White Center Now: The blog about White Center

Play (basket)ball! Tryouts are coming up next week for youth basketball teams at Salvation Army Community Center (9020 16th SW) that play in an AAU League. Here’s the announcement from Rino:

We will be holding open tryouts for players looking for teams

4th, 5th, and 6th Grade
Tuesday March 9th – 5:30pm to 7:00pm
Thursday March 11th – 5:30 to 7:00pm

7th and 8th Grade
Tuesday March 9th – 7:00pm to 8:30pm
Thursday March 11th – 7:00pm to 8:30pm

Tryouts will be held at
Salvation Army CC
9020 16th ave SW
Seattle WA 98146

For more information contact Sean or Charles (206) 767-3150 ext 113

Thanks to Jim Clark for sharing photos of today’s cyclocross race at Lakewood Park, scheduled at the last minute after the permit was revoked in West Seattle. His gallery is here.

Our partner site West Seattle Blog covered a controversy yesterday afternoon regarding a cyclocross bicycle race that was scheduled to be held in Lincoln Park this Saturday, till the Seattle Parks and Recreation Department abruptly pulled the permit, saying it had committed to the community years ago that the park would no longer host such races and that it shouldn’t have granted the permit in the first place. Promoters at MFG Cyclocross started working to find an alternate site – and they have just announced that Lakewood Park is the alternate site. We’ve also found additional details on the King County Parks news website.

Thanks to Evergreen’s Alfred Johnson for the update:

It’s Homecoming Time!

This Saturday, 1:30pm @ Highline Stadium, Evergreen High School celebrates Homecoming 2009 with the Homecoming Football game against the Mt. Si Wildcats.

All Alumni and friends of Evergreen High School are encouraged to come on out to support the team and meet up with old friends and make new ones.

EHS Booster club members will be around to serve Hot Chocolate and man the Alumni Registry; there will be EHS paraphernalia available for sale also.

The team’s coming off a win over Tyee last week. Good luck, EHS!

Evergreen’s Alfred Johnson e-mailed to say:

The 2009 season starts for the Wolverines this Friday night against Mt Rainier High School (the Rams), 7:00 pm @ Highline Stadium and we want to get the community out to support and cheer the team on for our first game.

And he also sent word about a fundraiser tomorrow with Millennium Ford of Burien. Here’s the official flyer. He explains:

For each person who comes for a 5 min. test drive, Ford will donate $20 to Evergreen High School to use for the football team. There will be EHS players and Cheerleaders on hand to sign folks up for test drives. sell EHS Football Gear and Gold Cards and promote the fund raiser. Head Coach Lewis, his coaching staff and I will be there to help out and answer questions about the EHS Football Program.

Their website’s also up and running at ehswolverinefootball.com. Go Wolverines!

EARLY SATURDAY UPDATE: Final score, Mount Rainier 44, Evergreen 0. Get out to the fundraiser today! Next week they play Kennedy – 1:30 pm Saturday 9/19 at Highline.

Young swimmers like those two were among the Evergreen Pool supporters who spoke eloquently and energetically Monday night at the rally on the eve of the pool’s closure, aimed at gaining attention and momentum to make sure the closure — which starts today — is not permanent. (Here’s our first report on the rally.) Young swimmers also were on the mind of Ed Marrs, a North Highline Fire District firefighter and board president for WhiteWater Aquatics, which hopes to take over pool operation if it can strike a deal with King County Parks and Highline Public Schools, who own the site and building respectively:

The pool is lifesaving in another way, declared one of its dedicated senior swimmers, Lucy:

But passion must be translated into action, reminded Greg Duff, president of the North Highline Unincorporated Area Council:

As noted in our earlier report, NHUAC has its regular monthly meeting this Thursday night, 7 pm at North Highline FD HQ (1243 SW 112th), and you can bet the pool’s future will be a hot topic.

Pat Thompson from YES Foundation of White Center sends a reminder about the sports camps that start today:

Morning session is 9 – Noon
Afternoon session 1 – 4pm
at Evergreen High School fields, courts and gyms. We are offering football, basketball, soccer, tennis and volleyball.

For athletes, would-be athletes and kids whose parents are looking for things for them to do: Ages 6 -14
The cost is $20, scholarships available.

Here’s the official flyer with full details.

Evergreen High School football director Alfred Johnson sends word of a fun fundraiser this Saturday night:

The coaches and players of the Evergreen High School Football team would like to thank you and the White Center/Boulevard Park Communities for coming out to support the team last football season.

With a new coaching staff and a young team, it really means a lot to the young men to know that the community is interested and encouraging the team to be better students and have a successful season.

This weekend, the EHS Football Team will be hosting a Pasta Dinner Fundraiser, Sat, June 27th, 2009, 7:00pm Start @ the Southwest Boys & Girls Club. This is the first major fundraiser of our new season; the young men of the EHS Football team will be there as food servers and host. The team is attempting to raise enough funds and solicit sponsorships to purchase new uniforms, provide partial funding of the “pay to play” requirement being passed down to the Highline School District and to build the Football Booster funds in order to tend to the needs of EHS football during the upcoming season and beyond.

There will be special guest speakers who be speaking through out the evening (Greg Lewis, former UW football player & Derek Sparks, former WSU football player among many) and the EHS football players will perform their game day “Hakka” as part of the evenings entertainment. Special thanks to Joe Salle of Bernie & Boys Market in White Center for providing the Pasta dinner and the Southwest Boys & Girls Club for letting us use their facilities. …

I think it will be a great time for all and that the EHS Football players will do all that they can to make the evening a success.

Congratulations to the Evergreen High School soccer team, which is in the state tournament after beating the Capital Cougars in Olympia on Saturday. The Tacoma News-Tribune has details. First tournament game: Tuesday vs. Shorecrest.

The Greater King County Police Activities League and the White Center PAL Boxing Program will sponsor the First Annual Sgt . Ken Migita Memorial Amateur Boxing Show on Saturday March 28, 2009 starting at 6 p.m. at Evergreen High School.   Admission is $10 for Adults and $5 for Children.   This is an opportunity to support positive athletic activities for youth who might otherwise be “at risk.”  Support this worthy enterprise and enjoys some great home-town boxing.  Contact:  Tony Rago (206) 293-3742 or 763-7525; email:  rago3@comcast.net.

From Evergreen High School‘s football director Alfred Johnson (thanks so much to Alfred for keeping us updated on the team and the schedule, once we made contact around midseason):

This Friday, 11/07/08, The Wolverines will play their last Home game of the season.
They will be facing Bremerton High School, 7:30 pm @ Highline Stadium. This is called a “Pigtail Game.” Why? I dunno, but it gives the boys one more shot at a victory.

Get out and cheer them on tomorrow night.

EVERGREEN HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL: Tough year for the team, which lost Saturday night to Renton, 40-8. One more regular-season game to go, an away game against Lindbergh on Friday night, 7 pm.

VILLAGE GREEN PERENNIAL NURSERY: Today’s the last scheduled day for the nursery to be open. Proprietor Vera Johnson is having a sale on Vietnamese pottery for the grand finale (50% off). Vera also notes she’s offering consultation/design/installation services, $50/hour, and adds, “Just a heads-up, we will be reorganizing over the winter. I am planning some changes with the use of the land.” Next year, she’s planning the usual spring opening, but then a July closing of the retail operation, not sure about “regular” hours after that, but definitely “more design and consulting work, allowing our creative skills to be more useful in designing beautiful gardens for clients, plus garden maintenance.” She’s also planning to offer plants for real estate “staging,” as well as using the Village Green land to grow more food, with more “demonstration edible gardens” and more workshops on “edibles/herbals.” One final note – she’s planning on keeping goats, and might even rent them out for blackberry removal. Vera promises more details to come; meantime, Village Green‘s hours today are 10 am-4:30 pm, 10223 26th SW (map)

They lost to Foster tonight by just a touchdown, 13-6. Next week they play Renton (Saturday 10/25, 7 pm).

Two things, really – first, Evergreen High School football director Alfred Johnson sends word that it’s Homecoming Week:

This week is HOMECOMING!!!

I want to get the word out to any and all Evergreen Alumni, if you live in the area or not, to come out and cheer the boys on to victory for the 2008 Homecoming.

There will be a Homecoming Assembly at Evergreen on Friday 10/17/08, I believe that it will start @ 2:00 pm, but call the school to be sure if anyone plans on attending.

The Homecoming Football game will be at Highline Memorial Stadium @ 7:00pm, Friday 10/17/08.
We will be duking it out with the new addition to the Seamount League, The Foster Bulldogs.

Alfred also sends word there’s a new website for Wolverines football. See it here.

It’s the big “crosstown” game tonight: Evergreen High School vs. Highline High School, 7 pm, Highline Stadium – the Wolverines are going for their second win. Get out and cheer ’em.

Coming off last week’s big win (White Center Now coverage here), Evergreen High plays at Mount Si tonight, 7 pm. Then next week, it’s the big “crosstown” (sort of) rivalry, Evergreen vs. Highline, 7 pm Thursday.

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That short video clip shows a big run by Evergreen High School’s #5, senior Jared Brunell, in the second half of last night’s 16-6 victory over Tyee at Highline Memorial Stadium in Burien. That brings Evergreen to 1-3; next Friday, they play Mount Si.

Back from the Nickelsville sweep (22 arrests in all). I will link here to a full report with video that I will be filing at West Seattle Blog a bit later. Meantime, switching gears in a HUGE way, the White Center Now mailbox just yielded this, and I wanted to be sure to pass it along:

My name is Alfred Johnson and I am the Football Booster Director for Evergreen High School.

On behalf of Head Coach David Lewis and his Staff, I would like to invite the community to come out
to the first Home Game for the Evergreen Wolverines Varsity Football Team.

The game is this Saturday, Sept 27, 2008 at Highline Memorial Stadium.

The game starts @ 7:00pm.

As stated before, this is the first Home Game for the Wolverines this season and we would love for the community to come and support our boys as they battle Tyee High School.

Thank you for your support and hope to see you at the game.

Go, Wolverines!

Just found out about this “Coach Who Makes a Difference” feature with Coach Bethany Tate from Evergreen HS volleyball. Congratulations!

Football’s an all-weather sport – good thing, since according to this Times blog post, the Evergreen High School football team is scheduled to start practicing just after midnight, and it’s not likely to be your typical summer night.