Seahawk Fans - Rally Friday at Valley Ridge!

This just in from the Seahawks Training Center:  Seahawk fans are invited to help send off the team to Chicago from five points along the bus route to SeaTac Airport on Friday afternoon. Key locations will be overpasses in Renton, Tukwila and at our own Valley Ridge Park off 188th right here in SeaTac!

It is reported that free coffee and donuts will be available at the park and that fans will be given various Seahawks items (12th MAN Flags, rally cards, rally towels, etc.) to wave to the team buses and various passersby in a display of their 12th MAN spirit. The Sea Gals, Blitz and Blue Thunder are expected to be on location to join the fans in a show of support.

Organizers are encouraging people to start gathering by 1:00 PM in the park in preparation for the caravan of team buses to pass by at around 1:45 PM.  Come join with neighbors in support of today's hottest Seattle Sports Team, have some fun, and get some free stuff!  

GO SEAHAWKS!

Family and Friends Headed Your Way This Week?

Ok. So maybe you’ve just moved to your home or perhaps you lived here for years.  You’re enjoying  the benefits and amenities of living in SeaTac – taking advantage of its centralized location with convenience to everything: Lake; Parks and Playfields; Festivals and Performing Arts… while your friends and relatives have taken advantage of using your front yard as their personal, convenient airport parking lot? 

Perhaps in today’s fast paced environment this is one of the last remaining opportunities to reacquaint yourself with distant relatives or refamiliarize yourself with long absent friends or found it an effective way to be introduced to friends of friends (of friends?). 

Seems like everyone is searching to save a buck or two here and there in today’s challenging economic times!  Well here may be an offer that will not only help your lawn rehabilitation efforts while also helping to save some money for those people looking for cheap parking.  The only requirement is that their destination includes a stop to Soldier Field in Chicago to help support our Seahawk’s!  SEATAC PARK.com is offering Free Parking for all fans travelling to the playoff game this weekend.  Further details are available on their blog site.

(If you’re a business owner and would like present a money saving offer to the residents of the Angle Lake Neighborhood – send us an email and we’ll be happy to work with you – especially during these winter months when we are news deficient!)

Car Prowler Alert!

The blog team received notice today from our neighbors located in the area of Post #22 that on the evenings of January 4th and 5th a total of three cars are known to have been broken into.

Not an Actual Thief - Added for Dramatic Impact Only!

If possible, please keep your driveway and porch lights lit.  Well lit areas tend to detour criminal activity. Please keep a watchful eye out for any suspicious activities.  For your safety, do not try to intervene or apprehend any burglary suspects on your own, but do immediately call 911 and report any concerns.

Our best defense against these criminals is to remain alert and look out for each other.  You can also keep track of police activity in your neighborhood through the following online crime reporting web site: 

http://www.crimereports.com/

They're At It Again!

Now that the polar bears and super hero's have returned to the warm and cozy confines of the indoors, that can only mean that not far off in the future hordes of people will again be expected to be roaming the rails wearing little more than a great big smile during the Annual No Pants Subway Ride on Sunday, January 9th! 

The No Pants Subway Ride is an annual event organized by New York City prank collective Improv Everywhere. In this event, members of the group enter a subway car at consecutive stops without pants in the middle of winter. Participants pretend that they do not know each other and if asked, claim that they simply "forgot" their pants. The first No Pants Subway Ride took place in 2002 with seven riders and has grown since then. In 2010 over 1,200 people participated in New York and over 1,000 more participated in 21 other cities around the world.  Seattle celebrated the event for the first time last year and an even larger crowd is expected this year.  

For more details regarding this event, please refer to the Emerald City Improv Website.  Additional “coverage” is available online at the Highline Times and SeaTac Blog.  In case you were wondering… No, I am not planning to ride, I’m still thawing from New Years Day!

2011 Polar Bear Plunge!

The weather for the first day of 2011 proved to be nothing less than spectacular. The skies were cloudless and a bright blue. The air temperature was a crisp 24 degrees… yep, you read that right, twenty four degrees – perfect for any polar bear! but for humans?

The stage was set to greet the polar plunge participants and onlookers.  Pattie Lenz pleasantly surprised us by welcoming all onto her property next door to the Manor Beach to enjoy a nice fire burning with an offering of Mimosas to help kinder the spirits. The Five Corners Starbucks Coffee House in Burien provided fresh brewed coffee and cocoa fixings to go with homemade cookies provided by TaniRae’s mother in law!  

Over thirty guests were on hand to witness a total of ten swimmers join hands and rush into the frigid waters of Angle Lake.  The goal, to swim to the dive platform!  While a few came short of this goal, six actually made it there and back and for this they were awarded a special prize in recognition of this achievement – a Polar Bear Sucker. (read into that however you wish!)

Photo by Nicholas Johnson

We’d like to thank Bryce and Pattie for their hospitality in helping host this event. A note of appreciation to the SeaTac Fire Department for being onsite to ensure that all swimmers who went into the water did in fact come out again!  Thanks to both the SeaTac Blog and Highline Times for dispatching photographers to capture the images of this event and to our commercial sponsor Starbucks Coffee for providing the warm beverages.  Additional photos of the event may be viewed HERE.

Wishing you a Happy and Prosperous New Year!