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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 6, 2017 | Vol. 99, No. 40 Westside Seattle Your neighborhood weekly serving Ballard, Burien/Highline, SeaTac, Des Moines, Normandy Park, West Seattle and White Center READERS WRITE IN ABOUT THE AMERICAN CONDITION SEE » P. 8 The flame of the Statue of Liberty appeared to be smoking during a blazing sunset on Alki last week. Patrick Robinson See our listings on page 14 4700 42nd S.W. • 206-932-4500 • BHHSNWRealEstate.com © 2017 HSF Aliates LLC. 2 FRIDAY, OCTOBER 6, 2017 WESTSIDE SEATTLE Are you ready to give up your car? FRIDAY, 0CT. 6, 2017 | Vol. 99, No. 40 lane could see some forlorn drivers in tunnel under the city? Is it more busses? the southbound lanes standing outside We are beginning to believe some their mangled vehicles. I think people of the high-paid consultants who have should be issued blinders of the type advised us about traffic woes are not race horses wear to keep them from forward thinking to the degree need- rubbernecking. That could speed up ed. This view comes from learning that traffic. Sound Transit has used some sleight- Ballard News-Tribune, Highline Times, West Seattle Herald, Carping about traffic levels does no of-hand calculations to strip tax mon- Des Moines News, SeaTac News, White Center News good when you realize that YOU ARE ey from people in the Puget Sound re- Jerry Robinson Publisher Emeritus — the traffic. gion and have allowed a cost overrun 1951 - 2014 I invited one of my brothers to join of $500 million to settle on us. T. C. Robinson Co-Publisher/ me in visiting a mutual friend. My Riding the bus or the train is not for General Manager brother said he considers everything everyone. There is too much habit and [email protected] KEN ROBINSON now on a time spent/benefit ratio. If ego tied up in burning gas while riding Kenneth Robinson Co-Publisher/ the time spent going somewhere in along the freeway in your own private Managing Editor a car has an appropriate benefit (e.g. carriage, talking on the phone, finish- 425.238.4616 have had a fantasy for years when you leave your house to get a pizza a ing your makeup and digging down [email protected] traveling on the freeway in the mid- few miles away) he would do it. But if the side of your seat for the French fry I Lindsay Peyton News Editor dle of the day (newspaper types have it means grinding it out in traffic, he you dropped. [email protected] to do that sometimes) about setting up won’t. He’s smart. But there is some- Our bus system is pretty great in the Patrick Robinson Director of New Media a roadblock where travelers are asked thing missing in this posture that Puget Sound region. You can really [email protected] why they are driving around in the swarming with the other rats provides. begin to appreciate it if you used it a Tim Clinton Sports Editor middle of the day and not at work. Or There is a rich irony to the irksome few times. It is clean, reliable and in- [email protected] at home. factor the crowded highways give us. expensive. And safe. And it runs often, Gwen Davis Reporter/Photographer This fantasy has blossomed over time Everybody wants to own the road but in some areas with an interval as short [email protected] and after reading that 20,000 more peo- nobody wants to pay. I think Wolfgang as 15 minutes until the next bus shows ple have moved to the the Seattle area Goethe said that first, but in German. up. This is darn good service. If you are Amanda Knox Contributing Writer/Photographer in the last two years, the idea about the Okay. He didn’t say that. But he did going to town, try the bus. You won’t [email protected] roadblock is stronger than ever. say this: Whatever you can do or dream have to look for parking or pay for it. Do you really have to go someplace? you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, You might have to walk a bit. But that’s Scott Anthony Columnist [email protected] Last week, heading north on I-5, power, and magic in it. So where is the good for you. traffic was slowed to a crawl. A few grand plan by our leaders to alleviate Goethe also said: “The hardest walk Jean Godden Columnist miles later at NMPH (No Miles Per the maddening traffic problems we live is walking alone, but it’s also the walk [email protected] Hour), motorists in the northbound with now? Is it in light rail? Is it another that makes you strongest.” Dave Kellogg Circulation Manager 206.370.1475 [email protected] Dalinda Lee Legals Coordinator 206.376.5952 WSCONTRIBUTORS [email protected] LINDSAY PEYTON Dona Ozier Sales Director MEDICARE 101 SEMINARS News Editor 206.387.3873 Hosted by Advantage Insurance Benefits Lindsay is a veteran journalist who came to us from the [email protected] Houston Chronicle where she Dick Sherman Advertising Sales covered neighborhood news, education, politics, business 206.356.7288 and the arts. She now lives in West Seattle. [email protected] Niche Network Production 2017 PATRICK ROBINSON [email protected] Director of New Media MEETING Patrick grew up in the Calendar [email protected] publishing business and has helped develop our websites. Obituaries [email protected] He is a journalist, prize-win- 206.718.9016 SCHEDULE ning photographer and West Seattle resident. 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Box 66769, Seattle, WA 98166 WESTSIDE SEATTLE FRIDAY, OCTOBER 6, 2017 3 WESTSEATTLEHERALD SERVING WEST SEATTLE & WHITE CENTER SINCE 1923 White Center survey finds safety, health and access to affordable housing among top priorities White Center community members active, increasing access to healthy foods, identified safety, health and access to af- and opening a farmer’s market, cooperative fordable housing, among other topics, farm or p-patch. As one youth respondent as top community priorities in the 2017 wrote, “We would like to have more com- White Center Community Survey complet- munity potlucks with healthy food choices ed in July. A total of 505 community mem- and cooking classes…” bers completed the survey from March to Lack of affordable housing in White July 2017, including 195 middle and high Center was also identified as an area of school students. concern. The number one challenge that When asked what community organi- 61% of adults reported regarding hous- zations should focus on to improve White ing in White Center was the cost of rent Center, 55% of adults and 43% of youth or mortgage, which many felt needed to identified safety as a top priority. Sugges- be “stabilized so low income families can tions to improve safety included a ded- own a home.” Other suggestions includ- icated police force, more access to drug ed “more sliding scale and fair housing treatment centers, and more neighborhood practices.” watches and street lights.” About 73% of For the full survey report and infograph- youth agreed that their school is safe, and ic, visit the White Center webpage at www. Patrick Robinson the percentage of youth who felt safe travel- wccda.org. Creator and Executive Producer Anthony Lilly, left, and Ron Jeremy hope to watch the transformation of the adult film star into ing to and from school increased from 73% The White Center Community Devel- a reality TV star (and slimmer man) during the production of Ron Jeremy Does Hollywood. last year to 81% this year. opment Association (CDA) is a commu- Health emerged as a number two pri- nity-based nonprofit organization that ority for 36% of adults and 49% of youth promotes a vibrant neighborhood and high Local producers pin hopes on ‘Ron respondents.