Twelve determined girls at the Queen Anne Community Center have managed to hold a 6-0 winning streak during a season that almost didn’t happen. The volleyball team, the Queen Annes, have been successful with hard work and a team motto of “be scrappy.”
In honor of her business achievements, Magnolia’s Rhonda Kinzig, an independent sales director with Mary Kay, has earned the use of the exclusive Mary Kay pink Cadillac, the most coveted incentive awarded by Mary Kay. The new Cadillac comes in pearlized pink, a color unique to the Mary Kay Career Car Program.
Magnolia resident Allen Goldstein has been selected by the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) in Gaithersburg, Md., to lead national projects on energy calibration through the nation’s smart grid.
The artists and craftspeople found at the centerpiece of art shows held throughout the United States make up a leading edge of the creative class. Often working 60 to 70 hours a week, they are part of a group that author Richard Florida first wrote about a decade ago in his bestseller, “The Rise of the Creative Class.”
It was a full class with hardworking students when the Magnolia Historical Society gave its third-annual Fall Writing Memoirs Workshop at the Magnolia Library on Saturday, Nov.10. Classmates wrote, revised and rewrote memories of their first bicycle in the 1920s, conversation at the dinner tables of the 1940s and moves across the country to Kent and Magnolia, Wash.
Seattle’s love affair with all things Jimi Hendrix continues unabated. Hendrix’s 70th birthday is coming up (Nov. 27, 1942), and the EMP Museum is on it. “Hear My Train a Comin,’” which opens Nov. 17, traces the guitar legend’s 1966 arrival in swinging London and his rise in the British pop charts, and follows his return to this country in June 1967 for his legendary performance at the Monterey Pop Festival.
Magnolia’s Cub Scouts Pack 80 collected $1,000 worth of donations for the Friends of Youth organization, according to Phil Crocker, the Pack 80 committee chair and chairperson of Friends of Youth board. The items were rounded up at the Pack meeting on Dec. 3 at the United Church of Christ in Magnolia.
When it comes to Quentin Tarantino movies, one thing you can always count on is originality — something that’s always welcome in this age of endless remakes, sequels, franchises, franchise reboots and CGI-action spectacles.
There’s good news and there’s not-so-good news on the restaurant front as we round the corner past Halloween and into the holiday season.
Magnolia Cub Scout Pack 80 appeared in Magnolia Village on the morning of Nov. 11 for Veterans Day, making cards for vets and lining West McGraw Street with small American flags.
“Les Misérables,” the new movie adaptation of the popular stage musical (which, in turn, was based off of a 1862 novel by Frenchman Victor Hugo) is well made, no doubt. I don’t think anyone can watch it and not at the very least, appreciate it for the craftsmanship that went into it, even if the movie itself is a little jam-packed and uneven.
With two John Hay Elementary Schools on Queen Anne, there is bound to be some confusion when we talk about them. There may even be reason to say that there are three John Hay schools on Queen Anne — surely, three buildings share the name.
Mustaches are in these days — at least for the kids at John Hay Elementary School on Queen Anne.
Seattle Parks and Recreation officials were confused when they realized that the parking lot for the Queen Anne Bowl Playfields did not belong to them. The land actually belonged to Seattle Pacific University (SPU).
Lower Queen Anne resident Mike Fagerness said he avoids cutting through the neighborhood’s many connecting greenbelts to get to his apartment at night because he is concerned about safety. He recalled one late night this summer taking a shortcut through Kinnear Park and seeing and hearing what he perceived to be homeless campers all throughout the trail.