Meetings

NBHC needs your input on meeting days

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The North Beacon Hill Council is considering changing the day the group meets each month. To ensure maximum involvement from members of the community at Council meetings, they have created an opinion survey to find the best possible meeting day. The survey will be open for public response through the middle of July. Please fill out the survey if you have any interest in attending Council meetings.

Currently, the Council holds its public meetings on the the first Thursday of the month. However, due to some room availability conflicts this fall at the Library, they are considering a change. Another factor involved is that there have been requests from some board members and neighbors that the meeting be moved so that it does not conflict with the monthly “Art Walk” in Pioneer Square.

North Beacon Hill Council meetings are open to the public and feature official speakers from the City on issues such as land use, public safety and parks. Additionally, there are regular reports from the many subcommittees and other community organizations such as Beacon Bikes, the Merchants’ Association, and El Centro de la Raza. Beacon Hill neighbors and business owners are encouraged and welcome to attend all meetings, and voting membership is granted after attending two meetings.

(Thanks to Matthew Stubbs for this information!)

Local Events

Events this weekend

Don’t forget to check the BHB Events calendar for information about the weekend’s goings-on. This weekend on the Hill includes the weekly Friday Night BBQ and Bowls lawn bowling event, the first Beacon Rocks! music event of the summer followed by The Station’s first anniversary party, and more! Looking forward into next week, you may also want to make note of the Tuesday Folk Club at the Garden House, which will feature WB Reid and Friends in concert this month. See the event calendar here.

Life on the Hill

Congratulations to Beacon Hill graduates!

We had some responses to our call for Beacon Hill graduates. Here they are! Congratulations to these graduates and everyone else from Beacon Hill who graduated during the 2010-2011 school year! (Your BHB editor is a graduate this year as well.)

Lindsey Herron earned her Masters in Teaching from the University of Washington this year. Congratulations, Lindsey!
Brook Ellingwood earned his Master of Communication in Digital Media from the University of Washington. Congratulations, Brook! (Photo by Scott Macklin.)
Catherine Graham earned her high school diploma via homeschooling in December 2010, and is looking forward to attending Pacific Lutheran University in the fall. Congratulations, Catherine!
Local Events

Big Brothers Big Sisters to host basketball tourney Saturday

This Saturday, June 25, Big Brothers Big Sisters of Puget Sound (BBBSPS) will hold a basketball tournament at Jefferson Community Center to raise awareness about the need for youth mentoring among the African-American community and to find Big Brothers and Big Sisters for more than 500 children who are waiting for a mentor.

The event runs from 12:30-3 p.m., and will feature 3-on-3 tournament games as well as food, games, and prizes for community members. All are welcome.

For information about the basketball tournament or Big Brothers Big Sisters, visit the website or contact Jason Knaggs at 206-763-9060 x228 or jason.knaggs@bbbsps.org.

Jefferson Community Center is located at 3801 Beacon Ave. S.

Clean and Green

Mayor to announce Jefferson Park solar project today

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Mayor Mike McGinn will be at Jefferson Park at 4:15 this afternoon with representatives from City Light and Parks and Recreation to announce Community Solar, a new solar energy program for city residents, in conjunction with new solar picnic shelters at the Park.

The new picnic shelters have roofs made of solar panels, and will not only provide sheltered picnic sites, but also produce an estimated 24,000 kilowatt-hours of of energy each year, enough to operate 3 households.

City Light customers can participate in the Community Solar project by purchasing “solar units.” A portion of the energy generated by the project will then be credited annually to each member’s power bill. Founding members will also have their names displayed at the project site in Jefferson Park. Find out more about the program at the Seattle Community Solar project website.

A workshop will be held at Jefferson Community Center next Tuesday, June 28, to explain the program and provide more information about signing up. You can register for the workshop here.

Illustration by Stephanie Bower; image courtesy of Seattle City Light.
Arts, Local Events

Beacon Rocks! schedule announced

JJ del Serra performing at last summer's Beacon Rocks!. Photo by Wendi.
The performance schedule has been announced for this year’s first Beacon Rocks! concert event, next Sunday, June 26 from 1-5 p.m. at the Roberto Maestas Festival Street (formerly S. Lander St.) next to Beacon Hill Station.

Along with performances from Beacon Hill musicians and artists, The Station coffee house will be hosting a beer garden and food vending on the adjacent El Centro de la Raza grounds. After Beacon Rocks! is The Station’s First Anniversary Party, featuring more local hip hop and rock music from 5pm until dusk.

Chairs and/or blankets are recommended to sit on. Remember that the Festival Street is a paved site.

June 26 schedule, with descriptions courtesy of Beacon Rocks!:

  • 1:00 Leaf Colors: “Indie folk rock with poignant lyrics.”
  • 1:30 Jun Hong Kung Fu and Sports Association: Lion Dance
    “A kung fu school that not only teaches martial arts but teaches everyone whom walks through the door to open their mind, work hard, and become productive members of the community.”
  • 1:45 Sometimes Astronauts
    “Rock and roll built to stand the test of time travel.”
  • 2:30 Jun Hong Kung Fu and Sports Association: Kung Fu Demonstration
  • 2:45 Reckless Nomad “Prepare to kick back with some grungy, blues-tinged rock.”
  • 3:30 Hank Davis and Friends
    “A longtime local singer-songwriter and contributor to the folk music website Victory Music.”
  • 4:00 Ichi Bichi
    “A hard pumping Pop/Punk Rock band, made up of 3 different nationalities (1 Japanese, 2 Romanians and 1 American), 2 different generations, 2 different genders…..all coming together to make great music.”
Neighborhood Pride

Graduates, send us your pictures!

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.

Photo by David M. Goehring via Creative Commons (and Flickr).
Clean and Green

Seattle Tilth offers gardening classes, camps

Photo courtesy of Seattle Tilth.
Seattle Tilth is offering a variety of gardening classes in Southeast Seattle this summer, starting on June 22. Classes include “Go Vertical,” to learn how to grow veggies vertically to maximize your space and harvest; “Wildlife-Friendly Gardening”; “Beyond the Vegetable Garden,” which will help you add perennial edibles to your landscaping; “Be Cistern Savvy!” which will teach how to collect rainwater at home; and several more.

The list of classes may be found here. Classes are in the nearby Mount Baker neighborhood at Bradner Gardens Park.

There are also volunteer opportunities and summer garden camps for kids in Rainier Valley.

Arts, Neighborhood Pride

Blue Scholars’ “Fou Lee” video released

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“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!

Food and Drink

Bar del Corso oven arrives, and it’s heavy

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Beacon Hill sidewalks are no match for six thousand pounds of pizza oven plus a forklift. The new Neapolitan pizza oven at Bar del Corso arrived from Italy on Friday, and while it was being moved into the old Beacon Pub building, the sidewalk behind the building gave way. Luckily, there was no damage to the custom blue oven, and with a sheet of metal placed over the damaged walkway, the oven was able to be moved inside. See lots of photos of the oven, the crushed sidewalk, and the process at seattlemag.com. Many more photos are on Bar del Corso’s Facebook page.