■ Joe Ricci (center) entertains the crowd with his juggling skills at the University District Street Fair on Sunday, May 18. photo/Bradley Enghaus
The following is the menu for Seattle Public Schools' elementary students. All breakfasts include toast, fruit, juice and milk. Lunches include vegetables, fruit and milk. The menu is subject to change.MONDAY, MAY 26No school (Memorial Day holiday).TUESDAY, MAY 27Breakfast: Hot or cold cereal.Lunch: Chicken drummies with or without barbecue sauce, Deep-dish cheese pizza or Yogurt and muffin Munchable.WEDNESDAY, MAY 28Breakfast: Egg-and-cheese breakfast muffin.Lunch: Grilled teriyaki-chicken burger on multigrain bun, Breaded-fish nuggets or Yogurt and bagel Munchable.THURSDAY, MAY 29Breakfast: Egg-and-turkey sausage tac-go with or without salsa.Lunch: Belgian waffle sticks with or without salsa and turkey-ham slice, Vegetarian chili-and-cheese wrap or Yogurt and muffin Munchable.FRIDAY, MAY 30Breakfast: Hot or cold cereal.Lunch: Hawaiian luau chicken (bites) with or without sweet-and-sour sauce, Vegetable egg roll or Yogurt and bagel Munchable.
HILLMAN CITY - When Michael Brown, Hillman City resident and landlord for the past 20 years, leased his building to Phong Tong to open a café and deli, he said he was excited about the idea of having a restaurant in the neighborhood. Now, four weeks later, that excitement has turned to frustration as complaints that Tong is letting patrons smoke inside his café and allegations that the café is a front for illegal gambling begin to surface.
On April 16, Rainier Valley artist Selma Waldman died of cancer. She was 77 years old and left a body of work that embraced her life as an activist continually striving for peace and justice.
My, oh, my, there was a lot of baseball this past week. Rainier District Little League's busiest seven days of the year included exciting pennant race action, the league's annual Dewey Soriano Day, and tournament play in Renton.
South Precinct officers have arrested Darin L. Bolar for sexually assaulting a 42-year-old Asian woman on May 17. The victim, who has still not been identified, was walking with a 2-year-old child in the 7500 block of Renton Ave. S. at the time of the assault.
Thinking about people who have died, this past Memorial Day I found myself reminiscing over a peculiar conversation between my son, Clayton, and his friend Michael 18 years ago.The two were 4 years old when Michael's grandmother passed away.
I had the pleasure of reading Charlie James' editorial piece, "Out with the old democratic coalition, in with the new" in the May 14 edition.
A friend passed along your recent "WHAT about THIS" column ["Society's Superficial Skin," March 26], and, personally, I wish the entire nation could have read it.
Residential construction in our city has hit near record levels in the last year, and cranes are sprouting up like weeds in our neighborhoods. Developers are having a field day, yet are our city leaders remain determined to give them still more lucrative public subsidies and tax breaks.
Officers were dispatched to the 6200 block of Corson Ave. S. in response to a 911 caller who said a man had just entered their store, implied he had a gun under his clothing, and robbed the store.
Seattle has lost more than half of its tree canopy since the early 1970s, and the city has launched Seattle reLeaf to help reverse the decline.
CENTRAL AREA - For photographer Carlos Melgoza, living in the Artspace Hiawatha Lofts loft is a dream come true. He had been living in a 375-square-foot basement apartment for three years. So, the prospect of upgrading to an 850-square foot loft with natural sunlight, a view of downtown and lower rent was an easy decision.
This week's featured writer is poet BriAnna Green who is in the fourth grade in Ms. Robertson's class at John Muir Elementary.
"Drink Up, Seattle!" coincides with the recent release of Seattle's annual drinking water quality report, which concludes that Seattle's water is among the best in any major city in North America.