The thriving Sunday Ballard Farmers Market goes all year round, with a surprising variety of local foods, such as fresh wild fish, orchard fruits, fresh picked seasonal greens and vegetables that are still available throughout the year, complimented by the cheeses, mushrooms and foraged edible delicacies, gourmet shellfish, honeys, breads and more.
The Ballard NW Senior Center offers several programs and activities for active seniors.
Facilitates one-to-one mentoring relationship between an adult volunteer and a child at risk.
A group that teaches how to increase confidence in public speaking.
Originating in the summer of 2004 as the Arts Ballard Festival Choir, we performed at the Shev Shoon Arts Center for the September Ballard Art Walk event, "art'fisk 2004." We so enjoyed singing for the community that we decided to continue and began rehearsing and performing under our new name, The Market Street Singers, in October 2004. We made our debut in November at Homeward Bound, a fundraiser for the Interfaith Hospitality Network, which helps homeless people to learn to provide for themselves.
The Ballard High School softball team has its best offensive showing in three weeks, but still couldn't get the win against Skyline April 29.
The Beavers had four runs in the fourth to take a 4-1 lead against Skyline after not scoring more than one run in any of the past seven games.
Bernie Cardon went two-for-four and Elisa Vatn went two-for-four with three RBIs and a double.
Pitcher Sophie Overlock-Pauley threw nine strikeouts in six innings, but gave up six runs in the bottom of the sixth, allowing Skyline to steal a 7-4 win.
It was the eighth loss in a row for Ballard (1-11 overall, 1-10 conference).
Ballard takes on Bothell at 4 p.m., May 1 at Lower Woodland.
The Southwest Design Review Board, and six others in the city, review projects at public meetings, at least twice per development, Early Design Guidance and a Recommendation phase, for mixd-use projects of a certain size.
Administered by the Department of Planning and Development, the board reviews private development projects in the city and make recommendations to the city regarding massing, scale and character of the projects.
Here are some upcoming major projects under review in West Seattle:
7125 Fauntleroy Ave. S.W.
Project: 3008453
On Thursday, May 14, the design review board will hold its third early design guidance meeting for a proposal to expand an existing apartment, assisted living and nursing home facility. The project will include the demolition of 10 multifamily structures and construction of four new multifamily structures for a total of 194 apartment, 110 assisted living and 35 skilled nursing units.
The proposal will require contract rezones on a portion of the site. Parking for 176 vehicles will be below grade.
After their two year fight against the mistreatment of dogs in Washington’s puppy mills, Theresa Edwards and Audrey Long, seventh-graders at Whitman Middle School, attended the signing of Senate Bill 5651 by Gov. Chris Gregoire in Olympia this morning, April 30.
Senate Bill 5651, was sponsored by Sen. Jeanne Kohl-Welles and seeks to eliminate “puppy mills” by prohibiting a person from owning, possessing, controlling, or otherwise having charge or custody of more than 25 dogs with intact sexual organs over the age of four months at a time, as reported by WashingtonVotes.org.
Long and Edwards had testified for the bill earlier in February and had been waiting for the House and Senate decisions ever since.
Today, their work and fight for the safety of dogs was commended with the bill signing ceremony.
To prevent another snowstorm mishap, which left many in the neighborhood dealing with icy streets, snow filled driveways and clogged storm drains this past winter, Seattle City Council President Richard Conlin, council member Jan Drago, and Mayor Greg Nickels have hired an independent consultant to manage a plan to improve the city's response to snow emergencies.
The decision for a more detailed and thorough work plan is the result of the completion of a city council staff report summarizing additional actions the transportation department can take to implement a more systematic plan for managing the city’s response to severe snow and other emergencies.
Dear Editor,
We (the immediate neighbors of the abandoned Cavalry Lutheran Church) were informed on Saturday that Pastor Steve Grumm of Our Redeemer's Lutheran Church has decided to allow the homeless shelter without any of the neighborhood requests considered.
He will be opening the issue up to a vote by members of his congregation (the majority of which do not live near the site) on Thursday May 7. Parishioners at Our Redeemer's were informed of this reversal of position yesterday (and those I spoke with were shocked). As this vote is on a Thursday evening, it is almost guaranteed that anyone who shows up to vote will be supporters of Pastor Grumm.
This change of position by Pastor Grumm occurred after more than one month of “good faith” negotiations, which we (the neighbors) believed would allow an arrangement that would satisfy all parties.
This also occurred immediately after several of the neighbors of this vacant church volunteered their time this past Saturday and helped clean up the grounds of this building.
