Our friends at the Des Moines Police Department want our Readers to know the following about emergency preparedness:
If you have turned on a television, picked up a newspaper or surfed the internet recently, it would almost be impossible to not see the latest devastation left by several major earthquakes around the world.
What if the Puget Sound region experienced a major earthquake today? How ready would YOU be?
It is a fact that professional responders (Police, Fire and Medical) will be overwhelmed during a disaster. The disasters we face in our region could be as devastating as an earthquake or as minimal as a power outage. To an unprepared resident, both examples could result in the loss of life. By participating in the “Prepare in a Year” program and dedicating just an hour each month to an emergency preparedness activity, by this time next year, you and your family will be ready for disasters–whenever they occur!
Simply visit www.desmoineswa.gov/prepareinayear and click on one of the monthly preparedness activities. A detailed description of the activity will open and provide further instruction. You will also find “How To” videos and other useful preparedness information.
The Des Moines Police Department offers several other emergency and disaster preparedness programs. For more information, contact Community Service Officer Batterman at 206-870-7617 or by email at kbatterman@desmoineswa.gov.
Our very Des Moines Police Department’s Police Blotter continues, with fresh, local crime news information fed to us directly from our good friends at the DMPD.
This week’s crimes include an interrupted residential burglary, with the suspect’s shoe left behind, and a self-proclaimed gang member pleading guilty to robbery charges.
Here’s the Blotter for the week ending Mar. 5, 2010:
DES MOINES POLICE BLOTTER NEWS (March 5, 2010)
Interrupted Residential Burglary:
Des Moines PD Requests Help with Identifying Owner of Shoe – On March 4th at about 9:40 AM a 19-year old resident was asleep in the basement area of his residence when he was awaken to the sounds of breaking glass. When he opened his bedroom door he saw a teenage male standing in the hallway. The burglar ran out through the garage and into the backyard, losing a shoe (see photos below). The victim saw two additional suspects also exit out of the garage.This incident occurred in the S. 22900 block of 21st Ave. South. The primary suspect is described as an African American male, with a dark colored hoodie and dark colored beanie style hat. The recovered shoe is a Jordan “Spiz’ike” size 10.
Here are pics of the suspect’s left-behind shoe – recognize it, or know anyone who fits the description walking around with just one shoe?
Anyone with information is asked to call the Des Moines Police Department at 206-878-3301 and reference Case 10-0495.
Des Moines 20 Year Old Pleads Guilty on Robbery Charges:
A 20-year old self proclaimed gang member plead guilty “as charged” on March 3rd to one “Attempted Robbery 1” and one count of “Robbery 2.”He also plead guilty to a second count of “Robbery 2” from an incident that took place in the City of Kent. The first robbery attempt occurred on June 24th, 2009 while the victims were waiting for a bus near 20th Ave. South and S. Kent-Des Moines Road. The second robbery took place in the S. 22300 block of 30th Ave. South on August 25th, 2009.
The suspect was armed with a handgun during both incidents. Des Moines Detectives filed both cases with the Gang Emphasis Unit of the King County Prosecutor’s Office.
The man is scheduled for sentencing on March 12th. He faces 43 to 57 months in prison. Charges have been filed on accomplices in both cases.
REMINDER: The 6th Annual Poverty Bay Wine Festival kicks off tonight (Friday, March 5th) with a black-tie “A Night in the Vineyard” gala party starting at 7:30pmat the Landmark Event Center right here in Des Moines.
Gala tickets are $75 in advance or $85 at the door, and include a buffet catered by Anthony’s HomePort, unlimited wine tasting, and live music by the Steve Ryals Trio and Ed Taylor & TaylorMade, plus free admission to the wine tasting event on Saturday or Sunday. Several premium wines and other exclusive items will be offered at a silent auction.
Sponsored by the Des Moines Rotary Club, this annual wine festival will run through Sunday March 7th at the historic and grand Landmark Event Center (formerly Landmark on the Sound) in Des Moines. Guests will enjoy live jazz and great food while tasting wines from 25 Northwest wineries.
“The wine festival gala is the hottest ticket in town,” says Des Moines Rotary President Lisa Meineke. “Everybody has a great time! People come back year after year. And this year we have new wineries and more wineries than ever before.”
The fun continues on Saturday and Sunday, with more wine tasting, food, and live music. Saturday’s music line-up includes Darren Motamedy and 4th Degree. On Sunday, it’s Rouge and Billet-Deux. Local restaurants and gourmet food vendors will sample breads, cheeses, smoked salmon, chocolates and other fine fare.
Tickets for Saturday and Sunday are just $20 in advance or $25 at the door. Gala tickets are $75 in advance or $85 at the door. Tickets can be purchased at Corky Cellars in Des Moines (206-824-9462) or at www.dmrotary.org.
Through the Poverty Bay Wine Festival, the Rotary Club of Des Moines has raised over $150,000 in its five-year history. All proceeds fund a wide variety of charitable projects, including college scholarships, grants to local schools, safety and recreation programs for children, yard projects for elderly residents, support for the local food bank and the homeless, and projects to assist needy people as far away as South Africa and Pakistan.
“People can come to the wine festival to have fun and discover some great wines and feel really good about what they are contributing to the community at the same time,” says wine festival chair Brian Snure. “There are so many needs in our community and in our world right now. What better way to give?”
HOURS:
- Saturday, March 6: 12:00 PM – 7:00 PM
- Sunday March 7: 12:00 PM – 5:00 PM
WINERIES:
- Canyon’s Edge
- Chandler Reach
- Covington Cellars – NEW
- Coyote Canyon Winery – NEW
- Burien’s own E.B. Foote Winery (BTB Advertiser)
- Eaton Hill
- Erin Glenn
- Fall Line
- Five Star Cellars
- Fort Walla Walla Cellars – NEW
- Kestrel – NEW
- Knipprath – NEW
- Masset Winery
- Otis Kenyon
- Page Cellars
- Pondera – NEW
- Sleeping Dog
- Sodo Vino – NEW
- Stina’s Cellar
- Two Vintners – NEW
- Vashon Winery
- Vin du Lac – NEW
- Waving Tree
- Willis Hall
- Windy Point
MUSIC:
- Friday, March 5 (Gala):
- Saturday, March 6:
- 12:30-3:00: Darren Motamedy Duo
- 3:30-6:30: 4th Degree
- Sunday, March 7:
- 12:30-2:30: Rouge
- 3:00-5:00: Billet-Deux
For more information, please visit www.dmrotary.org. We’ll see you there tonight!
by Feel Good Friday is Buzzing!!!!
Last summer, my five year-old daughter, Helena, and I went for a walk with our dogs down to the Beach Park in Des Moines. It was a little misty and cool, a pretty standard late August morning. While walking through the park, we ran into my ten year-old son, Aden and his buddy, Elijah, riding their bikes. For the previous three days, the boys had been scouring the town with the fairly newfound freedom of being able to ride around un-chaperoned. I remember this time in my life very fondly.
Upon seeing me in the park, my son’s eyes lit up a little bit in excitement to see me. He was playing it pretty cool, but he was genuinely happy to see me or maybe more happy for me to see him being independent.
“What are you clowns up to?” I asked, casually.
“Not much. We were just throwing rocks at a beehive. Want to see?” Aden replied.
A tiny, but powerful electric impulse hit me.
“Do I want to see!!?!! Of course, I want to see!!” I thought, frantically. Beehives still excite me and it will be a sad day when I pass up an opportunity to check one out. As we headed to the back of the park, I felt the rare and beautiful anticipation of something cool about to happen. When we got to the beehive, I saw that it was a dandy! It was a big hive and the bees were thick and swarming pretty good. It hung about ten-feet high in a wide-open hole between the branches of a maple tree.
I gently questioned Aden if he remembered how it felt when he stepped on a honeybee in our yard a couple of weeks earlier. His scream had been heard for blocks. He responded with, “Oh, yeah!” Enough said. It was a subtle, yet effective warning, a father’s duty. Upon clearing my parental conscience, I picked up a good-sized rock and hucked it. I hit the hive hard and square, then scooped up my daughter and ran with a wild-eyed smile on my face. Just behind me, laughing the hysterical laugh of fear and fun, the boys peddled furiously. We were all laughing that laugh. We managed to outrun the bees and were unharmed. I suppose this story would not be told had we been stung, as I’m sure my wife would have made re-living this moment un-fun, probably forever. Nonetheless, we lived to tell the tale and though there are many things that I am eagerly waiting to outgrow, chucking rocks at beehives is not one of them. I have become convinced that a small fragment of youth resides, untarnished by work deadlines and house payments, in each hurled stone, waiting to make a man a boy again.
On a cool August morning in my son’s 10th year, I was able to surprise him by truly sharing his excitement and letting one fly!! From the moment the rock left my fingers, I had, in some small, though not insignificant way, changed, to him. I wasn’t just Dad, the rule-maker and fun-taker. He saw that I was capable of something else, something more. I had the potential to be more to him. He’s not sure what yet, but I got him thinking and that’s a start.
It was a good day.
[EDITOR'S NOTE:"Feel Good Friday" is a regular column written by Des Moines resident Dave Markwell, who extols to all neighbors: "Enjoy where we live. Put your feet on the pavement and truly feel how great it is to live here!"]
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The Rotary Club of Des Moines has announced that their Sixth Annual Poverty Bay Wine Festival will be held on Saturday, March 6th, from Noon– 7pm, and Sunday, March 7th from Noon – 5pm at the historic Landmark Event Center (formerly Landmark on the Sound) right here in Des Moines.
To help you keep tabs on when this event starts, check out our Live Countdown Timer in the right sidebar!
This event is a must for anyone who loves wine, as well as for anyone who wants to support the work of Rotary, which supports schools and families in our community and around the world or anyone who enjoys an afternoon of good food, good wine and great music.
“The wine festival is an opportunity for wine-lovers to come taste samples from 25 Northwest wineries,” said Rotary spokesperson Catherine Carbone-Rogers. “All of the wineries typically offer two, three, or four different wines. Each winery will have wine by the bottle for sale. The festival is also a great opportunity to see the newly-restored Landmark Event Center, a unique architectural gem of the Des Moines community. Many people have driven by for years but have never had the opportunity to see the interior.”
What can participants expect while at the event? Besides the wine tasting from 25 Northwest wineries, there will also be a sampling of food from local restaurants, along with numerous musical guests throughout the festival. Here’s the preliminary lineup:
Friday, March 5 (Gala):
Saturday, March 6:
Sunday, March 7:
For just $20, participants will receive a souvenir wine glass and ten tokens, a sampling of delicious foods, and live music. What if you run out? Don’t worry, there’ll be tokens for sale at the event.
Also, for all you non-wine drinkers out there, Pikes Brewing will also have a booth.
Major sponsors are Anthony’s HomePort, 98.9 KWJZ, Landmark Event Center, Fred Meyers, Powell Brothers Custom Homes, Highline Times/Des Moines News, Kent Reporter and The Waterland Blog and its sister sites.
The opening night Gala will be Friday, March 5th at 7:30pm at the Landmark Event Center. The theme is A Night in the Vineyard. A lavish buffet will be provided by Anthony’s HomePort. Tickets for the gala are $75 in advance, $85 at the door. The ticket price includes food, entertainment, and wine.
Wine Fesival tickets are priced at $20 in advance and $25 at the door. Tickets for the Wine Festival and Gala are available at Corky Cellars, located at 22511 Marine View Drive in Des Moines (206-824-9462); or online at www.dmrotary.org.
Poverty Bay Wine Festival is the major annual fundraiser for the Rotary Club of Des Moines. Lisa Meineke is the club President and Brian Snure is chair of the wine festival.
The main purpose is to raise funds for the charitable projects of the Rotary Club of Des Moines that include:
- Financial and volunteer support of Des Moines Food Bank
- Financial and volunteer support for Fireworks Over Des Moines on the Fourth of July annually
- “Dictionaries by the Dozens”: Rotary provides a new children’s dictionary to every third grade student in Des Moines
- Mini-grants of up to $1000 to schools or teachers in Des Moines for special projects
- College scholarship of $2,500 to a Highline Community College student
- Pacific Middle School essay contest
- Funding for after school program at Pacific Middle school
- Financial support to Highline Schools Foundation for Excellence, a non-profit benefiting Highline Public Schools
- Financial support for a women’s shelter in South Africa
- Purchase of sewing machines for women in Peru so they can generate income
“We hope to have more attendees than ever this year,” Carbone-Rogers added. “Each year, we have taken the wine festival up a notch with the number of wineries, the entertainment, and the food. The gala is classier every year, and the Landmark Event Center is an amazing venue. We also hope that people coming to the event will get interested in Rotary and join us in our work to support community causes and families,” she added.
For more information on the Des Moines Rotary, please click here: http://dmrotary.org/aboutrotary.php.
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