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If you're going to convince kids to get up and get moving, the message needs to get to the adults in their lives too - and that's exactly what happened this past week during the Family Health and Fitness Carnival at West Seattle Elementary School .

The Amma, or hugging saint , meditates with hundreds of followers at the Seattle Center on Thursday.

This story originally ran on TheSunBreak in January. Following Thursday's amazing and awful collapse of I-5 over the Skagit River, it seems worthy of sharing here on CHS.

The timing was a coincidence - but, just hours after the Skagit River I-5 bridge collapse, firefighters from Seattle and other metro-area departments were here in West Seattle, practicing skills they would need if faced with a disaster or attack requiring people to be rescued from wreckage and debris.

We've just finished covering the third and, it appears, final Seattle Police -led public meeting about the surveillance cameras they've installed along with a wireless communication system, paid for by federal Department of Homeland Security dollars.

The Salish tribes' art is being revived in the Pacific Northwest, which had previously taken totem poles as its symbolic image It's impossible to picture the Pacific Northwest without the image of a totem pole.

It's no surprise that the city that gave the world Jimi Hendrix and Nirvana rocks to the beat of great music, and while Seattle's legacy may be grunge, the city's venues leave no musical stone unturned Located just across the street from the picture-perfect Pike Place Market, the Showbox at the Market is a Seattle legend.

The Norwegian Community in Ballard has selected Robyn Emery to represent them this year as a Seafair Princess.

May 16, 7:28 p.m., 6200 Block of 4th Ave NW -- A victim called police reporting that her home had been burglarized.

We start today's West Seattle Crime Watch with details on a street robbery - the type of crime that, according to what Southwest Precinct Lt.

Catch a robber, get a pizza : Actually 200 pizzas go to the person who helps track down the robber who held up a pizza restaurant in Spokane yesterday.

The most stolen ware in Seattle area bars, like this one at Ba Bar. Some local watering holes may need to install metal detectors for those on the way out of the bar.

A dog who was left in a vehicle was returned to his owners in West Seattle, Washington after an investigation found no cause for animal cruelty charges.

Thanks to both Schmitz Park Elementary teacher Alison Aylesworth and West Seattle Food Bank operations manager Steve Curry for sharing the word of a cool event at SP today.

Seattle Police Detective Jill Vanskike spends her days focused on residential and industrial burglaries, from tracking down perpetrators in real time when a 911 call comes in to evaluating evidence in the aftermath, tracking stolen goods that show up at pawn shops, and keeping an eye on known crooks who have been released back onto the streets ... (more)

At a luncheon this week for the Urban Land Institute's local sponsors, guest speaker - and Seattle restaurateur - Tom Douglas toyed with the idea of abandoning the Seattle monorail.

An update from SDOT as Phase 3 of the Delridge Way repaving project proceeds - the next intersection closure is tentatively scheduled to start at the end of next week: Most of the intersection of Delridge Way SW and SW Holden Street will be closed from 7 p.m. Friday, May 31, until 6 a.m. Monday, June 3, for roadway restoration and storm drain ... (more)

Heading for a 4-day holiday weekend? Many are this year, particularly since school is out Friday through Monday for Seattle Public Schools and others that follow its calendar.

SEATTLE A recent spike in violent crimes at Seattle city parks is prompting city leaders to take action.

He's joking, of course. As the support act for bluesy alterna-rockers Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, thenewno2 has only so much time to give the audience a taste of its music.