When I was a 19-year-old sophomore at Whitworth College in Spokane, a good Christian school, an older guy in the dorm bought a couple of cases of beer, and a bunch of us young men drank and gossiped about sex. One guy’s story stood out.
As of Sept. 1, a new city ordinance is ensuring most workers in Seattle will be able to earn paid sick and safe days, which can be used to care for one’s own illness, a sick child or parent or to deal with the effects of domestic violence.
The Ballard Lions Club will partner with others in our community to build a new section of the Sensory Garden, currently under development adjacent to the Rose Garden at Woodland Park Zoo.
We were extremely disappointed — but hardly surprised — when our City Council approved Seattle Housing Authority’s (SHA) plan for redevelopment of Yesler Terrace. This event causes us to reflect on the implications for “leadership,” or lack of it, in our city.
I often have my children’s future in mind when making decisions — that’s what we, as parents, sign up for. We all want what’s best for our children, and we all know that education is the foundation upon which they’ll build their lives.
Area students will present their original creative writing at the launch of the 2011-12 anthology of Seattle Arts & Lectures’ Writers in the Schools (WITS) program on Sunday, Sept. 30, at 5 p.m. at Benaroya’s Recital Hall.
And once again, I turn to the words of W.H. Auden, excerpted here from his poem “September 1, 1939”...
The annual Uptown Alliance free clothing exchange in Counterbalance Park on Sept. 15 was again a big success. Uptown residents cleaned their closets, brought loads of great clothing, too home nifty “new” wearables and learned about things going on in their Queen Anne neighborhood.
The newspaper business — both small and large papers — has sounded full-throated opposition this past month about a plan by the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) to purposely entice advertising out of the newspaper so ads can be placed instead with USPS-favored stakeholder Valassis Inc., which bought the direct-mail company ADVO in 2006.
Starting Saturday, Sept. 29, King County Metro Transit’s RapidRide will begin operating in Seattle with the RapidRide C Line serving West Seattle and the RapidRide D Line serving Ballard. The Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) is implementing a number of traffic signal, street and sidewalk improvements to help keep RapidRide buses reliable and frequent.