Ballard-based retailer Little Orange Room has introduced a line of neighborhood t-shirts for children. The Beacon Hill shirt features the Korean pagoda from Daejeon Park in North Beacon Hill, and says “b is for beacon hill.”
The shirts are available in children’s sizes, onesies through kids’ size 10, for $22 each. To find out more, visit the Little Orange Room website.
Washington State Representative Sharon Tomiko Santos (D-37) has offered a resolution commending and honoring the Jefferson Park Lawn Bowling Club, recognizing August 2011 as Lawn Bowling Month, and welcoming this month’s United States Lawn Bowling Championship to Beacon Hill and Seattle. You can read the resolution here.
Mayor McGinn and the City Council have also issued a similar proclamation, and King County Executive Dow Constantine has proclaimed August 24-29 as Lawn Bowling Week in King County.
The U.S. National Championship will take place at Jefferson Park Lawn Bowling Club on August 23-28. Volunteers are wanted, and spectators are welcome. Here is the schedule of events.
(Thanks to Nita Chambers of the Jefferson Park Lawn Bowling Club for the heads-up!)
Tuesday, August 2 is the annual Seattle Night Out, in which neighbors all over Seattle hold block parties to meet each other and organize their neighborhoods to fight crime.
Throughout Beacon Hill there will be numerous Night Out events during the evening hours. Here are all the ones we know about here at the BHB:
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This week many of the Seattle high schools held their graduation ceremonies. We know there are quite a few Beacon Hill neighbors among the happy graduates. Are you one of them? Or did you graduate from university, or grad school? Send us your name, school, degree or diploma type, and a graduation picture, and we will feature you on the blog. Email the info to blog@beaconhill.seattle.wa.us. We would like to publish names and photos of Beacon Hill graduates next week.
“Cruise on the Hill, getting food at Fou Lee.” Blue Scholars have a new song and video, “Fou Lee,” that features local stores Fou Lee and MC Foods, along with what looks like some pretty tasty cooking. (Watch the video all the way to the end and you’ll see a list of the ingredients in chicken adobo.) Release parties for their new album, Cinemetropolis, are June 17 and 18 at Neumos.
Thanks to Tyler Hill for pointing us to the video!
Publicola asked people from Beacon Hill and Ballard to explain “why their neighborhood is the best place to live in the city“ yesterday. Peggy Sturdivant, a columnist for the Ballard News-Tribune, represented the one-time neighborhood of bungalows and old Scandinavians that has since sprouted condos, townhomes, and trendy shops. Beacon Hill was represented by Craig Thompson, author of the Beacon Lights blog at seattlepi.com.
Both writers found many reasons to support their neighborhoods. Sturdivant bragged about Ballard’s farmer’s market, hospital, music venues, and sunsets, while Thompson touted Beacon Hill’s affordability, accessibility, diversity, and feeling of community, along with Jefferson Park and other green projects. (BHB would like to point out that one thing we have that Ballard will not be able to match for many years was overlooked — Link light rail.)
What do you think? We know which neighborhood we prefer.
The Beacon Hill Festival was Saturday, and this year the weather was great! Sunny and warm, but not too hot—it felt like we might actually get a summer this year after all. Here are a few photos of the day. Were you there? We’d love to see your photos, too. Please contribute them to the Beacon Hill Blog photo pool on Flickr. Thanks to Furchin for contributing some wonderful photos!
Here is the schedule of performers:
Main Stage
Small Stage
As always the event is open to everyone! Jefferson Community Center is located at 3801 Beacon Ave. S.
A neighbor going by “Observer” posted this recap in the comments to last week’s post:
It was a two-fold community celebration. The Friends of Lewis Park and Beacon Bikes joined forces with the City of Seattle, Department of Neighborhoods, North Beacon Hill Council and Green Seattle Partnership in sponsoring the People Powered Park Parade and celebration of four years of restoration of Lewis Park Natural Area.
The colorful bike parade was in celebration of the vision of a kid-friendly bicycle and pedestrian path connecting our Seattle Parks with safe and enjoyable neighborhood greenways. An estimated (I didn’t count) 50 or more bicyclists of all ages departed the Jefferson Park playground and rode the proposed path to Lewis Park to the north.
Upon arrival the riders and walkers (who seemed to double in numbers) were greeted by the Friends of Lewis Park and several dignitaries from the City of Seattle. Two of the more popular neighbors were Jay Hollingsworth and J.J. Lund. People lined up and down the block to meet them as they flipped the burgers and dogs and stirred the chili.
Director Dee Dunbar introduced several dignitaries that included Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn. Each of them shared a similar message of congratulations to the citizen volunteers who are providing the many hours of hands on labor to achieve the goal of restoring the Lewis Park Natural Area to a beautiful, family-friendly environment. They expressed great appreciation to citizens of the neighborhood who are making it happen. They also recognized the grants awarded to the project were really quite small when compared to the investment of time and work of the citizens of north Beacon Hill.
This is certainly not an official report but rather an observation from a long time citizen of north Beacon Hill.
Kat Marriner posted her take on the day’s events, with photos, on the Yellow Tent Adventures website. City Council member Sally Bagshaw also blogged about the event.
Dan Bennett posted a wonderful bunch of parade photos to the Beacon Hill Blog photo pool on Flickr, and Observer emailed us some great photos as well. (Thank you to both of you!) Here are a few of our favorites:
