January 2020

information from the West Seattle Chamber of Commerce

The West Seattle Chamber of Commerce has announced that nominations for the coveted West Seattle Chamber’s Annual Westside Awards are now open. Nominations will be accepted until February 28th at 5 p.m. The awards ceremony will take place on Tuesday, April 28th.  

The West Seattle Chamber invites the West Seattle community and the greater Seattle community to take advantage of this opportunity to vote for your favorite businesses and local community heroes. The awards are open to all community members and leaders as well as Chamber members, and the Awards Breakfast will be held at The Hall at Fauntleroy, beginning at 7:30 am. The program will include the announcement and presentation of award winners in four categories; Emerging Business of the Year, Not-for-Profit of the Year, Westsider of the Year, and Business of the Year.

UPDATE: Due to icy roads, most Tuesday residential customers in Central and NE Seattle will also experience delayed collections in addition to customers in NW and SW Seattle. Most customers in Queen Anne, Magnolia, Maple Leaf and Wedgewood areas are impacted, with approximately 20% of customers in those areas served. If your garbage, recycling and food/yard waste is not picked up today, please leave it set out for tomorrow. Contractors will attempt pickup tomorrow, Wednesday, January 15, if conditions allow. 

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Icy roads are impacting residential garbage, recycling, and food/yard waste collection today in specific areas. SPU contractors will run partial residential solid waste routes today, servicing residential areas where street conditions provide safe access. Most business and multifamily routes are running on normal schedule today.

When Metro’s service area is affected by snow or ice, it may be necessary to cancel individual bus trips due to vehicle or staffing shortages, or road conditions in specific areas.  

Metro expects some trip cancelations during the peak hour commute periods on snow days.

Transit service may also operate with delays, due to weather and road conditions. Canceled trips On regular service days Metro staff can send Transit Alerts about some individual trip cancelations, but it is not possible to send those alerts during a snow event.  

If you would like to obtain some well considered financial advice, contact Sarah Cecil 206-938-6017.

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To the editor:

I am representing my mother, Marjorie Laughlin and her new book of poetry, "I Loosed My Father's Boots".  We would like to know if you would be interested in a poetry submission, entitled, "West Seattle". If you like it and think your readers will enjoy it, you have Marjorie's permission to include it in the WS Herald.

Marjorie has lived and raised her 5 children in West Seattle since 1972. She started writing poetry at age 73 and is currently age 75. It is truly amazing to hone a new craft later in life and she would like to share it with people. Her poems have been well-received.

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Dear Mr. Robinson,

I wanted to write to you about two things.

1) I have been a Ballard resident for 7 years and have seen many changes to this paper. It has saddened me to see it go from individual papers to one combined with six other neighborhoods. I realize that is reality, though. With such limited space to cover so many areas, I believe that there is not space to re-print old articles written by your father (such as in the recent Jan. 10th article). I realize that these are trips down memory lane for you, but I think that given the space constraints that there are more pressing articles to print - ones that older Seattleites and newer ones, like me, would fine enlightening.

By Jean Godden

Recent news was grim. Seattle's Upgarden -- a P-Patch located high atop the Mercer Street Garage -- looked doomed. Upgardeners had received notice they were being shoved out, making way for 80 additional parking spaces at the Seattle Center's parking garage.

The eviction notices had been specific. The community gardens were "to be gone by October, 2020." The space would be needed once hockey fans started flocking to NHL games in the reconstructed arena.

It seemed like the end for Seattle's Upgarden -- the first ever municipal rooftop garden. The garden had been built atop the old structure, occupying half of the garage's top floor. It opened in 2012, sharing billing with the 50th anniversary celebration of Century 21, the city's 1962 World's Fair.