Seattle Public Utilities has issued a comprehensive report on the ecological condition of Seattle's major creeks and small lakes, and an accompanying set of recommendations for rehabilitating and restoring Seattle's upland watersheds.
Seattle residents who experienced uninsured losses from December's flooding may be eligible for assistance from the Federal Emergency Management Association (FEMA).
Gallery pays tribute to imagination captured in children's book Growing up in the Midwest, Kevin McKouen found great joy in taking pictures and was a great admirer of author Daniel Pinkwater. In perhaps his most well-known children's book, Pinkwater depicts a drab neighborhood full of homes identical to one another, until Mr. Plumbean repaints his home. One by one, his neighbors follow suit, and the town transcends the
DECLINING MEMBERSHIP AND FUNDS AMONG REASONS FOR SALEThroughout its 106-year history, the University Baptist Church congregation has only been without its current building for just shy of a quarter-decade. While the building has towered over 12th Avenue Northeast since the mid-1920s, the local institution will perhaps see new tenants inside. For the last several years, the church has seen its membership decline, leaving more than two-thirds of the 500-seat chapel vacant.
Throughout its 106-year history, the University Baptist Church congregation has only been without its current building for just shy of a quarter-decade. While the building has towered over 12th Avenue Northeast since the mid-1920s, the local institution will perhaps see new tenants inside. For the last several years, the church has seen its membership decline, leaving more than two-thirds of the 500-seat chapel vacant.
The sinkhole that closed the north entrance to Magnuson Park, at Northeast 74th Street and Sand Point Way Northeast, has been refilled with concrete. The entrance was to remain closed until Thursday, Jan. 10, depending on how quickly the cement cures. The Seattle Department of Transportation closed the entrance last Friday, Jan. 4, after the sinkhole - which was 6 inches deep and 15 by 20 feet - was discovered. Park visitors are detoured to the Northeast 65th Street entrance.
WALLINGFORD CLUBHOUSE FOR MENTALLY ILL USES ART AS THERAPYSuzanne answers the reception desk phone with the ambition of a director, before patching the call into the main office. For the last five years, she's been working on her communication skills at the Wallingford House in its business unit. It's because of the Wallingford House that she and many others have been working a steady job. Lately, she and a group of her peers have been under the instruction of Helena Hillinga, a local artist who's been offering them free art courses two hours each week at the Wallingford House. For the rest of this month, their sketches are on display at the University Unitarian Church in the Ravenna neighborhood.
On a stark stage flanked by blood-red pillars, Seattle Shakespeare Company presents a tale of honor, friendship, patriotism and murder-the story of Julius Caesar, the popular Roman leader assassinated by his erstwhile friends. Because of the play's pertinence to aspects of political life in the 20th and 21st centuries, it's a perennial stage favorite, and this production is one of the best I've seen.
Conductor Dean Williamson has his hand in tinkering with yet another music score for Seattle Opera. In 2005, Williamson adjusted the already much revised "Les Contes d'Hoffmann" to allow Jacques Offenbach and Ernest Guiraud's original music to shine as well as to restore the opera's narrative logic. For Seattle Opera's upcoming production of Ruggero Leoncavallo's "Pagliacci," a circus interlude is being added that includes mimes, dance and acrobats. "Pagliacci" reveals the pain behind the painted faces of a touring troupe of performers, who include the obsessively jealous Canio and his wife, Nedda. The new interlude is a flashback of Canio finding Nedda as a child and bringing her into the circus.
I was disappointed with your article regarding the City Council's decision to study a rental housing inspection program in Seattle ("City Council OK's Study of Rental-Housing Inspections," by Russ Zabel, Dec. 28). You quote me as saying, "The only argument I've heard against it is privacy." This quotation is truncated and inaccurate. I said that this was the only argument I had heard against it, but that the concern was completely misplaced in light of the ruling by the Washington Supreme Court that a Pasco-style inspection program does not involve a government intrusion.
My resolution for 2008 (one I expect to actually achieve) is to meet more Fremonsters, specifically people who live in Fremont. In my first column this year, I'd like to introduce two people I've met so far. Recently, Pete and Elva Francis met me for coffee at what was once Young's Grocery, now Lighthouse Roasters coffee shop. They informed me about Chuck Leathart's drugstore, located at one time at North 43rd Street and Fremont Avenue North. We chatted about Fremont of the 1960s and '70s, when the Francises lived in their early years of marriage at 43rd and Dayton Avenue North. In 1973, they purchased another house up north, all the way in Phinney Ridge, although they remained tied to Fremont in other ways.
PERMIT APPLICATIONS: 1020 Greenwood Ave. N. (3007002) for a Land Use Application to allow a three-story congregate residence for 23 residents and one apartment unit. Surface parking for four vehicles to be provided. Existing structure to be demolished. Written comments accepted through Wednesday, Jan. 16.
Questions or comments about the following applications or actions should be directed to the Regulatory Services Division, Washington State Liquor Control Board, 3000 Pacific Ave. S.E., P.O. Box 43098, Olympia, WA 98504-3098, or call (360) 664-1600.
SOLD: QFC sold the site of the former Safeway store at Stone Way North and North 40th Street to Prescott Development last fall. The developers plan to construct a mixed-use building with 150 apartments and commercial space on the ground floor.
anuary is National G.O. Month - that stands for Get Organized, and what a month it is to GO! Regardless of your resolutions, January is a good time to get organized - be it financially, or with your time, clutter or whatever you feel is out of control. Many people have the desire to get organized, but don't know where to start or, in some cases, what it even means to them to "be organized."