One of the pleasures of living in West Seattle is that even those who cannot grow a vegetable or flower garden can still have homegrown produce and fresh cut flowers by visiting the West Seattle Farmers Market.
Since 1999, the West Seattle Junction Association has hosted the weekly event, offered this year on Sundays, from last Sunday to Dec. 30, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the corner of Alaska and California.
England managed to abolish slavery 30 years before the United States and avoid a bloody civil war in the process. Still, the journey was a thorny political road spanning decades and consuming the lives of those involved. The result was a watershed moment in European history whose effects were felt as far away as Gettysburg.
But as entertainment it seems like chancy stuff, particularly for a Hollywood film, this mix of costume drama and political procedural.
Gary Coy is the son of Walt who owned and operated Coy's White Center Theatre, located on 16th S.W. next door to Olberg's Thrifty drug and later on Roxbury Street across from Gould and Ackley, attorneys. Walt also opened Coy's Highline Theatre on First Avenue South in a Quonset hut that once served as housing for American troops.
Until the family farm became agri-business, the extended family was an important unit of society. An old neighbor of ours told me about growing up on the farm in Minnesota where it was her duty to wait on her grandmother while older members of the family did the heavy chores of the farm. Her thought was, "I don't ever want to get old." But the sands of time did not respect her wish and she is no longer living. Her grandchildren are now in their peak years of employment far away from the farm chores of their ancestors.
When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years. -Mark Twain
I have always liked that Mark Twain quote. How many of us are absolutely, completely sure that our parents know nothing when we are teenagers? And how many of those parents are absolutely, completely aware that their children feel that way?
Charlie Chong's ironic imprint on the city of Seattle will continue to benefit residents for years to come.
His famous distrust of government ran from healthy skepticism to angry derision.
Yes, Jack, as editor of the Herald, you certainly have a right to express your own opinion, in contrast to the role of the reporter.
But, before downing the vote against the monorail, asking for a "West side transit study now," I don't understand why the wheel needs to be invented again. There is already information out there, much done by your good staff of reporters. Furthermore, it is not just West Seattle that is clogged up; it is the whole city and suburbs.
The 2000 Intermediate Capacity Transit Study already identified those corridors as needing better transit than buses. That study informed the Seattle Monorail Project, and they were largely sound in their alignment choice. Their failures were in limiting their technology choices (and therefore number of bidders) - they wrote in inflexibilities that doomed their project.
Sound Transit was able to adapt because they remained flexible. Build a flexible agency with the same overall goals as the Seattle Monorail Project.
For bus rapid transit to work in the Seattle metropolitan region, bus rapid transit must have their own no-cars, no-trucks lanes to travel in or it will fail big time like the now-dead bus rapid transit line of Honolulu, Hawaii.
Jonathan St. Thomas
Seattle
Charlie Chong died (April 26) and the City of Seattle is poorer for our loss. Charlie and I didn't agree on all political issues, but one always knew Charlie was honest and was always working for what he felt was right.
He brought new life to a City Council that was, and is again, mired in process and hidden agendas. He spoke out, and was often chided by other council members for his honesty and principles.
