The Neighborhood Plan Status Meetings have started. Our meeting (Green Lake, Greenwood/Phinney, Crown Hill/Ballard, Fremont, and Wallingford) is a week from today: Thursday, July 23rd 6:00-8:00pm Phinney Neighborhood Center (6532 Phinney Ave. N) From Barbara E. Wilson, Executive Director of the Seattle Planning Commission: Please join members of the Seattle Planning Commission and the Neighborhood Planning Advisory Committee in the first of a series of two important community meetings. These two citizen groups want to hear your thoughts. Come and tell us how your neighborhood has changed since your neighborhood plan was adopted. Your comments and input at this meeting…
July 2009
July 15, 2009 at 9:53PM
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Open Water Swim (Partial) Results
The results were posted on Friday, but unfortunately it’s just the half mile results listed twice. Our message to the pool was returned this morning and they’re aware of the mistake and the guy who is in charge of posting the file will “get to it as soon as he can–hopefully today.” Well, today’s not over yet, but don’t hold your breath. In the meantime, if you find the PDF format results as annoying as we do, check out the half mile results in Excel format, sorted by name and by time.
July 13, 2009 at 8:17PM
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Pizza (and more!) Coming to Circa
Thanks to tipster Tim for noticing new “Leased” stickers in the windows at Circa. We visited the Welcome Center yesterday to find out about our new neighbors. Tim mentioned two storefronts with stickers, but only one new lease has been signed–by Turnpike Pizza. One of the leasing agents called it thin crust, New York-style pizza. We see they’ve got a liquor license (no. 405092) for beer and wine, but that’s all we’ve got so far. Nice that it’s not another chain coming into the neighborhood, though. Also open is RED in suite 126. Not just an ordinary salon, in addition…
July 12, 2009 at 9:43PM
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Spotted: Treehugging Rusty Williams
During the Milk Carton Derby we spotted Rusty Williams having his photo taken while hugging a tree. He’s running for Seattle City Councilman Position #8. We’re not sure why he chose to hug a tree in Green Lake Park rather than Magnuson Park because that’s his baby and all he spoke to us about. He did mention the paltry tree canopy in Magnuson so maybe that’s the reason. For the record, he didn’t once mention his old band, Bighorn, even though this Seattle Weekly article calls him “The Guy Who Keeps Talking About His Old Band.” They sound huge and…
July 12, 2009 at 7:29PM
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Seafair a Success
Yesterday’s 39th annual Milk Carton Derby was a big success! Most notably, 500 pounds of food and $500 was donated to Northwest Harvest. It was a bit windy out (though talk about luck with the weather considering today’s rain) so we found it most exciting to watch the boats battle to stay behind the starting line until “Ready! Set! Go!” Check out some great photos courtesy of The Seattle Times.
