Eating with the meek one, the food snob and the meat and potato girl
By Annette Herrick
Once a month I will be dining out with three of my West Seattle personal training clients. We're on a mission to eat out without blowing it. We're going to go to all kinds of restaurants from low-end diners, quintessential West Seattle regulars, places you go to grub down, and decadent festive places.
The goal is not to be perfect, pious, or anorexic.
Seaview Avenue residents are still unhappy about transit service and King County Metro still is defending the lack of service because there is not enough money, despite the surge in ridership.
Metro officials and County Council member Larry Phillips also admitted that a plan to split service on route No. 17 "did not pan out."
Several area residents were concerned and upset about Seaview Avenue's lack of bus service during non-peak hours, preventing those without transportation from traveling.
Metro only provides three No.
Sand stabilization may sound like an oxymoron, but that is exactly what the Seattle Department of Transportation promises with its federally funded repair plan for the portion of Golden Gardens Drive that collapsed during a rainstorm last December.
The city received $3 million to $4 million from the Federal Highway Administration's Emergency Relief Program to restore the damaged 56-foot hole.
Five city transportation department representatives unveiled its "final" plan to an uneasy audience of about 90 at a March 24 public meeting at Golden Gardens Park Bathhous
On the night of April 13 the last pin will fall, the last tab will be pulled, and the last beer will be poured and the sun will go down at the Sunset Bowl.
After a half century of service, the building will not be spared and the property will be sold.
Still, there are some muted waves of optimism washing gently on the local community as it tries to save bowling here.
Some want a new bowling alley in the same site.
Despite the Seattle School Board voting last week to increase rental prices for buildings unused as schools any longer, the group leasing the Old Crown Hill Elementary School say they are not worried about the matter.
"By the time the lease prices go up, we expect to be the owners of the school," said Catherine Weatbrook, a member of the board of Small Faces, the primary lessor of the building at Holman Road Northwest and 14th Avenue Northwest for the past 25 years.
Last week, the School Board approved a new version of the "Procedure for Sales and Rentals of Closed School
Revolutionary and unusual ideas were featured at last week's Sustainable Ballard meeting, which was billed as a "Green Round-Up."
Jon Ramer, director of Interra, the group which introduced the Puget Sound Community Change card, talked about his new program at the March 24 gathering.
The card is used at select environmentally responsible stores and consumers receive rebates with a portion of the store's sale being donated to non-profit groups or schools.
So far 4,000 cards have been issued and $20,000 has gone back to the community.
"It's a labor
Painter Roland Pantze lives close to nature in Sweden and his exhibit at the Nordic Heritage Museum gives viewers an intimate look at the lifestyles of the Sami people.
In his exhibit, "Roland Pantze Painter of Sami Life," the artist has used his canvas to document life in the Norrbotten mountain region of Sweden where the Sami, an indigenous people live.
A Ballard day care worker in has been charged with first degree child molestation by county prosecutors.
Curtis Allen Rapp, was arraigned on March 25 and pleaded not guilty. He is in jail on a $200,000 bond and a hearing is scheduled for April 3.
In Rapp's charging papers, Rapp is alleged to have had inappropriate contact with a 9-year-old girl at a child center. The crime was alleged to have taken place between June 1 and Sept. 7, last year.
From Ballard to Bellingham to Burundi, an eclectic group of nearly 20 professionals and students, including a massage therapist, a self-ascribed "computer geek," a veterinarian assistant and alternative-rock drummer, and even a retiree from the car wash industry, met in Susan Partnow's Ballard living room recently.
Gov. Chris Gregoire has signed a bill which requires campus safety plans for Washington's colleges and universities.
The measure sponsored by Sen. Jeanne Kohl-Welles passed both the House and Senate unanimously.
"This bill was written in the wake of the tragedy at Virginia Tech last year, and on the day we passed the bill in the Senate, another horrible shooting occurred at Northern Illinois University," said Kohl-Welles.
