PATTY SHIPMAN "I am happy with it. We do absentee ballots all of the time. At least there is a paper ballot that they can audit later."
Magnolia wears a lovely necklace of parks, one prize gem of which is along Magnolia Boulevard. We walk its length, drive our visitors to see it and proudly note tour buses promoting its views. To make a gem stone sparkle, an infrequent buffing is sufficient; a park of living foliage requires greater labor to reveal its full beauty. Renewed attention, by many hands, is just what our boulevard park is getting.
ANSWER:Donate one to the Queen Anne Helpline's 25th anniversary celebration! The October Gala & Auction for the Queen Anne Helpline will celebrate 25 years of opening doors of opportunity to our neighborhood. There is just one problem: the Helpline is short on donations with which to raise funds at this terrific event. The 2006 event raised just over $60,000 for aid to clients. Unfortunately, this year the auction is lagging far behind in donated items to raise the funds needed by so many members of this community.
Another election cycle is here, albeit a local one, but it will help gird us for the maneuverings of the crafty politicians on the national stage.Believe me, as a longtime, proud liberal, becoming a political cynic is depressing as hell. Years of listening to fast-talking politicians promising to "bring about real change," giving them my vote and watching them cave to the pressures of the job - applied mainly by the government bureaucracies and special-interest groups with deep pockets, whether industry or labor - has made me a touch skeptical.
Geniuses and organizations like to generalize about people. Jung had his system, dividing people into extroverts and introverts, among other things. Freud had his categories, too. And my favorite of the early shrinks, Karen Horney, even divided neurotics into those who moved away from people, toward people, in a dependent posture or against people.And it wasn't just godless (not necessarily unspiritual) docs who tended to categorize.The Catholics who raised me had saints and sinners. Robertson and his ilk have God, themselves and sinners (everybody else). Middle Eastern fanatics have God and themselves on one hand, infidels on the other.
ANSWER:Donate one to the Queen Anne Helpline's 25th anniversary celebration! The October Gala & Auction for the Queen Anne Helpline will celebrate 25 years of opening doors of opportunity to our neighborhood. There is just one problem: the Helpline is short on donations with which to raise funds at this terrific event. The 2006 event raised just over $60,000 for aid to clients. Unfortunately, this year the auction is lagging far behind in donated items to raise the funds needed by so many members of this community.
As of last month, Seattle Public Utilities (SPU) started a 90-day recycling pilot project in the University District. Recycling bins have been placed next to trash cans along University Way Northeast south of Northeast 45th Street. After the 90 days, SPU will decide whether to expand the program or remove the recycling bins altogether.
A surprise party held in Gas Works Park last Saturday night was met with some criticism from area residents who believe that such events should not be held in the park. The party was reportedly hosted by Stuart Sloan, a local businessman celebrating his recent wedding. The party was attended by 300 guests and included live music and performers, as well as a fireworks display.Members of the Friends of Gas Works Park, a local advocacy group, contend that events such as this threaten the integrity of the ground and soil in the park. With Gas Works Park being a former oil refinery, they believe that putting up structures like stages and stands can dig up toxic soil.
How to plan and manage urban growth might be the most pressing issue facing development-crazy Seattle, and it was certainly the big question confronting a panel of City Council candidates at the recent growth-and-development forum at the Yesler Community Center.The Aug. 2 forum featured a series of hard-hitting and unusually sophisticated questions posed by a moderator, followed in turn by minute-to-90-second-long answers by the panel, which featured both incumbents and challengers for various City Council positions.
The mayor has recommended six North End projects for funding through the city Department of Neighborhoods' Large Projects Fund Awards:■ Bryant Elementary School playground renovation (Phase 1), $90,000;■ Laurelhurst Elementary School community playground renovation, $90,000;■ Pinehurst Shelterhouse improvements, $39,600;■ Project Ravenna-Eckstein, $50,000, to improve the playground and court areas surrounding the Ravenna-Eckstein Community Center;■ University Heights Community Center revitalization, $59,438, for a plan to acquire, redevelop and sustain the University Heights site for the long term; and■ Wallingford community courtyard, $27,750, for an outdoor courtyard at the Wallingford Boys & Girls Club.The City Council must approve these funding recommendations.
The one-year pilot "red-light camera" program launched in June 2006 at four high-traffic intersections in Seattle have reduced the severity of collisions, though the overall number of accidents at these intersections remains the same, according to the city's Department of Transportation.The city also concluded that the frequency of drivers running red lights has dropped one-third at the intersections where the cameras have been installed, including the eastbound approach at Roosevelt Way Northeast and Northeast 45th Street.
Responding to the recent bridge collapse in Minneapolis, Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels said the city's Bridging the Gap program, which voters approved last year, has kept the city's 149 bridges safe and strong.Locally, work to preserve the University Bridge - which includes replacing large amounts of cement to keep rebar from rusting - is almost complete.The city is nearly finished with the replacement of the Fremont Bridge approaches, which also involved seismically retrofitting and strengthening the north approach off-ramp and replacing the bridge's electrical and mechanical drive systems.
I am writing in response to the negative opinion piece ["Soccer Match an Example of Human Behavior," Aug. 1] that ran in the paper about the All Nations Cup. As the founder of the event I feel responsible for responding to the piece and giving a bigger vision to what the event means in the participating communities and why Sister Communities continues struggling against many odds to hold All Nations Cup each year.
Another election cycle is here (albeit a local one), but it will help gird us for the maneuverings of the crafty politicians on the national stage.Believe me, as a longtime, proud liberal, becoming a political cynic is depressing as hell. Years of listening to fast-talking politicians promising to "bring about real change," giving them my vote and watching them cave to the pressures of the job - applied mainly by the government bureaucracies and special-interest groups with deep pockets, whether industry or labor - has made me a touch skeptical.
MOUNT BAKER - After years of what many tenants called "neglect" to the North and South Leschi and Lakewood marinas, the city has allotted $2 million for their restoration.Nearly 50 concerned marina tenants attended the Boat Moorage Restoration Project open house on Thursday, July 26. Seattle Parks and Recreation held this first public meeting to receive direct input on how the money should be used.