At Large in Ballard by Peggy Sturdivant
I spent the day before Thanksgiving almost everywhere except Ballard, finally coming home to roost by way of the Ballard Market. A series of errands inadvertently took me on tour of neighborhoods that comprise my Seattle past; no wonder I felt so wistful by the time I finally reached home.
My day started with breakfast on lower Queen Anne with an old friend.
Those Ballard Avenue saloons
By Kay F. Reinartz
In my last discussion of Ballard history I talked about the establishment of the first "library" in Ballard - the Women's Christian Temperance Union Reading Room opened on Ballard Avenue in the late 1890s.
The temperance union's primary goal in establishing the reading room was to provide mill workers with an alternative to the saloons on Ballard Avenue as a place go after work. The construction of new mills along Salmon Bay in the 1890s was paralleled by the opening of new saloons on nearby Ballard Avenue.
Patty Brasel, of Ballard, ducks to avoid the wild ride of a kite piloted by her 12 year-old son, Troy, on a windy Saturday in Golden Gardens.
Frisbee thrower's play is interrupted by checking out sailboats on sunny Saturday.
In many parts of the world, seniors are considered important and treated with great respect. But, somehow, in the United States, we seem to talk about caring of our older people, but our actions seem to belie our words.
In Seattle, particularly, our politically correct atmosphere decries racially profiling people, and there are loud compaints when it appears that a group is somehow considered suspect when it comes to race.
Not so, however, then it comes to age.
'What now?'
By Don C. Brunell
On Nov. 6, voters rejected Proposition 1, the $17.8 billion highway and transit measure to fund transportation projects in the Puget Sound region. In light of that defeat, the obvious question is, "What now?"
The cost of road and bridge construction in Washington is staggering.
Teaching failures shown in study
By Mathew Manweller
This summer I wrote about a nationwide survey conducted by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, in partnership with the University of Connecticut, of 14,000 college students from across the nation. The survey found that when college seniors were tested on four subjects - American history, government, foreign policy and economics - the average correct score was just over 50 percent.
Alden Mason is faced with a dilemma similar to many seniors in Ballard who live on a fixed income: Rent increases or condo conversions are forcing many out of their homes as affordable rental opportunities here fade away.
Mason, 88, has been a resident of the Lock Vista Apartments for the past four years.
Swedish Medical Center's Ballard campus has a new TeleStroke Program to provide a real time 24-hour, 7 day a week link between the emergency room and physicians and stroke specialists at the Swedish's Cherry Hill Campus where their nationally recognized stroke program is based.
"TeleStroke is another important tool in our arsenal against the third leading cause of death in the United States and the number one cause of adult disability," said Dr.
If you need a high quality Christmas tree, the Boy Scouts of Troop 100 would be happy to sell you one to raise money for their summer activities.
This is a tradition for Troop 100, going back to 1953 when scouts sold door to door in Ballard. Now they set up shop in the parking lot of St. Alphonsus Catholic Church and call the annual business, "Christmas Tree Central."
The sale began on Nov. 25 with eight species of trees in the three to nine foot range from $12 to $87. Each season, they can sell up to 1,600 trees from their lot.
