August 2005

The Bayview Golf Club of West Seattle Golf Course welcomes all golfers with an established handicap to play in the 12th annual Bayview Memorial golf tournament on Sunday, August 28.

The tournament is an 18 hole stroke-play format, with gross and net prizes awarded in each division.

The Memorial has a rich history. Former Bayview Captain Mike Shoemaker created the Coghill Memorial tournament to honor former Bayview Secretary Angus Coghill.

The primary objective of the Memorial tournament is to help support the Bayview Memorial scholarship fund.

Step into the intimate Italian courtyard. Put your name on the list and wander around back for a glass of Chianti in the outdoor garden by summer or in the cozy, old country indoor nook by winter.

Plastic pots: What's a gardener to do?

Every gardener has a dirty little secret. Those plastic pots that our plants come in? They end up stacked in the garage, behind the tool shed, or quelle horror! We take them to the landfill. Unfortunately, plastic plant pots aren't allowed in our curbside recycling, so what's a gardener to do?

Magnolia Garden Center has designated Saturday and Sunday, August 13 and 14 as "Recycle Pot Days." Drop off your stacks of plastic pots-black, empty, unbroken, one gallon or larger, please-between the hours of 10 a.m. and 5 p.m.

The Ballard Historical Society (BHS) has just released a new Walking Tour guide to historic Ballard with the help of writer Liza Ewell.

The Ballard resident works as a reference book editor and became curious about the history of the community after moving here from Wallingford six years ago.

Ewell found out about the BHS and offered to help them launch their web site www.ballardhistory.org.

Drivers in Ballard received a blunt reminder to share the road with bicyclists last week by a new group calling themselves GhostCycle.

A bike was painted white and hung high up on a street pole at the northwest corner of Northwest Market Street and 14th Avenue Northwest.

Placed on the bike was a sign with the message "A cyclist was struck here.

Seattle Public Utilities met with residents at the Boys and Girls Club on Tuesday, August 2, to discuss the Ballard Water System Rehabilitation Project, which will repair the area's deteriorating water pipes. In attendance were 28 community members with questions ranging from service stoppages to noise and dust problems related to the work.

Hydroscope work last year in Ballard, in which cameras were run down pipes to see their condition, revealed the hundred-year-old pipes had deteriorated significantly.