New wayfinding sign on the 17th/18th Avenue South Greenway, on 17th Avenue just south of South Forest Street. Photo by Wendi.New signs appeared along 17th and 18th Avenues South recently, the first visible step toward the new Beacon Hill Greenway, part of a planned network of neighborhood greenways on Beacon Hill. The signs direct cyclists to neighborhood locations such as Jefferson Park and Beacon Hill Station via the greenway route.
Greenways are residential streets that are designed to be safe neighborhood connections for bicyclists and pedestrians, while still allowing automobile access using traffic calming measures. (City Councilmember Sally Bagshaw has posted a FAQ with more information about neighborhood greenways on her website.)
Seattle Parks and Recreation invites all interested neighbors to participate in a public meeting October 13 at 7 p.m. at Jefferson Community Center to discuss the Jefferson Park Golf Course renovation project. The design team and Parks staff will present design options for the $7,000,000+ project, which will include a new clubhouse and banquet room, expansion of the driving range to add a second deck, a new electric cart barn, improvements to pathways, and possible parking expansion and landscaping renovations.
A woman with poor eyesight wasn’t able to immediately see if anything was taken from her home in a burglary Friday, but the window smashed in with a pick ax was hard to miss.
Police said a burglar broke into a home in the 5200 block of Columbia Drive S. in Beacon Hill by taking a pick ax and smashing open the bedroom window. The burglar than ransacked the bedroom and office, strewing belongings across the floor.
Two people, including the woman, came home during the burglary and saw the person run out the back door.
The sight-impaired woman told police she did not immediately notice any missing belongings.
A new Zen Buddhist residential practice center, Dai Bai Zan Cho Bo Zen Ji, has opened on South Horton Street in the Golf Court apartment building. To mark the center’s arrival in the neighborhood, the group is holding an Open House this Saturday, October 8, from 1-3:30 p.m. at the center, 1733 S. Horton St. All neighbors are invited.
Genjo Marinello, the group’s abbot, sent us a bit about the history of the the Chobo-Ji group:
“We are a Zen Meditation group that got started with the Seattle Zen Center in the early 70’s sponsored by the then UW Art History Professor Dr. Glenn Webb. Our founding abbot, Genki Takabayashi Roshi, was invited by Dr. Webb to become the resident teacher from Japan in 1979. The group that formed around his teaching in 1983 became the current temple called DaiBaiZan ChoBoZen Temple or Chobo-Ji for short. It means ‘The Listening to the Dharma Zen Temple on Great Plum Mountain.’ Genki Roshi retired in 1997 and in 1999, Genjo Marinello Osho became the second abbot. In 2008 Genjo Osho became one of only a handful of American’s to receive full Dharma transmission in a Japanese line of Rinzai Zen Buddhism.
“For the last dozen years the group has held meditation in a triplex on Capitol Hill. Two years ago the apartment building called ‘Golf Court’ between Lafayette Ave. S. and Alamo Pl. S. was purchased by the group to be the site of its new Residential Practice Center, where people will be able to live in a city setting and strongly practice Zen Buddhism. The new Meditation Hall has been completed and the house on Capital Hill sold. There are meditation periods open to the public daily at this new site. Anyone is welcome to attend—doors open 30 minutes before each scheduled meditation period. There is a $5 introduction to our practice each Thursday from 7:30-8:30 p.m.”
This carving in the new Chobo-ji space combines a Northwest Native salmon motif with a Yin-Yang symbol. Photo courtesy of Genjo Marinello.
Have you seen this kitty?(Tuesday afternoon: Sid has been found! Thanks to everyone for your help! — Ed.)
I apologize for not getting this posted sooner. Neighbor Kristin recently wrote to us:
Our American Tabby cat is missing; last time we saw him was Saturday September 24. We live on 14th between Dakota and Nevada. His name is Sid, he has 4 white paws and a white belly. He may have snuck into someone’s house or garage to avoid the rain and without a collar (he is chipped) they may not know who to call. If you had your garage/shed open on Saturday or Sunday and don’t mind taking a second to open it to see if he is hiding in there, I would really appreciate it. If anyone has seen him or knows where he is to please call us at 206-465-7003 or 206-915-6309.
