Thousands of Seattle-area homeowners will choose the month of May to launch home and garden improvement projects, and to clear out junk from homes, gardens, garages and sheds. For anyone planning to go into battle with household clutter and garden garbage, here are some quick tips from Seattle-area junk disposal experts 1800 Rid-Of-IT: * Prepare. Before you start, have plenty of bags and labels ready so you can keep track of all the stuff you're cleaning up.
Pacific Publishing Company, parent company of Queen Anne & Magnolia News and publisher of weekly and monthly newspapers in metropolitan Seattle, has sold the Kirkland Courier to Sound Publishing Inc.The transfer of ownership took place on Monday, April 30. Terms of the sale were not revealed. The Courier, a 23,000-circulation monthly news-paper, was the only Pacific Publishing newspaper in east King County.
Pacific Publishing Company, parent company of Queen Anne & Magnolia News and publisher of weekly and monthly newspapers in metropolitan Seattle, has sold the Kirkland Courier to Sound Publishing Inc.The transfer of ownership took place on Monday, April 30. Terms of the sale were not revealed. The Courier, a 23,000-circulation monthly newspaper, was the only Pacific Publishing newspaper in east King County.
How does the Queen Anne & Magnolia News recommend I tip my carriers?Dollars or dog biscuits? MB Dol, MagnoliaMaddie and Darbey Ewbank are charged with getting the News to MB Dols and other Magnolia neighbors. But will Darbey consent to carry his own picture in his mouth this week?
When the Seventh Church of Christ Science comes down, some neighbors fear that environmentally hazardous materials could be released during the demolition.On April 18, a city hearing examiner heard their concerns.More than 80 neighbors signed a community statement of concern, motivated by the severe consequences that the presence of any amount of lead poses for young children in the area. The National Safety Council urges the containment of all debris caused during construction involving surfaces with lead paint, and emphasizes that it only takes the lead-dust equivalent of a single grain of salt for a child to register an elevated blood-lead level.
Organizers of the Big Howe Improvement Project (B-HIP) near the Queen Anne Community Center have run into funding problems that have forced them to scale back on their original plans.The playground project, originally estimated to cost $418,000, was supposed to have been finished last year, according to the B-HIP Web site. However, the construction documents and minor revisions made at the request of Seattle Parks and Recreation were just completed earlier this year, according to an April 25 press release from the organization.
The Magnolia Thriftway and its sister market, the Ballinger Thriftway, are the first mainstream groceries in the Puget Sound region to do their part to reduce global warming, according to Jeff Taylor.Taylor, director of operations for the Thriftways' parent company, Penhollow Markets, said the stores are doing that by reducing their carbon footprint to zero.Carbon dioxide is largely responsible for the greenhouse effect that is warming the planet at an alarming rate, according to many scientists. So reducing the amount of carbon a business produces is critical, Taylor said.
The Uptown Alliance is on a roll with its plans to create a new park at the corner of Roy Street and Queen Anne Avenue on the site of a former gas station. A $225,000 donation from Shah Safari Inc. brothers Raj and Akhil Shaw on April 20 bumped the amount collected so far for Counterbalance Park: An Urban Oasis to $1,130,000.The original fundraising goal was $1 million, noted the Uptown Alliance's Jean Sundborg. "We're saying a million dollars isn't too much."
The Port of Seattle dropped a bombshell that had fishermen scratching their heads and worse at the April 20 meeting of the Fishermen's Terminal Advisory Committee (FTAC). The issue is the live-aboard policy at the marina, where some owners live on their boats year round. That wouldn't be allowed anymore, and there are also time restrictions for crewmembers living on boats before and after they leave port, under a proposed set of rules Fishermen's Terminal general manager Kenny Lyles brought to the meeting.
The 2007 Legislature made landmark advances in education, health care and the environment. Here is a summary of 36th District priorities identified by 1,293 respondents in a February survey, along with outcomes achieved in the legislative session.Highest priorities for the new budget were mental health and chemical-dependency services, a constitutional rainy-day fund and affordable housing.
The 2007 Legislature made landmark advances in education, health care and the environment. Here is a summary of 36th District priorities identified by 1,293 respondents in a February survey, along with outcomes achieved in the legislative sessioHighest priorities for the new budget were mental health and chemical-dependency services, a constitutional rainy-day fund and affordable housing.
While I was on one of my usual prowls trying to dig up a column, I stopped in at an acquaintance's Magnolia Village office. He had assumed one of his usual postures, hunched over his desk with telephone seemingly permanently attached to his ear."Uh-huh," he mumbled into the phone, "we might be interested...." The person on the other end of the line then launched into what seemed like a five-minute explanation of some problem without giving my buddy any real chance to respond.
Now that the dust has settled after the United States' "worst" mass murder on a college campus - 32 dead, plus the shooter, at Virginia Tech - it's time to read the fine print.According to federal law-enforcement officials, approximately 50 percent of guns used in crimes on our streets come from "straw" purchases, when someone not a criminal buys multiple guns for someone who is. The criminal then sells the weapons to other thugs. So, you ask, why aren't federal officials going after these "rogue" dealers?
With this issue of the News we have recombined the Queen Anne News and the Magnolia News into one newspaper.By doing so we are reaching back to the tradition of one paper for both communities that had been the case for decades until late 2003.
Pacific Publishing Co. Inc., parent company of the North Seattle Herald-Outlook and publisher of weekly and monthly newspapers in metropolitan Seattle, has sold the Kirkland Courier to Sound Publishing Inc.The transfer of ownership took place on Monday, April 30; terms of the sale were not revealed. The Courier, a 23,000-circulation monthly newspaper, was the only Pacific Publishing newspaper in east King County.