From SeattleCrime.com: Arch Rivals: Hale Students Busted for Blanchet Basketball Burglary By Jonah Spangenthal-Lee Seattle police busted two teen burglars for a break-in during a high school basketball game at Bishop Blanchet High School earlier this month, a police report says. As the Blanchet Braves and Nathan Hale Raiders battled it out on the basketball court on the evening of December 18th, a police report says two Hale students snuck into a Blanchet locker room and made off with several iPods. A staff member spotted the two teens and called for help. The teens fled the school but were picked…
December 2009
December 30, 2009 at 1:50PM
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Town hall meeting for Compassionate Cities Campaign at the Green Lake Library tomorrow
You may remember Rabbi Ted Falcon from August’s From Hiroshima to Hope. Join him and friends tomorrow afternoon to discuss creating positive change in the community. Ten-year Campaign for Compassionate Cities Thursday, December 31st at 1:30 p.m. Seattle Public Library: Green Lake Branch 7364 E Green Lake Dr N The Compassionate Cities Campaign will begin in Seattle as a collaboration between Seattle City Government representatives and its citizens that will recognize compassion as an ethical imperative in public policies affecting how its residents meet their basic human needs. Its intention is to grow over the next decade into a global…
December 29, 2009 at 8:37PM
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Green Lake Community Center to close ten Fridays for Parks and Recreation furlough days
The parking lot by the Green Lake Community Center (7201 E Green Lake Dr N) will be easier to find parking in for ten days next year. From the Seattle Parks and Recreation north central winter brochure: Because of the revenue shortfall that is cutting into department operating budgets, the City asked employees to take 10 furlough (unpaid) days off from work in 2010. This includes both the staff who work in our recreation facilities and Parks and Recreation management. To minimize the impact on you, our customers, we will carry out the furlough plan by closing our doors on…
December 28, 2009 at 7:02PM
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Happy Birthday, Woodland Park Zoo!
On December 28, 1899, the Seattle City Council officially signed the paperwork purchasing the 141 acres that would become Woodland Park Zoo and surrounding parkland. Once owned by real estate tycoon Guy Phinney, the land and its collection of animals had become a burden for his widow after Phinney died in 1893, so it was sold to the growing city for $100,000 to be developed into a park. The purchase was controversial as many believed the land, located 5 miles north of downtown Seattle, was so far out into the countryside that no one would visit it! But generations of…
