Gemenskap Park grand opening celebration this Saturday

Meghan Walker Ballard

The completion of Gemenskap Park on 14th Ave NW is being celebrated on Saturday, (Oct. 27) with a Fall Festival and Halloween costume parade planned from 10:30am to 12:30pm.

Gemenskap (pronounced yuh-MEN-skawp), Swedish for “community”, is a two-block park on 14th between NW 59th St and NW 61st St. It’s been in the works for 13 years, so naturally, neighbors are ecstatic that it’s finally finished.

The East Ballard Community Association and Seattle Parks will be hosting the festival, with the parade happening at 10:30am. There will be music, pumpkin decorating, treats and activities for all ages.

To learn about the development of Gemenskap, visit this website.

Photo courtesy Gemenskap Flickr album

36 thoughts to “Gemenskap Park grand opening celebration this Saturday”

  2. I wonder what the maintenance costs are on this park a year. I certainly hope they keep it up, they never seem to maintain anything for long around here.

  3. There are zero tents in this park. Same as yesterday, same as all the other days this park has existed. These morons have never laid eyes on it.

  4. No matter that these trolls who have never laid eyes on the park make asses of themselves, every one of their asinine posts means one more can of food for the Ballard Food Bank. I pledge a can of food for every off-topic anti-homeless, repetitive troll post. We’ve easily exceeded 100 cans already, and 150 is coming up fast.

    I’m going to mark each can, or each case of cans, “Social Justice Cancer” or “Onward, Virtue Warriors!” or “hayduke” or “Skip” or whatever the case may be, in rough proportion to their contribution. The needy people who eat this food should know the names of who made it possible. Thank you all! When I buy them a tent, your names will be written on it. I know, right?

    Post more! You’re helping to feed needy people!

      2. Yes. Those whiny bitches camp in the parks and demand we pay for their food while they do drugs all day, or they spend their time blaming “cishet white men” for the fact they majored in Pubic Hair Weaving and Advanced Cat Studies. Muh racism

    3. Oooh, so bold and edgy. You know what would really impress us? Pitch your free tents in your backyard and invite your harmless junkie friends to stay awhile. Let them cook their free cans of food on your stove too. Come on, whatdya say? You won’t turn away the “needy,” will you?

      2. Donating cans of food to the food bank is not “edgy”. It’s pretty basic stuff. Something every decent person does all the time without even thinking about it. It seems to give you an enormous complex of anxiety and fear. But that’s what I’m here for! YOUR shitty non-contributions to myballard.com are turned directly into food for the hungry, and all you have to do is keep being you.

        1. Yeah how can we keep this up? I really want to donate a can for each condicending post on here. What a brilliant idea! I think we should also (not possibly) do this for each shitty mean comment we see on any forum. We’lol be feeding the world within minutes!

          1. That’s because cheap fast food is in fact fattening. You also don’t see people in poverty shopping at farmers markets too often either

          2. I can buy a cheap steak and potatoes for less than McD’s. Try again. Fast food hasn’t been cheap for yrs. And these same folks who can’t seem to make the decision to eat healthier are the same folks you guys drive to polling stations. NICE ONE
            Condoms? They don’t use.
            Healthy food? They don’t eat.
            Consequences? Whelp those are for the rest of us to subsidize.

          5. Cite your sources sir, also can you get a peer review of this so we know it’s accurate please?

          6. You really don’t want me to start going into demographic details regarding your maps, do you? And yes, certain groups have a hard time wearing condoms despite endless campaigns, endless epidemics. Same with fried food, and shooting other teens and knocking up 20 baby mamas by age 18. You guys love that stuff!
            Get em all to the polls, Bro! Try and see how many you can get licensed and official to vote Dem! Hurry!

          7. Yep. A still from a hollyweird movie is as close as you’ll get to throwing a punch. Getting on the next flight to Brazil to fight the new junta they elected? Thought not.
            Go back to your Harry Potter and move to Tukwila.

          8. Go? Go back? Why? Because a little Nazi said so? You little Nazis don’t scare anybody. I’m no going anywhere. Bleat away.

            Did you hear? One of you is going to prison. A pathetic “vigilante”. You go online and whip up your hate hiding behind a fake name, and sooner or later, one of you dumb clucks acts on it.

            You incite criminal violence, and when they ask who did it you scurry under a rock, and try to hide, say it wasn’t you. You say you didn’t do nothing, but everyone knows. Those chickens will come home to roost, little Nazi.

  7. You planners and advocates had 13 years to come up with a name for this Park. You could not have chosen a worse name. My reason as to why will go out to everyone without any need of explanation. Terrible. I hate it.

    1. not nearly enough – see, the only way we can help the junkies is to put them so up in everyone’s face that we’ll buy them a condo and buckets of smack. oh and of course more free needles from the needle “exchange”.

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