Alicia writes:
“Hi! My lovely Madeline hasn’t come home like she usually does at night. Last seen near my house on 14th & Lander/McClellan on 9/19/11, Monday evening.”
Maddy is a tiger-striped adult female cat with white paws, and black, brown, and rust-colored stripes. She is 9 years old, weighs 10 pounds, and is (hopefully) wearing a purple flowered collar with tags. She is microchipped.
If you see Madeline, please call Alicia at 206-898-0094.
Dear Fellow Travelers,
We’ve always been open with our customers, our community, when we’ve needed your help, and you have always come through for us. Thank you for your continuing support that has allowed us to survive 13 years, including some very hard times. Travelers is again at a difficult point, our survival depends upon your support.
We have been really excited about our new restaurant, and we were slammed with customers when we opened the doors. We hired more people, “real servers,†more kitchen support, a Nepali farm woman (seriously!). All great folks. But business has dropped off, and the bills kept coming. Payday is coming, and we need your help.
Here’s what we are doing to make us easy to support
Payroll Party! Thursday night September 22nd, come help us harvest enough bounty to compensate our wonderful staff and get us through our big crunch. To make it a real party we are offering a couple of super deals
Get an extra 20% with any $100 gift certificate
Take 20% off any sale totaling $100 or moreYou can add up lots of little stuff and still get the 20% discount. With the certificates, the extra 20% can be a separate $20 certificate if you prefer. We’ll be open at both locations with tasty food and beverages. We have wine and beer too at the Beacon location (try a Taj from India, or a Kingfisher), delicious with pakoras.
Though we don’t like reviewing restaurants until they’ve been open for a few months, we’ve been to Travelers several times already and found the food to be tasty and inexpensive. We like it, and hope they will stay around.
The community meetings are held each month. The next two meetings are scheduled for Saturday, October 29, and Saturday, November 19, from 10 a.m. until noon at the same Tully’s.
If you are at the very northern tip of Beacon Hill, you may be in District V instead. The District V representative is Kay Smith-Blum, and she’ll be hosting a community meeting on Saturday, October 8, from 10-11:30 a.m. at the Douglass-Truth Library, 2300 E. Yesler Way.
ROCKiT space has cancelled two events, the community potluck and all-ages music jam, that were scheduled for tonight as part of the “Family Orbit” series of events. They suggest that neighbors head down the street instead to the Jefferson Food Forest final design celebration at 6:30 p.m. at Jefferson Community Center (3801 Beacon Ave. S.). The celebration will include free food, a viewing of the final schematic design, and a tour of the Food Forest site by flashlight.
One Family Orbit event, Hi-Chair Happy Hour, is still happening today. From 3:30-6 p.m., it’s a BYOB-B (Bring Your Own Baby/Bigger Child and Beverage) social for parents and their little ones at the Garden House, 2336 15th Ave. S. It’s $5, or free for ROCKiT members and kids under 12.
You may have noticed some more downtime on the blog over the last couple of days. This was related to the blog hack I mentioned a few days ago. Troubleshooting and cleaning up after the server was compromised was difficult, and as it turned out, the hackers were still able to get back in and cause mischief. I apologize for any confusion or inconvenience that was caused by the downtime, and hope that this time things are well and truly fixed.
As I mentioned a few days ago, the Forum software that was running here on the blog was insecure, and so the Forum has been removed for now. Again, I apologize for the inconvenience.
Thanks for your patience!
Special thanks to Jason, who worked hard to track the hackers’ evil activities and fix what was broken.
Ray Marcham at KOMO (BHB news partners) reports:
Two people from Renton were arrested early Sunday after a drive-by shooting on north Beacon Hill.
Seattle Police spokesperson Renee Witt said that the suspects drove up to a home on the 2000 block of S. McClellan Street just after midnight. One of them shot out windows in two vehicles in front of the home before they drove off.
Witt said the victim recognized the suspects as being people he has had ongoing problems with in the past. He told officers that the two lived in Renton, and soon after Renton police were contacted and told about the suspects.
Soon after, Renton officers found the two suspects at the drive-thru window of a Wendy’s on Rainier Avenue, west of downtown Renton. The car they were in was pulled over and the two were arrested.
A search warrant was received, and the gun believed to have been used in the shooting was found in the car’s glove box.
The two were taken to the King County jail, where they were booked for numerous weapons violations.
Publicola reports that the retaining wall along the Mountains to Sound Trail at the north tip of Beacon Hill has become a big graffiti headache, requiring heavy maintenance from Seattle Public Utilities’ Graffiti Rangers:
“‘We check it every day, and we’ve been painting it over every other day for the last two weeks,’ Stoltzfus says. ‘There are other [graffiti hot spots] in the city, but not one that has been covered as frequently and to such an extent.'”
The graffiti issue was discussed at last week’s North Beacon Hill Council meeting. Deputy Mayor Darryl Smith mentioned that a mural on the site to deter taggers is a possibility, but current city rules state that a permit is needed to install a mural, with an agreement to maintain the artwork on an ongoing basis. Whoever steps up to install a mural or other artwork needs to be able to meet this responsibility.
The Seattle Public Library is hosting a series of “Urban Self-Reliance” workshops, including several here at the Beacon Hill Library branch. The workshops are free and open to the public, and registration is not required unless noted in the class description below.
These are the classes scheduled for the Beacon Hill Library (2821 Beacon Ave. S.):
“Bicycle Maintenance”: Basic bike maintenance techniques taught by instructors from The Bikery, a non-profit community bike project. Registration is required for this workshop; call 206-684-4711 to sign up. (1-3 p.m., Sunday, October 2.)
“Keeping Chickens in the City”: The basics of keeping chickens in the city, including starting with chicks, feeding and housing requirements, and more. (6-7:30 p.m., Monday, October 10.)
“Finding Edible Weeds in Your Garden and Lawn”: Local author and expert forager Langdon Cook will talk about how to use your backyard as an exotic produce aisle. (6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, October 26.)
Classes offered at other library branches include “DIY Seismic Home Retrofitting,” “Apartment Gardening with Amy Pennington,” “Introduction to Bike Commuting,” “Simple Sewing (Bags/Pillows/Potholders),” and more. For more information about the classes offered throughout the rest of the city, see the SPL website.
This is the first of an occasional series of “Get Off the Hill” posts, in which the BHB will mention some entertainment options that aren’t in the neighborhood. We love spending time on Beacon Hill, but we can’t spend all our time here. Occasionally it’s worth leaving the hill for a good movie or a concert.
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Beacon Hill hip-hop duo Blue Scholars have just started their first nationwide tour and will be playing in front of the hometown crowd in an all-ages show at the Showbox at the Market, Saturday night, September 17. The tour will take them all the way to New York City, where they’ll wrap up the whole shebang on November 11.
The Showbox show is sold out. We hope you have tickets. If not, perhaps you can catch them in Portland, Olympia, or Bellingham. (Tickets are cheaper there anyway.)
In the meantime, check out this discussion between Sabzi of Blue Scholars and Maikoiyo Alley-Barnes of Tarboo Inc., and enjoy this song:
Continue reading Get Off the Hill: Blue Scholars, World on a Wire