salon-1
This request has come up many times – here is a link to an old thread but the recommendations are always the same!
https://westseattleblog.com/forum/topic/tailor
regarding this exciting item:
2 ships you might notice tomorrow off West Seattle shores
do you know if you can just show up on Wednesday, from 10-3, or do you need to ‘make a reservation’ in advance?
I checked the Port of Seattle website, but couldn’t find anything. thanks !
The spin-your-own-records time is actually on Tuesdays. My co-publisher and The Teenager are particular fans – we have a room full of vinyl, and long-ago job experience as disc jockeys. Here’s their calendar, from which we always pull the Fri-Sat-Sun bands for the weekend lineup, and the Tuesday records/Wednesday trivia are standard features in the WSB Events calendar.
http://www.skylarkcafe.com/calendar.html
https://westseattleblog.com/events
Skylark has a lot of great menu items (WSB used to be mentioned on the menu – might still be – because the tater tots got a huge shoutout here three years ago) but they’re becoming legendary for weekend brunch. 9 am-3 pm, why gosh, that’s just an hour away. We also recommend the chocolate chip pancakes. Have never tried the carafe of mimosas; can’t really drink any more because in this job, you never know when some big breaking news story’s going to erupt.
I 2nd All Affordable … as do other on this RAVE post: https://westseattleblog.com/forum/topic/rave-all-affordable-appliance-and-wsb
the facts are the same $40 to come to you and diagnose which includes cleaning out everything and goes towards repair or purchase … nice people. Got a washer over 6 years ago $50 including delivery, cleaning all the pipe, and taking the old one out and away! Best $50 I ever spent!
Just one thing to note, because I doubt it will come up anywhere else. This couldn’t help but remind me of a story we covered closely for a year and a half – what happened to Officer Jason McKissack, who suffered a career-ending injury after trying to break up a fight in West Seattle involving juveniles, almost exactly two years ago. This was our second report, summarizing the police report about the circumstances.
https://westseattleblog.com/2008/06/officer-attacked-in-high-point-more-details-from-police-report
Again, maybe not relevant. Investigations are under way in this new videotaped case and ultimately police and city leadership will decide what if anything should be done.
But it was one incident that shone some light into what police officers deal with, and what they have to consider when making decisions about how to handle situations.
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Take a look at this thread from about a year ago.
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https://westseattleblog.com/forum/topic/drywall
We’ll have great live music, food, and here’s the list of great door/raffle prizes: a pair of tickets to see the Cowboy Junkies at Edmonds Center for the Arts; a pair of tickets and 4 CDs for the Seattle Chamber Music Festival; goodies from Custom Smoothie; products and services from The Sweet Spot Sugaring Studio; wine from Wind River; autographed dog books from me (the author); services from Stacya Silverman; Boodlebags (cute handbags made by a girlfriend of mine); Massages from White Crane Spa and Seattle Cranial Sacral; gift certificates to McCormick & Schmicks; and more.
We’d love to have you come. Details on the Events page here on the blog, at https://westseattleblog.com/2010/06/pawty-with-a-purpose-for-west-seattle-author-val-mallinson here on the blog, and at nwdogbook.com. Thanks everyone!
To Todd @ #8 – The mobile command unit was destroyed in the firebombing blamed on Christopher Monfort, accused killer of Officer Tim Brenton (WSHS graduate).
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2010226607_suspect08m.html
Re: Police and dealing with people making crude remarks at passersby on Alki – since nobody brought it up – this all came up after the May 1, 2009 shooting incident; I covered several Q/A meetings with police leadership, at the Alki Community Council, the Crime Prevention Council, etc. Note the last graf here:
https://westseattleblog.com/2009/05/at-alki-community-council-fighting-crime-and-more
Capt. Kessler and his current ops Lt. Norm James were back at the ACC this past April to preview summer beach plans.
SPD leaders tell Alki Community Council they’re set for summer
I can’t stress enough, if you have chronic concerns, contact your community council (not just Alki). Whether you believe they are effective or not, they can get police leadership into the room and you can ask your question/voice your concern to their face. Police reps attend many of the community council meetings, even the ones that aren’t just crime-focused like WSCPC (which by the way meets next week, and always has the largest contingent of police leadership in the room – Tuesday 6/15, 7 pm, SW Precinct, Delridge/Webster, plus, as we announced on the main page the other day, City Attorney Pete Holmes will be the guest – if there’s something you think should be dealt with more harshly at the misdemeanor type level, he’s the guy).
This week is filing time for candidates, including Precinct Committee Officer (PCO), the fundamental unit of the political parties. Elected PCO’s have voting privilege in their Party, shape its platform, operating rules and elect Officers.
In King County registered voters can now file as PCO candidate using an online form …
https://info.kingcounty.gov/elections/candidatefiling/pco.aspx
Filing closes June 11, 4:30pm
Not sure about all the amenities but this might help:
http://www.seattle.gov/parks/reservations/camplong.htm
Also, there was a previous thread that included discussions about Camp Long:
https://westseattleblog.com/forum/topic/wedding-locations-nontraditional
Data from the first site:
“A fantastic place to host a party, meeting, workshop, or special event. The lodge features a brick fireplace and tall ceiling and has a maximum capacity of 72 people. Rental cost includes 12 six-foot-long banquet tables and 72 chairs.”
Also says you can rent the kitchen as well but doesn’t give much about cost or the facilities….
I don’t have any suggestions as our infestation last year was the fruit flies, but there was some discussion about ants a couple of seasons back-
https://westseattleblog.com/forum/topic/odorous-house-ants-help
geez, I thought ducks went ‘quack quack’ not ‘snark snark’. I did do my research. This is the thread I was referring to; it seems clear to me that the gallery was what the complaint was about: https://westseattleblog.com/forum/topic/should-i-start-a-petition
Honk honk!
from an earlier post (https://westseattleblog.com/2007/11/another-fauntleroy-way-chunk-on-the-market):
Well, we could REALLY go back to the early 60’s, when there was a Wigwam store in the middle of the Husky’s block…Puerta Vallarta-ish, perhaps? Before LaGrace expanded to the cupcake corner and had an entrance only on Alaska….Children’s Corner/”Leigh Dunn” had a side entrance on Alaska, next to the Elite Beauty Salon (where the little ethnic markets are, next to Wells Fargo). And when our little Junction could support any number of women’s dress shops (Louise North, Margaret’s Apparel, La Grace, Johnson’s), not to mention a Penney’s and the long-lost “Topper Shop”! And Vann’s (Maharaja) had the cool curved booths that I would kill to have right now, as well as the best french dips and potato salad.
That said…I remember the smell of popcorn at Kress’s and the little dishes of candy on the counter at Russell’s Jeweler’s. And every time I walk into Lee’s, I glance warmly at the little alcove just inside the door, to the left. I spent a LOT of time there on a bench seat at a little slanted desk, reading Little Golden books while my mom shopped for fabric.
I love West Seattle….
Comment by IsleWrite — November 18, 07 5:19 pm
We published the call for ideas more than a month ago:
https://westseattleblog.com/2010/04/got-an-idea-for-the-hole-or-another-stalled-site-heres-your-chance
Looks like Monday was the deadline.
http://www.seattle.gov/dpd/Planning/Design_Commission/Overview/DPDS017625.asp
If anybody submitted one, we’d love to hear about it … will drop the Design Commission contact a note to inquire if they will be announcing how many proposals they got and where they came from.
