The results of the subprime mortgage crisis has resulted in an increase in homelessness nationwide. If we make the effort to make this work, Ballard would indeed be taking care of its own, continuing a long tradition of the care and concern reflected in our church soup kitchens and food bank. If anyone wants to do the research, a model program of car camps has been very successful in Santa Barbara, Calif.
Rita Weinstein
Seattle
The importance of voting in the next general election is critical to the future of our country and our world. I am sending this to everyone on my e-mail list, both men and women, dems and r's and encouraging you to get out and vote! I am personally voting for Obama/Biden and there is no other choice for me.
If McCain and Palin win I will move to Canada. I already pay taxes in a country where I can't pursue my happiness and get married and I would like to get married and have it mean something in every state in the union.
Following months of negotiation, the Seattle School Board will soon decide whether or not to accept a purchase and sale agreement that will allow the Phinney Neighborhood Association to buy the former John B. Allen Elementary School for $3,050,000. The agreement (was) to be introduced at the Sept. 17 School Board meeting. A final vote is expected on Oct. 1.
Allen Elementary was one of several Seattle schools closed in June of 1981 due to declining enrollment in the district.
Nola Ahola shares a studio with two other artists in the basement of the historic Curtiss Building on Leary Way. She has worked in a series of old Ballard buildings since the 1970s, many of which have since been gentrified.
"I saw one of the old buildings I use to work in has been all tarted up," she said. "I think it's an architectural office or something now."
The gentrification of the once-industrial Ballard is creating changes for the art community here, and causing many artists, including Ahola, to worry about its future.
Last week, Mike Ericson made the considerable trip from Des Moines to Ballard, but he didn't come here for lutefisk, or local music or even a new condo. No, what drew him to Ballard was the need to purchase a foam-rubber skeleton and some pickle Band-Aids.
But Ballard store Archie McPhee, purveyor of Ericson's foam skeleton and pickle Band-Aids and uncountable other often overlooked but thoroughly necessary products, will be packing up its more than 10,000 items and leaving the neighborhood behind by mid-2009.
Archie McPhee's landowner Bob Jacobsen Jr.
After nearly two and a half years, Ballard has its gateway back.
Last week (on Sept.
Still wondering how you can get around the city without relying on a car, how it's possible to grow fruits and veggies in a city backyard or how you can tell what is and isn't recyclable?
Learn, interact and find these answers at the fifth annual Sustainable Ballard Festival this weekend (Sept.
Modern town homes have become a common complaint from many neighbors who argue that their design disrupts the character of Seattle neighborhoods.
In response, Mayor Greg Nickels is proposing to update the city's Multifamily Zoning Land Use Codes for the first time since 1982 and is scheduled to deliver his revisions to the Seattle City Council early next year.
City Council member Sally Clark, chair of the Planning, Land Use and Neighborhoods Committee, is unsure of what to expect from Nickels' legislation.
A cozy crowd of nearly 40 climbed aboard the 94-foot Sea Star for an Alzheimer's benefit cruise at Fishermen's Terminal last week for what became a moonlit five-hour tour.
Even with her celebrity status, the famous vessel from the Deadliest Catch TV show was held up by an unknown barge at the Ballard Locks for nearly an hour.
The Sea Star finally glided through the locks and passed the flickering lights of smaller craft at Shilshole Bay Marina under the watchful eye of Ballard's Captain Larry Hendricks, Captains Greg and Ragnhild Moncrief, and an equally famous crew from
In the late-1940s, three small Ballard High sororities - the Patricians, the Vals and the Niads - joined together to better plan social gatherings. Sixty years later, the members are still at it.
This summer saw the celebration of the class of 1948's 60th consecutive annual luncheon. Throughout the years, ex-Beavers have traveled from as far away as Chicago, Hawaii and Australia to meet with old friends and continue the tradition.
"It's a chance to see how everyone's changed," said Joanne Bell, one of the luncheons organizers and a 1948 Ballard graduate.
