The carpet was deliberately set on fire at 9:54 a.m. Sunday, Aug. 26, in a second-floor unit of a Magnolia apartment building in the 2600 block of Thorndyke Ave. W., according to Seattle Fire Department spokesperson Helen Fitzpatrick. Estimated damage was around $1,000, she said.
Some people get out of town for the Labor Day weekend.And so many others head for Bumbershoot.This year's Bumbershoot, Seattle's Music and Arts Festival, happens Saturday, Sept. 1, through Monday, Sept. 3, at the Seattle Center.It's billed as North America's biggest urban arts festival. One Reel, which produces the three-day event, expects about 50,000 people each day.
The Church of Scientology's Drug-Free Marshals distributed 238 anti-drug booklets in the community Aug. 7 in honor of National Night Out and in support of the work of local law enforcement in circumventing drug use and violence. National Night Out is a national event designed to heighten crime prevention awareness, increase neighborhood support in anti-crime efforts and unite our communities.
Ninety guests enjoyed the Greater Queen Anne Chamber of Commerce Annual BBQ hosted at Queen Anne Manor by executive director Carole Kelley and her staff Aug. 16. Music, smokin' food and prize-giving entertained the crowd, and candidates for public office lobbied for votes. Chamber luminaries Dave Peterson and Hossein Soleymani (pictured above) flipped burgers and forked dogs, and President Don Lagerquist emceed while the melodies of Music by Steve King floated over the crowd.
The maple tree that was cut down July 25 in Kiwanis Ravine was not felled to improve someone's view, as nearby neighbor Bob Clymer suspected. Nor was it whacked to sell the wood to makers of stringed instruments, as K.C. Dietz from the Heron Habitat Helpers suspected.And the tree-cutters had not been hired by the Army Corps of Engineers to do the job, as one of the men told police after Clymer raised the alarm.
A dive bar on West Dravus Street across the street from the QFC has closed. The scene of multiple shootings, numerous bloody fights and drunken rowdiness over the years, according to police reports, the bar didn't close because it lost its liquor license, said Susan Reams from the Liquor Control Board.Some say that the Soundtrack was closed to make room for a new, possibly mixed-use building that would also take out the Starbucks next door. Word on the street was that Star-bucks would return to the new building, but the coffee giant has no plans for the area "as of right now," according to Nicole Phelan from the Frause public-relations firm.
And what a fine memory it is. Another great Stroll thanks to the many and diverse Artists; to Ann Pearce and her Ambassadors extraordinaire; to Jurors Sarah Arney, Judith Campion and Cheryl Johnson; to Uptown Stroll Chair Jane Horowitz and her fellow organizers, to emcee Jean Sundborg, to our many generous sponsors (see list at right) and to all of you who came to enjoy the fun. Congratulations to the winners of Uptown Stroll 2007:
Kathy Biever and plein-air artist Kelly Lyles. Left: Brom Wikstrom took FirstSee story in Queen Anne Life for details.
Joe Virzi reads with daughter Maya, almost 3, in the children's section of the refurbished Queen Anne Library. See more library coverage by clicking Photo Gallery.
Close observers of the scene in Magnolia Village will have noticed the new rolling-pin logo that has been painted on the window of the Upper Crust Bakery at 3204 W. McGraw St.Inside, the first thing you notice is a new wooden floor that offsets the freshly painted butter yellow and the honey-colored walls. This is all accented by the sun-dried tomato red trim around the windows and door, and the café-colored ceiling."We decided to use all food tones," says Beth Scribner, and she's usually the second thing you notice. The bakery has new owners. Two personable, smiling and competent young women from Ballard are now in control of the only bakery in Magnolia.
Eckstein Middle School will begin phasing in a drug-and-alcohol awareness and prevention curriculum in the 2007-08 school year.Last fall, Eckstein was one of 12 communities that received a Strategic Prevention Framework-State Incentive Grant from the Washington State Division of Alcohol and Substance Abuse. These grants were to be used toward drug-and-alcohol awareness and prevention programs.
New coach Tia Jackson discussed her plans to develop the UW women's basketball program into a national powerhouse before the University Sunrise Rotary club. "I want to create a style of basketball that will help stimulate the fan base," she said. "I want to bring a buzz." Jackson also talked about her background and how much she had learned from the coaches she had worked under.
Thank you for the front page story you ran on Waldo Hospital in Maple Leaf. I'm one of the volunteers who have worked so diligently over the past year to save this property, and really appreciate the article. It helps to keep this in the public eye. Please convey my thanks to Alisa Furoyama. Overall, I find the article to be objective and well written; however, there are a few minor corrections I would like to mention in passing.
It was a non-event that dominated our local papers every day for two weeks. Something that didn't happen this month strongly solidified the case for an at-grade waterfront boulevard to replace the Alaskan Way Viaduct. Namely, during its recent two weeks of construction, northbound I-5 south of downtown was supposed to be a parking lot. And it wasn't. It never happened.You got the sense that our local dailies were disappointed by this.
BEACON HILL - Though Gabriel Teodros lays his head in Beacon Hill, his heart is deeply rooted across the pond in East Africa. Teodros, 26, is a first-generation Ethiopian immigrant at the forefront of a revolution in Seattle's blossoming hip-hop scene. Teodros first made his mark on the scene as one half of Abyssinian Creole - with fellow Seattle standout emcee Khingz - but with his 2007 release, Lovework (MassLine), looks to find a niche as a solo artist in the Seattle movement branded by its socially conscious approach to hip-hop music. I had the chance to sit down with the soft-spoken emcee just a week before he picks up the microphone at Seattle's historic Bumbershoot Music Festival at the Seattle Center.