Wedgwood wants to hear from you.

March 3, 2010 by 1 Comment

Wedgwood: We Don't Need Your Vowels

While we are firmly embedded in Ravenna, our Wedgwood friends to the east apparently want our two cents on their neighborhood (got a postcard about it in the mail just today).

The Wedgwood Vision Project (a committee of the Wedgwood Community Council, funded in part by a Neighborhood Matching Fund award) is “conducting a community survey about issues such as growth and development, transportation, parks, and community activities in Wedgwood.”

The online version of the survey is here. Paper surveys (which you don’t need, since you appear to be using the internet right now) are available at the HomeStreet Bank at 35th and 82nd, or at the Northeast SPL Branch.

The WVP also has a blog up at wedgwoodvision.blogspot.com.

AS IF ALL THAT WASN’T ENOUGH, there is a Wedgwood Vision Project community meeting on Saturday, April 10, from 9:30-noon:thirty at the Wedgwood Presbyterian Church. There will be bagels, followed by a review of the survey results.

Filed Under: Events, Meeting, Seattle Parks and Recreation

No Shh-ing Arm action here.

March 1, 2010 by Leave a Comment

Post up over at the Laurelhurst Blog about the Seattle Public Library’s “city-wide conversations” being held in the next couple weeks.

This conversation at the Northgate Branch is you North-enders shot at having your say in a North-end branch.

Citywide Conversation, Northgate Branch

Tuesday, March 2, 2010, 6 – 8 p.m.

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Living here can be the pits.

August 31, 2009 by Leave a Comment
Photograph courtesy Seattle Municipal Archives.

Photograph courtesy Seattle Municipal Archives.

Vintage Seattle has a post up today concerning a sinkhole that swallowed up a portion of Ravenna Boulevard back in 1957.  She’s a doozy.

Thanks to Ann for the link.

Filed Under: Events, History

PUSA for kids, in a park near you

August 26, 2009 by Leave a Comment

Chris Ballew, who you may know as the lead singer of the Presidents of the United States of America, is coming to Burke Gilman Park this Saturday, August 29th at 3pm.  Ballew’s got a little side project of kids’ music that he’ll be performing (as Caspar Babypants) to benefit the Seattle Ronald McDonald House.

Suggested donations are $5 per person or $10 per family.  Food will be provided by Metropolitan Market.

Filed Under: Events, Seattle Parks and Recreation

The REAL Ravenna Blog — If Only

August 25, 2009 by 2 Comments

It’s hard to pin down what exactly is going on over at Oh My God Seattle, but it’s all quite good.  And that’s all that really matters.

For instance, there’s this take on hyperlocal blogging, set in our very own downtown commercial district (ha).  His Bagel Oasis entry is spot on.  Steven Blum does his homework.

Filed Under: metablog

Crab Farts 101 is in session TONIGHT

August 19, 2009 by Leave a Comment

If you have never seen or heard of the phenomenon called Deadliest Catch on the Discovery Channel, you can just stop reading this right now.

Phil Harris, captain of the F/V Cornelia Marie (and the poster boy for how to look sexy in a mullet), will be at the University Village QFC TODAY from 4-7pm.

If you miss him then, you have plenty of opportunities to try again.

Filed Under: Events

Northeast Branch Re-Imagining

August 19, 2009 by 1 Comment

Have any holds at the Northeast Branch of the Seattle Public Library?  If so, you have until Sunday, August 22 to pick them up.

As of Monday, August 23, the branch will be closed…until early October. No no, not just closed Labor Day week like the rest of ’em (for fiscal and BBQ reasons), but for MUCH. LONGER.

But FEAR NOT!  The closure is for a good cause (or three):

  • The hold areas are being consolidated and expanded, and moved into the current Teen area.
  • The Teen area is being moved to the northern end of the branch. [Insert joke about teens here.]
  • Two more self-checkout stations are being added.

I first noticed the monstrous piles of materials on hold after last winter’s snows.  I just figured that the books were getting to the library, but patrons weren’t.  Turns out that this branch of a mere 15,000 square feet process more holds than nearly every other branch in the system.  The aforementioned switcheroo refurbishing will make room for all of that.

Yes, I’m sure that the library folks are aware that the branch underwent a doubling of size only five years ago, and now, here were are, already needing to close things down and rework it again. But I imagine that many of us were hitting the bookstores more back then, in the heady economy of the mid-2000s.  *sigh*

Your holds will be transferred to the Lake City Branch during the closure, unless you choose otherwise.  I’m going to switch to the Green Lake Branch and go for more walks.  Or just visit Chocolati a lot, to try and cope with the change. We’ll see.

Filed Under: Construction, Northeast Branch, Northeast Seattle, Open/Closed

Eat Yer Lawn

March 3, 2009 by Leave a Comment

My Ravenna Nation doppelganger, theNortheaster, just put up a story on said blog about the self-guided food garden tour that the Sustainable NE Seattle Urban Farmers are doing this Saturday.

Check it out.

Filed Under: Events, Food

Ravenna: Now with twice the blogging (at least)

February 24, 2009 by 1 Comment

Spotty posting on this blog have you wondering what’s happening in the Ravenna Hood? No worries! Head on over to ravennanation.com and read more about our fair neighborhood over there, too.

Ravenna Nation is a new part of the Neighborlogs family of neighborhood blogs (theSouthLake.com, InterbayDistrict.com, and CaptiolHillSeattle.com are some of the older siblings).  Looks like they’ve only been posting since February 9th or so, but their latest story about Ukranian website pirates is a good ‘un.

Welcome to the neighborhood, RN. Now get out there and get to work! It’s raining, and I’d rather like to stay inside today.

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Talk About Ravenna

February 13, 2009 by Leave a Comment

We’re sure you’ve seen the sepia-toned covers of the Images of America books in your local bookstore.  Perhaps you’ve even thumbed through Early Ballard or Frederick & Nelson or Puyallup: A Pioneer Paradise and thought, these are nice little historical picture books, but they’ll never have one on my neighborhood.

We’re happy to report that you are mistaken.

Ravenna: The Book!

Admittedly, Seattle’s Ravenna Neighborhood has been out since 2007, but author Ann Wendell is giving a talk about it on February 24th from 6:30 to 7:30 pm at the Northeast Branch.

Wendell has posted an interview about the book up on her website in case you can’t make it, or you just like to be prepared for such author talks.

Wendell also wrote the Frederick & Nelson book, for those of you keeping score.  Should anyone want to purchase either title, I would suggest you do so directly from the author’s website (Paypal).  Support your local historians, or they’ll be history!

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