April 2006

Primed pump - Safeway gets green light for six pump Crown Hill gas station

A 30-day gap in the extension of a pedestrian ordinance that prohibits development of auto-oriented businesses could allow the Safeway supermarket chain to move ahead with plans to build a discount gas station at their Crown Hill location.

Late last month the Seattle City Council narrowly approved a six-month extension to an emergency pedestrian ordinance in Crown Hill, which was scheduled to expire on April 1. Councilman Richard Conlin sponsored the original emergency legislation last year under assumptions that the monorail would be built.

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eToxin - Toss old electronic gear responsibly - in Fremont

Arsenic, mercury, lead, beryllium; it's a cocktail that gets poured into the earth for every computer or monitor that sits in a landfill and erodes.

"It's pretty nasty stuff," says Charles Brennick, the founder of InterConnection, who, with partners Earth Corps and the Environmental Coalition of South Seattle, are sponsoring an electronics recycling drive on Saturday, April 29.

The drive, held at InterConnection at 124 N 35th Street in Fremont, will accept electronics in the form of computers, monitors and TVs, from individuals and small businesses.

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Beaver softball still in the hunt

The Ballard Beavers played host to a talented Woodinville Cougar team last Friday at Lower Woodland and the guests brought their big bats to the party.

The Cougars shut out Ballard 5 to 0. Ballard heads into the stretch run of the season with a 4-6-league record and 8-6 overall.

Woodinville pitcher Lindsay Broughton worked seven innings and struck out nine Beavers to lead her team to the win.

"If we stayed healthy, we would be a lot better.

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Watering, Euphorbias and mulch

Editor's note: This is the first of Stephen Lamphear's garden columns. Stephen writes for a number of the Ballard News Tribune's sister publications. He lives in Burien now but was smart enough to live in Crown Hill for about 15 years. His gardens have been featured in a number of publications including Better Homes and Gardens, and he's the founder of the Highline Botanical Garden Foundation, which develops community owned gardens.

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Urban touch-up artist

Jack Seifert's going to hit about a dozen places today. He's got a few buckets of paint, spray cans, and an assortment of brushes in the back of the Subaru. He's going to make his mark on Crown Hill. He's even got an accomplice; Sharon Giampietro.

You might say they're going to graffiti graffiti. Seifert has being carrying on a one-man mission of erasing graffiti marks from the walls of Crown Hill. Though Giampietro is with him for the Earth Day clean up, usually he's alone.

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100 years young

Anna Mayberry, a resident at Ballard Manor celebrated a milestone on April 16 as she turned 100 years old.

"I just feel like any other time. I don't feel any different. I don't know why I'm still here. I will enjoy myself while I'm still here," she said.

"I remember all those people coming to see me. I enjoyed it and appreciated it. That was wonderful," said Mayberry.

She was born in Kenniston, Sasketchewan in 1906. Her parents were from Slovakia.

The family moved to Chinook, Montana when Mayberry turned three.

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