Attention youth and students! This year’s Youth Summit planning is underway, so if you’d like to get involved and/or if you’re looking for service learning hours, please contact estevan@youthmediaseattle.org. Youth Media Institute and other youth organizations at Youngstown have been longtime partners and supporters of White Center CDA. Last year, the youth summit was held in White Center, and this year it will include all of our South Seattle communities, so expect a larger event and even more fun!

This was sent to us from Darlene Sellers, White Center Teen Program Recreation Coordinator at King County Parks:

“Thank you all for your continued support of the White Center Teen Program Aztec Soccer Team! The program is continuing to grow with over thirty committed players and two competitive teams. We are pleased to share that the younger team is playing in the U15 championship game this Saturday at 1:00 at Starfire sports complex (Interurban Ave S & Fort Dent Way, Tukwila). If by chance you happen to be in the Tukwila neighborhood this weekend - we’d love to see you there. The game runs for a total of 45 minutes and will be played indoors on field 2. Admission is free but Starfire will most likely be collecting $5 for parking. Thanks again for your support and please have a great weekend”

Go Aztecs! If you missed the video documentary on the team, click here to watch it.

Got Green?, a program of the White Center CDA, produced a hip hop video highlighting the importance of green jobs, green initiatives, and energy conservation. This video debuted at the 2009 White Center Community Summit in December; featuring longstanding Seattle hip hop figureheads Silver Shadow D, Laura “Piece” Kelley, and more.

After watching that, check out Got Green’s partner organization Green For All’s hip hop video, The Dream Reborn (My President is Green):

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Brandon Decker, from Sedona, AZ, is a folk rock, singer songwriter, touring the West Coast in support of his new album. Check out his website at www.bdeckermusic.com.

Check out Let’s Get Lost at www.myspace.com/letsgetlosttogether.

For more information about Dubsea Coffee, check out Dubsea Coffee’s website.

Check out this video courtesy of our community partner, Youth Media Institute (YMI), featuring talented White Center youth (in front and behind the camera). Check out youthmediaseattle.org for more info about YMI. Happy Tuesday!

Local indie rock artist Damien Jurado wrote this song about White Center from his2005  LP, On My Way to Absence:

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Heard he shot another
No one knows a reason
It didn’t make the paper
It’s just another white lie
Here in white center
Here in white center
Here in white center
Here in white center

Can I take out the flowers?
Sunday packed the churches
Morning comes too slowly
For us who feel like victims
Here in white center
Here in white center
Here in white center
Here in white center

Turn off your headlights
Here comes a cop car
Music for the bad boys
Music for the good boys
Here in white center
Here in white center
Here in white center
Here in white center

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You can download this song and listen to new material at www.damienjurado.com.

From the Seattle Weekly’s Best of Seattle Reader’s poll:

Best Hardware Store: If it cuts, drills, rips, sands, buffs, sprays, or attaches itself to an air compressor, McLendon’s has your tool. And the lumber to go with it. 10210 16th Ave. S.W., 762-4090, and other locations, mclendons.com.

In addition, our blog neighbors in West Seattle were voted Best Blog:

Best Neighborhood Blog: They’ll be all up in a budget meeting or design review one minute, then reporting on shop cats and graffiti-tagged mailboxes the next. Be you NIMBY or YIMBY, so long as your BY is West Seattle, the West Seattle Blog has you covered. (MyBallard.com comes in a close second.)

Congrats to both!