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WEST SEATTLE | P. 3 BALLARD | P. 4 HIGHLINE | P. 5 Big changes at the Sig slugs an Uber A two-year-old YMCA. driver, cops say. celebrates. FRIDAY, MAY 26, 2017 | Vol. 99, No. 21 Westside Seattle Your neighborhood weekly serving Ballard, Burien/Highline, SeaTac, Des Moines, West Seattle and White Center In South Park, ‘community’ means Everyone SEE » P. 5 Lindsay Peyton See our listings on page 18 4700 42nd S.W. • 206-932-4500 • BHHSNWRealEstate.com © 2017 HSF Aliates LLC. 2 FRIDAY, MAY 26, 2017 WESTSIDE SEATTLE FRIDAY, MAY 26, 2017 | Vol. 99, No. 21 Use your Seattle Smile Ballard News-Tribune, Highline Times, West Seattle Herald, Des Moines News, SeaTac News, White Center News Jerry Robinson Publisher Emeritus — 1951 - 2014 T. C. 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She is still unpacking her belongings Shalimar Gonzales took over as exec- and setting up her office. utive director just a couple of weeks ago While the set-up may be different, the and is eager to put her stamp on the place. Y is familiar territory to Gonzales. Gonzales spent the past three years as Originally from San Francisco, she executive director at the Meredith Mat- moved to Seattle in high school and started thews East Madison YMCA, where her working for the YMCA not too long after. main mission was “making sure the Y While on the way to receiving her degree represents the community we’re trying to in liberal studies from Seattle University, serve and that we create safe spaces for she got a job at the downtown Y location everyone.” her sophomore year, about 14 years ago. Now she wants to do the same thing in “I totally stumbled into the Y,” she said. a different neighborhood. A friend suggested that Gonzales apply As Gonzales walks through the newly —and she took to it like a duck to water. improved West Seattle YMCA, she is vis- It wasn’t long before she was head of a ibly brimming with excitement. A new unique new program for young adults, family wing is one of her favorite parts, creating an all-ages music venue out of a Lindsay Peyton and she reports recently challenging a few empty rooms. The West Seattle YMCA’s new executive director Shalimar Gonzales is on a mission to make sure “the Y represents the teenager to shoot some hoops in the “We ended up having really awesome community we’re trying to serve and that we create safe spaces for everyone.” “Tween Zone.” touring bands coming through the down- A number of storage closets and sel- town Y,” Gonzales recalled. “We’d have Gonzales went on to join the YMCA’s “We were creating pathways for peo- dom-used rooms have been converted to 250 to 300 kids there a night.” membership team—and then moved to ple of color to get into leadership roles,” more functional spaces, she added. She also ran a youth gallery and art Los Angeles to become associate director Gonzales said. “Our intention was to give The main fitness area has been com- program, which gave young artists an of membership for the nonprofit. Even- people the training and opportunities pletely redone and light now pours into opportunity to sell their work and gain tually, she started working with the diver- they needed so when jobs became avail- the cardio area thanks to a row of win- exposure for their talent. sity program. 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