In commemoration of Fathers' Day, Selena's Guadalajara, 1715 N. 45th St., is sponsoring a Best Dad Ever contest for children up to age 13. Children age 2 to 7 can submit drawings of their fathers, while youths age 8 to 13 can submit short essays about theirs through Friday, June 15. Entries are available at the restaurant.The restaurant will select the winners the following day, with free dinners for the winners' fathers.Also, Selena's Guadalajara is offering weekend brunch from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., with breakfast standards and Mexican specialties.
The beleaguered FBI has been complaining recently in the press about the way the current government's emphasis on terrorism has affected its crime fighting capacities.Now, it's debatable how effective the FBI ever really was against domestic crime, even in its G-man days when they were led by that famous cross dresser J. Edgar Hoover. And you can also make the argument that local gendarmes are almost holding their own in the fight against local crime.
On Monday, the city of Seattle was to release a report by the Civilian Review Board of the Office of Professional Accountability (OPA, examining the Seattle Police Department's investigation of charges of misconduct by two officers, Greg Neubert and Mike Tietjen, stemming from a Belltown drug bust in January.The report's release now has been postponed indefinitely by the City Attorney's office, according to the review board's Peter Holmes, one of the document's co-authors-this, on the grounds that the authors might get sued for what Holmes told The Seattle Times was a report "very critical" of SPD.
ll right. I've had it. I'm mad and it's about time I stood up and said something about it before my head explodes. I'm mad at Everyone Else's Parents. There. I said it and I'm not sorry. Do you know what you have put me through during my 18 years of being mired in the trenches of parenthood? You, Everyone Else's Parents, are much loved and revered by my four offspring. My children would rather have you for their parents than me.
Debbie Cavitt's vocal journey began when she began singing at age 5. Her love of music continued into adulthood and carried her into a winning performance on KIRO-TV's "Seattle's Stars" on April 2.Although she acknowledges her gift, Cavitt was not planning on entering the "American Idol"-type singing competition; she didn't decide to audition until the last minute, she said. Cavitt explained that the principal of Leschi Elementary School, where Cavitt has been the choir director for seven years, asked her if she was auditioning. When Cavitt said no, the principal asked, "You mean you're going to pass up this opportunity?
Did you ever encounter "new math"? My children and new math were in school together, and try as I would, I didn't have the slightest idea of what the dear ones were talking about. I knew it was based on the binary system, but just how and why escaped me. It was all ones and zeros in anticipation of the electronic age, I guessed. It's since vanished from math class, and for a while, 2+2 was back in fashion.But only for a brief spell. Students are now learning another new math, which made helping grandson a bit of a challenge the other evening. It has a lot of estimates rather than answers.
I am so happy to have read [Roberta Cole's] article entitled "Losing the Literal Fight Over Words" (April 2007) and so sad to read that you're ready to give up the good fight. I, too, am a defender of the tongue. We must not concede. We must fight the good fight.
There are 240 million guns in this country - consider that statistic with the fact that our country has a population of only 300 million.
Stewart in Queen Anne writes: This whole Joshua Bell experiment in the D.C. Metro is huge music news ["Pearls Before Breakfast," Washington Post, April 8, 2007]! What I got to thinking about was the stage fright. I mean, here's a guy who sells out Carnegie Hall, and the D.C. Metro gives him butterflies! Do these pros even get stage fright? Also, I wonder if Mr. Bell had been playing one of my favorites, would I have stopped?
ARBORETUM■ BURGLARY, PROPERTY DAMAGE: Someone continues to enter the Japanese Garden after hours to cut ropes along the trails. The most recent incident occurred between 3 p.m. April 9 and 7:30 a.m. April 10.Previous incidents involved rope-cutting and people jumping over the fence in various locations.MADISON PARK■ PROPERTY DAMAGE: Someone overturned several flower planters and threw chairs and tables into the street in the 4000 block of East Madison Street.The incident occurred between 1 and 5:30 a.m. on April 13.MADISON VALLEY■ CAR PROWL: A man in the 1800 block of 32nd Avenue went out to his antique car at 9 a.m. April 10 to discover that someone had neatly unscrewed and taken his steering wheel. The suspect also rummaged through the glove compartment, but nothing else was missing.The man said the steering wheel has a distinctive design.WASHINGTON PARK■ HARASSMENT: A stranger called a man in the 600 block of 33rd Avenue East around 10:15 a.m. April 4, saying he found the Washington Park man's phone number in his pocket and didn't know who it belonged to.The man told the caller his name and place of employment, and the caller responded by asking him for a job. The man said that his work was voluntary, so the caller started "verbally bashing" him, according to the police report. The man ultimately hung up on the caller.The caller's phone number was traced to a "local residence," the report stated.■ CAR PROWL: A Washington Park woman returned to her car in a parking lot in the 900 block of McGilvra Boulevard East and discovered that someone broke into it.Stolen were an $800 pair of eyeglasses, a $400 wallet with $300 cash, a $400 cellular phone, a $398 purse, a $900 parka and four pairs of jeans worth $780.The incident occurred between 7 and 8 a.m. on April 15, but it wasn't reported until after 5 p.m. that day.MADRONA■ BURGLARY: A homeowner in the 3400 block of East James Street called police at 12:25 a.m. on April 8 after seeing a man try to steal two bottles of wine from his porch. The homeowner ran after the suspect but couldn't catch him as he ran away.While the suspect, in his mid- to late 30s, wasn't successful, it was the second time the same man tried to steal something from his porch.LESCHI■ SHOTS: Police responded to the 2700 block of South Jackson Street at 6:15 p.m. on April 11 to investigate reports of shots fired and a person down.Officers located several shell casings in a parking lot, and four gunshot holes were found in a building in the 400 block of Martin Luther King Jr. Way South. However, no victim or blood was found.The suspect is described as a boy in his late teens.The department's Gang Unit is investigating.■ PAINT SPILL: A large paint spill behind a building in the 500 block of Lakeside Avenue South was reported around 7:15 p.m. April 13. A neighbor told responding officers that she saw a large, white cloud of an unknown liquid spilling out into the water under the docks at 3:30 p.m. She said there had been a painting crew nearby, and she spoke with them.Apparently, according to the witness, the property managers had told the crew members to dump the paint into exterior drains. The crew stopped the dumping after the witness spoke with them.The police saw the large, milky cloud, which had extended 100 to 110 yards out from the shore and was about 30 yards wide.The Harbor Patrol unit, Seattle Fire Department and the Environmental Protection Agency were advised of the situation.■ SHOTS FIRED: Around 5:15 p.m. April 16, police responded to the 500 block of 31st Avenue to investigate a call about shots fired. They arrived to find no one who had heard gunshots. They were about to leave when a neighbor called 911 to report that shots were fired from the rear deck of a home in the same block, and four teenage boys were involved.As the officers approached the home, they heard two gunshots and called for more backup units.The police contacted someone inside the home who told them they didn't have a gun and would follow their instructions. The four boys left the home, were frisked for weapons and then taken to the East Precinct for questioning.Before leaving, one of the boys said he was the "person currently in charge of the property," according to the police report, and gave the police written consent to search the home. Officers then entered the home to ensure no one inside was injured and then blocked off the home.A resident of the house arrived and refused a police search of the home, so officers arranged for a search warrant. Meanwhile, officers continued to interview neighbors who had heard gunshots. One neighbor said she thought the noise was caused by firecrackers and didn't call police, but she had called police a week before about gunshots from the home. She added that shots are fired nearly every night after dark.Another neighbor provided police with a video of that evening's actions at the house, which showed one of the teens firing a gun at the ground.During questioning, one of the teens, who was seen with the gun in the video, said he was inside the home when he heard the gunshots but thought they were fireworks, as did another suspect. A third teen said they were playing with a cap gun, but the first suspect had gone outside to fire two shots from a handgun into the air. All claimed to be gang members.With the search warrant in hand, officers later found a handgun in the basement, where two of the boys said it could be found. It was still loaded with one round, and a magazine found with the gun had six loaded rounds. They also found the cap gun, as well as two boxes of ammunition containing an additional 82 rounds. Eight bullet casings were found in the back of the home.The teen who was shown in the video with the gun was arrested and booked into King County Jail because the police learned it had been stolen from Tacoma. Police are requesting an additional charge of discharging a firearm.The other three boys were released to their families.
While it is a mistaken belief that Seattle is the rainiest city in the United States, the Emerald City does rank at the top for the number of cloudy days. With the region pulling out of our seasonal spell of close skies and filtered sunlight, the cool days and long nights of late spring and early summer are truly arriving. This twilight view of Seattle was shot using a lenghty exposure from North Beacon Hill with a viewtoward the Olympic Mountains.
"I want to make Cleveland a school where you want to come and run track and get a quality education." Cleveland High School girls track coach Alvin HarrisAlthough the Cleveland High School girls track team may have a small roster this year, Coach Alvin Harris believes that this is just the beginning of building a strong track program and tradition at the school. In his second year as head coach at Cleveland, and as an assistant coach at Franklin High School and a head coach at Garfield High School in previous years, Harris brings a wealth of experience to the developing program.
"Joey, I have ALS," my father said, with his voice weakly trailing off. Our routine bantering came to an abrupt halt as the pall of an eerie silence took hold. Unaccustomed to conversation lulls and even more unfamiliar with contemplating before speaking, I thought about the words I was going to say. All that I could utter into the phone was, "I'm so sorry, dad."Sweating and gasping for air, I sat on the couch overwhelmed with images of inhumanly contorted bodies that Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis mercilessly inflicts on its victims.Better known as "Lou Gehrig's" disease in memory of the Yankee baseball player, ALS is a devastating neurological disorder. Although the randomness of this rare disease confounds scientists, the dire prognosis is a rapid decline and certain death.
About a week ago, the FBI raided the Somali Grocery Store at 146th Avenue South and International Boulevard in Tukwila.With guns drawn, agents ordered everybody to hit the floor. It was most dramatic! I am sure our law enforcers were pretty psyched up, and I am relieved that nobody jumped up when this raid occurred. God knows what could have happened with itchy fingers on triggers.It seems the FBI was not looking to arrest anyone at the grocery store; they wanted information from a travel agency that was using some space within the store. This begs the questions: if all the FBI needed was information from a business not really suspected of being bomb builders, why the hype? Why the guns?
Now that the dust has settled after the United States' worst mass murder on a college campus - 32 dead, plus the shooter, at Virginia Tech - it's time to read the fine print.According to federal law enforcement officials, approximately 50 percent of guns used in crimes on our streets come from "straw" purchases, when someone not a criminal buys multiple guns for someone who is. The criminal then sells the weapons to other thugs. So, you ask, why aren't federal officials going after these "rogue" dealers?