Neighborhood Clean-up This year’s 18th annual Neighbor Appreciation Day is on Saturday, Feb.11. It’s the day when we reach out and express thanks to those who live and work around us. We’ll celebrate locally by participating in a community clean-up event starting in Counterbalance Park at 9 a.m. and ending at noon. The event is spearheaded by the Church of Scientology Environmental Task Force and co-sponsored by the Greater Queen Anne Chamber of Commerce and the Uptown Alliance. For more information, contact Ann Pearce at 206-284-0604.
Crime Scene Contaminator The resident of a condo located on Taylor Avenue North suspected something strange was afoot when she woke up at 7:30 a.m. on Sunday, Jan. 15, and felt an unusual chill. She got up to inspect the situation, and found the front door standing wide open, explaining the chill. She also found items missing from the condo. She called 911 right away. She said she’d gone to bed at 11 p.m. the night before, and said she believed the door had been locked, but admitted to police that she could not be sure. The responding police officer checked the front door, and although finding no indication of a forced entry, he did find some strange pry marks on the inside of the front door. The resident said they were old marks. The officer notes that when he entered the condo through the front door, the resident didn’t notify him that this was the burglar’s point of entry, thus he unknowingly contributed to contamination of the crime scene.
Pacific Northwest Ballet’s recent production of Don Quixote held a special treat for local audience members: the cast included young Queen Anne residents Nina Adams and Michael Houk.
On the topic of building new palaces for professional sports teams, Seattle has something like the political equivalent of PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder): Large numbers of people are still bitter that — not once but twice in the mid-‘90s — Seattle voters turned down public financing of large new stadiums, only to have them built with tax dollars anyway.
“A writer’s problem does not change. It is always how to write truly and having found out what is true, to project it in such a way that it becomes part of the experience of the person who reads it.” — Ernest Hemingway
Lawton fifth-grader Dupree Myricks proudly displayed his picture of animal paw prints. With a little help from the artist, one could easily tell that these were dog prints.
Seattle Pacific University made sure that the members of Tent City3 received a warm welcome when they arrived on campus. More than 200 SPU students personally greeted the members of the Tent City3 homeless camp to their campus on Jan. 21.
Pay for “not clicking it” or pay the electric bill?
The precision and athleticism of the dancers under the direction of choreographer and Seattle’s own Spectrum Dance Theater Artistic Director Donald Byrd are reason enough to attend a performance of the Fifth Avenue’s “Oklahoma.”
Patti McCall has decided to get out of the book business. The owner of Queen Anne Books announced Feb. 20 that she feels it is time to turn the bookstore over to a new owner. McCall wrote to her customers to share the news, saying that in the wake of losing her husband to cancer in May of last year, she is now “eager to move on and discover what the next stage of my life will hold.”
The meaning of “Home Sweet Home” has changed substantially over the decades for those who have chosen to reside in Seattle.