Each March, garden enthusiasts head to the zoo for one thing – Zoo Doo. This year the Woodland Park Zoo has canceled the Fecal Fest after finding unacceptable levels of the herbicide clopyralid (klo-PEER-uh-lid) in its supply of popular poo. The herbicide is not a risk to animals but could be a risk to your …
The Ballard High School cheerleading coach is being recognized as one of the best coaches in the country. Nancy Ellen Elster is one of three recipients of the Pinnacle Award, which honors the best cheer coaches in the nation. The selection committee sifted through 65 total applications and based their selection on her achievements over …
The Leif Erikson Lodge is looking for their 2009 queen and princess. The Queen and Princess Scholarship Program awards two young women who represent the lodge as its royalty an award of $800 or $200 respectively. The scholarship committee chooses the winners based on academic performance and evidence of ability to succeed. The two must …
Both the Sun Cafe on 6th Ave. and Nervous Nellie’s Espresso on 56th St. near 15th Ave. were both broken into Monday night. Jeanette at Nervous Nellie’s says that someone popped the locks off their door sometime before 5:45 this morning when the first employee showed up for work. She tells us that they moved …
The Seattle Parks Department and the Seattle Animal Shelter are stepping up enforcement at city parks that are being turned into unofficial “off-leash” areas by dog owners. Park staff have created a “Top Ten” list of worst offender sites including Green Lake Park, Bitter Lake Playfield, Ravenna/Cowen Parks and Volunteer Park. During their first weekend …
After piloting the program last year, Mayor Greg Nickels is expanding “Car-Free Days” to Ballard this year. The idea is to shut down a street for few hours for cycling and walking, all to “promote healthy, affordable activities and encourage people to think about using sustainable types of transportation.” So on Friday, May 15th, the …
Less than a year after opening, Energy Espresso is closed. The little building at 15th & 59th was Java Jazz before new owners took it over and changed the name last May. Today, the place is empty and the statues on the roof are gone. (Thanks for the tip Brandon!)
My Ballard reader Emily noticed that the sign in the window at Ballard Blocks announcing the coming arrival of Chipotle Grill (below) has since disappeared. And sure enough, the company’s PR firm tells us Chipotle has decided to back out of the Ballard location, choosing instead to focus on new restaurants in downtown and Overlake. …
Not a bad way to start the week, a partial double rainbow: Ross emailed us this picture of a double rainbow over Shilshole this morning. The second rainbow is a little faint, but if you look closely you can see it.
If you’re a restaurant, you can’t get a much better endorsement than this. “Rachael’s Travels” aired on the Food Network Sunday afternoon — the full 30 minutes on Seattle — and Rachael Ray called Volterra here in Ballard “one of my favorite restaurants in the world.” Visual evidence: She also stopped by Blackbird for a …
The funky little barbershop on 20th Ave and 55th St. closed today. They’ve already begun gutting clearing out the interior. A sign on the door directs patrons to Scream’s Capitol Hill location, at the corner of Broadway and Thomas St. (Thanks Josh and Sean for the tip!)
The Seattle Public School open enrollment for the 2009-2010 school year starts Monday and goes through the month of March. Open enrollment was postponed from January/February to now because of the school closure process. The open enrollment period is for kids starting kindergarten in the fall, students who are in the last grade at their …