Every time we turn around, it seems as if some local agency is getting to the bottom of things and finding out that what’s there isn’t so pretty. Scandals have rocked the Seattle Public Schools (SPS), with its small-business contracting program, and the Seattle Police Department, which is under federal investigation into whether its officers use excessive force too liberally.
The Washington Press Association recognized two Pacific Publishing Co. writers for their work with 2010 Communicator of Excellence awards.
Egg Hunts Galore! The Magnolia ice cream shop, Cocoa & Cream, is hosting its third annual Magnolia Village egg hunt. This ambitious affair includes shop employees hiding eggs and plastic ducks around Magnolia Village. The prizes have been hidden from 35th Avenue West to 32nd Avenue West and between Barrett Street and the southern border of Magnolia Village. The eggs and ducks are full of coupons redeemable at the ice cream shop. The Children’s Museum at the Seattle Center will host an egg hunt Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday, Apr. 21-24. The hunts begin at 8:30 a.m. and cost $4 per child. The Magnolia Community Center is hosting an Easter egg Hunt on Saturday, April 23, at 11 a.m. The hunt is for kids 12 and under and the eggs will be hidden in the playground and areas around the center at 2550 34th Avenue West in Seattle. Kids taking part are advised to show up by 10:45 a.m. Make sure and bring something in which to collect the eggs. For more information, you can call 206-386-4235. Also on Saturday, April 23, the Queen Anne Community Center, at 1901 1st Avenue West will host an egg hunt for kids between 2 years old and 10 years old. The hunt begins at 10 a.m. Kids are reminded to bring something in which to collect the eggs. For more information, you can call 206-386-4240
Umbrella assault:Police responded to a reported assault at a homeless shelter located onDenny Way at 9:57 a.m. on Sunday, April 10th. Police met the victim at First Avenue and Cedar Street. He had followed his assailant to this part of Belltown before losing sight of him. The victim told police he’d been inside the Queen Anne shelter for breakfast when he accidentally bumped into another patron of the shelter. They’d both apologized and continued on with their breakfasts. Once finished eating, both men exited the shelter and the other man turned to the victim and started hitting him with his umbrella. The victim said he’d been struck twice in the back and once across the face. He had a swollen lower lip.
Magnolia and Queen Anne residents who want to participate in National Drug Take Back Day can drop off unwanted or expired medicines, including pain relievers and other controlled substances, on Saturday, April 30 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Port of Seattle Police Department at Fisherman’s Terminal.
Allowing people to fall back into the abyss of untreated mental illness is cruel, wasteful and sometimes extremely dangerous. But this is the inevitable result of state budget cuts that are shredding our mental-health safety net.
I admit that I’m not one of those people who knew what they wanted to be from the time they were 4 years old. For a long time, I avoided setting lifetime goals because all the unknowns scared me — what if I chose the “wrong” goal? Committing to a goal was abstract because there were so many ideas to choose from and no clear reason to choose one over another.
You may have noticed an advertisement in this paper the last few weeks proclaiming that Judgment Day is coming on May 21, 2011. My thought, when I first saw the ad, was to hope the advertiser prepaid. My second reaction was to check the calendar, which revealed Judgment Day will fall on a Saturday, meaning most of us won’t even be able to get a day off from work out of it.
Rep. Reuven Carlyle is no stranger to tilting at windmills. Earlier this year, the Seattle Democrat who represents a large swath of North Seattle, including Queen Anne and Magnolia, introduced a bill aimed at creating an alternative certification route for principals with strong backgrounds in community service, business and many other categories outside of the traditional education route. The bill was, in Carlyle’s words, an unmitigated failure. His current crusade may, on the surface, appear to be another impossible task. But this one is definitely worth the fight.
The Queen Anne Community Council Parks Committee will meet at 7:30 PM Tuesday, May 10th. The meeting will be at the Queen Anne Manor, located at 100 Crockett Street, at the corner of 1st N and Crockett. Please enter at the front door and sign the sign-in sheet.
It will be a weekend of firsts in Seattle when the Professional Bull Riders nationally-televised Built Ford Tough Series visits KeyArena this Friday, April 29, and Saturday, April 30. For the first time ever, KeyArena will be filled with 600 tons of dirt. The show features the Top 40 bull riders in the world, including Shane Proctor of Grand Coulee, Wash., and the fiercest bucking bulls on the planet. Tickets are available at the KeyArena box office, at www.Ticketmaster.com <http://www.Ticketmaster.com> , and by telephone at (800) 745-3000.
Mystery Assault A man called 911 from a pay phone at 10:49 p.m. on Friday, April 15 to report he’d been assaulted. He could not say who had assaulted him, or even where it had happened. A Seattle Fire unit responded to the call, and eventually located the victim near the area of 21st Avenue West and West Emerson place lying on the sidewalk.
I have heard that this day would come. The role-reversal. The day when we, as adult children, would care for our aging parents. Buy I could not imagine my parents ever needing help from me.