Dr. Stephen D. Jones, pastor of First Hill's Seattle First Baptist Church, has announced his resignation. His final Sunday sermon will take place on Sunday, July 29. Jones has accepted the position of pastor of the Second Baptist Church in St. Louis, Missouri. Jones came to First Baptist in 2002 and served as the church's 20th lead pastor. Earlier this year he celebrated his 35th anniversary as a pastor. Jones came to Seattle when the congregation was responding to the Nisqually Earthquake of the previous year. Dr. Jones immediately led the congregation in fundraising and construction, which restored and reinforced the historical church building. <br
Record-breaking temperatures can be killers, and not just figuratively speaking. The Humane Society of the United States offers tips for pet owners to protect their pets during summer months. • Never leave your pets in a parked car. On a warm, sunny day, windows collect light, trap heat inside the vehicle and push the temperature inside to dangerous levels. On an 85-degree Fahrenheit day, the temperature inside a car with the windows opened slightly can reach 102 degrees within 10 minutes.
In the early morning hours of Sunday, July 29, when most people are comfortably asleep in their beds, a crew of several dozen people will be taking part in a meticulously planned effort to move a two-story Craftsman home six blocks from its original site. At 2 in the morning, two trucks from Nickel Brothers House Moving Ltd. will lift the home from its foundation at 209 Boston St. and then begin the careful process of moving it down the streets of Queen Anne to the old home's new address at Fourth Avenue North and Smith Street.
A 28-year-old homeless man picked up last week by police has admitted to killing former KIRO radio host and Queen Anne resident Mike Webb.Scott White was arrested "without incident" July 18 in Trolley Park on Lower Queen Anne, according to assistant chief Nick Metz, who said that detectives were led to that location by information gathered from sources during a three-week homicide investigation.White currently is being held on $1-million bail for investigation of murder.
An open intersection near Lawton Elementary School has some Magnolia neighbors up in arms, claiming that the dangerous nexus of blind corners, speeding drivers and a lack of stop signs is an accident waiting to happen.At issue is the intersection of West Elmore Street and 27th Avenue West, which borders Lawton on the northwest corner, and which Magnolia resident David Bird calls "nuts" - meaning that the sometimes-busy streets are a menace for drivers, pedestrians and, of most concern, kids."This whole intersection gets crazy," said Bird, who added that he's made more than 30 calls to Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) in hope of getting stop signs, speed bumps or some other form of restriction placed on the streets to get drivers to slow down and pay attention.
Nadine Huck is a runner.Earlier this month she proved to be the fastest woman in the Crown of Queen Anne Fun Run & Walk. But she is hunting bigger game than 3.3 miles (5k).Huck, training to run her first marathon, Nike Women's Marathon, in San Francisco in October, has been slowly preparing for the challenging course.Huck is not running simply to test herself, although test herself she will, by running 26.2 miles in the City by the Bay.What really matters is that Huck is running the Nike Women's Marathon with the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society's Team in Training.She's doing it for Dad.
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I would like to help clarify and balance the coverage in the News this week [July 18] regarding Family Matters at Our Lady of Fatima.I work directly with the homeless ministry in our parish and was disappointed that the front-page article seemed to represent our efforts as a whole.
Thanks so much for your article on crosswalks ("Of crosswalks and close encounters of the worst kind," July 18).As someone who walks to work in Lower Queen Anne on a daily basis, my own worst nightmare is the crosswalk on the corner of First Avenue North and Roy Street, in front of the UPS Store.Lower Queen Anne is a nightmare, and every day I have patterns of walking and standing so that I will not end up with my leg cut off like Heather Mills McCartney from a bus accident.
They say an army travels on its stomach. Well, its not just the army - so did Pop and I as we made our way around the country on our Lap of America. One of the things I learned a long time ago about traveling with Pop is that the journey is the prime factor. You don't pull over for much, unless the road is going right past some scenic diversion, and road food is usually consumed at fuel stops.
From 0.1 ounces of seed, I have already harvested 4.7 ounces of my favorite bush bean, named Maxibel. I think I would like to add an extra 'le' to the end of the name, for the plants are so fecund that they must be female. I will be keeping a running total of the pounds produced for this season's harvest. It continues to amaze me that from this little seed, a biomass starts to form, the scale being totally out of proportion to the seed. But even more stunning is to look at a carrot seed, and then to see the tasty mass that gets produced!
I recently moved in with my fiancée. Anyone who has moved in with a significant other knows that combining lives isn't easy. First and foremost, we had to agree on neighborhood which, being the environmentalists we are, meant that it had to have easy access to mass transit and a variety of necessary services within walking distance (otherwise known as a good "walking shed"). We also had to discuss the type of housing we wanted, along with a bevy of other things.To my surprise, one of the hardest pieces of this puzzle to manage was our stuff.
I love golf. And I like sneaking up to Interbay early one or two weekday mornings by myself, without my two sets of regular playing partners (Thursdays, some Thai friends who are all better golfers than moi, and Friday evenings, two friends of 20 years who I hooked on the game and who never beat me). I go out with whoever is standing on the first tee when I get there.
Almost 10 years after creating the Vision 2020 Neighborhood Plan to make Bitter Lake Village an efficient and safe section of Linden Avenue North, residents are still voicing the same concerns.Although the city made a commitment when the plan was created in 1999 to address the issues of this section of Linden Avenue, little improvement has been made to Bitter Lake Village to further the plan.Ruth Sinton, a senior resident of the area who has worked on the neighborhood planning for 10 years, said, "We've had a lot of different City Council people come out and go on these walks, so they know what the problem is here. I don't know what it's going to take for something to happen. It just goes on and on. It's frustrating."
With the exception of some dedicated neighbors, the Sadako Peace Park seems to have been forgotten despite the depth of its history. But Seattle Parks and Recreation aims to reintroduce Peace Park to the neighborhood with a renovation project.At a recent open house a handful of dedicated neighbors, some of whom helped build the park, raised several concerns about the park. A walk through the park, located on the northwest end of the University Bridge, reveals its struggles with littering and safe pathways, which are some of the problems the renovation addresses.