The following information was provided by the city's Department of Planning and Development. Written comments on projects should be mailed to 700 Fifth Ave., Suite 2000, P.O. Box 34019, Seattle, WA 98124-4019.Appeals are made to the Office of the Hearing Examiner, Seattle Municipal Tower, 40th Floor (SMT-40-00), 700 Fifth Ave., Suite 4000, Seattle, WA 98104. Appeals must be accompanied by a $50 filing fee in a check payable to the City of Seattle.The project number is in parentheses. For more information, call 684-8467.PERMIT APPLICATIONS4750 ROOSEVELT WAY N.E. (3008147) for a Land Use Application to allow a six-story, 60-unit residential building with retail at grade. Parking for 44 vehicles will be located in below-grade garage. Review includes demolition of existing structure (Tubs). The following approvals are required: SEPA environmental determination; Design Review. Building and demolition permits may be needed but were not included in this application. Written comments accepted through Wednesday, May 14.
The following are selected reports from the Seattle Police Department's North Precinct. They represent the officers' accounts of the events described.WITH A DIGITAL LINE...A man staying at a motel in the 4200 block of Aurora Avenue North called police around 10:50 p.m. on April 27 to report that someone was trying to open his door. Responding officers found no one in the area and left. Within minutes, the man called again, saying that the same person had returned.As police were investigating and found no one near the building, the man called again, reporting that people were trying to enter this room.Within the next two hours, the man - who had appeared "slightly intoxicated yet attentive," according to the police report - had called police at least 26 times.During one visit, officers noted that there was no damage to the man's door nor did anyone else in the motel report any disturbances. They warned the man to not call 911 unless "there was a legitimate purpose behind such reporting."These officers remained parked across the street, and within 10 minutes, the man called again, saying he heard a gun clicking and two men walking by his room. The police did see one man, but he wasn't any closer than 20 feet to the caller's room.The police spoke with the caller again around 1:45 a.m., advising him that if he called 911 again with a false report, he would be arrested for telephone harassment. The officers left but stayed parked across the street.Within minutes, the man called twice, hanging up both times. He also called from his cellular phone to report hearing someone outside trying to enter his room.The police arrested the man at 1:55 a.m. as he was holding his cellular phone. The man, in his mid-30s, apologized and asked for another chance, but since he had already called at least 36 times, the man was booked into King County Jail.
In Nora Ephron's film "When Harry Met Sally," Harry (played by Billy Crystal) pronounced, "...Men and women can't be friends.... No man can be friends with a woman that he finds attractive. He always wants to have sex with her...so the friendship is ultimately doomed, and that is the end of the story."I agree with Harry's primary observation. Friends of opposite genders may feel sexual tension; attraction is a primary influence in friendship. His ultimate conclusion, though, I find slightly cynical and entirely untrue - a hypothesis in need of further testing.
Two major developments in local transportation planning during the last month point to a worrisome trend. With universal frustration over our area's interminable transportation and planning gridlocks, new efforts to try to solve the problem seem intent on saving time and hassle by cutting the public out of the decision-making process.
HOME TOUR: For the 20th year, the Phinney Neighborhood Association (PNA) is presenting its Real Homes for Real People self-guided home tour. From noon to 5 p.m. on May 18, participants can tour eight remodeled, restored or rebuilt homes in Phinney Ridge.The tour is self-guided; participants are asked to remove their shoes before entering the homes.Tickets are $12 for PNA members and $15 for the general public; tickets for children age 2 to 12 are $5 each. They are available at the Phinney Neighborhood Center, 6532 Phinney Ave. N. To preview the homes, go to www.phinneycenter.org.
Carolyn and Greg Heberlein own one of the last original houses in the 3600 block of Dayton Avenue North in Fremont. So in early January, when a crew armed with jackhammers and an excavator appeared in front of the old house (which is surrounded by condos) neighbors feared it was to be demolished.Instead, the Heberleins' son, Tristan, began ripping out the front yard, and neighbors soon realized the house was not being demolished but getting somewhat of a facelift.
BEER EVENT: For the fourth year, Georgetown Brewing Co. co-founder Manny Chao is presenting the Bob's Brown Beer event on Wednesday, May 14, which will benefit the Ronald McDonald House, 5130 40th Ave. N.E. All proceeds from the sale of the special, limited-release Bob's Brown Brew will benefit the charity.Participating bars and pubs include College Inn Pub, Goldie's on 45th, Ivar's Salmon House, Kate's Pub, Murphy's, Norm's Alehouse & Eatery, Park Pub, Red Door, St. Andrews Bar and Grill and Wedgwood Alehouse.Held each year on Bob Hirsch's birthday, the event honors Hirsch, who died of cancer at age 21. He and his family stayed at the Ronald McDonald House three separate times during his treatment. Chao met Hirsch at Camp Goodtimes, a week-long camp for children with cancer where Chao was a counselor.STORE TOUR: Bad Woman Yarn, 1815 N. 45th St., Suite 215, is one of 25 yarn stores featured in the 2008 Local Yarn Store Tour, which will take place Thursday, May 15, through Sunday, May 18.Each store will offer a different single skein for free, discounts, events and a $500 grand prize to one customer who visits each shop.Bad Woman Yarn has extended its hours for the tour: 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Thursday through Saturday and 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Sunday. Maps of the other participating stores are available at Bad Woman Yarn.
BOOK DRIVE, WEBSITE: Fremont Place Books, 621 N. 35th St., is sponsoring a book drive for Page Ahead through May. Customers can buy books as a donation to the Page Ahead, which will in turn give them to at-risk children.The store also has set up an on-line map and travel store at Maps.com, which also can be accessed by going directly to fremontplacebooks.mapcatalog.com. It is offering a 10-percent discount to first-time buyers.
What do a computer geek, a green business owner and an opera singer have in common? Nothing, usually - unless you happen to be Peter Hamilton. The 26-year-old Wedgwood resident works three jobs and loves it. "I've always had my hand in a lot of things. I tend to get bored easily," he explained one recent Friday afternoon.The common denominators are creativity and multimedia, he said. He fell into each job through various connections with people.His opera teacher encouraged him to further his study of voice. A friend recruited him to work for his Internet marketing company. And he met the owner of Clean Air Lawn Care through common acquaintances. An Internet marketer by morning, he works on-line for a company based in Austin, Texas. He develops strategies to get business owners more hits on search engines.In the afternoons, he switches gears to work on managing an environmental lawn-care business. And evenings? You can find him in a practice hall singing at the top of his lungs with the Seattle Opera."I honestly do not know how the guy does it," said Sean Alter, manager of Hamilton's Clean Air Lawn Care, located in Bothell. "I've never seen somebody multitask to that level before. He has more business and more operations than anyone I've ever met."
The following is the menu for Seattle Public Schools' elementary students. All breakfasts include toast, fruit, juice and milk. Lunches include vegetables, fruit and milk. The menu is subject to change. MONDAY, MAY 12Breakfast: Hot or cold cereal.Lunch: Chicken drummies with or without barbecue sauce, French-bread cheese pizza or Yogurt and grahams Munchable.TUESDAY, MAY 13Breakfast: Pancake on a stick.Lunch: Beef ravioli with meat sauce, Mozzarella cheese breadsticks with our without marinara sauce or Oriental chicken salad with wheat roll.WEDNESDAY, MAY 14Breakfast: Belgian waffle sticks with or without maple syrup and beef sausage.Lunch: Cheeseburger on multigrain bun, Breaded-fish nuggets and Oriental chicken salad with wheat roll.THURSDAY, MAY 15Breakfast: Egg-and-cheese breakfast biscuit.Lunch: Nachos with seasoned beef, beans and jalapeno cheese sauce; Bean-and-cheese burrito with or without salsa; or Oriental chicken salad with wheat roll.FRIDAY, MAY 16Breakfast: Hot or cold cereal.Lunch: Turkey ham-and-cheese melt on multigrain bun, Italian Hot Pocket or Yogurt and grahams Munchable.
As we approach the summer months, during this time of rent increases and food prices going up, we would like to let you know what the Queen Anne Helpline is doing and what is coming in the future.
Baseball scores and highlights from Queen Anne leagues
This week, Seattle media is going to be given over to All Dalai Lama, All the Time. Count on it.As part of his seemingly endless globetrotting on behalf of Tibetans, Buddhist and more generally the cause of peace, His High Holiness alights in Seattle for five days, from April 11-15, for a series of high-profile events, including appearances at Qwest Field and Bank of America arena.
There was pie last Saturday, May 10, at the Ravenna-Eckstein Community Center. At 2 p.m. the first gathering of the Ravenna-Roosevelt Ecovillage was getting started, and if you arrived early enough at the Planet, People, Pie & Possibilities event to get a slice of the strawberry-rhubarb pie, you'd agree it was delectable.Besides free pastries and coffee, there were about 12 tables set up by "citizens" of the new eco-village promoting solutions for everything from dealing with global warming and reducing our dependency on foreign oil to saving trees, making cheese and fixing your car.An eco-village isn't an actual village that can be located. It's basically a group of neighbors getting together to share information and to solve problems. The emphasis is on community and thinking about simple, local solutions to everyday needs such as food, transportation and conservation, as well as indirectly dealing with big issues like global warming and America's dependency on foreign oil.Some villagers contribute by offering workshops; others make individual efforts by car-pooling, using solar power or taking on political causes.
[The April 2 Hillman City murder] happened just two blocks from my house. My neighbors were at the park with their children and witnessed the shooting.