Mayor Greg Nickels announced 19 neighborhood projects that will receive more than $240,000 in matching funds from the Department of Neighborhoods on March 24. The money will support projects across the city, covering subjects as diverse as public art, race and social justice, youth-development, and climate protection.
A woman living in the 3300 block of 21st Ave. S. left her home for two hours in the morning. When she returned at 10:30 a.m. she discovered that someone had kicked open the front door. The blow shattered the doorframe and scattered broken glass across the floor.
Rex's Service Station in Seward Park is closed after 55 years of service. Lee Hemnes, the owner of the small family-run business, closed its doors for the last time on Friday leaving behind generations of automotive care, neighborhood history and a family legacy.
Five days after the Beacon Hill community met on March 18 to discuss the status of the search for an assailant suspected in at least 24 Beacon Hill area attacks on women, the man struck again.
Have you ever seen a girl on a football team? I don't know about you, but I haven't. Have you ever wondered why? I am a girl that wants to play football, but all those girls just like me can't.
The shift in seasons got me to thinking of changes that have occurred in my own life. With the passing of time I have come to the realization that finding one's niche is often just a matter of timing. An example of my own transformation was my recent stint as a tax preparer.
Southeast Seattle and the Central District have been chosen for the site of many new projects. One is a residence for homeless alcoholics. These folks will be housed three blocks from Columbia City.
In the current edition of Not for Seniors Only [a special pullout in the March 5 edition], Dennis Wilken quotes AFSA, a commercial enterprise, that "more than five hours a week of vigorous exercise may be counter-productive."
I am a senior at Franklin High School. I am 17-years old and am currently a member of the Political Science Academy.
Officers of the South and Southwest Anti-Crime Team conducted an undercover narcotics buy/bust operation in the 4900 block of Rainier Ave. S. One of the officers approached a man, age 28, and asked if he could "help him out."
Beginning next year, Washington state consumers will get a hand in recycling their e-waste in a program paid for - at least in part - by manufacturers of computers such as Dell. The program represents a sea change in King County, which forbade people in 2005 from putting computers, monitors, TVs and cellular phones in the trash or taking them to transfer stations.Seattle still needs to negotiate with the companies paying for the recycling program, said Seattle City Council president Richard Conlin: "We're going to them and say we want to be part of your system."Curbside recycling might be part of the effort, although that might involve consumers paying an extra fee, he said.In the meantime, people can choose among 28 different companies, according to the King County's Solid Waste Division website.
It's been 40 years since the death of Martin Luther King Jr., a fact that is well known to most Americans. But what is not as well known is that it's been only 40 years since African Americans have felt that they were free to be citizens of this nation.
An attempt to do well by doing good in a parking lot at Seattle Pacific University (SPU) didn't work out too well last March for Jason Purcell and Recycle Engage Neutralize Electronic Waste (RENEW), a for-profit company he recently founded.People were able to drop off electronics equipment to be recycled for free, and the response was overwhelming, filling the football-sized parking lot up to 8 feet high with e-waste, said Purcell, a 2002 SPU grad and an adjunct faculty member at the school.He and his partner, Eric Lundgren, from the Environmental Computer Agency (ECA), had been expecting to collect two or three truckloads of recyclables, Purcell said. Instead, he said, the free recycling drive brought in around 305,000 pounds of e-waste that filled 14 semi-trucks that were driven to California - at least initially.The goal was to refurbish when necessary and sell 10 to 20 percent of the recyclables, using the money to pay for recycling the rest and making a profit on top of that, according to Purcell. The Union Gospel Mission was to receive 25 percent of the profit, he added.Purcell and Lundgren lost money on the deal, however, and that led to finger-pointing between Purcell, Lundgren and the Basel Action Network (BAN), a Seattle-based environmental watchdog group named after a Swiss city where an international environmental treaty was signed.
With the words, "Play Ball!" Rainier District Little League kicked off its 2008 baseball season with several games played in the Majors Division last week at Rainier Playfield. The Rookies and Minors Divisions also got their seasons underway with the league's annual Jamboree on April 12, also at Rainier Playfield.
I love America, but I hate that bad things happen to people. That people may be responsible for what happens does not make me hate them. I hate the factors which led them to the actions that hurt them and others. I hate what prevents them from seeing the terrible wrong, the evil. I hate their lack of foresight.