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[kootchman]

It WILL absolutely keep you healthier for longer periods of time. No one is saying a “treat” is a bad thing.. or there is anyone to “blame”.. but facts are tough to argue Ms. JoB… As long as we are being benevolent, then let’s be benevolent. Look out for the general health. Does that mean it will prevent infant luekemia? Of course not. But it will suck up healthcare dollars faster making for more competition for scarcer resources. You love to preface every negative with “corporate”… corporations including banks… merely make the best of the circumstances in front of them. Count on it.. it is predictable as the rising sun. At least we KNOW what they are about… they don’t couch it in terms like Hope and Change, or Affordable Helathcare Act. .. they maximize profits and heck… if government wants to be an enabler.. great.

http://www.obesityinamerica.org/statistics/index.cfm

If you can’t get a loan to keep the farm going, ie, borrow $ 50 per acre for inputs to assure your banker that at a minimum you will have enough to pay off your production credit.. you will plant corn that yields 175 – 200 bushels per acre.. and that requires nitrogen… tons and tons of it.. and herbicides and pesticides. So as that nitrogen runs off, causes nitrate bloom. strips the free oxygen from the water … you can thank the US Dept of Agriculture. Is that the pollution you speak of?

It is also a double whammy… because in Mexico where corn is native… where maize is the staple crop… they cannot afford the irrigation, fertilizers, all the inputs of an industrial farm…. where corn yields are from 7-12 bushels per acre… we bankrupted the Mexican agriculture system and made subsistance farming impossible… hence the flood of refugees to our borders. when you can connect the dots… it’s an interesting tale to tell eh? Our USDA and our “system” of farming … NAFTA far, far, fell in our favor. As was the intent. Our harvest from that was 20-30 million economic refugees and drug cartels…. and damn if we aren’t finding ways to make money from that too!

[JanS]

http://www.romneygekko.com/mitt/

[blessedmama]

there’s a very nice lady that comes by my apartment building, she’s a retired hygienist. I will get her name and number for ya if you’d like. I need to place an order soon as well!

[miws]

C’mon, DPB……C’mon……

[dbcsv]

Local Early Childhood Center is seeking a small boat or dinghy for use by small children on playground. Does not need to be seaworthy and we will refinish to make safe. Partial hulls or bow also considered. Please call 208.720.5089 with questions or more info.

[Talaki34]

Downtown – I think a zipline involving the Seattle Aquarium, the Pacific Science Center and Pike Place Market would be a huge draw for the downtown area. Like I said in my original post, utilizing a draw that is already there (Ferris wheel)would be great and if the Parks Department could benefit from them, that would be even better.

Local – Yes, there should be something for the kids on a more local level, but not at the expense of what green spaces we have left. The parks in West Seattle offer an array of activities for kids and adults already. Team sports, individual sports, space for family outings, playgrounds for the little ones, and a host of educational programs.

Why not think outside the box or park as it were. Why not look at areas where with a little work can be rehabilitated and used for something like a “zipline” park, trees and all. Jack Block Park is a good example that you can make something beautiful from ugly. Make the zipline the draw, but eventually put in other areas where kids and adults can mingle. Maybe twin pools?

[Sully12]

Great, my email is squirlygirl5@hotmail.com

[ChristineB]

We will meet tomorrow at 3 pm at the Zip line playground (one closer to ferry dock – but not on the water front) at Lincoln Park. We (Tim 1st grader, curly red hair, brown-blue striped hoodie + family) will be there from 3 to 4.30 pm depending on weather and participation and are happy to meet up.

For more details and future play dates for 1st graders see emails from Sina. Her email contact was posted on the official TM welcome letter.

For future play dates for all grades we can agree on another date for Mid-July here.

[miws]

Celebrity Googly Eyes!

Found this courtesy of Archie McPhee as a subscriber to their e-mail list.

I actually let out an embarrassing snort, at the library, while LOL’ing to this! :-D

Mike

[ChristineB]

I tallied our poll and would like to pick next Saturday 6/23 from 3 to 6 pm for our first get together. Where should we meet? Lincoln Park? Zipline playground? Or waterfront? Or Camp Long meadow? Any suggestions?

[kootchman]

They are salaried. They work an 8 hour day, one hour more in the classroom than SPS teachers. Most consider themselves to be professionals, ie non union.. they aren’t “hourly” workers. The support workers are hourly.. Trust me on this Mike.. I never heard of one leaving and going to the SPS … never. A few have gone to other private schools. My choice was twofold. One, better curriculum choices. Two, safety and classroom decorum. They don’t carry the admin burden of SPS… and you know who does the playground supervision duties, grade school athletic coaches,,, etc.

[miws]

Revved up like a Deuce another runner in the night…

Mike

[treeleigh.hill]

I’m trying to find a cave or something cavelike to take pictures of my two year old daughter in. Must be easily accessible. We live in west Seattle but we could go anywhere in Seattle. Willing to travel within 30 miles of the city. Even a playground with a tube or something to crawl in would work. Thanks for your help!

[krixus]

Dr. Kae is awesome! I’m the type of person who has always HATED going to the dentist and now, for the first time in my life, I actually look forward to my 6-month cleanings.

My whole family highly recommends Dr. Kae (even my mom, who needs a Valium just to get through a regular teeth cleaning. The fact that she speaks so highly of him means a lot!) The whole staff is friendly, honest, gentle and easygoing.

Even though Dr. Kae isn’t 100% covered under my dental insurance anymore, I’m going to stick with him and pay the extra money because I think he’s worth it. (It’s also important to me that, unlike the other places I’ve been to in the past, I’ve never had the impression that Dr. Kae was just trying to sell me stuff or talk me into expensive, unnecessary procedures.)

Obviously, I can’t say enough good things about him. Dr. Kae rocks!

[Jiggers]

miws…..I do have DNR signed by the way because I would not be functional after I get my first heart attack. I’ll save the tax payers money there. I most likely I would be bed ridden and I am not even fifty yet. I watched my dad die two years ago. He was bed ridden the last 8 months of his life. Horrible way to go when you can’t do a thing. It is my choice to not be revivied. My lungs are weakening my heart, but it maybe awhile before a heart attack happens. I’m taking another TEST. It is a heart stress test to see how strong my heart is since I can’t get proper blood and air flow in now due to the hole in my lungs that is unrepairable. I now have to drag an oxygen tank with me. Try live on the streets like that. I never smoked either and smokers drive up insurance rates as you know. I’m actully lucky to be covered right now with Medicare and Medicaid. It will be scary if a Republican is voted into office in November for lazy azzes like me who can’t work a full time job because I deal with and chronic breathing problems which is my newest problem now. If the Republicans do take office and you do get sick after with basic coverage, you better hope you die fast. I love it when idiots say oh.. you choose to live that way. Get the f out of my face you dumb ignorant uneducated moron!

[singularname]

If you think people are “lucky in life” because they have a house, a job, and health insurance, think the freak again! I’m working 60 to 80 hours a week three years into a five-year cancer sentence. And I was disgusted during my years of homelessness, with a toddler, then living in a motel, my car, and finally a crap room on Capitol Hill–disgusted to ask a woman with three kids about getting an apartment in her brandnew complex, with laundry, playground, and community, and discovering I wouldn’t qualify for the $115 a month rent since, you know, I was figuring out how to sell crap at the Fremont Market to pay my bills while living in the 1920s “charmer room” with cockroaches and no heat.

Folks need to really–REALLY–get out of any comfort zone to overcome truly miserable times in their lives. You need to start hustling, if not with your body then with your mind, and if on the Internet then not every day on a forum, and start helping yourselves instead of holding your breath for laws and other crap to save you and then moaning then being so self-righteous and dramatic on here about it when it doesn’t come your way.

And I hope with all your “health care-or-die” conditions, you HAVE taken the time to seriously contemplate your impending death, whether sooner or later. I have. And I figured out I’m not an iota more special than the billions who’ve gone before me.

[Betty T]

I’ve lived in High Point 6 years now. Have not heard of a lot of violent crimes. We’ve been told our area has a lower crime rate than most. Was recently told it had increased but had all over Seattle. There was one violent attack in broad daylight due to the young person being off their meds. A stolen vehicle dumped in our parking lot, I’m in an apartment building. This is a very mixed ethnic neighborhood. Basically low-income rentals mixed with private owned homes. The plan hoping to maintain a nicer cleaner neighborhood. I love to walk in our neighborhood and see people walking all the time. I love our Market Garden that sells produce to the public one night a week in summer, also beautiful flowers. A wonderful park across the street with a playground and a few blocks away is the Viewpoint Park and playground where you can look out towards the Spaceneedle. Our newsest playground to the west side we , the neighborhood residents built with the help of KABOOM project. If you’re not fond of kids not a great idea to live hear. Last I knew there were over 1,000. This is a Green Living project and we’ve had people come from all over to tour and see how it works. Our Neighborhood House works toward Green Living and Healthy living and exercise. Has Head Start class and many activities for kids and families.

Would I walk out at night? Probably not far but I don’t walk out alone at night anywhere.

We have people living in this neighborhood who lived in the “Old Highpoint” and they say they now feel safe. Some of the people have lived in other countries that are at war and they feel safe here. Like the mayor is saying right now on TV violent crimes are on the increase everywhere for many reasons.

[kootchman]

Trouble with all that JimmyG is they are beating the hell out of innocents, and shooting innocents. A 6’4″ fat sheriff knocking a 5’&’, 147 kid into a wall and causing brain damage is one step too far over the line.. or the cop that drop kicked a kid in the balls in a convenience store.. oops mistaken identity, or of course the most infamous… the shooting death of a legally blind, chronic inibriate in the middle of crosswalk, all 138 lbs of him. we have all seen the dash cams… if you can’t handle it.. find a new line of work. Make the drugs legal. Darwinism will prevail. If ya gotta get $200 a day to shoot up… where are they going to get that money? You make two classes prime candidates for gun violence, the users and the sellers. Let the county coroner sort it out. Have you seen any violent shoot outs and turf wars over alcohol since prohibition was repealed? Nope. Legalize drugs. It’s the headwaters of the problem. Gun registry isn’t going to do a damn thing to stop the primary causes. we have rogue cops with a bullshit attitude… if they can’t take a “f,,,k you… without flying off the handles and beating the crap out of a citizen.. they are in the wrong profession. You and I both know they teach forceful intimidation at the academy.

[valvashon]

Lost Monday afternoon: Fuji A400 camera in Lincoln Park, on the south playground or on the beach near there. Reward for return; our name is on it plus I have the serial number from the original box to match. Thanks.

[JoB]

kootch..

are you really saying that equal rights for women belong in a bygone era?

because i am part of the bygone era that remembers when they didn’t exist at all

[kootchman]

I am saying you are stuck in a bygone era …. jobs, jobs, jobs,….that is what people will be voting for. Those women know that economic empowerment works. We have a work force that is dependent on them as much as men. The engine can’t run without them. A “Limey” pundit commenting as an outside observer? Isn’t that like 48% of non taxpayers deciding what “fair” income taxes should be? Y’know, being outsiders and all that.

[DBP]

Thanks for the correction and additional info, Tracy!

And thanks for the comment, kootch. Somehow I knew you would chime in on this. And I wholeheartedly agree with you. This project combines private and public money in a way that creates the maximum value for the people of Seattle.

The young adults working on this project really impress me. They do not goof around; they work hard and they interact with the public courteously. After we had done our introductions and Jacobo explained the program to me, one of the crew members approached me confidently and said: “Do you know about any job openings?”

If I’d had a job to offer, I would’ve hired that person on the spot.

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On the “nature” aspect of this thing, I’m not a specialist by any means, but as far as I can tell, the work is being directed by restoration experts who really know what they’re doing.

¶ Ivy and other invasive species are being removed and replaced with natives.

¶ “Snags” (tall tree stumps) are being left in place for animals to live in and feed off.

¶ Riparian areas are being properly managed.

¶ Small meadows are being cleared to encourage species diversity.

And it’s all being done in such a naturalistic way that after a few minutes of hiking you can easily imagine yourself to be “lost in the wilderness,” far from civilization.

I encourage all West Seattleites to explore this new gem of a trail system sometime this summer. In an upcoming post, I’ll show you a couple of ways to get onto the trail.

For now, some more links.

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Here’s a somewhat dated overview of the project from Seattle Parks:

http://www.seattle.gov/parks/proparks/projects/wDuwamish.htm

 

A recent feature on YGC and Ms. Saroeut Ouk (pictured above) from the Northwest Asian Weekly:

http://tinyurl.com/nw-asian-weekly-ygc

 

A downloadable PDF on Youth Green Corps and what they do:

http://clerk.seattle.gov/~public/meetingrecords/2011/parks20111215_1.pdf

 

A link from the Nature Consortium (not Conservancy!) about the project:

http://www.naturec.org/forest-restoration/forest-restoration/

 

 

[DBP]

On the eastern edge of West Seattle, sandwiched between Riverview Park and Highland Park Way, lies the West Duwamish Greenbelt.

In years past, I’ve always stayed clear of this area, because I thought it was off limits to the public. Or, if not exactly off limits, then at least sketchy. The kind of place my Mom would have worried about me playing at — if only she knew.

Well, in last year, I’ve noticed new trailheads appearing at various points along the perimeter of the woods, and have begun tentatively venturing into the woods along those. I’d never actually seen any work being done on the trails until just last month, when I stumbled across a crew working for AmeriCorps and then again last Friday, when I ventured into a different crew working for an outfit called the Youth Green Corps.

There were about a dozen young people scattered out along a quarter-mile section of trail Friday. Unfortunately, I couldn’t get them all together for a group photo, but I did get this shot of one crew:

 

They are, from left to right: Jacobo Jiminez (team leader), Tia, Saroeut, John.

The Youth Green Corps is a public-private partnership co-organized and funded by Goodwill and Seattle Parks and Recreation. According to an offical document:

YGC is a partnership between Seattle Parks and Recreation and Seattle Goodwill that educates and trains young adults (18-24) through a mix of classroom experiences and outdoor forestry restoration.

It’s a 9-Month program that consists of 11 Corps Members. Members split time between Goodwill, Forest Restoration and Trail work in Seattle Parks for educational and career training. Participants are ages 18-24 and receive a $1,200 per month stipend.

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Another big contributor to the this project is The Nature Conservancy, which helped buy the land — which was slated for development — and set it aside for public use. Huzzah!

Rather than me blathering on about how great the Youth Green Corps is, why don’t I just show you a few pictures I took while I was tra-la-la’ing down the trail . . .

 

[EmmyJane]

I would highly recommend Dr. Diane Savage. I’ve recommend about 5 people to her over the years and they’ve all gone and LOVED her. And Mila, one of the dental hygenists, is pretty awesome too (they’re all good but I especially like her). I think she works Thursday mornings.

http://drdianesavage.com/

[DBP]

Welcome to Seattle, dude.

Turns out this really was your city after all.

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Still reeling from his third and final Viaduct Tunnel rebuke, Mayor McGinn was desperately looking for something to salvage his legacy, a way to restyle himself as Mr. Can-do, instead of Mr. Won’t-do-and-you-can’t-make-me.

Then along comes a stadium proposal. And best of all, it’s going to pay for itself.

And if it doesn’t, what the heck? At least the taxpayers won’t have to.

This could be just the ticket, thought Mike.

But wait. What’s this?

The Port’s agin it?

The Mariners are agin it?

Even the Times are agin it?

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2018264119_citygrowth23m.html

All still in favor: vote Aye. (Yi-yi!)

 

Oh well. See you at the primaries, guy.

 

 

      Or maybe not.