Harvesting Honey in Broadview Neighborhood

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Posted: October 5, 2010

 The process begins by removing the wax cappings that the bees place on each cell once the honey has cured to their satisfaction. After the cells are opened, the frames are placed into a centrifugal extractor, three at a time. The extractor is then cranked by hand for several minutes to extract the honey from the cells. The extracted honey then flows to the bottom of the extracting tank, where it will be released through a small gate at the bottom. The only processing that we do to our honey is to run it through a fine mesh filter to strain out any leftover wax and other solids prior to placing it into individual jars to share with our friends and family.

 After all of the hard work is complete, we end the day with a wonderful meal featuring fresh baked cornbread – there is nothing better than your very own fresh honey, drizzled on home made corn bread still warm from the oven!

We owe all of this to our wonderful bees. Their hard work is difficult to even imagine and we are lucky that we are able to share the rewards in exchange for a nice place for them to live.

Thank you to all our neighbors who planted bee friendly flowers and didn’t use yucky pesticides.  

Viewlands Elementary Re-opening

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Posted: October 1, 2010

I asked Peter Maier, Seattle School Board Director for District 1, for an update on the re-opening of Viewlands Elementary.  Peter e-mailed me that there will be a school design team for Viewlands like for the other three schools, but it hasn’t formed as of yet. It will probably be formed in October.  
 
Peter went on to state that the School Board approved the contract for the construction work at Viewlands and that the work should begin soon.  Sand Point Elementary re-opened this fall on time, and he expects the same for Viewlands.  Peter is working with the Seattle Council PTSA to see if a PTSA can be formed by in-coming Viewlands parents this year so that it is up and running by next fall. Any parent (for example of Viewlands Kindergartner who is at Broadview this year and will be in first grade at Viewlands next year) who is interested in the design team or the PTSA can contact Peter at peter.maier@seattleschools.org

Proposed Budget Will Affect Us

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Updated: September 29, 2010

On September 27th Mayor McGinn sent his proposed 2011-2012 budget to City Council.  Because the recession has caused reductions in tax collections the proposed budget makes cuts in services in many areas.  Among the cuts  two will have a noticeable effect on Broadview.  Public programs at Carkeek Park Environmental Learning Center will be eliminated (school programs will continue).  And the Neighborhood Service Center in Greenwood, the closest one to Broadview, will be closed.  Given the many reductions on several City departments there will be other impacts. 

On a positive note, the Mayor’s proposed 2011-2016 Capital Improvement Program budget calls for full funding of the Linden Ave. N Complete Streets Project.

The next step in the budget process is for City Council to consider whether to make changes.  If you wish to weigh in a budget topic you might start at the City Council’s budget web page. More information is also available on the Mayor’s website. with links to the details of the proposed budget.

Storm Water Tour At Carkeek Park

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Updated: September 26, 2010

Today People for Puget Sound sponsored a tour at Carkeek Park about storm water and how it affects Piper’s Creek and Puget Sound. The tour started on the beach at Carkeek and proceeded along Piper’s Creek, ending up along a street in the Broadview Green Grid, to see the natural drainage swales there.  You can learn more about protecting the Sound at People for Puget Sound  Below is a brief video of the tour.  .

Bite of Broadview is going on now!

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Posted: September 25, 2010

 

I went last night and it continues all weekend. Don’t miss it!

Great  food. I had the Braised Pork Shoulder with Polenta…delicious.  And my favorite pizza place, Snoose Junction, also has a booth there.  Dessert was banana cream pie. 

Lots of activities for kids: a Velcro wall topping the list of things to do. 

Don’t forget to hang around and listen to all the great live music. 

Christ the King Parish 117 & Dayton Ave North

 

 

 

BiteofBroadview.org

BROADVIEW/BITTER LAKE/HALLER LAKE NEIGHBORHOOD PLAN UPDATE

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Updated: September 25, 2010

Eight members of the newly named Neighborhood Advisory Committee (NAC) met at the Broadview Library with City staff who will work with us on updating our 1999 neighborhood plan. Dan Stern, Edmond Ryan, Gloria Butts, and Susan Eastman Jensen are part of the group and live in Broadview. Josh Freedman and Rick Barrett attended from Haller Lake. Richard Dyksterhuis and Pat McCoy represented the Bitter Lake Hub Urban Village. Committee membership will expand over the next few months as a few newly named members were unable to attend and outreach is intended to bring in young people and neighbors that represent our diversity. 

The City Departments of Planning and Development and Neighborhoods are staffing this effort. Primary staff are Nora Liu (DPD) and Pamela Banks (DON). I appreciated their work effort at providing us with an overview of the City’s goals, values, and information about the recent Race and Social Justice Initiative. A brief overview of the planning process was reviewed from the binder and then we talked about roles and responsibilities for the Committee. Questions were asked and answered and we are all hoping for a successful effort that leads to a more vibrant and cohesive community.

We’ll be meeting monthly over the next 18 months. There’s a great deal of work involved and our first work is to fill out our group, review what has occurred since the 1999 plan was completed, and determine how and when to gain the attention and participation of as many members of our neighborhood as we can.

Walkers need sidewalks, bicycles need designated paths ….

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Updated: September 27, 2010

The Broadview Community Council had endorsed the completion of Vital Streets in Broadview-Bitter Lake-Haller Lake from the 1999 Plan.

Vital Streets are the connecting streets that help form a community of users from all forms of transportation.

 Walkers need sidewalks, bicycles need designated paths or sharrows and buses need space and stops. We do want to have  “complete streets”: curbs, drainage, planting strips and sidewalks. Pedestrian and Street lighting built in.

  We want development on the Vital Connecting Streets and Avenues.

These Streets are; NW North NE 105th, 115th, 125th, 130th, 143rd, and 145th.

The Avenues are: 3rd NW, Greenwood Avenue North, Linden Avenue North, Aurora Avenue North, Meridian Avenue NE, and Ist Avenue NE.

 Vital Streets allow all users to transport themselves safely and within an aesthetic, calming, environment.

Connections to the Library, the Community Center, to Thomson Broadview, Ingraham and Northgate, Lakeside and other private schools. Connections to Metro Bus Stops and to Bitter Lake Play fields and the Reservoir Open Space.

Connections to the swimming pool and to North Acres Park. Connections to all of the commercial cores.

 Connections that allow us to walk and talk, pause and chat, meet and greet in a safe, sane and wondrous way. People to  People.

Sidewalks Coming to North 143rd

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Updated: September 23, 2010

Mayor McGinn announced this evening that North 143rd will have 3200 square feet of sidewalks constructed as part of eleven city wide Neighborhood Street Fund Projects. The North 143rd safety improvement project, supported by the Broadview Community Council and ranked as the highest priority project by the North West District Council will construct a 6′ asphalt walkway with a concrete curb on the north side of 143rd from Linden Avenue west to Palatine. A portion of the project area is in the Bitter Lake Hub Urban Village and will serve seniors, Broadview Thompson students, disabled neighbors, cyclists and transit riders. North 143rd is posted 20 mph although motorist often travel 35-40mph so residents are  seeking traffic calming and spaces for cyclist as part of the project. The cost estimate for the project is $655,000 with some funding coming from the Bridging the Gap Fund.

Here’s a link to the project description  And below a video of the Neighborhood Street Fund announcement, at Ravenna Ave. NE, which also had a NSF project awarded.  .  Video by Dale Johnson.

SOUNDER TRAIN WHISTLE STOP

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Updated: September 25, 2010

My name is Kevin Morgan and saw your poster for your sustainability/community meeting tonight while driving up 3rd Ave. this morning.  Michael Harthorne of the Ballard News Tribune has written an article about a Sounder train stop down at Shilshole Bay Marina/Golden Gardens.  I believe the article can still archived online or if interested I have a hard copy.  Since Broadview is the next neighborhood over from mine I thought that residents there would benefit from a commuter train stop too.  The broad strokes are these:  Put it on level ground down there(no big excavation projects-minimal environmental impact), no new parking lots-it is for bus, bike and pedestrian people, the track is already there(and a switch so that freight can go by), put a red light/green light, ticket puncher, bus size shelter and your done…most economical transit plan ever.

 I currently have about 100 signatures of support from my posters thatI have been hanging up around town.  Would I be able to bring some of my supporter sign up sheets to your meeting tonight?  I am trying to get as many as I can before I meet Mary Lou Dickerson for the first time Thursday evening. Thanks for your time and look forward to hearing from you.  Sincerely, Kevin

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