Jan Drago, current Seattle City Council Member and candidate for Seattle Mayor, will be at Pinehurst at Pinehurst Playfield (12029 14th Ave. NE) on Saturday, July 25th from noon to 1 pm to talk with neighbors about issues that are important to Pinehurst. Join your neighbors and enjoy a cup of iced coffee while you chat with Jan.
|
||||||
|
This week Charlie’s friend Lucky, is visiting while Lucky’s person, Jennifer, is in Idaho visiting family. So it has been kinda like dog camp around here:
Much romping and rough-housing is involved and we’ve played musical beds. Charlie in Lucky’s bed And finally, I gave up and decided to curl up in the dog bed! Needless to say, The Cats. Are Not. Amused.
We’ll be stopping by the PinehurstFest later on today. I hope to see you there. If you would like to see your pet featured in the Pinehurst Pet of the Week column, please send a photo and a few stories about your pet to Erica at ehas2dogs@gmail.com — I’m always looking for new pets to include on the blog.
Best Challenger to Greg Nickels Vote today: http://polls.seattleweekly.com/polls/sew/bestof09/ You may have heard about discussions that are happening in Seattle regarding the possible repeal of the Employee Hours Tax that is also known as the “Head Tax”. This is a $25 per employee per year tax to employers for each employee who drives alone to work. The “Head Tax” does not apply for employees who ride transit, bike, walk, car pool or ride share to work. Also, businesses with two or fewer employees and those with under $80,000 in revenues per year are also exempt. Funds from the “Head Tax” support transportation projects in Seattle, including pedestrian and bicycle programs. The Downtown Seattle Association and the Greater Seattle Chamber of Commerce have been lobbying Seattle City Council and candidates for Council and mayoral office to eliminate the “Head Tax”. Recently, City Councilmembers Tim Burgess and Richard Conlin and Mayor Greg Nickels announced their plans to rescind the “Head Tax” without a guarantee of replacement funds for pedestrian and bicycle. Last week in the Council Transportation Committee meeting (watch it here), Jan Drago and Nick Licata expressed their commitment to pedestrian and bicycle programs and recommended that Council wait until budget sessions to discuss the “Head Tax” issue. Their leadership on this was greatly appreciated but may not be enough to hold off the pressure from the Downtown Seattle Association and the Greater Seattle Chamber of Commerce to remove the tax ASAP. Neighborhood, pedestrian, bicycle and sustainability advocates are uniting in an effort to ask Council and the Mayor to retain the “Head Tax”. And, we are asking that if Council and the Mayor eliminate this tax, that replacement funds be bindingly committed for bike and pedestrian projects and that a similar incentive for reducing vehicle miles traveled be found. Most of the bike and pedestrian projects are capital in nature and bring much-needed jobs to our city in this challenging economic time. And, they help our community to do the right thing in biking and using transit and reduce vehicle miles traveled. If funding for neighborhood pedestrian and bicycle programs are important to you, please contact Council and the Mayor this week before they make a decision to repeal the “Head Tax” without replacing funding for pedestrian and bicycle programs. Councilmember’s and Mayor’s e-mail addresses Tim.Burgess@seattle.gov Citizens are directed to the following website to complete a form to We have also started a Facebook group: Don’t lose your head tax. Heather B. sent me these photos and shared this about her cats, Pollock and Rothko: POLLOCK “Pollock is my gorgeous four year-old Russian Blue Mix. Named after the artist Jackson Pollock, he was adopted from the Eastside Humane Society in Bellevue. He’s very sleek and trim (he stays that way by jumping over the fence many times a day) – solid grey through and through with big greenish yellow eyes. He has a thick, beautiful coat. He likes to wake his human up every morning right around dawn to be let outside. He spends his days solo, roaming the backyards of 14th Avenue folks or hanging out on the chair – HIS chair – on the porch watching the world go by or curled in a catnap ball. Even when it’s raining, Pollock likes to be outside viewing the weather from undercover…just when it gets windy, very cold or snowy does he spend more time indoors with his family. When inside, he loves attention from his human, especially right before bedtime, when he’s at his cuddliest. He likes to snuggle up real close, even if it means on your chest with his head under your chin – purring loudly and marching up a storm. His little brother, Rothko misses him desperately when he’s out all day, so he gets neverendingly chased around the house in vain attempts at play. Pollock is a pretty laid back, calm cat who enjoys his solo time. Every once and a while the two of them will play up a storm, though and their human catches them giving each other baths and lots of love on occasion, too! Pollock also knows when his human’s car has pulled into the underground garage and she can hear him meowing loudly for her before she even turns off the engine.
ROTHKO
 Rothko, named after the artist Mark Rothko, is the baby of the family – and spoiled to prove it! He is the sweetest, most adorable little tabby cat you ever did see! At nearly three years old, he still is chocked full of kitten. Adopted from the Seattle Animal Shelter after my beloved Costello cat died, Rothko brought life, love and furry cuddles to our house! Rothko is full of personality. With his tufted ears, short little legs and round face, his human smiles every time she looks at him. He has thick, very soft fur that contains almost every pattern and color known to cats. His mission in life is to get his brother Pollock to play with him. He succeeds a couple times a week. Rothko stays inside 99% of the time but loves to hang out on the window sills, especially breathing in the fresh air and hearing the noises from outside through the screens, when he chatters at the birds and squirrels.
His human especially adores that Rothko knows when she is home. He greets her from the bedroom window and then races to the living room and rolls over for her, looking at her from upside down as if to say, “I’m SO glad you are home!” Sometimes Rothko “goes crazy,” racing back and forth over every surface of the small 537 square foot condo, literally bouncing off the walls as he goes! He gets that look in his eye, makes some strange combination of meowing / purring – “murring” – and just takes off! He seems to wear himself out after just a few minutes of this. However, Rothko’s real claim to fame is his powerful, purposeful and intent head butts. Rothko loves to head butt anyone and anything sometimes hard enough to make you think it could leave a bruise! It is his main form of communication. When Rothko crawls out from under the bed to check out visitors, if he head butts you, it means he thinks you’re A-OK.” 
Greendrinks Learn more here. We need volunteers on the day of Pinehurstfest to help make it a success. Please call (366-9472) or e-mail me if you can help in one of the following roles:
We are very fortunate to have a number of wonderful, neighborhood musicians perform at this year’s Pinehurstfest. Many thanks to Eric Madis who has worked very hard to bring this all together! 2nd Annual Pinehurstfest Black Math Quartet 2:00-2:30 * The last four groups will be backed by bassist Garey Shelton and drummer Chris Leighton.
If you have any questions on crime prevention or if you would like to form a block watch, please contact Diane Horswill (diane.horswill@seattle.gov or at (206) 684-7711) at the North Precinct. Also, there is some good information on crime prevention here. 6/03 12500blk 8th Ave NE, reported at 1:10PM, the resident arrived home to see a strange car with the engine running and a driver at the wheel in his driveway, he then saw a male crouched down at his front door knob, when the suspect was confronted by the resident he made an excuse about looking for someone who lived there and then took off and jumped into the car which sped away, the resident then noticed pry marks on the door and the wood around the deadbolt cracked, he described the suspects as Asian males 18-25years of age, the resident was able to get a license number but the plate came back to a leasing agency 6/08 11300blk 3rd NE reported at 1:39PM, the apt mgr went to check on a vacant unit and found a window open and the bathroom sink stopped up, the water was left running which flooded the apt with about 50 gallons of water, there was no sign of forced entry 6/10 11300blk 3rd NE reported at 6:01PM, the resident of this apt. said he allowed a transient male to live with him, he said that during that time property and over $900.00 in cash were stolen, the transient man had his own key, there was no sign of forced entry 6/19 11200blk 24th Ave NE reported at 8:15PM the resident was away for the afternoon, when he arrived home he saw that his front door had been kicked in and his laptop stolen 6/27 11300blk 23rd Ave NE reported at 2:42PM, officers responded to a burglar alarm at this house, they found the rear door ajar, they checked the house and it appeared that the suspect fled when the alarm sounded 6/28 1600blk NE 117th reported at 3:07PM the resident was gone for a short time during the afternoon, when he returned he found his front door open, the possible entry point was a small side window, two laptops were stolen *unofficial stats |
 
|
|||||
|
Copyright © 2020 Pinehurst Seattle - All Rights Reserved Hosted by VPSLink.com Powered by WordPress & Atahualpa |
||||||
