... of the 2005 Queen Anne Little League season was Saturday, April 2, duly solemnized at Queen Anne Playfield No. 3 near the community center.
It's a long time from age 2 to age 3, so it's not surprising that Nori Catalano (now age 4) forgot what peaches were. She hadn't seen the fuzzy fruit for a year, and when it crossed her plate one afternoon last summer, confusion set in."The feel and taste of a peach had slipped from her little memory," explained Michele Catalano, mother of Nori and a true seasonal eater who serves as program manager of the Pike Place Market Basket CSA - Community Supported Agriculture."Friends thought it was sad that she couldn't remember what peaches were," remembered Catalano. "I thought it was great: we eat with the seasons."The Pike Place Market Basket CSA, a cooperative made up of more than 30 local farmers who also sell at the Market, has connected the public with seasonal, organic and local food for nearly a decade. Members prepay for the season and join a community of consumers who support sustainable agriculture and the local farmers who practice it. They also receive some of the freshest produce available in Washington.
Dr. Thomas Roberts makes a decent living at his dental practice in Lower Queen Anne, but the Phinney Ridge resident's urge to give something back has led him on an exotic odyssey to a country thousands of miles away in space and generations away in time.Roberts spends two weeks each spring in Nepal, where he and another volunteer dentist treat hundreds of patients, the vast majority of them children, he said. "We try to see kids, but we will see anybody who comes in."It's a challenge. "Sugar is everywhere, and they don't own toothbrushes," Roberts explained. "We work nonstop filling big holes and pulling broken teeth."
Plans to open up a city impound yard on a vacant Interbay lot north of West Dravus Street have revealed a cultural and economic divide in the mini-neighborhood.On one side of the equation is ET Towing, which recently snagged the city's towing contract away from Lincoln Towing. ET Towing is leasing a roughly 50,000-square-foot lot owned by Sound Mind and Body for the operation, and the use is perfectly legal, according to city zoning codes.On the other side is the Interbay Neighborhood Association, a new group of 20 or so local businesspeople who are fed up with the more hard-scrabble features of the area and want the city to change its designation to a Hub Urban Village. It is a change that would require an amendment to the city's Comprehensive Plan."The bottom line is, Interbay is in the beginning stages of having a revival," said Chuck Dagg, who runs a State Farm Insurance office near the QFC. "It's not going to help," he said of the impound lot at the corner of 16th Ave. W. and W. Bertona St.
For those of us on Capitol Hill, Theater Schmeater regulars know MJ Sieber as a gory Menelaus, roaring for vengeance in "Trojan Women," or the director of such dramas as the recent trash-talking "God Damn Tom."But down at the Seattle Children's Theatre, Sieber plays rather different roles, from the hapless Stanley in "Holes" to a child beset by a vampire rabbit in "Bunnicula." "It's amazing to me that I can keep doing what I do and shifting myself artistically between [SCT] and other projects," said Sieber, who stars as the lead character of "Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day." The musical play, based on the popular picture book by Judith Viorst, opens on Friday, April 8 at the Seattle Children's Theatre in the Seattle Center.The 26-year-old Cornish graduate has been extremely busy in local theater since he finished college, rarely taking any time off between projects. He considers his work at SCT as exciting as any he does for Theater Schmeater.
The dance floor at Neumo's on 10th and Pike (formerly Moe's, formerly ARO.Space, formerly several other music-and-drink outfits) was, unusually, filled a few Sunday nights ago by rental folding chairs. This would be a sit-down event honoring someone who's spent more than half her life getting folks up and dancing. It was a "retirement roast" party for Kim Warnick, the longtime Fastbacks singer-bassist and more recent Visqueen sidewoman.Warnick announced earlier this year that she was quitting Visqueen and giving up the music-biz grind. Some longtime pals, particularly promoter Kerri Harrop (like Warnick, a former office drone at Sub Pop Records), staged the shindig to honor Warnick's long service to the local and global music community.
A clear-eyed assessment of the legacy of Pope John Paul II will provide plenty of fodder for future scholars. In the meantime the world mourns the passing of a great man.The death of the pontiff on Saturday concluded one of history's most influential and beloved papacies.With the news of the pope's death St. James Cathedral draped its western portal in black and white and purple bunting; the cathedral bells tolled 84 times to mark the years of the man who had been pope since 1978.And the world media, long prepared, sprang into action. Much of the memorializing has focused on John Paul's more obvious sources of appeal - his linguistic agility, his more than 100 international journeys, his reaching out to other faiths and his role in the fall of communist Poland. Beneath John Paul's gift for globe trotting theater his stand on issues of substance made him a paradoxical figure.
Capitol Hill residents who have grown accustomed to farmers markets on Broadway will need to brace themselves for changes. The current Capitol Hill Farmers Market, operated by the same organization that sponsors the Fremont Sunday Market, intends to relocate to the Madison Valley.According to organizer Jon Hegeman, who founded the Fremont Sunday Market, the Capitol Hill market is moving because of the general perception that its current location near Broadway is intimidating and thus keeps people away.
Last year, 682 felons were released from prison into the Central Area and surrounding neighborhoods (in the 98122 and 98144 ZIP codes). This represented more than 13 percent of all offenders released into King County in 2004.This level of concentration not only surprises 47-year Leschi resident and longtime community activist Thurston Muskelly, it frustrats him."I was not aware that the number was so high," Muskelly said. "I would like to see more notification, more accountability from the system. Nobody here gives us a quota sheet, gives us numbers of how many people are coming here. "Maybe we can help some of these individuals," he added, "but if you don't know and they're dropping them in randomly, you don't know what resources are needed."Muskelly, who is the director of several Central Area community organizations, is also a board trustee for the Central Weed & Seed program and is a community volunteer for the Washington state Department of Corrections (DOC).
Questions or comments about the following applications or actions should be directed to the Regulatory Services Division, Washington State Liquor Control Board, 3000 Pacific Ave. S.E., P.O. Box 43098, Olympia, WA 98504-3098, or call (360) 664-1600.
The intersection of 23rd Avenue South and South Jackson Street has experienced an increase in crime lately. Many believe it is because of the increased number of released felons who have limited supervision and very few community resources.
The intersection of 23rd Avenue South and South Jackson Street has experienced an increase in crime lately. Many believe it is because of the increased number of released felons who have limited supervision and very few community resources.
The following are summarized accounts of this month's community council meetings. Items have been edited for content and space.
The following are selected reports from the Seattle Police Department's East Precinct. They represent the officers' accounts of the events described.
The three-martini lunch and the after-work, marathon, olive-diving happy hours were popular pastimes in the '60s and '70s. I remember it being filled with laughter and true-blue camaraderie . . .Times changed. Hangovers were replaced with the natural high of endorphins, and nutritional drinks promised long life. The martini like-minded group at work disbanded. I was left with the choice of playing hearts at lunch with the married set or joining the gym across the street.