News outlets from across Seattle joined CDN in covering Sunday’s ceremony to dedicate the memorial to Seattle police officer Timothy Brenton at 29th and Yesler. Our own coverage of the day is here. Here is a look at coverage from others in the Seattle news family.

• Seattle Times:  Leschi’s memorial dedicated to fallen Seattle police officer

Leschi is a diverse neighborhood of black and white, rich and poor, and sometimes relations with police are strained. Pained and fearful, many wrung their hands and wondered what can we possibly do?

 

A year out from the killing, they built much more than a memorial.

They dedicated the granite slab, which is inscribed with words that described Brenton, such as “friend” and “husband,” “devoted” and “loyal.”

• KIRO: Ceremony Held To Dedicate Memorial For Seattle Officer Tim Brenton
  

  Earlier, Lisa Brenton brought their kids back to the block where their father was killed as a way to reclaim the holiday for them.

  Kayleigh, 12, and her 9-year-old brother, Quinn, trick-or-treated in Leschi, having fun like any other kids.

  “They’re still kids, they still enjoy Halloween and they still enjoy being the center of attention. It really takes their mind off of it,” said Lisa Brenton.

  Quinn’s costume even included his father’s gas mask.

  “Because I think it’s kind of special to me and I really wanted to wear it because of my dad,” said Quinn.

• West Seattle Blog: Video: Memorial dedicated in honor of SPD Officer Tim Brenton

A special task force that combines Secret Service investigators with local law enforcement experts has made a major break in the case of a large wave of fraudulent activity involving credit card accounts belonging to people who live and work on Capitol Hill.

David A. Iacovetti, Special Agent in Charge of the Electronic Crimes Task Force Seattle office, tells CHS that agents made a break on the case late Friday night. “We addressed it so no further fraud could be conducted,” Iacovetti said.

Iacovetti would not confirm that this wave involved a skimming device on a point of sale system somewhere on the Hill. Because this is an open and ongoing investigation, Iacovetti said it’s too soon to release details of how the accounts were defrauded but that the situation has been “adjudicated.” “Our guys got on it quick,” Iacovetti said.

Included in the dozens of reports of fraud made to Seattle police were a small amount of cases reported by Central District residents.

The hillbilly cannibals are waiting for you. Happy Halloween.

The Seattle Police Department and the East Precinct community will take time off from Halloween festivities for a solemn event Sunday afternoon at the corner of 29th and Yesler where one year ago officer Timothy Brenton was gunned down.

 The new memorial to Officer Brenton’s life and service to the city will be dedicated on Sunday at 3 PM in a ceremony including neighbors, family members, police officers expected to be on hand for the official unveiling of the monument.

The city will close Yesler to traffic at 2 PM, and the dedication ceremony is expected to run from 3:00 until 3:30pm.

In addition to remembrance, there’s also room for the joy of life. Kids can stop by the East Precinct today for Halloween candy and pumpkins

Precincts to display Halloween pumpkins

Children who live in Yesler Terrace had an opportunity yesterday to carve pumpkins with police officers at the Yesler Community Center.  The ghoulish gourds will be displayed at the Seattle Police East Precinct beginning tonight.  Participating kids received a certificate and an early advance on Halloween candy.  Best of all, their handiwork will be featured for all to see and admire. 

All police precincts will have similar displays through Halloween, so be sure to check them out!

Also, on Halloween night, costumed kids are encouraged to stop by their neighborhood precinct and “trick or treat” for candy between the hours of 5 p.m. and 8: 30 p.m.  Have a fun and safe Halloween!

Despite shrinking budgets to maintain and operate the resources, the City of Seattle is able to continue investing in green space for the Central District and beyond thanks to decisions voters made in 2008 when they approved the $146 million parks levy. A public hearing Monday night at 19th Ave East’s Miller Community Center will give the community a chance to speak on behalf — or against — their neighborhood projects that have made the draft list for the Seattle Parks Opportunity Fund including two CD candidates — the James Court woonerf and a new park at 19th Ave and Madison. Here’s the announcement from Parks about the hearing. More details on the Central District projects being considered for funding, below.

We are very excited about the broad interest the community has shown for the Parks & Green Spaces Levy Opportunity Fund. We received almost 100 project proposal applications. Thank you for such an amazing response!

With guidance from Seattle City Council, the Levy Oversight Committee developed criteria with which to evaluate each proposal. Staff applied the criteria and made preliminary project proposal recommendations to the Oversight Committee. The Committee reviewed each proposal, and over the course of two weekends in September, toured the top 33 project proposal sites. On September 27, the Oversight Committee met to discuss the project proposals and to develop their Draft Final List of recommended projects for funding.

There will be a public hearing on the Draft Final List, on October 25, 2010

• Time: Public Hearing starts at 7:00 pm
  (sign-up sheets available at 6:00 pm)
• Location: Miller Community Center
  330 19th Ave E, Seattle WA   98112  
• Final project recommendations will be made by the Oversight Committee to the Parks Superintendent on December 6th, 2010.

James Court Woonerf: The James Court Woonerf would be installed next to the forthcoming James Court Park on 12th Avenue. It has made the draft list with a $500,000 budget allocation. In addition to extending the perceived size of the new park that will be next to it, the project is intended to provide a connection an transition to Seattle U’s new student housing and ground-floor retail that is now taking shape on the block just to the north.

19th and Madison Neighborhood Park: Another project on the north border of the Central District is also slated for funding. The 19th & Madison Neighborhood Park is allocated $473,000. Plans call for a “tranquil green oasis” in that urban stretch of Madison Street. It would be fully accessible to all the neighbors near it, including the many residents of the nearby Hearing, Speech & Deafness Center (HSDC) and the Seattle Association for Jews with Disabilities.

The proposed Jimi Hendrix Park next to NWAAM on the south end of the neighborhood was also hoping for funding, but is only on the alternate list of projects.

Police streamed into the area around 25th Ave East and East John Monday morning after a man reported being held up at gunpoint by a man wearing a black ski mask.

The 911 call came in just after 7 AM Monday morning. The victim reported that he had been robbed of his backpack by a masked man carrying a long barrel type gun that police believed might have been an air gun, according to East Precinct radio transmissions. The victim described his attacker as a black male wearing a black, white and red hoodie, black pants and a black ski mask at the time of the hold-up.

This morning’s robbery happened a few blocks from a home robbery CapitolHillSeattle.com reported two weeks ago in which a man was robbed at gunpoint after two men who were breaking into his home found him inside. We are not aware of any arrests related to the October 7 incident.

Patty Pan Cafe is ready to make you breakfast at the corner of 23rd and Madison. You can stop by for a free coffee this weekend to celebrate the opening. We asked Devra Gartenstein about her new cafe, what she learned closing after four years in Ballard and why she chose 23rd and Madison:

After closing the shop in Ballard we’ve been mainly vending at farmers’ markets. We sold prepared food at 14 markets this past summer, and we do several that last all winter as well. It’s always been a challenge to keep great employees when I’ve only been able to offer seasonal work, so I was looking for a business endeavor that could provide them with steadier employment. I saw this place for lease with all the equipment included. It was so close to our production kitchen that it felt like too good an opportunity to pass up.

So we’re on 23rd and Madison because that’s where the opportunity presented itself, and it’s convenient from a production standpoint. Like our Ballard storefront, this one is a tricky location, but I like to think I’ve learned a bit about operating out of a tricky location. A lot of folks live and work around here, and it’s going to be very important to let them know we’re here, provide a friendly space where they’ll want to spend time. There are also quite a few bus stops nearby: I suspect our main customers will be bus riders and people who live in the immediate vicinity.

Gartenstein tells CHS she wants people to think of the new cafe as a good place for breakfast and, while her past efforts have been celebrated by many a Seattle vegetarian, she also doesn’t want Patty Pan to be known as only a vegetarian restaurant. “We’ll have meat on the menu,” Gartenstein told us during our visit earlier this week.

The 23rd and Madison location is right across the street from Crush but Gartenstein and her partners aren’t expecting any spillover — Patty Pan Cafe will close at 3:30 PM. With the nearyby BottleNeck opening up by 4, that gives you near all-day “I need food” coverage on the block. The space was most recently home to FIXX Coffee which closed after a short run this summer. Gartenstein says she’ll continue to serve Fremont Coffee, by the way.

Patty Pan Cafe is located at 2310 East Madison and is open Tuesday through Saturday from 7:30 AM to 3:30 PM. Learn more at http://www.pattypangrill.com/ or on Twitter @pattypancafe

Police tell SeattleCrime they have determined that the 33rd Ave house burned in Monday’s arson had been burglarized before the fire was set. Here’s the report from SeattleCrime:

It does appear the house was burglarized,” says Seattle Police Department spokesman Mark Jamieson. “In order to cover up that crime, the suspect” set the home on fire.

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Police on Wednesday released a sketch of the suspect in the incident.

The suspect is described as a black male with a medium to dark complexion, 18 to early 20′s, 5’11″ tall, 150 lbs., athletic build, and hair in corn rows. 

Anyone with information about this incident or who may know the identity or whereabouts of the suspect is asked to call 911 or Seattle Police immediately and refer to this incident. 

This remains an active and on-going Seattle Police Arson investigation.

12th Ave’s Watertown is no more. We weren’t Facebook friends with the coffee shop by day, bar by night so we can’t see the goodbye messages for ourselves. But CoffeeHERO was and did:

This past weekend, Watertown Coffee announced on Facebook that Sunday would be their last day.

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Watertown’s last day tomorrow Sunday 16th – for anyone that wants to celebrate with us come on down and help us drink the rest of the kegs and empty out those bottles. Drink specials all day. We love you guys, thanks for everything. Best customers in the world.

After reading the message, I raced down from Coffee Hero Headquarters and got in line at 1:15 PM. There was one guy in line in front of me. He got the last of the coffee. Before I could order my espresso, I was informed they were out of coffee. I also confirmed that it really was their last day.

Our attempts to contact Amy Vanderbeck and Daniel Perry, the folks behind Watertown, have so far gone unanswered. All we know is that Vanderbeck opened Watertown in 2009 in what used to be a glassblowing factory at 550 12th Ave down by Seattle University. The coffeeshop grew into a coffeeshop/bar. They showed World Cup games. They had some issues with Yelp. They hosted trivia. They got a street bench. And then they closed shop last Sunday, October 16th.

Seattle Fire is responding to a house fire on 33rd Ave near the intersection with East Olive Street. According to SFD, the fire in the basement is under control and firefighters have searched the house but nobody was found inside.