Beginning on Saturday, February 23 at the start of service until Sunday, February 24, at the end of service, Route 2 will be rerouted off of Seneca St between Broadway & Boylston Av, due to construction.
During this time, Route 2 heading toward downtown Seattle or Madrona will travel instead via Broadway, Madison St, Boylston Av, and Seneca St then to its regular route in both directions.
Thank you for riding and for using Metro’s services.
…which is at the intersection of Central District, Capitol Hill and Madison Valley. You know, it’s next to the old Fratelli’s Ice Cream Factory that is now a mixed used building with living space and hot yoga and across the street from the Mt. Zion Baptist church. You might remember buying your fruits and veggies at the farmer’s stand at this corner or you might not even have noticed this space as you drive by. We hope you will soon notice this corner.
We need your ideas! You are invited to take a 2-minute survey. The design phase of the 19th and Madison Park is underway and we’re looking for your input to help us shape the vision to redesign this unused public space! Together with a consortium of neighborhood organizations, the City of Seattle, and community members, we will create an open space for the neighborhood and the people who live, work, and play here.
Last year we received Neighborhood Matching Funds from the city to develop 4,500 sq. ft. of land in front of Hearing, Speech & Deafness Center (HSDC) at the intersection of 19th Ave and E Madison St. Just before the new year, the Friends of 19th and Madison selected J.A. Brennan & Associates to be the landscape architect, teaming up with public artist Carolyn Law.
In addition to the survey, we invite you to meet the volunteers and landscape architect to learn about the project and share your ideas for the park. The three public design meetings will be held on the 1st Floor Conference Room at the HSDC (1625 19th Ave, Seattle, WA 98122) on:
Meetings will be ASL interpreted. Deaf/blind interpreter requests must be made at least two weeks before each meeting, contact [email protected]
Looking forward to seeing you in a few weeks!
The petition has been filed to create a district-based city leadership election system, and now signatures are needed to get the movement to a vote.
Currently, all nine Council members are elected citywide, or at-large. The proposed 7-2 “mixed system” would create seven districts in Seattle, each with about 87,000 voters, and two at large, citywide representatives.
If Seattle Districts Now is able to gather the 40,000 signatures needed to qualify for a city charter amendment on the November ballot and voters approve the plan, the seven district representatives would be elected in 2015:
Two years after that, we’d elect our two at large or city-wide representatives and so it’d would go in alternating election cycles. One cycle, we’d elect our district representatives, then in the next our city-wide representatives.
It would ensure city councilmembers are closer to the people they represent and that voters better know their city councilmembers. And the seven district representatives would provide for geographic distribution of Councilmembers, while giving individual neighborhoods a distinct voice and real access on major issues, while the two at-large representatives ensure that the citywide perspective is maintained. The best of both worlds. Continue reading
Fibromyalgia (FM) is a common and disabling disorder. Currently, no single treatment has been found to be totally effective for all who have FM. The University of Washington’s Fibromyalgia Research Program is currently conducting a study to compare the benefits of combining pharmacological and behavioral health treatments for FM. This is a randomized control study that involves a combination of a drug treatment, behavioral health treatment, and placebo controls. Participants will be randomly assigned to a treatment (like flipping a coin). Some participants will receive a medication approved by the Food and Drug Administration for treatment of moderate to moderately severe pain called Tramadol HC1 IR. Others will receive an inactive pill, called a placebo. There will also be 2 different types of behavioral health treatments, Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Health Education (HE,) both of which have been recommended for the treatment of patients with FM by the American Pain Society.
There are 4 possible study treatment combinations:
(1) Tramadol + Cognitive Behavioral Therapy,
(2) Tramadol + Health Education,
(3) Placebo + Cognitive Behavioral Therapy,
(4) Placebo + Health Education.
The primary purpose of this study is to compare the benefits of the 4 combinations listed.
Participation in the study will require 13 visits over the course of 15 weeks, as well as a follow-up visit 6 months after treatment is completed. Participants may receive up to $300 for completion of the entire study.
Eligibility Criteria:
Males or females, age 21-70 with a diagnosis of Fibromyalgia.
Currently have a primary healthcare provider
Not taken Tramadol in the past 6 months
No regular use of opiod medication (fewer than 10 tablets per month)
Fluent in English
There are some additional requirements that may exclude you from the study.
If you or someone you know may be interested in participating in this study, please contact the Fibromyalgia Research Program at (206)221-1737 or [email protected] (we cannot guarantee the confidentiality of any information sent by email).
Chief Leschi. Image from MOHAI
The Leschi neighborhood is named after the Nisqually Chief executed unjustly by the Washington Territory on this day in 1858, according to HistoryLink.
Years before the founding of Seattle, Chief Leschi is said to have made camp in the neighborhood that now bears his name.
On February 19, 1858, Nisqually Chief Leschi (1808-1858) is hanged on a gallows at Fort Steilacoom, for the “murder” of the American soldier Colonel A. Benton Moses. Chief Leschi’s attorneys argued firstly that Leschi had not actually been the one to kill Colonel Moses, and secondly that Colonel Moses was killed during warfare (in which there were casualties on both sides), requiring that his accused killer should not be tried in a civilian court. On March 4, 2004, the Washington State Senate formally recognized “the injustice which occurred in 1858 with the trial and execution of Chief Leschi” and honored Chief Leschi as “a courageous leader” and “a great and noble man” (Washington State Senate Resolution 8727).
Design for planned but stalled building on southwest corner
23rd and Union is the big story on the front page of The Seattle Times today.
Close readers of CDNews won’t be too surprised by much of the news, but it’s presence on the front page suggests that momentum for changes really is growing.
But the story also points out the sober reality that the corner’s cultural narrative is up for grabs, and there is a potential for the corner to be essentially annexed by the insatiable demand for housing and commercial space on Capitol Hill.
“What we are looking at are rents that are achievable for a lot of folks that have been priced out of Capitol Hill,” Joe Ferguson of Lake Union Partners told the Times. Lake Union Partners is behind plans for the long-stalled six-story building on the vacant southwest corner. As we reported last month, Ian Eisenberg bought that property recently with hopes of getting the project moving.
The Central District’s location makes it easy to walk, bike or take transit to the region’s largest employment center: downtown. Groceries, shopping, eating and playing are all within close reach from any CD home. With demand in Seattle for housing with such urban amenities growing far faster than the supply (and with no signs of slowing down), the CD is destined to continue its growth as a desirable place to live. These desirable traits are all good things. But as more people move to the neighborhood, what place story will they hear when they get here? Is the Central District an exciting, vibrant and unique place to be, or is it just gentrifying new growth on the edge of Capitol Hill? Continue reading
Though it would have been the cheapest alternative, Seattle City Light has dropped an unpopular alternative route that would have required 100-foot towers across Capitol Hill and the Central District for its planned 115-kilovolt transmission line connecting the coming Denny Substation with the city’s grid.
CHS first reported on the issue in October as City Light began the public process to scope the project. City Light planners said the route — up Denny to 14th Ave and then south through the CD to the Massachusetts substation — was an unlikely choice but included the route as one of three proposed options for the line. Neighbors in the area took to flyering existing utility poles and sharing information via email lists and, of course, by word of mouth. By January, the public feedback on the route was still coming in — and still decidedly against the proposed alternative.
While a major infrastructure project will still take place just off the Hill along Denny, it appears residents and businesses in the area won’t need to be concerned with giant towers being part of the project. As part of the just-released State Environmental Policy Act impact statement (PDF) on the project, City Light has revealed that planners have reduced the route alternatives to two underground paths through downtown:
Transmission
During the scoping process, City Light presented three preliminary transmission alternatives representing a range ofcost, construction methods, and possible impacts. City Light stated a preference for building transmission west of I‐5 iffeasible. At this time, City Light does not intend to proceed with the primarily overhead route east of I‐5 and that optionwill not be evaluated as an alternative within the Draft EIS. The decision to delete this route as an alternative for thisproject was based on the viability of more direct alternatives that have limited short‐term construction impacts. Thetwo transmission line alternatives that will be evaluated within the Draft EIS are:
- Transmission Line Alternative 1 (TL1) ‐ underground through downtown Seattle (generally along the eastern edge of the Downtown Seattle Business Core)
- Transmission Line Alternative 2 (TL2) ‐ through the Downtown Seattle Transit Tunnel (tunnel)
Last year, an electric car gave Garfield High School students hope for the future when parents auctioned a Nissan Leaf to fund a career and college counselor.
After raising $40,000 and successfully investing in Garfield’s High School & Beyond Center, the PTSA is hosting the unique auction again this year, giving participants the chance to win a 2013 Tesla Sedan electric car.
“Electric cars represent the future, and we’re working to secure the future for our kids,” says PTSA President Phil Sherburne.
Garfield High School PTSA says they’ll “RAISE THE WOOF!” for the second year by auctioning an electric car to make up for budget cuts that left Garfield students without a career and college counselor three years ago.
2012’s auction netted $40,000 after the PTSA sold 750 tickets. This year, they’re doubling the number of tickets in hopes of raising $80,000 after expenses.
“The center is all about getting kids to think earlier about what to do beyond high school,” Sherburne says. “Whether it’s college or tech school, what we don’t want is for them graduate and have no plan.”
The High School and Beyond center aims to creatively use community resources and paid staff to meet the wide-ranging needs of Garfield’s students and reduce the academic achievement gap.
Any remaining funds will go toward funding the Read Right program and grants for teacher supplies.
While students can’t be directly involved in the raffle sales because of gambling laws, they’ve helped spread the word to parents, graduates and others in the community. Sherburne says there are still plenty of tickets available.
To purchase a ticket, contact Phil Sherburne or visit the auction’s website for more information.
The winner will be announced at Garfield’s “Raise the Woof” all-school auction on March 1, at Showbox SoDo.
Michale McGoin gets the Cafe ready to open in 2011. Photo by LizWas
Judkins St. Cafe is celebrating two years at 26th and Judkins today.
Situated deep in the neighborhood and not visible from any of the CD’s major commercial streets, the Cafe (a CDNews sponsor) still manages to pack the house.
As we reported in 2011, Judkins St. Cafe moved into the space after Charlie’s Flame Broiled Burgers closed. The Cafe keeps expanding its music and guest chef events.
Owner Michael McGloin thanked customers and neighbors today in a newsletter:
Hello Everyone,
It is quite hard to believe that today marks the 2nd anniversary of the cafe.
What an adventure it has been! I knew when I started that I had no idea what I was getting myself into and I’m not sure that even now I know what I have gotten myself into. I do know that I still look forward to being at the cafe each day. I am proud of what we have created, proud of our food, proud of our staff, and proud of our neighborhood.
And still it feels like this adventure is just beginning. In the months ahead we are planning many more special dinners and events, more live music and more new items on the menu.
For those of you looking for some good music and food this weekend, come by for a night of live jazz saxophone with Frank “Stainless” Steele this Saturday 2/16 from 6:30pm until close or join us for a fine weekend brunch served Saturday and Sunday from 9am until 3pm.
Finally, in celebration of our anniversary we will offer special happy hour prices on beer, wine and mimosas all weekend.
Thank you once again for all your support!
– Michael
The Seattle Channel’s CityStream profiled 23rd and Union recently, chatting with business owners and residents about the changes in the area.
The show also profiles the James and Janie Washington Cultural Center at 26th and Denny. Once the home and studio of acclaimed artist James Washington, the house is now home to an arts foundation in his name.
Give it a watch!