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Music, food, and drink at the Beacon Boogie 10/27
Put on your boogie shoes this coming Saturday, October 27 from 5-10 p.m. — the Beacon Hill Merchants Association is sponsoring another Beacon Boogie, a night of dinner, drinks, and live music in several restaurants in North Beacon Hill. All locations are within 2 blocks of South Hanford Street and Beacon Avenue South.
Here’s the evening’s schedule:
Hot Club Sandwich
5pm – 8pm, Bar del Corso, 3057 Beacon Ave. S.
Hot Club Sandwich define themselves as “Acoustic/Jam Band/Jazz.”
Mango Trio
7pm – 10pm, El Quetzal, 3209 Beacon Ave. S.
Members of MangoSon, a band who says they want to “recreate the sounds you might have heard in the street corners and marketplaces of coastal cities of Latin America before the onslaught of keyboards and electric guitars… We want our music to smell of sweet rum, black beans and rice, plantains and casabe.”
The Colour Project
8pm – 10pm, Tippe and Drague, 3315 Beacon Ave. S.
The Colour Project is a Seattle-based electronic rock duo, who “combine drum beats, guitar, synthesizer, textured loops and melody.”
Admission to Beacon Boogie is a $5 donation.
Quince to star in next Canning Connections workshop
All neighbors are welcome to drop by Tuesday’s workshop between 7:30-8:30 p.m. to sample previous canning efforts, pick up recipe sheets, and buy organic quince for $3 per pound.
Canning Connections comes to the Garden House, 2336 15th Ave. S., on the fourth Tuesday of each month. For more information, see the website.
Robber threatens victim by putting gun in baby’s mouth
By KOMO Staff at KOMO Communities
(Beacon Hill Blog news partners)
Police are looking for an armed man who threatened a purse-snatching victim to keep mum by placing a gun in her baby’s mouth.
The incident occurred just before 8:30 p.m. Monday in the 6500 block of Shaffer Avenue South.
Investigators said the woman had just gotten into her car after placing her baby in the car seat when a man jumped in.
Armed with a gun, the man demanded she give him her purse. The woman handed over the baby’s food bag and confirmed for the man that all her valuables were inside.
The man grabbed the bag, exited the car then opened the door next to the baby.
The man shoved his gun in the baby’s mouth and said he would kill them both, the baby first, if she screamed or told anyone about the incident. He added her he knew her license plate number with which he could track her down.
The man ran off and no arrests have been made.
Neither the woman nor the baby was injured.
(Edited to add:) Police describe the suspect as “an Asian male in his late teens to early 20s, with a thin build, wearing a dark blue hooded sweatshirt.”
Quieter Skies/FAA meeting postponed
No sooner did we post about the upcoming Federal Aviation Administration meeting than, as reported in the Seattle Times, the meeting was cancelled.
According to the FAA, “Key officials were unavailable for the Oct. 23 date.†The meeting will be rescheduled for sometime in November.
Singing bears, gnomes, and a movable Blue House come to Jefferson Park
“Holy porch swing! At Jefferson Park you and yours
can have fun looking behind my doors
and peeking into my windows to see what I adore.”
— from the Blue House website
If you see a Victorian house moving around the streets of Beacon Hill near Jefferson Park this weekend, don’t be alarmed. It’s the Blue House, a “a spirited citywide folly celebrating home and stewardship” — actually, a mobile artwork about energy conservation and sustainability with accompanying singing bears and gnomes, coming to the neighborhood on Sunday for the work’s “housewarming party.”
Lucia Neare’s Theatrical Wonders’ “There’s No Place Like Home” show is 2:30 to 4:30 p.m., Sunday, October 21 at Jefferson Park. The performance is free. The 13’9″ tall Blue House artwork was created to celebrate home stewardship through energy conservation, to recognize Seattle City Light and Community Power Works, and to bring awareness to the city’s energy conservation programs. The project was funded through City Light’s 1% for Art. The house, which gets around town on an alternative energy truck, will be visiting other neighborhoods including Seattle Center and Green Lake before the end of the year.
Find out more at the Blue House website or Facebook page.
Quieter Skies update: meeting with FAA next Tuesday
Neighbor Tina Ray sent this letter to the blog about the Quieter Skies task force here on the Hill:
Hope everyone is enjoying the fall! All parties included on this email chain were on my earlier airplane noise list – if you have friends and neighbors interested in this issue, I encourage you to forward this email! We also have a Facebook page: Quieter Skies – you can “like” us and keep updated on what we are doing as a community.
Our meeting with the FAA is next Tuesday, October 23 from 6:30 to 8:30 at the New Holly Gathering Hall – the address is 7054 32nd Ave. S., Seattle, WA 98118.
This meeting is very important for our neighborhood, and I encourage everyone to attend. Please get the word out to all your neighbors – this is such an important issue for our community.
I have flyers printed, and I have been delivering them to houses, passing them out at the Beacon Hill light rail station, and handing them to just about everyone I encounter throughout my day. In addition, these flyers are being translated into several languages, so all our neighbors can join together at this meeting. We are also trying to line up translators for the meeting – Spanish, Somali, Chinese, and Tagalog. If we need additional languages, let us know!
WE NEED HELP GETTING THE WORD OUT. If anyone can spend an hour passing out flyers, it would really help us out. I have flyer copies at my house, and we can forward the printable document to anyone interested. Black & white copies are inexpensive – about a nickel apiece, but I am more than happy to provide neighbors with copies myself.
Also: if you haven’t signed our petition, here is the link.
We are presenting the signatures and comments to the FAA at the meeting. If you haven’t signed, please do and PASS THE LINK ON TO YOUR FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS!
Snackdown pt II: Southeast Seattle vs. International District
As is only right and proper, Southeast Seattle wiped out West Seattle/White Center in the last round of Seattle Weekly‘s Snackdown competition to find the neighborhood/district with the best eatin’. Now we’ve moved into the quarterfinals, with a tough match against a heavyweight: the International District.
The International District is certainly known for its food, but it may be that Southeast Seattle has much more variety. At any rate, you know what to do: vote early, vote often.
Beacon Ave Sandwiches coming soon to former Luisa Taqueria space
The space at the intersection of 15th and Beacon, where Luisa Taqueria opened for business but then closed for good only a few months ago, will soon reopen — this time, as a sandwich shop/deli: “Beacon Ave Sandwiches.”
Luis and Leona, owners of The Station coffee shop, will be opening the new shop later this year. Luis told the Beacon Hill Blog that the store will be “like something that would have been on Beacon Hill in the 1920s,” a place where customers can purchase sandwiches but also meats and cheeses by the pound.
Luis told the BHB he has a lot of ideas in mind for Beacon Ave Sandwiches, including sandwich names based on local landmarks and references. In a post on the Beacon Hill Blog Facebook page, he asks for “serious” suggestions from the community.
In just a bit over a year, North Beacon Hill has acquired an Italian restaurant, an Indian restaurant, two pubs (you can now get a burger without leaving the Hill!), and a taco trailer. Soon, these will be joined by the new sandwich shop. Things are changing rapidly in the neighborhood, aren’t they? After all these changes, what do you think we still need here on the Hill? Tell us in the comments.
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