The Rocksport will host a concert to raise funds for Joe Honan and his family. Honan has been diagnosed with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), a usually fatal disease, often referred to as Lou Gehrig's Disease. There is no known cure.
The event:
Sat, Jan. 10
7 p.m.- 2 a.m. (21 and over)
The ROCKSPORT
4209 S.W. Alaska St.
A public open house is scheduled Jan. 15 on planned changes to Seacrest Dock and year-round water taxi service for West Seattle.
The year-round service, linking downtown and West Seattle, is slated to begin winter 2010 and will continue to operate from Seacrest until a permanent site has been selected.
The project is being overseen by the King County Ferry District, King County Marine Division and Seattle Parks and Recreation department
The event will be held at the Alki Community Center, 5817 S.W. Stevens St., Jan.
Directed by Eric Darnell and Tom McGrath
Rated PG
(Two and a half stars)
"Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa" opens with the back-story of Alex the lion (voiced by Ben Stiller). Baby Alex wanders away from his father Zuba (Bernie Mac), and is captured by hunters. Zuba sets out in a desperate chase but he can't rescue his son. It's a touching bit of storytelling and the last piece of well-crafted narrative we're going to see in this film.
City departments sited improvements to their responses of the recent December snowstorm but also said they could have done better.
At a joint meeting of the environment, emergency management and transportation committees, representatives from Seattle City Light, department of transportation and Seattle Public Utilities told council members what they did right and fielded questions about how they could have improved their services and communicated more effectively with other city and county departments.
Seattle City Light Superintendent Jorge Carrasco said the department
Snow and bad weather may have hurt the Majestic Bay Theater more than the economy this holiday season.
General manager Brent Siewert says the "media hype" over the snow made people fear going out and "the length of time that it was difficult [for people] to get around" contributed to a deflated holiday season.
"We had days where it wasn't in our best interest to be open," said Siewert.
Siewert also blames Hollywood for a less than stellar holiday movie season. The movie theater industry is largely affected by what movies are out.
Beginning today (Tuesday, Jan. 6) a Seattle Department of Transportation crew will begin two weeks of repair work on the Burke Gilman Trail in the 6900 block of Seaview Avenue Northwest.
During the work, bicyclists will be diverted into the adjacent northbound curb lane of Seaview Avenue and pedestrians will be sent across the street to the western sidewalk.
While the right northbound curb lane is temporarily in use by the bicyclists, the lane will be closed to motor vehicles. Signage will clarify the brief detour; the work hours will be from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m.
On Jan. 6, 2009 the Seattle City Council held the second of four meetings to address how various agencies conducted their efforts during the storm along with some time for public comment, and come up with an action plan.
While some are calling this storm a once in a lifetime event, I want to share my observations and make some suggestions in the event that, due to changing weather patterns across the planet, snow does become a regular feature of Seattle's winters.
As far as parts of Seattle go, I think that Ballard was relatively lucky in that most of it is flat, unlike say Capitol Hill or Queen Anne. There aren't, however, too many ways into and out of Ballard that don't require going uphill. Luckily for us, 15th Avenue Northwest was designated a "snow arterial" and was one of the few streets in the city that got "plowed." When I consider a street to be "plowed," that means that the entire street has had the snow removed with a snowplow and the road salted or sanded.
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As we look back on 2008 I would like to thank Robinson Newspapers for their contribution to the welfare of our community for yet another year.
You can count on one hand the local companies that own media in our area. Robinson Newspapers is one of them, thank God!
Recent years have seen out-of-town, out-of-country purchases of local news outlets.
Just a shout out to the city of Burien for repairing some, though not all, of the crumbling sections of Ambaum Blvd. north of downtown.
Unfortunately, many of the patches failed in the prolonged December freeze.
Still, a "thank you" is owed.
Now, it would be great if the utility providers -- surface water, natural gas, sewer, water -- would get out and fix the many sunken utility covers in the roadway.
Stephen Lamphear
Burien
