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Seasonal Market Closing Dates:
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Phinney: October 10th - This Friday
The U District (Saturdays), West Seattle, and Broadway (Sundays) are open year round, rain or shine!
Open Fridays, Jun to Oct 10
Hours 3 pm - 7 pm
Address N 67th St & Phinney Ave N, in upper lot at Phinney Neighborhood Cntr, 98103
Today, however, I want to remind you that our annual Candidates & Issues Forum is scheduled for next
week -- Wednesday, October 15th at Olympic View Elementary.
Date: Wednesday, October 15th
Place: Olympic View Elementary, 5th NE and NE 95th
Time: 7-9pm
This is our annual event where the non-profit Maple Leaf Community Council holds the best attended nonpartisan candidate forum in north Seattle. Come hear representatives from ballot measures, judicial races, and
other campaigns speak.
Ballots will start arriving in your mailbox a week from today, believe it or not. There are important judicial races
and critical ballot measures on the ballot and this is your chance to learn more about these campaigns so you
can be an informed voter.
As per usual, our format is a short speech, a rebuttal, and then a chance for audience members from our
neighborhood to ask questions.
On behalf of the Maple Leaf Community Council Executive Board,
David Miller
President
Maple Leaf Community Council
The Greenwood Community Council will hold an Election Forum on Tuesday October 21, 7PM at the
Taproot Theatre. We will feature the dueling early childhood initiative ballot measures, along with the class size
initiative, monorail and transit measures. We plan also to invite candidates to be available after the event to
meet with constituents (depending on timing and whether the Taproot can stay open that late.)
PROJECT UPDATE: Northgate Link Extension
You’re invited to Northgate Link construction drop-in meetings
Sound Transit staff will be on hand to answer any Northgate Link construction questions you may have
at upcoming drop-in meetings. Join us at one these dates and locations:
ROOSEVELT
Wednesday, Oct. 22
5-7 p.m.
Whole Foods
Front Kitchen
1026 N.E. 64th St.
NORTHGATE
Thursday, Oct. 23
5-7 p.m.
Northgate Transit
Center Bus Platform
10200 First Ave. N.E.
Second tunnel boring machine nearly ready to head south
A second tunnel boring machine is about to begin its 3.6 mile journey from the Maple Leaf
Portal to the University of Washington Station. The machine, named Pamela, will build the
southbound tunnel that runs parallel to the northbound tunnel under construction using TBM
Brenda. The first TBM has already built about 1600 feet of tunnel but is on pause while the
second machine gets up and running.
For more information
For more information about the Northgate Link Extension Project, please contact the Northgate
Link Extension project team at 206-398-5300 or [email protected].
You can also visit the Northgate Link Extension web page.
To report urgent construction matters: please call Sound Transit’s 24-hour construction hotline
at 1-888-298-2395.
To request accommodations for persons with disabilities, call 1-800-201-4900/ TTY Relay: 711
or e-mail [email protected].
Languages:
中文 | Chinese
한국 | Korean
Русский | Russian
Español | Spanish
Tagalog
Tiếng việt | Vietnamese
YOU'RE INVITED!
RTS Fall Open House
NOVEMBER 5, 2014
4:00 - 7:00 PM
Rebuilding Together Seattle Office
500 Aurora Ave N #305
Seattle, WA 98109
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Check out the new Rebuilding Together Seattle office!
Enjoy an assortment of beer, wine, and appetizers
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Celebrate our 25th year of programs!
Connect with fellow supporters
Learn about our plans for this year
Are you new to Rebuilding Together Seattle? Please join us!
Please RSVP to Paige Schultz or through our Facebook event
We hope to see you there!
Our vision: a safe and healthy home for every person
500 Aurora Ave N #305 Seattle, WA 98109 206-682-1231 www.rtseattle.org
Washington Community Innovation Summit
on October 17, 2014, 9 to 4,
at the Impact HUB Seattle.
Join your fellow community members and emergency managers to learn new, innovative, and
collaborative methods to achieve resiliency before the next disaster strikes. The future of emergency
management is communities, self-organized groups, and emergency managers working together. Listen
to stories of successful working collaborations from the SR 530 mudslide, Hurricane Sandy, and
more. Learn innovative problem solving techniques to help solve issues confronting us all during
disaster preparedness, response, and recovery.
Summit Agenda:
9:00 – 9:15
Welcome
9:15 – 9:20
Sandy Mullins, Senior Policy Advisor, Governor Inslee’s Office
9:20 – 10:00
FIT Presents Stories from Innovative Self-Organized Groups
10:15 – 11:00
Keynote – Innovation Genome Project, Bill O’Connor, Autodesk
11:15 – 12:00
Futurecasting Catastrophes – Brian David Johnson, Intel Inc.
12:00 – 1:00
LUNCH *Design 4 Disasters Challenge finalists & winner announced
1:15 – 3:00
Neighborhood Empowerment Network & Breakouts for Exercise
3:15 – 4:00
Tying It All Together - Desi Matel-Anderson & Marcus Deyerin
Register for free here:
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/870628
Summit Poster:
If you have any questions, please reach out to me. We look forward to seeing you at the Summit!
Kind regards,
Frank Sanborn
Innovator
[email protected]
(206) 778 3343
www.fieldinnovationteam.org
@FITreadytogo
Vol. 8, No. 16
October 9, 2014
CITY NEWS
SEATTLE FILM INSTITUTE'S FALL OPEN HOUSE AND FREE WORKSHOPS
SEATTLE FILM INSTITUTE
Join SFI Saturday, October 11, for a Fall Open House and free workshops at their facility in the
Interbay neighborhood. For twenty years the Seattle Film Institute has featured a hands-on
education and practical experience that provide the groundwork for professional
careers. Students receive a real world education from a faculty anchored by film industry
professionals. SFI offers professional certificate programs, graduate degrees, undergraduate
degree options (AA and BA), and continuing education programs in all aspects of filmmaking, as well as a Summer Teen
Filmmaking Program.
THE SEATTLE MAN WHO'S KEEPING THE ART OF PIANO TUNING ALIVE
MY NORTHWEST
Seattle's 70-year-old Mike Gill has been tuning pianos for 45 years. Like blacksmithing and letter
writing, the profession of piano tuner has been added to the list of dying arts. Gill, who lost his
sight when he was 17, owns the Greenwood business Blind Mike's Piano Repair. Mike says it can
be hard to get established as a new piano tuner, to build a clientele. He has been tuning the
Westin Hotel's piano since it opened in 1970 and local performance venues call him up when they
need their piano tuned for a show.
Calendar of Hands on Volunteer Opportunities Updated
Hello, King County Dept. of Natural Resources and Parks has updated The Dirt: calendar of hands-on volunteer
opportunities. The Dirt lists outdoor projects to improve wildlife habitat, maintain backcountry trails, or salvage
native plants-- and offers other volunteer opportunities like scouting for noxious weed infestations. Please consider
visiting and volunteering. Thanks!
October 2014
OVER 100 SCHOOLS THROUGHOUT WASHINGTON
JOIN THE FEET FIRST IWALK CHALLENGE!
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Thanks to the efforts our partners across the state, Washington officially has 105 schools participating in IWALK! We
have two-and-a-half times as many schools as last year!
Washington schools conducting IWALK events are invited to submit an entry form by November 8 to be eligible to win
one of the Feet First IWALK Challenge prizes. Entries will be reviewed by our Celebrity Panel of Judges, who will
decide how to distribute the fabulous prizes.
IWALK events are a joyful way to promote walking to school, and are often the start point for sustained Safe Routes to
School programs. If you are interested in starting or developing a Safe Routes program, check out our offerings at Feet
First …
Public meeting held on September 23
SPU held a community meeting Tuesday, September 23 at Luther Memorial Lutheran Church to present
information and gather feedback from residents about paired sewer and drainage alternatives for the 12th
Avenue NW basin. For those who were unable to attend, meeting materials are available for download on the
project website or click one of the links below:
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PowerPoint presentation
Display boards
Comment form
Next steps
We heard and appreciate your thoughtful questions, comments and concerns at the meeting. We will followup soon with a detailed Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) document that addresses some of the key
questions and comments we have heard from the community, including specific questions and concerns about
a potential stormwater pond.
Contact us
For more information about the project, please contact us in any one of the following ways:
Broadview Project information line: 206-409-3651
Email: [email protected]
Web: www.seattle.gov/util/broadviewprojectsTake winter by storm
With rain this week and more to come as we enter the fall season, Seattle Public Utilities is urging residents to
help clear drains to help reduce the potential for localized flooding. Leaves and debris such as garbage can
overwhelm storm drains, ditches and culverts when heavy rains hit, clogging the drainage system and resulting
in localized flooding.
Here are some tips to help keep Broadview drains clean and reduce localized flooding:
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Maintain private ditches, culverts, gutters and downspouts by keeping them clean, flowing and
directed away from properties and hillsides. Culverts that run under driveways are privately owned
and are not maintained by the city.
 Call SPU’s 24/7 emergency services number to report sewer backups, major flooding and landslide
issues as they occur. In Seattle, this number is 206-386-1800.
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If you have a sewer backflow valve on your side sewer, please remember to maintain it once every
three months (four times a year), especially now that it is storm season. Also, remember not to put any
fats or grease down the sink, which can reduce the effectiveness of the backflow valve.
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Visit the Take Winter By Storm website for more information, including safety tips, weather forecasts
and regional emergency services information.
Thank you. - Celia
Celia S. Kennedy, Project Manager
Broadview Sewer and Drainage Improvement Project
206-409-3651
[email protected]
www.seattle.gov/util/BroadviewProjects
Weekend Traffic: Opa! Seahawks and Sounders are back
Also, Heart Walk, Greek Festival and several construction projects
SEATTLE – Fall is in the air and the weather is becoming less certain. When planning your trips around the
city this weekend, in addition to the weather, keep in mind the Seahawks and Sounders are back in town,
and several construction projects will affect traffic. The Heart and Stroke Walk will take place at the Seattle
Center and on downtown streets on Saturday morning, and a festival on Capitol Hill will be hosted by
Seattle’s Greek community throughout the weekend.
The West Emerson Street overpass, just south of the Ballard Bridge, is closed for 12 weeks starting today
for renewal of the roadway surface. This weekend, 15th Avenue West will be closed nightly to allow crews
to replace a girder on the Emerson Street overpass that has been damaged when hit by tall trucks. On
Friday and Saturday the street will close at 8 p.m. and reopen at 9 a.m. the next morning. If needed, the
street will also close on Sunday and Monday nights. For details and detour maps, see the project Web
page, www.seattle.gov/transportation/15thAveWestOverpass.htm.
Construction for the Seawall project resumed on the central waterfront last week. While some waterfront
businesses are closed during the construction, many waterfront destinations remain open, including the
Seattle Aquarium, Argosy Cruises, the Great Wheel and Pier 57, Colman Dock, and also businesses on the
east side of Alaskan Way. The ferry entry point has shifted to just south of Madison Street. Alaskan Way
remains open with two-way traffic under the Alaskan Way Viaduct. Traffic flaggers will assist vehicles,
pedestrians and bicyclists around work areas when utility work crosses the roadway or pathways.
http://www.waterfrontseattle.org/construction/map
Eastbound and westbound Mercer Street between Fifth and Ninth avenues will be reduced to one lane in
each direction starting at 8 p.m. each night until 5 a.m. the next morning through the morning of Oct. 11 for
water line installation The southbound side of Dexter Avenue North is down to one lane at night in the
block between Roy and Mercer, on the same dates and at the same times.
Avoid the stress of driving and reduce air pollution this weekend –ride your bike, walk, or consider using
public transportation and leave the driving to someone else:
 Seattle bike map, http://www.seattle.gov/transportation/bikemapOnline.htm
 Metro Transit , www.kingcounty.gov/metro/alerts or call 206.553.3000.
 Light Link Rail, Sound Transit Express, and Sounder train, http://www.soundtransit.org ,
206.398.5000
 South Lake Union Streetcar, http://www.seattlestreetcar.org/slu.htm
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10
St. Demetrio’s Greek Festival
 2100 Boyer Avenue East
 Event hours 12 – 9 p.m.
 Estimated attendance: 1,000
http://www.seattlegreekfestival.com/
Sounders vs Vancouver Whitecaps
 CenturyLink Field
 7 p.m. kickoff
 Estimated attendance: 50,000
 Expect slow traffic and congestion
http://www.soundersfc.com/matchday/transportation/guide
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11
Puget Sound Heart and Stroke Walk
 Seattle Center
 The festival starts at 7:30 a.m. and the walk at 9 a.m.
 Estimated attendance: 6,000
 The route for the 5K walk leaves from Seattle Center at Second Avenue North and Mercer Street,
proceeds east on Mercer to Fifth Avenue North, south on Fifth to Cedar Street, west on Cedar to
Second Avenue, then south on Second to Union Street, takes a U-turn at Union and heads north on
Second returning to the Seattle Center grounds.
 The route for the one mile walk leaves from Seattle Center at Second Avenue North and Mercer
Street, heads east on Mercer to Fifth Avenue North, then south on Fifth onto Thomas Street, and
west on Thomas onto Seattle Center grounds.
 Expect congestion along the route and surrounding areas due to the event and closures on Mercer
Street.
 Drivers accessing the Memorial Stadium parking lot should use the Harrison Street entrance and
exit only.
http://pugetsoundheartwalk.kintera.org/
St. Demetrio’s Greek Festival
 2100 Boyer Avenue East
 Event hours: 10 a.m. – 9 p.m.
 Estimated attendance: 2,500
http://www.seattlegreekfestival.com/
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 12
Seahawks vs. Dallas Cowboys
 CenturyLink Field
 Sunday, Oct. 12
 1:25 p.m. kickoff
 Estimated attendance: 67,000.
 Expect slow traffic and congestion.
http://www.seahawks.com/gameday/transportation-guide/index.html
St. Demetrio’s Greek Festival
 2100 Boyer Avenue East
 Event hours: 12 – 7 p.m.
 Estimated attendance: 1,000
http://www.seattlegreekfestival.com/
Marybeth Turner
Public Relations Supervisor
City of Seattle Department of Transportation
O: 206.684.8548 | Media Line: 206.684-3151| F: 206.684.3238 |[email protected]
Seattle Area Construction Look Ahead October 9, 2014
Also available online at: http://www.seattle.gov/transportation/constructionlookahead.htm
For an online map of these events, go to http://www.seattle.gov/travelers . Items will appear on the dates
listed.
Weekly Transportation Construction Coordination Update
Highlights:
October 9: W. Emerson/W. Nickerson St. overpass at the south end of the Ballard Bridge closes for
approximately three months.
October 10: Seattle Sounders host the Vancouver Whitecaps at CenturyLink Field at 7PM on Friday.
October 10 - 12: 15th Ave. W. closed nightly at the south end of the Ballard Bridge while sections of an overpass
are removed.
October 11: Puget Sound Heart and Stroke Walk will close streets in Downtown Seattle and around the Seattle
Center on Saturday morning.
October 12: Seattle Seahawks host the Dallas Cowboys at CenturyLink Field at 1:25PM on Sunday.
October 13: Stone Wy. N. closed north of N. 34th St. for up to five days.
October 17 - 20: SR520 floating bridge closed in both directions next weekend.
October 17 - 20: Aurora Ave. N. closed in both directions between the Battery Street Tunnel and Valley St. next
weekend.
October 18 & 19: SR99 Viaduct closed in both directions next Saturday and Sunday for the semi-annual bridge
inspection.