Broadview-Thomson is gearing up for its annual auction.

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Posted: March 13, 2011

Please support you Seattle Broadview neighborhood school.

Broadview-Thomson K-8 is gearing up for its annual auction – the school’s biggest fundraiser – and is seeking community support.  We kindly request donations of new items large or small to auction off.

Examples of items that bring in much needed money include restaurant and services gift cards, jewelry, CDs or DVDs, art and weekend getaways.  If you run your own small business or if you represent an established company, this is an opportunity to show off your products

or services to people right here in the local community.   As an

individual you might consider using your special skills like beading or carpentry to create a unique auction item.  All donor names (whether business or individual) will be recognized in the auction display and in our auction catalog. Gold Star contributors (donations of $250 or more) will also get special recognition on our web site.

 LET THE GOOD TIMES ROLL is this year’s auction theme.  The event takes place May 21 at Bitter Lake Community Center.  With a New Orleans flair this night of fun and fundraising will include food and music inspiring you to laissez les bon temps (let the good times roll)!

Broadview-Thomson’s auctions host 200 or more guests and raise approximately $45,000 each year. Benefiting all students, the money raised allows our PTA to fund a wide variety of programs such as arts education, technology improvements, playground supervision, and field trips.

Thank you for considering a contribution to Broadview’s auction.  We hope to have all donations secured by May 15.  See the school’s PTA website (http://broadviewthomsonpta.com/uploads/Broadview_PTA_fundraising_letter.pdf)

or contact Patti Amundson at wwpatti@gmail.com  for more information

Winter Curry…delicious dish!

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Posted: March 12, 2011

Bryn Black writer for At the Table in Broadview

This is one of my favorite recipes for many reasons: it is easy, it makes the house smell wonderful, and the left overs freeze well.

 Gorman Christmas Curry

don’t let the name fool you, it is wonderful any time of the year…

 Ingredients:

1 –  4lbs. leg of Lamb OR 4 Chicken Breasts OR 2 large Eggplants

3 – chopped onions

5 – chopped celery sticks

2 – diced tomatoes OR one can of diced tomatoes

64 oz – chicken stock

2 – graded apples (or 2 cups apple sauce)

1 can – coconut milk

3-8 Tablespoons  – Curry powder

1/4 cup – chutney

dash – rice vinegar

dash – tabasco

cornstarch to thicken

 In a large stock pot cube and lightly saute meat, onions, celery with a little olive oil.  Add tomatoes and stock until ingredients are covered by about two inches.  Add apples, coconut milk, curry powder, chutney, vinegar, and tabasco.  Let this cook down for several hours (min. two hours) until meat is tender.  Thicken with cornstarch* if desired.

 *in a small bowl mix two parts cornstarch with three parts cool water, whisk until all cornstarch is dissolved.  Then add a few tablespoons at a time to curry until you reach your desired thickness, this will ensure that you will not create clumps.

 Serve with the following sides:

Rice – you favorite will do – Jasmine or Basmati if you would like traditional Plain yogurt Chutney Coconut Raisins or Dried Cranberries Bacon bits Peanuts (unsalted) Hard boiled eggs finely chopped

 Freezing leftovers: great quick meal, just heat up and serve.  In freezer bags, scoop 2 cups curry, squeeze out air and lay flat in freezer.

North 143rd Sidewalk Project Update

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Posted: March 11, 2011

A message from Seattle Department of Transportation Project Manager Therese Casper:

Just wanted to update you on the progress for the N 143rd Street sidewalk project.  SDOT is proceeding with designing a concrete sidewalk on the northside of N 143rd Street from 1st Ave NW to the existing asphalt walkway just west of Linden Ave N.

I will be contacting property owners along the street in the next month or two as building a new sidewalk typically involves repaving driveways, trimming / removing vegetation, and grade adjustments.  In addition, the new street width on N 143rd Street will be 25’ with parking on both sides of the street.  The narrowed street width will have a traffic calming benefit for the neighborhood and further enhance pedestrian safety.

Survey and potholing crews will be on-site in the next week or two to investigate some potential conflicts with utilities in the streets.  This is typical of our design process.

Please contact me at your earliest convenience if you have any additional questions at (206) 684-8764 or at therese.casper@seattle.gov

Thanks,

Thérèse Casper

Seattle Department of Transportation

(206) 684-8764

How Did You Celebrate Mardi Gras?

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Posted: March 11, 2011

Spicy.  Flavorful.  Mouth-watering.  Yum.  These are just a few words to describe our palate experience that was March Dinner Club.  Yup…it’s me again.  The Pho Queen.  This month DC (as we like to call ourselves) was all about Mardi Gras!  It was fitting that we gathered the Monday before Fat Tuesday.  We could’ve called it Fat Monday.  It was a perfect mix of delicious food and friends.  What was on the menu this month?  Read on to discover.

For my contribution, I decided to make the classic – beignets.  How can you go wrong with puffy, hot, fried dough sprinkled with powdered sugar?  Due to a last minute change in location, I was unable to use my friend’s fry daddy.  I had to think of another ‘frying’ option.  In came the electric skillet to save the day.  If you don’t own a stainless steel electric skillet, I highly recommend getting one.  I use it for so many things.  But I digress.  I ended up frying the beignets in my kitchen using the electric skillet.  My 2 daughters were sitting at the bar eagerly awaiting their ‘taste test.’  Many times I had to warn them of the hot oil.  Although not the safest option in the world…it did the trick.  There is not much better than a hot beignet.  The kids would agree.

When I checked the evite to be sure everyone was going to come, I noticed that we were going to be without red beans and rice!  Our DC member had to cancel last minute.  I kind of got excited (not that she wasn’t there…we missed her terribly), but because I actually had all the ingredients to red beans and rice without having to go to the grocery store.  Score!  I found a recipe, filed it in my OneNote recipe file, and proceeded to make it.  I have to say….it was so good.  Red beans and rice is such a simple dish, yet healthy and filling.

Some of the other dishes other DC members prepared were spicy jambalaya, collard greens (which were the best collard greens I had ever tasted), yam biscuits with maple butter, and the king of all cakes – King Cake.  I loved loved LOVED the king cake.  It takes a while to prepare, but it was ready as soon as we were finished with our meal.  Imagine a hot, fresh, cinnamon bun drizzled with glaze and sprinkled sugar.  I would’ve eaten half of it had I not consumed my weight in rice.  Thankfully there was enough for us to bring home.  And, in keeping with Mardi Gras tradition, a prize is hidden in the king cake (usually a little baby figurine, but we did not have one).  We used part of a cookie.  The person who gets the prize is supposed to have good luck for the next year.  And guess who got the prize? 

If you are interested in any of the recipes used for Mardi Gras Dinner Club, please contact the blog!

"The King of all Cakes - King Cake"

"The King of all Cakes - King Cake"

Gardening in Broadview

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Updated: March 10, 2011

Written by Michelle Miner a member of  Broadview Garden Club

Today is a rainy stormy day in March.  It is the kind of day that gets you daydreaming about what you are going to plant in your garden when the sun finally comes out. 

  Last year on a day much like today, I went to a home improvement store and bought some herbs to plant in my garden.  One of the plants was a pineapple sage.  It was about 3″ tall and a pretty green color.  I had no idea that I had just bought the plant that was to become my all time favorite herb.

 So for the first couple of weeks I did not know that the pineapple sage was going to be my new favorite, it was just an herb in my garden.  Then it started to grow a lot taller than my other herbs.  It was so healthy and such a beautiful almost “neon” green color.  I could see it from my front window, and I started wonder about it a little more.  In the fall the pineapple sage was almost 3 feet tall.  I keep thinking this can’t be just any herb plant.

 The end of September my Mom and I took a trip to Buchard Gardens in Victoria, BC.  The first thing I noticed in their fall gardens was the shocking green of the pineapple sage.  It was every where in their landscape design.  How come I had never noticed this beautiful plant before.  So by now I am just head-over-heels in love with the pineapple sage and didn’t realize that the best was yet to come.

 In October, my pineapple sage began to bloom and had the most beautiful red trumpet flowers.  Every stalk had a cascade of flowers that attracted the hummingbirds from miles around.  The plant continued to bloom until the first snow storm in November.  What a wonderful, beautiful, easy to grow plant the pineapple sage is.  I have plans to put it all around my yard and in containers this spring.  I am thinking how beautiful it will look with my heavenly bamboo and my purple mondo grass.

 If you would like more information about the pineapple sage you can read about it at http://www.herbcompanion.com/Herb-Profiles/HERB-To-KNOW-PINEAPPLE-SAGE.aspx

How to Pay for Parks?

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Updated: March 9, 2011

In last two years funding for the Seattle Department of Parks and Recreation was reduced in the Seattle City budget.  As a result some staff  was laid off, programs and hours of availability were reduced, and some maintenance was deferred.  This has led to renewed interest in how to fund our parks and community centers.  An article in the March 6 Seattle Times Pacific Magazine describes the challenge of creating new  facilities through levies but not providing ongoing funding for operations and maintenance.

Recently the Seattle Parks Foundation and several other organization published a study on this topic.  One of the recommendations to increase funding was creating a Metropolitan Parks District (MPD), a legal entity that the State Legislation made possible a few years ago.  Several other cities in Washington have done so in recent years.  Other funding options include more efficiency in operations, special levies, and user fees. The option of implementing a Metropolitan Parks District has been discussed for some time.  Recently an analysis of the MPD idea was pubished on the Seatle Community Council Federation blog. 

The back and forth dialog on the topic of funding our parks system is just starting, and will likely heat up as the next budget cycle takes place.  As noted in the Seattle Times Pacific Magazine article, there is a wide range of opinions among decision makers, and some don’t feel the problem has as high a priority as funding other projects and services.

Viewlands School meeting updates

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Posted: March 8, 2011

Hello Viewlands Community Members!

I wanted to touch base following our first community meeting on March 3. I’d first like to thank everyone who could make it out – we had a great range of perspectives and connections to the school, which made for strong conversation. We talked through members’ vision for the new Viewlands Elementary and what attributes they would like to see in the school’s principal.

If you were not able to make the meeting, the most important thing for you to know about is the Viewlands Design Team. The Design Team will be a group of 5-8 volunteers who offer to meet twice a month to work with the principal around issues relevant to school planning and design. It will also communicate its work to the broader Viewlands community and coordinate any subcommittees or side projects that you all as a group choose to take on.

 We will use an application process to select a Design Team that represents diverse perspectives and connections to Viewlands (parents, teachers, neighbors, etc.). Even if you are not on the Design Team, there will be ample opportunities to be involved in the planning work via subcommittees and broader community meetings that the Design Team plans.

 If you are interested in applying for the Design Team, I have attached the application here. Please return it to me by this Friday, March 11, by email or fax. Please also forward this message along to anyone I may have missed. I am so glad to be working with all of you, and thanks again for a fantastic first gathering last week!

Yours,

 Bree Dusseault

email: bndusseault@seattleschools.org

Application for Viewlands Elementary Design Team

Notes from our Brainstrom meeting March 3rd:

What do you want to see in the new Viewlands Elementary? 

  • Connections to the community
    • Carkeek Park
    • Use resources from beginning (partnerships)
    • Blog
    • Garden groups
    • Audubon program
  • Integrated academic curriculum to build bridges across grades and disciplines
    • Alternative ways to build programs
    • Artist-in-residence
    • Project based learning
    • Technology  –  media, smartboards
    • Thematic learning
    • Buddies programs – cross-peer programs
  • “Green focus”
    • Recycling, green program
    • Curriculum could have an environmental focus – developed with Carkeek Park
    • Gardening, pea patch
    • Composting in school – get resources from outside groups (Seattle Public Utilities)
    • Outdoor classrooms (Carkeek?)
  • Teach the whole child
    • Teaching tolerance and respect, character education programs
    • Individual IEPs for all
    • Nurse/counselor needed
  • Use cutting edge technology
  • Second language program event as option to pay for – afterschool
    • French connection? (partnership)
  • Better food? Health and fitness
  • On-site day care
  • Safety (right on 3rd Ave)
    • Bus access can be difficult

CKS Middle School to Perform The Sound of Music

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Updated: March 8, 2011

“The Sound of Music”

March 24th & 25th, 7pm

March 26th, 2pm & 7pm

Presented by Christ the King Middle School at

Shoreline Community College Campus Theater

General Admission: $12

For tickets: Call 206-364-6890; Visit our website: www.ckseattle.org

“The Sound of Music” holds a special place in the hearts of all who have experienced its wonder and magic. Not only is the music beautiful and unforgettable, but the story reminds us of the historic challenges that faced everyone during the World War II years. So for the young people participating in this production, there have been great lessons, both musical and historical.

We hear from people all the time that “The Sound of Music” is their favorite musical. Every song is a gift and the stories of love and courage are timeless. Knowing this, we gave much thought to taking on such an iconic musical. The entire creative team has welcomed this challenge to maintain our reputation for producing the best show possible. Our goal is to give our young and talented actors and stage crew the best opportunity possible for success. Young people can do amazing things if we believe in their abilities. They do not want to be patronized; rather they want to be responsible and held to the highest creative standards. Our goal is to give them that success through hard work and determination. Mother Abbess says it best, “You must look for your life.”

Please come and share the magic with us in our production of “The Sound of Music.”

Heather Dawson, Director

Liz Meyers, Musical Director

Broadview Disaster Preparedness

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Posted: March 4, 2011

The March 15 Broadview Community Council meeting will present information on how our community can prepare for a disaster such as a major earthquake.  

We can prepare at the family, block and community level.  Speakers will focus on how we can work with the City to create communication hubs that connect residents to each other and to disaster response resources at the Seattle Emergency Operations Center.  Come and learn how to get prepared so that we are not left behind in an emergency!

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