Last week, I twice had to fight to keep from being pummeled senseless by thunderous sound, nonstop explosions, epic battles and looming apocalypse, thanks to "Live Free or Die Hard" and "Transformers." It is, after all, summer, the season that demands Big Action Flicks, built to tickle the testosterone of lads and their dads.
PERMIT APPLICATIONS 1722 13th Ave. S. (3007426) for a Land Use Application to subdivide one parcel into eight unit lots. The construction of townhouses is being reviewed under Project No. 6127214.
The following information was provided by the city's Department of Planning and Development. Written comments on projects should be mailed to 700 Fifth Ave., Suite 2000, P.O. Box 34019, Seattle, WA 98124-4019.Appeals are made to the Office of the Hearing Examiner, Seattle Municipal Tower, 40th Floor (SMT-40-00), 700 Fifth Ave., Suite 4000, Seattle, WA 98104. Appeals must be accompanied by a $50 filing fee in a check payable to the City of Seattle.The project number is in parentheses. For more information, call 684-8467.
Our first trip to Italy was to Rome in 1991. My wife's maternal family emigrated from Italy in 1800, settling in Cleveland, Ohio. They came from Gildone, a small town in the south central Italian province of Molise. The village is so small it is often left off maps. No one in the family had ever gone back.
The Queen Anne & Magnolia Paint baseball club completed an undefeated season June 16 with a 13-6 win over rival Magnolia Architecture in the AAA Minors' Magnolia Little League Championship. The team went a combined 18-0-1 in the regular season and playoffs.
Forty-three students from the Magnolia/Queen Anne area have been named to the dean's list at the University of Washington for spring quarter.To qualify, a student must have completed at least 12 graded credits and have a grade-point average of at least 3.5 (out of 4).
Safeway has announced a donation of $568,144.58 to Easter Seals Washington, the leading nonprofit provider of services for individuals with autism and other disabilities in Washington state. The presentation was made Tuesday, June 19, at the Safeway atop Queen Anne Hill at 2100 Queen Anne Ave. N.
Jackson Remodeling, a Queen Anne design/build firm, has been making a habit of collecting prizes. Several weeks ago, on June 16,Jackson took home the grand prize in two categories at the REX awards. The awards - the Seattle area's highest remodeling honors - are sponsored each spring by the Remodelers Council of the Master Builders Association of King and Snohomish Counties.
The city of Seattle's Neighborhood Matching Fund has designated a specific source of funding to support local residents in making their local climate protection dream a reality - and to have fun and build community while doing it.Since cars and trucks are the single biggest contributor to climate disruption in Seattle, creative strategies that encourage going car-free or make driving more efficient and cleaner are winning climate-protection actions. And on a related front, there are many innovative money-saving, life-enhancing and climate-protecting ways to save energy - electricity and natural gas.
More berries, cherries and other summer goodies are filling farmers' tables. Look for strawberries, raspberries, Rainier cherries, Bings, the season's first apricots and more - all supersweet and locally grown.Loki Fish is bringing fresh wild salmon to market over the next few weeks.
Joe Meyer was honored by Troop 80 for attaining Eagle Scout rank in a ceremony held June 19 at Magnolia United Church of Christ. Center School senior Meyer earned Eagle status by planning and leading a group of volunteers in painting the adult area of the Family and Adult Service Center in October 2006.
Magnolia resident Krista Ellis is the coxswain for the University of California-Berkeley women's varsity 8 crew team. The team won the NCAA championships last year and were flown to Washington, D.C., recently to receive an award from President George W. Bush. Ellis (in the brown-and-white dress) is pictured on the righthand side of the attached president. She rowed for Holy Names Academy and Green Lake Crew in her high school years, received a scholarship from Berkeley and will be a junior next year. But there are those whose fondest memories of her date from her years working at Magnolia's late, lamented Caffè Appassionato.
Joe Meyer was honored by Troop 80 for attaining Eagle Scout rank in a ceremony held June 19 at Magnolia United Church of Christ. Center School senior Meyer earned Eagle status by planning and leading a group of volunteers in painting the adult area of the Family and Adult Service Center in October 2006.
The warm afternoon sun, ice-cold beer, barbequed ribs, chicken and hot links accompanied by corn on the cob or cole slaw, the click of putters on the practice green and the strains of Seattle jazz drifting across the golf course can mean only one thing: Jazz on the Green is on again at the Interbay Golf Course.
❚ Due to reporting and editing errors, Korte Brueckmann's story "Markets Bring European Culture to Seattle Neighborhoods" in last week's issue contained several mistakes.Jon Hegeman's Farmers Market Association (www.fremontmarket.com) operates the farmers' markets in Ballard, Madrona and Wallingford and the Fremont Sunday Market. Its newest addition, the Queen Anne Farmers' Market, opened June 28.The Seattle Neighborhood Farmers Markets Alliance (www.seattlefarmers markets.org) operates the farmers' markets in the University District, Lake City, Columbia City, Magnolia, West Seattle and Broadway. The Farmers Markets Alliance's Phinney market, which the story incorrectly stated was started by Hegeman, opened earlier this year.A story on the individual markets located in the North End, "Farmers Thrive in North End Markets," ran in the May 9 edition of the Herald-Outlook. You can find Yolanda Guo's story on-line at www.northseattleherald-outlook.com.The Herald-Outlook apologizes for the errors.