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Call Your Mom, She Worries,
originally uploaded by avitania.
Capitol Hill do-gooders -- that's you, right? -- have two options to contribute to society tonight.
One is easy, one is hard:
- Easy first. Sustainable Capitol Hill presents Greendrinks tonight. It's your opportunity to network with young, sexy types who enjoy recycling, bicycling and every kind of cycling you can possibly think of.
We will feature Sierra Nevada beer, a result of our having raised the most money of all the neighborhood Greendrinks in the last event in January. We'll also have some tasty snacks from Madison Market and some special treats from Bluebird Ice Cream! That's right, there's free ice cream as well.
As with all Greendrinks events, we'd appreciate it if you can help keep this a low-impact event by bringing your own glass for beer or other beverages and, since we have ice cream, a spoon as well.
5:30-9:00 PM at CHS partner OfficeNomads (Boylston at Pine)
- And now hard. Results from this survey and meeting process from the summer will be examined and discussed tonight as the city's planning commission takes steps toward leading Seattle neighborhoods to develop new 10-year plans.
During June and July, many neighbors joined in meetings and many other hundreds participated in on line questionnaires to review the Draft Neighborhood Status Reports and comment on changes— good, bad, and unexpected —that have occurred since Seattle’s Neighborhood Plans were written in the late 90's. We explored growth, transportation, housing, economic development, utilities, neighborhood character, open space and parks, public services, public safety. The Planning Commission’s reports on comments can be reviewed at http://www.seattle.gov/planningcommission/
The Neighborhood Plan Advisory Committee (NPAC) and the Seattle Planning Commission want to report back to you on the trends that emerged so far and to get your help to identify the continuing priorities and new issues that should be emphasized in the final Status Reports and a State of the Neighborhood Report that will be presented to the City Council and Mayor. These reports will contribute to policy decisions including decisions about whether or how to updates neighborhood plans. Your input will also be important as NPAC shapes its recommendations on conducting, prioritizing and funding updates to the neighborhood plans listed below.
Tuesday, November 10th/ Seattle Central Community College, 1701 Broadway – Room BE 1110/11 6-8 PM Directions http://seattlecentral.edu/maps/
- Queen Anne
- Uptown
- Belltown
- Pike/Pine
- First Hill
- Eastlake
- Capitol Hill
Central Area
CHS received this warning tonight in an e-mail forwarded to us from the Madrona Moms mailing list:
just want to give a heads up, one of my friends was mugged at Pine between 23 and 24th just two nights ago. copys say it's been a string of muggings in the area. a group of teenage boys and one girl hide in the bushes and then knock down the victim.
We'll see what we can find out about the report of a 'string of muggings' -- did find this incident at the end of September in which a pizza delivery employee was robbed near the location of this report.
McGinn celebrates at campaign headquarters (Photo: Jeff Romeo special to CHS)
It's over. Mike McGinn is Seattle's new mayor. In the latest batch of nearly 20,000 ballots released today, McGinn took 56.5% of the count giving the candidate an insurmountable lead over Joe Mallahan. City Council president Richard Conlin this afternoon sent out an e-mail congratulating McGinn. The Mallahan camp has called a press conference this evening. Update: The Mallahan camp concedes.
Today's update:
- Mike McGinn 96,514 (+11,098), 50.88%
- Joe Mallahan 91,575, (+8,543), 48.28%
95% of votes based on King County's expected turnout are now tallied.
McGinn's campaign was grassroots and 'open' format -- and very Capitol Hill. This news site spoke with him many times and received near-daily updates from his all-volunteer campaign team from the very first moments of the race.
Here is CHS coverage of McGinn's announcement of his candidacy at Piecora's from back in March. McGinn also celebrated his victory in the primary and last week's election night on the Hill. The candidate also received the CHS endorsement voted on by members of this site.
The McGinn Campaign from David Albright on Vimeo.
The Mallahan camp, meanwhile, ran a more traditional campaign and used tools like Twitter to lob taunts and criticism at their opponent.
McGinn will inherit a city facing budget cuts as departments scramble to cover a $70 million budget gap due to falling tax revenues caused by the economic slowdown.
A purse snatcher tried to ruin this man's Halloween by snagging his bag from his gorilla-suited paws. All the thief made off with was the man's car keys. Props to the gorilla for finishing his night of fun before going to the fuzz.
The gorilla did it! Sorry for the error!
Meanwhile, Capitol Hill was the site of one of *two* unrelated bleach attacks in the city. More from our partner site, SeattleCrime.com:
On October 31st, 10:30 a.m. a man walked in to Duvall's apartment building on 10th Ave E and E Roy inquiring about renting an apartment. Duvall, prosecutors say, approached the man and threw a coffee mug full of bleach in the man's face
Five hours later, court records say Duvall, 40, approached a woman on 10th Avenue E and E Roy carrying two yellow tumblers. As he passed the woman, records say, he turned and threw bleach into the woman's face. Moments later, Duvall approached another man riding his bike on Roy Street and threw a cup of bleach in his face, and ran back into his building. Duvall's neighbors identified him to police, who took him in to custody.
SeattleCrime is the project of former Stranger reporter Jonah Spangenthal-Lee. In addition to the occasional crime news of the weird (see above), Jonah has been adding great reporting to the citywide coverage of the Tim Brenton murder investigation.
In addition to quality local journalism, SeattleCrime also has some pretty cool bells and whistles that we continue to work on. You'll be seeing more of these tools in our CHS crime reporting.
The SeattleCrime Map is especially useful. We're mapping 911 callouts, Central District News scanner reports and police reports from across the city. We're still refining and fixing things like enabling permalinks but it's already a pretty interesting tool. You can use it to drill down on any area in the city to see what from the crime files has been happening lately. Here's a view of recent automobile-related theft on Capitol Hill. Can't show you the trend yet -- but take my word for it, there's been a bump in the last few weeks with a mini-outbreak between Broadway and I-5 shores.
Welcome Jonah and his team to the Seattle Internet. Oh, and don't forget to remove your valuables from your car.
Stranded Buses on Broadway - Originally uploaded by mvbseattle
One thing is certain -- Seattle's next mayor (next results drop: 4:30 PM!) won't have the same old King County Metro snow plan to drag him down. Metro officials have unveiled two more components of an Emergency Service Route Network designed to show people that they did something keep buses moving this winter if our snowy, icy weather trends continue.
- The first is Metro's new emergency routes.
Here's what Seattle Transit Blog had to say about the plan:The 70 routes are basically a core set of Metro’s most important routes, minus some that are obviously impassable in severe weather. However, there are interesting tidbits for armchair planners, like a new Route 90 that serves as Capitol Hill/First Hill/Downtown Circulator, and a modified Route 39 that is truncated to run between Seward Park and the two nearest light rail stations.
- The second component is a new alerts system that will post route updates on the Metro homepage and send updates on your bus routes to your e-mail or phone. You can sign up for the service here.
These initiatives plus the city's revamped snow plowing strategy -- check out which streets get cleared, which don't -- address a lot of the issues and ideas raised here when we went through a CHS groupthink on Metro's snow problems while the failures were still fresh in mind.
And, if all of this doesn't work, there's always checking in with your friends and sharing information.
Update: Added a few pictures from the visit. Not every day the Speaker of the House is in the house. The dignitaries toured Swedish's intensive care unit facility and learned about the hospitals success at reducing 'ventilator associated pneumonia.' According to medical studies, this type of pneumonia occurs in about 25% of patients who require ventilation. Swedish says because of their practices and technology they have not had an incident at their facility in 21 months.
Original Post: Fresh off Saturday night's vote to pass a bill overhauling the nation's health care industry, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi will be on Broadway this afternoon to tour Swedish Medical Center and continue to drum up support for the legislation as it moves on to the Senate. It's more First Hill than Capitol Hill but in the neighborhood for any of you wonk types who want to come out and get Pelosi to sign your copy of HR 3962.
WHO:
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi
Congressman Jim McDermott
Congressman Jay Inslee
Congressman Norm Dicks
Cal Knight, President, Swedish Medical Center
Dr. Martin Siegel, Chair of the Swedish Board of Trustees
Hospital Administrators
WHAT:
· Speaker Pelosi and Members of Congress will be talking with hospital officials about how the groundbreaking health insurance reform legislation passed on Saturday by the US House of Representatives helps Seattle.
· The Speaker and other Members of Congress will briefly tour Swedish Medical Center’s facilities, including their Intensive Care Unit. Swedish Staff will be on the floor to describe the program to reduce ventilator associated pneumonia, a significant cause of mortality nationally. Photo/ B- roll opportunity at start of tour.
· Press Conference will immediately follow the tour.
WHEN:
Monday, November 9, 2pm
Pre-set at 1:30 pm
WHERE:
Glaser Foyer, Swedish Medical Center, 747 Broadway, Seattle
Previous
Many of the flowers from Tim Brenton's Friday memorial were moved over the weekend to his East Precinct headquarters at 12th and Pine. It's an odd little memorial, crowded and haphazardly stuffed into the lobby of the precinct HQ but it's also a very human display. The memorial that had grown on the sidewalk near where Brenton was gunned down Halloween night has been removed. Meanwhile the drama from the capture of Chris Monfort -- the alleged 'domestic terrorist' and a 'person of interest,' not a 'suspect' -- has settled somewhat. Latest reports have Monfort in serious but stable condition at Harborview on First Hill.
Parking meter, 1951,
originally uploaded by Seattle Municipal Archives.
I stumbled onto this fascinating essay about life on Capitol Hill in the 1950s inspired by the writer's discovery of the "I grew up on Capitol Hill' Facebook group. The names and the stories have so much color -- it's a good lesson to go find out the names of those people in the world around you so you can write quality history later. The essay is also a lesson in how quickly the Hill's culture has changed while providing prologue for the family-friendliness of today's northern Capitol Hill with its mommy and daddies and daddies and daddies and mommies and mommies. There is also a taste of the clubbiness that still can pervade some Capitol Hill streets.
We did a lot of the things our classmates did: bought penny candy at the same mom-and-pop stores, took 25 cents to the Roycroft Theater every Saturday afternoon for a program that included a serial, a newsreel, a cartoon and a feature film; built wooden hydroplanes and tied them to the back of our bikes for our own versions of the Gold Cup Races run on Lake Washington. We sometimes went to the original Red Mill on Friday night with our aunt and uncle so we could have fish and chips and not have to go home to a kitchen that smelled like fried fish.We went to the Friday night social dancing classes when we were in seventh and eight grades, and stood on one side of the hall while the St. Joe's boys were on the other. I can still remember a couple of Jack Reilly's sequence of steps and calls from that 7th-grade square dance class where they partnered us up with the boys by marching us in intersecting lines.
You've already seen some of the Hill-oween pictures we gathered and took during the fun last Saturday -- but there are so many new shots flying around the Internet in the days since that it would be a shame not to share those too. Thanks for dropping these treats into our CHS flickr pool plastic pumpkin. Special thanks to flickrite sea turtle who, once again, captured so many great images from Halloween on Broadway.
You'll see a lot of sea turtle's work in this slideshow of images from "capitol hill seattle" sorted by flickr's "most interesting" ranking from this year. Enjoy.
Urban Wildlife - Uploaded by: sea turtle
You are never to old to trick or treat!, originally uploaded by ERIK98122.
, originally uploaded by chelsey [ r ] scheffe.
Wedded Bliss, originally uploaded by sea turtle.
Halloween on Broadway, originally uploaded by sea turtle.
Christopher Monfort as a UW graduate student
Here are the latest updates on the case from our news partners at the Central District News, SeattleCrime.com and the Seattle Times:
- SPD is calling the killing of officer Timothy Brenton a case of 'domestic terrorism' and say they discovered a cache of weapons and explosives inside Christopher Monfort's Tukwila apartment.
- Adding to the possibility that political motives were part of what drove the killer, a mystery clue found at both the scene of an arson that destroyed three police vehicles earlier in October and at 29th and Yesler where the SPD officer was gunned down on Halloween has been revealed. The clue? American flags left at both scenes.
- Also found at the October arson scene? A note saying an officer would be killed. SPD 'rank and file' are upset that information wasn't share before the Brenton slaying.
- Finally, another clue to what may have driven Monfort to make the switch from politically agitated loner to alleged cop killer: a ticket that might have cost the 41-year-old his job.
