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Sunday evening Seattle First Baptist Church, located at 1111 Harvard, hosts their monthly free labyrinth walk.
A labyrinth may be indoor or outdoor, permanent or temporary, made of beach wood, rocks, shells, or painted/inlaid in the ground or floor. Most commonly they come in the form of a large canvas mat placed on the floor. A labyrinth looks like a maze from above, but there is only one path in and one path out (you never make a choice). Labyrinth walks have been used for centuries by folks to aid in meditation as they walk in, spend some time in the middle, and then walk back out. You can walk the labyrinth slowly or quickly; you could even dance, crawl, or skip the labyrinth. Each experience with the labyrinth is unique.
CHS likes very much the intersection of life and stats so we're looking forward to a special delivery in the coming week -- 2010 census questionnaires are on the way. The Census Bureau also makes a compelling argument for not procrastinating and sending in your response by mail:
Police were just racing southbound on 23rd towards multiple reports of shots fired near Judkins Park.
So far there are no reports of injuries or property damage.
One caller in the 2000 block of Ingersol Place thought that the shooting occurred right outside her door.
Three juveniles were seen running away from the park, and a dark-colored van was seen leaving westbound from the area.
Word of the death of a Pike/Pine character spread today after a friend announced via Facebook that the skinny rocker Slats died this afternoon after a long hospital stay. The Stranger's Line Out blog is also reporting the woman's Facebook note and people who know the woman confirm that she was close to Slats.
Seattle City Light crews restored power to the Center House at Seattle Center about 1:30 p.m. today.
The initial outage started about 9:30 a.m. and included the entire Seattle Center campus and some surrounding homes and businesses. Most of those customers were back in service within 30 minutes.
The cause of the outage was a failed cable splice. Crews routed power around the bad section to restore power and will work on replacing the bad section of cable over the next several days.
We're lucky to have some amazingly well-organized and dedicated community groups around the Central District. There was a perfect example of it over on Hiawatha Place this morning where a large group of neighbors picked up dozens of bags of trash and spruced up the planting areas.
Power has been restored to most of the Seattle Center from an outge that started about 9:30 a.m. today. The only building that remains without power is the Center House.
Initially 156 buildings and homes in and around the Seattle Center were affected.
Repair crews continue to work on restoring power to the Center House. They are checking switches in order to route power in from a different path and hope to have service restored about 1:45 p.m.
I have lived in Lake City on two separate occasions. What is frustrating is that there are few things to rejoice about in a neighborhood that could have so many cool things. I personally give thanks to The Beer Authority and Tubs Sandwiches. Everything else...not so much. Lake City has one of the only boulevards in the city yet it is littered with useless shops and vagrants. The drinking holes in Lake City are so terrible they're good (but still awful). The food offerings are dismal at best, with the only exception going to Thai-One-On and Toyoda. There are no friendly cafes that encourage an at-home sit down vibe (forget Starbucks). There are no music stores, shoe stores, or anything that people might find practical or enjoyable. Instead, there are stores that are absolutely random and it makes you wonder how they stay in business. Ever walk/drive past one of the many little bodegas and ponder how they stay afloat? Why is there so many meat stores...
On March13th at approximatel 3:34 AM, Seattle Police responded to a call of a two car collision in the 5500 Block of Rainier Avenue South. Just prior to that collision, two cars were travelling at high speed southbound on Rainier Ave. S. One driver later told officers he was following the other (suspect) vehicle after being the victim of a hit and run. The “suspect” vehicle, a silver Lexus, crossed the centerline of Rainier Avenue South and struck a Buick travelling northbound, resulting in a collision. Seattle Fire Department responded and extricated the two occupants from the Lexus and the driver of the Buick. All were taken to Harborview Medical Center via SFD Medics with life-threatening injuries. The adult male passenger of the Lexus later died at the hospital. Detectives from the Traffic Collision Investigation Squad responded and conducted their investigation. The 5500 Block of Rainier Avenue South was completely closed for...
A power outage was reported at the Seattle Center about 9:30 a.m. today. A crew was immediately dispatched to determine the cause of the outage and make repairs.
A total of 156 customers were affected by the outage. The general boundaries of the outage were Mercer Street on the north, Denny Way on the south, Taylor Avenue on the east and 1st Ave on the west.
An estimate for the time of restoration was not immediately available.
Telephone pole posters are a visual representation of the pulse of Capitol Hill - they show which bands are getting big, what posters aesthetics are in or out of style, recent fashions in event themes, and so on. This is why I was stopped in my tracks by the poster for DarGarth: A Live Action Wargame that advertised upcoming bouts in Volunteer Park. LARPers on Capitol Hill, the hipster stronghold of Seattle? That takes chutzpah.
Google -- by way of Fremont -- has introduced a new feature for its already pretty wonderful map service. Here's the bike route Google suggests for a trip from the 12th Ave bike corral in front of Cafe Presse to Volunteer Park.
East Pike's 8 Limbs Yoga is planning a rager. Owner Anne Phyfe Palmer is turning 40 and the studio is celebrating with a night mixing yoga and live music by New Orleans-based Sean Johnson and the Wild Lotus Band. Details below.
CHS also recently had news on Seattle Yoga Arts making a move to the Pearl building near 15th and Madison.
Bill Lucey of The Huffington Post featured InvestigateWest [and Seattlepostglobe] in an article about nonprofit investigative journalism in an age of declining for-profit newsrooms.
Lucey, a former South Florida Sun-Sentinel reporter, began the interview by asking what it was like to watch the Seattle Post-Intelligencer close. To be frank, it was horrible.
Former Dateline Earth denizen Lisa Stiffler, now digging up all kinds of interesting material on stormwater and other topics for Sightline.org, came out this week with a helpful hands-on guide to how homeowners can do their part to cut down on stormwater pollution.
The basics: Keep as much rain as you can on your own property. Stiffler outlines how to use a variety of techniques to get the water to soak into the earth right around your castle. (more)
A man was been stabbed in Ballard this evening. The initial report was that the man interrupted a burglary
* Study shows Washington improving kid's oral health – 3/9/10, Othello Outlook
* A victory for infants and toddlers – 3/8/10, Children’s Alliance Blog
* Child Care: Deal Means Funding Not Dead – 3/8/10, Olympia Newswire<
On Tuesday, March 16th, 2010, Governor Christine Gregoire will be presenting two prestigious World Trade Club awards to those Washington-state companies that have significantly contributed to the expansion of Washington State’s international trade. This is an annual event organized by the World Trade Club and co-sponsored by the Trade Development Alliance of Greater Seattle. The two awards are the Governor’s Trader of the Year Award and the Governor’s Emerging Trader of the Year Award. Past recipients of the awards have been: Expeditors International, PACCAR Inc., Microsoft Corp., Attachmate Corporation, and Eddie Bauer.
The Governor’s Trader of the Year Award recognizes a Washington State business that has demonstrated success and industry leadership through its innovation in products or services, its contribution to the local economy, and its service to the community.
The Governor’s Emerging Trader of the Year Award recognizes a small- to mid-sized Washington State business that has demonstrated recent...
From the PI.Com:
A federal judge has ruled Seattle's ban on carrying firearms in city parks and community
You know the drill. It's the second Sunday of March this weekend so time to set your clocks forward and give up an hour of sleep. Action goes down at 2 AM Sunday. In return you earn knowledge that summer is right around the corner. Starts July 5. Meanwhile, here are some fresh Capitol Hill spring shots from the CHS flickr pool.
The detectives from the Arson/Bomb Unit have determined that the device used by the supect this morning was not an explosive. It was fashioned to look like a pipe bomb, but it was not a real explosive device. Refer to the previous post on the photo of the device.
Seattle police were called to the Wedgwood neighborhood early this morning after a woman was found dead
On March 12th, at approximately 8:11 AM, a complainant called 911 to report that a black male dressed in black clothing had entered a local mission in the 300 Block of 2nd Avenue Ext. South and threatened to blow the place up. The suspect had a suspicious looking device taped to his wrist and had covered himself with black duct tape. According to the complainant, the suspect walked in wanting to be served breakfast. He informed the staff that he was a vampire and wanted to eat people. The staff declined to serve him and asked him to leave. At that point, the suspect said he was a space cowboy and showed them what appeared to be a pipe bomb taped to his wrist. He threatened to blow up the building. Staff at the mission was able to usher the man out of the building. When officers arrived at the location the suspect had already left. Officers conducted an area search for the man and located him standing in a doorway in the 500 Block of 3rd Avenue....
Suspect Jymaika S. Hutson, wanted for an April 2007 homicide in the Central District, is now in custody. He was arrested this morning at approximately 9:00 a.m., in Thurston County by the Pacific Northwest Fugitive Apprehension Task Force.
He is currently being interviewed by detectives and will be booked later into the King County Jail.
Looking for an escape this weekend? Here's what you can go and see:
- Central Cinema (a CDNews sponsor) is continuing their James Bond Fest, with showings of Goldfinger at 7:00pm and 10:30pm Friday and Saturday, and On Her Majesty's Secret Service at 6:30 and 9:30 on Sunday.
- The Post-Globe reviews "the best ethnocentric prison movie since 1993"
- The NW film forum is showing a documentary/concert film on the Isle of Wight music festival of 1970
- The Jewish Film Fest is running at SIFF
- More in the Post Globe weekly film guide
There are some big numbers involved with the 230 Broadway project. The redevelopment process that will demolish six buildings along Broadway and replace them with a seven-story structure containing 17,333 square feet of retail and 6,005 square feet of office space at ground-floor, 235 residential units above and underground parking for 354 vehicles is reaching another milestone this month with its official Land Use Application up for public comment and review. Oh, and they'll also be moving 45,600 cubic yards of dirt.
Despite its diminutive size, the ukulele is a beloved instrument. Among the celebrity musicians who have had a great affection for the uke was Beatle George Harrison.
A contemporary master of the ukulele, Jake Shimabukuro, has done a terrific version of Harrison’s “While My Guitar Gently Weeps.” In fact, it made him a YouTube legend.
Alejandro Diaz knows how to refry a stereotype. He conflates art-world cliches with cultural stupidities and prices everything-to-go on beggar boards resting for pickup on a Mexican blanket. (more)
When Janie Hendrix and The Friends of Jimi Hendrix Park began developing plans for the project at 2400 S. Massachusetts St., there was a lot of debate about whether or not the iconic statue on the corner Broadway Ave. should be relocated.
We know that this photo is not the best one ever. We hope to replace it once a clearer image has been provided to us. For what it’s worth, it is a metal pipe with metal endcaps on both sides. There is tape on this device and what appears to be protruding wires.
Saying that an art walk in Seattle went on through the rain isn't the biggest news on the block but Thursday's crowd on Capitol Hill seemed more robust than average.
We lack the science to provide more accurate analytics so we'll depend on your comments to corroborate. Not everybody got rained on, however. Some of the savvier attendees found a warm dry place like Bluebird to sit back and enjoy the music.
Police have shut down around 3rd Ave around James and Yesler and are moving staff out of nearby buildings
And I have proof!!!!
Seattle police officers were called to a cafe in Belltown around 1:00 on March 7
Our friends at The Seattle Times were in the courtroom yesterday when Christopher Monfort, accused in the 10/31 murder of Officer Tim Brenton, launched into a rambling five minute speech against police abuses. It appears to confirm that a King County deputy's jail cell beating of a teenage girl was a possible motivation in the crime, as has been alleged by prosecutors:
In his first public comments since his arrest Nov. 6, Monfort compared the former deputy, Paul Schene, and another deputy also present in the holding cell to Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini and Joseph Stalin.
Monfort said society depends on the police to "protect us from the police as well."
"If the police are wrong, we depend on the police to cross the blue line of silence and apprehend, detain and file charges against those police who are corrupt," said Monfort in a rambling discourse that took place before the judge entered the courtroom.
Prosecutors have alleged it was anger at Schene and the holding-cell incident that drove Monfort to kill Brenton...
Christopher Monfort, the man accused of fatally shooting officer Timothy Brenton on Halloween, freaked
A woman was beaten at a Snoop Dogg concert earlier this month after she fought with another club-goer
A contemporary master of the ukulele, Jake Shimabukuro, has done a terrific version
When Janie Hendrix and The Friends of Jimi Hendrix Park began developing plans for the project at 2400 S. Massachusetts St., there was a lot of debate about whether or not the iconic statue on the corner Broadway Ave. should be relocated.
Congress has begun debating how to revamp the No Child Left Behind Act and one of the nation’s newest superintendents has an idea lawmakers should keep in mind: Education reform begins with child care, preschool and prekindergarten.
“If you want to reform high school, you need to reform early childhood. You don’t reform high school in high school, you reform very early on in life,” incoming Minneapolis Public School Superintendent Gregory Thornton told Milwaukee’s Business Journal.
Today comes news that a seed bank set up on a frosty Arctic island in Norway to preserve the possibility of feeding the world after a nuclear or climate disaster has reached the half-million mark for seed samples.
I'm confused: Should we be comforted by the Svalbard Seed Bank, or alarmed? (more)
It's not every day that a group in the Central District gets a letter from the Governor. But New Hope Baptist Church did, in honor of their 60th Anniversary that is being celebrated this weekend.
The governor writes:
The Washington State Department of Revenue has launched a new website that enables consumers to research the operations of businesses and companies that they are interested in. Suspectfraud.com allows consumers to check whether a business is legally registered and licensed and pays its taxes. Site visitors may also submit reports to the state for further investigation, in the event of suspicion of fraud. Tax and license fraud includes: not registering an operating business; collecting, but not remitting sales tax; or registering a vehicle, vessel, or plane out-of-state if the vehicle is used in this state and use tax was not paid.
Suspectfraud.com is managed primarily by the Washington State Department of Revenue and the Department of Labor and Industries. Individuals can look up a licensed business by using the business or owner name, the Unified Business Identifier/tax registration number, or the reseller permit number. One may also report a suspected violation.
In addition to Suspectfraud.com, please visit the...
King County Metro tells CHS that a new bus stop for routes 43 and 8 will be in place by the weekend:
A paving contractor working for the Seattle Department of Transportation plans to reduce Olive Way between Third and Boren avenues to one lane from Monday, March 15 to Wednesday, March 17, 24 hours a day. On-street parking and loading along Olive Way will be restricted near the work zone during nighttime hours. There will also be periodic cross street, alley and driveway interruptions, and possible side street lane closures.
A paving contractor working for the Seattle Department of Transportation plans to reduce Olive Way between Third and Boren avenues to one lane from Monday, March 15 to Wednesday, March 17, 24 hours a day. On-street parking and loading along Olive Way will be restricted near the work zone during nighttime hours. There will also be periodic cross street, alley and driveway interruptions, and possible side street lane closures.
The contractor will remove the existing asphalt pavement on Olive Way from Third to Sixth avenues and from Ninth to Terry avenues, working between 7 p.m. and 6 a.m.
Once asphalt removal is complete, the contractor will make any needed repairs to the base of the street. Paving is scheduled to take place during the week of March 22. Shortly after paving, crews will apply new traffic markings.
This project is funded by the “Bridging the Gap” transportation levy approved by Seattle voters in November 2006.
More information: George Frost, (206) 615-0786
Media contact: Marybeth Turner, (206) 68...
Seattle Fire Department records reveal that since the beginning of this year, at least four different
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