Artist Paul Sorey (standing underneath the Cranium's Cafe sign, in black shirt) says a few words at the official dedication of his sculpture, "The Coffee Pot Pergola" on Aug. 6. The sculpture, funded in part by the city and the Greater Lake City Community Council, is installed near Lake City Way Northeast and 30th Avenue Northeast and is part of the Seattle Department of Transportation's Lake City Way multi-modal project.
Numerous North End restaurants will help feed the stomachs and the minds of children for the third-annual Book Plates: Dishing Up Literacy event on Thursday, Aug. 18.Literacy supporters in North Seattle can simply eat out at one, or several, of the 21 restaurants participating in Book Plates (see sidebar below), and a portion of the proceeds from that day will be donated to Page Ahead Children's Literacy Program, a nonprofit agency that has promoted reading activities and provided new books for at-risk children and their families across Washington for 15 year
The Lower Duwamish Waterway has served as Seattle's major industrial corridor since it was created by the widening and straightening of the Lower Duwamish River, a project completed in the early 1900s. This legacy has had its toxic toll, and the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently announced a plan to clean up contaminated soil and sediments in the river.The cleanup plan will cover the area of the Duwamish known as Terminal 117, an approximately three-acre parcel located six miles from downtown Seattle.The EPA's decision, made in coordination with the Washington State Department of Ecology, sets a course for cleaning up the urban river's bed and banks, which have been contaminated with a variety of substances and industrial by-products for the past several decades.
Seattle City Councilmember Richard Conlin and U.S. Rep. Jim McDermott (D-Seattle) were two of three featured guests at the SODO Chamber of Commerce's Thursday, Aug. 11, annual breakfast meeting at Costco on Fourth Avenue South. Along with the politicos, the meeting also featured Costco CEO Jim Senegal.While 110 South End business leaders settled into their fruit and yogurt, Krispy Kremes and Starbucks coffee, Peringer brought the meeting to order with a presentation by ArtWorks, a local charity striving to serve troubled youth in the Seattle by giving some of the participating kids their first real jobs. After two young artists shared their experiences, the topic turned to politics, with Conlin taking the podium
To publish a serious magazine in this city, so the rap goes, is a uniquely Seattle form of economic suicide.Connoisseurs of such matters point to the legendary gold standard of local magazine publishing - the old Seattle Magazine which, despite its Bullitt family connections, folded in 1970. Its current, unrelated namesake does deliver stories of substance, but the modern Seattle Magazine is just as likely to run cover stories listing Seattle's neighborhoods or doctors or lawyers - advertising driven agendas that shout "glossy." ColorsNW Magazine, on the other hand, is the exception that seems to be proving the rule. ColorsNW is a full-color, hard-hitting, award-winning monthly whose stated mission is to "foster pride, mutual respect and understanding among people of all colors and ethnicities."
I had thought about going back to Vietnam a few times, and each time the urge passed quickly. When my service ended I came home and started a dental practice in Southeast Seattle.My time overseas had exposed me to Asians, and Blacks were a large part of the battalion I was with. This cultural mix was a unique experience for me, for I had grown up in Eastern Washington where there were few minorities. With such ethnic and cultural experiences in mind, Southeast Seattle seemed like a good place to raise a family. The South End also represented the diversity my wife, Mariana, had known growing up in South America.
Since most of you have no desire to visit my house, and since I have no desire to invite some of YOU FOLKS, specifically those of you who capitalize all the IMPORTANT words when you write to disagree with ME about our PINHEAD president, or our FAT mayor, I'll tell you about the way I decorate my kitchen cabinets. I cover the space above my sink with strange and wondrous news items gleaned from dailies, weeklies and monthly magazines. These items tend to focus on the outrageousness of our species, because we humans are, make no mistake about it, the kings and queens of strange.
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There is something about the monorail that I really like, but it took me awhile to figure it out. It has to do with what a modern city should look like and the kind of clean, fast transportation system that will be essential.Even if we throw the entire project out the window right now, we will come back and revisit this issue again in the future, and it will be a lot more expensive then. I don't believe there is anything wrong with the concept, but there is something wrong with how the concept is being sold to the general public.
ing County Prosecutor Norm Maleng wants to get tough on auto thieves, according to a Car Theft Initiative (CTI) he announced at a press con-ference last week. The CTI is the result of several months' work, the Magnolia resident said in a later interview. But Maleng also said the push to crack down on car thieves was given additional impetus by a discussion he and Assistant Chief Criminal Deputy Kathy Van Olst had a couple of months ago with former Magnolia Chamber of Commerce president Dan Bartlett and current Magnolia Community Club president Vic Barry.
Magnolia resident Charles Flaherty recently received an InnoCentive Award for identifying a new test to predict the risk of breast cancer.In a proposal submitted to InnoCentive last spring, Flaherty made a convincing case that a test on blood cells extracted from vessels draining potentially cancerous lymph notes would reveal the risk for breast cancer. In the blood test, the physical length of telomeres found in the blood's chromosomes would reveal the risk of mutation into cancerous cells.
Nothing, it seems, is ever simple when plans for the city's parks are involved. But the proposal to fix up Marshall Park and the Betty Bowen Viewpoint at the end of West Highland Drive on Queen Anne is especially complicated.Technically, it's a viewpoint park, one of 24 in the city. But Seattle Parks and Recreation admits that a lack of maintenance over literally decades has resulted in trees that have grown so tall they block a significant portion of the view."The reality is, we haven't had the resources to maintain them," explained Mark Mead, senior urban forester for the Parks Department. That's changed, and it's about time, according to Roger Belanich, who lives near the park on West Prospect Street. "The view has to be opened up; it belongs to the city," he said.
Editor's note: The first installment of Bernie's journal documenting his friend's progress battling breast cancer appeared in the July 20 edition of the Magnolia News. Find it on-line at www.Magnolia-News.net.wo weeks ago I was visiting my friend Beate at Swedish Medical Center. She needed an MRI to investigate whether she suffered any injuries from her latest fall. Five staples closed her head wound.As a visitor to the hospital, I let my eyes roam randomly about the 12th floor area, mindlessly looking at nothing in particular. It seemed that no matter in which direction I looked, there sat an array of free brochures, pamphlets and flyers promulgating Swedish's expertise on illnesses and procedures. It appears the medical profession has learned from marketing experts that it pays to advertise. One particular flyer's title startled me. It announced that naturopathic services now were available at Swedish centers. Later, after wishing Beate a goodnight, I called the telephone number and asked for details. "Is it true?" I asked. "Does Swedish Hospital offer naturopathic modalities to patients who ask for them?"
It is no coincidence that Washington state Attorney General Rob McKenna has started traveling the state holding meetings on the companion issues of public access and open government.It is no coincidence that he will be the keynote speaker in October to the state's largest collection of journalists at the 118th convention of the Washington Newspaper Publishers Association in Wenatchee.And it is no coincidence that AG will accept speaking requests dealing with various topics related to the public's right to know about how government works and what makes it tick.