Hello my name is Arthur Banks SR I ran the B.B.Q stand known as (MAMAWILLIEBELLS BBQ) on Madrona Beach  from 2003 to 2008 with great success until these hard time of today that force me to close my seasonal business.  I ‘m also know for working with At-Risk Youth ages 10 and 21.  I  was reading the CDN for the frist time today and the Philly Cheese Steak building is a building that I would be interested in putting my style of fast food in. The name would  ARTIE B’s  Wings and BURGER’S home of MAMAWILLIEBELL’S B.B.Q.  The menu would be the following: 7 type of Chicken wings, 9 type of Burgers and 7style of sides to choose from yams, potato salad, green beans and potato, home made corn bread, mac & cheese,dirty rice, corn-on the cobb and.  B.B.Q would be on sale Fri – Sun only.   All of you that remember me from Madrona Beach already know what I do with B.B.Q.need i say any more.   I would need investers to pull it of: is there any body out there game to make money?????

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I literally came within inches of hitting three Franklin HS kids this morning who were crossing the street in the middle of moving traffic. A van in the left-hand lane was stopped, I was in the right hand lane, and next thing you know there were three kids in front of my car. I screeched to a stop and luckily didn’t hit them, or get hit myself by the car in back of me.   

I commute to work everyday heading north on Rainier and too many times to count over the past couple years I have almost hit kids (or witnessed other cars stopping, or screeching to a stop) who are crossing Rainier Ave south of this intersection without using the overpass or cross walks. It’s a very busy traffic time of the morning, and the kids don’t even wait until there are no cars passing. They start stepping out into the street and they basically obligate the cars to stop for them. And of course, most of the time cars do stop because, who wants to hit a kid? This seems to be an issue always around the same time for me, between about 7:30 and 7:45 in the mornings. If I’m passing by here a little earlier or a little later, I don’t see the same problem. It is this specific 15 minute period of time when this seems to be an issue in the mornings.

I feel like I need to do something to let people know this is a problem.  I have called the school at least five times over the past couple of years about this. They’ve told me there’s nothing they can really do, to call the police, so I have done this as well a number of times. Once in a while the police do station someone there to monitor, and the issue improves for a while. Today (and many other days recently) there was a police officer with a radar gun two blocks south of this intersection when I almost hit these kids (two blocks south was obviously too far away to do anything about this issue).

 Today, because I had to do something more than just call, I went and was able to speak with the Vice Principal, Patricia Newton, at Franklin. She listened, and said she understood this was a big problem. But, unfortunately, I didn’t feel that she wasn’t very helpful with regard to working on any new solutions. She told me “we’ve told the kids not to do this” and “we’ve talked with the police” but told me there wasn’t anything more they can do. I asked about stationing one of their security people down there (because I remember they used to do this and this was effective), but she says they don’t have the resources and she wouldn’t promise something that they wouldn’t follow through with. Franklin High says it’s not their problem. I wonder if it will be “more of their problem” when a child or children are killed or seriously injured?

It seems terrible to wait for something terrible to happen before we respond with some action.  

The Madrona Community Council reconvenes tonight at 7:15pm in the Madrona Playfield shelterhouse, one month after 30+ new attendees brought a burst of optimism for the future of the council.

Here’s the tentative agenda for tonight’s meeting.

I.   Attendee Introductions 

II.   Email list and Google Group

III.  Brief introduction of MCC bylaws. 

IV.  Discussion of vacant MCC officer positions and future officer election. 

V.   Other items of community interest and need 

Regarding the Google Group – full disclosure, I helped set up this email list – the MCC is working to find more effective ways of communicating news about their meetings and agenda. Community members can sign up for the low-traffic email list at the Madrona Community Council Google Group page.

The circumstances are eerily similar. A lost driver. The wrong place. Wrong time. Wrong people packing a gun and pepper spray. SeattleCrime has details on yet another pepper spray and pistol stick-up in the Central District:

In the most recent incident we’ve come across, two suspects pulled a handgun on a man and pepper sprayed him on December 3rd after the victim stopped and asked the suspects for directions.

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According to police, the victim pulled up to the two suspects at 21st and E Spruce around 5:45pm after he got lost on his way to a friend’s house.

One suspect then pulled out a black handgun and demanded the victim’s money.

CDN reported on what victims said was a similar hold-up of a car full of people on the icy night of November 24th at Columbia and MLK. That incident sent three people to the hospital to be treated for pepper spray exposure.

It is legal to own and carry pepper spray in Seattle and the state of Washington though you must be 18 years or older. While not available on the typical grocery mart shelves, it’s a relatively easy to acquire weapon as it is often marketed as “bear repellent.”

The Pratt Fine Arts Center annual holiday sale is a Central District tradition — that has moved out of the Central District.

In 2009, the art sale was moved off-site from the center’s 19th S. and S. Main home to the vacant retail space in the Legacy at Pratt Park Apartments. This year, Pratt relocated the sale to Pioneer Square, a location that despite being smaller, offers additional foot traffic due to its close proximity to Safeco Field and downtown, organizers say.

The Art Sale also had the opportunity to be featured in the First Thursday art walk last week. The new space at 155 S. Main Street is no stranger to hosting art galleries, and it came well-equipped with proper display window cases and lighting units, making for less labor-intensive setup by the art sale staff. Overall, the new Pioneer Square location has seen increased walk-in traffic, and increased potential to find a new part of the community to get the word out about Pratt Fine Arts Center, communications director Grace Meils said.

The 2010 sale began on December 2nd, and runs through the 11th, open from 10am to 7pm. The gallery space is brightly lit and full of tables showcasing a variety of art for sale, including glass art, paintings, jewelry, and arts and crafts. Proceeds benefit both local artists and the Pratt Fine Arts Center.

Pratt Fine Arts Center is a place for artists of all ages and abilities to learn and create in the form of glass, jewelry, metal, sculpture, and 2D art.  Meils said hosting the annual at the center was beneficial since it brought visitors into the studios, but also difficult since it required temporary dismantling of art studios, causing displacement of students and artists.

Each year, the Holiday Art Sale raises close to $100,000, which is split between Pratt and other associated artists. Since Pratt is non-profit, 40% of proceeds support Pratt operations, while 60% goes to the artist. Organizers say the sale is a way to support artists in promoting themselves and their work. It’s a great place to shop. But the bigger goals of promoting creativity and artistic appreciation are more important than the cash.

Modular Home Craning Day in the Jackson Place Community.

For the first time, GREENFAB will install a LEED platinum modular home in a Seattle in the Jackson Place Community. The modules will be lifted by a crane 60 ft in the air and be installed on a pre poured foundation on S. Lane Street. Come hang out in the JPC and check out the installation from 10am – 4pm.

During the installation event, Greenfab will be hosting a FOOD DRIVE through the Food Bank at St. Mary’s to help provide food to those in need this winter on Tuesday December 7th please bring non-perishable protein and vegetable items to S. Lane St/18th @ the Greenfab information tent.  

Check out the information tent to get more details about the new project & module homes. Greenfab will have FBSM containers waiting to be filled up! They will be serving up organic coffee & treats from Cafe Weekend for each item donated. 

* S. Lane Street will be closed to traffic so you can park on any of the nearby streets. Check out the Greenfab Facebook Page for further details. Please enter from 18th & S. Lane for the best views.

House location:1827 S. Lane St, Seattle WA 98144 CLICK HERE FOR MAP

10am- 4pm Tuesday December 7th

We got a knock on the door about 5 minutes ago. A middle aged african american man knocked on our door and this guy shoved a copy of The Daily into my husbands hands. He then went on about raising money for some unspecified university project and wanted us to trade him a dollar for The daily newspaper (which is free). He was talking about a mile a minute. I heard all this happening and told my husband to shut the door! 

So there’s your warning. He’s back!

Only yards from an AM/PM mini-mart and service station, a new grocery store is planning to open on the northwest corner of Cherry at 23rd. The Cherry Corner Market and Deli still appears to be in planning and construction phases as owners Samuel Tadesse and Daniel Abahynhe are completing the paperwork required to launch the new business — and get a key liquor license that will allow the market to sell beer and wine.

The corner once housed the Update barber and salon which has now moved two doors north.

Beyond the business factors of operating a market directly across the street from a national quick-e-mart brand, the application to sell liquor bears watching given the store’s proximity to Garfield High School. In December 2008, the Twilight Exit faced opposition from Seattle Public Schools when it sought to move to Cherry from its former home on East Madison. That situation was eventually sorted out after a week of politicking including some campaigning right here on CDN.

As pointed out recently in comments, the Washington State Liquor Control Board has granted other recent liquor applications in the area but we’re following up with the WSLCB. Typically, the state is driven by local community decisions in these applications. We’re checking with the control board and Seattle Schools to see if there are plans for any additonal “good neighbor agreement” requirements for the Cherry Corner Market.