The Seattle Mariners and Seattle Parks and Recreation invite all seniors (50 or better) to a walk at Safeco Field on Monday, May 7, from 10 a.m. to noon.This unique opportunity to walk where your favorite Mariners walk is a great opportunity to kick off a healthy summer. The free event includes a fun walk around the baseball field, music, prizes, health screenings and light refreshments.
Students, teachers and parents at John Hay Elementary School have been working together to make the dream of a Friendship Garden a reality. The impetus for the project came from the family of Siri Mayo, a third-grader at John Hay who died of cancer in April 2005. The Mayo family wanted to give something back to the school, both to honor the spirit and courage of their daughter and to celebrate the spirit of friendship and strong community support they experienced during Siri's illness.
The BOC Co is a new class at Queen Anne's Secondary Bilingual Orientation Center. Students have created and are running their own company to make and sell beautiful art cards designed by fellow students. Using a program designed by Junior Achievement, the class is learning English while creating an effective sales organization. The colorful cards, which treat many subjects, all were created in art class at SBOC.
MAJORSKEN'S MARKET SERVES UP HITS TO 5 SPOTApril 19 - With a blast through the gap to centerfield, Levi Nicholson's two-run double-bagger struck the first blow for Ken's Market in this majors play match-up. 5 Spotter Brendan Tracey manning the plate caught a visitor trying to dine-and-dash home, but a one-run RBI stroked by Nick Hanway saw the visitor's first-inning lead climb to 3.
Urban Kids Play is set back from the street. But what many retailers might see as a drawback is more than made up for by the store's charm, which is evident before you even enter.A large, colorful sign points you off the beaten path that is Queen Anne Avenue. A learner's bike, with no training wheels and no pedals, and a scooter below it are dramatically lit in the bay window of the dark-red house.
Two stars of the Seattle Storm women's basketballers stopped by last Wednesday at the Starbucks at "Coffee Corner" (Queen Anne Ave. N. & Boston St.). Wendy Palmer bonds with a fan from Magnolia
The community is invited to join Mayor Greg Nickels and Seattle Parks and Recreation for a grand opening celebration at the new Ella Bailey Park on Saturday, May 12, beginning at 1:30 p.m. at 2601 W. Smith St. Ella Bailey Park, formerly, Magnolia Elementary Playfield, is a new $1.4-million Pro Parks neighborhood park development that transformed a 2.4-acre asphalt playground into a vibrant park with panoramic views of downtown Seattle and Mount Rainier.
In neighborhoods such as Fremont, Ballard and West Seattle, people are already enjoying the benefits of their local farmers market: fresh cauliflower, asparagus, strawberries and other produce that has been grown locally. Soon, residents of Queen Anne will have the same opportunity.June 28 will mark opening day for the Queen Anne Farmers Market, which will take temporary occupancy of the McClure Middle School parking lot. The market will be open on Thursdays from 3 to 7 p.m. through Oct. 4.
Retired UPS executive and Magnolia resident Char Davis is the leader of a Komen Race for the Cure team, and there are four reasons why she got involved in the yearly event that raises money to find a cure for breast cancer.Her mother, Joy, died of the disease back in the 1970s when she was only 45, Char said, adding that she and her two sisters in Spokane are also survivors of breast cancer.
A new Queen Anne grocery was added last week to Quality Food Centers' chain of 77 stores in Washington and Oregon. Located at Fifth Avenue North and Mercer Street, it will be open 24 hours a day and replaces the longtime QFC at First Avenue North and Republican Street, noted spokeswoman Kristin Maas. "The other one closes tonight," she added during a preview party the day before the grocery's grand opening on May 2.
Fourteen adjacent parking places have turned into a major problem for the Seattle School District, which has proposed selling the old Queen Anne High School gym to a private developer who could build up to an estimated 34 units of housing.At issue is a 1987 Master Use Permit for the construction of the new John Hay Elementary School across the street. That permit allowed for adding less parking that was normally required for the school - as long as the 14 spots next to the gym were reserved for school staff and parents between 7 a.m. and 5 p.m. on school days.
Five farmers' markets serve the North End, each with its own personalityWith the weather warming up, many local farmers' markets will open this month. Most will do business one day a week for four to seven hours. These provide a venue for local farmers to sell their products directly to consumers and often help support Washington's small farms and farming families, according to the Neighborhood Farmers' Market Alliance.
■ When the opening of boating season coincides with Cinco de Mayo, the giant inflatable Mexican beer bottles make an appearance on the log booms. Spectators filled the more than 1,000 boats, of which only 317 were registered for the parade of boats through the Montlake Cut on Saturday, May 5.
The 100-year anniversary of Daniel Bagley Elementary School almost didn't happen. The school was set to close in 1999. However, with the strength of the Green Lake community, this year marks its centennial. The Daniel Bagley Alumni Reunion, scheduled for May 19, will bring together students from all classes, with the oldest registered alumnus set to attend being 97 years old.
I never got around to making a New Year's resolution this year; I got cancer instead. Well, "got" is probably not the correct medical term; "was diagnosed with" would be more accurate. It seems like everybody's jumping on the cancer bandwagon these days. Since Elizabeth Edwards and Tony Snow announced the return of their respective cancers, television, newspaper and magazine writers all over the country have been describing their own battles with the disease. I guess now it's my turn. I had been thinking about it for a couple of months but kept putting off writing about it. Perhaps it was my own form of denial. If you read it in the newspaper it must be true, right?