June 2008

A new pizza restaurant in a quiet Sunset Hill neighborhood has been stirring up opposition recently with fears of amplified music.

Pizzeria Picolino, 6415 32nd Ave. N.W., now under construction in a row of storefronts, has applied for a liquor and music license. The city of Seattle grants music licenses and the state approves liquor licenses.

Edward McKenna, assistant Seattle city attorney, said the city is currently negotiating with Pizzeria Picolino on their music license.

Five people filed last week for two positions in the Washington Legislature representing the Ballard area.

Up for election is the seat being vacated by long-serving State Rep. Helen Sommers, a Democrat, and the House seat now held by State Rep. Mary Lou Dickerson. State Sen. Jeanne Kohl-Welles, a Democrat, is not up for election this year.

Under the new two-two system, candidates merely list their party preferences rather than the party allegiances, although it often amounts to the same thing.

Errors were noted in the "Five file for state legislative posts" story in the June 11 print edition.

Leslie Bloss is a female and not a male as the story says; a typographical error was in Rep. Mary Lou Dickersons e-mail address, it should be maryloudickerson@comcast.net; and John Burbank's e-mail was not listed, it is.

In a story about "Amplified music" in the same issue, the location of the proposed restaurant is on Sunset Hill, not as stated.

We regret the errors and omissions.

Due to the possible presence of salmonella in some tomatoes,

Seattle Waste Management and Cedar Grove Composting request that all residential and

business customers put suspect tomatoes and suspect raw tomato products such

as salsa in the garbage, not in curbside yard/food carts or in home

composting bins or worm bins.

"We ask that customers take this cautionary step and share this advisory with their neighbors and co-workers," said Rita

The Corner Inn is now closed, and many in the community feel they lost their most reliable friend.

Situated on the northwest corner of California Avenue and Fauntleroy Way, the Inn had a restaurant and bar, but its soul was the dance floor, crowded with young-spirited seniors Tuesday and Saturday nights.

Seattle City Light repair crews were responding to several scattered power outages throughout the utility's service territory June 9 after steady winds approached 35 mph.

By 8:30 p.m. about 12,000 customers were affected by the outages.

One of Steven Elmore's goals as Tang Soo Do master is to keep area families fighting together. He operates Evergreen Tang Soo Do Academy on California Avenue, just south of the Admiral Junction, and prides himself in teaching the 2000 year-old Korean-based self-defense art both to kids and their moms and dads in the same classes.

OK, they don't actually kick each other under the master's watchful eye, but they seem to enjoy the shared learning experience.

Princess-Nyosha McWilliams, an eighth grader at Pathfinder K-8 School, won the Mayor's Leadership Award and a $2,500 college scholarship.

The scholarship was the culmination of the Mayor's Scholars Awards, given this year to 19 students from Seattle schools.

Come celebrate the Brandon Trail Renovation, an east/west trail section of the Longfellow Creek Legacy Trail. This section of trail is now a usable trail connecting Camp Long and Longfellow Creek and the rest of Delridge. Delridge Neighborhoods Development Association and the Longfellow Creek Watershed Council and their volunteers played a key role in getting this trail completed.

Delridge Neighborhoods Development Association will be distributing a new West Seattle Trails/Neighborhoods on Foot map.

On the first Sunday of June I convinced my Golden Gardens walking partner to attempt eight real estate Open Houses with me, none of them close to home. No, these were part of what was billed as a Ballard Tour of Homes set up by local realtor Deborah Arends of RE/MAX. Each house was open for just one hour and the locations ranged from Phinney Ridge to Crown Hill.

For starters we should have left the block before the clock started on the first stop, not after. "Amazing 1912 Craftsman" read the postcard mailing that was our itinerary.