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Jerry Robinson Publisher Emeritus — In 1958, three of my brothers and I We rode to the Velez gym with a 1951 - 2014 were enrolled in the Joey Velez School 16-year-old neighbor in his Hillman T. C. Robinson Co-Publisher/ KEN ROBINSON of Boxing. He had a gym on 3rd or 4th ‘Minx’ compact car. After the work- General Manager and Wall Street. Local kids went there out, the reward for following Dad’s or- [email protected] ome things, like the Sunday Times, to learn how to slug someone with a der to learn self-defense was when we Kenneth Robinson Co-Publisher/ are part of the weekly ritual for 16-ounce boxing glove. It was a fun dropped down the hill to Alaska Way Managing Editor S 425.238.4616 many in the Seattle area. Reading the summer evening pastime, even though to get a cup of hot chowder at Ivar’s [email protected] paper has been a family tradition that Dean Cummings, a lefty, regularly on Pier 54. Patrick Robinson Director of New Media we hope continues through the next socked me in the face a little too hard. We each got a cup and cradled it as [email protected] generation. We learned to punch the heavy bag, we rode home in the small car, sipping Shane Harms Reporter/Photographer This habit connects us to our own to jump rope and to make the speed bag slowly and savoring the rich broth. The [email protected] history. We look for the touchstones wobble rhythmically. The gym was hot stop at Ivar’s was very much part of Gwen Davis Reporter/Photographer that remind us that we live in Seattle, on summer nights and we wore t-shirts the adventure. And when the boxing [email protected] that our roots are here and that we feel and shorts and those arch-less Converse lessons ended, so did the side trip for Lindsay Peyton Reporter/Photographer part of the community because of it. tennis shoes and we worked up a good chowder. But the memory lingers on. [email protected] This idea applies also to familiar sweat. Looking back, I think Dad sent us Ivar’s is so much a part of Seattle Amanda Knox Contributing places, ones that have become part there to cut down on horseplay around history, it strikes a flat note to think Writer/Photographer [email protected] of our lives over time. That includes the house. We burned off a lot of kid en- it is gone, even in its airport location. Pat Cashman Columnist Ivar’s Acres of Clams and its various ergy at the gym. (See Lindsay Petyon’s story on page 8) [email protected] offspring. (White Center had a reputation as For our money, we urge the com- Scott Anthony Columnist When we read that Ivar’s has been a tough town. Learning how to box mittee to re-think their decision. Let [email protected] summarily booted out of the airport seemed like a useful skill. You never the new guys find a different spot. 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Westside Seattle (USPS 000-890) is published weekly every Friday for local delivery by Robinson Newspapers at P.O. Box 66769 Seattle, WA 98166 Periodicals Postage Paid at Seattle, WA POSTMASTER: Send address changes to: Westside Seattle/Robinson Newspapers P. O. Box 66769, Seattle, WA 98166 WESTSIDE SEATTLE FRIDAY, JUNE 23, 2017 3 WESTSEATTLEHERALD SERVING WEST SEATTLE & WHITE CENTER SINCE 1923 West Seattle’s Lisa Coronado appearing on return of Twin Peaks series By Patrick Robinson probably common for many actors) is for a The return this past May of the mys- consistent part, “ I’m pushing for television. terious David Lynch-helmed television A lead on a series would be like hitting the series Twin Peaks was met with high ex- jackpot. It’s next to impossible and I’m con- pectations. The original series debuted in stantly telling myself I’m crazy. But I think 1990, and while it lasted only two seasons my road thus far has been crazy so why not achieved cult status and has often been go after it? Writing is something I’ll always listed as among the greatest television dra- do. Whether anyone sees it is another story. mas of all time. Now a West Seattle based I haven’t had the director bug hit, yet.” actress, Lisa Coronado is among those ap- Her part in Twin Peaks has no character pearing in the show. name but her role is easily among the most The new series, appearing on Showtime emotionally powerful the new series has yet on Sunday evenings at 9 p.m. features most revealed. She plays the part called “Hit and of the same actors from the original series Run Mom” in which a drugged out charac- Photo courtesy of Showtime including Kyle MacLachlan, Mädchen Am- ter Richard Horne (played by Eamon Far- Lisa Coronado appears in Part 6 of the Showtime series Twin Peaks. The show airs Sunday evenings at 9 p.m. ick, Sherilyn Fenn, Sheryl Lee, Ray Wise, ren) in a large truck hits her son (played by and several others. New additions include Hunter Sanchez) and drives off. She rushes thing. I definitely had a ‘I can’t believe Coronado is staying busy most recently Monica Bellucci, Jeremy Davies, Trent to her son’s lifeless body in anguish, and is this is my life’ moment when I got home finishing up pickups for Wonder Russell’s Reznor, Laura Dern, Robert Forster, Tim comforted by a neighbor Carl Todd (played though.” first feature See You on the Other Side. Roth, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Ashley Judd, by Harry Dean Stanton). Coronado said, “I Since her appearance she has gone back “It’s about a grieving widow who finds Tom Sizemore, Amanda Seyfried, Matthew got called in to audition for Heidi Walker. and watched a few episodes of the original a bit of magic within herself and brings Lillard, Sky Ferreira and Naomi Watts. I didn’t know what the project was or the series. “I had previously watched it as a teen- her husband back. I also have a few proj- The West Seattle Herald covered Coro- part. When I went she just set up a camera ager. But as soon as this newest season aired ects that will be releasing this year: the nado’s last film called Different Drummers and started asking me questions. Main- I stopped. I’m hooked on this one.