Magnolia Scout Troop 80 honored Stewart Lange for his attainment of Eagle Scout in a ceremony held Dec. 5 at Magnolia United Church of Christ. Present at the ceremony were Lange's parents, grandparents Clare and Dale Randall of Arizona, godparents and friends as well as Troop 80 members and families.
Last week's game against the Madison Middle School Bulldogs was no doubt one to forget as the McClure Middle School Mavericks fell hard 57-27, dropping to 0-2 in league play.
Yeesh! Will this never end?Well, maybe it wasn't all bad. There were definitely some bright spots throughout 2010, and some might even say there were more rays of light than gray clouds--although one wouldn't know it by December's decidedly sopping weather.
It appears Magnolia Manor Park may be about to grow…a lot! The one-acre park property, located at 3500 28th Avenue West, that is in the process of being redesigned and developed, may grow to be twice or even three times its current size, thanks to its neighbor, Seattle Public Utilities (SPU).
If the Smith Cove land swap goes through, Port of Seattle officials may construct an office building and parking lot on the soccer fields that currently cover most of the park property. Mark Griffin of the Port of Seattle’s real estate division said the Port has initial plans to place a building either on its existing property, known as the West Yard area, which is adjacent to Smith Cover and next to the soccer fields.
On a summer North Carolina evening in 2004, Wendy Tischler Thomas and husband, Nathan, were driving around the neighborhood trying to lull their 2-year-old daughter Piper to sleep.
This is a painfully terrible film in the dreaded alien/ action movie genre that includes movies like “Independence Day” and “War of the Worlds.”
THEATREComic legend Lily Tomlin brings her best-loved characters to The 5th Avenue stage Jan. 29 and 30. The show will feature a collection of more than a dozen of her timeless characters, from Ernestine the Phone Lady and Sister Boogie Woman to Mrs. Beasley and Edith Ann. For more information and tickets visit www.5thavenue.org.
One might say it’s easier to dream up songs and jokes and visuals for a 75-minute long musical about a children’s book than it would to write and draw the children’s book itself. Not so with “Go, Dog. Go!” Steven Dietz and Allison Gregory’s highly imaginative musical based on the P.D. Eastman classic children’s book of the same name playing at Seattle Children’s Theatre.
A woman who is thinking about pregnancy can reduce her stress and boost her potential for good health by visiting her doctor both before and during pregnancy.
When most people think about recycling, they think of glass bottles and tin cans or cardboard boxes and plastic bags. They think of the big, green trucks hauling off once-used products that will soon serve a new purpose. The Woodland Park Zoo, however, for its 26th year, continues to redefine urban recycling.
A proposed mixed-use development project will be discussed at the Queen Anne Community Center tonight. The Lower Queen Anne project, which is in the preliminary planning stage, is a six-story building with 25 residential units and 4,600 square feet of ground level commercial space.
It turns out Phil Irwin didn’t have to give up on his dream to increase the Queen Anne Community Center’s hours, after all. The Queen Anne activist and retired Boeing employee had spearhead a campaign last month to raise enough money from local businesses and residents to pay for expanding the hours of operation at the Queen Anne Community Center.
For all the Magnolia residents who had hoped that the Port of Seattle would just give the undeveloped waterfront property adjacent to Smith Cove Park to the city and double the size of the current park, you can forget about it.