For 12 years now, Bruce Swee has been a source of innovation at the Interbay P-Patch, dreaming of solutions to reclaim rainwater in an artful way, to figuring out how to keep the rats away from gardeners' fresh corn.
Mr. and Mrs. Preston and Ashleigh Walls
How lackluster this year's mayoral race (a surprising testament to Seattle's apathy) can best be illustrated by its average and below-average contenders. Not one has the obvious spark and buzz needed to trade blows against a media-battered incumbent whose very name conjures the screw-ups that led to last year's immobilizing winter.
"District 9" is an unrelenting, completely original sci-fi film that may just be the sleeper hit of the summer. I would be surprised if this gem didn't generate the kind of exponential buzz that surrounded smaller winners such as "Slumdog Millionaire."
The barren parking lot at the corner of Third Avenue West and Nickerson Street gives credo to Stell Makratzakis' concern: "for the whole summer this area dies and costs money to the local businesses."
First united Methodist churchIn last week's story about the continuing construction of First United Methodist church, The News printed a picture of a construction project that was not the church project. At right is a rendering of the structure in development along Denny Way. We regret the error.
Born Sept. 17, 1962, at Ballard Hospital, Paige Marie Puddy grew up on Queen Anne Hill, where three generations of her family lived. She received her Associate of Arts degree from North Seattle Community College and was a member of Phi Theta Kappa national scholarship honorary.
Recent raccoon attacks in Magnolia have left neighbors reconsidering the fuzzy creatures' cuteness, but a more pressing element is the potential health risks of having raccoons traipsing through neighbors' backyards, according to veterinarian John Kelly of Elliot Bay Animal Hospital.
Seattle Pacific University men's soccer finished a home stretch of five games undefeated with a record of 3-0-2.
Mary Ellen Hanley (nee Sullivan) died in Seattle on Aug. 17, 2009 at the age of 80. She was born in Foxboro, Mass., daughter of Jeremiah F. and Doris E. Sullivan.
At Town Hall: Future of Health: T.R. Reid: A Quest for Better Health Care. According to the World Health Organization, the United States, the richest country in the world, ranks 37th overall on healthcare costs, quality, and coverage. As politicians, providers and just plain folks debate how to reform America's healthcare system, NPR commentator and author T.R. Reid took a more global view: He visited successful healthcare systems around the world, examining why other countries have better, fairer, and cheaper healthcare than we do - and looking for ideas we could use. In his new book, The Healing of America, Reid concludes that one key lesson is that most foreign countries do not use socialized medicine. Japan has 99 percent private hospitals and 5,000 health-insurance companies, for example, but provides universal coverage and excellent care for less than half what we spend per capita. Presented as part of the Future of Health Lecture Series with University Book Store. Downstairs at Town Hall; enter on Seneca Street. 7:30 - 9 p.m., Tuesday, Sept. 8.
On Dec. 30, 2003, noted writers Joan Didion and her husband, John Gregory Dunne, had just returned home from Beth Israel Hospital in New York City, where their 37-year-old daughter Quintana lay in a coma. They performed their usual evening rituals and were having dinner, when Dunne suddenly raised one hand and hunched over. Didion thought he was making a bad joke. He was not.
Construction of the First United Methodist Church in Lower Queen Anne remains on track for a winter 2010 opening, as exterior finishes and aesthetics take shape in the next six weeks, at which point construction will mostly move to the buildings' interiors.
There is a time in our lives when all of us, even those who call ourselves independents, make a turn to the left or right-at least, we lean one way or the other. For me, that juncture occurred in Washington, D.C., in the mid to late 1960s.
Author and Magnolia resident Cameron Dokey's latest novel for young adults, "Winter's Child" is inspired by Hans Christian Andersen's The Snow Queen. Released earlier this month, "Winter's Child" tells the story of two lifelong friends, Kai and Grace, who are separated when the boy Kai is lured away by the Snow Queen. Grace decides to go after him.