Please join us and other Seattle online media at a benefit for Northwest Harvest on Saturday, Nov. 19, 2011, 4:00 – 7:00 p.m. at Pies and Pints (1215 NE 65th St). The event, organized by The SunBreak, is the fourth annual Blogsgiving. It is hosted by Roosiehood, Ravenna Blog, Wallyhood, My Green Lake and The SunBreak. A suggested minimum donation of $5 to Northwest Harvest and/or two non-perishable food items will earn you one specialty drink, such as a Guinness with cider float. Non-alcoholic beverages will also be available, as well as markers and paper for kids of all ages to make hand turkeys. “All bloggers, readers, friends, enemies, and even…
Posts Tagged ‘roosevelt’
Seattle Institute of Oriental Medicine to move to Green Lake
The Seattle Institute of Oriental Medicine (SIOM) is moving to Green Lake from its current location at 916 NE 65th St, in the Roosevelt neighborhood. The institute’s main clinic and administrative offices will soon be in the Ravenna Office Building (444 NE Ravenna Blvd). Classes and the low-cost community clinic will be held a block north, on the second floor of the John Marshall High School building (520 NE Ravenna Blvd). According to Thuy-Van Vu, Academic Coordinator at SIOM, the new Green Lake facilities will provide the institute with more spacious classrooms and quieter clinic facilities, allowing SIOM to better meet the…
Green Lake photographs by Jeff Blucher now on display at the Roosevelt Starbucks
Photos of Green Lake shot by Jeff Blucher are currently on display at the Roosevelt Square Starbucks (6417 Roosevelt Way NE). We have featured Jeff’s excellent photographs of Green Lake in the past. Here are a few highlights: Jeff’s photos of Green Lake, as well as some of his photos of other Seattle locations, will be on display at Starbucks through the end of August, 2011.
NE Ravenna Blvd potholes continue to be repaired, repaving project still on track for 2012
Green Lake resident Jill Beck wrote to us with an update, via the Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT), on the potholes on NE Ravenna Blvd between NE 65th St and 8th Ave NE. “The potholes are everywhere,” Jill says, “on both sides of Ravenna.” Jill reported the potholes to SDOT and received a note back from Peg Nielsen of the SDOT Communications Office. “Our crews have been regularly filling potholes,” Nielsen said, “and will continue to do so.” According to SDOT’s Pothole Repair Status map, SDOT crews have patched multiple holes on the NE Ravenna Blvd corridor on more than 12 occasions since…
The “locksmith scammer” is still making his rounds in the Green Lake neighborhood
The “locksmith scammer,” whom we have reported on twice before (in September and December 2010), continues to knock on Green Lake doors. The man known as the “locksmith scammer” is described as being between 5’6″ and 6′ tall, of slight build, African American, and balding. The man typically claims to be a janitor working at a nearby school and he sometimes says that his partner works at Microsoft. He’s new to the neighborhood, he says, and is locked out of his house. However, he claims, he is a few dollars short of the money he needs to pay a locksmith….
