BRENT SOLE "Do not make your passion your career."
In the modern world of megabillion-dollar corporate mergers, and people blaming every domestic problem imaginable on immigration, it's easy to forget that this country was built by people, our ancestors, from all over the world who were, and are, willing to come here, work hard and achieve the much-talked-about American Dream.
JUNE 8 - Buckley's Rachel Livengood and SuperGraphics' Mindy pitched excellent games during the playoff finale on Friday. With the score tied 3-3 at the top of the third inning, it was clear neither team would walk away with an easy win.Both teams were playing with their eyes on the championship game to be played at Husky Stadium.
JUNE 2 - The Golden Plungers ended the Magnolia Little League Majors season with a bang as they relied mostly on pitching and defense - Fischer's stock-in-trade - to beat Albert Lee and complete an undefeated 17-0 season.
JUNE 5 - In a clash that will go down in Queen Anne AAA history, Caffè Ladro edged out Werner's Crash Shop in the second round of league playoffs, moving to the top spot in the tournament's semifinal and eliminating the regular season front runners from post season competition.
McCaw Hall has a new singing star: Rusty the Pig. Created by Seattle Opera Scenic Studios, the Rusmeister was one of 100 pigs decorated for Pigs on Parade 2007, a celebration of the Pike Place Market's 100th anniversary. Seattle Opera master scenic artist Kitty Kavanaugh designed his look; Scenic Studios manager Michael Moore composed the short Italian aria, "La Canzone del Maiale" (The Song of the Pig), for Rusty to sing whenever a passerby gets too near his snout; and baritone John Boehr was persuaded to lend his voice to the new member of the company. On Oct. 12, Rusty (and the other 99 pigs) will be auctioned, with all proceeds benefiting the Market's services for low-income people.
The following students from the Magnolia and Queen Anne area graduated from the University of Washington this month:
NORTH SEATTLE - The Seattle Department of Transportation is still paving Stone Way North, between North 34th and 45th streets. Final paving of the segment between North 34th Street and Bridge Way North is scheduled for Wednesday, June 20, and Thursday, June 21, weather permitting. The contractor may begin work on the segment between North 40th and 45th streets as early as Friday, June 22. Final paving of this part is planned for early July, weather permitting.
I received the June 6 issue of the Herald-Outlook and read [Matthew Wilemski's] article vehemently denying any [residential] association with Fremont. Here's some inconsistent historical background. This information is based on my residency in Fremont for most of the past 34 years.
We rejoin our two intrepid travelers in Marshall, Mich., where they have just pulled up to another Hampton Inn. They unload the car and set off to get a bite to eat.Marshall is a pleasant, quaint, historic little town in Michigan, just over the Ohio border. It dates back to the early 1800s. The big, peaceful old homes along its tree-lined streets are impressive. We stopped at a restaurant, Win Schuler's, that began in 1909 and is known throughout the Midwest for both its roast beef and its "Bar Scheeze."
Artist Andy Cao has scaled back his proposed design for the $745,000 Dexter Pit art park. Instead of a large, hollow egg shape that would focus on air space, the new design focuses on the ground-level space, he said.The egg shape that visitors could enter was dropped from the plan because it was too expensive, Cao said, but one element of the original design has been retained: "Water droplets."
Thursday is quickly becoming the best day of the week in Queen Anne. This month will see the grand opening of the Farmers Market, open weekly, and Neighborhood Nights has already begun, with merchants keeping their doors open much later every Thursday night. The final addition to the weekday event calendar is the first Upper Queen Anne Art Walk, which will be held every third Thursday of the month, beginning June 21.
The first Caffè Appassionato in the neighborhood has closed, a victim of competition from the nearby Starbucks and Tully's in Magnolia Village, said Jay McLoughlin, who has owned the coffee business with his wife, Jacqueline, for the past four years."It was a hard decision for us to close," he said. The couple didn't have much choice. The two coffee giants have better locations, and it cost Appassionato 10 times what it cost Star bucks and Tully's to make a cup of coffee, McLoughlin said.
Amateur fashionistas get serious about helping the Helpliner>Fashion runways are usually reserved for the picture-perfect women and men of the modeling world, showing off the latest designer clothing lines that most people can't afford. Not anymore. Queen Anne residents will be treated to quite a display June 21 when local business people - rather than Tyra Banks - strut their stuff at a slightly different fashion show hosted by the Greater Queen Anne Chamber of Commerce
Rumors aside, QFC has not bowed out of deal to build a new QFC on the site of the Metropolitan Market on Upper Queen Anne Hill, according to Irving Sonkin, a spokesman for the owners of the property.Nonetheless, he conceded, owners Christina Cox and her two aunts are far from coming to an agreement with QFC over a mixed commercialandresidential project that has sparked objections from a huge number of neighborhood residents.