The Seattle Department of Transportation has begun paving work on North/Northeast 45th Street earlier than originally anticipated.The contracting crew is grinding the parking lane between Interstate 5 and Burke Avenue North through the remainder of this week, limiting parking on the side that is being worked on. The paving will take place Saturday, May 4, and Sunday, May 5.
King County Metro Transit opened its section of the new Northgate Mall parking garage to transit riders on Wednesday, May 2, at 5 a.m. Located to the north of Metro's Northgate Transit Center at Northeast 103rd Street and Second Avenue Northeast, Metro's parking section has 280 spaces designated as park-and-ride stalls on the first and second floors. The spots are reserved Monday through Friday, but mall shoppers can use any of the spaces left available after 9 a.m.
Volunteers and neighbors gathered for the dedication of the Maple Leaf Community Garden, located near the southeast corner of Northeast 103rd Street and Fifth Avenue Northeast on Saturday, April 28. A p-patch with 22 plots, a tool shed made of mud and straw and a tiled staircase made by Olympic View elementary students and Tina Carpenter now occupy the formerly vacant site. The garden was developed in large part by Maple Leaf Community Council member Barbara Maxwell (left), who received a golden shovel for her efforts.
Staid" and "unadventurous" hardly de-scribe Fremont, so it comes as no surprise that some small businesses here already incorporate an innovative business technique. Lifestyle branding, or lifestyle brands, the latest trend in marketing, is gaining use by retailers and manufacturers everywhere.
Stewart in Queen Anne writes: This whole Joshua Bell experiment in the D.C. Metro is huge music news ["Pearls Before Breakfast," Washington Post, April 8, 2007]! What I got to thinking about was the stage fright. I mean, here's a guy who sells out Carnegie Hall, and the D.C. Metro gives him butterflies! Do these pros even get stage fright? Also, I wonder if Mr. Bell had been playing one of my favorites, would I have stopped?
Maybe it's the difference between the sacred and profane. Or Mozart and a train wreck.The Chapel of St. Ignatius on the Seattle University campus, one of the two more adventurous architectural additions to this city in the past decade, has worn a lot better than Paul Allen's Experience Music Project.An intimate space of 6,100 square feet, St. Ignatius is considered one of this city's architectural gems. To the Roman Catholic faithful it is also a sacred space of planes and curves where, to borrow from T.S. Eliot, prayer has been valid.
Put a fistful of candles on the cake for I.I. Stevens Elementary School, the historic K-5 school on the north slope of Capitol Hill that on May 12 will celebrate its centennial year with an auction of primo birdhouses, an exhibit of student art and a boatload of community spirit reaching back generations.
Taking charge of the Gay Pride festival this year is harrowing, exhausting and wonderful, according to Shannon Thomas, executive director of the Seattle Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) Community Center.Thomas said that stepping in and taking responsibility for the Gay Pride festival when Seattle Out and Proud decided not to do it this year is one of the best things that has happened for the center."We're looking at this as a way to really galvanize the community," Thomas said.
According to Seattle Out and Proud's (SOaP) most recent announcement, "Due to overwhelming support in light of a recent press release, we will move forward with our plans to produce the parade down Fourth Avenue on Sunday, June 24, 2007."Such news was an about face from an earlier SOaP press release last week that said the group would declare bankruptcy because it still owes Seattle Center $100,000, and that it would not take part in any plans for celebrating Gay Pride in Seattle this year.The decision to go ahead with a parade downtown was made at a board meeting Tuesday, April 24. But whatever happens, there will be a festival in Volunteer Park during the annual Gay Pride weekend this year, organized and produced by the Seattle Lesbian, Gay, Bi-Sexual and Transgender (LGBT) Community Center.
Stewart from Seattle writes: "This whole Joshua Bell experiment in the D.C. Metro is huge music news! ["Pearls before Breakfast, Washington Post, April 8, 2007.] What I got thinking about was the stage fright. I mean, here's a guy who sells out Carnegie Hall, and the D.C. Metro gives him butterflies! Do these pros even get stage fright? Also, I wonder if Mr. Bell had been playing one of my favorites, would I have stopped?"
If you've attended a community meeting it's possible you've met or at least seen Sonja Richter. She worked as a crime prevention coordinator for the Seattle Police Department. She would often be the one speaking to community groups about a broad range of topics from the obvious, like keeping your doors locked and calling 911, to the more complicated, like how to navigate through various police and city departments.Sonja retired last month after 18 years on the job, 13 of which were at the East Precinct, including the last five. Her replacement has not been named.
ANDREW HARBOR It should stay downtown where it's in front of families, tourists and downtown businesses. It's good to get out of our comfort zone.
"Queer." All the word really means is "different." Where is it written in stone that all the people who are, in one way or another, "different" from an arbitrarily defined "mainstream" have to themselves be all alike? Current case in point: The highly public fiasco over the 2007 LGBT Pride festivities. >The only thing we know as of press time: There will be a parade. There might even be two. There may also be a rally or festival, but it probably won't be at Seattle Center.Beyond that, it's all in flux.
The Better Business Bureau (BBB) is warning consumers and businesses about a door-to-door magazine sales scam in which young people are posing as area high school and college athletes to solicit money.Arrests have already been made in Portland, Ore., but the BBB forewarns that the scam could spread throughout the Pacifc Northwest.
The Better Business Bureau (BBB) is warning consumers and businesses about a door-to-door magazine sales scam in which young people are posing as area high school and college athletes to solicit money.Arrests have already been made in Portland, Ore., but the BBB forewarns that the scam could spread throughout the Pacifc Northwest.