The Seattle Department of Planning and Development wants you. If you have an interest in architecture, urban design and the development process, you may be the right volunteer for the West Design Review Board, which helps shape new developments in Queen Anne and Magnolia.
I’ve learned a lot about myself by looking back at my previous Thanksgiving columns. For years, I have written about food. Or, more precisely, my difficulty with turning it out in edible fashion.
Seattle native Chad See is the new executive director of the Freezer Longline Coalition (FLC), which represents the owners and operators of vessels participating in the freezer longline sector of the Pacific cod fishery in the federal waters of the Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands and the Gulf of Alaska.
Vitality Medispa and Wellness Center, 1501 Queen Anne Ave. N., on upper Queen Anne, is seeking donations to aid the relief efforts for the victims of Hurricane Sandy.
It’s budget time at City Hall again. While city general fund revenues now are at about $950 million — up 3 percent from last year — the increase is only enough to cover inflation. So there was little wiggle room to add services or new programs.
This is a cautionary tale about district vs. at-large elections for the Seattle City Council. There’s a move afoot to change Seattle’s political map to seven district council members, two at-large floaters. Currently, we have nine at-large council members.
The City of Seattle’s Waterfront Seattle scale model will be on display through Jan. 3 at The Seattle Public Library’s Central Library, 1000 Fourth Ave., Level 3. The model is 14 feet long and features the conceptual design for the future waterfront, along with project information.
Interbay resident Rebecca Pelletier is hosting a donation drive for the local nonprofit F-Factor, which helps foster children transition between homes. Pelletier is collecting items for F-Factor’s Factor Paks, which are duffle bags filled with such comfort items as stuffed animals, security blankets and basic toiletries and books.
In the list of modern sins, “ingratitude” would hardly make the A-list. But for Shakespeare, it was one of the worst offenses against man and nature, violating a covenant that held society together in a subtle weave, as the lines from “King Lear” make clear...