The Presentation Show will be held Saturday, Oct. 8th starting at 3 p.m. (box office opens at 2 p.m.), and the Finals Show will be held Sunday, Oct. 9th starting at 1 p.m. (box office opens at 11:30 a.m.).

The Highline Performing Arts Center is located at 401 South 152nd Street, next to Highline High School.

Tickets range from $10 – $50, and can be purchased online here or by calling 1-800-838-3006, and it appears that the show is open to the public.

“Finalists will not be announced until after the start of the Finals show…so obviously, family, friends and fans will want to attend BOTH the Preliminary Show AND the Finals show,” reads the show’s website. “You may bring signs, letters, posters, photos, etc. to hold up during the competitions but please be thoughtful of the people seated behind you as they will want to see the staging as well. NO AIR HORN please.”

REMEMBER…NO AIR HORNS ALLOWED! So don’t bring ‘em!

More info here.

VIDEOS: Here are some videos from last year’s pageant held in Burien:

Click here to view the embedded video.

Click here to view the embedded video.

Burien’s Hospitality House will be holding its 10th annual ‘Walk for the Women’ fundraiser starting at 9:30 a.m. on Saturday, Sept. 24th.

The event will start at Burien Town Square, and you can register by downloading a PDF here.

“I was so depressed when I became homeless and I saw no future or hope for myself. I now have a future because of your care,” said Sherrie M., a Hospitality House client.

If you can’t participate in the walk but want to help out, you can donate directly online here.

Here are the details:

WHAT: Hospitality House’s 10th annual ‘Walk for the Women’ fundraiser.

WHEN: Saturday, September 24, 2011; Registration begins at 9:30 a.m.

WHERE: Burien Town Square, located at SW 152nd and 5th Place SW in downtown Burien.

INFO: 2011 Walk for the Women Sponsors include:

• Linn, Schisel & DeMarco
• Burien Chevrolet, Inc.
• Burien Toyota
• Exchange Club of Highline
• H & R Block Burien
• Valley Medical Center
• Tradewinds Freight Forwarding, Inc.
• Law offices of Nancy L. Sorensen
• Air Wave Express
• William Thompson DDS Ps
• Radison Hotel Airport
• 909 Coffee and Wine
• Bayview limousine Service, Inc
• Seahurst Dental Design
• Collins Chiropractic

(Click Here to download a PDF sponsorship form)

Be sure to “Like” Hospitality House on Facebook here, or visit their website here.

Here’s a video with more info about this worthy, local non-profit:

Click here to view the embedded video.

Bet on local women’s causes, literally, with Cards for a Cause on Saturday, May 14 from 6 p.m. to midnight at the Normandy Park Cove.

Cards for a Cause is a charity casino night and silent auction hosted by Soroptimist International of Seattle South. Proceeds will benefit Highline Community College Women’s Programs and Hospitality House Women’s Shelter.

Participants can play blackjack for fantastic baskets and prizes donated by local businesses and Soroptimist members. The more play money a participant wins the more raffle tickets the participant receives or a chance at prizes.

There will be a Texas Hold’em Tournament at 6:30 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. with two semi-final tables. All eight players at the Grand Final table will get prizes.

First place is a trip for two to see the LA Lakers in Los Angeles, including airfare and hotel room.

Players will also enjoy scrumptious food donated by the Mark Restaurant, a no-host full bar and music.

Space is limited, so preregistration is encouraged. The poker tournament fee is $40 with preregistration and $50 on the day of the tournament; both provide a $5,000 value in poker chips. General admission is $25 with preregistration and $35 on the day of the event; both provide a $2,500 value in poker chips.

Preregistration for the Texas Hold’em tournament is recommended by contacting Patti Gifford at 206-227-4848 or pattigifford2@gmail.com, or going online to SoroptimistSeattleSouth.com.

The Soroptimists’ tagline is ”Soroptimist means ‘Best for Women.’ Soroptimists are women at their best helping other women to be their best.” The group is a volunteer service organization comprised primarily of women in business, management and the professions.

Normandy Park Cove is located at 1500 S.W. Shorebrook Dr. in Normandy Park.

For more information, call Patti Gifford at 206-227-4848.

Burien’s Hospitality House will be holding its annual Spring Fling Dinner and Auction on Saturday, March 5th at Highline Community College.

“2011 is a special anniversary for the House – Ten Years,” they said in a statement. “In this time, over 700 women residents have been served, over 45,000 bed nights were provided and an equal number of home-prepared, evening meals were delivered with love and care. Residents, with staff assistance, prepared detailed weekly plans to take them from homelessness to stable housing and hope.”

Here are the details:

WHAT: Hospitality House’s annual Spring Fling Dinner and Auction.

WHEN: Saturday, March 5th, doors open at 6pm.

WHERE: Highline Community College Student Union building (2400 S. 240 Street in Des Moines).

INFO: From their website:

Join us in celebrating this milestone at our Spring Fling Dinner and Fundrasier at Highline Community College on March 5th.

Join us in our continued commitment to this greater community effort to help Homless Women to find Home, Health and Hope.

PARTNERS:

• Women’s Program at Highline
• Three Tree Point Yacht Club,
• Poverty Bay Sail and Power Squadron

SPEAKER: Erin Hennessey, News Director at KPLU (NPR radio in Tacoma)

MUSIC: Mary Magdalene Choir; The Church of Mary Magdalene is a diverse Christian community of homeless and formerly homeless women. Their Choir provides music at their worship and at away events.

MC: Stacie Latimer

TICKETS: $50 per ticket, Tables of 8, 7 and 6 are available for $50 per ticket (capacity: up to 300).

Tickets available for purchase online here.

The Highline Historical Society is teaming up with Burien Little Theatre to do a free performance of the play “Women’s Votes, Women’s Voices” on Saturday, Dec. 4th at 2pm.

Adapted by Book-It Repertory Theatre from the book “Women’s Votes, Women’s Voices” by Shanna Stevenson, the play chronicles the struggle of women to win the right to vote in Washington State 100 years ago.

Here are the details:

WHAT: Highline Historical Society and Burien Little Theatre’s presentation of “Women’s Votes, Women’s Voices”

WHEN: Saturday, Dec. 4th at 2pm

WHERE: Burien Little Theatre. located at 425 SW 144th. Parking is just north of the skateboard park.

INFO: This performance is FREE, and is made possible through support from 4Culture.

Elderly women are at risk when driving at night – from Police.

Many older women must realize personal risks when stopped by police. Why? We are not schooled in avoiding “suspicious” behavior.

Did you know that the following personal idiosyncrasies can and are labeled drug behaviors:

• Fast speech (when nervous)
• Flushing ( when humiliated)
• Red eyes (if they provoke tears)
• Having ANY unmarked medication on your person or in your car, (aspirin, Zantac, tylenol, etc.)?
• Misinterpreting questions (hard of hearing)
• And finally being too nervous to keep up with their fast, curt directions

An experience involving using brights after turning from a side street to HWY 99 ended in a 4-hour interrogation. Handcuffed and driven by a lone man for a long distance in the dark, left a terrified, violated, helpless (handcuffed) woman. Police report stated “polite and cooperative” responses. All charges were dropped. Except a $200.00 bill for having the car towed.

Unable to sleep, refusal to drive at night and panic around police cars has lingered since the event August 23. It will not resolve. Why?

How will you respond when you now know their report will exaggerate your every word, gesture and mistake? Many mistakes were made in naive belief that the police were experienced enough to differentiate simple error from drug-induced responses. How would I respond again if stopped – when panic is felt just recalling the incident? Think about this and talk to all who may offer you some police savvy advice for avoiding this same experience.

Any thoughts for the rest of women at risk?

- Ruth Maloney

KING5.com is reporting that Jennifer Leigh Jennings, 37, of Burien, has been charged with malicious harassment for verbally and physically attacking two women Saturday at a Tukwila gas station.

The King County Prosecutors Office is charging Jennings with the crime of “malicious harassment,” which is considered a hate crime.

Jennings is accused of calling two Somali women “suicide bombers,” and slamming a car door on one of them.

She will be arraigned on Nov. 2nd.

According to KING’s report:

“It was humiliating,” says Imaan, one of the women who says she was attacked.

Imaan and her aunt Maryon, who are Somali, were buying gas at the Arco station at 154th and International Boulevard when Imaan says Jennings walked up to them and called them a terrorist.

“She was saying you’re a suicide bomber and you don’t know how to pump gas. You need to go back to your own country!” says Imaan.

Read the full story here.

Dear Scott Schaffer Schaefer, editor of the B-Town Blog-

On behalf of all of us at Hospitality House Shelter in Burien, thank you for supporting our Walk for the Women fundraiser on your blog (read our coverage here). The web allows us to reach so many more people than in the past and judging by the numbers of new supporters we met last Saturday, it is a valuable medium.

Our work is only possible through the generous donations of groups and individuals in our community. Each year we take about 80 women living on friend’s couches, in their cars or on our streets into our House for a fresh start and a much needed second chance. Through individual attention by our case managers, each women begins to work through her program of healing and rebuilding. Over 65% of the women that enter Hospitality House move into stable housing and a new life.

Thank you for your continued support and the support of your readers.

Sincerely-
Tammie Schacher
Hospitality House Board Chair

The League of Women Voters of King County South is hosting a Ballot Issues meeting on Wednesday, Oct. 13th from 6:30pm – 9pm at the Burien Library, 1st floor conference room.

Speakers will offer pros and cons for Initiatives 1053, 1098, 1100,1105, 1107 and King County Prop 1.

Here are the details:

WHAT: League of Women Voters Ballot Issues meeting.

WHEN: Wednesday, Oct. 13th from 6:30pm – 9pm

WHERE: Main Burien Library, located at 400 SW 152nd Street (206-243-3490).

INFO: The AAUW of Renton is co-sponsoring the event.

Refreshments will be served.

It will be a good chance to ask questions and become informed.

Anna Vornbrock of Advertiser Zizia told The B-Town Blog this week that:

“I’d like to say thank you to my super awesome customers by extending 20% OFF all (non sale) merchandise from now through Saturday, October 2nd.

We’ve recently received fresh shipments from the following:

• Jeweler, Naomi Campos
• Houston Llew Spirit Tile
• Papaya art panels, giclees, and 2011 calendar
• Halloween decorations
• PJ Salvage pajamas
  Funky Chunky Chocolate

“This is a perfect time to start your holiday shopping, or just find that unparalleled gift for someone you love.

Again, thank you for your support over the last three years, I am truly grateful,” she added.

Zizia is located in Olde Burien at 827 SW 152nd Street.

They’re hours are:

• Tuesday-Friday: 11am – 6pm
• Saturday 10:30am – 5pm (or 6ish)