Dispatches from Ravenna, a neighborhood in Northeast Seattle
The folks at the Meadowbrook Community Center were kind enough to alert us to the new Seattle Parks and Recreation Winter Brochure, available now.
This quarter, the Northeast edition includes the Laurelhurst, Magnuson, Meadowbrook, Northgate, and Ravenna-Eckstein community centers, plus the Meadowbrook Teen Life Center, Lifelong Recreation (for the Northeast only), and two pools, Meadowbrook and Helene Madison.
Click the happy couple in the snow below to download the brochure (8.4 MB PDF).
Armed robbery on the University of Washington campus, some local kids all grown up and touring the country’s Occupy areas, and some local shopping tips and deals in the week ahead.
The U.S. Bank branch in the Roosevelt neighborhood (1023 NE 63rd St) was the target of Occupy movement-related vandalism in the early morning of Saturday, November 26.
Photo by Dominick DiGregorio/Roosevelt Neighborhood Blog. Used with permission.
Our friends over at Roosiehood have the story (and more pictures).
Should you need to access another U.S. Bank branch in our area, there are four others in Northeast Seattle. Click on the map for location information.
Via the Seattle Public Library twitter feed: A 99-year-old sewer line serving the University Branch (5009 Roosevelt Way) is broken, and the library is closed until further notice.
There is no damage to the library building itself, but there is no water or sewer service at this time. Repairs are underway, and holds will be extended due to the closure.
According to the University Branch’s website, a reopening date has not yet been determined.
UPDATE (Thursday, December 1): University Branch website now says, “The branch will reopen at 11 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 3. Holds ready for pickup at the University Branch now will expire Saturday, Dec. 10.”
Holds ready for pickup at the University Branch now will expire Saturday, Dec. 10.
UPDATE (Nov. 25, 3:33 PM): Via the SPL twitter feed: University Branch will not be open on Saturday. Bookdrop is open and holds have been extended to 12/3.
Two really fun parts of the latest North Link Light Rail construction open houses for the Roosevelt and Brooklyn Stations are now available for viewing online: Illustrations of the construction sites themselves.
Enjoy!
These animations, and the presentations they were a part of, can be found on Sound Transit’s North Link Documents Library page.
This afternoon, the 99% are coming north of the cut.
A rally and march are planned for the University of Washington area, starting at 3:30 this afternoon.
From Working Washington’s facebook page for the event:
On November 17, people from across the area will converge at the functionally obsolete Montlake Bridge to demand our political leaders build bridges to good jobs, not make more cuts. This is part of a national day of action for jobs that’s happening in dozens of cities across the country.
The schedule of events today appears to be:
3:30 PM – Gathering at the grassy area just west of the intersection of Montlake & Pacific
4:00 PM – Rally
4:30 PM – March
One possible route the march could take we’ve gleaned from the website The Stand, a project of the Washington State Labor Council, AFL-CIO (WSLC) and its affiliated unions. The Stand describes the march route as starting near the Montlake Bridge, but ending at the University Bridge to the west, due to “safety concerns cited by the Seattle Police Dept.”
A call to the front desk at the North Precinct reveals no final march route plans in place at the time of this writing; however, the officer on the phone said “they’re having a big summit on it right now.”
Capitol Hill Seattle echoes the march route move to the University Bridge, citing a Thursday Day of Action itinerary (at the bottom of the post).
UPDATE (12:14 PM): The Seattle Times’ Today File confirms the move to march to the University Bridge instead of to Montlake, citing the information on The Stand’s website that we mentioned earlier.
View November 17th rally and march in a larger map
UPDATE (12:21 PM): The Seattle Department of Transportation has sent out the following traffic advisory (via email):
SEATTLE An Occupy Seattle rally and march today has the potential for creating major delays on all arterials leading to and from Ship Canal bridges during the afternoon commute.
The rally is scheduled to take place between 3:00 and 4:00 p.m. on the University of Washington campus and then is expected to march west on NE Pacific Street to the University Bridge at roughly 4:30 p.m. The demonstrators plan to block the bridge during the afternoon rush hour so their presence will likely cause traffic delays throughout the afternoon commute until after 6:30 or 7 p.m. Demonstrators may also block the Montlake Bridge during that timeframe.
Seattle Police Officers will be on hand to minimize traffic congestion but the blockage of any one bridge could impact other nearby Ship Canal bridges. Commuters should allow additional time for detouring to another route. Motorists who must get to the University or Children’s hospitals should plan for extra time to reach their destination.
The protests could be very disruptive to transit service this afternoon. For information or questions about transit service, please call Metro Transit customer service at 206-553-3000, and sign up to receive Transit Alerts at www.kingcounty.gov/metro/alerts.
UPDATE (2:44 PM): The Seattle Department of Transportation has a network of traffic webcams across the city, and there just happens to be one at Montlake Blvd NE @ NE Pacific St (first picture revealed after you click the camera indicated by the picture below).
This rally and march is part of a larger “Mass Day of Action” planned for today, with events happening all around the country.
UPDATE (Tuesday, December 6): SUV driver has been charged with two counts of vehicular homicide, one count of vehicular assault and one count of reckless endangerment. (Seattle Times)
UPDATE (Thursday, November 17): The Seattle Times’ Today File reports that the SUV driver has left the hospital, for jail.
UPDATE (Tuesday, 2:09 PM): The Seattle Times reports that the man driving the SUV in Sunday’s crash was charged in 2009 with vehicular homicide.
UPDATE (Monday, 6:32 PM): The Seattle Times’ Today File has information about the victims of the crash.
UPDATE (Sunday, 7:38 PM): More info on the Seattle Police Department Blotter here, including news that the injuries to the people taken to Harborview were non-life-threatening. Also, the accident detour will last until approximately 9 PM.
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Just after 4 PM on Sunday, November 13, Jonah Spangenthal-Lee (via SeaCrime on twitter) mentioned a “[b]ad accident with possible fatalities on 110th and Lake City Way.”
View Fatality accident at 110th and Lake City Way in a larger map
Since then, as details have come in, the story has turned even more tragic.
KING 5 News is reporting that two people have died at the scene, and three others have been taken to Harborview Medical Center.
Police say one car was stopped when another vehicle, an SUV, hit the car from behind.
The car caught fire as it was pushed down the street. Two people in the car were dead at the scene.
The male driver of the SUV was transported to Harborview Medical Center with life threatening injuries
Two girls in the back seat of SUV were also transported to Harborview with serious injuries.
The Seattle Times reports that the injured girls were a 10-year-old and an 20-year-old woman 11-year-old girl.
Updates will be available here at KING5.com and on The Blotter on seattletimes.com.
CleanScapes, one of the city of Seattle’s waste collection providers, has announced its 2011 Neighborhood Waste Reduction Competition winner. And it’s US!
Our collection area, Tuesday North (which also includes parts of Roosevelt, Bryant and Wedgwood) has won $50,000 towards a community improvement project to be built in 2012.
From the press release:
Between September 1, 2010 and August 31, 2011 the residents of these neighborhoods decreased their waste by 400 tons, a 4.7% improvement over the same period the previous year. The runner up was CleanScapes Tuesday South collection area (Queen Anne and Magnolia) with a reduction of 325 tons.
Every year CleanScapes challenges neighborhoods in the municipalities it serves to reduce their waste footprint in this annual competition. Working together, Seattle neighborhoods in CleanScapes service area lost a total of 1,226 tons in 2011: an impressive waste reduction accomplishment and a huge step toward the City of Seattle’s 2020 Carbon Neutrality and Zero Waste goals.
Congratulations, everyone! We made less waste, together.
Now, how do we spend our spoils?
Starting today [October 28, 2011] through January 31, 2012, all Seattle residents are invited to submit a project proposal for the $50,000 reward. To be eligible for consideration, projects have to meet four basic criteria: the project is a capital improvement, located in the winning neighborhood collection area, easily accessible by the public and the total cost of the project does not exceed $50,000.
That’s right: Anyone in Seattle may submit a proposal for a project to be built within the Tuesday North neighborhoods. But the proposals will be reviewed and a winner chosen by a volunteer committee representing community councils in the Tuesday North collection area.
Project proposal criteria and a proposal form can be downloaded here. Proposals are due by January 31, 2012.
Last year’s inaugural winner of the CleanScapes Neighborhood Waste Reduction Competition in Seattle was a Thursday collection area that included portions of Montlake, Madison Park, Madison Valley, Capitol Hill, First Hill and Yesler Terrace. The winning proposal built a new playground in Washington Park.
We’ve been doing “drive-by tweets” of Heidelberg Haus progress (2122 NE 65th St) for a few weeks now, but today we have something even better…
…the MENU.
Heidelberg Haus menu (click to make FULL SIZE)
WE were SO excited to see the offerings that we forgot to ask about an opening date. Please forgive us. We’ll try and rectify that error tomorrow.
There is a website for the new restaurant listed on the menu (Seattle-Eats-German.com), but it’s not alive as of yet.
We apologize for the lag in posting lately. We’ve been adding to our staff in order to serve you, the Ravenna community, better.
This is Oskar Nelson, the newest addition to the Ravenna Blog staff. He was “hired” on Sunday, October 9.
Here he is with the publisher and the junior editor, at his first company meeting.
Everyone is doing well, although the junior editor is rather besotted with him and needs to be told to get back into his bed and stop helping already because the night shift is not his beat to cover.
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