Viewlands Elementary School

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Posted: May 12, 2011

New windows

Have you heard the news?  Viewlands Elementary School is opening this fall for grades K-5!  If you have driven by the school, you know that the school has been an active construction site.  Viewlands is being completely renovated inside and out.  A design team for the school has been meeting and planning for the opening.  We are currently crafting a vision for the school that focuses on the environment and sustainability. The team is also reviewing applications and will be interviewing for staff next week.  There is a committee working with the district on landscape design.  The vision is to utilize the school grounds, Carkeek Park and other community sites to teach and reinforce concepts pertinent to the environment.  There will be before and after school care offered for families that are coming to Viewlands. 

 We will be hosting  “Meet and Greets” as the spring progresses and will offer a variety of activities designed for students, staff and families to get to know one another before the year begins.  In the meantime, feel free to  call me at (206)252-0397 or email me at llescobar@seattleschools.org.  I am looking forward to being a vital part of the Broadview neighborhood.

Lisa Escobar

Principal, Viewlands Elementary School

Laissez Les Bon Temps Roulez

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Posted: May 12, 2011

Laissez les bon temps roulez – that’s how to say “let the good times roll” New Orleans-style, and we are ready to roll at our annual auction – and biggest fundraiser – on Saturday, May 21. The event takes place at Bitter Lake Community Center from 5:30-11:00 PM.

 A wide range of auction items are yours to bid on including:

Tickets–theaters, museums and Disneyland!

Getaways–mountains and New Orleans!

Classroom projects–paintings, birdhouses, even a handmade electric guitar!

 Dinner features “N’ Orleans style soul food” catered by Where Ya At, the hippest, hottest food truck in Seattle. We’ll have hurricanes, a rum and fruit juice cocktail that became popular at Pat O’Briens bar in 1940’s New Orleans.  Beer provided by Big E Ales, wine and non-alcoholic beverages will also be available. Satisfy your sweet tooth with the dessert auction, where tables bid against each other to have first pick of a dazzling array of scrumptious desserts.  We’ll top the night off with karaoke party.

 Please RSVP by Sunday, May 15. Send in the RSVP card that came with invitation last week in kidmail, or order tickets online at www.broadviewthomsonpta.com.

Prices are:

• $25 Dinner and Auction (available only by RSVP by May 15) • $5 Auction Only (also available for walk-ins day of the auction) • $300 Reserved table for 10, includes 2 bottles of wine and seating at a larger table–contact Claudia at cole404@hotmail.com for a reserved table.

 Wear Mardi Gras-inspired clothes and get a free raffle ticket!

 Whether you have a little or a lot of money to spend, all are welcome at the auction. Please come spend a fun evening with other supporters of Broadview-Thomson!

Come to the Greater Seattle Fuchsia Society Plant Sale this Saturday

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Updated: May 10, 2011

Southgate-Patty Finigan

written by Marge Melenzyer

The Greater Seattle Fuchsia Society Plant Sale is this Saturday, May 14, from 9 am to 1 pm at 12735 1st Ave. N.W.,  Broadview.
Many varieties of fuchsia plants plus annuals, perennials, Martha Washington geraniums, and 1000 tomato plants that include 23 varieties, will be available. Experienced gardeners will be happy to answer your questions.

We maintain the fuchsia gardens at the Ballard Locks, and our annual judged show is held at the Ballard Locks every summer. This free event is open to the public July 30 and 31st, from 9 to 4 pm. We extend a warm welcome – to our plant sale, our annual judged show, and to our meetings. We meet on the 2nd Tuesday of each month at 7 pm in the basement meeting room at St. Paul’s UCC Church at NW 65th and 12th Ave. NW in Ballard (enter through the lower door on NW 65th). mm3902@gmail.com.

Poets All Around Us

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Posted: May 8, 2011

The 2011 Seattle Times Poetry contest received over 350 entries with a neighborhood theme. Seattle Times book editor Mary Ann Gwinn selected the Poem Broadview by Paul Franklin-Bihary as Editor’s Choice winner.

Seattle Times NW Arts & Life

Editor’s Choice winner

“Broadview”

I bought my parents’ house

(my grandparents’ before)

Lost between green woods

And bitter lakes.

I breathe in the western glow,

Hints of chlorophyll, rotting seaweed,

Notes of cedar, blackberry, fern,

Gasoline, copper.

Adopted offspring of Ballard and Shoreline,

This extra appendage of my soul.

This place.

All elsewheres are empty.

This secret segment of city still

Insists, stirs,

Mandates return.

This place.

As children, we would gallivant these four blocks,

Hop small fences between yards;

Shared territory.

In winter,

We pushed sleds on invisible tracks,

Raucous rollercoasters sliding

on white.

In summer,

Wheels replaced runners.

Gangs of K-mart-bought bikes

Traversed chipped stone loose in newly-laid tar;

Late night flashlight tag,

The big kids hiding in trees,

Olive-clad knees

Hidden limbs.

This place.

My daughter,

Sliding down the same stairs;

This western light,

This generational scent,

Will fill her,

And maybe she

Will come back

Again.

Poet: Paul Franklin-Bihary

Age: 37

Occupation: Teacher

Home neighborhood: Broadview

Seattle Times NW Arts & Life May 8, 2011

Reminder: Broadview Plant Sale This Saturday

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Posted: May 6, 2011

Don’t forget the annual Broadview Plant Sale this Saturday, May 7th, 10 – 3pm, in front of the Broadview-Thompson Elementary School at 132nd and Greenwood. It’s a fun event, and features a nice selection of flower and bedding plants, vegetable garden starts and herbs. It also has some wonderful plants for your home landscape- groundcovers, perennials, shrubs and sometimes trees- which are collected or divided from our members own gardens, varieties that can be hard to find elsewhere. The prices were GREAT and volunteers can help you select plants best for your garden!

Last year I came back smiling with a box full of goodies, including heirloom tomatoes, specialty peppers and lettuces and some unusual ‘collector’ perennials. Plan to come early for best selection, and tell your friends and neighbors! Prices for remaining plants are often reduced between the hours of 2 – 3.

Medical Marijuana Issues Will Be Addressed at May 17 Broadview Community Council Meeting

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Posted: May 5, 2011

Join your neighbors and meet, greet, and hear from the person in our City most qualified to talk with us about this subject:  City Attorney Peter Holmes.

At a recent meeting of the Seattle Neighborhood Coalition, Pete said that State law doesn’t clearly define the regulatory implications of the new legal medical marijuana outlets. He believes that the failure of clarity results in very definite public safety issues.

At our meeting, we’ll get an update on the current legal status of the burgeoning number of medical marijuana dispensaries here in our City and in our neighborhood and what the various government laws or regulations are or will be relating to the safety and security of all. We have had a serious incident in Broadview and your Board is very concerned about this important public safety issue! We hope you are as well and would like to get the facts.

The meeting is at Luther Memorial Church

13047 Greenwood Avenue N

 Tuesday, May 17

 Social Gathering 6:00 PM

 Meeting starts at 6:30 PM

“Dark Star” Ceanothus – a little blue treasure

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Updated: April 26, 2011

 

Dark Star picture from baynatives.com

Written by Michelle Miner, member of the Broadview Garden Club

I thought I had found the most perfect blue plant for my front yard.  I had it positioned next to a beautiful coral bark maple and in front of a gorgeous stand of bamboo.  The Dark Star performed like a race horse.  It grew like a superstar and gave me a glorious crown of blue flowers every spring.  The leaves are small and evergreen, so it looked great all year around.  I thought I had a winner.

After our freak snow just before Thanksgiving, I noticed that my Dark Star was looking a little more brown than green.  I thought it would pull out of it by spring.  Spring is here and the leaves are dry and brown.  No signs of any life are left on my little blue treasure of a ceanothus.  I read every article I could find, and it looks like this plant is better in a coastal climate, with a milder winter.  Some gardeners say that the Dark Star can tolerate temps down to 5 degrees.  I have checked out other yards with the similar ceanothus and it looks like they are not coming back this year.

I found a wonderful article by Ketzel Levine.  She felt like I did about the Dark Star but said a better bet might be the Puget Blue ceanothus.  She has a book, “Plant This” that has wonderful watercolors and humorous discussions about the plants she likes.  She is also on NPR.

http://www.npr.org/programs/talkingplants/

 I think I will try to find the Puget Blue, Julia Phelps, Concha ceanothus or even the Dark Star again.  I had 6 wonderful years of that crown of blue outside my front window.  I think it is worth another try.

Come and meet Jen Dixon, artist designee for adorning the fence on Linden Avenue North.

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Updated: April 25, 2011

Come and meet Jen Dixon, artist designee for adorning the fence on Linden Avenue North. We will discuss artwork for portions of the 600 foot fence. The SDOT fence will be on the east side of Linden Avenue North from Cambridge Apartments north to over 600 feet.
Jen wants dialogue with us  about the art project that she will design on some portion of that vast canvas.
We will meet at New Haven Apartments, 13000  Linden Avenue North. Northeast corner of Linden and 130th North.
Pat McCoy has graciously arranged for a meeting room at the New Haven from 6 to 9 p.m. on Thursday April 28th.
New Haven has a  controlled entrance but the door will be staffed from 6 to 6:30 p.m. to ease your entrance.
There will be limited space. Please RSVP:  Richard L. Dyksterhuis: improvenorth@msn.com 206-363-0224

Parking is on the street or use spaces in the parking lot for the Community Center and carefully, safely, walk across Linden to New Haven.
Looking forward to seeing all of you. Warm Regards,Richard

 “Bubbles” is from a series of FlipBooks that I created along the Interurban Trail between 109th and 128th.  

“First Tree” is from a larger work entitled “Witness Trees” and is one of five sculptures at Bergen Place in Ballard

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