Last Splash of Summer! September 25th.

Angle Lake Park

September 25th, 2021

Registered Swimmer Check In

8:30 AM

The swimmers are coming back to Angle Lake, SeaTac, WA this year!!! The Last Splash of Summer is the last open-water competitive racing event of the season for adults and kids swimmers. 

Interested in participating as a swimmer? 

Registration ends Thursday, September 23, 2021, at 11:59 pm PDT for any of the following events: 

• 500 Yards for 9 - 12-year-olds (this is a no-wetsuit event).  
• 1 Mile Wetsuit 
• 1 Mile No-Wetsuit 
• 2 Mile Wetsuit 
• 2 Mile No-Wetsuit 
• 1 Mile Julie Montiel Memorial *

This year will also feature 1 Mile Julie Montiel Friends and Family Swim. Fins, snorkels, masks, wetsuits, and swim buoys are allowed for this one event. Hand paddles are not allowed.

Race participant check-in starts at 8:30 AM; racing 9:00 and 12:00, and awards presentation will wrap things up from Noon to 1:00 PM.

Interested in volunteering for the event? 

Course Safety Spotters on a kayak, paddleboard, or aqua bike are needed (must bring your own floatation device). If you’re able to assist, show up at the park by 8:30 to attend a safety meeting, get a radio, and receive an area assignment.  

The Race Organizers will also need resources to deploy the buoys for the swim course in the evening of  Friday, September 24th. They will also need help in retrieving the buoys after the race on Saturday, September 25th.

If you have a boat available and are available to help, please contact Eric Durbin at ericdurban55@gmail.com or send a text message to 206-423-8043 indicating if you can help set out buoys, retrieve buoys or both!

October 26th - Public Hearing on Work-Release Facilities Moratorium

The SeaTac City Council passed an ordinance on Tuesday, August 31, 2021, establishing a temporary “moratorium” on creating new work-release facilities in the City. Comments may be sent to: publichearingcomment@seatacwa.gov

Within the rights of local control, SeaTac Municipal Code authorizes “Halfway House” uses within the Office/Commercial (O/CM), Community Business (CB), Community Business in the Urban Center (CB-C), and Regional Business Mix (RBX) zoning designations. “Halfway House” is defined as a “State licensed work/release facilities and other housing facilities serving as an alternative to incarceration” and is recognized as an Essential Public Facility. The City of SeaTac currently hosts approximately fifteen essential public facilities within the SeaTac city limits. Sea-Tac Airport, Interstate 5 and State Route Roadways 518 and 99, Light Rail and Lite Rail Station Facilities, Federal Detention Center are some examples.

Between February 2021 and August 2021, representatives of the City of SeaTac have been actively engaged with the Washington State Department of Corrections, stating concern for sighting a Work-Release Facility at the Sea-Tac Crest Motor Inn at 18845 Int’l Blvd.

On March 26, 2021, the City of SeaTac Mayor Erin Sitterley signed a letter requesting that the Washington Department of Corrections take action to address numerous concerns, including the effect a work release facility would have on SeaTac’s historically disadvantaged Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) community, and further noting that the establishment of a work-release facility will directly conflict and is incompatible with the City’s vision for SeaTac’s Urban Center and conflict with the hospitality industry focus of the Urban Center.

July 20, 2021, the City of SeaTac City Manager Carl Cole, together with the City Managers of the Cities of Burien, Des Moines, and Normandy Park, signed a joint letter to the Washington Department of Corrections again expressing numerous concerns and requesting, in part, that the Washington Department of Corrections take action to address impacts to social equity and the effects of concentrating Essential Public Facilities into a relatively small geographic area.

Responding to each of these letters, the Department of Correction further declined to take any meaningful action to address the stated concerns. On August 17, DOC indicated they would proceed with the evaluation of a work-release facility in SeaTac.

With consideration for the prevention of potential harm to public health, safety, welfare, and peace within our community, the City Council determined that review of ‘Halfway House’ development regulations is necessary to ensure the rules adopted in 1999 serve the good of the community in 2021, ensure compatibility between adjacent land uses, and are consistent within the City of SeaTac Comprehensive Plan. At the August 24 Special Council Meeting, the council voted to adopt an immediate moratorium that can remain for up to one year while a work plan for further study is completed. 

On October 26, 2021, the City Council will hold a public hearing on the moratorium in compliance with RCW 35A.63.220 and RCW 36.70A.390, welcoming comments on the matter.  Written comments sent to publichearingcomment@seatacwa.gov before 2 p.m. October 26 will be accepted and read into the record (up to 5 minutes). If you wish to provide remote oral comments at the hearing, click HERE to access further instructions.  

Get Involved. Helping Others

The Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) program educates volunteers about disaster preparedness for the hazards that may impact their area and provides training in basic disaster response skills, such as fire safety, light search and rescue, team organization, and disaster medical operations.

Local community members are invited to take free disaster response training classes taught by the Puget Sound Regional Fire Authority—these classes start in late September.

The Puget Sound Regional Fire Authority CERT program focuses on training individuals to help themselves and others following wide-spread emergencies and disasters. If a disastrous event overwhelms or delays the community’s professional response, CERT trained individuals can assist others by applying basic response and organizational skills. 

Those trained in basic CERT skills learn how to help others until professionals arrive. Classes will teach people how to:

• Organize a team to establish priorities and develop an action plan.
• Suppress small fires so they won’t turn into big problems. 
• Perform light search and rescue to help reduce life-threatening situations.
• Use triage and disaster medical operations to treat injuries.

Classes begin Sept. 28 on Tuesdays from 6 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. 

The last class is Saturday, Nov. 13 from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. For more information about the program click here. To register for the next session, click here. Classes will be held at a select fire station in Kent. 

Road Safety Survey

The City of SeaTac wants to hear from the Angle Lake Community to help us ensure that walking, rolling, driving, cycling, public transit and more are safe and comfortable for everyone who use our roads. 

Road safety can include a lot of different things from crosswalks, bike lanes, street lighting and reducing  and/or enforcing speed limits. A few examples of some recent local projects focused on this category include: Pedestrian Safety along International Boulevard, SeaTac/Airport Station area pedestrian improvement project and a several other initiatives.

As development of a comprehensive Local Road Safety Plan continues, input from citizens identifying the most critical road safety issues and collecting proposed improvements strategies is essential. To that end,  the city is undergoing a broad outreach through the use of a community web survey, key stakeholder interviews, and targeted focus groups. 

Please share your opinion by taking the Local Road Safety Online Survey! 

The survey will remain open and available for your input until Wednesday, September 15th. 

A Blazing Good Time with Fireman Oly

Calling all neighbors!  This third time will be better than a charm – 

it's going to be an all out three alarm! 

It's an Angle Lake Dock Concert and you are invited to attend by way of boat or anything that floats! It is with great pleasure that we send out this alert to inform you that Fireman Oly will be making a third return performance to the Shores of Angle Lake this Saturday, August 7th! 

This will surely be another wonderful evening featuring retro classic rock-n-roll favorites performed by Steve Olson (Fireman Oly). The weather is expected to be warm and the opportunity to visit with one another floating around will be nothing less than spectacular. We hope that you will join with us. 

The concert will begin at 5:30 pm and conclude by 8:00 pm. The location is along the north shore seventh house east of the Public Park. This event is free however, donations are encouraged. Cash contributions will be accepted at the concert.