DrugsFriday 1/4, 12:09 a.m.During a regular patrol of the public parks along Lake Washington Boulevard South, a pair of officers spotted three young people in a vehicle parked in the Mount Baker Beach Park after the posted operating hours. When the officers contacted the two men, ages 17 and 18, and the woman, age 20, they immediately noticed an odor of marijuana emanating from their car.
Seattle's Neighborhood Service Centers are one of the few places in the Puget Sound region where you can apply for a passport on Saturday. There are two locations in the South End where you can go to take care of your passport needs without having to worry about taking time away from your work and family routines during the week.The main South End location is at the newly relocated Southeast Seattle Neighborhood Service Center at 3815 S. Othello St., suite 105. Hours are 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Tuesday through Friday and 10 a.m.-2 p.m. on Saturday. You could also head to the north a bit for your passport needs in the Central Area at the Central Neighborhood Service Center at 2301 S. Jackson St., suite 208. Hours are 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Tuesday through Friday and 9 a.m.-5 p.m. on Saturday Passports usually take 10-12 weeks to create and are mailed directly to you. Expedited service is available - if you have at least 14 days prior to travel - for an additional $60. If needed prior to 14 days, call the Federal Building for an appointment at (206) 808-5700.For further requirements and more details, please go to the Seattle Neighborhood Service Center's website devoted to passports www.seattle.gov/neighborhoods/nsc/passports.
Seattle garbage, yard waste and recycling collections will be on normal schedule for the Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday, Monday, Jan. 21. Seattle Public Utilities customers should place their containers out for collection by 7 a.m. to ensure they get picked up.The City of Seattle's North Recycling and Disposal Station in the Fremont/Wallingford area and the South Recycling and Disposal Station in the South Park area will be open on Monday, Jan. 21, during their regular business hours: 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Customers can report a missed garbage, yard waste or recycling collection after 6 p.m. on the day it was missed by calling 684-3000 or by visiting the on-line missed collection form available on Seattle Public Utilities website.
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.LICENSE APPLICATIONS*CHRISTMAN GROCERY OUTLET INC. (STEVEN J. CHRISTMAN): a grocery store selling beer and wine, at Christman Grocery Outlet, 2901 27th Ave. S., Suite C.
The 911 call came in at 2:40 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 11. A passerby had spotted the body of a boy lying in the wet leaves between a battered Ford station wagon and a weathered chain-link and wood-slat fence in the 4200 block of South Rose Street, about one block east of Martin Luther King Jr. Way South. Police arrived on the scene within minutes and quickly pronounced the boy dead.
"This is our life's work, to minimize the achievement gap," Holli Martinez, wife of the famed former Mariners designated hitter Edgar Martinez proclaimed before the start of the Sunday, Jan. 13 kick off party at the Mount Baker Community Club in honor of the upcoming Powerful Schools 11th annual fundraising breakfast.
Last week the board of directors of the Seattle Monorail Project (SMP) voted to dissolve and terminate the agency, the final step in concluding the Project in response to the November 2005 election, whereby a majority of the Seattle electorate voted to shut down the SMP.The final actions were enabled by the dismissal by the Washington Supreme Court earlier this month of the only remaining litigation against the SMP. The board held its final meeting on the evening of Thursday, Jan. 24, to hear reports from its consultants and the state auditor. The board also adopted two resolutions. The first transferred all of SMP's remaining assets-approximately $425,000 in cash and a property interest-to King County to be held in trust for use for transportation purposes within the Green Line corridor in which the Monorail was to have been built. The second resolution formally dissolved and terminated the agency.
Go to any greenbelt in Seattle and you're likely to run across sometimes-elaborate encampments of homeless people. And while the city has cleared out the encampments on a regular basis the last 15 years, it seems that new tents and shelters sometimes spring up in the same greenbelts within days.
News from the city was good last week when the mayor's office and the Seattle Police Department announced Thursday, Jan. 17 that crime levels in Seattle are at the lowest level they've been in almost four decades.That was a little hard to believe in Magnolia at a meeting later that same night, when almost 300 concerned neighborhood residents showed up at a standing-room-only, crime-prevention meeting in the Catharine Blaine cafeteria.The meeting was originally going to be just a small gathering in the community center of people from a blockwatch in an area that has been hard hit by a recent rash of daytime burglaries.
Matthew Gardner, an economist from Gardner-Johnson, predicts the Puget Sound region will escape much of the pain from a near-certain national recession. Speaking at a Thursday, Jan. 17 luncheon of the Greater Queen Anne Chamber of Commerce, the British national touched on many areas that affect the economy-from wages to housing to interests rates.
The Seattle Pacific University Falcons notched two key wins last week to continue the season unbeaten, boosting their high national ranking and cementing a right to claim the unofficial title of "best in the West." The wins-over the rival Western Washington Vikings and Central Washington Wildcats-also established SPU's clear in-state superiority. he high-flying Falcons, ranked 4th in the NCAA Division II coaches poll last week, are poised to move even higher, as first-ranked North Dakota University lost at home to 10th-ranked South Dakota Saturday night.
You'd think that after being married for 20 years, my husband would have learned how to catch any subtle hint I may toss his way. Sometimes I'll shiver and he'll know I'm cold. Or I'll suddenly turn bright orange and have flames shooting out the top of my head, and he might understand that I'm having a hot flash and know that it's time to duck, cover and roll.
There are few real heroes-and most are indeed ordinary people who do extraordinary things. Sir Edmund Hillary was one of those individuals who dignified the term "hero," and his passing leaves this earth a more lonely and troubled place. Hillary's focus, drive, intellect and humble view of man's achievements were a source of admiration and awe for those who knew him.
I've been a journalist in one form or another now since 1977, when I was a feature writer and book reviewer for the University of Cincinnati News Record. I've written and edited almost every type of journalism, but my two specialities in the middle of my career, when I still believed the only thing keeping most Americans from being well-informed was the lack of a good newspaper, were crime and sports.
By Jeremy Eaton