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8 m.o.t.: member of the tribe JtNews . www.JtNews.Net . friday, November 2, 2012 Answers on page 11 Stand Up and Be Counted by Mike Selinker The Hebrew word “u’vacharta” means “choose.” It’s not just a verb, it’s a sacred obligation. There’s no getting through life without making choices. This November 6 presents us with several ballot items which could shape generations in our state. Choose wisely. ACROSS 1 Emulated the Big Bad Wolf 5 Outdated handhelds, for short 9 Illuminated 14 Gilda actress Hayworth 15 Late night Letterman rival 16 R&B singer Baker 17 If approved, Initiative 1185 would reaffirm that this requires a 2/3 majority in both Houses 20 “I don’t care much about that” 21 Largest number on a sundial 22 Pacific ___ 23 Painter Matisse 25 In unison 28 If approved, Initiative 1240 would authorize 40 of these 32 Audibly show derision 33 “Yes,” to 23-Across 34 Lavish attention (on) 35 ___-pah band 36 Stayed away from 40 Where a 65-year-old vet may have fought 41 With 12-Down, Pac-12 athlete 43 Employ 44 Muscat resident 46 If approved, Initiative 502 would make this a reality 50 Old-timey photo color 51 NBA commissioner David 52 Livestock enclosure 53 Observe 54 Happy dance 57 If approved, Referendum 74 would allow this 63 Gig booker 64 “Downward-facing dog” discipline 65 Company that may bring foundation to your doorstep 66 False 67 Cherry Poppin’ Daddies hit “___ Suit Riot” 68 Das Kapital author Karl DOWN 1 Top of a coffee cup 2 Feature of a checkout stand or a pickup artist 3 Engrave with acid 4 Even if it’s civil, it’s not civil 5 Lamentation 6 Deep yearning 7 Singer-songwriter DiFranco 8 Luke, to Vader 9 About time for a party to end 10 Snippy 11 StubHub buys, slangily 12 See 41-Across 13 Faux ___ 18 Puts forth, as effort 19 George’s comedy partner 23 Guffaw bit 24 They decrease things? 26 Former White House speechwriter Peggy 27 Seattle bagel shop with a 100-square-foot crossword grid on its wall 28 $100 bills 29 Tribute 30 Sky light? 31 Eighteen-wheeler 32 With 45-Down, Sam & Dave classic covered by the Blues Brothers 37 Having a heart 38 Country whose largest 2011 export was fuel 39 More morose 42 Transpires 45 See 32-Down 47 Deceives 48 “We’re approved!” 49 Mock 54 Island whose name is slang for coffee 55 Archetypal hunchback 56 Boomers’ kids 57 ___ Rafael, CA 58 In the past 59 Encountered 60 Acronym that suggests one’s fly is undone 61 Barnyard sound 62 Words before Legend or Sam in film © 2012 Eltana Wood-Fired Bagel Cafe, 1538 12th Avenue, Seattle. All rights reserved. Puzzle created by Lone Shark Games, Inc. Edited by Mike Selinker and Mark L. Gottlieb. M.O.T.: Made on premises • Making a difference on Mercer island diana bRement JtNews Columnist 1 That funky part of The Ave — Seattle’s University Avenue — above NE 50th St., has some fun restaurants, including Jaclyn Roth’s Fat Ducks Deli and Bakery in a converted house at 5509. Open for about a year, Fat Ducks has gotten high marks for corned beef, but the pastrami is delicious, too. An energetic dynamo who baked, served and made sandwiches while we talked, Jaclyn learned about food working in her dad’s restaurant. He opened Don’s Drive-In restaurant near her Livingston, N.J., hometown, turning it into a 250-seat popular “gourmet deli restaurant” that earned a “best hamburger in the state” award. “He was a great, great man,” says Jaclyn of her recently deceased dad. “He meant the world to me.” She got a lot of recipes from him and from his mother, a “typical Jewish mother” who thought her son was crazy, of course, to open a restaurant. Don’s six kids all worked in the restaurant, but none took it over. After studying business at the University of New Hampshire, Jaclyn worked in the airline industry and moved to Seattle about 25 years ago. Eventually, she left the skies for cooking. She started working at another local restaurant, Blazing Bagels, when it was just a “hole in the wall” in Redmond — much like Fat Ducks is now. There she cooked and baked for owner Dennis Ballen, doing “the fun stuff,” so he could go out and sell. Dennis is her “best friend,” Jaclyn says, a huge support, “an intricate part of this establishment [who] has helped me like you wouldn’t believe.” She uses his bagels and his pastrami supplier, and when Dennis visits his mom in California, he can’t show up without a batch of Jaclyn’s rugelach. m.o.t. member of the tribe Speaking of rugelach, I sampled three flavors, including late food writer Eileen Mintz’s recipe from “Yesterday’s Maven’s, Today’s Foodies,” the Washington State Jewish Historical Society cookbook. Jaclyn also bakes black and white cookies (oh, Brooklyn, I can hear you calling!), hamen- diaNa bremeNt Can a sandwich be an M.o.T.? This one might. it’s Fat Ducks’ reuben, hold the cheese. tara gimmer Mercer island Councilwoman Tana senn. taschen, blondies, thick lemon bars, savory bagel chips and more. She doesn’t corn her own beef, but seasons it and re-bakes it on premises. Jaclyn often works 12-hour days at this, her first business venture. She admits it’s risky, but she’s happy to take the chance. “I just jumped into this,” at the urging of friends, she says. “Life’s too short, so I just did it.” With little time for hobbies or breaks, the self-confessed “workaholic” says when she gets too burned out she’ll jump on a plane to visit East Coast family, or to Hawaii, and “sleep and veg for a whole week.” 2 Ten months ago, Tana Senn was appointed to the Mercer Island city council. “It’s so great,” she says. “I love being able to see the tangible difference.” The L.A. native says she gets involved in the community wherever she moves. When she was a new island resident, she “was amazed to see” that there were no women on the council. Concerned about some poor policy decisions, she helped get a new council member — a woman — elected. She volunteered on the city’s youth and family services department board, too, before she was appointed to the council. From 2008 to 2010, Tana was the marketing and communications director at the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle. She left to stay home with her kids, Ben, 10, and Rachel, 7, and calls this part-time job “a perfect combination.” Some projects she”s worked on with the council are “repairing sidewalks, repairing the roads, no smoking in the park.” Island Crest Way, the island’s major arterial, now has wider sidewalks and a wider shoulder between cars and pedestrians. “Just walking my kids to [the local public] school I can see the difference [in safety],” she says. Tana sits on the council’s utilities committee, too — “kind of wonky,” she says, X Page 16
friday, November 2, 2012 . www.JtNews.Net . JtNews commuNity News 9 The new link between seattle’s police and the Jewish community tim klass JtNews Correspondent After serving in the Marine Corps and National Guard and earning a bachelor of science degree at The Evergreen State College, Bryan Bright narrowed his job search down to the Seattle police and the Oregon State Police. Concerned he might be assigned to Eastern Oregon, where he and his wife felt it would be difficult to give their two children a Jewish upbringing, he chose Seattle. Now, after spending the intervening 12 years as a patrol officer in Seattle’s North End, Bright has been named the police department’s liaison to the city’s Jewish community. “One of my first goals is to go to all the locations [of Jewish institutions in the city] and make introductions and get to meet people,” he said in an interview in the North Precinct lobby. About four months into the job, Bright says he has visited the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle, the local office of the Anti- Defamation League, Temple De Hirsch Sinai, “and I think all the locations in the North Precinct” in his new capacity, with the exception of two congregations. Besides those two shuls, he is eager to visit synagogues in other parts of town and other community groups and institutions, a process he expects will take three to four months to complete. Bright also was happy to learn of a twoday training program on security issues the Federation is sponsoring for public information officers in January. “I made sure our media-relations section knew about the training,” he said. The SAFE Washington statewide Jewish security program “is another thing that I’ve made people aware of — the [police] Community Outreach Office, the chain of command — that if there’s ever an incident at a Jewish location after-hours and we can’t find a Jewish representative, SAFE Washington has a 24-hour contact number where somebody can be reached,” Bright said. The liaison officer program was started by former Chief Norm Stamper about two decades ago with the African American community, said Lt. Carmen Best, a 20-year Seattle police veteran who has run the outreach office for two years. Others added over the years are for the East African, Korean, Southeast Asian, Filipino, Latino, Native American, Muslim, Sikh, Arab, and lesbian-gay-bisexual-transgender-queer communities. “I’m excited to have [Bright] do that,” she said. Like Bright, each liaison remains responsible for all of his or her regular patrol duties. Police designate a liaison only when “the community decides that’s something they want to do” and an officer expresses interest in the role, she added. “It’s communities that they’re associated with,” Best said. “It’s work they enjoy doing.” Unlike Bright, all the others deal with an advisory council that is formed as part of the liaison program, she said. Best and Bright said a similar council for the Jewish community would probably be superfluous. tim klass officer Bryan Bright of the seattle Police Department, the new liaison between the department and the Jewish community, at his North Precinct office. “I think the Jewish community had made a lot of those [internal] connections without having a liaison officer,” Bright said. “The department didn’t necessarily know that there was this [degree of] connection within the community.” Liaisons between the Jewish community and police departments exist nationwide. San Francisco has long had such a program, as have Philadelphia and Phoenix, and shomrim, or guard, societies, in places with larger Jewish communities such as New York work with local police as well. At this early stage, Bright is unclear as to how liaison work might extend into Jewish neighborhoods and institutions in suburban areas covered by Bellevue police, the King County Sheriff’s office and other local agencies. “This is pretty new for me. I’m not sure yet,” he said. “It’s an intriguing idea. “I don’t know what kind of jurisdictional issues it’ll create. I would certainly be willing to work with the community in Bellevue or on the Eastside, but jurisdictionally I don’t know if that would create any conflicts.” Bright grew up in the Kansas City area and his wife in a suburb of St. Louis. They live with their son, 15, and daughter, who recently turned 13, near Fort Lewis, south of Tacoma, about 40 miles from his 3 a.m.to-noon patrol job. The family is active in Temple Beth El in Tacoma. 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