We, the Queen Anne Community Council are opposed to WSDOT plans to build a fence on the Aurora Bridge.In order of importance, our reasons are: 1) the fence is unlikely to prevent a significant number of suicides, 2) spending more than $7 million of public funds for this purpose seems wasteful, and 3) a fence could greatly mar the appearance of the bridge, an "Historic Place" and a "City Landmark."
So by 2010, the city will be faced with a deficit of $42 million and Seattle Schools still has a long way to go in chipping away at its $25 million hole.
I will put this as gently as possible: We no longer have the luxury to be innocent. By innocent I mean that by this time it is rather unconscionable to live like we did in the '60s and the early '70s. Back then we did things like pour paint down the drain, have unprotected sex with strangers, take Sunday drives to nowhere, and puncture bags full of garbage and throw them over the side of our boats with ease.
I would like to point out that both the Queen Anne and the Magnolia youth baseball programs depend on around a hundred volunteers, from coaches to umpires to team moms (and dads) to the board of directors. It's true I've stuck around longer than most, but it's not true that I do most of the work (Queen Anne/Magnolia News 4/1/09).
New York City-based JPMorgan Chase & Co, in a move that is sure to ingratiate itself with Seattle has bought the title sponsorship of Seattle's Family 4th at Lake Union fireworks display and community celebration at Gas Works Park.
FEUDING A Queen Anne woman who moved into an apartment house on 14th Avenue West has allegedly had a problem with one of her nearby neighbors since she moved into the place last October. According to the woman, it's a man in his early 70s who shoved her with his shoulder almost right away and spray-painted her license plate black.
Magnolian Josephine (Jo) Keating Swift must have loved to buck the odds. As a WASP (Women's Airforce Service Pilots) flying in the United States Army during World War II, she was one of the one woman to-every-1,000-men pilots who flew military planes. She was among the first women in history trained to fly American military aircraft.
Lawton Book Fair at Magnolia's BookstoreMagnolia's Bookstore will host Lawton's Spring Book Fair from 12 - 5 p.m., Sunday, April 26 with a portion of sales proceeds to benefit Lawton's library fund. 3206 W. McGraw St., 206-283-1062.
With tears in her eyes, the young woman told her story: Three years ago she went to the emergency department for minor symptoms. Six months ago she had brain surgery. Her "minor symptoms" turned out to be from advanced cervical cancer.
1. Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway
What is it like to work in a mortuary, an emergency room, as a barista or a docent at the zoo? We've all wondered what life is like outside our chosen careers, but few of us ever take the plunge to find out.
More than 22,000 students statewide have signed up to participate in the new College Bound Scholarship program. But many more seventh, eighth, and ninth* graders can sign up by the end of June 2009. An estimated 90,000 students qualify for this program.
Organizations throughout Seattle are gearing up to celebrate the centennial of the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific (AYP) Exposition, which took place on the University of Washington campus in 1909.
This week Mariner legend Ken Griffey Jr. returns to Seattle after 10 years, hailed as a conquering hero and a one-man local stimulus package.