Matthew Casey found the 'Roman ruins' at right still standing (just) after the demolition of the old apartment block near Kerry Park. INSIDE: A more pleasant prospect greeted C. Albert at Parsons Garden.
The 21-foot diameter cutting head of Sound Transit's tunnel boring maching (dubbed the Emerald Mole) broke through the east side of Beacon Hill into Georgetown on May 8 at approximately 8:15 a.m. A video of the machine's final push can be viewed at www.soundtransit.org/x5788.xml. The "hole-through" completes the machine's first 4,300 foot trip. Since Obayashi Corporation launched the tunnel boring machine in January 2006. In June the machine will be transported back to the west side of Beacon Hill to begin drilling the second tunnel. The first tunnel is for southbound trains, the other northbound.
The Dexter Pit was identified in the Pro Parks Levy as a place for a new park that could include an art project. But nowhere did the levy language say it would be "an artist-led park project," said Queen Anne Community Council Parks Committee chair Don Harper at a committee meeting last week.Still, that's what it turned into, and Vietnamese artist Andrew Cao came up with a doozy of a design for the 1.3-acre site on Dexter Avenue North just north of McGraw Street.
It was supposed to be a father-and-son night out on May 5 before Tony Pella's father, Jeff Pella, headed to Alaska the following Monday for a few months. But the night turned into a mystery when Tony, 22, disappeared, and he hasn't been seen or heard from since, Jeff said.
I would urge our elected representatives to proceed relentlessly with investigations necessary for impeachment.Some have said Bush and Cheney will be out of office in a couple of years, and if we put our energies into supporting Democratic programs in Congress, and into electing a new president in 2008, things will get back on the right track. If Bush and Cheney were an unfortunate fluke, I might agree.
[Russ Zabel's] article in the May 2 issue of the News aroused my interest, and also a little animosity toward those who object to a vessel owner's living onboard his own vessel. As one who first sailed out of Ballard in 1936 and who has been licensed and sailed on an unlimited Master's License since 1944, I think I've wrung almost as much saltwater out of my socks as the people who are now objecting to the practice.
Conversation about grandfathers went around the table at my usual morning coffee stop the other day, and for once it seemed we all agreed on something: Grandfathers had made major impressions on our lives. "I remember more about him," said Dutch, a white-haired grandfatherly type himself, "and with more fondness, than I do my own father. He tanned furs and hides and he had great, strong fingers from stretching the hides to get them ready for tanning. Children need grandparents to teach them things - their grandparents are usually so much more patient than their own parents."
There is no question that John Athan raped, strangled and dumped 13-year-old Kristen Sumstad's half-naked body in a box behind a Magnolia TV store back in 1982.But how he was caught and convicted more than 20 years later was the subject of a recent 6-3 state Supreme Court decision that has the ACLU feeling jittery and lawyers feeling peeved.
The latest appointee scandal comes on the heels of news that Bush's guy in chargeof fording abstinencedown the throats of American men and women was caught frequently ordering up gals from a D.C. escort service.My father died young, at 57, of a complicated lung ailment that had precipitated five surgeries and still killed him. Toward the end of his too-short life he began reading the obituaries in the Cincinnati Enquirer and the Cincinnati Post, the two dailies he'd been reading for 40 years.Something about his preoccupation with death made the teenaged me uncomfortable, and I tried teasing the old man about his new hobby.
"Mothers deserve more than just a one-day celebration." Yes, mama ... but I knew she was right even if it felt peculiar. After all, most of my friends took extreme measures, grumbling all the while, to make sure their mothers would know that they had not forgotten them on the special day.I eventually found my own way of celebrating my mother, and Hallmark has yet to pick up on this! I always call her on my birthday, and I listen to her stories about that special birth day in her life. I treasure the stories about that day and my father's role in that day. She loves to tell and retell that day's stories.
Les Henson wants me to tell you that he's a warm, kindly old gentleman enjoying the quiet life of a brick-layer's retirement on Magnolia's peaceful east side, just down the hill from 28th Avenue West on Lynn Street. He says this with a big, wolfish smile as his daughter, Jane, walks me out the backdoor of the home he shares with his wife of 50-plus years, Ann.As the British say: hogwash. Henson, 98, is indeed warm and kindly and avuncular in his hard-won affection. But he is also spry, nettlesome, quick to kid and entirely bawdy. Dubbed "Mr. Brick" for his facility with the mortar and trowel - including an expertise at the fading artform of laying terra cotta - Henson is what some folks call a "personage," a character so bursting with the fullness of his life it practically beams from his eye sockets.
With so many farmers' markets open in North Seattle (Fremont, Lake City, Phinney Ridge, University District and Wallingford), shoppers can find a cornucopia of items to buy.The new Phinney Farmers' Market is open Fridays, from 3 to 7 p.m., through Sept. 28 at the Phinney Neighborhood Center, 6532 Phinney Ave. N.
FREMONT - Due to the lack of availability of necessary materials, last week's planned Fremont Bridge closures were shortened. Yet more bridge closures are planned so that Seattle Department of Transportation crews can continue upgrading the bridge's electrical and mechanical systems.All motor vehicles, pedestrians and bicyclists are prohibited from 9 p.m. to 6 a.m. each night through Friday, June 29; marine traffic is not affected. These nightly closures are an alternative to closing the bridge for an entire weekend, which has been avoided so far.
The Seattle Metropolitan Police Museum unveiled its newly restored 1970 Plymouth Satellite Seattle Police car (at right) in front of the Greenwood Fire Station 21 during the Greenwood Classic Car Show over the weekend. It took 10 years to locate one of the 53 special-order cars and six months to restore it, with the help of nearly 100 people.
Magnuson Park to go one more summer without water, electricity as renovation project is delayedThanks to the massive Pro Parks Levy approved back in November 2000 by Seattle voters, Magnuson Park soon will undergo an ambitious, $12-million renovation project that includes the installation of four new athletic fields, 23 acres of restored wetlands and a clutch of new walking trails - this, just as soon as the Army Corp of Engineers completes its permitting process for the wetlands.