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Two suicides in 2 weeks at Seattle Housing Authority's Harvard Court low-income apartments
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Harvard Court has 80 apartments and, like most Seattle low-income housing, a long waiting list. (Photo: Seattle Housing Authority)
The average resident of the Harvard Court Apartments lives on about $13,000 a year -- and is not considering suicide. In a discussion with Capitol Hill Seattle blog following two suicides in two weeks at the low income housing tower at 610 Harvard Ave East, Virginia Felton , director of strategic planning and communications for Seattle Housing Authority , said her agency doesn't believe Harvard Court's residents should be treated differently than residents in any...
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School buses invade downtown Seattle, tying up some streets. Here's why, according to a state Department of Transportation press release...
SEATTLE – Today and tomorrow, March 10 and 11, students are attending the Seattle Symphony’s Arts in Education Concerts at Benaroya Hall from 10:30 a.m. to 12:15 p.m.....
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What's one thing you wish Seattle library could provide or change?
The city is flipping a few pages ahead and looking at the future of libraries in Seattle. Below is information about how to give your input to the process. With a junior member on staff now, we've been visiting the library a little more often for traditional needs -- kids books. But more frequently, Capitol Hill's library is one of our field offices when CHS is out pounding pavement around north Broadway. We see one part of the future for the city's libraries related to this 'community office' use. Private efforts like Capitol Hill Seattle blog sponsor Office Nomads will be part of the equation, too -- but more and more, spaces where anybody can find a quite place to learn, work...
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A small group that says it represents about 600 Capitol Hill homeowners has become the loudest Hill voice in the debate over the future of the 520 bridge. The North Capitol Hill Association has rallied around outcry over plans to lift and widen the sagging SR 520 bridge.
“The SR 520 project is our Achilles' heel,” NCHA...
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SEATTLE – Today and tomorrow, March 10 and 11, students are attending the Seattle Symphony’s Arts in Education Concerts at Benaroya Hall from 10:30 a.m. to 12:15 p.m.. Approximately 32 school buses will be parking on surrounding streets while unloading and loading the 2,500 students expected at each concert. Seattle Police will assist with traffic; however, motorists can expect congestion in the area from the morning until the 2:00 p.m. each day.
Felton said that SHA did have staff from Aging and Disability Services available to help and talk with any residents that needed support.
Felton confirmed that the two recent deaths were both Harvard Court residents....
Corey Louviere, a Fine Arts teacher and Janet Woodward, a Librarian, both at Garfield High School, have won a $10,000 grant from Qwest to curate an exhibit on the history of the Central Area in Seattle. Here is a summary of their winning grant proposal:
An ambitious photo exhibit project will engage Louviere and Woodward’s classes in an exploration of the history and culture of Seattle’s Central Area. Garfield High School, built in 1922, is one of manyhistorical landmarks whose providence depicts a long, community narrative they plan to research. Students will document the multi‐cultural topography of the area, where six bus lines converge, and therich diversity of its neighborhoods, commercial and community centers speak to the unique character ofthe area’s people and urban lifestyle.
In a series of field trips, students will photograph specific scenes, take notes and interview residents. Each student will select his or her best image for the exhibit and prepare statements that interpret...
A small group that says it represents about 600 Capitol Hill homeowners has become the loudest Hill voice in the debate over the future of the 520 bridge. The North Capitol Hill Association has rallied around outcry over plans to lift and widen the sagging SR 520 bridge.
“The SR 520 project is our Achilles' heel,” NCHA president Pegeen Shean told CHS.
Shean's group worries that the state's preferred 'A+' design plan for the bridge will damage the community for their neighbors in Montlake and damage the environment in the Arboretum and on Lake Washington.
NCHA has hosted community events on the bridge issue that Shean said over 150 residents have attended. The group hosts these meetings with the Sustainable 520 Coalition. Prior to the 520 debate, turnout has been closer to 20, Shean said.
Shean said there are over 600 members in NCHA, referring to the 600 or so homes within the NCHA neighborhood boundaries but she did not say how many of those residents are voting members of the group. To...
Marjorie Nelson's daughters announced today that the Life Celebration for their mother will be at 6:30 p.m., Monday, March 22, at the Leo K. Theatre at Seattle Rep, 155 Mercer St., at Seattle Center.
Nelson, a longtime Eastlake resident and well-known actress, died at her Franklin Avenue home on Feb. 12. (more)
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Actress/activist/Eastlake resident Marjorie Nelson Steinbreuck dies
The city is flipping a few pages ahead and looking at the future of libraries in Seattle. Below is information about how to give your input to the process. With a junior member on staff now, we've been visiting the library a little more often for traditional needs -- kids books. But more frequently, Capitol Hill's library is one of our field offices when CHS is out pounding pavement around north Broadway. We see one part of the future for the city's libraries related to this 'community office' use. Private efforts like Capitol Hill Seattle blog sponsor Office Nomads will be part of the equation, too -- but more and more, spaces where anybody can find a quite place to learn, work and earn are becoming vital.
City Librarian Susan Hildreth invites you to join a citywide conversation on Library services
What's one thing you wish the Library could provide, or change?
What's the role of the Library in our community?
What should we be doing in five to 10 years?
How should the Library be using...
Attention transit riders: no-fee ORCA cards are only available for two more days.
Obtain an ORCA card without fee through February 28th, after which the card will cost $5.00 on top of any fare money you load onto it.
Photo: Center for Whale Research
ORCA cards are accepted on KIng County Metro Transit, Sound Transit, ferries, and other regional transit systems. (The complete list is here.) Cash still works on these systems, too.Order your no-fee ORCA card online at the ORCA card site, or use a ticket vending machine located at Link light rail stops (the closest is at Westlake) and at the King Street Sounder Commuter station.
Also important to note: as of January 1, the ORCA card replaced paper transfers between transit systems (Metro bus to Sound bus, for example) and within the Sound transit bus system. To avoid paying a second fare for the same trip when moving between systems or within Sound transit, you will need an ORCA card. For the time...
As part of our news partnership with the Seattle Times and 20 other local news sites, Capitol Hill Seattle blog has been asked to collaborate on a cross-site project to document what our community thinks about graffiti. But we don't want to.
The idea was to ask CHS readers the following questions:
- Do you think graffiti is a problem in your area?
- Where are the problem spots?
- What do you and your neighbors do to help clean it up?
- Should the city be doing more to help out?
Here's what they're talking about at sites near the Hill -- in the Central District and in Eastlake. [And here's where you can comment in Fremont and in Beacon Hill.]
On Capitol Hill, we've had this conversation before. When it comes to graffiti, the Hill is in a league of its own. So my message to the Seattle Times and our partners is we have a love/hate relationship with graffiti on the Hill. Some of you have well-honed arguments against it. Some of you have equal arguments in support....
Last night a diverse crowd of about thirty neighbors of New Hope Baptist Church gathered in the church sanctuary to express their opinions and learn more about the plans to house recently released felons in a vacant house in the 100 block of 22nd Avenue.
Reverend Robert Jeffry reiterated his goal to build a program that can accept felons after their release from prison and help them adjust back into society, hopefully reducing the risk that they'll get in trouble again. We also learned that the program is driven by a specific problem: there are men in prison who have served their time but stay behind bars because they don't have anyone to take them in once they are released. (more)
A longtime Eastlake resident and well-known Seattle actress and theater director, Marjorie Nelson Steinbrueck, has died.
In a blog post, her daughters, Judith and Rachel, said:
Marjorie was an amazing, courageous, inspiring human being who brought her creativity and humanity to everything she did including her work in theater, the arts and activism.
Mrs. Steinbrueck, a Seattle native, was the widow of Victor Steinbrueck, a prominent Seattle architect credited with saving the Pike Place Market when it was threatened with demolition. Her step-son is former city councilor Peter Steinbrueck.
Theatergoers knew her as Marjorie Nelson. She was one of the founding company members at the Seattle Repertory Theatre in 1963. She acted in all kinds of theater, from Chekhov and Beckett to plays for children, and performed at many theaters around town. She was also active as a theater director.
She received the Greg Falls Sustained Achievement Award from Theatre Puget Sound in 1998. ...
Three Seattle Chefs will be competing on the upcoming 2nd season of Top Chef Masters (premiers April 7 at 11 pm): Jerry Traunfeld of Poppy, Thierry Rautureau of Rover's and Maria Hines of Tilth. You may remember that we had reports of Thierry being spotted in an L.A. Whole Foods back in November 2009 - and it turns out the speculation was spot on.
Most of you have heard of Top Chef, Bravo's hit cooking Survivor-styled competition. Last season, we even had our own hyperlocal chef, Robin Leventhal of Crave, who nearly made it to the end against the toughest field in Top Chef history. Top Chef Masters is the less famous older brother of Top Chef, pitting experienced, renowned chefs against each other for charity. In the last inaugural season, Rick Bayless won $100,000 for his Frontera Farmer Foundation.
According to Nancy Leson, Traunfeld's charity of choice is the International Gay & Lesbian Human Rights Commission, Rautureau opted for Food Lifeline, and Hines chose...
This week's open houses for the streetcar project include the first detailed analysis of cost, ridership, and other impacts for the various routes that are under consideration. The updated set of information from the Seattle Department of Transportation also does not bode well for 12th Avenue due to bicycle safety and accessibility concerns. There are two more open house sessions on Thursday -- more on those below.
Here's how the alignments are shaping up with the new analysis:
- Two-way Broadway - Scores the highest overall, with the lowest construction cost, nearly the highest ridership, and fewest impacts to traffic and cyclists
- Broadway/12th Couplet - Scores in the middle of the pack, with slightly less ridership, slightly higher construction costs, and a big penalty for interfering with an existing cycling route.
- Boylston/Seneca & Boren/Seneca - The westernmost routes score lowest overall, with much higher construction costs, higher operating costs, and longer travel times. The one area...
Neighborhood news tipper Michael passes along this picture of graffiti he found this morning on the brick walls of the Volunteer Park Amphitheater. As occasional defenders of the urban artform, we can't conjure any defense for this other than the subject matter is rather compelling. The work makes an interesting companion piece to this memorable 10th Ave installation . The tags have been reported to the city.
more at CHS Capitol Hill Seattle capitolhillseattle.com
City Books, like many other small businesses, is in dire straits right now. Over the last 2 ½ years, our sales have dropped more than 35% while, of course, our underlying costs have risen. This store has never been a money-making machine, nor was that ever our priority. I like being on the sales floor; I like knowing my customers and recommending just the right title for them. Kirby thrives on selecting perfect cards and dynamite gift items for the store and then using her considerable talents to arrange those items in appealing displays. We like being able to run this business and still maintain a level of balance in our lives. We enjoy hearing about your children, cats or dogs or simply what’s going on in your lives.
Some of you have expressed your concerns, and they are appreciated. Others have commented on the declining number of books on the shelves and want to know if we are going to stay in business. Our standard answer...
Seattle Parks and Recreation invites the community to spend the evening of Thursday, December 17 with Superintendent Tim Gallagher at the Queen Anne Community Center, 1901 1st Ave. W.
The purpose of the meeting, scheduled from 6:30 to 8 p.m., is to give the community an opportunity to talk with Gallagher and other Parks staff about how the agency is meeting the needs of the community.
Read more here from the Seattle Parks and Recreation website.
From the Central District News neighborhood blog:
In a press conference today, SPD Assistant Chief Pugel read a hand-written letter from Officer Brenton's family, thanking the community for the outpouring of support they've received in the last 72 hours.
The family of Officer Tim Brenton would like to thank the community for the tremendous outpouring of support. Even with the tragic loss, Tim’s wife and children are finding solace in the support from the police community, their friends and family, and the community as a whole. We know that Tim would be honored and humbled by the limitless support that has been provided at the difficult time. We sincerely thank you for the generous emotional support, thoughts, and prayers.
See the video where Chief Pugel reads from the note.
From the Central District News blog:
The outside juvenile hall could have been the spark that started a new round of violence between South Seattle and Central District gangs. After all, it was a south-end kid who was allegedly shot by a Central District gang member. But it ended up being a chance to apply the new ideas and resources of the city's Youth Violence Prevention Initiative.
