Magnolia Community Center's Canadian Muchachos 10-year-old girls' basketball team clinched their divisional title on March 10 with an exciting 20-18 victory over the Hiawatha Community Center Eagles on the latter's home court in West Seattle.Both teams entered this final game of the regular season with a 6-1 record.
The Global Reading Challenge is a program for fourth- and fifth-grade students put on jointly by the Seattle and Kalamazoo, Mich., public libraries. Librarians choose those ten books mentioned above, and students work in teams of six to seven members to read them. In the spring, the librarians travel to each participating school, where they hold a "quiz bowl" of sorts.Interest from Blaine fourth- and fifth-graders is so high that we always have too many teams-fifteen this year.Trust me, I'm not complaining. Almost one hundred Blaine fourth- and fifth-graders are excited and eager to read high-quality books over the next few months
The Puget Sound Traditional Jazz Society holds its second monthly concert at the Ballard Elks Lodge this Sunday, March 18, at 12:30 p.m. For years the society held its events in the Mountaineers Building in Lower Queen Anne
Coe Elementary School students will soon be performing Mozart's "The Magic Flute" on stage. Queen Anne kids ages 5 through 12 are taking on opera, thanks to director/producer Mark Power. Power is a classically trained singer and a Coe dad.Members of the community effort are building and painting sets; parents are ironing and sewing costumes, all going on as the kids rehearse. The Magic Flute opens on Thursday, March 29, with a preview at 6:30.
Through Saturday, March-17, the YWCA will hold its annual Dress for Success weeklong suit drive to collect interview and work-appropriate clothing, accessories and financial donations. Many women have been forced to relocate because of an abusive situation, possibly spending months in a series of shelters or due to job loss and other disruptive life experiences. Having proper interview clothing is unlikely.Throughout Send One Suit Week, Seattle area women can drop off donations of suits and accessories at any Dressbarn store in the Seattle area.
Bettie Jane (Elizabeth) Fritz died peacefully on Feb. 28. She was 84 years old.Born June 29, 1922, in Chicago she was the third child of Louis and Rose L. Weil.On Aug. 12, 1944, she married Robert Gordon Fritz. The couple had four sons and four daughters, all of whom attended St. Anne's School. The years the family spent living on Queen Anne Hill were some of the happiest of their lives.
I was in Gilman Village in Issaquah recently visiting Anglomania, a lovely little English shop supplying the needs of Eastside Brits. I was there to buy some Bunnykin's China for a very young friend of mine's birthday and a Christening mug for his even younger sister. The children's line of Bunnykin's china was inspired by the "Tales of Beatrix Potter."Coincidentally, when I returned home, there were several messages for me about the movie, "Ms. Potter." (No relation to Harry the Wiz.) As two of my callers found on going to an advance screening of the movie, they were so delighted with the setting, scenery and the story that they strongly recommended it as a must-see for me. I'm still waiting to see it.
The Second Annual Festival of Words & Photos is now online. We have gathered all of the winning entries! Please click this link to visit the online edition!Now in its second year, the festival features some exciting changes. Most notably, the Festival of Words and Photos has teamed up with the Rainier Valley Youth Theater's long-running, annual Young Playwright Festival. Both will be held on Saturday, March 10, at the Rainier Valley Cultural Center, 3515 S. Alaska St., in the heart of Columbia City.The Festival of Words and Photos, a showcase for South End writers and photographers of all ages, will follow. Awards will be announced during the event and all the winners will be invited to read and share their work.After you're done browsing through the festival pullout, take a look at the festival schedule on page 16 for more details. We look forward to seeing you there.
"Politics as usual" is a phrase that means one thing to a rabid Republican and another thing to a devoted Democrat.But to those of us who generally gag at the hackneyed expression "public servant," politics as usual simply means another dishonest hack compelled to save us from ourselves, while fattening their egos and wallets, doing what most folks feel they tend to do: waffle while serving their own best interests.
Following through on a commitment for more accountability on getting results from programs in the 2004 Families and Education Levy, the city issued the first annual report on academic performance of students served by the levy. Programs funded through the levy began in September 2005.
Seattle's proposed Legislation to help renters affected by condominium construction died in state legislation. About 3 percent of Seattle's rental stock has recently been convereted to condominiums since 2004, affecting more than 4,000 city apartments. The legislation would have helped low income renters with the cost of moving and provided more advance notice to purchase or vacate their rental apartments. "I am very disappointed that theLegislature failed to recognize the crisis and failed to give local government greater ability to help low income renters who must move," said Seatte City Councilmember Tom Rasmussen
Two North End residents are featured in the Pork Filled Players' production of "Big Hunk O' Burnin' Love," a romantic comedy about a single Thai-American man who must marry within four days or burst into flames.CALL FOR ARTISTS: The UNIVERSITY UNITARIAN CHURCH, 6556 35th Ave. N.E., is encouraging visual artists to participate in its Art Screening on April 14.
Fuzzy bunnies and candy Peeps are starting to appear in the stores, as well as pink plastic grass and wrapped chocolate eggs. And that can mean only one thing: Easter is coming up soon - April 8, to be exact. Easter and spring always seems to come about the same time. That link is one of the major clues to many of the Easter traditions that seem less than biblical. Indeed, a lot of the Easter customs have to do with the early Christian Church competing with longer-established pagan traditions
The state Department of Ecol-ogy will have a public meeting and hearing on Thursday, March 22, to discuss the proposed additional cleanup at the Metro Lake Union North Yard property (also known as the Tank Farm property), 1602 N. Northlake Way. The meeting - which will take place at Hamilton International Middle School, 1610 N. 41st St. - will start with an open house from 6:30 to 7 p.m., followed by a public meeting from 7 to 7:45 p.m. The state will then take public comments on the proposed cleanup actions until 9 p.m.
A woman in her 20s was intentionally hit in the 3900 block of Woodland Park Avenue North in Fremont around 7:10 a.m. on Tuesday, March 13, police say. The woman was thrown about 40 feet by the collision, according to witnesses who included a KIRO-TV cameraman on his way to work and a man who was standing with the woman on the street.The Toyota sedan allegedly used in the vehicular assault was later found abandoned in the 4000 block of Whitman Avenue North, but police know who the driver was, said Seattle Police Department spokesperson Sean Whitcomb.