Octiber 10th, 2012 – SGS and Coyote Central partner to offer Wednesday Workshops for girls in Robotics, Cooking, Fashion Design, and Welding!
http://www.seattlegirlsschool.org/welcome.php
Things not adding up lately? You’re not alone.
The city is offering free financial help 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. Saturday at Garfield Community Center. Online registration is closed, but you can still register in-person Saturday.
In today’s uncertain economy, planning for your financial future is more important than ever. Unfortunately, those in our community who need access to financial advice and counseling most of all are often those who have the least access to it. We’re working to make sure that everyone in our community has the resources they need to take control of their finances.
Join us this Saturday for Financial Planning Day, with free one-on-one personalized financial advice and credit counseling, workshops on budgeting, credit reports and more. Don’t miss this opportunity for a free, private consultation on financial issues that matter to you with experts from the Financial Planning Association®.
In addition to one-on-one consultations, there will be workshops on a variety of financial topics throughout the day. Stay as little or as long as you’d like. And it’s all free, so bring a friend!
Register today for free at FinancialPlanningDays.org/Seattle.
- Saturday, October 13
- 10:00 am – 2:00 pm
- Garfield Community Center
- 2323 East Cherry Street Seattle, WA 98122
- Please register if you need language translation or other accommodations.
- This facility is ADA accessible.
Here are some of the services offered:
Cycling Illustrated recently interviewed Alex Kostennik, owner of 20/20 Cycle on Union Street. 20/20 (named such because it’s address is 2020 E Union) is a welcoming, laid back shop, and the people who work there are really just interested in getting your ride rolling again. They will almost never try to upsell you or push expensive new components. I’ve gone in thinking I needed a new part and determined to buy one, only to leave happily with a small tweak or quick fix to the existing part done at no extra charge.
I’ve sometimes scratched my head, wondering how they make money if they keep fixing my problems for next to nothing. But then again, I’m now loyal to them and make sure to go there first for any little project or routine purchases, so I guess it worked!
In the interview, Kostelnik described his bike shop philosophy:
So now that your store’s been open for awhile, who do you think it caters to? Or do you think that it caters to anybody in particular?
We cater to moms with duct-taped Burley trailers with their kids inside on their way to Montessori school. People who ride in the rain, in the snow, it’s those people. Then it radiates out from there. If you were going to make a tree, the trunk of the tree is them. We’re super practical commuter people, me included.
The rest of the interview goes from discussing his days as a mechanic in other shops, the early days of 20/20, his thoughts on US foreign policy in the 1960s, life without a car, why he set up shop in the Central District, and more.
The interview also touches on 20/20’s new hand-built bikes: The Sealth. Originally dubbed the Kalakala, named after the 1930s Puget Sound ferry, the bike had to change names when the Kalakala’s owner threatened legal action. The frames, designed by Kostelnik, are made by Bombus Bikes, based in the InScape Arts building in the International District.
Horiuchi Park at Boren and Fir is getting a P-Patch community garden next year, and you can help plan and design it.
Seattle Parks is hosting a meeting 6–8 p.m. Thursday at Yesler Community Center to gather design input from residents.
By next year, Horiuchi Park will have a new feature – a P-Patch community garden. To help design the P-Patch, the Yesler Terrace and First Hill communities are invited to a meeting on October 11 from 6:00 – 8:00 p.m. at the Yesler Community Center (917 East Yesler Way). There will be food and children’s activities available.
Funded by Seattle Housing Authority with assistance from the HUD Choice Neighborhoods Initiative, the new community garden will provide a place for community members to grow fresh organic food and connect with neighbors. The legacy of the parks namesake, the late artist Paul Horiuchi, will be honored throughout the design process and construction of the community garden through artistic elements and historical context of his work.
When complete, the Horiuchi P-Patch community garden will be managed by the Seattle Department of Neighborhoods P-Patch Community Gardening Program.
For more information about the meeting or the site, contact Nate Moxley at [email protected] or 206-733-9586.
Cappy’s Boxing Gym hosted a packed house for the third annual Central District Boxing Revival Saturday at Garfield Community Center. The night featured boxing matches from various age groups, from beginners to Olympic hopefuls.
The Main Event featured rising star Jen Hamann, who won the bout before heading to Toledo, Ohio, to compete in the National PAL Boxing Championship tournament.
Proceeds from the night of boxing went to support Cappy’s, the CD’s own not-for-profit boxing gym at 22nd and Union.
CD photographer extraordinaire Truman Buffett was there and took some incredible photos (used here with permission). You can see more on his website. You can find photos of the Main Event here and photos from other bouts here (check back later as he adds more to this gallery).
LIFE ENRICHMENT BOOKSTORE PRESENTS AUTHORS’ MARATHON READINGS
Saturday, October 13, 2012 / 3:00PM – 7:00PM
5023 Rainier Avenue South, Seattle, WA 98118
206-722-1700 / 206-650-8791
Each author will discuss their book for approximately ten (10) minutes and will sign books all day.
The author presentation schedule is available by calling the phone number above. Admission is ONLY
$5.00 for all day! RAFFLES / DOOR PRIZES / REFRESHMENTS / ENTERTAINMENT
AUTHOR BOOK(S)
Dr. Stanley Allen, It’s Time to Stop
Marcia Tate Arunga, The Stolen Ones
Dr. Linda F. Beed. Business Unusual & Through the Fire
Roosevelt Brooks, Twenty-one Days – Plus
Karol V. Brown, 30 Lessons in Love, Leadership & Legacy from Harriet Tubman
Wanda B. Campbell, Home Again
Doreen Cato, Ed.D, Saving the Leader Within
Isa Farrington-Nichols, the Bullet was Meant for Me-D.C. Sniper Story Untold
Debrena Jackson Gandy, All the Joy You Can Stand & Sacred Pampering Principles
Cassandra Oakes, A Long Way Home & The Anointing
Shannea L. Patterson, Why I Wag My Tail
Walter Williams, Jr., Standing Up for Justice-The Emmett Till Murder Trial
JoAnn Spencer, The 7th Victim
Theresa Romance, My Path to Poetry While in Captivity
Saba Teklegiorgis, The Art and Science of Success
David Thomas, The 10 Things Every Black Man Should Know
Tiah N. Young, Disenchanted
Additional authors will be added prior to October 13th.
Life Enrichment is MORE than a bookstore!
It’s not too late to become a Life Enrichment Bookstore member! Call the bookstore for additional information.
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Central District Boxing Revival, 2011 from Gretchen Burger on Vimeo.
It’s time for the annual Cappy’s Boxing Gym Central District Boxing Revival. Saturday at Garfield Community Center. Watch amateur boxers of all ages take to the ring for a community boxing event that only happens in the Central District.
Details from Cappy’s:
Cappy’s Boxing Club, a 501(c)3 will be hosting it’s 3rd Annual Central District Boxing Revival on October 6, 2012.
This USA Boxing sanctioned event will match amateur boxers, ages 8 to 34, from clubs all over the Northwest region. There will be a special guest appearance by The Total Experience Gospel Choir. Additionally, there will be music throughout the event by DJ Joy, food by Jemil’s Big Easy food truck, and an art exhibition by the Cappy’s Boxing Club.
The event will take place at the Garfield Community Center at 2323 E. Cherry. Doors open at 5:30PM and the main event starts at 6PM. It’s only $5 for adults and and kids under 5 are free.
Proceeds benefit Cappy’s Boxing Club, a non-profit club, which has provided local amateur boxers with the opportunity to train for Olympic level competition and develop the skills and confidence to face their fears in and out of the ring.
Please contact Vanessa at [email protected] for more information or see www.boxingrevival.com.
CAPPY’S BOXING GYM WEBSITE: http://www.cappysgym.com
VIDEO OF LAST YEAR’S EVENT: https://vimeo.com/32417448
FACEBOOK PAGE: http://www.facebook.com/BoxingRevival
Here are some excellent portraits of two Cappy’s boxers who will be in the ring Saturday, courtesy of Truman Buffett:
Giddens School will be hosting an All-School Open House on Wednesday, November 14th from 6:30-8:00 p.m. Childcare will be provided for children ages 3 and older on a 1st come 1st served basis. Please RSVP for childcare at [email protected].
www.giddensschool.org
Reel Grrls has been empowering more and more young women with media-creation skills ever since they moved to 21st and Union nearly five years ago. Now, after a topsy-turvy year and a half, the organization has emerged stronger than ever with a big new grant from Boeing to keep it growing.
In spring 2011, one of the organization’s biggest sponsors, Comcast, pulled its funding in response to a critical tweet from Reel Grrls, which has a strong media justice mission. In the weeks that followed, donations poured in from all over the country, and the organization declined an apologetic Comcast’s offer to reinstate the funds. After all, they had raised more money from private donations than the original sponsorship amount.
The organization also so its first new Executive Director take the helm after Founder and longtime ED Malory Graham stepped down after leading Reel Grrls for its first decade of growth. With Robin Held now in charge, a new website and money flowing in from private donations, city grants and corporate sponsorships, Reel Grrls could be moving from beloved arts organization to a Seattle and CD cultural institution.
More details on the Boeing grant from Reel Grrls:
This week, The Boeing Company awarded Reel Grrls a Change Capital Grant for $75,000 over the next two years to expand its social enterprise venture, Reel Grrls Productions.
Reel Grrls Productions (RGP) is the mission-driven, fee-based creative agency of Reel Grrls, in which young women exploring careers in digital filmmaking and technology gain advanced skills and professional development while creating affordable video content for local and national clients. Reel Grrls Productions affords an unprecedented opportunity for young women filmmakers to gain work/life experience and forge client relationships. RGP is also is the answer for clients seeking an alternative to a high-cost commercially-produced video. For a mid-sized arts organization like Reel Grrls, RGP both serves the organization’s mission, and is an important source of sustainable revenue.
Sami Muilenburg (age 21), who has been active in Reel Grrls as a student, apprentice and intern since 2005 and who received a full scholarship to NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts in 2009, says:
Most film production opportunities for someone my age involve working as an assistant, but working at RG Productions gave me real world management and producing experience. I am now entering my final year of film school, and I feel much more confident about my job search with RG Productions under my belt. I now have the skills and experience to negotiate contracts, work with clients, and manage a film crew… It’s been a dream opportunity for me.
The Boeing Company’s generous support will allow Reel Grrls to expand staff for RGP, allowing the agency to provide real world video production experience to a greater number of girls, offer more advanced training workshops, and serve more than 20 community organizations through affordable video production services in 2013 and 2014.
In addition, Washington State government recently renewed its successful film incentive program for the next five years and the City of Seattle is continuing to see a substantial amount of film industry growth as a result. According to James Keblas, Director of the City of Seattle Mayor’s Office of Film and Music:
Reel Grrls is more important now than ever before. Film production crews and the industry in general are still heavily male dominated. By offering advanced technical training, leadership skill, and job skills for young women, Reel Grrls Productions will help us change this at a time when considerable industry investments are being made.
From 2009 to 2011, Reel Grrls Productions tripled the number of productions created and income generated, with an increasing list of return clients. This growing client demand speaks to the need for this service in our community. Since 2009, RGP has created media for the Seattle Opera, The Seattle Foundation, Paramount Theater, Mercy Housing Northwest, and the City of Kent/Kent Arts Commission, to name a few. Reel Grrls Director Robin Held stated:
Reel Grrls Productions is a very important way for us achieve our organizational goal to offer job training and prepare young women for the 21st-century economy. With The Boeing Company’s support to expand RGP, we are confident that it will continue to be a vital source of income for Reel Grrls.
UPDATE: That’s not all. Reel Grrls has also been picked to lead Adobe’s Youth Voices
Reel Grrls was chosen by the the Adobe Foundation to greatly expand Adobe Youth Voices in the Seattle area. Adobe Youth Voices is an international strategic partnership dedicated to building young people’s creativity, civic engagement, and communication skills, teaching partners like Reel Grrls were handpicked from organizations worldwide to represent leaders in the field of youth media education. Both the City of Seattle Community Technology Program and the Seattle International Film Festival are leading partners in this endeavor, and will help to ensure its success this year.
Other AYV Global partners include afterschool programs, youth leadership agencies, arts organizations, and school districts across. This year, over 900 youth at 20 schools and community organizations in our region will work on projects that allow them to develop new media skills and to express their voice about issues they care about. These projects will be showcased here in Seattle at SIFF and via the Adobe Youth Voices web site.
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“This partnership between Adobe, Reel Grrls and Seattle’s Department of Information Technology is a very exciting step for building the landscape of youth media in Seattle,” stated AYV Strategic Partership Coordinator and Reel Grrls Founder Malory Graham. She continued, “The 20 schools and youth organizations that we will be working with this year will have a huge impact of providing cutting-edge media education to Seattle’s young people–and having the backing of Adobe, Seattle’s Dept of Information Technology and the Seattle Internatonal Film Festival means the program will have real traction.”
SPD introduced a service last week that could come in handy the next time you hear sirens.
Tweets by Beat is a new system that broadcasts SPD dispatch data via Twitter. The accounts have even earned the department some attention in the New York Times.
Each precinct’s beat has a Twitter feed of its own. For the CD, here are the accounts you might want to consider following — or at least checking out from time to time:
Central District Tweets by Beat
You can look up your beat by address here.
The dispatches are on a one-hour delay:
There are a few caveats: in order to protect crime victims, officers, and the integrity of crime scenes, calls will appear on the Twitter feeds one hour after a dispatcher sends the call to an officer. The feeds also do not include information about domestic violence calls, sexual assaults, and other certain types of crimes.
The city says the new service helps SPD meet elements of the DOJ consent decree.
Our sister site Capitol Hill Seattle has been watching the feeds in test mode for a few weeks. For a news gatherer, it’s nice to have an additional element of always-on information for the neighborhood. But the feeds are pretty high traffic for a more relaxed, less stressed out, better rested member of the community like yourself. You might want to just keep the links handy for the next time you hear sirens. Anybody can view the links above — you don’t need to have a Twitter account to access the feed pages.
SPD is also continuing to map the past 48 hours of dispatch information on the city’s My Neighborhood map system. The department tweets important updates via @seattlepd and posts a selection of higher-profile crime reports to the SPD Blotter site. A wider selection of burglary, assault and robbery reports continue to be available for download here after they are redacted and private information is removed.
The new feeds likely render unnecessary some of the information sources we experimented with like @CDScanner. For an archive of SPD dispatches, our 911seattle.com site remains useful — for now.
CDNews also broadcasts live crime and 911 information via the @CDNews account as part of our general coverage. Please share items of interest you find in the new SPD information sources and feel free to ask questions about what you see. You can also call or txt (206) 696-3059 or send us mail at [email protected].
EDITOR’S NOTE: This is my last day of vacation in St. Louis, where I have been for the past week. Look for CDNews to get back to full speed tomorrow.