As reported in the News last week, Trader Joe’s will replace Metropolitan Market as part of the last piece in Emerald Bay Equity’s four, mixed use projects on upper Queen Anne.
Raising awareness and money were two of the key issues discussed at the June 30 meeting of the Friends of Lower Kinnear Park (FOLKPark) organization at the Bayview Retirement Manor. More than 60 people attended the meeting and shared their opinions and suggestions about possible plans for the park presented by FOLKpark members. Deborah L. Frausto, chairperson of the FOLKPark steering committee, opened the meeting by introducing her fellow members, and reviewed the progress her organization’s made so far. Several City of Seattle Department of Neighborhoods grants, paved the way for FOLKPark to start planning future projects.
David Frankel’s “Hope Springs” is one of the first movies I’ve seen in a while that deals with the struggles of marriage and sex in a mature way. Of course you wouldn’t get that from the advertisements.
National Night Out on Aug. 7 resulted in hundreds of block parties all over Seattle. Many of those were in Queen Anne.
Ron Reagan, the youngest son of President Ronald Reagan, said the instigation for his recent bestseller about his father was to try to answer the question of what made his famous dad tick.
In an effort to reduce our carbon footprint one neighborhood at a time, the Magnolia-based environmental organization Sustainable Magnolia and the newly formed project Solarize Magnolia are working to provide and install roof solar panels for residents of Magnolia.
The words fun and run are not mutually inclusive in many people’s vocabulary, but that is not true for the estimated 500 participants who enjoyed this year’s Crown of Queen Anne Fun Run/Walk event. The 5K (3.3 miles) Fun Run is in its 29th year and is sponsored by the Queen Anne Helpline organization and is a sanctioned Seafair event. When Pat Sobeck, the director of the Fun Run Committee and a participant since the Fun Run’s inception in 1982, was asked what the key word would be to describe the run, without hesitation she replied, “Fun….it is fun because it’s an event for the whole family…..sort of a big old fashioned neighborhood picnic.”
Immediately after the Aug. 13 death of longtime KOMO TV news anchor Kathi Goertzen, 54, flowers started appearing at KOMO headquarters at Fisher Plaza. Goertzen, a resident of Magnolia, had battled benign, but recurring brain tumors for 14 years.
It was a year suspended somewhere between Elvis and the Beatles, a year that looms large in Seattle history, as the ongoing events marking the 50th anniversary of the Seattle World’s Fair testify.
Among the parties playing out all over Queen Anne on Aug. 7 was the one on Nob Hill. Representatives from some 41 families who live on Nob Hill Avenue North between Boston and McGraw and on other nearby streets gathered around 6:30 p.m., bringing food and drink with them.
Lauren Formicola, the owner of the Charley + May store on Upper Queen Anne, has garnered considerable coverage for her campaign to collect lost baby socks. Local news outlets, including Fox television affiliate Q13 and KOMO, have done stories on the campaign aimed at finding matches for lost baby socks.
Lauren Adler is excited about chocolate. The owner of Queen Anne’s Chocolopolis is so infectious in her love of the vaunted cacao creations that line her store shelves that a visitor to her shop can’t help but be intrigued by her knowledge and the sheer array of products that Adler has to offer.
Lauren Adler is excited about chocolate The owner of Upper Queen Anne’s Chocolopolis is so infectious in her love of the vaunted cacao creations that line her store shelves that a visitor to her shop can’t help but be intrigued by her knowledge and the sheer array of products that Adler has to offer.