I have been on vacation for the past two weeks and just returned. There are many updates and upcoming events that need to be posted and I will get them up as fast as I can. Stay tuned!
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Hi Merlin Fans, Hope you can join in on the fun – the nest is near the corner of 113th and 23rd. Don’t forget to bring binoculars, if you have them. On Wednesday, July 15, it’s the Northgate Community Center’s 3rd birthday….and you are invited to the party! Listen to the music of Route 66 and eat birthday cake and popcorn. Join Northgate Community Center for a fun night of friends, food, and music. The Teen Advisory Council will have a food tent available with hot dogs, potato salad, chips, and pop for sale. Wed. July 15 Northgate Community Center Northgate Community Center will have free music for you and your family and friends to enjoy on (mostly) Thursdays on warm summer evenings. Concerts start the first Thursday in July and end on the last Thursday of August. Thur. July 2 – Jeffrey Mitchell, vocalist Free Northgate Community Center click on the image below to enlarge
I am still following up to learn what I can about the outcome of the Pinehurst Safeway rezone hearing yesterday. But, what I have heard so far from Brad Green, who spoke on behalf of the Pinehurst Community in support of the rezone, is very positive. I will post more as soon as I learn it. And, many thanks to Brad for speaking on our behalf! Ms. Tanner – I am writing as the main Pinehurst community representative who has worked with Pinehurst neighbors, Safeway and the City of Seattle over the past three years to negotiate what nearly all Pinehurst neighbors view as an extremely favorable and desirable store design and proposal for rezoning the Safeway Pinehurst property in order to build a new store. I cannot attend the hearing tomorrow due to the fact that I am traveling on vacation with my family. However, in my absence, I have asked Brad Green, a long time (20+ year) Pinehurst neighbor, who lives next to the Safeway site and who has been involved in the negotiations with Safeway since the beginning of the process to speak on behalf of the community. Pinehurst neighbors have been meeting and discussing this project with Safeway for over three years. From the very beginning, Safeway has cooperated with the neighborhood and made significant concessions. It is striking to look back at the notes from our first community meeting in the summer of 2006 that was attended by over 100 neighbors and to see that the most significant requests and concerns have been addressed by Safeway: * Green elements throughout (including energy efficient, reduced emission elements, local materials, low water landscaping) The Pinehurst community overwhelmingly supports this project and we are grateful for all the cooperation and concessions Safeway has made. We fully support this rezone and ask that you recommend to Seattle City Council that Safeway’s request be approved. Thank you so much for considering the opinions of the Pinehurst neighbors most impacted by this project. If you have any questions at all, please contact me at the phone numbers or e-mail address below. Renee A rezone hearing is scheduled for the Pinehurst Safeway project tomorrow morning at 9 AM (Tuesday, June 23rd) at the Office of the Hearing Examiner (700 5th Avenue, Suite 4000). You can read more about the hearing here and the history of the Safeway project here. As most of you know, our community has been negotiating with Safeway regarding the development of a new Pinehurst store for over three years. This meeting is the culmination of all our hard work and it represents many significant concessions by Safeway. If the hearing tomorrow is successful, the next step is for the Hearing Examiner to recommend the rezone and for the full Seattle City Council to vote on the rezone. If they then approve the rezone, Safeway expects to break ground in early 2010 and for the new store to open in 2010. Brad Green who is a long time (20+ year) Pinehurst neighbor, who lives next to the Safeway site and who has been involved in the negotiations with Safeway since the beginning of the process will be speaking on behalf of the community. If you can attend the meeting and speak in support of this project, or if you can e-mail the Hearing Examiner (Sue.Tanner@seattle.gov) in support of the project, I strongly encourage you to do so. There is a tiny handful of people who do not live in Pinehurst who oppose any change in zoning in the City of Seattle and who have been fighting this project since its inception. We think they have stopped their threats to the project, but we cannot rest until the new store is open. WHO: kids age 8 – 12 who love food! GOAL: the classes are designed to cultivate a love of healthier food, an understanding of the food chain, knowledge of the nutritional value of food, and to learn basic food preparation techniques. LOCATION: classes are at the Palace Kitchen and are taught by the Tom Douglas Chef Team. TIME: 10 am – 2 pm Saturday July 11th – Mac n’ Cheese – A trip to Beechers Cheese in the Pike Place Market kicks off the morning, where kids will get to see cheese in production. After returning to the Ballroom, youngsters will get to make their very own dish of mac n’ cheese with healthy delicious add-ins and build awareness about unwholesome additives and preservatives. Saturday July 25th – Pizza – Following a field trip to Serious Pie, kids will learn how to make dough, tomato sauce, sausage, and cut pepperoni! Discussion will be centered around how to make pizza a healthy option but keep it a kid-friendly favorite. For more information or to make a reservation, please contact: Loretta Douglas by… Ranked Choice Voting is being officially studied by the King County Citizens Election Oversight Committee Friday, June 26 Featured speakers/performers:
Krist Novoselic is the former bassist in the Seattle-born grunge band Nirvana and currently the bassist for the band Flipper. He founded JAMPAC, an organization that works to protect the rights of free expression. He authored Of Grunge and Government: Let’s Fix this Broken Democracy. He is also a poet and gardener at his farm in southwestern Washington. Dr. Rich Anderson-Connolly is a professor of comparative sociology at the University of Puget Sound, and was the leader of the successful campaign to enact Ranked Choice Voting in Pierce County. Rich will tell us how his group pulled it off, how opponents of democracy have continued to attack RCV there, and in particular how powerful interests are trying again to repeal RCV for Pierce County this November Erik Connell is a former intern at FairVote, in Takoma Park, Maryland, where he helped with numerous efforts to enact election reform around the country. Erik is returning to his home town of Tacoma, Washington to help stop what is expected to be a well-funded effort to repeal RCV in Pierce County. Joe Szwaja is a former member of the Madison City Council, current president of Ranked Choice Voting for Washington who led the successful effort to get RCV studied by the King County Council. He will tell us how our efforts have gotten RCV one step closer to reality in King County and what we can do to help get it on the ballot. Hear Krist play a few tunes while panel members and the audience try to play along! plus see the unveiling of the new DVD … If It Plays in Pierce County with footage from the grassroots testimony that convinced the King County Charter Review Commission to study RCV .Donations are gratefully accepted to help fund the DVD and our other ongoing efforts to enact RCV in King County and throughout Washington. http://irvwa.org/get-involved |
 
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