Construction is almost complete at the Pacific Color Lab building (7107 Woodlawn Ave NE). The building’s signature tower was removed in September. The tower was an architectural hold-over from 1937-1950, when the building operated as a movie theater. [Update, Saturday, Jan. 15: a My Green Lake reader remembers watching this building being built in 1937. See his comment below.] Extensive remodeling has taken place at the building, according to Ray France Sosa, Business Manager at La Escuelita Bilingual School. The school will be joining Pacific Color in the building in March. A flier about the school describes La Escuelita as “a bilingual bicultural educational program”…
January 2011
January 14, 2011 at 6:03AM
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Pacific Color Lab building to soon house bilingual school for young children
January 13, 2011 at 6:57PM
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Upcoming community conversation about ‘Aging Your Way’
Dori Gillam, a representative of Senior Services, a local non-profit agency serving older adults, spoke at last night’s Green Lake Community Council meeting. Gillam invited all baby boomers, as well as other “younger-thinking older adults” who live in Northwest Seattle, to Aging Your Way, an upcoming event at the Nordic Heritage Museum (3014 NW 67th St). “We would like to ask,” Gillam said, “what would your community have to look like in order to support you as your age?” Food and beverages will be served at the event, which will be Thursday, Feb. 3, 2011, 5:30 – 8:30 p.m. Register at…
January 13, 2011 at 6:50AM
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The Center at St. Andrew’s presents Arthur Miller’s ‘I Can’t Remember Anything’
The Center at St. Andrew’s (111 NE 80th St) is hosting a performance of the Arthur Miller comedy I Can’t Remember Anything on Thursday, Feb. 17, 2011 at 7 p.m. The play explores aging gracefully and the importance of friendship at every age. The performance will be followed by a discussion on the topic of aging. Reserved tickets are available for the suggested donation of $10 through Brown Paper Tickets.
January 12, 2011 at 1:16PM
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SDOT: Potholes soon to be fixed on NE Ravenna Blvd, street will be completely resurfaced in 2012
The Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) “Pothole Ranger” crews, who have been putting in an extra effort to fix the city’s potholes, will soon patch up NE Ravenna Blvd. A My Green Lake reader who wishes to remain anonymous wrote to let us know that she contacted the city about the potholes, which can be found at East Green Lake Drive N at NE Ravenna Blvd and down the length of NE Ravenna Blvd. ”They are particularly bad,” the reader says, “between NE 65th St and 15th Ave NE.” SDOT responded to the report about these potholes with the following note: The good…
