❚ NEW MANAGER: Wells Fargo named Clint Gillum as the manager of its Wedgwood branch, 8517 35th Ave. N.E.Gillum previously worked as a personal banker for Wells Fargo in Bothell.
...and they too had their story told in last week's issue. We are happy to enhance the dossier with photos.
June 13 - An overflow crowd watched as Queen Anne Little League AAA teams Eileen Burke and Caffè Ladro played the championship game of the season-ending, six-team tournament. In the end it was a game like many others, closer than the score indicated and memorable for reasons other than the result.
In a finish for the storybooks, Albert Lee took home the hardware and capped a great season by knocking off undefeated regular-season winner Fischer Plumbing in a 4-2 upset. The Fischer Plungers, featuring the dynamic duo of Ryan Books and Will Schmidt, emptied the tank in an effort to overcome Albert Lee and the hard-throwing Matt Deehring.
The final chapters in Buckley's run for the City Tournament files were chronicled in last week's paper. These photos came too late to be included.
...and they too had their story told in last week's issue. We are happy to enhance the dossier with photos.
The final chapters in Buckley's run for the City Tournament files were chronicled in last week's paper. These photos came too late to be included.
Ruthe Williams lives alone in a tidy white house on Queen Anne with white lace curtains in the windows. Her front walk bisects her immaculate lawn and leads to four steps, a pot of pansies on each one.When she opens her door, she is wearing bright pink. The interior walls behind her are white, and the carpet and furnishings are a neutral color. A white cat scurries into another room.
This week Farmers Market shoppers will find newly available apricots, fresh wild salmon (whole and filets), pie cherries, squash blossoms and the first of the summer squash..Magnolia Farmers Market is up and running Saturdays, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Magnolia Community Center, 2550 34th Ave. W. Queen Anne gets into the farmers market game beginning Thursday, June 28, from 3 to 7 p.m. in front of McClure Middle School.
SAM's film series is back home ... with Audrey HepburnOn the uncontested assumption that there could be no more pleasant company on a summer evening than Audrey Hepburn (though the same applies for chill winter and soggy spring), Seattle Art Museum film curator Greg Olson has summoned up "My Fair Audrey: More Films of Audrey Hepburn"
After six years of being a rocket scientist for Boeing, Maggie Stenson Pehrson decided to become an actress. She gave notice and auditioned for a musical. That was 20 years ago. And she's never looked back.Now Pehrson, along with her architect husband Clint and their two sons, Joshua and Gabriel, lives on Queen Anne. Tall and slender, she exudes confidence and exuberance, and her lilting laughter resonates like a musical phrase.
Two new exhibits opened last week at the Frye Art Museum. At first glance they might seem to have nothing in common, but on closer look there's much to tie them together: wit, mastery of their media and conceptual depth to complement the aesthetics. David C. Kane and Willie Cole are both regional artists with strong ties to their respective home states. They are males in their 50s, thus in mid career, and both offer us works of sly humor with rich historical antecedents.
Melani Edeen Shotola, a Queen Anne resident for the past 14 years, died of cancer on June 10, just eight days short of her 51st birthday.During her Queen Anne years, Ms. Shotola was backup resident manager for Olympic West Apartments. Among many incidents there, she was given an award for getting residents quickly out of the building during a fire. For the past several years she served as an election judge at the Bayview Manor polling place.
About 40 people gave up a good portion of their Father's Day Weekend to do an extreme makeover on the children's play structure at the Bayview-Kinnear Park on West Prospect Street (just below the Kerry Park Viewpoint on Highland Drive). Gone is the old wooden structure built in 1983, obscured behind dense evergreens that made safety and visibility major concerns.
Robert Burkeimer - the longtime owner of land where the former QFC was located on Republican Street in Lower Queen Anne - wants to build a new mixed-use project there after securing an upzone that will raise the allowable height of the project from 40 to 65 feet.