Sold: Laura Toepfer has sold Seasons Nursery AveVenture: Merchants along University Way Northeast (The Ave) will welcome the more than 7,000 new students and the more than 30,000 returning students to the University of Washington on Sept. 28 with AveVenture 2007.New store: Barnes & Noble opened a new store in Northgate Mall, 301 N.E. Northgate Way, on Wednesday, Sept. 5. The staff of 60 will help customers 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. Sunday through Thursday and 9 a.m. to 11 p.m. Friday and Saturday.
(Editor's note: Due to lack of space in last week's issue, this column appears this week. The next column will appear next week, as well, in its regular biweekly slot.)Where do eligible singles meet other eligible singles? As a singles' columnist, you'd think I'd know the answer - I don't. Do you?The most irritating feature of singlehood - the problem without an easy solution - remains, "Where do I go?" Personally, my solution is to wander through my days - a welcoming smile painted on my scrubbed face and my breath always minty-fresh - hoping to encounter that special someone in my normal routine.
The good people of Wallingford have spoken, and the overwhelming majority of them would like a bookstore. In my Aug. 1 guest column "Another Latte in the Wall?" I invited people to send in suggestions for the type of businesses that they would want to open in Wallingford. OK, so nine people replied, but of those, five suggested a bookstore.I find this interesting because when I moved to the neighborhood in 2003 there were two: Second Story, in Wallingford Center and Vanderwater Books, at 1716 N. 45th St. Both stores are now gone, but I still have the bookmarks!
ately, I've heard complaints that only the rich can afford to live in Fremont. When I recently found out my favorite Real Change newspaper vendor, Van Crowder, had moved into Fremont, I asked him about renting here.Van met Bob Bailey while selling papers. "He knew I was looking for something," and Van rented a room from Bob in "upper" Fremont (the area above North 39th Street). While Van doesn't feel we have enough trees, he said, "Fremont's OK. I like it."Bob bought his house in 1994 and rents out rooms because he said he feels selfish rambling about in a five-bedroom house alone. He admitted it's nice, financially, to get the rent, but he sounds sincere in his desire to give people a place to live.
Once upon a time, in the 1970s, a group of artists, writers and artisans made a place for themselves on the north fork of the Skagit River known as Fishtown. They lived in abandoned gillnetters' shacks, lived off the land and the river and did their work.Fishtown has passed into Northwest legend, the lost domain where - for the better part of a decade - art and life were one.It's taken years to organize, but a Fishtown retrospective, "You Can't Get There From Here," has finally come together. The exhibit - featuring artwork, poems, photos and broadsides - opens with a reception Saturday, Sept. 8, from 6 to 8 p.m. at Kobo at Higo gallery, 604 S. Jackson St. It runs through Oct. 3.
A permit application covers 93 residential units, while officals are reviewing designs for two projects totaling 61 additional units.
Homes Within Reach: The City Council is considering a proposal called Seattle Homes Within Reach that would expand an existing housing-incentive program to offer affordable apartments and condominiums in more neighborhoods across the city.Staff addition: O.J. Olson has joined Windermere Real Estate's Northwest New administrator: The Seattle City Council has approved the transfer of ownership of low-income housing at Sand Point from the Sand Point Community Housing Association (SPCHA) to Solid Ground, formerly known as the Fremont Public Association).
At the Phinney Neighborhood Center, volunteers painted the interiors and exteriors of both buildings, restriped the parking lot and performed gardening and groundswork.Rebuilding Together Seattle, a nonprofit organization that provides donated repair services for low-income homeowners, coordinated the effort to bring volunteers to the Greenwood Senior Center, as well as the Phinney Neighborhood Center. Both centers are Phinney Neighborhood Association sites.
The University of Washington honored 21 local fifth- through eighth-graders for their outstanding verbal and/or mathematical abilities. Eight local students were among the 22 graduating seniors to receive the Seattle School Scholarship for $2,000 eachFourteen students from Broadview-Thompson Elementary School, 13052 Greenwood Ave. N., published their poems in the "National Anthology of Poetry"
Tom and Doris Jeanne Dolling are celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary. They were married Aug. 30, 1957, at Mount Baker Presbyterian Church in Seattle.The Dollings met at the University of Washington, and both graduated from the university.
Members of the Church of Scientology Environmental Task Force, the longest-running participating organization in the city of Seattle's Adopt-a-Street program, work Saturday, Sept. 8, to clean up Roy Street (their adopted street) and the Neighborhood Center.
City, residents: tweaking still neededMuch has changed - and continues to change - in the Urban Village at the top of Queen Anne Hill, and a community effort to help determine what new development will look like has produced a draft set of guidelines.
After a few nail-biting weeks for the folks who started the Queen Anne Farmers Market, good news came recently from city hall: rental fees for the 2007 season will be waived. The decision allows the market to remain at its new location through Oct. 4, the final market of the season.The market moved to the Queen Anne Community Center from the McClure Middle School parking lot in late August to accommodate the return to school.
Magnolia residents will get the opportunity tomorrow to inspect new vegetation design and management plans along Magnolia Boulevard.Representatives from the Seattle Parks Department will present design plans for restoring and maintaining the vegetation all along Magnolia Boulevard on Thursday, Sept. 13 at 7 p.m. in the Catharine Blaine School cafeteria, 2440 34th Ave. W.
Councilmember Richard Conlin is proposing to amend Seattle's Land Use Code to include goats as a small animal that can be kept in all zones.Currently, the keeping of small animals such as dogs, cats and miniature pigs is permitted within city limits. Goats, however, are not allowed.The proposal would include requirements for licensing and fees and penalties for failure to license goats.The types of goats to be permitted are commonly known as pygmy, dwarf and miniature goats.