The East Precinct Crime Prevention Coalition is hosting a community meeting on Monday, March 8th to discuss the proposal of transitional housing for recently-released felons on the 100 block of 22nd Ave.  Facilitating the discussion will be Seattle Police Department’s Director John Hayes.

 Agenda items include a brief overview, current updates, and participant discussion.

Details:

Monday, March 8^th, 7 – 9 pm

Seattle University, Chardin Hall Room # 145

1020 E. Jefferson, 98122

Free parking is available, and can be reached by Metro bus lines 3, 4 & 9.

Enter the parking lot at 11^th & E. Jefferson, go into the front door and turn right, continuing to room #145.

As many of you know, we are hosting a community meeting on Monday, March 8th to discuss the 22^nd Avenue Re-entry House concerns.  Facilitating the discussion will be Seattle Police Department’s Director John Hayes.

Agenda items include a brief overview, current updates, and participant discussion.

 Seattle University has generously provided us with a meeting space that includes easy accessibility and free parking.

 Monday, March 8^th, 7 to 9 pm

Seattle University, Chardin Hall Room # 145

1020 E. Jefferson, 98122

 Enter the parking lot at 11^th & E. Jefferson, go into the front door and turn right, continuing to room #145- Please do not come early as the room will be in use until 6:55 PM.

 We are looking forward to seeing you there!

 With regards,

Stephanie Tschida, Chair

East Precinct Crime Prevention Coalition

We are hosting another adoption event with Under-Dawgz Rescue tomorrow Saturday the 6th from 11-3. We will have a wide variety of pups ready for their forever homes. So if you or someone you know are interested – show up early as there is usually a line of people excited for a chance to scoop up their perfect pup.

We also have one lovely kitty coming to our event – a 1 1/2 yr old calico manx – she is great with kids, tolerates dogs and is adorable!

For a complete list of the pups available tomorrow check out our site – 

immortaldogpetsupply.com

We are also looking for volunteers and foster homes for those that do not get adopted.

Hope to see you there!

So the car wash is back open and today there are people using it, blaring music (super loud bass) and it’s literally making my house vibrate.  I realize of course there is no emergency here, but does anyone have any suggestions as to how we curb this? It will go on all summer…

Thanks.

Come have fun and support Washington Music with Seattle’s biggest Mexican band, Banda Vagos. WMS Band Director and CD resident Kelly Barr plays trombone with the ensemble, along with several WMS grads. All proceeds will benefit the WMS music department in an effort to purchase new ergonomic chairs for our musicians (current chairs are from the 1950s) and cushion our scholarship fund so that we can continue to offer outstanding music opportunities to all Central District students.

Date: Friday, March 5, 2010 Time: 7:30pm – 10:30pm

Location: 7400 Sand Point Way NE Magnuson Park Building #30

$10 per person | All ages  

No-host beer/wine/snacks available

Tickets available at www.brownbagtickets.com and at the door

Dance lessons additional $3 at door, 7:00-7:30 pm

Our neighborhood kids grow up so darn fast. One day you wake up and The BottleNeck lounge has already turned three years old.

They’re throwing a big bash to celebrate the milestone on Saturday night from 8pm to 2am, with $3 champagne, the new menu of Hair of the Dog cocktails, and Skyy Vodka specials. They’ll be giving away som cook party favors too, including a night’s stay at some swanky digs in downtown Portland.

Happy Birthday Bottleneck!

 Corey Louviere, a Fine Arts teacher and Janet Woodward, a Librarian, both at Garfield High School, have won a $10,000 grant from Qwest to curate an exhibit on the history of the Central Area in Seattle.  Here is a summary of their winning grant proposal:

An ambitious photo exhibit project will engage Louviere and Woodward’s classes in an exploration of the history and culture of Seattle’s Central Area. Garfield High School, built in 1922, is one of many historical landmarks whose providence depicts a long, community narrative they plan to research. Students will document the multi‐cultural topography of the area, where six bus lines converge, and the rich diversity of its neighborhoods, commercial and community centers speak to the unique character of the area’s people and urban lifestyle.

In a series of field trips, students will photograph specific scenes, take notes and interview residents. Each student will select his or her best image for the exhibit and prepare statements that interpret the photograph and its context. Designed for peer review, project activities will have students develop rubrics that evaluate the quality of the images and the accompanying text, uploading their work and comments to a communal Web site. The best 20 photographs will be curated for public exhibit inmuseums, libraries and community centers and shown with an accompanying catalogue.

Louviere and Woodward have integrated academic standards from language arts, CTE subjects, the arts and media literacy. They feel strongly about the value of an inquiry‐based learning project. In their application, the teachers wrote: “The goal of this unit is to examine, identify and define authentic problems and significant questions for investigation, and to plan strategies that guide inquiry, construct meaning and communicate information … [The project] incorporates instructional skill modalities that use oral, verbal, written and tactile methods for our diverse participants. Students…will engage in eachmodality individually — collaborating and producing a final piece by working at their own pace, learning from others and meeting deadlines.”

Annie Galarosa, an Emeritus Faculty member at Seattle Central Community College, will “speak on the development of the Filipina psyche and identitiy from pre-colonial to post colonial times. Annie was born in the Philippines and raised in Seattle’s Central District, then know as the “CD”. Her experiences growing up in a predominantly Black and multicultural neighborhood, and the civil rights movement of the 60s and 70s was what inspired and motivated her toward her lifelong career interests in social justice, community involvement, and advocacy through mulitcultural counseling and teaching.”  The event takes place on 3/9/10 at 11:00 am in Room MAC 210.  The event is free, but you must rsvp to Tracy ([email protected]) or Jeb ([email protected]).

Broadstripe General Manager David Irons, who was also on the discussion panel at last nights Let’s Get Connected event, said that his company is the middle of a major new investment in the neighborhood that will increase the broadband speed and provide more channels to cable customers.

Irons says that recent changes should already provide higher and more consistent speeds for customers with internet cable modems. He told customers last night that “you should be getting at least 10 megabits [per second] right now. If you’re not, give us a call.” Broadstripe customer service can be reached at 800-829-CABL.

An additional change coming by July will quadruple the amount of bandwidth into the Broadstripe network, and they’re planning an upgraded to DOCSIS-3, the latest, fastest standard for providing internet over a cable system.

The multi-million dollar program will also provide a rebuild of the equipment in the cable company’s head-end facility where TV and network services are first distributed out to the neighborhood.  That will provide the ability to deliver more channels to cable tv customers.

Broadstripe has been in Chapter 11 bankruptcy since early last year, after being sued by two other companies after the collapse of deals that would have sold some Broadstripe properties and acquired some others. Irons said that process is almost done, and the company expects to emerge from bankruptcy by the end of this year.