A mint-condition copy of The Seattle Times showcasing the World's Fair. Photo courtesy of Second Use Building Materials
A person who wanted to remain anonymous recently found an intact copy of the April 8, 1962, special edition of The Seattle Times which featured splashy graphics and stories about the Century 21 World’s Fair.
The person cleans out distressed homes for a living and while working on one home (no word yet on if it was in Queen Anne) uncovered the vintage newspaper. The person then brought the paper to the staff at Second Use Building Materials in the South District.
Come April, it will have been 50 years since the World’s Fair cast an international light on sleepy Seattle. Fair organizers estimated that the fair would attract more than 2 million visitors, and that many were anticipating inaugural rides up the Space Needle.
If you have any memories from the World’s Fair or want to share some artifact you’ve kept all these years, please send a picture and a description to The View at tips@queenanneview.com.
Queen Anne merchants are no slouches when it comes to showing their respect and gratitude to veterans. On Friday, a variety of offerings at restaurants and cafes will be on the house for all veterans. Here is the list so far.
Queen Anne Cafe – Free meal for veterans.
Dicks (all locations) – Free hamburger or cheeseburger for veterans.
Tenoch Mexican Grill – Free meal for veterans. (QA location only)
La Luna – Free meal for veterans. Make sure you make a s’more on their fire table too!
Olympia Pizza & Spaghetti House – Free meal for veterans.
El Diablo – Free coffee for veterans.
Pinka Bella Cupcakes – Free cupcake for veterans.
If your child missed taking his or her picture earlier this year at Queen Anne Elementary School, or if the picture was something that would never grace the family wall, a second chance has arrived.
Pictures will be retaken at the school Friday, Nov. 18. Those who have already taken a picture must return the first picture packet to qualify for a free re-take. Those who missed the earlier picture date can pick up a re-take envelope in the main office.
Do you like movies about massive pumpkins? Are you tired of Hollywood putting the kibosh on squash flicks? Well now’s your chance to indulge as Queen Anne resident Mimi Gan and Magnolia resident Jim Dever will present their documentary, “Giants,” at 7 p.m., Nov. 18 at the Jewelbox Theater at 2322 Second Ave.
The story is about the intense rivalry among Pacific Northwest pumpkin growers competing to win the World Championship Pumpkin Weigh-Off in Half Moon Bay, Calif. It’s narrated by actor and Puget Sound resident Tom Skerritt and has original music by Emmy Award-winning composer Hummie Mann. It also features a cameo by local celebrity gardner Ciscoe Morris.
“Giants” has already won the Audience Award at the 2010 Gig Harbor Film Festival and had its world premiere at the 2010 San Francisco Documentary Film Festival and the Napa-Sonoma Wine Country Film Festival.
Tickets are $10 and proceeds will benefit former Seattle Mariners slugger Edgar Martinez’ The Martinez Foundation, which supports education. You can get tickets by visiting www.brownpapertickets.com.
The “polls” closed at 8 o’clock last night. The big story of the election is that voters have decided to get the state out of the liquor business. Here is a look at the early results (updated at 6:30 a.m.) from the Washington State Secretary of State:
Initiative Measure 1183 Concerning liquor: beer, wine, and spirits (hard liquor).
59.69% Yes
40.31% No
Initiative Measure 1125 Concerning state expenditures on transportation.
49.07% Yes
50.93% No
Initiative Measure 1163 Concerning long-term care workers and services for elderly and disabled people.
66.77% Yes
33.23% No
Senate Joint Resolution 8205 Concerning the length of time a voter must reside in Washington to vote for president and vice president.
71.45% Yes
28.55% No
Senate Joint Resolution 8206 Concerning the budget stabilization account maintained in the state treasury.
66.88% Yes
33.12% No
Last year at this time Brian Bennett introduced Queen Anne to Eternal Energizers and Immunity Nectars and Kiwi Kics when he opened the neighborhood’s first Emerald City Smoothie franchise.
The native New Orleanian fled from Hurricane Katrina six years ago to make a go of owning his own business. It was either New York, Chicago or Seattle. He’d been to Seattle before, liked the views and the culture and so he packed up and moved out. Last year he launched the ECS store at 1835 Queen Anne Ave. N. and to celebrate the first anniversary, he is having special deals on several of the smoothies with the catchy names on Friday, Nov. 11.
Lola, an indoor black cat has gone missing.
The cat was last seen around Queen Anne Avenue North and West McGraw Street. She’s about six pounds, small but full grown. She has a patch of hair missing on the left side of her head and has a white patch on her lower belly. She was discovered missing around 1 p.m., Tuesday. Owners are offering a $100 reward for Lola. Contact the owners at kvclemens@gmail.com.
A Seattle Country Day School sixth grader assembles the axle of the to-scale hull of an Olympic-class ocean liner. The class was an example of the inquiry-based learning philosophy the school is known for.
The view outside Seattle Country Day School which overlooks the George Washington Memorial (Aurora) Bridge, the Cascades and on a good day Mount Baker, is something to behold. But the view on the inside, particularly in Ms. Peterson’s sixth-grade science class is something else.
It’s where a dozen students, some of the brightest Seattle has to offer, take inquiry-based learning to new heights. The classroom has rows of desks and lab stations behind them, but on the periphery are scrap PVC pipes, tape, plastic wheels, rubber bands, toilet paper tubes, wire, cardboard, plastic forks, tape-measures, spools of tubing and boxes of random junk. The scrap marks the starting point where students begin developing their experiential, spatial, problem-solving, creative and fine motor skills. Peterson merely sets up the parameters while the students solve the challenges before them. The challenge in this unit? To figure out how the Titanic, Britannic and Olympic steamer ships from the famed White Star Line were built.
A SCDS student tests her pump powered fork lift by lifting a small stuffed animal. The students were also working on gantries and davit systems which will be on display Nov. 22.
A SCDS student sketches a prototype gantry crane modeled after those used in the building of the Titanic, Britannic and Olympic ocean liners.
Students were tasked with building the hulls, fork lifts, gantry cranes and the lifeboat davit systems each ship used some 100 years ago today.
With some prompts, students were given free reign to devise the fork lifts using toilet-paper rolls, plastic forks, bobby pins and a pump. A bobby pin was opened then taped against the backs of two forks that faced one another. The pin created the tension to keep the forks open like jaws. To close the jaws they would be pulled through a tube of toiletpaper by a plastic pump. The students moved right through the five steps of the scientific method (question, hypothesis, run the experiment, prove and disprove and draw conclusions). They tested the forklift by grabbing five random objects then recording the tests in their notebooks.
They looked at pictures of the actual gantry cranes used to design the three ships then Peterson brought out a prototype, which students, sitting in a circle around the object, began sketching. One student used his Apple MacBook Pro to take a picture of the prototype. Then each student began cutting PVC pipe for their gantry.
SCDS science teacher Ellie Peterson demonstrates how the gantry crane works. Students were building cranes, forklifts and ship hulls while learning about the fate of three White Star Line ships built 100 years ago.
“Should we start building?” one asked.
“Yeah!” Teacher Ellie Peterson said.
“Awesome,” the student replied.
The intrinsic motivation was well ingrained in each of the students, several helping one another, commenting on their projects, testing together. The motivation was fueled by the project in their hands and connected by the historical significance: The Titanic’s famous sinking by iceberg and the Brittanic’s untimely demise in 1916 while serving as a hospital ship during World War I it struck a German mine and sunk off the coast of Greece. The Olympic was never sunk and was used until 1935.
The to-scale hulls of the ships had already been designed using long, heavy strips of cardboard and tape, glue and clothespins to affix makeshift axles to orange plastic wheels. Rubber bands were wrapped around the wheels and stretched across the hull to mimic how ships are propelled from their drydock into the Belfast Harbor. The Belfast Harbor at SCDS was the hallway floor and an opened tape measure showed how far each hull traveled.
The concept for the engineering event came years ago from veteran SCDS teacher Meredith Olson Ph.D., who has been with the school for 36 years and currently teaches fourth- and fifth-grade science. She now collaborates with Peterson and science teacher James Spies to discuss potential themes that would incorporate history and other disciplines in the teaching of engineering principles. These crossroads are often where student intrinsic motivation meets with Csikszentmihalyi’s flow motivation theory whereby the student’s abilities match the challenge of a task so well that he or she can simply enjoy the experience.
“They [students] usually don’t exercise these skills except in art,” Peterson said while carefully watching students use a ratchet pipe cutter to slice through the PVC pipe. “So this is a different place to do it.”
Peterson has done similar projects over the years, such as an edible cell project where every component of a human cell is built using something edible. Then there was the flinker project. Students had to figure out how to create something, a flinker, that would neither float nor sink but remain where it was placed in the water – as a way to illustrate the principle of density. Then there was the genius of the China project, “my favorite theme so far,” Peterson said. Again using scrap parts, students designed various items invented in China such as the wheelbarrow and the rickshaw. One student’s wheelbarrow, Peterson recounted, was actually strong enough to carry someone.
In 1916 the HMHS (Her Majesty's Hospital Ship) Britannica was commissioned as a hospital ship during World War I and sunk when it struck a German-planted mine off the coast of Greece.
Peterson’s class projects will be on display from 9-10:30 a.m., Tuesday, Nov. 22. Visitors should first check in at the main office. For more information contact SCDS development director Joan Hudson at 206-691-2621.
The Seattle Times is reporting the Seattle Public Schools is backing away from a proposal that would have given principals oversight over school newspapers, an plan that had staff The Talisman at Ballard High School fuming.
The district withdrew the plans last night but agreed to revisit the plan next year when it “better reflects the community’s values,” according to a news release.
Pinkabella owner Margo Engberg with her daughter. Photo courtesy of Margo Engberg.
As of Halloween her cupcake company is only two years old, but Margo Engberg is already adding a fifth location.
In March, Engberg will open a store in the Southcenter mall in Tukwila. She recently signed a five-year lease at the mall that sees literally millions of visitors each year.
“The store will likely be our busiest,” Engberg said. “It’s one of the biggest malls this side of the Mississippi.”
Southcenter ownership had been pursuing Pinkabella since it opened in Redmond two years ago, but Engberg held off. Now that she is more established, is more confident and has four stores behind her, launching a fifth at the expansive mall seemed the right move. She said, she did a little research and saw there was not a lot of competition south of Bellevue. She has clients who come up from the south end and decided to make a move.
Photo courtesy of Margo Engberg.
The store will not open until March and will miss the holiday rush, though Engberg has proposed opening a kiosk in the middle of the mall for the time being. That may not happen as the mall is 100 percent leased, Engberg said.
Engberg launched the company in Redmond two years ago and added stores in the Alderwood Mall in Lynnwood, Bellevue and Queen Anne. And she is already in talks for a sixth store. “This was not in my plan at all,” she said, “never in my wildest dreams. My plan was to have my little Redmond store and that’s it.”
On the Ave, kids from McClure Middle School and St. Anne often saunter in looking for a quick, mid-afternoon treat. Engberg is hoping the Queen Anne store continues its growth pattern with kids and adults. So far so good as Pinkabella was named, for a second time the best cupcake store in Western Washington by Evening Magazine. And today the Red Tricycle kids site gave it one of its Most Awesome awards.
Tomorrow is election day in King County. Don’t forget to get your ballot in the mail so it can be postmarked by Tuesday. Or you can drop it in an official Ballot Box in front of the Ballard Library, on the corner of NW 57th Street and 22nd Avenue NW (no postage needed if dropped in a ballot box).
King County produced a video guide for the countywide offices of King County Assessor, King County Elections Director, Metropolitan King County Council and Port of Seattle Commissioners. On the video guide, each candidate has two minutes to speak.
Registered voters who have not received a ballot should contact the King County Elections Department at 206-296-VOTE (8683).
King County mailed about 1.1 million ballots. Elections Director Sherril Huff expects about a 52 percent turnout in this election.
Marni Heffron who has been working with Paul Allen’s Vulcan Inc. in South Lake Union, will be addressing the South Lake Union/Queen Anne/Uptown Triangle Mobility Plan and WSDOT Alaska Way Viaduct North Portal Update at the next Queen Anne Chamber luncheon.
Heffron is an engineer and founder Heffron Transportation, Inc. Since 2006 she has been the facilitator of the Mercer Corridor Stakeholder Committee and lead consultant on the South Lake Union Uptown Triangle Mobility Plan. The latter is directed by the South Lake Union Community Council, South Lake Union Chamber of Commerce, Queen Anne Uptown Alliance and the Greater Queen Anne Chamber of Commerce. Her work is paid for by Vulcan, Inc., Amazon.com and the Gates Foundation.
The luncheon is 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 17, at the Executive Inn Best Western at 200 Taylor St. in lower Queen Anne. If you would like to go, RSVP at www.queenannechamber.org.
Journalism students at Ballard High School say a proposal in front of the Seattle School Board violates their first amendment rights. They say the “new policy would remove student responsibility for content and set the stage for administrative censorship.” The proposal, which was introduced at the last School Board meeting, gives school principals the right to review student newspapers before they’re published.
Kate Clark, the editor-in-chief of the Ballard Talisman, and Katie Kennedy, the managing editor, are furious at the proposal. On Friday, the duo spent their afternoon plastering downtown Ballard with these fliers (.pdf).
From the flier:
CURRENT POLICY: Students have the right to FREEDOM OF THE PRESS and may express their personal opinions in writing. They must take full responsibility for the content of their publications by identifying themselves as authors and or editors of the publication. They are not allowed to make personal attacks or publish libelous or obscene material. –Seattle Public Schools Student Rights and Responsibilities 2011-2012
PROPOSED POLICY: The principal may request to review any copy prior to its publication. Material must be free of content that: runs counter to the instructional program; is libelous; obscene or profane; contains threats of violence towards a person; invades a person’s privacy; demeans any race, religion, sex, or ethnic group; advocates the violation of the law or school rule; advertises the tobacco products, liquor, illicit drugs, or drug paraphernalia; materially and substantially disrupts the operations of the school; or, is inappropriate for the maturity level of the students. –Superintendent Procedure 3220SP
The students currently work with an adult adviser on the Talisman, and they can print whatever they want, using journalistic best-practices. They believe that if the proposed changes are approved, 80 percent of their content would be cut. “We challenge a lot of the things that happen,” Clark says. “We don’t want that right to challenge authority to be taken away from us.”
Students do have free expression, Teresa Wippel with Seattle Public School says, but the district can regulate some of what they write. This is a way, Wippel tells us, for the district to have a uniform policy on student publications. After checking with the district attorney, she says that because the students are working on school grounds, using school resources, this proposal is well within their rights on the state and federal level.
The Superintendent Procedure 3220SP states:
The Superintendent is authorized to develop guidelines assuring that students are able to enjoy free expression of opinion while mantaining orderly conduct of the school.
In order for a student publication or speech to be restricted for causing a material and substantial disruption, there must exist specific facts upon which it would be reasonable to forecast that a clear and present likelihood of an immediate substantial disruption to normal school activity would occur if the material were published and distributed. Material and substatial disruption includes, but is not necessarily limited to: student riots; destruction of propoerty; widespread shouting or boisterous conduct; or substantial student participation in a school boycott, sit in, stand-in, walk-out or other form of activity.
“The idea is, obviously, we want to educate future journalists on their rights and responsibilities,” Wippel says.
“How are we supposed to learn to be responsible when we’re not given responsibility in the first place?” Kennedy says.
Clark and Kennedy are encouraging community members to attend the next School Board meeting on Nov. 16. Wippel tells us that action will be taken on Dec. 7.
In early October, Seattle Kids Dentistry announced it would buy back candy from treat-heavy trick-or-treaters. Queen Anners responded as the dental office on the Ave handed out more than 1,500 sugar-free tooth-shaped suckers in the first two hours of the merchant trick-or-treat event last week. Owner Purva Merchant said the office saw more than 2,000 visitors. And the $1 a pound buy-back program collected 103 pounds of uneaten candy. Queen Anne kids could get up to $10 for their candy returns.
Want to see some changes at Seattle Public Schools (SPS) but feel like your voice doesn’t matter?
Well here’s your shot to be heard. SPS is holding open office hours for its team of leaders including Dr. Susan Enfield, Interim Superintendent; Dr. Cathy Thompson, Assistant Superintendent of Teaching and Learning; Pegi McEvoy, Assistant Superintendent of Operations; and Bob Boesche, Interim Assistant Superintendent for Business & Finance.
SPS Superintendent Susan Enfield. Courtesy of SPS.
The hours are available in 15-minute slots between 3 and 5 p.m., on Thursdays.
Appointments are first come first serve. You can talk about anything but suggestions include schools, curriculum, transportation, finance, enrollment and policy.
Pretty soon you’ll be able to get your carrots on the roof.
A new P-Patch garden is planned at the top of the Mercer Garage at Third Avenue North and Mercer Street, the result of the partnership with neighborhood volunteers, Seattle Center and Seattle Department of Neighborhoods.
To develop the idea, organizers are inviting the Queen Anne community to learn more about the garden and have some input on the design, construction and how to get involved.
The meeting is 7-8:30 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 17 at the Shaw Room (near KeyArena) in the Seattle Center at 305 Harrison St.
The project is just one of dozens funded through the 2008 Parks and Green Spaces Levy, which dedicated $2 million toward P-Patch garden development. The funding has led to the support of 20 new or expanded P-Patch gardens. For more information contact Phi Huynh at 206.684.4531 or phi.huynh@seattle.gov.
On the silver screen Henry Fonda lionized the role of the dissenting juror in Sidney Lumet’s 1957 classic “12 Angry Men.”
Now that story will take a more feminine approach at Seattle Pacific University which is presenting “Twelve Angry Women,” Nov. 10-12 and 19.
The play is a clinic in limited storytelling in that the whole thing takes place in a confined jury room where 12 jurors deliberate the fate of a young man accused in his father’s murder. The potential for insight into feminist literary theory, and historical literary theory is immense in this 2011 retelling. For tickets and more information click here.
Eight school districts in eight counties in Washington have jumped on the chance for state funding for technology that would reduce diesel emissions on buses. But Seattle Public Schools isn’t one of them.
The state Department of Ecology had solicited grants that would help districts pay for devices that would reduce diesel emissions on buses during the cold months. Often school buses have to idle for several minutes to warm up the cabin and defrost windows. Attaching the devices would eliminate that need. Specific costs and numbers of buses for each district are still being determined. They will depend on which technologies are chosen for installation. The DOE set aside $500,000 for the work. Over the past 10 years, the DOE has provided close to $30 million to help school districts add emission-reduction technology. With the new devices, the DOE is estimating that each bus will use on average 125 fewer gallons of gas per year.
The participating counties and school districts are:
Adams: Lind
Chelan: Entiat
Ferry: Curlew
Island: Oak Harbor
King: Snoqualmie
Klickitat: White Salmon
Okanogan: Methow Valley
Yakima: Wapato
Seattle Public Schools transportation manager Tom Bishop was unaware of the DOE’s grant until a week before it was due, said SPS spokesperson Teresa Wippel. She said should there be another round of grant funding that Bishop would pursue it. She added that beginning with the 2012/13 school year, SPS will convert 15 percent or about 60 buses in its fleet to cleaner burning propane. In 2010, SPS began its student reassignment plan whereby students would attend the schools closest to their homes. A by-product of the plan, aligned with the district’s streamlined bus scheduling, has resulted in a significant reduction in transportation costs.
Hunter is an energetic, happy, quiet boy ready for a forever home. He’s about two years old and weighs only 11 pounds. He’s very smart and loves learning new things. Hunter also loves going for walks, playing, snuggling and having his belly rubbed – but then who doesn’t love a good belly rubbin’? His favorite treat? Peanut butter!
Courtesy of Seattle Animal Shelter.
Because of his small size he’d do best in a calm, quiet home, and any children in the house should be at least 6 years old. A friendly canine brother or sister would be great, but he would be happy as the only dog, too. Hunter would probably be OK with a dog-savvy cat. Hunter is neutered, up to date on his routine shots and house trained.
Hunter hasn’t had much experience with men, and although he’s usually quiet, sometimes he will bark and growl at men. Any men in his new home should be gentle and patient, and willing to help him learn that men can be just as nice as women.
If you’re ready for a happy, playful companion, come check out Hunter! Hunter (SAS ID #11-12684) is living the good life in a Seattle Animal Shelter foster home – but he really wants to find his forever home. If you would like to meet him, download a Dog Adoption Application at www.seattle.gov/animalshelter/forms.htm and send the completed application to the Shelter’s Adoption Review team at adoptionreview@gmail.com or fax it to (206) 386-4285. You may also pick up/drop off the application at the Seattle Animal Shelter, 2061-15th Ave. W. (1 mile south of the BallardBridge). The shelter is open Wednesday-Sunday from noon-6:00 pm, and closed on holidays.
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