Eleanor Stratton-Clunas missed four days of school on the trip, but it was a trip she'll never forget: She got to meet former President Bill Clinto
Fourth and fifth graders at John Hay Elementary School have sacrificed the unthinkable: their recess time.
DOCK COMPLETES FISHERMEN'S TERMINAL PLAN It took several drafts, but the $22 million dock renewal and replacement plan at Fishermen's Terminal was completed and celebrated Tuesday, June 3.
Last week's public meeting about Seattle Center's Skatepark focused on skateboard elements of the park, such as safety barriers, how it will be juxtaposed to neighboring structures and adding a ticket booth.
STUDENTS AT SBOC GREET AND CLEAN UP GREENBELT PARK Linda Zbigley recently took her fourth-period science class of pre-literacy students on a field trip in May to remove ivy from the Queen Anne Greenbelt Park. These students from the Secondary Bilingual Orientation Center (SBOC) in the old John Hay School went four blocks down the hill to pull the invasive vines from this City of Seattle park. There they met staff from EarthCorps that included young people from China, Liberia, Slovakia and Ghana.
PRICED OUT, 18-YEAR BUSINESS MOVING ON After 18 years of pressing pants and shirts along the busy thoroughfare at West Mercer Street and Queen Anne Avenue North, Bruce and Susan Lee of QA Cleaners will close the doors.
HOT FARMERS MARKETS FACE SPACE CRUNCH IN EVER GROWING SEATTLE In the early 1990s, Chris Curtis wanted to simplify her life. So she and her husband got a smaller house, unloaded the extra car and she left her career as a franchisee of two Haagen-Dazs ice cream parlors to, as she put it, "start a community project."
Last week, I couldn't find a single gas station in the area with a price of under $4 per gallon for regular. Even the "cheap gas" stations were over $4. Remember when we thought we were close to bankruptcy when the price of a gallon went over $2?
Should transportation dollars be spent on improving travel times and relieving congestion or for other purposes? That and other questions resulted in the Queen Anne Community Council debating, and approving, drafting a letter that opposes further funding of Two-Way Mercer.
The public did not ask for it and no advocate stood at the microphone to make the case for it.
When I was a little kid I had this toy I loved. It was a box with a lot of blocks in it. The blocks had four sides, each with different male facial features and characteristics stamped on them. You could make myriad faces within the box. Changeable Charlie was the toy's name.
More than a year after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that it was fine by the nine to have the Environmental Protection Agency take steps to regulate global warming (Republican spin masters, by the way, have deftly inserted "climate change" as the new softer, friendlier way to describe the warming planet, but we're not buying it), EPA chief Stephen Johnson last week, no doubt under the extreme pressure from the Bush administration, declined to do anything of the sort.
This year marks the 23rd time that Queen Anne has hosted the Crown of Queen Anne Fun Run/Walk, but never has there been more concern about its future.
Thorny, the toy robot that made a name for itself as a community builder in the Thorndyke Plaza has finally split the scene.
Someone went to elaborate lengths last weekend to play a trick on Queen Anne residents. The trick involved a sign surrounded by a 6-foot-tall chain-link fence that suddenly appeared in Kinnear Park.