This past week Seattle Department of Transportation announced a final decision on implementation of a lane configuration change on 24th Avenue Northwest, and has decided to continue the single travel lane-center turn lane-single travel lane design already in place north of Northwest 65th.
I congratulate you and the staff on the history issue of May 30, 2007. Top notch in every way. The writing and the photographs were so well done. A beautiful job and I enjoyed it reading very much.
Eddy Harrison
Ballard
Just a note to tell you I have appreciated your articles in the Ballard News-Tribune.
I would like train service from Ballard. The water taxis appeal to me too. I propose a water taxi station at the foot of 28th Northwest. There used to be a little tour boat from there called the "Zephyr." I don't think enough people knew about it.
Enjoying an old favorite
Ray's Boathouse Caf/
6049 Seaview Ave. N.W.
782.0094
Happy Hour
4 p.m. - 6 p.m. and 10 p.m. - Close
At Large in Ballard by Peggy Sturdivant
Long before my daughter started taking pottery classes at Lily and the People on 32nd Northwest, I saw twilight evidence of their annual Summer Solstice party. As a visiting friend said, "now that looks like a great party." I have another acquaintance with a degree in social work who uses their solstice parties as an example of community-building as he leads workshops worldwide.
The City of Seattle hopes the threat of heavy fines will pressure negligent landowners to follow the rules.
A new program, called "Clean up Your Act," will increase fines for landlords and property owners who refuse to repair run down homes, let weeds and bushes take over or turn yards into junkyards.
Fines for violating the city's land use, housing and weed codes will significantly increase under the changes.
A long-time fixture in Ballard, Jacobsen's Marine, is gearing up to leave the community for a new home at the Port of Edmonds as early as next year, said Terry McCartney, co-owner of the company on Northwest Market Street.
McCartney and partner Greg Jacobsen, son of company founder Bob Jacobsen who passed away in February, have signed a letter of intent with the Port of Edmonds Board of Commissioners for a long-term lease, but the move is not a done deal, said McCartney.
"We need to agree on the value of the property and if in fact we can, the plan is to be up and running
A technical review by the Federal Highway Administration of the Burke-Gilman Trail extension from Northwest 60th Street to Golden Gardens Park has delayed the project by about two months, according to the Seattle Department of Transportation.
Groundbreaking was scheduled for last Friday, June 1, but the start date has been postponed to the end of July, said Gregg Hirakawa, spokesperson for the department of transportation.
"There's no flaw in the project," said Hirakawa.
Environmental activist Beverly Duperly Boos appeared at the Ballard Public Library to present a downsized, but poignant, version of Al Gore's global warming "slide show" to a small audience.
The lecture, called "Climate Change: The Time is Now," was co-sponsored by the Climate Project, and Climate Solutions. Representatives from Sustainable Ballard, and Seattle's Climate Action Plan, were also on hand to add local perspective and "green tips" for solving global warming.
Gore's slide show, the backbone of his award-winning documentary, "An Inconvenient Truth," offers images of dried out lake beds, receding glaciers, and worst-case-scenerio graphs, which he calls "business as usual projections," designed to persuade us to lay off the carbon. Otherwise, he warns of a turbulent future to include more Katrina-force hurricanes.
Seattle Congressman Jim McDermott has introduced the Unemployment Insurance Modernization Act.
The proposed law would transform the Unemployment Insurance program to meet the growing needs of a workforce changed dramatically since the program's inception.
