More information on Shoreline Police shooting

Friday, August 12, 2011

From the King County Sheriff's office as of August 11, 2011 8:40 am

Two Shoreline Police officers shot a man armed with a knife and a shotgun yesterday afternoon, August 10, 2011. The man died from his wounds.

The incident began at 1:04pm when the Sheriff's Office received a 9-1-1 call from a residence in the 700 block of N 200th, Shoreline (one block west of Aurora). The male caller said to “come quick” something about “fighting.....has a knife...blood everywhere.” Then the caller hung up. Police later learned this was the suspect’s father.

Patrol officers were dispatched and a call receiver called in to the residence and spoke to a “hysterical” male who was “....just telling us to come.” The man apparently set the phone down because the call receiver could hear a woman in the background say “cover his neck, he’s bleeding”.

The first officer arrived at 1:09pm, and the second at 1:10pm. A woman walked out of the house shortly thereafter. She said she was the girl-friend of the suspect, 25 years old. She had cuts to her hands and was bleeding. She told officers that her boy-friend was suicidal, had cut his neck, and her hands were cut trying to get the knife away from him. She said the man’s father was in the house and her boy-friend still had the knife.

She also said there was a loaded “rifle” in a downstairs bedroom.

At 1:15pm the suspect walked out the front door and toward the deputies. He was holding a knife and a shotgun. He was told several times to drop the gun and when he didn’t, both deputies fired. The man was hit at least twice. Deputies tried to stem the bleeding by direct pressure but the man died at the scene.

The woman was taken to a hospital for treatment of her wounds.

The suspect is 22 years old and lives at that residence with the girl-friend despite a court order prohibiting contact between the two. He is listed in the state computer system as an “officer safety risk” from a 2010 incident in Snohomish County where he assaulted officers. He was also a convicted felon for an Assault 3rd Degree conviction.

The officers involved are assigned to the Shoreline Police Department by the Sheriff's Office, as Shoreline is a contract police department.  They are 29 and 34 years old, and have been police officers for six and 11 years, respectively.

Both have been placed on paid, administrative leave, which is standard in these situations.



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School district athletic practices begin next week

Thursday, August 11, 2011

Shoreline School District athletic practices begin next week in preparation for the 2011 fall sports season.

Football gets underway on Wednesday, August 17. All other sports start practice on Monday, August 22. Student athletic packets must be completed and turned into the school office before the first turn out.

Contests will be starting Friday September 2 with the first football game of the season as Shorecrest hosts Meadowdale at Shoreline Stadium at 7 p.m. Shorewood travels to Everett the same evening.

The following week girls soccer games begin as Shorecrest hosts Oak Harbor at 7 p.m. at Shoreline Stadium on Tuesday, September 6. Shorewood plays at Lynnwood that evening.

Shorewood hosts Mountlake Terrace on Thursday, September 8 and Shorecrest plays at Meadowdale.

Both Shorecrest and Shorewood volleyball teams play away on September 8 with Shorecrest at Mariner and Shorewood at Kamiak.

For the first week of home events, students will be admitted free with their 2010-2011 school year ASB cards from Einstein, Kellogg, Shorecrest and Shorewood.

For a complete schedule for both high schools, visit the new Wesco conference website

First turn out for season one Kellogg and Einstein Middle School athletics begins before the start of school on Wednesday, September 7. Students are asked to have their athletic packet and valid physical turned in to the school office prior to the start of practice.


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40 soccer teams entered in the Shoreline Soccer Classic this weekend, Friday through Sunday

This weekend, Friday, August 12 to Sunday, August 14, 2011, soccer players from all over the region will be arriving in Shoreline to participate in the 3rd Annual Celebrate Shoreline Soccer Classic.

The tournament is a joint venture between the City of Shoreline and the local soccer clubs (Hillwood, Shorelake, and Shoreline FC) to show off the great soccer fields that Shoreline has to play on, and to play some great soccer to match the fields.

The tournament is for recreation and to give the 11-15 year old age group in newly formed select teams a local, competitive tournament at their skill level.

This year there are 40 teams coming to Shoreline to participate in the Classic. In the past, teams have come from as far as California, Canada and Eastern Washington to compete. Each team is guaranteed at least three games, and from there a winner will be crowned.

There will be a lot of soccer being played all over Shoreline.

The finals of the tournament and all deciding games will be played at either the Shoreline Stadium or the Shoreline A/B fields behind the Shoreline Pool. During the course of the Classic, nine soccer fields will be in use.

Games are free and open to the public:
  • Shoreline A/B Fields
  • Shoreline Stadium
  • Echo Lake Elementary School
  • Einstein Middle School
  • North City Elementary School
  • Kellogg Middle School
  • Shorecrest High School
  • Twin Ponds Park
  • Paramount Park 

"It’s sure to be a great weekend for Shoreline Soccer! Come on out to cheer on the teams!"
For more information see the website or email Hans Hoffman.



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Northshore Fire Department graduates 31 from Safe Sitters class

KENMORE - The Northshore Fire Department graduated 31 future babysitters from its July and August Safe Sitter classes. The students are trained in a wide variety of important skills including how to handle life threatening emergencies, how to keep themselves safe, when and how to call for help, and how to understand and deal with children of different ages.

In addition, the students learn infant and child CPR and choking rescue. To successfully complete the Safe Sitter program, students must pass a rigorous practical and written test to show that they have mastered the key concepts and have the skills necessary to handle an emergency.

Safe Sitters is a national program for young adolescents, ages 11 to 13. Nationally, over a half-million students have completed the Safe Sitter training. More information on Safe Sitters. To inquire about future classes, email or call the Northshore Fire Department at 425-354-1744.



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Big money in two Shoreline Council races

By Evan Smith

There will be big money in at least two of the three November elections for positions on the Shoreline City Council.

Three months before the election, the two candidates running for the position now held by Councilman Terry Scott – former City Planning commissioner Robin McClelland and attorney Jesse Salomon -- have raised a combined $35,543 and spent $17,449. That’s $24,000 raised and $8,217 spent by Salomon to $11,543 raised and $9,232 spent by McClelland.

The contest between incumbent Councilwoman Doris McConnell and former Councilwoman Janet Way has a combined $11,813 raised and $3,976 spent. McConnell has raised $7,305 and spent $1,221 to Way’s $4,508 raised and $2,755 spent.

Salomon and Way are attracting one group of donors, while McClelland and McConnell share another group of donors.

Salomon and Way have six of the same donors.

McClelland and McConnell have five donors in common.

The biggest expenses for most of the candidates have been for campaign consulting and for yard signs.

In the third Council contest, incumbent Chris Eggen has raised $100 to nothing for challenger William Hubbell. Hubbell has reported spending $433 to nothing for Eggen.



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Heroin: Not My Kid - What parents need to know - Saturday, August 27

Wednesday, August 10, 2011

Heroin is one of the cheapest drugs on the market today. It’s accessible in the Puget Sound area, and at $30 for three hits, it’s within the financial reach of many teens and young adults.

Come hear more about this subject. Panel members include a physician from the Washington Poison Center, parents of an addict, a recovering addict, and the Snohomish County Sheriff. You’ll have an opportunity to ask questions of panel members.

Saturday, August 27, 2011, 10 am - noon, Shoreline City Hall, 17500 Midvale Ave N, Shoreline, WA 98133

"It's scary," says Stanwood Police Sgt. Barry Ruchty. "You used to think marijuana was the gateway drug for young people, not anymore."

There is no charge for this seminar, which is open to the public. Email for more information. 

Shoreline Saturday Seminar Series sponsored by Changes Parent Support Network.


Changes Parent Support Network meets every Thursday in Shoreline at the Richmond Highlands Rec Center, 16554 Fremont Avenue N, Shoreline, Washington 98133. We provide support for families in crisis with acting-out teens and young adults. In addition to our weekly meetings we sponsor a Saturday Seminar each month for the public on a variety of subjects for the community.



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Gardening with Jennifer: The Great Northwest: An August Place to Be Outdoors...and in your Garden

An example of moss as a ground cover
Photo by Jennifer Rotermund
By Jennifer Rotermund

August is the month that we Northwesterners live for.

August makes the weather we put up with the rest of the year worth while and allows us to join ranks with the rest of the nation’s participation in a season they call Summer (remember that word?). Given our abundance of of parks, forest land, mountains, lakes and beaches, August is also the month that many of us flee the climate-controlled comfort of our homes to spend time outdoors - not just the BBQ in the backyard kind of outdoors, but the take a ferry boat to an island, hike up to a mountain glacier, sea kayak in open ocean waters kind of outdoors. August is the month that our photos on Facebook and Flicker impress our friends around the world; we live for it! And why shouldn’t we? Our Summers are regrettably short, and unless you ski, snowshoe or just really enjoy camping in the rain, you have to soak up Summer in the Northwest while it lasts.

Ferns and Vanilla Leaf Plant
Photo by Jennifer Rotermund
But sometimes all of this going and doing has me want to stay home - not going anywhere or doing anything - and instead, enjoy being in my own garden. Since I’m so crazy about plants, its times like these stay-at-home reflective moments that I fantasize about living in the forest. Caught up in one of those Bambi meets Alice in Wonderland moments, I picture myself walking out my back door, greeting birds landing on my shoulder to say hello while I sit in a grove of wise, old-growth trees sharing with me the insights they’ve gathered over hundreds of years of life. And just as I’m about to burst out into song - because in these fairy tale moments, I have a perfect singing voice - that guy down the street who owns the Harley Davidson goes thundering past my house. The sound I had been imagining was a nearby river, full and raging, is back to simply being the traffic on I-5 a few blocks away...and just like that I’m back in the city. There’s no getting around the urban environment in which most of us live, but we can bring some of that forest life to us. We can re-create the fantasy that we experience in August, when we disappear into the surrounding woods (even if only in our mind’s-eye) in our backyard.

Typically, when I hike, my destination is something a little more unusual or grand than what I experience in my daily life. I hike almost up to the glaciers on Mt Rainier to observe the alpine wildflowers in a high meadow at nearly 8,000 feet of elevation or I emerge after a couple dozen switch-backs at a lake nestled near a mountain peak in the north cascades that is still surrounded by ice and snow in mid-August. I love these unusual experiences. But I recently became enamored with this idea of returning my backyard to urban forest, of attempting to re-create some part of the landscape that once existed on my property before my house and I arrived. (No small goals here. Crazy? Perhaps...). So rather than heading up into the mountains, lately I’ve been hiking in the nearby lowland forests, just beyond the suburbs encroaching on the foothills, observing mother nature’s landscape design work and learning from her.

Devil's Club, Sword Fern, and Indian Plum
Photo by Jennifer Rotermund
Here are a few things I’ve observed:

1. Moss is our friend. Many of you who know me will not be surprised by this statement. In fact, it has been a longstanding fact that I am the wrong person to complain to about moss growing almost anywhere in the northwest. Birds use it as nesting material, its a wonderful moisture-retaining layer of organic material that keeps the soil alive and lush, it keeps weeds down, is soft to walk on and comes in a wide range of beautiful shades of green (none of which clash with each other).

2. The forest is full of beautiful food-producing plant life: To all of you wanna-be urban farmer types stuck with partly or mostly shaded garden beds, I say revolutionize your concept of farming and grow native plant edibles that thrive in shade. Thimbleberry (Rubus parviflorus), Salmonberry (Rubus spectabilis), Evergreen Huckleberry (Vaccinium ovatum), Red Huckleberry (Vaccinium parvifolium), Oregon Grape (Mahonia spp.) flowers and berries, Wild Ginger (Asarum caudatum) root, are just a few examples (there are also some highly poisonous plants in our forests and prairies, such as Poison Hemlock and Death Camas so consult with a plant expert before you go foraging edibles, plants or seeds). Also, when you see these native edible plants, don’t go pulling entire plants out of the forests and natural areas where you find them. That’s a frowned upon, in many cases illegal, and your chances of successfully transplanting these plants diminish when you rip them out of their natural environments. Instead, harvest some berries on the trail then go find a good native plant nursery and purchase whole plants from them.

A "brush pile" in the forest created by a wind storm.
Photo by Jennifer Rotermund
3. Native plant gardens can be varied and beautiful: I don’t mean to exclude the wide variety of amazing ornamental, exotic plants that thrive in our gardens which are native to England, Japan, South Africa, or some mountainous region of South America. They’re wonderful and lovely, but so are our local forest plants. And, our local native plants are accustomed to our never ending rains, our strange November and February deep-freezes and our August droughts. There’s no need to spend hundreds or thousands of dollars on the exotics, when the natives are more cost effective and hardy. Far too often our experience of native plant gardens in urban settings involves a few scrubby stands of Oregon Grape in a sea of diseased Kinnikinnick ground cover. Its no wonder that most of us turn to exotics! But native plant design in the garden can be so much more exciting than that.

4. Re-creating a forest environment automatically creates wildlife habitat: This may seem completely obvious, but as an urban dweller interested in wildlife gardening, if your only exposure to the concepts of how to attract birds, bees and butterflies to your backyard come from what you’ve read in educational materials from the National Wildlife Federation or the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife, you may not realize that those suggestions (such as building a simple a brush pile from sticks) come from naturally occurring situations in the forest (such as fallen tree branches and nurse logs).

A forest landscape
Photo by Jennifer Rotermund
I have, over the years in life, adopted the Buddhist principle of following the path of least resistance. It’s less stressful and tends to work well naturally. More than anything, this is the reason why I intend to bring the forest back to my urban yard. It wants to be wild. And with a little planning, it won’t be wild with dandelions. Would you like this for your garden too? In Shoreline, we’re particularly fortunate to have several businesses that cater to this specific idea. Don Norman of Go Natives Nursery  supplies a wide variety of native plants and work in close partnership with native plant grower Nancy Moore of Obelisk Garden Design, who also provides native plant garden design services. My business, Gaiaceous Gardens  provides installation and maintenance services for these gardens. Let’s work together to bring the native forests and wildlife habitat back to our own yards. Everything we need is already right here.

Jennifer Rotermund is the owner of Gaiaceous Gardens (an urban farming and wildlife gardening business with a teaching garden/urban farm and certified wildlife habitat located in Shoreline). She is certified by the National Wildlife Federation as a Habitat Steward and is a Docent with the Kruckeberg Garden.



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Taste of Edmonds on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, August 12-14

My Edmonds News brings us the scoop on the Taste of Edmonds, which will be held on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday of this week, August 12, 13, and 14, 2011 at the Civic Center Playfield at 6th and Bell in Edmonds.

Featuring three music stages, including a popular Beer Garden and a children's music stage, it's a big event with a lot of activity.  With lots of food booths, crafts, exhibitors, and vendor booths, it's a high energy event.  ParentMap recommends it as a kid-friendly event, with "Bouncies and a rock wall for the kiddos." Admission $3, children 12 and under free.

And here's the MyEdmondsNews with details on how to get there, where to park, and what the program holds each day.



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Seattle Times: Police kill armed Shoreline man

Two Shoreline police officers fatally shot a 22-year-old man they say was armed with a knife and a shotgun Wednesday, in the 700 block of N 200th, just west of Aurora.

By Sara Jean Green
Seattle Times staff reporter

Two Shoreline police officers fatally shot a 22-year-old man they say was armed with a knife and a shotgun Wednesday, a spokesman for the King County Sheriff's Office said.

Around 1 p.m., someone inside a house in the 700 block of North 200th Street called 911, but the 911 operator could only hear a disturbance in the background, said Sgt. John Urquhart, spokesman for the Sheriff's Office. 
"Clearly, something was happening" inside the house, he said. 
Two officers were dispatched to the residential neighborhood a couple of blocks off Aurora Avenue North, just south of the King-Snohomish county line. As they arrived, they were met by a woman in her 20s who was bleeding from knife wounds, Urquhart said.

She told the officers her boyfriend was suicidal and armed with a knife. She said she was cut when she tried to wrestle the knife from him, Urquhart said.
The woman also said her boyfriend's father was still inside the residence, prompting the officers to radio that they could be dealing with a potential hostage situation, Urquhart said. 
But before additional officers could be dispatched, the 22-year-old man came out of the house armed with a chef's knife and a shotgun, Urquhart said. Both officers opened fire, and the man died at the scene.




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School supplies needed for the Back to School event August 27


If you are at or around the poverty level and you need some help getting your kids prepared for school, register for the Back to School Event by August 19 on the BTS website or by calling 206-393-4916.

One out of four children in the Shoreline school district is living at poverty level. Organizers expect around 2,000 children at the event, which will give each child a backpack full of grade level school supplies, and help them with clothing.

The event will be held at North City Elementary, 816 NE 190th St, Shoreline WA 98155.

Because of the number of children expected, organizers say that they are far from reaching their goals and ask for help from the community. 

Most stores are starting sales on school supplies and there are donation boxes all over the district.

Buy supplies at any store, then look for a large cardboard box with the BTS school bus logo.  Here's a list of locations.

If you don't have time to shop,
  • make a donation online using the paypal link on the website,
  • make a check out to the Back to School Consortium and mail or drop it off at the Center for Human Services, 17018 15th Ave NE, Shoreline, WA 98155





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SCC makes plans to counteract another round of state budget cuts

By Jim Hills

Strategic initiatives designed to wean Shoreline Community College away from state dollars are all the more important given the budget news coming from Olympia.

Gov. Chris Gregoire, on Monday, August 8, 2011, ordered agencies, including community colleges to prepare for budget-cutting scenarios of 5 percent and 10 percent for the coming year. Across the state, that would mean another $838 million to nearly $1.7 billion.

"Given economic conditions, as well as the uncertain impact on states of pending federal budget reductions, there is a distinct possibility we will face further revenue losses in the coming year," Gregoire's budget director, Marty Brown, wrote in a memo to all state agencies.

According to information from the state Office of Financial Management, a 5 percent cut would mean about $53 million to the state’s community and technical college system with 10 percent doubling that to $106 million. When counting other state support beyond the general fund, state board officials have advised college officials to use 4.6 percent and 9.2 percent to estimate the potential cuts at individual campuses.

For Shoreline, that could mean cutting another $1 million-$2 million, perhaps by Jan. 1 and perhaps sooner if Gregoire calls a special legislative session this fall. The Governor said she’ll know more after the scheduled Sept. 20, 2011 revenue forecast.

“While not unexpected, this is disheartening news,” Shoreline President Lee Lambert said. “With cuts we have sustained over the past several years, Shoreline now receives less than half of its total budget from the state. Unfortunately, it appears that this is no longer just a temporary dip, but a new reality not only for Shoreline, but all of higher education.”

Shoreline, Lambert said, is working hard to move away from reliance on state funding and not just continue the state’s solution of shifting the burden to students by raising tuition.

“Our strategic initiatives are in place to help Shoreline continue to meet the needs of students,” Lambert said. “Education and training are keys to help get the economy moving again, but the old funding model is broken. We’re working to build a new model.”

Lambert said Shoreline is moving ahead in three areas: online classes, international students and industry partnerships.

“We’re expanding our capabilities in online education, building on our already terrific offerings,” he said. “Some of the first work will be to give a better online experience in the student services area such as being able to pay. That helps all students, too, not just online students.”

Shoreline also has an existing strong international program, with about 600 students from 34 countries. “We’re building on that, too,” Lambert said. “We’re creating what internally we’re calling the China team, which will focus on mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau.”

The international effort is first about education, for both international and domestic students, Lambert said.

“We live in an increasingly global society,” he said. “Global awareness, global competencies, are increasingly valuable. And, if we can bring the world together at Shoreline, we’re all better off.”

The idea to develop more industry partnerships also builds off another existing strength: the Professional Automotive Training Center.

“The automotive program shows how to meet student’s needs and industry’s needs,” Lambert said. “We’re working to apply that idea with other programs and other industries such as aerospace and biotechnology.”

However, to deal with the pending state budget concerns, Lambert said Shoreline would move quickly. Lambert and the Senior Executive Team will begin immediately looking at how the college could the cut levels called for by the Governor.

“We’ve done a good job at planning ahead for state cuts, to the degree possible,” Lambert said. “We’ll need to continue to do that while we also work toward replacing those lost state dollars.”

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Unique school opens in Shoreline - Watch and Clock Repair

Open house at the Shoreline Center on Sunday August 14, 2011 from 1-4 pm for horology school.

A unique training program will be opening its doors in Shoreline on Sunday, August 14 at the Shoreline Center.

Nor'West Voc'Tech LLC operates a program in Watch and Clock Repair.

The school has been in operation for many years, most recently housed in the Old Brig Building at Magnusson Park.

"It was a challenging space, says instructor David Danielson. We could only use the room during the academic year and had to store our furniture in the summer. This was difficult and expensive. 
"We are delighted with our new space at the Shoreline Center."

The main entrance to the Shoreline Center and the flagpole are just to the right
The new space is a large room with its own entrance just north of the main entrance to the Shoreline Center on 1st NE. Some may remember it as the office of Rep. Ruth Kagi or the Shoreline PTA Council. Rep Kagi no longer maintains a separate district office, but shares space with 36th District Democrats on lower Queen Anne. The Shoreline PTA Council has moved to the Richmond Room in the south wing of the Shoreline Center.

Classroom for the Watch and Clock Repair class

The school is well equipped with modern watch repairing and clock repairing tools and machines.

They offer an introductory class on Watch Repair Fundamentals, a class on Clock Repair and a class for more advanced watch repairmen. The curriculum is designed for the beginner and for the accomplished hobbyist. Courses are created for every skill level to provide instruction in the art and science of horology.

The cost if $200 per quarter and students will need to buy or obtain about $500 worth of tools.

Work stations are ready for students
The school is holding an open house at its new classroom on Sunday August 14, 2011 from 1-4 pm. Attendees can talk with instructors, view the micro-machining workshop, and check out the upcoming Fall Quarter of classes.

NorWest Voc'Tech LLC is the Seattle area's only privately-operated, independent school for watchmakers and clockmakers.



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Sheriff"s office says: It Floats - You Don't

From the Office of the King County Sheriff

Life Vest Ordinance Appears to be Working; More Donning PFD’s

The ordinance passed just last month requiring personal flotation devices (PFD’s aka life jackets) on major King County rivers appears to be working. The Sheriff's Office Marine Unit estimates about 2/3’s of all persons on the rivers are wearing life jackets. This is up “significantly” from prior years, according to deputies who regularly patrol the rivers.

Since the ordinance became effective on July 1st, Sheriff's deputies have issued over 100 written warnings, but no $86 infractions.
“This tells me the program is working”, says Sheriff Sue Rahr. “Since we haven’t found any repeat offenders, the education process seems to be sinking in. And that’s our goal: to educate the public about the danger of the rivers and get voluntary compliance.”
Warnings have been issued to floaters using inner tubes, small boats, inflatable rafts, a “large pool toy,” and a “white and blue inflatable chair”.

The ordinance only applies to unincorporated areas, but river users who go into the river in a city, then float into unincorporated King County, are subject to the ordinance.

Anecdotally, most of the people warned are in their 20’s and live in the metropolitan Seattle area, rather than rural King County.

“The majority of rivers in King County are still running fairly fast and cold. With the weather expected to be good this weekend, folks should be reminded of the life preserver requirement”, said Sheriff Rahr.

Sheriff Rahr is a former City of Shoreline Chief of Police


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Join the work party and dedication at Grace Cole Nature Park on Saturday, August 20

Grace Cole Nature Park.  Photo by Mary Jo Heller.

A maintenance work party for Grace Cole Nature Park will be held on Saturday, August 20, from 9 am to 12 noon. 

A small dedication ceremony at 10 am will mark the opening of the new trails which the City has had installed in the park. Work from 9 to 12, with a break for the dedication ceremony.

Tasks at Grace Cole Park may include but are not limited to:
  • Trail-bed maintenance (light shovel work and trimming of vegetation from the walking area).
  • Weed pulling or digging.
  • Cleaning signs.
  • Cleaning the raised walkway.

Task orientation will be provided. Tools will be provided but you may bring your own.  It is advisable to bring your own gloves, but extras will be available.  There will be light snacks and water; bring a reusable water bottle to take into the field.

Dress for the weather and wear sturdy (closed) shoes. Long sleeves and long trousers are a good choice to protect you from some thorny vegetation.

There is a small parking area and some parking space along the road. Rest rooms are not available, but breaks will be accommodated with a short trip to a nearby home.

Contact Mamie Bolender if you plan to participate. 364-4410 or e-mail.

Grace Cole Nature Park is located at NE 166th St and 30th Ave. NE.  Reach it by turning south off NE 178th St. onto 28th Ave NE and going straight south for about 1/2 mile. The park is on the right.

Youth are welcome. Those under 18 years of age will require a signed consent slip from parent or guardian (available at above e-mail address). Those under 14 should be accompanied by a parent or a responsible adult.

Volunteers are greatly appreciated.


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Teen skate competition Friday, August 19, noon to 5 pm

Photo courtesy City of Shoreline

Youth /Teen Skate Competition, 
Friday, August 19. 2011 Noon-5pm
Connie King Skate Park: 15300 8th Ave NE
Free!

The City of Shoreline will hold its 10th annual Skateboard competition on August 19th as a part of Celebrate Shoreline.

The event will feature contests based on age and ability and everyone is welcome.

There are a wide variety of prizes to win 
and The City of Shoreline Teen Program will be hosting a BBQ.

Helmets must be worn during competition 
and a liability waiver signed. 
You can download yours from our website ahead of time.

The Skate Competition is free for both contestants and spectators.

For more information call the Parks, Recreation and Cultural Services office at 801-2600.


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Shoreline Police Blotter 6-30 to 7-11, 2011 - be careful who you invite into your home

By Diane Hettrick - categories are mine - reports are police

The cost of doing business
6-30 Fred Meyer. Paid for a few groceries but not for the Magic Cards valued at $137.87 in his backpack. Admitted the theft, saying that the cards were too expensive to buy. 7-6 16053 Aurora, Top Tobacco. three people asked to buy something with a credit card but it wasn't accepted, so they grabbed a box of candy bars and ran. 7-6 Ballinger Rite Aid. Subject left with a shopping cart full of items without paying.  7-7 Costco. Shoplift. 7-8 Safeway. Woman entered the store and asked for empty bags, then stole items. 7-8 Marshalls. Man stole shoes. 7-9 Safeway. Man stole lunch. 7-9 Safeway. Man took wine from shelf and walked out. 7-10 Radio Shack. Man and woman stole power adapter. 7-11 Employees caught females opening unpurchased cosmetics in bathroom.

Car prowls - public places
6-30 Ronald Bog Park. Stole CDs and GPS. 7-8 Costco parking lot. 7-8 Twin Ponds Park.

Car prowls at residences
7-5 182xx 15 NE. 7-5 163xx Densmore N. Stole laptop and bag. 7-7 167xx Ashworth. Caller saw unknown male walk out from under his car port. Male runs, car door ajar. 7-7 147xx 22 Ave N. Unlocked vehicle with windows down, parked in driveway, rifled. 7-7 3xx NE Serpentine Pl. Keys left in car. Use keys to steal car. 7-7 13xx N 175. Forest Hills Estate. Popped window out of frame. Stole wallet. Used ATM card. 7-8 203xx 9 NE. 7-8 6xx NE 165. 7-8 165xx 5 NE.

Vandalism - it's still about cars
7-1 Canterbury Court Apts. Spray painted side of car in parking lot. 7-5 182xx 15 NE. Broke rear passenger window of car with garden brick. 7-8 202xx 23 Pl NW. Drivers window pried open.

Car theft
7-3 Shoreline Center. Found car stolen from Mukilteo in parking lot. 7-4 151xx NE 171,. Stole motorcycle parked next to house. 7-7 14515 Aurora, Pho Tic Tac. Car stolen in Seattle dumped in parking lot of business. 7-7 3xx NE Serpentine Pl. Keys taken from adjacent vehicle in car prowl.

Car whatever
7-5 175xx 15 NE. Car abandoned in northbound lane on 15th NE.

Fraud that's a little out of the ordinary
7-2 Food Lion, Virginia. Someone bought groceries using card belonging to Shoreline resident who has never been to Virginia.
7-5 17xx NE 145. Forged check cashed on victim's account for $375.
7-5 201xx Ballinger. Fraudulent charge on debit account, but he still has his card.
7-11 Checking on status of tax refund, victim was informed that her joint return of $4500 was paid to someone else using her SSN and maiden name.

Craig's List
7-9 SCC. Victim meets unknown suspect for sale of an iPhone. Suspect grabbed the phone and took off with it.

Theft, Larceny, Burglary - business
7-5 19906 Aurora N, Northern Design Group. Used cutting tool to cut the cable lock around aluminum ladder stored outside business, then abandoned it a short distance away.
7-5 16200 Aurora, Payless Auto Sales. Burglary.
7-5 171xx 15 NE, Anderson House. Victim's wallet stolen and recovered with unknown debit card.
7-6 14709 Aurora, Northwest Chiropractic. Broke lock on back door. Stole cash and laptops.
7-6 14711 Aurora, vacant. Broke into next door space but it was vacant.
7-6 19235 15 NW. Lap top stolen from closet in room at rehab center.
7-6 17500 Aurora, Key Bank. Robbed.  Suspect demanded money from teller and fled scene.
7-7 SCC Library. Student left laptop on table when he went to the restroom. It was stolen.
7-8 N 149/Whitman. 3:58am Arrested man who was hanging around rental car lot with bolt cutters and a flat head screwdriver.
7-10 198xx Bagley Dr N. Missing gold coins believed to be stolen.

Burglary - residential
7-5 152xx Ashworth Ave N. Removed screen from unlocked window. Stole jewelry and electronics.
7-6 148xx 8 NE. Forced entry to sliding window.
7-6 155xx Densmore N. Broke door glass. Stole camera.
7-6 18xx N 147. Broke garage window, kicked in door to house.
7-6 19xx N 157. Back window broke, numerous drawers in house opened, nothing appears missing.
7-7 163xx Interlake N. Side window broken out during middle of day. Tools, electronics, jewelry, cash.
7-11 202xx 23 NW. Homeowner away from residence at beach for about 90 minutes, burglars kicked open door and stole checkbooks and cameras. She believes they were still in house when she returned.
7-11 14xx NW 201. Broke rear window off deck. Searched house took cameras.

Guests in your home
7-4 151xx Stone Ln N. Someone who was allowed into the apartment stole cash and an address book with account access information from 87 year old man with heart and memory problems.
7-5 148xx Whitman N. A guest asked to use the bathroom and stole the Ambien from the medicine cabinet.
7-6 182xx 24 NE. Victim invites band over to his house to practice. Victim later finds numerous instruments and other musical equipment missing.
7-11 11xx NE 159. 1,000 in cash stolen while residents are outside. Suspects someone who was invited in by family member.

Funny money floating around Shoreline - merchants beware
7-5 Customer brought in counterfeit $50 bill he had received and gave it to bank.

Drugs
7-5 16045 25 NE, Kellogg Middle School. Juvenile male high on LSD attacks female with fist while asking for sex. Also exposed penis during incident.  7-6 14800 Whitman N, Roadway Inn. Contacted individual with warrant and female with glass crack pipes.  7-7 N 192/Wallingford. Individual involved in minor accident, DUI.  7-8 145xx Aurora. Driver arrested after brief pursuit. Driver DUI.

Public brawls
7-6 17002 Aurora, Baro Grocery. Fight in back alley by small grocery store.
7-7 12xx NW RB Rd. Individuals in drunken argument - all with different stories of what had happened.
7-10 Safeway on 15th NE. Woman assaulted her sister and brother-in-law in parking lot of Safeway. Bites, punches, scratches.

Working girls
7-9 N 152 / Aurora. Arrested for one count of prostitution and one count of drug paraphernalia for crack pipe.  7-10 148xx Whitman. Prostitute and client caught on city street.

Kids and Dogs
7-6 6xx NW 178 Pl. Man placing advertising flyers on mailboxes bitten by off-leash German Shepherd.
7-10 Police picked up juveniles headed to Point Wells with alcohol.

Graffiti
7-11 St Luke school. Sidewalk at top of stairs to playgrouds and wall of school by north entrance tagged with graffiti. Pink and purple spray paint. "eeyore" "406 bitch".


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BrewFest this Saturday, 3-7pm

Tuesday, August 9, 2011




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Junior Gardener Event: Make a Dream Catcher, Sunday August 14

Sunday, August 14th   2 – 3 pm

Junior Gardener Event: Make a Dream Catcher

Make a dream catcher—and learn about putting the garden to sleep for the fall. Class size limited to 20 children; cost $5; pre-registration and cash or check prepayment required. 

Sky Nursery 18528 Aurora Ave N Shoreline WA 98133 206-546-4851 


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WeatherWatcher: El Niño - what does it mean for you?


On August 4th, 2011, the National Weather Service Climate Prediction Center released their latest discussion and ENSO (El Nino/Southern Oscillation) forecast. If you're a fan of this cooler and wetter weather, you are in luck! For those who miss the sun and the warm, you may have to wait another year before a warm summer arrives.

The atmosphere still reflects La Nina weather patterns
Currently the ocean sea surface temperatures over the equatorial Pacific Ocean are presently in an ENSO-neutral pattern. However because of the unusually strong La Nina we had last winter and spring, the atmosphere is still reflecting that of La Nina weather patterns globally. 

It is expected that we will continue to have ENSO-neutral conditions lasting through most of Fall 2011, however there is now in some forecast models showing a 50/50% chance that we may either be an ENSO-neutral winter, or return to a La Nina winter.

What does this mean for us?
Due to the atmospheric conditions continuing to exhibit La Nina like patterns, we will continue to have our cooler than normal summer, for those folks that like 90ºF + degree summer days, I'm sorry to say, we probably won't have any this season. 

The remainder of our summer will continue to be cool, and pleasant, with continued moderate to strong marine air flow influenced weather, so more morning clouds, afternoon sunshine, highs averaging around the low-mid 70's, with maybe another 2-4 days cracking the 80ºF mark. September will probably be wet, maybe wetter than average, with a few of sunny days still mixed in.

Stormy weather and winter snow ahead
Now here's where it gets interesting. If ENSO-neutral conditions continue through fall and winter, we will probably have a lot more storms, by storms I mean wind storms, rain storms, and in the winter, there is the likely event we may have one or two significant snow events. 

Neutral years often produce some of the biggest storm events in our area. This is owing to the Jet stream being pointed right at Washington state. If we have an ENSO-La Nina winter again, not only would it be 2 years in a row, but typically if it is two years in a row, the colder and wetter pattern effects are often more extreme. In other words, this winter has the potential to be even colder, and wetter than last winter, which could also generate more snow events than average.

Next forecast to be released in September
As we get into the fall I will have a better idea of what this fall, and first half of winter may have in store for us. The next forecast for ENSO is scheduled to be released on September 8th, 2011, by then models should have a better idea of what ENSO conditions will be this coming fall and winter.

My judgment on our local weather is based on my past experience studying the effects of ENSO locally and of studying historical weather events that occurred here and in the greater Seattle area since record keeping begin, coordinated with the known past of the ENSO status each year.


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