The article last week in the Queen Anne News (Development plans on Elliott irk nearby condo owners, July 11) describing Martin Selig's plan for a development at 635 Elliott Ave. does not go far enough in highlighting his disdain for the feelings and rights of home owners. br>Yes, the term home owners implies something more fundamental than "condo owners." It means that the families bought their homes to enjoy the qualities of life that the city building codes are meant to protect. To render exceptions to those codes without adequate notification and open discussion violates the basic tenets of responsible government.
Friday the 13th has come and gone once again, and we all, or most of us from what I can determine, are still here and in reasonably good health. The sky hasn't fallen, and I see no signs of Armageddon on the horizon.While many of us suffer from paraskavede-katriaphobia (try saying that one 10 times in succession), it seems that it's more about talking about the fear of Friday the 13th than anything really happening.Triskaidekaphobia (there's an-other mouthful) is the fear of the number 13, and the root word for the other biggie, which I will spare the reader having to try to pronounce again.
Call it a Ratso Rizzo moment.When the light turned green I stepped off the curb in front of Caffè Ladro to cross Queen Anne Avenue North at the foot of the Counterbalance.A big, shiny pickup turning left off Roy Street with the green light cut in front of me. The stud-muffin behind the wheel, baseball cap pointed backwards, left 3 feet to spare between me and the Great Beyond.Ratso Rizzo, in a similar scene from "Midnight Cowboy," banged on a New York cab and yelled the immortal words: "I'm walkin' here!"Foolish me: I merely took another step.
I read the international press a lot. And, occasionally, I come across something in the "Why can't we do that here?" category.It was just this category I hit a few days ago with an article in the British newspaper The Guardian, the headline and subhead of which pretty much sum it up: "Voters to get direct say on local spending; Cash for schemes such as parks, litter and Asbos to be decided by ballot."
I didn't always want to be a reporter/columnist.As a tot, I may have wanted to be a cop or, more likely, a fire-fighter. But if I did, I don't remember. The first occupation I clearly recall plan-ning for was future center fielder of the hometown Cincinnati Reds.I did what I could to encourage my own dreams. I had a huge poster of Willie Mays on my bedroom wall. For those too young to remember, Mays was the greatest center fielder who ever played the game. A New York and then Frisco Giant.
Northgate Community Center, 10510 Fifth Ave. N.E., celebrated its first year on Thursday, July 12, with plenty of music, food and crafts. Miss North Seattle Teen USA, Nedessa Silvestre, helps hand out balloons to the celebrants, including 13-month-old Eric Zhang (at left).
A Malayan tapir was born at the Woodland Park Zoo the evening of July 3. The female calf appears healthy and went from 26 pounds at birth to 30 pounds three days later, according to her keepers. "The birth of this tapir is significant because they are endangered and her genetic line is underrepresented in the North American population," said the zoo's general curator Dr. Nancy Hawkes in a press release.
The Museum of History and Industry (MOHAI) will continue its Summer History Tour series with a walking tour of Fremont on Saturday, July 21.The tour, "Streetcars and Canals at the Center of the Universe," will take a look at how the 1940s streetcar system helped develop Fremont as a suburb, as well as the transition of the canal from a small stream into the lifeblood of Seattle infrastructure.
Although Aurora Avenue North may have been placed on the backburner before, the neighborhood is making sure that Aurora isn't forgotten this time.With the community-driven Aurora revitalization project in its primary stages, the prospects for Aurora continue to grow."I feel like it's pretty critical to have the revitalization. It's a once-in-a-couple-decades opportunity to envision something new for Aurora and work with businesses to change with the times," said Cindy Potter, co-founder of Greenwood Aurora Involved Neighbors (GAIN).
Tom McGough relaxes in the new public-art installation 'Boulder Wash,' by sculptor John Hoge at the newly renovated Dahl Playfield, 7700 25th Ave. N.E., in Ravenna.
On July 29, 1907, the residents - 171 girls and 11 nuns - of the newly constructed Home of the Good Shepherd in Wallingford received ice cream from the building's architects as a celebratory treat. On Sunday, July 22, 2007, Historic Seattle wants to commemorate that kindness by serving ice cream to everyone - neighbors, tenants, regular visitors and curious newcomers - at its centennial celebration of the Good Shepherd Center (GSC), 4649 Sunnyside Ave. N.
David Stodden gives old family friend Erin Hoover a hug during a memorial walk at Green Lake last Wednesday, July 11. The walk marked the one-year anniversary of the unsolved murders of Stodden's wife, Mary Cooper, and his daughter Susanna Stodden, for whom Hoover named her baby. Cooper was the beloved librarian at AEII Elementary School in Wedgwood. She and her oldest daughter were hiking along Mount Pilchuk's Pinnacle Lake Trail in Snohomish County when they were shot and killed.
The hot, hot temperatures of last Wednesday, July 11, drove people outdoors and toward the water to cool off from the upper 90s weather. Blowing off some heat, Bryan Vozka (at left) playfully tosses his son Alexander into Green Lake.
You hear about it happening to other parents, but you just know it can't happen to you. You brought your children up with values and morals, and they simply wouldn't trash all your training for self-gratification of the lowest order. It's not something that is supposed to happen in good families.My son has been eating Spam.
In Great Britain, voters get a say on where money is specifically spent - would our politicians let something like this work in the United States?