Through Sept. 20, garden enthusiasts can enter a drawing to buy Woodland Park Zoo's coveted Zoo Doo compost and Bedspread mulch.Only one postcard per person is eligible for the drawing; phone orders are not accepted.Send a standard postcard with your name, day and evening phone numbers, preference for Zoo or Bedspread, amount of purchase and weekday or weekend pickup preference, to Zoo Doo, Woodland Park Zoo, 601 N. 59th St., Seattle, WA 98103.Entry cards will be randomly drawn according to supply and demand, and only the drawn entries will be contacted. The winners will load the compost using the zoo's shovels between Oct. 4 and 19.For more information about prices, call 625-POOP or visit the zoo's website at www.zoo.org.
The Seattle Police Department is seeking the public's help in finding information about a serious traffic collision involving a motorcyclist that occurred in North Seattle. Around 8:40 p.m. on Aug. 23, a black-and-green chopper-style motorcycle driven by a 58-year-old male was traveling northbound on Lake City Way Northeast. A passing motorist came upon the motorcycle and its driver lying in the roadway in the 10700 block of Lake City Way and called 911. Officers arrived on scene within a couple of minutes but were unable to locate anyone who actually witnessed the motorcyclist crash.
Having hit bottom and literally learning from her experiences, Laura Cruikshank, 48, made a WWISH (Women's Wellness & Integrated Social Health) for an on-line, interactive clearinghouse for women's resources.WWISH (www.wwish-inc.com) aims to provide resources for a variety of women's issues, including health care, domestic abuse, education, careers, financial planning, parenting, fitness and legal issues. It also will offer newsletters, chat rooms and forums that will serve as virtual women's groups in the near future."I want to give women the opportunity to connect with other women who have experienced adversity themselves and tap into others' experiences," she said. "If you're going through crises, like attracts like; it's an evolving nightmare. [But with resources like WWISH] the odds of coming out of it are faster and better."Our niche is women's wellness, and that can be anything to help women...heal from what they were and be what they want to be," she added.
The Wallingford and Greenwood senior centers are participating in a countywide initiative called Safe Steps for Life. Its purpose is to educate seniors and caregivers on preventing injuries in the home.A Home Safety Council study concluded that falls are the second-leading cause of accidental deaths among people 65 and older in King County. It also said that 17 percent of emergency calls from seniors 65 and older were related to home falls. Two one-day events - one at each of the senior centers - will present information to help seniors take preventative safety measures. University of Washington physical therapy students will give a fall-prevention presentation and conduct balancing testing.
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, SEPT. 15Breakfast: Hot or cold cereal.Lunch: Turkey corndog with mustard, Breaded fish sandwich with or without tartar sauce on multigrain bun or Yogurt and muffin Munchable.TUESDAY, SEPT. 16Breakfast: Belgian waffle sticks and beef sausage.Lunch: Taco salad with tortilla chips or Mozzarella cheese breadsticks with or without marinara sauce.WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 17Breakfast: Egg-and-cheese breakfast biscuit.Lunch: Beef ravioli with meat sauce, Cheese quesadilla or Yogurt and grahams Munchable.THURSDAY, SEPT. 18Breakfast: Pancake on a stick.Lunch: Vietnamese sandwich with turkey-ham and carrot-radish slaw or Cheese pizza Munchable.FRIDAY, SEPT. 19Breakfast: French toast sticks with or without syrup.Lunch: Chicken hot dog with mustard or Vegetarian chili.
The Fremont Chamber of Commerce will once again bring its Oktoberfest to Canal Street, between Phinney Avenue North and First Avenue Northwest on Friday, Sept. 19, through Sunday, Sept. 21.This year's festival will include a free children's area, with root beer tasting and zucchini car races; the Texas Chainsaw Pumpkin Carving Contest (at 2:30 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday); the Brew HA-HA 5K run and walk (at 8 a.m. Sunday), followed by the 90-minute Brew HA-HA Scramble scavenger hunt (10 a.m. Sunday); and Dog-Day Afternoon for dogs (Sunday only).
LITERARY DISH: Eight North End eateries will donate at least 20 percent of its proceeds on Thursday, Sept.18, to Page Ahead children's literacy program for the Dish Up Literacy benefit:*Carmelita, 7314 Greenwood Ave. N.*Casa d'Italia, 2615 N.E. 65th St.*Fiddler's Inn, 9219 35th Ave. N.E.*Gaspare Ristorante and Bar, 6705 Greenwood Ave. N.*Julia's of Wallingford, 1714 N. 44th St.*Mae's Phinney Ridge Café, 6412 Phinney Ave. N.*Rusty Pelican Café, 1924 N. 45th St.*Tutta Bella, 4411 Stone Way N.For a list of other participating restaurants, go to www.DishUpLiteracy.org.Page Ahead will use the proceeds to provide new books for at-risk children, help parents to read with their children and promote community involvement in literacy.
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 APPLICATIONSSAFARI USA INC. (YUTA SUGIMOTO): a change of location, for a restaurant selling beer and wine, at Safari USA, 1618 N. 45th St. The current license is for 1618 1/2 N. 45th St.THE MOUNTAINEERS (FREDERICK CAP LINXWEILER III, JORDAN MICHAEL RODERICK, STEVEN MERIDETH SEARS and DAVID LLOYD CLAAR): a specialty shop selling beer and wine, at The Mountaineers, 7700 Sand Point Way N.E., Building 67.LICENSE APPROVALSMAD PIZZA: a change of class, for a restaurant selling beer and wine, at 3601 Fremont Ave. N., No. 101.
The following information was provided by the city's Department of Planning and Development. Written comments on projects should be mailed to 700 Fifth Ave., Suite 2000, P.O. Box 34019, Seattle, WA 98124-4019.The project number is in parentheses. For more information, call 684-8467.PERMIT APPLICATIONS5500 PHINNEY AVE. N. (3009221) for a Land Use Application to allow three new one-story structures; a ticket office and restrooms; a visitor assistance structure and a retail and storage building with public restrooms (Woodland Park Zoo). Project includes landscaping and site improvements. The following approval is required: SEPA environmental determination (This project is subject to the Optional DNS Process (WAC 197-11-355) and Early DNS Process (SMC 25.05.355). This comment period may be the only opportunity to comment on the environmental impacts of this proposal.) Building permit may be needed but was not included in this application. Written comments accepted through Wednesday, Sept. 17.DESIGN REVIEWS10201 GREENWOOD AVE. N. (3003077) of two five-story structures with 301 apartment units, ground-level retail and mini-storage located below grade. Parking for 601 vehicles will also be located below grade. Review includes demolition of existing structures (Lelani Lanes and All Volvo). At the Design Review Board meeting the applicant will present information about the proposed design and how it responds to the Design Guideline priorities established at the Early Design Guidance Board meetings on Oct. 24, 2005, and March 26, 2006, regarding this site; the public may offer comments regarding the proposed design. The meeting will take place Sept. 22 at 6:30 p.m. and 8 p.m. at Ballard High School, 1418 N.W. 65th St., in the library. For more information, call DPD land-use planner Paul Janos, 233-7195.
The following are selected reports from the Seattle Police Department's North Precinct. They represent the officers' accounts of the events described. NUDISTA woman was walking on the Burke-Gilman Trail with her young niece near Inverness Drive Northeast at 5:45 p.m. on Aug. 30 when she looked into the woods and saw a man perform a solitary sexual act while looking intently at her.She immediately started calling for help. Several joggers confronted the man, so he ran off.Police arrived to find the woman pointing toward a man walking along the trail, screaming, "That's him!" The officer stopped the man and asked him what he was doing naked along the trail; he replied that he was a nudist. He said he heard people talking about a naked man, so he dressed and walked away.The man, in his mid-30s, was arrested without incident.Later in the patrol car, the suspect talked about his being charged with voyeurism. The suspect said he couldn't be charged since he wasn't looking into private property while performing his solitary sexual act.The man then said no one saw him, "certainly not a lady and her kid," even though the officer hadn't mentioned them.The officer told the suspect, "You've got a big guilty sign hanging around your neck." The man was subsequently booked into King County Jail.The police learned the suspect had been arrested three times for indecent exposure but had "somehow escaped a conviction."
I got a second date - finally. Lately, I'd realized I'd become a serial first-dater. While I enjoyed opportunities to hone my small-talk skills, the absence of follow-up calls left me self-conscious about my breath.On the other hand, a second date and the potentiality of a third will require I face a bigger problem: my commitment phobia.
There's a pretty fair chance that at some point, I'm going to kill myself. And when I do, it's none of the government's business.Opponents of Initiative 1000 (this November's "Death With Dignity" initiative) are cloaking their basic, essentially religious concerns about suicide in scare tactics over a potential for abuse which, in 10 years of Oregon's experience with assisted suicide for the terminally ill, simply hasn't happened. They're also playing with our culture's irrational fear and avoidance of any discussion of death (the one thing everyone has in common). Their real interest is that they consider suicide immoral under any circumstances, which is fine. I don't care whether they kill themselves; it's not my decision. When and if I kill myself - since it doesn't harm them (and since we live in a secular society) - it is also none of their business. They have no right to impose their spiritual beliefs on me. They also don't know what the heck they're talking about, because they're, by and large, not terminally ill. I am.
If you go to a large retail store, odds are there will be little to no meaningful customer service that goes with it. Try going to Costco and using a debit card at the snack counter or asking the staffers slinging pizza slices and smoothies to give you two plastic cups for a smoothie. The staffer's answer to the latter would be: "They won't let us do that. I don't know why."Meanwhile, in little independent retail shops throughout the Northwest, ask for a little customer service and you'll get a truckload full. If, for example, you leave your child's little jacket behind at a little pasta place in Ashland, Ore., and offer to send a self-addressed stamped envelope so staff can mail the jacket in it, the answer you will get is, "How about if I just mail it up to you right now?"What you get with independent stores is good, old-fashioned humanity. And it is lost as companies grow and become unrecognizable mutations of themselves.
With each passing year, the Patriot Day observance seems less urgent. Life has gone on, and for many, Sept. 11 has become yet another date on the calendar. Some may have a fleeting thought about the gravity of the day when 2,974 people died during the 2001 terrorist attacks. The raw emotions are all but gone, except for the families and friends who continue to struggle with the loss of their loved ones.
A woman emerged from the wooded, western slope of Beacon Hill known as the "jungle" on Thursday, Sept. 11, at 12:52 a.m. and contacted a police officer. According to the police report, the woman "explained that her friend was hurt and needed help."