Showing posts with label news. Show all posts
Showing posts with label news. Show all posts

It's all a matter of timing; Steve Robinson and the Viking cruise ship

Monday, March 25, 2019

Aurora Borealis in Tromsø, Norway 


Photos by Steven H. Robinson

Steve Robinson and his wife Leslie went on a Northern Lights cruise in Norway, up to the arctic circle January 23 - February 8, 2019.

They were on the Viking Sky cruise ship. Steve came home with beautiful photos of the skies full of moving green light.

The Viking Sky cruise ship


On Saturday, March 23, 2019, that same ship on that same cruise nearly met with disaster. The engines malfunctioned, stranding the ship in rough, frigid waters, in the middle of a storm. The ship was in danger of running aground. Waves crashed through windows, sweeping passengers across the floor. Water came up under their feet.

Search and Rescue boat


Steve photographed a Search And Rescue (SAR) ship in Stavanger, Norway, possibly one involved with the rescue operation. However, the seas were too rough for them and they turned back to port.

The Viking Sky


The Norwegian authorities were so concerned that they sent helicopters to rescue the passengers, hoisting them one by one up wires. They managed to evacuate 479 people, with 900 more to go, when the ship's crew managed to restart one engine to control the ship enough to keep it off the rocks. They waited out the storm then limped back to port under their own power. (NPR article here)

Steve says that "We also hit some rough water and skipped one port because of winds and waves. The coast of Norway can be rough at times."

Aurora Borealis at Tromsø, Norway


The main draw for the trip is the sight of the Aurora Borealis, which Steve was able to photograph in port at Tromsø, Norway.

What a difference a few weeks makes.



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Making paper cranes to send the message “We stand with you” to interned children in Texas

Saturday, March 16, 2019


Origami cranes can’t really fly. But Japanese Americans from around the country hope they will bring a message of support to children and parents who are currently interred at the southern border at the South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, Texas.

To support this national effort, a group of local people will gather upstairs at the Lake Forest Park Town Center on Wednesday, March 20th from 4:00 to 8:00 pm, to make and string paper cranes.

Then, the cranes will be sent to the organizers of the pilgrimage by Japanese Americans to be held on March 30, 2019. 

They are taking this action because they can’t forget what happened to loved ones who were interred in their own country, not because of what they did, but because of what they looked like. Painful memories still reverberate from WWII when 110,000 Japanese Americans were incarcerated nationwide from February 19, 1942 to March 20, 1946.

“We want children and families separated and incarcerated in detention sites, or separated by the Muslim travel ban to know that Japanese Americans are fighting for them,” says Michael Ishii of New York, one of the pilgrims who will attend the march. 

Early in the day, the pilgrimage will visit the former Crystal City Internment Camp in south Texas, where thousands of Japanese Americans and Japanese Latin Americans were held during World War II. Then, they will march to the Texas detention center where the cranes will be hung on the chain link fence which surrounds the facility.

The South Texas Family Residential Center, located an hour south of San Antonio, is a 2,400-bed facility, the largest detention facility in the nation. Even infants are detained there. Earlier this month 12 babies were released from ICE custody after complaints by immigrant advocates that they were not receiving adequate care.

The infants were described as listless and were not engaged with their surroundings. There were also toddlers who were in even worse conditions. “There is a clear and obvious stunt in development,” according to digital reporter for CBS News, Kate Smith, who reported on the story.

Internment of families affects us all

Sally Yamasaki and Luanne Brown, both of Lake Forest Park, were inspired to offer this event for the Lake Forest Park community and surrounding area where they live.

For Yamasaki and Brown, the incarceration of asylum seekers hits very personally. 

Yamasaki recalls, “It’s meaningful to me because my dad was incarcerated during World War II. He was 17 and was supposed to be graduating from Queen Anne high school, but instead he was initially relocated to the horse stalls at the Puyallup Fairgrounds, renamed Camp Harmony. At that time, hardly any people spoke out for this injustice. However, one teacher did come to see him. That gesture struck him deeply." 

For Yamasaki, making these cranes is her way of speaking up for the incarcerated children and parents seeking asylum.

"Although we can’t be there for the march, we can still let those who are being held in Texas know that with each crane we make, we send the message, ‘you are not alone.’”

Luanne Brown said,
“When Sally asked me to join her in this effort, I was very pleased to do so. My father served in the WWII in the 278th FABN and he was one of the first officers into Dachau after the camp was liberated. He was stunned by what he saw there, and it impacted the rest of his life in profound ways. 
"He told me frequently, ‘Luanne, what happened in Europe during the war could happen here, in this country.’ His words have stayed with me always,” Brown said. “And we must all do what we can to stand against hate, whatever form it takes to make sure my father’s fears don’t come true.”

From the tutorial
The paper crane-making tradition

The Japanese tradition of making 1000 cranes comes from a senbazuru legend that says if you make a 1000 paper cranes you will be granted a wish by the gods. This tradition gained worldwide attention in the 1950s with a Japanese girl, Sadako Sasaki who contracted leukemia from being exposed to radiation from the Hiroshima atomic bomb. 

While in the hospital she started folding cranes wishing for her health and peace and healing to all victims of the world. She died when she was 12 having folded over 1000 cranes. Today, her story inspires people from around the world as a symbol of peace, hope, and good wishes to children and others who are ill or need of help in other ways.

The strings of cranes or tsuru from Lake Forest Park will be joined with others from across the country and the world. A donation of cranes is arriving from Japan, too. Paper and string will be supplied, and the folding technique will be demonstrated.

Will you help us fold?

If you’d like to start making paper cranes today or practice how to before the event, this tutorial is will help.

Cranes are being made by people all over the States and are being collected by Grassroots Leadership in Austin, Texas.

The Seattle crane project is sponsored by Seattle Japanese American Citizens League (JACL), APACE, and the Puyallup JACL.

Lake Forest Park Town Center is at the intersection of Bothell and Ballinger Way NE. The group will gather in The Commons on the upper level.



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UW medical files with patient data exposed online for three weeks in December

Saturday, February 23, 2019

UW Shoreline Clinic at Aurora Village
The University of Washington is one of the major medical providers in the area.

UW Medicine includes the medical school, Harborview, UW Medical Center, Northwest Hospital and Medical Center, Valley Medical Center, and over two dozen neighborhood clinics.

There is a Shoreline clinic in Aurora Village and a Lake Forest Park clinic in Town Center. Northwest Hospital is the main hospital serving the area.

The medical files of almost a million patients were visible on the internet from December 4 to December 26, 2018 after they transferred data from one server to another.

A patient discovered their own file online with a Google search and notified the hospital.

The UW says that "At this time, there is no evidence that there has been any misuse or attempted use of the information exposed in this incident."

UW Lake Forest Park Clinic

The files contained patients’ names, medical record numbers, and a description and purpose of the information. The files did not contain any medical records, patient financial information or Social Security numbers.

The UW will be sending notification letters to approximately 974,000 affected patients and have hired a trusted vendor, ID Experts, to manage a call center and website on behalf of UW Medicine beginning February 20. The call center hours are 5am to 5pm, Pacific Standard Time, Monday-Friday. The toll-free number is 844.322.8234.

We regret that this incident occurred and sincerely apologize for any distress this may cause our patients and their families. UW Medicine is committed to providing quality care while protecting patients’ personal information. We are reviewing our internal protocols and procedures to prevent this from happening again.


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Ridgecrest Pub on Evening Magazine Monday

Monday, February 18, 2019

Ridgecrest Public House
The Evening Magazine segment filmed at the Ridgecrest Public House aired at 7:30pm Monday evening (tonight) on KING TV 5.

The segment is already on their webpage HERE.

The Ridgecrest Pub is located at the small business district at 5th NE and NE 165th.

(Apologies: the original publication said Tuesday. It actually aired on Monday night)


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KING TV 5 to film at Ridgecrest Pub - come to the after party at noon

Sunday, February 17, 2019

Dojo Togo will serve lunch at the Ridgecrest Pub
on Monday at noon.


Post-filming party with Ridgecrest Pub and Dojo Togo food truck

On Monday, February 18, 2019 from 10am to noon, King 5 Evening is filming the hosting segment of one of their upcoming shows at Ridgecrest Public House, with Dojo Togo of Edmonds at the curb.

Please steer clear of the pub until noon. There will be people in the pub pretending to eat, drink, and talk, but they are all actors. Shhhhhhh! Silence on the set! And don't pull any stunts in the windows to try to make us laugh!

Ridgecrest Public House will open to the public at noon onwards, and Dojo Togo will serve lunch from noon to 2pm.

Dojo Tojo is also available for to-go orders as usual.

Join us for lunch to celebrate our fifteen minutes of fame!

Ridgecrest Public House is located in Ridgecrest on NE 165th near 5th Ave NE.




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Man struck by train

Sunday, June 24, 2018

Shoreline Fire reports that at 4:30pm Sunday, a man in his 40’s was struck by a train on the tracks down the cliff near The Highlands.

He expired on scene. Tracks were closed for all trains for the investigation.

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Suspect arrested in Shoreline murder

Friday, June 22, 2018

The victim was found dead in his vehicle in
the 1500 block of N 146th St near Goodwill
A teenaged male arrested by Seattle Police on another charge was identified as the same suspect who is believed to have killed a 43 year old victim in  Shoreline. (see previous story)  

On June 16, 2018 a 43 year old male was shot and killed in his vehicle on N 146th in Shoreline. The suspect escaped before Police arrived.

A cell phone and shell casings were located in the vehicle. Nine hours after the victim was killed, Seattle Police arrested a 17 year old male on an unrelated charge of possession of a firearm.

Testing confirmed that the firearm the 17 year old suspect was in possession of was the same firearm that fired the shell casings that were found in the victim’s vehicle nine hours earlier.

Police searched both cell phones and confirmed that the suspect and victim had called each other multiple times the days leading up to the murder, as well of the day of the murder.

After the murder, the phone calls from the suspect to the victim stopped. Also seen on surveillance video, just after the murder, a male is seen running from the victim’s car with a large black backpack which he didn’t have prior to entering the victim’s vehicle.

Cell phone communications in the hours before the homicide show the victim anticipated having a lot of money later that day. A photo found on the suspect's cell phone just 44 minutes after the murder was that of the suspect with a large amount of narcotics.

The suspect was booked for Murder 1, Robbery 1 and unlawful Possession of a firearm.



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People and places in the (other) news

Sarah Haycox at the Pratt Memorial
A collection of stories from other publications in past week featured local people.

Sarah Haycox got an article in the current History Link newsletter

Hometown Hero
  
Last year, 10-year-old Sarah Haycox of Shoreline saw a plaque honoring Edwin T. Pratt and became curious to know more about him. After learning of his role as a civil rights leader, as well as his tragic death, she lobbied -- and succeeded -- to have the school board name a new learning center after him. Now she's raising money to bring Pratt's family to the dedication next year, and to commission an artist to create a memorial. Learn more about Sarah's marvelous efforts on her GoFundMe page.


Rachel Maddow show has segments on two Washington people

  • Conscientious objectors to Trump border policy get free legal aid - Jason Rittereiser
  • Multiple states sue Trump admin to stop family separation policy - Bob Ferguson

Blake Snell, Shorewood baseball star, led his Tampa Bay Rays to a victory over the Houston Astros, ending their winning streak. Three very different articles were written about this game.

And The Seattle Times gave a shout-out Happy Birthday message to Lake Forest Park with this article from HistoryLink.org

The town of Lake Forest Park on Lake Washington’s northwest shoreline incorporates in 1961, with a population of about 1,300. Lake Forest Park traces its beginnings back centuries, when it was a winter village site for the Snohomish tribe. Non-native settlers arrive in the 1860s, and the town named after Lake Forest, Ill., is developed by future Seattle Mayor Ole Hanson. In 2015, the population is about 13,000 after a series of annexations.



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Detectives ask for public's help in Shoreline fatal shooting

Monday, June 18, 2018

Street where victim was found
43 year old Hispanic male found shot to death in a car in Shoreline

On Saturday, June 16, 2018 around 9:10pm, Deputies were dispatched to the area of 15xx NE 146th, for a report of multiple shots heard.

Once the Deputies arrived they located a victim in the driver’s seat of a white sedan who had sustained numerous gunshot wounds.

At this time, there is no suspect information.

King County Major Crimes Detectives are searching for any witnesses that may have heard or seen something the night of the murder.

If you have any information at all please call the King County Sheriff’s Office at 206-296-3311.


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Shooting death in Shoreline Saturday night - updated

Saturday, June 16, 2018

Victim found dead in vehicle on N 146th

A shooting victim was found in a vehicle in the 1500 block of NE 146th Street in Shoreline at 9pm on Saturday, June 16, 2018. He was deceased.

King County Major Crimes was dispatched to the scene.

The street is on the north border of the Goodwill property and the 1500 block runs from The Black Pearl to the driveway in front of the Goodwill building.

UPDATED 12:22pm
The approximately 40 year old male was found dead in a vehicle from gun shot wounds. The motive for the shooting is unknown at this time.

Detectives will be on scene most of the night contacting witnesses and following up on leads.

If anyone has any info call KCSO 206-296-3311


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Arborist injured and pinned in tree




Photo courtesy Shoreline Fire
At approximately 12:45pm Saturday at a residence near 190th and 15th Ave NW, an arborist had an incident that pinned him in a tree on a residential property.

With extensive chainsaw work from Shoreline Fire crews and the help of Seattle City Light's Boom truck, he was rescued and taken to Harborview by the medics.

His condition is unknown.





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Shoreline hiker identified

Wednesday, June 13, 2018

Pratt Lake
The 31 year old hiker who died in a fall in North Bend on Sunday, June 3, 2018 has been identified as John Steven Needham of Shoreline.

Needham was hiking with a friend in the Pratt Lake area just north of I-90 and west of Snoqualmie Pass at 3:30pm when he fell down a 200 foot cliff.

The friend's dog prevented him from falling. The friend could see Needham's backpack at the bottom of the cliff but not him.

The friend hiked out for a hour before he could get cell service to call for help. King county search and rescue and King county sheriff's officers searched and found Needham's body at midnight.

He had died from multiple blunt force injuries. His death was ruled an accident by the King County Medical Examiner.

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Shari Winstead joins 4Culture’s board of directors

Tuesday, June 12, 2018

Shari Winstead joins the 4Culture Board
On May 29, 2018 the King County Council and Executive Dow Constantine appointed Shari Winstead to the 4Culture Board of Directors.

4Culture, King County’s cultural funding agency supporting arts, heritage, preservation and public art, is proud to welcome Shari Winstead, former Mayor of Shoreline, to this leadership post.

A 15-member Board of Directors is the governing body of 4Culture, with individuals representing the cultural, geographic and ethnic diversity of King County.

Shari served as both Mayor and City Councilmember of Shoreline from 2010 to 2017. Prior to being elected, she served on Shoreline’s Parks, Recreational and Cultural Services Board, including the Public Arts advisory committee.

She is a long-time supporter of the Shoreline - Lake Forest Park Arts Council. She continues to be an active volunteer and is passionate about integrating all forms of art into the community.

Rod Dembowski, King County Councilmember, said “Shari Winstead is the perfect leader to represent District 1 on the 4Culture Board of Directors. 
"I worked closely with Shari during her career as a Councilmember and Mayor of Shoreline and always found her to be an effective advocate for the needs of North King County. I am confident she will bring her unique skillset to the Board to represent District 1 and all residents of King County.”

Shari currently works as a project manager at Davis Wright Tremaine, focusing on the firm’s Wellness Program and Employee Charitable Giving campaigns, and is a past board member for Shoreline Breakfast Rotary as well as a number of other community organizations.

“I am excited to continue my representation of the people in King County’s District 1 (Shoreline, Lake Forest Park, Kenmore and North Seattle) to support all expressions of arts and culture in our communities and to make sure that they are accessible to everyone.”



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Shooting in Shoreline

Thursday, June 7, 2018

Emergency vehicle blocked the intersection of 193rd and Meridian
during rush hour traffic because of DV shooting
Just after 6am Thursday morning, June 7, 2018, a 40 year old Shoreline man shot his wife in the leg at their home on N 193rd, just off Meridian.

The suicidal male fled with his gun in the family vehicle.

Shoreline Fire tended to the wife, who does not have life-threatening injuries. Shoreline Police blocked the street during the response and investigation.

Seattle PD caught up to the suspect in his vehicle a few hours later. After a short pursuit, he crashed up near the train tracks off E Marginal Way/ Ellis Ave in Seattle.

The suspect barricaded himself in the back seat of the car and was threatening to kill himself. After a short standoff he surrendered and was taken into custody at 8:15am.

He has been booked into the King County Jail.



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Shoreline hiker dies in fall

Monday, June 4, 2018

Pratt Lake

Sunday night, 06/03/2018 around 4:30pm, King County Comm Center received a 911 call from a hiker who stated that the friend he was hiking with had fallen from a cliff about an hour prior in the Pratt Lake area.

The caller had to hike for over an hour to get cell phone reception to call for help. The caller wasn’t exactly sure where his friend had fallen from but he heard him fall.

He tried to look for the missing hiker. He could see his backpack at the base of the cliff but not his friend.

King County Sheriff’s Office and King County Search and Rescue responded to look for the missing hiker. At 11:58pm, KC Search and Rescue found the missing hiker at the bottom of a 200 foot cliff. He had died from the fall.

The victim was 31 years old, from Shoreline. The friend he was with told investigators that the only reason he didn’t fall as well was he had his dog with him, who was able to pull him back from the cliff.

The victim’s body has yet to be removed because of poor weather in the area they are unable to bring a helicopter to remove him. King County Sheriff’s Deputies and Search and Rescue remain with the victim.



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Mom and 3 kids hit by vehicle in Shoreline

Wednesday, May 16, 2018



Around 2pm on Wednesday, May 16, 2018, a 33 year old mother and her three children, 11, 9, and 3, were struck by a vehicle driven by a 40 year old woman.

They were at NE 196th and Forest Park Dr NE in Shoreline's Ballinger neighborhood.

The mother and children were transported to the hospital with non life threatening injuries.

The road was closed for investigation for two hours.

In an update, the Sheriff's department reported that the 33 year old mother had no injuries. The 11 year old was bruised and had a cut on the foot which required stitches. The 9 year old had no injuries and the 3 year old had no obvious injuries.

The helicopter heard by neighbors belonged to KOMO 4 news.



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Mountlake Terrace woman dies of injuries

Tuesday, May 1, 2018

Mother of two
murdered in her home
According to The Seattle Times, the Mountlake Terrace woman attacked in her home by an assailant who waited in her front yard for the police, has been taken off life support and has died of her injuries.

As previously reported (see previous article) the man did not know the woman. He kicked in her door and beat her to death in front of her 3 year old daughter, then told police he didn't know why he had done it.

The Times article is here

A GoFundMe page has been set up for her family. She leaves behind a husband and a small boy, besides the daughter.



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Mountlake Terrace woman attacked in her home by intruder

Friday, April 20, 2018


MyEdmondsNews.com

Charging papers reveal brutal details about the Monday assault of a Mountlake Terrace woman in the 22400 block of 59th Pl W. (The border with Shoreline is 244th St W)

According to court documents, responding officers found the unresponsive victim, a 32-year-old Mountlake Terrace woman, on the living room floor of a residence with a badly beaten face.

She was taken to Harborview Medical Center, where she remains in critical condition. (Friends have set up a Go Fund Me page benefiting the victim’s family at this link.) Her 3-year-old daughter was inside the residence at the time of the incident.

Officers contacted 29-year-old Arlington resident Christopher Yacono, who was outside the residence. He told officers he “kicked the front door down and discovered” the victim, according to court documents. He was taken to the Mountlake Terrace police station.

Charging papers allege Yacono became “agitated” and was “yelling and wailing” while at the police department. He later told officers he went to his girlfriend’s house, which is near the victim’s house, to pick up his cell phone. He was sitting in his vehicle outside the victim’s house when “something told him to go into the house” so he knocked on the door. No one answered, so he kicked the door in.

“Yacono said that once in the house, he saw (the victim) in the living room and she screamed,” charging documents say. “Yacono said she began to ‘resist’ and he slammed her head into the wall. She fell to the floor and he slammed her head onto the hardwood floor twice.”

At that point, the victim was unconscious, Yacono said. He told police that he then took a beer from her refrigerator and threw it at her, and then took a cooking pot and hit her again.

Court documents say Yacono told officers he is schizophrenic and said he didn’t know why he did this. He had not been taking his medication.

On Sunday, the day before the incident, Yacono was also the subject of a disturbance call in Arlington at 10:50 p.m. Police records say he was threatening to attack the owner of a property in the 9800 block of Moran Road. The incident is listed as “settled by contact.” A disturbance was also reported at that address in Arlington around 12:30 p.m. Monday, when a man was yelling and kicking his car. He was no longer at the residence when Snohomish County Sheriff’s Office deputies arrived.


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Update on kayaker rescued at Saltwater Park

Tuesday, April 17, 2018

EMTs evacuating Paula's brother
from Saltwater Park
Paula Blair has let us know about her brother, who was rescued from the Shoreline Sea at Saltwater Park after a kayak mishap. (see previous story)

Thank you all, and a Special Thank You to Bryce Hansen. My brother is doing well, he is still in the hospital from hypothermia complications. ❤️

The average sea temperature for Seattle in April is 44.9 to 46.6 degrees. At that temperature full hypothermia will occur in 30-60 minutes. Symptoms can appear within ten minutes.



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KCSO Detective given 5 days suspension for pulling gun on Shoreline motorcyclist

Monday, April 16, 2018

King County Sheriff Mitzi Johanknecht held a press conference on Monday to announce that the off duty King County detective who pulled a gun on a speeding Shoreline motorcyclist on N 145th last summer will get 5 days suspension without pay.

Johanknecht disciplined Detective Richard Rowe for his lack of courtesy, failure to identify himself immediately, and for holding his gun in the horizontal position instead of tipped down in the "low-ready" position.

The motorcyclist, Alex Randall of Shoreline, admitted that he was speeding and may have cut off Rowe's vehicle. He was unarmed, but moved his hand in a way that prompted the detective to pull his gun.

Randall, who wanted a harsher punishment for the officer, has said that he feared for his life during the confrontation, which was filmed from start to finish with Randall's GoPro.

The Seattle Times published a long story today - read it here


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