January is a dreary month for most, but a short jaunt outside of Tangletown, near Green Lake, is a place where one can pull him- or herself together. quaint neighborhood spa, Sweet Skin Spa, moved in last June. The open window advertises a newly designed retail space, inviting surrounding neighbors to take a peek. Sharing just one piece of the homey, 1950s building, owner Jill Helman's new business venture specializes in facials and hair removal.
ROOSEVELT■ Making music: The Roosevelt High School Symphony and Chamber Orchestras will perform with the Seattle Symphony in a Side-by-Side concert on Thursday, Jan. 18.The free concert will take place at the school, 1410 N.E. 66th St., starting at 7:30 p.m.■ Reunion concert: To celebrate nearly four decades of jazz music at Roosevelt High School, the school will have a Raising the Roof reunion concert featuring its jazz-music alumni from as far back as 1969.The concert will feature an alumni band of Roosevelt graduates who worked with Waldo King, who led the school's music program from 1969 to 1984 and will also appear in the concert; an alumni band directed by Scott Brown, who took over in 1985; and a set by the current band.The concert will take place in the school's Performing Arts Center on Saturday, Jan. 20, starting at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $15 for students and seniors and $25 for adults; to order, go on-line to www.rooseveltjazz.org.NORTH END■ Sanity Circus: The Puget Sound Adlerian Society will present its second High School Sanity Circus for parents and teens at Nathan Hale High School, 10750 30th Ave. N.E., starting on Jan. 25. The series of interactive workshops, which focuses on positive discipline, will take place Thursday, Jan. 25 through March 8 (except Feb. 22), from 6:45 to 9:15 p.m. Parents may attend with our without their teenagers.The cost is $100 per family, with an additional $25 charged for handouts and the book "Positive Discipline for Teenagers." Enroll by Thursday, Jan. 18, by calling 527-2566.
■ In Kirby Lindsay's column that ran on Wednesday, Jan. 10, "The Draw of the Aurora Bridge" stated that the Metro bus that crashed through the Aurora Bridge railing in 1998 landed in a Fremont garden below. According to various news reports, the articulated bus hit the rooftop of an apartment building below the bridge before landing in a Fremont garden.
Due to poor birth-control planning, we are the semi-proud parents of four new kittens. This is my husband's fault. This cat is pregnant because my husband let her out of the house in a failed bid to have her not be our cat.
Have you got the holiday decorations down yet? If you are like me, the question isn't so much a matter of getting them down as a question of how to store them and where to store them.
The charter of the city of Seattle states that "there shall be maintained adequate police protection in each district of the city." Do you feel we have enough police officers to keep our neighborhoods safe? Mayor Nickels delivered his proposed budget to the city council. Despite a strong local economy and a budget forecast with millions of dollars in new revenue, the package did not include funding for one new sworn position in the Seattle Police Department.
The following are based on incident reports from the Seattle Police Department's East Precinct. They represent the officers' accounts of the events described.ATTEMPTED BURGLARYJust after 3 p.m. on Jan . 7, officers responded to a Harvard Avenue residence after a woman reported seeing a person trying to force his or her way into her house. The woman told the officers that she startled that person. He or she ran off before police arrived. The woman said he heard a loud, banging sound at her back door. She went downstairs to check and noticed that a window screen had been taken off the back window. She then saw the suspect at another window trying to get it open. The window had etched glass, so the woman couldn't make out any identifying features. She yelled out, and the suspect left the window and disappeared.Officers found a foot print on the back door that suggested someone had tried to kick the door open. A window screen had been removed as well. From the window the suspect would have seen an open laptop computer. Officers suspected the computer was the object of the would-be thief's intentions.Officers searched the area, but lacking anything specific to look for were not surprised when no suspects turned up.ASSAULT, PROPERTY DAMAGEAt 3 a.m. on Jan. 7, officers responded to an East Pine Street night club after learning that an assault had taken place. A man told officers he was there with his boyfriend. He became angry when he saw his boyfriend talking with other men. He raised his objections with his boyfriend, at which point the boyfriend said, "Go home! It's over!"The boyfriend then punched the man several times in the chest, pulled and ripped the man's shirt and scratched his arms. The pair returned to the nearby house they shared. But the argument continued. The boyfriend started breaking things inside the house. The man went outside and called 911, but he could hear his boyfriend breaking things inside.Officers arrived and determined that both men were intoxicated, the boyfriend particularly so. Based on available evidence, officers arrested the boyfriend; he was later booked into King County Jail.The man said he was afraid of his boyfriend and inquired about the steps needed to obtain a no-contact order.DRUGS, THEFTJust after 1 p.m. on Jan. 8, officers parked on the 100 block of Broadway East heard a car honking its horn at a vehicle that had cut it off. Officers ran the plates of the offending vehicle and learned that it had been reported stolen.Officers found three people inside the car; they removed the driver and placed him under arrest. Officers took custody of the driver's backpack, searched it and found numerous baggies, several of which contained a white, crystallized substance officers suspected was methamphetamine. A field test confirmed their suspicions.The two passengers were interviewed and released at the scene. The driver was later booked into King County Jail.TRAFFIC INCIDENT, WARRANT ARRESTJust after 12:30 p.m. on Jan. 8, officers on routine patrol saw a man riding his bicycle westbound on East John Street. The man was not wearing a helmet, and his bike was not equipped with a headlight or a taillight. Both were violations of the law.The man was stopped without incident. A computer check revealed that the man was wanted for an outstanding $25,000 drug warrant. He was arrested and booked into King County Jail for the warrant, and also charged with the helmet and lighting violations.DRUGS, WARRANT ARRESTAt 9:15 a.m. on Jan. 9, officers responded to a report that a man was dumpster diving near an apartment in the 1000 block of East John Street. The caller described the person in detail and noted that he was pushing a grocery cart.Officers saw a man with a grocery cart standing near a dumpster en route to the location. He was placing items he'd presumably retrieved from the dumpster into the cart. When confronted about his actions, the man said, "I'm just getting items from the dumpsters so I can sell them for food." While he spoke he grabbed a hose from the building and filled up a water bottle.Officers asked if he lived in the building. The man replied that he did not. The man was taken into custody. A computer check revealed that he was wanted on an outstanding warrant. Officers searched the man and uncovered small amounts of substances that later tested positive for heroin and cocaine. When asked about the substances, the man said, "Yeah, I got drugs 'cause I got a drug problem."The man was later arrested and booked into King County Jail.
He came up with the idea when he visited his partner's mother on the Oregon coast. While Mom may not have driven him to the bar, Peter Moore said he talked about Poco Wine Room with his partner, Bart Reynolds, on their return trip after staying with her for a weekend
We all want to keep our minds sharp as we age - older adults fear Alzheimer's disease more than cancer - but we also tend to forget that our brains need exercise and proper nutrition to stay fit, just like the rest of us. So that spinach salad, besides being good for your waistline, is literally food for thought as well.
It took 10 years, but the boys and girls in Washington, D.C. - specifically, the Department of Housing and Urban Development - tried to count the homeless in 2005. The re-cently is-sued report estimates that there were 744,000 homeless people in 2005 within our lovely national environs.
Certain habits started in my youth have fallen by the wayside, though one habit I thankfully retain is reading an hour or two every day, in addition to newspapers and magazines. I'm talking about books. I have been reading one to two books a week for more than 50 years, and I am extremely grateful to my mother and the nuns of St. Peter and Paul, Norwood (Ohio), for their early pushes.
Do these statements sound familiar?We are also there because there are great stakes in the balance... The battle would be renewed in one country and then another. The central lesson of our time is that the appetite of aggression is never satisfied. To withdraw from one battlefield means only to prepare for the next.Those are direct quotes from speeches by President Lyndon Johnson in the late '60s, as the United States continued to pour troops into Vietnam in an effort to "democratize" that country.
Editor's note:The following letter was sent Jan. 8 by Magnolia Community Club past president Vic Barry and current MCC president Nancy Rogers to Parks & Recreation superintendent Ken Bounds, and appears here as a guest column by permission of the authors.The Magnolia Community Club is concerned with the current state of the park along the west side of Magnolia Boulevard.As you know, Magnolia Boulevard is one of the most beautiful locations in the city of Seattle, with dramatic marine and mountain views framed by madrona trees. These vistas are a treasure for the people of Seattle, and should be preserved and enjoyed. Yet we find that this park-designed by John Olmsted and once referred to by him as the "crown jewel" of Seattle's Parks and Boulevard system-is being neglected, and its views are being lost.
Many thanks to all of those who helped the Magnolia Helpline provide for a happier holiday for some of our neighbors. Contributors were the Ballard/Magnolia Kiwanis Club; the Queen Anne/Magnolia Lion's Club; the people of the Episcopal Church of the Ascension; the people of Magnolia Co-Operative Preschool; the people of Windermere Real Estate; the people of Peoples Bank; Key Bank; the customers of Caffé Appassionato-Interbay; the Hubbard family; the Greg and Val Carnese family; the Mike and Lori Ann Thomas family; the Joan and Bernie Burreson family; and Kay Gullberg and Anna Aziz.All together, food and gifts were provided to 26 Magnolia families thanks to our generous contributors.Bill WhithamMagnolia Helpline Board of Directors
To keep traffic moving on 15th Avenue West at West Dravus Street in Seattle's Interbay area, SDOT engineers plan to adjust the traffic signals on Jan. 17.There are two intersections at 15th and Dravus because 15th is a divided street with one roadway for northbound and one for southbound traffic. Currently the traffic signals at these intersections go into an all-way flash mode from 4 to 6:30 p.m. on weekdays.The engineers will remove this all-way flash mode and will make other timing adjustments designed to improve traffic flow during commute periods. After making the changes, they will observe the results for approximately one month and will make any further adjustments needed.