Piper’s Orchard 6th annual Festival of Fruit in Carkeek Park this Saturday

The Friends of Piper’s Orchard in Carkeek Park invite the public to attend its 6th Annual Festival of Fruit.  The event runs from 10 AM to 2 PM.  Carkeek park is at 950 NW Carkeek Park Road, Seattle, WA 98177.  Below is their announcement.

We’re excited to be having another Festival of Fruit, celebrating one of our best years for apples and pears in Piper’s Orchard. We have a great program lined up, with Tim Smith, a highly respected apple expert from Wenatchee, and Kathy Mendelson, an expert on both Seattle history and orchards, to share their knowledge with us. The festival starts at 10AM. You can check out the agenda here. Looks like we’ll have some great weather again this year.

We encourage you to bring an apple pie for the apple pie contest. Entries should be brought to the Carkeek Park Environmental Learning Center by 10AM. It’s not mandatory, but to make the entry submissions as efficient as possible, please email jenndunlap@gmail.com if you’re planning on entering a pie. Grand prize will be a $50 gift card from Swansons. If you’re interested in baking a pie (for the contest or just to donate to Tillie’s Café for sale) with apples from the orchard, feel free to come down Thursday 9/13 between 6 and 8PM to pick a few.

In addition to presenters and the pie contest, we’ll be having:

  • Cider pressing
  • Live music
  • Kids crafts
  • Tilllie’s Café, where we’ll be selling pie and cider
  • Information booths

Around 1, we’ll head down to the orchard, with experts on a number of topics there to share their knowledge. And beginning around 3PM, in the Rootbound: Heaven and Earth exhibit Orchard Room, there’ll be poetry and conversation.

 

CKS Student Council helps fire victims

The Christ the King Student Council began the year with a very important service project.  There have been so many victims from the Cle Elum fires this summer and the CKS students wanted to help.  Led by the Student Council, CKS held a bake goods and crafts sale raising over $200 for the Red Cross to support the victims of the Cle Elum fires.  Hudson Patterson, CKS Student Council Service Chair quotes, “Since Cle Elum had a fire, we felt we should raise money to help them.  It felt good to help people in need.”

Christ the King Catholic School is a small neighborhood school located in the heart of Broadview.  It offers challenging core academics, superior visual & performing arts, and class sizes that promote differentiated learning.  For more information about enrollment opportunities, contact cksdev@ckseattle.org or call (206) 859-5109.

www.ckseattle.org

 

 

The RapidRide E Line is Coming to Aurora in 2013

King County Metro Transit will launch the RapidRide E Line on Aurora Avenue N in the fall of 2013.  What is Rapid Ride?  According to Metro’s website:

RapidRide buses come so often, you don’t need a timetable. Just show up to your closest RapidRide stop and a bus will arrive shortly to take you on your way. You don’t need to rely on a schedule or worry about catching a particular trip.

  • Service at least every 10 minutes during the busiest morning and evening travel hours.
  • 15 minute service during off-peak periods.
  • Scheduled service for late night/early mornings.
  • Full service seven days a week!

Metro has more information at http://metro.kingcounty.gov/travel-options/bus/rapidride/

The RapidRide E Line replaces Route 358. The E Line will operate between Shoreline’s Aurora Village Transit Center and downtown Seattle. Between the Aurora Village Transit Center and downtown Seattle, the preferred E Line alignment will primarily follow the path of current Route 358. The one exception is southbound between Winona Avenue N and N 63rd Street, where the E Line will stay on Aurora Avenue N instead of serving Linden Avenue N as Route 358 currently does.

There will be nearly 30 stations and stops along the E Line, spaced an average of 2,100 feet apart (not including stops in downtown Seattle). Stops are spaced closer together along parts of the route where land use suggests higher passenger turnover, and farther apart along parts with few transit attractions.

General public outreach for this service change will begin in fall 2012 and continue through spring 2013.

 

Candidates Night at Haller Lake Club Sept. 6 at 7 PM

The Haller Lake Community Club is sponsoring a forum for candidates to public office.  It will be at the Club building, 12579 Densmore Ave. N, on Thursday September 6, 7 PM.

The following candidates for state office will be there.

Ron Bemis (republican) running for US representative  district 7 (against McDermott)

Trudi Inslee, speaking for Jay Inslee, democrat for WA   Governor

James Watkins (republican) running for WA State Auditor

John Adams (republican) running for WA Insurance Commissioner  (he mentioned that he was on old friend of Dick Marquardt)

State Senator David Frockt, district 46 (democrat, running  for re-election  unopposed) http://www.frockt.org/

Gerry Pollet
, running for State Rep, district 46, pos. 1     (democrat)

Jessyn Farrell, running for State Rep, district 46, pos. 2     (democrat)

After a short business meeting the candidates  will be making presentations, followed by a   question and answer session. Please attend, and   help make this a lively evening!

The League of Women Voters will have a Voter   Registration table. To register, you must be –
•A citizen of the United States;
•A legal resident of Washington State;
•At least 18 years old by Election Day;
•Not under the authority of the Department of Corrections.

Information about the Haller Lake Community Club is at http://hallerlake.info/

Metro Transit is Looking for Community Input on Service Changes

King County Metro Transit is organizing a sounding board of community members to advise it on service changes.  Below is its announcement.

Are you a bus rider that regularly rides routes in Shoreline or North Seattle?

King County Metro Transit is forming a community sounding board to give us advice about changes to bus service in these areas. We’re looking for a diverse group of members to help us develop service change recommendations for fall 2013. The sounding board will meet 9 to 12 times, from September 2012 to March 2013. Sounding board meetings mostly will be scheduled on Thursday evenings unless a scheduling conflict occurs.

Interested in applying? Fill out our online application by Monday, Sept. 3.

Why change bus service? Starting fall 2013, the Aurora Avenue N corridor will be served by RapidRide E Line between Aurora Village Transit Center to downtown Seattle. The E Line will provide a backbone of new, frequent transit service that other routes in the area can connect to and complement. Working with the sounding board, we’ll be considering changes to improve:

  • connections to the E Line
  • bus service in the neighborhoods surrounding Aurora Avenue N
  • connections between transit activity centers such as Fremont, Wallingford, Greenwood, Greenlake, Northgate and Shoreline

If you’d like us to mail you a printed application, or have questions about the sounding board, please contact: Ashley DeForest, Community Relations Planner at ashley.deforest@kingcounty.gov or via phone at 206-684-1154.

 

Free Trees Available from Seattle’s Trees for Neighborhoods Program

The Seattle ReLeaf program is again offering free trees for yards and streets.

The Trees for Neighborhoods program helps Seattle residents plant trees around their homes. Participants in the program receive:

  • Free trees (up to 4 per household)
  • Watering bags
  • Training on proper planting and care
  • Coupon for free GroCo compost
  • Ongoing care reminders and workshop opportunities

Full information is available at this site.

Aplications for street trees are due Sept. 1.  Applications of yard trees are due Oct. 21. Tree supply is limited and  applications will be accepted on a first come first served basis, so apply  early!

The talk around Broadview this summer…..

The Broadview Community Council Board recently met. The discussion was around subjects/ topics for future meetings, particularly how to get more residents involved in their community and how to get needed projects done in our community.  This has been a big question for a long time.

 Sadly, Dale Johnson, a long time board member is stepping down in January.  He will not be doing our news letter after the first of the year. Yikes!  We are talking about our neighborhood newsletter.   This is a big deal as not everyone reads this blog. Dale also followed-up with a list of tasks that he will be passing on. We will need an army of 10 to get this stuff done.   I might also add that currently nobody on the Broadview Community Council Board wants to take on the newsletter; none of us have the time.  We are already busy doing other council related tasks.  Help!

We just recently added a link to the front page of the blog on the left side to make it easier to join Broadview Community Council.  When you join and give us your e-mail address we can email out important notices related to Broadview. You’ll need to sign up. Hopefully this will be a tool in place of the news letter.  The good news is Dale will continue to help with the blog.  He will still be a part of our community in several different ways.  Thank you Dale for all the work you have done to make our community a better place.

If you have any news or events related to Broadview please let us know. You can email us at: sgeorge@broadviewseattle.org

Traffic on the roads around Northgate Shopping Mall….it’s a little crazy.

If you haven’t been over there lately expect long delays.

SDOT Traffic Advisory

 For Immediate Release : August 15, 2012

 Contact:  Marybeth Turner (206) 684-8548

Update: Construction at NE Northgate Way and Fifth Ave NE

SEATTLE –Construction on the Seattle Department of Transportation’s NE Northgate Way and Fifth Avenue NE Intersection and Pedestrian Improvements Project advances to the southeast corner of the intersection on Thursday, August 16. During this second phase of work, crews will build a second left-hand turn lane for westbound traffic on NE Northgate Way turning onto southbound Fifth Avenue NE and extend the right-hand turn lane for northbound traffic on Fifth Avenue turning eastbound onto NE Northgate Way. This work and construction wrapping up on the southwest corner requires one lane of vehicle travel as follows through mid to late September:

  • Eastbound NE Northgate Way from Third to Eighth avenues
  • Westbound NE Northgate Way from Third to Eighth avenues
  • Northbound Fifth Avenue NE from just south of Key Bank through the intersection
  • Southbound Fifth Avenue NE from NE Northgate Way to just south of Key Bank

As a reminder, eastbound NE Northgate Way will remain one lane until project completion, scheduled before Thanksgiving. 

Today crews are preparing for phase two, salvaging plants along NE Northgate Way, east of Fifth Avenue NE, to make room for road and sidewalk improvements. On Thursday, crews will remove trees on NE Northgate Way.  For each tree removed for this project, the City will plant two in the immediate neighborhood. 

Normal work hours will be 7 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, with possible weekend work 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. During construction, pedestrians, cyclists and drivers are advised to use caution and expect frequent delays and increased congestion.

For more information visit www.seattle.gov/transportation/northgateintersection.htm or call the construction hotline at 206-462-6348. Calls to the Hotline will receive a response within one business day. PLEASE NOTE: Puget Sound Energy recently completed work near the NE Northgate Way and Fifth Avenue NE intersection. Contact customercare@pse.com or 1-888-225-5773 for details.

Bond Bucks : Arena? Versus Seattle Police Precinct and North Seattle Truck Corridors


Dear President of the Seattle City Council Sally Clark,


Seahawks and Mariners and Sonics, Oh ,My!

North Seattle Precinct, Oh, Yes!

Greenwood Avenue North and Aurora Avenue North Transportation Corridors, Oh, Yes!

Please use the Bonding Authority of the City of Seattle for compelling  citizen safety reasons.A proud citizen of the City of Seattle is being reduced in stature to the standing of the professional athletic teams housed in seldom used large buildings. Worse. The citizen stature is theatened to be further diminished if one of the these three professional, for private gain, teams is not present.
 
Years ago, Mayor Speer of Denver, said : You cannot call a city a city if you cannot walk the breadth and width of it in a safe, enjoyable manner. 
Now in the City of Seattle, our Mayor does not mention the inability of walking all parts of Seattle in a safe, enjoyable manner…no, the “walk, bike, ride,” slogan has become “Build it and they will come”. Attendees to events in Sports Arenas do and will come, mostly from without the City and mostly in single occupant vehicles.
 
We have an unfinished City. It will not be completed without effort.

No Arenas will make it safer to walk the Streets and Avenues of the annexed, since the 1950’s, portions of Seattle.
Bond Bucks are needed for a new North Seattle Police Precinct complex . Bond Bucks are needed to complete “The Wasteland” called The Aurora Avenue North Corridor. Bond Bucks are needed to complete the ” Illegal Raceway” of Greenwood Avenue North Corridor.

Please vote no on the Arena. Please start the process to issue Bonds for Police and Transportation Safety in the North and Northwest areas of Seattle

Richard L. Dyksterhuis
Resident of the Bitter lake Hub Urban Village
“Really Way Out There

This represents the opinion of the author.

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