And if you can’t wait to see it on the Holidays page, here’s the Admiral trick-or-treating map right now (should be printable, it’s a PDF)
https://westseattleblog.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/admiraltricktreatmap.pdf
Holiday link, instead of event page:
Admiral District “Halloween Treats and Treasures, 3-6 pm: Children and their parents are invited to visit participating Admiral District businesses on Halloween to receive a treat and a chance to win a treasure chest full of gifts through a raffle
https://westseattleblog.com/blog/?page_id=4467
We were talking with some of the Junction Association folks (including member merchants) a few days ago for a story coming up about this year’s emphasis on “shopping local” — I am sure they appreciate the warm words, as that portion of the day is kind of a loss in terms of actual shopping/buying — but hopefully it brings people to The Junction who were reminded of some of the unique stores there. For anybody who sees this thread before the home-page photo post, it’s here:
https://westseattleblog.com/blog/?p=11463
-TR
Hi, our holidays page had a TON of Halloween events including grownup ones as well as kids – have you checked that? On Halloween night, Twilight’s gala may be the sort of thing you’re looking for. Twilight is the art venue just west of Easy Street (if you follow the link on our page it will take you to their website).
The page breaks out this Fri/Sat/Sun as well as Halloween night and the night after (then goes on into winter-holiday events)
https://westseattleblog.com/blog/?page_id=4467
Doesn’t have the Shadow Land party, though, nobody has sent us notice of that (if I can find it listed online somewhere, I’ll add it). Skylark is having its annual battle of bands pretending to be other bands.
-TR
I crossposted this to the home page since it seemed like a fun question – hoping people would then answer it here, but a few seem to be answering it there, so wanted you to be aware of that thread:
https://westseattleblog.com/blog/?p=11361
-TR
Our logs showed somebody coming here after googling “Westwood Village trick or treating” and I realized yikes, we hadn’t received word of that – so I called, and now it’s added to our Holidays page
https://westseattleblog.com/blog/?page_id=4467
If you haven’t checked it out yet, it’s got every Halloween-time event we have heard about so far – including lots of events this weekend as well as on Halloween itself – plus a fair amount of Thanksgiving/Christmastime events. I’ve made this pitch before but if you missed it, PLEASE let us know if your church/school/group/neighborhood, whatever, has an event planned, with the public invited, anywhere in West Seattle (or White Center for that matter, we have an events page on WCN too):
editor@westseattleblog.com
Thanks!!!! And keep an eye out for our fun seasonal features like “which coffee shops are open on Thanksgiving and Christmas.” This year we’re going to try to do restaurants too, but that may require a little crowdsource help … TR
Didn’t know this got announced somewhere finally …
We hadn’t said anything because it was supposed to be sort of under wraps … we were contacted way back during the summer and had been waiting to say something when the magazine hits the stands. Whatever photo they used (if they used one), it came from the photo shoot in the picture in this August post:
https://westseattleblog.com/blog/?p=10077
Anyway, thanks for the kind words. Big publicity week for us, I guess … the Seattle Channel story featuring WSB (also shot a little while back) is going to be in the next edition of City Stream, with air times/dates listed here:
http://www.seattlechannel.org/schedule/programDetails.asp?title=3070832
(The Seattle Channel clip will supposedly be available online sometime Friday; we’ll add the link to our media coverage list on the About page when we see evidence of that. I don’t know if/when there’ll be an online version of the Seattle Magazine article, which I haven’t even seen – looked at a newsstand a couple days ago and it was still the Oct. issue – which also seems to be the case on their website at seattlemag.com)
thanks again for everybody’s support …
TR
https://westseattleblog.com/blog/forum/topic.php?id=2220&replies=13
What is funny, is that I started, a thread on McCains healthcare plan a little over a week ago, because to be quite frank it scares me. I was posing a question about the healthcare plan and was hoping to get a response from McCain supporters as to why they would be in favor of this plan? Still havent heard anything…
Posts deleted by person who has posted plug for a different business in at least 4 different spots on the board under two names. No reposts, please. I’ve let two of them stand.
Meantime, if anybody missed our recent followup with an interview with Otis re: OK Corral coming to WS, https://westseattleblog.com/blog/?p=11035
Saw activity in the storefront there while driving past late this afternoon.
I started a similar thread on Friday and we had some interesting discussions.
https://westseattleblog.com/blog/forum/topic.php?id=2220&replies=10
Sorry to hear about your Coby! That’s awful, and sounding too familiar.
Yet another recent example at Lincoln Park:
https://westseattleblog.com/blog/?p=5778
This is real life, and the above posts gives more examples of a law-breaking owners with bad results. Regarding the topic of off leash dogs and potential disaster, much could be avoided by simply following WA State Law.
Some dogs and their owners are great, some are not- sometimes there are irresponsible owners, for example- the people who I found to be careless that had 2 unleashed large dogs that circled us and frightened my 2 dogs on leash. I find that to be a problem, and against the law.
One never knows what will happen, and it is not always the dog that is off leash that you need to worry about. It could very well be how the on-leash dog reacts to being approached by an unfamiliar canine while on restraint. Sadly, this can go way wrong, way fast. We all need to play by the rules, for successful interaction whether it is in a dog park, a city park or sidewalk. If the leash is held at all, that would be at least a start and following the law. Any dog can break free of their lead, of course, but if there is no leash at all, then someone is not doing their best to create a safe environment.
I respect many of today’s posts with great advice, experience, and concern. Read ya later- and best to everyone and their four-legged friends!
Garlic Jim’s delivers to this area. So does Amante. We had a big discussion here about the Pagliacci refusal to deliver this far south many months ago (it was a hot topic even though WSB readership was a fraction of what it is now). I first complained about it three months after starting WSB, back when it was just a little opinion blog:
https://westseattleblog.com/blog/?p=134
In early 2007, we invited everybody to bitch about it:
https://westseattleblog.com/blog/?p=1005
A week later, a newspaper columnist made fun of all of us for complaining:
https://westseattleblog.com/blog/?p=1029
A month later, Pagliacci expanded south … to Holden. (Before that, their southernmost border was Brandon, which was insane!)
https://westseattleblog.com/blog/?p=1217
And that’s where the border stays to this day, so far as we know. We are living La Vida Costco these days so not much pizza, but we would probably have Pagliacci a couple times a month if they delivered down this way.
We reported here one month ago that Zeeks is coming to the Corner Inn space. They will be doing delivery as well as walk-in and sit-down. Here’s our article, including an interview with a Zeeks exec:
https://westseattleblog.com/blog/?p=10236
-TR
https://pol.moveon.org/donate/pp.html?id=14176-7573654-qB.xf7x&t=4
Did you know that when Palin was mayor of Wasilla, Women who were raped had to pay $1200 out of their own pockets for the exams used to prosecute their attackers?
The thread above was for dogs. There was a forum topic on cats previously, though: https://westseattleblog.com/blog/forum/topic.php?id=873
We published it here and on whitecenternow.com and have already done some followups.
First word here on WSB, I put in the freebies/deals/sales forum, seemed appropriate, eight days ago:
https://westseattleblog.com/blog/forum/topic.php?id=2103
Published a short blurb on WCN that day:
http://whitecenternow.com/2008/09/22/new-life-for-southgate-skate-center/
Followup on White Center Now three days ago:
http://whitecenternow.com/2008/09/27/white-center-swap-meet-update-next-the-stalls/
And I’ll be posting another one tonight since the sign for the Event Center has just gone up.
-TR
23 comments isn’t “much of a reaction”? :)
https://westseattleblog.com/blog/?p=10772
Yes, we covered several times, most recently when the neighbors went to City Hall last month:
https://westseattleblog.com/blog/?p=9866
I am overdue for an update. Will check with the citizens’ group as well as with councilmember Rasmussen’s office, although today is council meeting day and the mayor’s budget presentation, so it may be a little tougher to get an update from them. Will post here and on the home page when I find out. – TR
JoB says:
“and lastly i am concerned about what i observed myself that supported the church’s attitude towards women that has been mentioned in this forum… and the father spoke exclusively and not very politely for the family. Even when couples were walking together, the the men spoke predominantly for the family.”
Ted Tripp is part of the Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood (CBMW). The council’s main thrust is to encourage the subordination of wives and women and the leadership of husbands and men.
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Tripp’s teachings about the submission of children go hand-in-hand with the hierarchical obsessions of the CBMW.
https://www.cbmw.org/Resources/Articles/Embracing-God-s-Plan-for-Authority
Tripp instructs women that they can model submissive behavior to their children by subordinating themselves to their husbands in the presence of the children.
I have wasted vast swathes of my life on the Internet arguing with “complementarians”, as they like to style themselves. I won’t bore anyone here with the details, except to say that you cannot really reason with them.
Mars Hill loves the CBMW.
Here is my favorite damaging quote from the CBMW:
“God gave men, in general, a disposition that is better suited to teaching and governing in the church, a disposition that inclines more to the rational, logical analysis of doctrine and a desire to protect the doctrinal purity of the church…”
This may be one of the reasons that the fathers going into the Ted Tripp conference did not listen to you.
Post #10 in this thread had some of the most helpful info on the different hospitals:
https://westseattleblog.com/blog/forum/topic.php?id=100
From personal experience, my husband had me drive him to Swedish in Issaquah when he had an emergency. It’s pretty much an emergency room in an office park (won’t be a full hospital until 2012, I think), and even though it was further away mileage-wise than other places, it was an off hour and we just flew on I-90 all the way out. We were taken back about 3 minutes after we arrived. The people there couldn’t have been nicer. Here’s their info:
http://www.swedish.org/body.cfm?id=1213
We have covered this multiple times here. This week includes a temporary closure of the bike/pedestrian path on the construction site, which we reported yesterday. Have no idea about the Mt. Hood lodge and how that would compare, but this is a huge underground expansion of the pump station. Stand by, I’ll add links as soon as I pull them out of our archives – TR
ADDENDUM:
This week’s report about the temporary path closure
https://westseattleblog.com/blog/?p=10710
some background in this post from when work started in winter
https://westseattleblog.com/blog/?p=5613
official project page
http://dnr.metrokc.gov/wtd/projects/westseattle/53rdAvePS/
They’re about 7 months into what was billed as 20 months of work.
I’ve been reading the latest updates on the “Nickelsville” encampment and (as was intended) my mind keeps displaying images of Seattle’s sprawling shantytown, Hooverville, during the Great Depression. Homelessness is such a massive problem that it is sometimes hard to define with that one word. Maybe because it is cultivated by so many factors- job loss, rising costs of goods, alcoholism, drug addition and mental illness to name a few. Not to mention, the effects of just pure bad luck or bad timing. That was the case for myself when I ended up living my vehicle for a while as a teen. I don’t talk about that very often and I’ve never brought it up in a public forum like this. But it’s because of this experience that I try to have a compassionate attitude towards those less fortunate. That, however, doesn’t mean that I’m not realistic about the problems that we face as a community.
I’ve seen quite a diverse set of viewpoints on the issue in all of the articles and comments so far on Nicklesville, which is to be expected. Some people suggest that we bulldoze every tent city in the Puget Sound, while others advocate for warehouses to store people in. None of the extremes seem to come up with any real solution to the long term problem. And yes, some of them choose that lifestyle. BUT what about those who haven’t made that choice and who are victims of misfortune or victims of our spiraling economy? Like it or not, they are people and they can’t all be categorized in the same column.
I was just as disgusted as everyone else when I saw the photos at Camp Long. No one wants to see our public land and our parks treated like a big honey bucket. No one wants to see a place that breeds crime and drug use. It’s important to have shelters that run on the premise of safety and sanitation but obviously there are not enough of them. If there were, we wouldn’t constantly see people camping in our parks and greenbelts. Or would we? I think it’s safe to say that even if there were two beds for every person out there, that there would still be some that chose the cold night and 40oz over a warm, sober bed. So, how do we tell the difference? What are real solutions to such a massive epidemic?
