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Pinehurst Pets – Henry & Hazel

Henry and Hazel – Pinehurst’s cute little Corgis. You may see Henry and Hazel out in the neighborhood on their daily walks. They’re Cardigan Welsh Corgis – with huge bushy tails that are usually wagging happily when they see other dogs and people on their walks (Henry the black one is extremely friendly and loves to say hi to everyone canine or human – Hazel is a bit more shy and will hang out on the sidelines while Henry and his people socialize). They are an entirely different breed than their cousins – the Pembroke Welsh Corgis who have docked tails.
Feel free to say hi to their people – Matt and Elizabeth!

If you would like to see your pet featured in the Pinehurst Pets column, please send a photo and a story about your pet to nancy@pinehurstseattle.org.

December 2012 Pinehurst Crime Map

Here is a limited picture of Pinehurst property crime for December 2012. You can see ALL the types of crime at http://web5.seattle.gov/mnm/policereports.aspx. Choose North neighborhood and dates December 1 – 31.

Feet First Fundraiser Concert

Feet First (www.feetfirst.org) is a Seattle organization that promotes walkable communities. You may have seen their nice walking maps; Pinehurst is on the Northeast Seattle Trails map.

There is an upcoming benefit concert at the Seattle Drum School in Pinehurst – see the flyer below:

Kids Art in Pinehurst Pocket Park

It’s a new year and a new start. Regardless of whether you made new years resolutions or not, Pinehurst Community Council wishes you success with all your endeavors in 2013. To start off the new year, Sofia’s art is gracing the Pinehurst Pocket Park in January. Sofia drew it at Pinehurstfest last summer. In these cold dark days of winter we can look forward to Pinehurstfest, right?

Take a brisk winter walk to the pocket park located at NE 117th St and 19th Ave NE. Sofia’s picture is in the kiosk. Thanks, Sofia, this is really nice! The yellow pointillism at the bottom is a brilliant touch.

If you would like to submit your child’s artwork for the Pocket Park, please email nancy@pinehurstseattle.org. We’ll put it on mat board donated by FRAMEIT Ltd, 539 NE Northgate Way.

Thornton Creek Alliance Meeting Notice

Trash collection on Friday; where to recycle styrofoam?

This is a friendly reminder about trash collection this week and next week. Due to Christmas and New Year’s, the normal Thursday residential collection will occur on Friday. (I think everyone in Pinehurst is on Thursday collection, but you can look up your collection day here.)

If you’d like to recycle stryofoam, Styro Recycle in Renton by Ikea will take clean, white stryofoam. I usually collect it in a box in my garage and drop it off whenever I have another reason to be in or passing through Renton. There’s also Busy Beaver Recycling in Everett, but I haven’t been there.

Beware Water Line Insurance Scam

A Pinehurst resident has received several letters from insurance companies wanting to sell her insurance in case there’s a leak or break in the water line between the water meter and the street. This is a scam, and if you get such a letter, don’t fall for it.

We are responsible for the line from the house to the meter, but Seattle Public Utilities is responsible for the line from the meter to the street. You do NOT benefit from insurance for that section.

Want to Volunteer in the Neighborhood?

I’m cross-posting this from the Facebook group to make sure everybody sees it.

We had a lot of discussion at our last community meeting about people volunteering on projects in the neighborhood. Would people be interested in helping spread the word about the blog, Facebook group, email lists and other things going on in the neighborhood?

This could take many forms depending on feedback but I’m picturing us coming up with a flier with all the information and breaking the neighborhood into small walking lists to suit the people who volunteer. And people would just walk 4-5 blocks or whatever they’re interested in, get to know their neighbors, and spread the word to those who aren’t already part of these communities. I know some people are intimidated by this but you really shouldn’t be. You’re not selling anything, you’re not talking politics, you’re just meeting your nearby neighbors.

I’ve been planning this for a while but I’m hoping to expedite it to add the Gigabit Seattle signup to the list. I’d love for us to be the most active neighborhood in the city. And force them to cover our whole neighborhood in super fast Internet.

If you’re interested comment below (with contact information) or email me at phillip@pinehurstseattle.org.

Want Really Fast Internet?

There’s been some discussion about it on Facebook but I wanted to share this here. I’ve received confirmation that demand is one of the qualifications for access to the new gigabit Internet! So we might be able to get it in the rest of our neighborhood sooner than we think. You DO NOT have to be in those boundaries to sign up. We’re trying to show that there’s demand nearby and I know that the dark fiber runs north through our neighborhood so it should be easy to expand.

If you’re at all Interested please sign up at http://gigabitseattle.com/signup/

This is not a commitment, just showing them who’s interested. If you’ve got any questions, please email me at phillip@pinehurstseattle.org.

About Gigabit Internet:
http://gigabitseattle.com/features/

About the Mayor’s Involvement:
http://seattle.gov/mayor/seafi/gigabit.htm

Meeting on Seattle Schools Capacity for NE Seattle

SPS Capacity Management Meeting for NE Seattle
Northeast Community Meeting

Monday, December 17th 6:30-8pm
Olympic Hills Elementary School
13018 – 20th Avenue NE, Seattle WA 98125

Seattle Public Schools Assistant Superintendent Pegi McEvoy and School Board Director Sharon Peaslee will be attending an informal meeting to provide information and answer questions for the Northeast Region of school communities about capacity management, and the BEX IV plans for new schools in the region. School and neighborhood community members are invited. Continue reading Meeting on Seattle Schools Capacity for NE Seattle

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