Crime: UPS Package and Car Ransacked and Seattle Night Out

We received this message via Facebook yesterday:

WARNING!!!! We live on Jacobsen Road and came home to my package delivered from UPS open and item stolen. Be aware of mail thieves and package thieves.

And learned from another neighbor by Jacobsen/Beach Drive that their car was ransacked….nothing was stolen because nothing was left to steal.  However the creeps left the glove box open and it was apparent someone had gone through the car looking for valuables.

Seattle Night Out is less than a month away on August 7th – let's have a HUGE turn out. If you're planning a SNO around Beach Drive, please comment and let us know or send me a private email.

Beautiful Sunset Photo

Orangey sky sunset
Compliments of West Seattle Herald

Child being paddled off Beach Drive

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photo credit: Scupper

Rainbow overhead

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Now if I was only fast enough with my camera to have caught the bald eagle being chased by crows… 

Buy some Bings TOMORROW at Emma Schmitz View Point [Corrected]

Tomorrow, June 28, 2012 from 11:00 – 1:00 pm at at Emma Schmitz Memorial View Point, you can buy Bing Cherries and help raise funds for Jessica Oldwyn who is fighting a brain tumor.  More info here.

Look for a maroon Dodge truck with a trailor.  

I can't think of a more delicious fundraiser, can you?

HAT TIP: Tracy from WSB.  I initally posted the wrong date…blaming our new puppy for (happily) wearing me out 

Sea Lion or Seal?

At first glance, we didn’t realize this was a sea lion (or seal?) floating by.

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Hoping this fella is feeling well and just enjoying the last evening of Spring. We caught these photos just in front of Emma Schmitz Memorial View Point.

FOUND: Two Pugs [REUNITED]

UPDATE: Great news!! The pugs owner has been located! This happy event calls for a little song.

Thanks to all of the neighbors who helped reunite the pugs with their humans!

A black and fawn Pug have just been found wandering along Beach Drive just north of Jacobson.  A neighbor is caring for them hoping their owners are able to pick them up soon.

If you are missing your pups (they appear to be 2 years or younger) please let us know!

Me Kwa Mooks Illuminated at Night

Lights at West Seattle's Me Kwa Mooks

Photo compliments of Patrick Robinson of West Seattle Herald

Lights installed at Me Kwa Mooks/Emma Schmitz Park

Lights have been installed to help improve safety at Emma Schmitz/Me Kwa Mooks Park. This will help illuminate the lower park along the water which has very little visibility from the street.  The lights have been added to existing light poles.

 

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photo on left is before the additional light was added

 

This is the area where Greggette Guy may have been murdered earlier this year.  

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Many Beach Drive neighbors and others who typically walk this area are familiar with seeing grafiti and other crimes take place in this section of the park.  

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Let's hope shedding some light in this secluded area helps to make this park a safer place for all.

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The addition of lights to this area of Beach Drive is one of the recommendations from the community safety walk that took place at the beginning of this month. Hat tip to Tazi's human for sharing this tip with us.

Shhhh…. Happening Now in the Sound…

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Don’t look now… but a sub appears to be a sub passing by Bainbridge Island. Hat tip to “Cat Woman”.