August 2016

WestSide Baby is presenting their Cocktail Benefit Fall Masquerade on Friday, September 23rd from 7pm - 10pm at Emerald City Trapeze (2702 6th Ave S).

Individual tickets are $45 / Packages of 10 - $400

Buy tickets here

Featuring:

• Music and Entertainment
• Delicious Signature Cocktails from Three Local Establishments
• Fresh Hors d'oeuvres
• A Petite (but lively!) Auction
• An Opportunity To Give

Recommended dress is Seattle chic, masks encouraged.

You can also donate through Amazon Side by Side here.

WestSide Baby is the only social service agency in West King county area that collects, inspects and distributes free diapers, clothing, cribs and safety gear for babies and children. More than 120 local social service agencies, including shelters and food banks, rely upon us to provide critical necessities for low-income families.

It’s the stories. For the final stage of Ballard Historical Society’s Mapping Historic Ballard project volunteers have researched and provided background material on just 150 properties out of hundreds with historic value. I volunteered as one of 15 researchers to do a single one. Flash forward three months (two since targeted completion) and it’s down to Sue Cromarty, mapper and researcher extraordinaire, and me. We are hooked on piecing together lives.

I’ve always loved crossword puzzles and acrostics. Trying to fit together the clues assembled by the volunteers who scanned and uploaded all the property cards and photographs is rewarded by what they reveal: the lives, loves and losses of those who lived in the apartment above the corner grocery, the Mench house, the pharmacy that was replaced by the telephone exchange building. I was hooked on my first property, the Grankull’s home on NW 70th.

By Lindsay Peyton

Fe Lopez, executive director of the Community Police Association, warned attendees at the 34th District Democrats’ regular meeting on Wednesday, Aug. 10.

“We can’t change things if you’re not willing to be uncomfortable,” she said. “And if you’re not uncomfortable today, we’re not doing our job.”

Lopez kicked off a panel discussion on police and racism. Guest speakers also included King Country Sheriff John Urquhart, retired judge Anne Levinson, who serves as auditor of the Office of Professional Accountability, Sili Savusa, executive director of the White Center Community Development Association and activist Bobby Alexander.

Chris Porter served as moderator. He shared his own experiences facing racism in the city.

Lopez said the topic is nothing new. What is different, however, is the ability of the public to capture incidents involving police and racial profiling with their cell phones, she explained.

“That changes what people see going on and how people are feeling in an easy, fast way,” she said. “That’s the shift we’re seeing.”

information from City of Seattle

The Ghosts of Seattle’s Past project and Councilmember Lisa Herbold (District 1, West Seattle & South Park) will host an evening forum tomorrow, providing artists and residents an opportunity to highlight the Seattle small businesses they want to see preserved in the face of booming development. Participants will share anecdotes of their experiences and speak to why certain neighborhood icons are essential to Seattle’s community fabric.

The forum is hosted in anticipation of report-back recommendations from Mayor Murray’s Commercial Affordability Advisory Committee, scheduled for the end of next month. The group is expected to recommend what policies or funding support may be necessary to preserve and protect Seattle’s iconic small businesses.

The Delridge P-Patch Garden at Delridge Way SW & Puget Blvd. is open every Thursday from 4pm to 7pm They are located just north of the garden in the church parking lot, and should stay in that location for the rest of the summer.

Come to the farm stand Thursday, bring a friend who buys produce and they will give YOU 25% OFF YOUR TOTAL PURCHASE! If your friend signs up to become a new member owner like yourself, you will BOTH receive a FREE DGC BAG and 25% off.

Bring your DGC bag to the farm stand each week and receive 10% every week they are open.

Follow them on Facebook to see what yummy Fruits and Veggies we will have each week

Volunteers Needed

Help out at the farmstand and take home free produce! Sign up here.

DON'T FORGET TO PRINT OUT YOUR COUPON TO RECEIVE YOUR DOLLAR OFF!

The FarmStand been approved as an EBT retailer! We don't have our equipment yet so won't be able to accept EBT this week, but stay tuned - we will soon!

By Gwen Davis

The city council meeting Tuesday evening was packed with material.

Diversity resolution

Councilmember Peter Kwon briefed the council on his proposal from two weeks ago.

"This came about about because of a citizen's request," he said. "This is very simple, very concise, very easy to understand and is something the city should have."

Campbell again asked if this resolution would cover ages, disabilities and non-ethnic related issues.

"This does not exclude anybody," Kwon said.

Fernald said that she'd vote for it, but expressed again that the council represented everyone. But there needs to be more, she said. There should be deliberate, intentional action from the council.

Citycouncil Tony Anderson: "Words don't mean actions but words are a start. This should be a summer school assignment," he said. "We should take this home and figure something out."

Fernald said she wanted to hold a joint session with the community building committee.

The mayor said such committees were "defunct" but Fernald said she disagreed. The committee they were talking about never had a clear role in the beginning.

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A bilingual multidisciplinary telling of the Spanish play, Blood Wedding/Bodas de Sangre, by Federico García Lorca.with live music and dance will be performed in Ballard Commons, Othello, Roxhill and Duwamish Waterway parks. Free in the next couple of weeks. All shows are at 6pm.

Directed by Tina Polzin with Christen Gee, Jordan Taylor, Michael Blum, Angela Maestas, Meg Savlov, Carolynne Wilcox, Marissa Castillo, Maddy Noonan, Alex Huffman, Miranda Sieg and the creative team of Jonathan Shue, Amy Johnson, Danielle Perkus, Brandon Estrella and Melinda Hare. Produced by Ana Maria Campoy, Matt Sherrill and Tina Polzin.

Roxhill Park
2850 Roxbury Street, Seattle WA 98136
Saturday 8/13
Sund 8/14

Duwamish Waterway Park
7900 10th Ave. South, Seattle WA 98108
Saturday 8/27

TPS interview http://tpsonline.org/newsletter/2016/05/18/diversity-highlight-intervie…

information from SDOT
Contractors working for the Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) began construction on lower SW Spokane St between East Marginal Way and SW Klickitat St (excluding the deck of the Swing Bridge). The project is expected to take about three months to complete.

In addition to repaving the road, the project includes:
• A new pedestrian crossing on the west side of the intersection of SW Spokane St & 11th Ave SW
• New and upgraded curb bulbs and curb ramps
• Replacing two active railroad crossings
• Removal of an abandoned railroad crossing
• Construction of a raised sidewalk on the north side of the 900 block of SW Spokane St, creating a speed bump to slow people driving as they cross the paths of people walking or biking on the West Seattle Bridge Trail
• Repair sections of sidewalk and trail where tree roots have badly cracked the surface

Construction over the next two weeks will largely be confined to the sidewalks and edges of the road:

Seattle’s homeless may be wondering where their encampments are going since City of Seattle started hiring a private company to remove them, and some of those removals have happened in Ballard.

Last May the Stranger ran a story about the City of Seattle privatizing the ”clean-up’” and removal of unauthorized homeless encampments.

According to Katherine Bush Jolly, Director of External Relations with the Seattle Human Services Department, there were 13 clean-ups in Seattle from last February to May, amounting to $80,869.05 in service payments to private contractors. The crews disposed of 19.6 of “material,” which sometimes included possessions medications, clothing and bedding. It also included drugs, alcohol and unsanitary materials.

“Department of Corrections (DOC) is the principal provider of clean-up services, private contractors are secondary and on-demand only. We engage private contractors when there is insufficient DOC capacity to meet the demand. Many of the cleanups involve removal of tons of hazardous debris, including needles and human waste,” Jolly wrote to the Ballard News-Tribune.