Okay, here’s a gentle reminder for everyone that drives when the sun ain’t shining (which is 99% of the time here during the winter). Please turn your car headlights on- it would make it so much easier to see everyone. This includes when it is raining, it’s cloudy, it’s dark, it’s foggy, etc… thank you!
Ymmm, Jan, don’t forget stratas usually have bread in them too. Something needs to soak up all the eggy and cheesy goodness! What could be better??
Has anyone tried the “renewed” West Seattle Inn and Suites? Any other suggestions for places for family members and friends to stay nearby? My house is way too small for guests.
why is it that when I hear “Strata” on California the first thing I think of is a breakfast dish made with eggs, potatoes, etc? Anyone else?
I would suggest going to the School fair at SSC, as well as making a persoal visit to the schools you are interested in and maybe take your children there. When it was time to enroll our daughter in kindergarten I just called the school spoke with the principals and made some visits with my daughter with me. Sine she was the one that would be attending one of these schools it was important that she feel comfortable and familiar with the school. We were able to observe afew different classrooms at different school, meet the principal, office staff and the teachers. It made going to school on that first day less nerve racking for our child.
Right now I believe we still have reference schools, meaning you have priority to our neighborhood, but going out of your reference area you might not always find room for your children. Our daughters class at Roxhill has just 18 students and I hear from a friend who’s child attend LaFayette there are 30 kids in her sons class!!
lattemom…you might want to join Freecycleseattle
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FreecycleSeattle/
I’d also suggest making a separate ID just for this as the e-mails can be a bit daunting, and if that’s the only thing you’re getting there, it makes it easier to go through. You can offer stuff, you can read what others are offering, you can post wanted items. It’s a wonderful resource for people to pass on things that are usable but no longer of use to themselves. I’ve received quite a few high quality items through it. It’s totally free…you have to go pick things up, but…hey, it’s free :)
if you want more information, e-mail me…my e-mail address is on my website on my profile here…
We have 2 children, one currently a 1st grader and one a pre-schooler. Currently, they go to school in another neighborhood due to work and childcare but we are looking into moving them to a public school in W Seattle in the 2009-2010 school year. We are interested in both Sanislo and Gatewood at this point, but am open to other suggestions. Does anyone have any info about these two schools or others?
Hi Jerald,
I have already sent my suggestions to the principal and will see what she says first regarding the school policy and personal information, dependening on what she says I will then ask the teacher and I have already offered my assistance to help gather this information, I will even type it up!! :)
I see what you means about now being able to laugh at your past concerns with middle and high school, however it is a different ballgame nowadays, especially with a merger of Denny and Sealth. Since our daughter moved up a grade and will be in middle school when she is 11 it does nothing to know she could be in a school with 11th and 12th graders, sorry!
The cultural differences I think is part of the reason for no directories at Roxhill, alot of the kids in our daughters class are Spanish.
I don’t believe that our daughter would be endangered at Denny or Sealth perse but agin all the influences with being at the same school of much older kids is scary, the drugs, smoking, sex, everything!! I am not trying to shelter her but sgain would like her to remain a kid as long as possible. I know that high school is a whole different ballgame but with only being 11 at middle school does not ease my concerns.
It has been along time for me too being in high school I am coming up on my 30th reunion and the schools and kids are so different then way back then!!
need someone to help me hang heavy pictures, mirrors w/ minimum damage to walls, securely done. Any suggestions?
Does anyone know of any place I could get some photos taken? These aren’t actually passport photos, they are photos for a Canadian citizenship certificate, so they have specific requirements about size, etc. I guess what I’m getting at is that this might be a little more complicated than something they could do at Bartell’s or Rite-Aid, so I was wondering if anyone had any other suggestions. Thanks.
Hi Bonnie,
Thanks for your input! It is ironic as our daughter was in kindergarten at Arbor Heights and we moved her to Roxhill. You are right about seeing the parents more at Arbor Heights, more parent involvement at that school that is for sure! But moving to Roxhill aside from this problem has been very positive for our daughter and family. I was told by the office staff at Roxhill that more of the parents work during the day than at Arbor Heights, I do remember a high number of stay-at-home-Moms at Arbor Heights.
I am hopeful that my suggest to the principal at Roxhill will not go unanswered, as she has so far been a very good listener.
When our daughter was in 1st grade earlier this year I talked with the only one other parent on a daily basis and most of those kids took the school bus. Now our daughter is in 2nd grade and the situation of the kids being on the bus is the same.
Girl Scouts here we come!!! :)
Hi WSMOM!!!
I try so hard to help our daughter have different experiences, she is an only child and there are no children in our neighborhood which makes it worse!!! We have always been open to having her friends over to the house, that is if she can find some friends and maybe someday have a sleepover at our house. Our daughter luckily is very outgoing and very friendly and does not seem to have a hard time making friends at school it is just after school everyone disappears and she has us and her cat as playmates. Rarely are other parents at the school so I can’t even get to know the other parents!
I have always had her in at least 1 activity twice a week to be around other kids.
I will give the Girl Scout idea a try and see what they say and if there is room for her to join.
I have since written the school principal and also asked her to give my suggestion to the schools PTA so we wil see if anything comes of this!
Thanks for all your suggestions!! We would love for any of her classmates to come over to play, but we can’t because they need parental permission and without a way to contact the parent it can’t happen! Again, most of the parents of children at Roxhill work and whenever I drop off or pick up our daughter I make a point of going in the school and on the playground and still I don’t see 1 parent, all the kids must take the school bus home.
When I asked the front desk for a class list all I got were the first and last names of the kids, no email or phone number as they don’t give out that information.
From what our daughter is telling me is that most of the kids take the school bus to and from school and there are alot of latch-key kids with no adult supervision at home when they get home.
Our daughter takes swimming and has taken karate and dance in the past.
As for field trips, per the teacher most parents are at work and I have already been with the kids on 2 field trips and there was only one other parent and she didn’t speak English well.
We aren’t sure if the kids in her class have transporation to events and might be embarassed to tell us they don’t have a car.
Hi,
I would like to know how does someone obtain donations from area business for our school? We area at Roxhill and we desperately need sound equipment, musical instruments, a piano would be great! Also bookcases for our teachers. I hear another area school received a donation of a baby grand piano for their school so how do we do something like that for our school?? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!!!
Bus and or Water Taxi if available.
However if you leave early enough, neither bridge is a problem.
The rule of thumb for the Delridge ramp is, reach it by 6:45 or add a half hour to the trip time. Reach it by 7:30 or add a possible hour.
But Pioneer Square is just about the easiest and most efficient bus commute in town if the “Children” will stay out of the bus lane on the bridge….
:)
If you must drive, and you don’t get up early, and you cannot be intimidated by teamsters driving overweight trucks on bad pavement, then the local secret route is…
Lower bridge to East Marginal way. Take a left unless the trucks are lined up in the turn lane, if lined up, go straight through on the right lane, take the first left turnaround and get back to East Marginal turn right toward the docks. go to the next light, take a right avoiding the overweight truck created sinkhole/puddle onto Hanford. Go to the light at 1st, turn left, and proceed to Pioneer Square. There are several paths through between East Marginal/Alaskan way to first ave and due to the train traffic, one should become familiar with the various alternatives.
However be aware. The Spokane street viaduct is designed to bypass the variables you are gambling with once you commit to the lower bridge.
Trains, drawbridges and even backups in either the loading or unloading at several of the terminals can suddenly bugger all plans and schedules. I have been stuck on the lower bridge for over and hour once when the terminal 7 line spilled out onto the bridge and halted all traffic. Every traffic enforcement entity denied responsibility for the problem and an off duty game warden stuck next to me finally turned on his light, drove up the wrong lane and forced the teamsters to clear the bridge.
Just like the 2000 and 2004 elections were shrouded in controversy; lost ballots, people denied votes in Florida, intentionally rigged voting machines owned by private corporations that gave money to the Republican party etc….
What makes you think it won’t happen again? Nothing has been done and it’s already happening in the primaries (the New Hampshire primary).
If you think everything has been hunky dory in the past few elections you just aren’t paying attention.
What do you think??
http://www.dennis4president.com/go/homepage-items/help-defend-the-integrity-of-our-voting-system/
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/archives/cat_vote_fraud.html
http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/10432334/was_the_2004_election_stolen
My biggest concern with Obama is his relatively weak environmental agenda; I suppose it’s his midwest ties, but he leans far too heavily on biofuels. We need them in the mix, but as a bridge technology.
Edwards appears the strongest in both environment and healthcare of the candidates the press has decided remain to us. (lowmanbeach, I wish your second-to-last boss were in charge now…)
I’m disappointed in Clinton’s very conservative thinking…but she’s certainly better than the status quo.
Kinsley: a joke quote from Wikipedia:
On July 12, 2006 Kinsley underwent a form of surgery known as deep brain stimulation, to treat his Parkinson’s Disease. Initial reports suggest that the operation was a success. According to a joke reference in Time Magazine, Kinsley’s first words out of the operating room were, “Well, of course, when you cut taxes, government revenues go up. Why couldn’t I see that before?”[2
So I wonder if he will show up at the caucus in his precinct?
Im looking for recommendations for a great painter for re-painting the exterior of my home this spring. Any suggesions ?
My son is about to turn 5. He really wants to play baseball. I understand there is both little league and a peewee baseball league in West Seattle. Does anyone have any advice/comments/suggestions to share (good and bad) regarding the two groups?
And does anyone know the 2008 registration information for the little league? I can’t seem to find it.
Thanks!!
Yesterday, on my walk around Lincoln Park I saw what at first I thought was a wolf. Right after the sighting I talked to a man with 2 dogs who said it was a fox. He said it was ‘the biggest fox I’ve ever seen’. I had seen a fox or two in Illinois and this one was different in that it was all brown and it looked like it was on steroids. (I had seen a red fox.) Has anyone else seen a fox at Lincoln Park? I saw him on the upper trail somewhere between where 2 nouthend trails start that take you down to the beach. I think it was around 2pm. It was the eeriest feeling. He moved very stealth-like, first he was there and then he was gone. Just had to share this. It was pretty cool!
I was somewhat shocked recently to learn that nearly all products with a Nabisco label and all products with a Kellogg label contain High Fructose Corn Syrup. This has been implicated in a number of health-negative effects (obesity being one, possible liver damage being another). By contrast, General Foods (Chex, Cheerios) and Post (Kraft) cereals and most Keebler products contain sugar, invert sugar or brown sugar. None of these has been implicated in negative effects other than being empty calories.
As a consequence, my family decided we would not buy Rice Krispies, Oreos, Fig Newtons, or Corn Flakes until such time as these manufacturers get on the ball and drop their use of High Fructose Corn Syrup. In this forum, I’m calling for the rest of us to do the same. Express our concern over this unhealthy but cheap food additive by boycotting Kellogg and Nabisco products. Yeah, nothing’s better than Corn Flakes with banana or Rice Krispies with raisins, but Corn Chex and Rice Chex taste pretty close even if their texture is different and Shredded Wheat contains only wheat – nothing else (well, BHT in the packaging material).
Thanks! It is actually a stubborn downspout that is clogged that we need help with so I’m hoping to find somebody who specializes (or focuses on) gutters. I initially thought it was the gutters but it’s the vertical gutter pieces that are the problem– they funnel the water directly into the ground so they are completely enclosed and under ground. Thanks again-
Thanks for these suggestions–I’ll do a drive-about and check ’em out!!
Recently got to visit a Kidd Valley for the first time in years – son had never been. Grrreat! We did the whole shabang…burgers, deep fried mushrooms, onion rings, banana milkshake (with chunks of fresh banana clogging the straw, mmmm). Please, please come to WS!!
