1. The Queen Anne Bowl was the former site of what?2. What was the name of the hamburger joint across the street from Queen Anne High School?
The sun sure took its time coming out this year, and September is already upon us. If you're like me, just when you start getting the hang of your family's summer routine, a wave of fall activities and school responsibilities begin again.
I have just completed my summer internship at the Pacific Publishing company newspaper under Vera Chan-Pool as Editor, and for the Queen Anne Magnolia News with Myke Folger as Editor.
Candidates and guests were unsure of the actual date of the Queen Anne Community Council election which was to take place Wednesday, Sept. 15.
Dick's to add store in Snohomish CountyAfter a phenomenal customer response to an online poll, Dick's Drive-In Restaurants announced today plans to focus their search for a new restaurant location within a 20 mile area north of the original Dick's in Wallingford.Afteralmost three weeks of voting, the north region, including Shoreline, Mountlake Terrace, Lynnwood, Edmonds, and South Everett scored highest with 53,810 votes, or 46 percent of the 115,524 votes cast. South captured 28 percent, (32,180 votes), and East received 26 percent (30,534 votes). The online poll closed at 10 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 19.
The Queen Anne Community Council will have its annual election at 7:30 p.m., Wednesday, Sept. 22 at McClure Middle School at 1915First Avenue West.
Knowing that the city and county are hemorrhaging from employee furloughs, depleted resources and budgetary shortfalls that reach in the millions, labor unions were more than happy to meet with Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn in contract talks that may save funds, jobs and most certainly health-care benefits.
Opening night felt like homecoming as audience members once again joined perennial orphan Homer Wells, obstetrician/abortionist Doctor Larch, and their kith and kin for Book-It's season opener "The Cider House Rules Part Two: In Other Parts of the World."
Rodrigo Corres's newest film "Buried" not only shows us what it would look like to be buried alive, but makes us feel it, too. It takes a simple theme of claustrophobia and turns it into a gripping and original thriller. So original that I can't imagine this premise being duplicated. The film was totally unpredictable moving from moments of high hope to utter despair.
Careless CaregiverA woman called police at 8:20 p.m. on Sept. 13 to report that her wheelchair had been stolen from her garage, which is located in the 1900 block of 26th Avenue West. The woman said the theft of the non-motorized wheelchair must have taken place at some time between 6:30 p.m. on Sept. 11, when her caregiver placed it in the garage after the owner used it, and 1 p.m. on Sept. 13 when the victim discovered it was missing.
Late last week, the Seattle School Board voted to approve a contract for teachers and other certificated staff at Seattle Public Schools.The three-year contract covers the school years 2010-2011 through 2012-2013.
The 22nd Annual Fishermen's Fall Festival is free and takes place all day Saturday, Sept. 25 at Fishermen's Terminal in Magnolia.
September.... Back to School time... An invigorating crispness in the morning air, leaves beginning to turn color and drop, satisfyingly crunchy underfoot. Newly cut hair and freshly sharpened pencils. Lunch boxes unsullied by the stink of half-eaten sandwiches. Children flipping open the covers of brand new crayon boxes andpressing their noses against the cool flat tips, inhaling deply the smell that, even as adults, transports us to Septembers so far in our past they seem another lifetime.
Leaves are falling, back-to-school sales ended with a whimper, some 54,000 more jobs disappeared during the summer, and President Obama's stock is so low his PR operatives had him attend church for a photo-op this past Sunday - a safe Episcopalian service.
There are many things about growing old that the greeting card types studiously avoid. The physical falling off is the most obvious problem but for those of us who will never see 60 again there are other difficulties.