Mel Butler, cannon musician of Saint Mark’s Episcopal Cathedral, will give a concert on the Wech pipe organ at Queen Anne Lutheran Church, 2400 Eighth Ave. W., on Sunday, Nov. 11, at 3 p.m. A freewill offering will be received, and a reception will follow the concert.
On Sept. 21, the King County Department of Transportation released a statement detailing more than 40 bus routes to and from areas in the North Seattle region that would face changes starting Sept. 29.
George Kinnear (Jan. 30, 1836 – July 21, 1912) was a Civil War veteran and Woodford County clerk in Illinois when he heard about the Pacific Northwest.
Mike Schaefer’s employees and family members from Soaring Heart Natural Bed Co. (101 Nickerson St., No. 400) spent a Friday morning helping Hutch School students make 80 natural-fill pillows for cancer patients and their families. The project was part of the Sept. 21 United Way Day of Caring.
Michele Harps has joined Coldwell Banker Bain (CBBain) as a real estate broker. Harps returns to real estate after owning and operating her home-staging business from 2004 to 2011. She was a broker with Windermere’s Magnolia office from 1993 to 2005.
Rickie Byars Beckwith, troubadour of transcendence, will be in Seattle for an 8 p.m. concert on Nov. 16 and workshop on Nov. 17 at Amazing Grace Spiritual Center at Seattle Unity Church, 200 Eighth Ave. N.
Sheltered inside a warm banquet hall from a drizzly Sunday morning on Denny Way, more than 350 men and women from all walks of life were waited upon during their meal of biscuits and gravy, scrambled eggs and sausages as “Silent Night” was played from a grand piano.
Area residents who planned to turn out at North Seattle Community College on Tuesday, Nov. 13, to raise concerns about community threats from exporting coal from Cherry Point will now need to wait a little longer.
Writing a book for children, like writing a good haiku, looks easy, but many a high-flown, professional writer has broken their nib at the attempt. Magnolia resident Katherine Pryor has always wanted to write a children’s book. And now she has.
Sometimes “big names” on tour like to take a break and appear in small, intimate venues. Queen Anne United Methodist Church, 1606 Fifth Ave. W., is becoming a stop for those so inclined. The church continues its ongoing series, “The Well: A gathering place for conversation,” with the appearance of New York Times best-selling writer Alexander McCall Smith on Saturday, Oct. 20, at 7 p.m.
Ellie Rice, 10, will appear in her first role in a musical, in Seattle Musical Theater’s holiday production of “Scrooge,” which runs through Dec. 9.
A quick round of Pac-Man reminds me how I was never very good at video games. Try as I might, I can’t seem to coordinate the dot-munching yellow protagonist against the wide-eyed ghosts that antagonize him, and I “die” three times in quick succession.
The neighborhood advocacy group SQAUCh (Save Queen Anne’s Unique Character) is fighting hard in a battle to ensure Aegis Living builds its scheduled facility at Third Avenue West and West Galer Street within current zoning limits. At this time, Queen Anne civic groups have recommended that Aegis be given permission to rezone. Aegis says rezoning will help the Queen Anne neighborhood; SQAUCh disagre
Marijuana legalization is on the ballot this year, and a debate over Initiative 502 drew a large crowd at the University of Washington last Wednesday, Oct. 10. The debate turned out to be highly engaging due to the banter between the Rev. Leslie Braxton and medical-marijuana patient Steve Sarich, who each represented the extreme sides of the issue.
More than 40 years ago on Sept. 2, 1972, the front page of The Seattle Times read, “Finally, It’s Fort Lawton Park.” The sub-headline was “Patricia Nixon Cox, darts in and delivers deed.” Ironically, this was the culmination of a huge amount of work by Sen. Henry “Scoop” Jackson, a short-lived presidential hopeful against President Richard Nixon that same year.