White Center Now: The blog about White Center

Fallen firefighters honored at White Center’s Holy Family School

Tracy — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 06:27:12 +0000

That’s White Center Now/West Seattle Blog video of the Seattle Fire Department Pipes and Drums Band and the Walter Kilgore Memorial Honor Guard tonight at Holy Family School (20th and Roxbury; map). They helped pay tribute to the four firefighters who lost their lives 14 years ago tonight in Seattle’s notorious Pang warehouse arson; the memorial was part of a benefit dinner will be held to raise money for scholarships to be awarded at HF by the Randy Terlicker Endowment Fund, named after a Holy Family alumnus who was one of those four lost heroes (the others: the Honor Guard’s namesake Lt. Kilgore, Lt. Greg Shoemaker, and firefighter James Brown).

White Center snow aftermath: School updates, bus updates

Tracy — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 14:27:30 +0000

SCHOOLS: No changes listed so far for Highline Public Schools. For Seattle Public Schools, they’ve announced all schools will start on time and all buses will run regular routes.

BUSES: Metro is continuing to update its “adverse weather” page with changes for specific routes. Among them, the 54, which is listed right now (6:41 am) as “does not serve White Center.”

White Center snow update: First Metro bus-route changes

Tracy — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 06:05:48 +0000

(54 bus in trouble earlier in West Seattle)
Metro has posted its first route changes here. Among them - 21 is not operating south of Roxbury right now.

The “white stuff” falls in White Center, and environs, again

Tracy — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 23:52:57 +0000

The official forecasts promise it won’t last. However, given the difficulty of accurately forecasting around here, and the track record from the recent Snowmare ‘08, take whatever action you must. Perhaps also a good idea to keep in mind that wind is supposedly to follow. Latest forecast here.

Police investigate whether West Seattle arrests are linked to robbery spree including White Center holdup

Tracy — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 19:15:13 +0000

We reported New Year’s Eve that photos and video were out from a recent robbery rampage that included a December holdup at the Lucky Seven in White Center. Early this morning, after a robbery attempt at a West Seattle 7-11, Seattle Police arrested three suspects and are working right now to establish whether they are linked to this series of robberies. Here’s our full report on West Seattle Blog; we will let you know when more information is released.

Getting back to “normal”

Tracy — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 07:59:24 +0000

Sunday’s one last day of winter break for kids in the Highline and Seattle school districts - after a longer-than-expected vacation because of the snow. School resumes in both districts on Monday (and by the way, Metro bus service is supposed to be back to normal that day, too).

Cafe Rozella Wants to Thank Our Wonderful Patrons

Ricardo — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 04:30:09 +0000

Cafe Rozella, White Center’s hub and coffee house, wants to thank all our wonderful patrons for making 2008 our best year and for electing Barack Obama, President of the U.S.

We look forward to better times. We cannot pass this opportunity to give thanks to: Mike the artist, mike the mechanic, mike the longshoreman, little mike and big mike, Cherrie, Onion, Eric the Swede, Joan, Carlos, Eduardo, Bill, Bill and Bill, Robert, Aileen, Laura, Jorge, Argelia, Paige, Eric, Vassily, Carmen, Flora, Sim, Chica, Jason, Anne, Jeremy, Austin, Ron, Gabrielle, Athena, Chad and Tracy, Andrew and Moe, Jessica, David, David and David, Ruth, Ringo, Paul, John, Maury, Rob, Gary, Gary and Marjorie, Jim, and everyone else who contributed to the wonderful community that is White Center and Cafe Rozella. We love you all. Truly.

Friday reminder: Metro schedule, county closures

Tracy — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 15:30:59 +0000

Today’s the last weekday before things start revving back up to normal on Monday - and there are two things to keep in mind today: Metro is on the “partial holiday” schedule one last day (changes listed here) and most county offices/facilities are closed because of the “furlough” day (changes listed here).

Happy New Year

FullTilt — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 10:51:31 +0000

Ann and I would really like to thank the White Center Community for the past year, and we hope that 09 will be just as amazing as we all hope it will be.

Truckload of potatoes and apples headed for White Center Food Bank

Tracy — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 10:47:00 +0000

2009 will start with a big donation to the White Center Food Bank: Next week, a truckload of potatoes and apples is scheduled to arrive at WCFB, courtesy of the Columbia-Snake River Irrigators Association. Read full details here. (It’s been a month and a half since the big potato donation that arrived at WCFB; see our video coverage here.)