Karen Temple Rich has joined her husband and business partner Court Rich at Magnolia-based Rich Marketing as agency principal and partner.Karen Rich brings 12 years of experience developing non-traditional marketing campaigns and will be active in business development for the agency and its clients. She leaves behind an eight-year career at Tribune Broadcasting-owned television stations Q13 FOX and My Q2.
Farmers at the Magnolia Farmers Market bring to market a wide selection of vegetables freshly picked each week during September. Shoppers can select from such produce as fresh herbs, Asian cucumbers, sweet onions and several varieties of eggplants, as well as large heads of heirloom lettuce and braising greens.On Saturday, Sept. 15, from 11 a.m. to noon, the market will offer produce samples with tastes of various kinds of seasonal produce to help shoppers learn more about what is available at the market.
The first program of the Queen Anne Historical Society's (QAHS) new season will take place Saturday, Sept. 22, at 2 p.m.The program, "Cruising Uptown-Then & Now," will feature a visual presentation on Queen Anne's Uptown neighborhood by Bruce Jones. Photo comparisons of then-and-now scenes will show the many changes that have taken place over the past 90 years.
The Rotary Club of Queen Anne announced its 2007-2008 project budget with $13,500 in funding slated for projects in and around Seattle, with a focus on the Queen Anne community. An additional $6,500 is earmarked for international projects.Local Rotary projects include vocational and community service programs. Vocational service projects include scholarship programs for Seattle Center's Center School and Marshall Mom's program. A student of the month program is also scheduled for the Center School.
The genesis of the Queen Anne Helpline, a charitable organization celebrating its 25th anniversary this year, can be traced to an elderly woman buying cat food at the Queen Anne Thriftway, according to longtime helpline director Pat Sobek.The late Dick Rhodes - owner and founder of the grocery store (now the Metropolitan Market) - said he knew the woman, and he knew for a fact that she didn't own a cat, Sobek said.
Local resident involved in producing TV documentariesQueen Anne resident Ethan Morris knows his way around a TV studio. He used to produce the news at a television station in New Mexico, and he later moved to Seattle and worked for KOMO-TV doing the same thing.The experience came in handy for his latest project as a senior producer for "The War: Stories from the Northwest: WWII" at KCTS-TV. The public-television station in Queen Anne put the four-part series together in conjunction with the airing of Ken Burns' documentary, "The War."
The salmon run strong through the locks Sunday morning, Sept. 9, as young Eli Enghaus takes an up-close peek at the annual migration. The coho run will peak late this month.
The salmon run strong through the locks Sunday morning, Sept. 9, as young Eli Enghaus takes an up-close peek at the annual migration. The coho run will peak late this month.
Dear Magnolia News editor:I wrote you a lovely letter, all for NOT!The Seattle Post Master has taken away the only curb-side mail collection boxes on Magnolia, so my letter to you was mailed... NOT!
I am quite tired of being threatened - as I walk my two elderly basset hounds down the footpaths of Discovery Park - by mountain bikers who obviously have something to prove.As I point out their rides are limited to paved roads, I am told it is none of my business and am shoved off the paths by their fast-speeding bikes, which erode the delicate sand paths.
Thank you for the article about the new proprietors of the Upper Crust Bakery in Magnolia. But I have an addition to your article.They are making great challah every Friday, at a reasonable cost, too. They might even try making a round challah for Rosh Hashanah.
There are some smells you'll never forget. I think I'll always connect my first week in the first grade with the pungent, acrid odor that came off the bright-yellow, rubberized cloth of my new raincoat.Even now, just let me get a whiff of that smell and I'm back in Cincinnati, beginning school all over again.Luckily, the first day of school was held under a bright, sunny, warm, almost-summer sky, so some of us at least had something of an idea as to where we were supposed to go without inclement weather adding to our confusion.
The guiding philosophy of Discovery Park's master plan owes much to the genius of Frederick Law Olmsted. Many of the individuals who played a part in creating the park - a list which includes Dan Urban Kiley, Judge Donald S. Voorhees, John Morse and Fred Mann - were avid followers of the great designer. Olmsted not only created Central Park in New York City from a quarry and wasteland, he also designed nearly 100 parks for cities across the United States.
Cell phones and SUVs are anti-septic and anti-life. Party lines and Metro buses are septic and sometimes too much life. Riding Metro, especially certain routes like the 358, which I now do five days a week for my new job, alerts you to the sad fact that everyone isn't reading Conrad, mourning the recent passing of Bergman or even working feverishly on their laptop trying to perfect their five years to a bigger condo, bigger SUV, more "perfect partner" and an even "greater job" plan. To whit:
Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels has spent a busy summer trying to line developers' pockets, most notably with a proposal in June to expand property-tax exemptions for builders for median income condos and (if any remain by 2008) apartments.But hizzoner topped himself in the dog days late last month with a quiet proposal to gut permitting and environmental review requirements for new projects - a new pinnacle in cynicism, not just because it's another giveaway to developers that encourages the teardowns of what's left of this city's semi-affordable housing stock, but because of how he sold it.