Seattle Police report that a garbage man fell off the back of a truck in Magnolia on Monday, May 30. He was taken to Harborview Medical Center in critical condition.
A 9-year-old girl was taken to Harborview Medical Center on May 30 with non-life threatening injuries after being hit by a man driving a stolen car at the intersection of Dexter Avenue and Denny Way. The driver of the stolen car was being pursued by a police officer before the accident, but the police had terminated the pursuit due to danger. The officer stopped to help the girl. The driver is still at large.
Before the self-congratulatory, bipartisan glow over the 2011-2013 budget fades in Olympia, let’s remember a few things. The state Senate, following the House plan, approved more than $4 billion in cuts in the late hours of May 25. Those cuts resulted in divots from higher education, health care and services to the poorest of the poor.
Group for Women over 40 w/o kids Finding Meaning Beyond Motherhood: A Group for Women Over 40 w/o Kids will begin a six-week exploration program on May 12 and will run for six consecutive Thursday nights from 6p.m. to 9p.m. at the Lake Union Place Building, 1914 N. 34th St. For information call Jane Tornatore at 206-769-8108.
Close your eyes and picture this: Woman in Burka. What do you see? Dark, flowing fabric? Face visible? Just eyes? Is she walking through a barren, dusty, rock-strewn landscape? Or seated in her home, comfortable but isolated, saved only for her husband’s eyes. Or… is she walking down the halls of a hospital in Seattle, a refugee seeking medical care, cut off not only from her own people but also the people amongst whom she now lives.
Unruly Passenger:Police responded to the area of First Avenue North and Harrison Street at 6:45 p.m. on Friday, May 27th after receiving a call from a cab driver who had been assaulted by a passenger who had refused to pay for his ride. When police arrived at the scene, they were informed that the driver was in pursuit of the passenger heading northbound in the area of Fifth Avenue North and Roy Street. (To be continued...)
The Center School at Seattle Center is one of many schools across the country vying for up to $20,000 in prize money as part of the 2011 Lots2Give contest. The Seattle school is among schools from across the country that took part in a nationwide contest organized by Big Lots.
The second annual Magnolia Rotary Club salmon bake dinner and silent auction will be held this Saturday, June 11, from 4:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. The event will be held at the Daybreak Star Cultural Center at Magnolia’s Discovery Park.
Recently, Seattle Housing Authority’s (SHA) board unanimously approved moving forward with redevelopment of Yesler Terrace. The 561 units of public housing on the 28-acre site just north of Harborview Medical Center will be wiped out and replaced with as many as 5,000 units of mostly high-end apartments and condominiums. To date, SHA has committed to replacing only 490 of those public-housing units. That’s less than one in 10 of the new units serving the poorest and neediest households in our city.
One of the reasons I fell in love with Seattle right after my first move here from my hometown of Cincinnati in 1984 was that everything looked similar but was completely different Back home I had worked as a rewrite man for WCPO-TV9 News, Cincinnati’s CBS affiliate. We competed against Jerry Springer, the recently defrocked Mayor, and Nick Clooney, just a pretty face who fathered one of America’s better actors, George, although we had no idea in 1980.
The June 2 grand opening of the impressive Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation headquarters in Lower Queen Anne is undoubtedly one of the neighborhood’s most momentous social and financial events in years. It couldn’t happen at a better time for Lower Queen Anne merchants, who appear to have suffered more than their share of economic blows in the past few years.
Live Girls' production of "Quickies, Volume 12," at Theatre Off Jackson offers a delightful evening of funny and profound, short plays. With the exception of the last play, all were well-written, acted and -directed and well worth seeing.
Women dressed in long, Victorian-style dresses; men sporting drab, gray petticoats and handlebar moustaches; affected, fake British accents; sitting rooms filled with antique chairs placed beside tables that are adorned with vases containing long-stemmed flowers; classical music of DeBussy, Mozart, Chopin, or Beethoven.
Folklife Beatdown A man called the non-emergency line for the Seattle Police Department on Tuesday, May 31st to report that he had been robbed at the Folklife Festival at the Seattle Center over the weekend. The victim said he’d been enjoying the festival on Sunday, May 29th when his backpack was stolen around 4 p.m. He didn’t see who took the backpack, but after a witness pointed out a group of teenagers, he took off running after them.He eventually caught up with one of the teens, who didn’t have the backpack. After speaking with the teen, he turned around and saw the rest of the group running towards him. The victim tells police the group knocked him down and took his cell phone and wallet from his pockets. He said that although the group kicked and punched him, he did not have any injuries from the event. The group then ran off, and the victim couldn’t provide police with a description of any of them. He did say that he found his sweatshirt on the ground. It had been in his backpack.