SERVICES University Baptist Church: Solstice gathering, with soup, on Friday, Dec. 21, 6 p.m.; Advent IV: Youth Christmas pageant, on Sunday, Dec. 23, 10:30 a.m.; Christmas Eve service, with music, meditation and candlelight, on Monday, Dec. 24, 7 p.m. (informal gathering following). 4554 12th Ave. N.E. 632-5188. Christmas Eve worship service, on Monday, Dec. 24, 5 p.m. Free-will offering. Rock of Ages Lutheran Brethren Church, 316 N. 70th St. 783-4161. Click Full Story for a complete list of holiday events, music, theater and art.
Suzie Burke purchases half-block on N. 36th despite property's reputation Suzie Burke has been called a mover and shaker. She laughs when she admits that some of her neighbors sarcastically refer to her as "the lovable landlord." The property manager has become quite visible since she went to work for her father in 1975 at the Fremont Dock Co. She has helped transform the Fremont neighborhood since then, and she now estimates that she owns nearly 45 acres of property in the area.
Meg Guillan (at right, forefront) and her daughter, Zoe Plattner, make a wreath as the Silver Bells Carolers sing carols at Magnuson Community Center, 7110 62nd Ave. N.E., on Dec. 9. The community center also offered 45-minute holiday hayrides and a bonfire to get visitors into the holiday spirit. For more holiday events, see Holiday Happenings.
Welcome once again to my annual list of the year's most overhyped and underreported stories. As usual, there's plenty to unravel: stories that should never have been stories, stories whose reporting largely missed the point and stories barely told at all.
It may seem almost silly - the amount of time, thought and money that goes into a single night of the year. Sillier still to prepare this early, except that smart singles know this is the night, and a year's planning isn't over the top to make it a success. No, it's not Christmas, Kwanzaa or Hanukkah. I'm single, and that means I'm already prepping for New Year's Eve!
Wallingford Community Senior Center may suffer same fate as now-closed University District Senior Center After four years of financial deficits, the Wallingford Community Senior Center (WCSC) has become yet another Washington senior center at risk of closing. More than 40 staff, members, neighbors and friends gathered on Dec. 11, eager to come up with a solution to help turn things around.
❚ Raising dough: Great Harvest Bread Co., which has a store at 5408 Sand Point Way N.E., raised more than $19,000 from its Raising Dough for Children's Hospital fund-raiser during September.❚ Good Farmer Fund: The Neighborhood Farmers Market Alliance, 4519 1/2 University Way N.E., is taking monetary contributions to its Good Farmer Fund to help farmers with direct emergency funding due to farm loss, crop loss and personal hardship from the recent flooding in Washington state. To help, call 632-5234.
Fremont-based Xeko teaches kids about ecosystems through a series of games using playing cardsStriking the delicate balance between entertainment and education - at least when it comes to children's games - can be a seemingly impossible task.So when Amy Tucker and Sönny Spearman set out to create a game for kids that taught them about endangered ecosystems in targeted, far-away areas of the world, they knew the job at hand would be no simple feat.
PUBLIC MEETINGS: z 559 N.E. 80th St. (3008110) on a Land Use Application to change use of building from food processing to restaurant. The following approval is required: Administrative Conditional Use to allow conversion from one nonconforming use to another nonconforming use . . . A public meeting to review this application will take place Jan. 9 at 6:30 p.m. at Olympic View Elementary School, 504 N.E. 95th St. Written and/or oral comments may be submitted at the meeting.
The Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) encourages area residents and business owners to attend a public meeting at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 10, 2008, at the Queen Anne Branch of Seattle Public Library, 400 W. Garfield St., to discuss the proposed installation of a new Residential Parking Zone (RPZ) in the Upper Queen Anne Hill neighborhood. The purpose of this meeting is to gather input about potential signage, time limits and other details of the project. RPZs are used to ease parking congestion in residential neighborhoods by discouraging long-term parking by nonresidents.
The Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) encourages area residents and business owners to attend a public meeting at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 10, 2008, at the Queen Anne Branch of Seattle Public Library, 400 W. Garfield St., to discuss the proposed installation of a new Residential Parking Zone (RPZ) in the Upper Queen Anne Hill neighborhood. The purpose of this meeting is to gather input about potential signage, time limits and other details of the project. RPZs are used to ease parking congestion in residential neighborhoods by discouraging long-term parking by nonresidents.
The Magnolia/Queen Anne Neighborhood Service Center at 157 Roy St. has been forced to move by Seattle City Light, which owns the building. It wasn't much of a move, though.Most of the former tenants are set up in new office space across the street at 160 Roy St. in Suite 100, said Peter McCraw, a spokesman for the Department of Neighborhoods, one of the former tenants. The others include the district office of 36th District State Sen. Jeanne Kohl-Welles and the Uptown Alliance.
GENESEE - Mayor Greg Nickels announced, in early December, $14 million for four new housing projects for working families and people who are homeless while standing in the lot of the former Chubby and Tubby hardware and retail store just north of Columbia City off of at 3333 Rainier Ave. S. The money, funded primarily by the Seattle Housing Levy, will help build two housing projects for working families in Southeast Seattle near light rail stations. It will also support a development for low-income families in the Central Area and housing for chronically homeless individuals in Belltown.
Tim Gallagher is happy to have his new job New Seattle Parks and Recreation Superintendent Tim Gallagher, 54, says that standing out in the crowd is the key to landing a new job. For the former Californian, that involved having his first interview for the Seattle position when he was in Oregon during a 2,600-mile, five-month trek along the Pacific Crest Trail, which stretches from the Mexican border to Canada.
When Neil Callahan died unexpectedly of a heart attack on Dec. 16, the Queen Anne community lost one of its most effective, inspired and inspiring advocates for the cause of youth soccer - a virtual dynamo given tosending idea-packed e-mails at 3 in the morning and possessing an admirable willingness to take on all obstacles on his way to realizing his dream of making sports fun for kids.As president of the Seattle Youth Soccer Association, Callahan, 55, had contact with a wide range of people, many of whom recall a charismatic, often stubborn individual whose tireless devotion to youth soccer earned him a reputation as a "can do" guy.