APPEAL HEARINGS1610 N. 41st St.: (3006335) of a Land Use Application to allow expansion of an existing institution (Hamilton Middle School) including the addition of a new gymnasium to provide an additional 27,000 sq. ft. of school facility space...The following decision has been appealed: SEPA to conditionally approve pursuant to 25.05.660 (Reference Seattle Municipal Code 25.05.660).
LICENSE DISCONTINUANCES:SOUND TRACK BAR & GRILL: a restaurant lounge selling spirits, beer and wine, at 1603 W. Dravus St.
2429 Eighth Ave. N. (3006267) of eight townhomes and parking for 12 vehicles within the structures. At the Design Review Board meeting the applicant will present information about the proposed design and how it responds to the Design Guideline priorities established at the Early Design Guidance Board meeting on Sept. 19, 2007. 3514 W. Government Way (3007892) of one two-unit townhouse structure with a live work-unit and one two-unit townhouse structure. Parking for five vehicles to be provided on the site. This proposal has been submitted voluntarily for Administrative Design Review in exchange for departures from the following development standards (based on the preliminary design concept): setback, lot coverage and open space.
We are prisoners of our prejudices. Ordinarily. I would name a group and then say "we," but it has been my experience that regardless of age, gender, race, nationality, religion, sexual preference, background, marital status, wealth, or whatever you care to add, prejudice is present. A misspoken word, a wrong word, a word with multiple meanings, an omitted word, any and all can contribute to the prejudging. Our ignorance - not knowing - can get us in trouble. Some of the best minds prejudge some of the time. Our prejudices don't always cause us, or others, a problem; other times irreparable damage results.
Photographed this past weekend by Bradley Enghaus
Back in May, law-enforcement officers instituted a stepped-up nighttime campaign to nail offenders of Washington seatbelt laws. The program was so successful that officers will again take to the night streets between Monday, Oct. 22, and Nov. 5.Although approximately the same number of vehicle-occupant deaths occur during the day (6 a.m.-6 p.m.) and at night (6 p.m.-6 a.m.), lower traffic volumes at night mean that the death rate is four times higher than during the day.
Members of the Seattle Chapter of Youth for Human Rights International headquartered in Queen Anne delivered the opening address at the Puget Sound Educational Service District's 7th Student Diversity Summit at Camp Berachah on Sept. 29 and chaired interactive breakout sessions with students over the weekend. The summit was held in Auburn.
Washington state's minimum wage will increase 14 cents to $8.07 an hour beginning Jan. 1, 2008. The Department of Labor and Industries recalculates the state's minimum wage each year in September as required by Initiative 688, which was approved by Washington voters in 1998. The law requires that the state minimum wage be adjusted each year according to the change in the federal Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI-W) during the 12 months ending each Aug. 31.
Capt. Steven Brown, who heads up the West Precinct, told a meeting of the Uptown Alliance Oct. 11 that the Seattle Police Department plans to change the number of beats police patrol in Queen Anne and Magnolia. The change will take place the first week of January, and it's part of a three-pronged proposal touted by Mayor Greg Nickels and Police Chief Gil Kerlikowske last spring.
About 9,000 walkers in Seattle turned out for the Start! Heart Walk on Oct. 6 and helped raise a record $2.3 million for the American Heart Association (AHA). Among the people receiving the Lifestyle Change Award for making changes with significant benefits to their health was Queen Anne resident Eric Svenson, an employee of Washington Mutual. Svenson quit smoking, switched to a healthy diet and is now working out six days a week - which may have something to do with his having lost 44 pounds in one year, lowered his blood pressure and lowered his heart rate. He's at left in the photo, collecting his award from David Grosby of KJR AM Radio and Paula Lank, BSN, RN, a representative from Physio Control.
Last Wednesday afternoon, Oct. 10, the new director of Seattle Department of Neighborhoods, Stella Chao, walked the Queen Anne Business District with Christa Dumpys, Neighborhood District Coordinator for the Queen Anne/Magnolia Service Center, and representatives of the Greater Queen Anne Chamber of Commerce who spearheaded the walkabout.
Nick Robinson, 12, and Lino Marioni, 9, are disarmingly sophisticated for their years. In conversation they are polite, thoughtful and well-spoken, traits that appear to have served them just fine in their early artistic pursuits. This pair of young actors, both residents of Queen Anne, have scored a runaway hit with their respective roles in Intiman Theatre's current production of Harper Lee's "To Kill a Mockingbird," which opened Sept. 19 and, thanks to its immediate popularity with Seattle audiences, has been extended through Nov. 10.
Club helped raise $20K for 12 devicesAs first projects go, the Rotary Club of Magnolia pulled off a big one after three-plus years of effort. Working with the local Rotarian district and the Magnolia Community Center Advisory Committee, the local organization raised $20,000 it used to buy a dozen emergency defibrillators, said Rotarian Bob Boyd at a celebratory meeting Oct. 11 at the community center. The district kicked in $5,000 for an effort that saw the life-saving devices installed in Magnolia Village businesses, grocery stores, the Elliott Bay Marina, the Daybreak Star Indian Cultural Center, the public library, the community center and Our Lady of Fatima. "This club matched that [$5,000]," Boyd added
A vehicle was peppered with gunfire, and four people were shot and wounded around midnight Oct. 5 in the parking lot behind Club Level 5 in the 300 block of Fifth Ave. N.The shooter and victims had been thrown out of the club a short time earlier for fighting, reportedly because someone stepped on the shooter's shoe. None of the shooting victims is talking, as usual, and none of 13 witnesses listed in the police report had anything useful to say about the shooter, according to police spokesman Mark Jamieson.But the incident was reminiscent of the bloody mayhem that took place at the Mr. Lucky club across the street from the KeyArena. And as with Mr. Lucky, an effort has begun to convince the state Liquor Control Board to suspend the liquor license at Level 5, formerly the Element club.
RAINIER VALLEY - Seattle residents are used to living with wildlife. Raccoons, squirrels, and opossums have always been known to live in urban areas around Puget Sound. More frequently, though, Seattleites are realizing that a larger, more predatory animal is co-existing with them. You might hear a coyote howling after an emergency vehicle's siren as it passes. You might even see one walking down the street.