When Leo Pfeifer was 3 years old, he got his first camera. When he was 10, he started his own YouTube channel. And now, at 13, he’s made his first winning documentary. Pfeifer is a seventh-grade student at Salmon Bay Middle School in Ballard. Late last year, he decided to enter C-SPAN’s StudentCam Documentary Competition […]
Author: Meghan Walker
Mayor McGinn’s Town Hall Meeting
Mayor Mike McGinn and a panel of city officials held a Town Hall meeting at Ballard High School on Wednesday night. McGinn opened the forum with statements about the Ballard’s transportation issues, saying, “I know Ballard. All three of my kids have gone through Salmon Bay. I know what it means to travel to Ballard, […]
Overcoming obstacles. Literally
On a rainy Friday night, ten young boys are flying off wooden blocks, swinging on metal bars, and, literally, climbing the walls. It’s a young boy’s dream in this garage-turned-gym on the Ballard/Fremont line: for two hours, these kids get to fly around the room like spider monkeys in a zoo. “I feel like I’m […]
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