May 2008

Post-Pho Vietnamese

The Monkey Bridge

1723 N.W. Market St.

297-6048

http://themonkeybridge.com

By Patricia Devine and Jim Anderson

Anyone know the history of this 62nd Street house?

By Kay F. Reinartz

In 1891s this modest, yet charming, "Victorian vernacular" house was built on a 5-acre plot that is now Ballard Corners Park.

The lot provided room for a large vegetable garden, a chicken coop and a place to keep the family milk cow for the couple who built it, and their growing family, to enjoy a sense of "country living" in the newly incorporated city of Ballard.

They undoubtedly had a small orchard of apple, cherry and plum trees.

The confirmed monorail lover in us makes us wonder at this latest idea to float out of the city wonderland, a 4.4 mile streetcar that would connect the Ballard Library with downtown, via Fremont.

The idea wafted into reporter Rebekah Schilperoort's view when a Seattle Public Utilities senior construction engineer, Shaunie Cochran, came before the Ballard Avenue Landmark District Board. Cochran made it clear, "We are really just coming to you with concepts."

Why the Ballard Avenue Landmark board?

It sounds like the smart move on Metro (re Route 46). The area does need this type of service. It is time Eyman loses. I enjoyed going to the park when I was a kid. It is time for this. Great!

Ken Kovacs

Wallingford

People need to watch government

By Tim Eyman

In your story, you blamed "tax-cutting Initiative 695 by Tim Eyman in 2000" for a lack of government services (Ballard News-Tribune, April 30).

I'm very proud to have been one of the co-sponsors of that 1999 initiative to lower vehicle car tabs fees to $30, which voters overwhelmingly approved, despite our side being outspent 20 to 1.

But it's important for newspapers to accurately report that it wasn't the voters who implemented I-695 - it was Olympia. I-695 was struck down by the courts.

Due to a reporting error in the April 30 issue, bus route numbers cited as those cut to provide the new daytime service on

Route 46 were incorrect.

Listed Route 275 is actually Route 17; Route 402 was actually Route 301; the route listed as 885 was actually Route 24, and route 707 in the story was actually Route 16.

Numbers of passengers cut and added with Route 46 were correct.

We regret the error.

Wegger Christian Strommen, Norway's ambassador to the United States, stopped by the Norse Home and Leif Erickson Hall last Friday before viewing a nearby fishing vessel.

Norway's honorary consul general in Seattle, Kim Nesselquist, and Norwegian counselor for press and culture, Jannicke Jaeger, of Washington, D.C, accompanied him. Nesselquist once was on the board of the Norse Home.

The 49-year-old ambassador seemed charmed by Norse Home resident Eli Glaamen, who turned 100-years-old March 3.

Broadview homeowners are angry about the raw sewage that overflowed into their basements in December and vented their frustrations to a city official last week.

During a heavy rainstorm on Dec.

Eat Local Now 2008, an event held at Ballard High School on April 29 was to help raise awareness about the need to support local farmers and their products.

"Now more than ever, with the global food crisis going on, it's important to have a secure local food system so we know we can feed ourselves," said Zachary Lyons, food writer and vice president of the Seattle Chefs Collaborative.

People gathered in the school's commons to sample pesto keta salmon cake, grass fed beef meatloaf stuffed with red wine braised shortribs and Mexican decadence chipotle flourless chocolate c

With boxes of bowling pins, shoes and racks of bowling balls marked for auction, a recent sale marked the end of Sunset Bowl, which first opened in Ballard in 1957.

Members of the public were free to roam around the building, poking their heads into the back of the ball loading areas, walking on the 26 hardwood lanes and exploring back offices and storage locker areas.

Many people stopped to inspect a Sunset Bowl rug that was marked as item number 300 for the auction.