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This wonderful news just in from Catherine Weatbrook:
The former Crown Hill Elementary building officially became the property of Small Faces Child Development Center today, June 30th, 2009, just after 2pm. The Crown Hill Project team, made up of representatives of 10 different groups and non-profit organizations, worked through a three year process to secure the building, and surrounding 2+ acres for perpetual community and park use. Seattle Parks purchased the majority of the open space, influenced both by the Neighborhood Planning Process ten years ago, as well as by overwhelming community support. The building, built in 1919 and added on to in 1949, will remain home to current tenants, as well as become the new home of Seattle Gilbert and Sullivan Society. This dynamic community asset, set next to an up and coming park, will serve as a hub in the Crown Hill Community.
Thank you to everyone who helped during this process and we look forward to the future.
-Catherine Weatbrook
Crown Hill Project Manager
Congratulations to all who have worked so hard and long to see this through. Looking forward to a really big celebration later this summer!
Sign-ups are open for this year’s Crown Hill Neighborhood Garage Sale. You can sign up here. View the map and list of participating households here. Don’t miss out on the opportunity! Lets fill the map with participating sales this year. Add your sale and buyers will come!
Calling all Crown Hill Neighbors to participate in our Third Annual CHNA Garage Sale. The sale will be held on Saturday, July 25th from 9 AM to 3 PM. About 50 households participated last year with loads of cool stuff. Great way to meet your neighbors.
Is your house overflowing with clothes, furniture, toys, appliances, etc which could find a home with one of your neighbors or garage sale cruisers? Want an excuse to buy those 70’s bell bottom pants? Remember, one household’s junk is another’s treasure! This is your chance to buy or sell, and a wonderful opportunity to mingle with the crowds. Last year’s sale had over 50 participating selling households.
Do your kids need an excuse to set up a lemonade stand? This is a great opportunity. Last year, we had lemonade, coffee, cookies and cupcakes.
It’s definitely time to start setting your merchandise aside, and plotting joint sales with neighbors so you can take turns visiting other sales.
For all of you folk in the neighborhood who’ve recently remodeled your master bath, HGTV wants you! Contact Brooke directly.
My name is Brooke Schledewitz and I work for the show, “Bang For Your Buck” on Home and Garden Television (HGTV). We are now in production of our 2nd season and are looking to bring the show to the Seattle, WA area. I’m hoping for your help in locating homeowners who may be interested in having their recently remodeled master bathroom featured on our show!
HGTV’s “Bang For Your Buck”
High Noon Entertainment
Phone: 303.712.3168
Fax: 303.486.3881
bschledewitz@highnoonentertainment.com
bschledewitz@gmail.com
MyBallard.com reported on Friday, June 26th, the sale of the Crown Hill School building to Small Faces is nearly complete. The money to effect the sale has now been received from the State (Economic Development and Trade grant) and the city. The two grants total $1.3 million dollars. The sale may close as early as Tuesday, June 30th, 2009. Thanks to all who have worked tirelessly on this acquisition (Catherine Weatbrook, Lynn Wirta, and many others). Combined with Seattle’s recent purchase of the other portion of the Crown Hill School property, this means a piece of Crown Hill’s history is protected from future development and open to community use.
The Four Spoons Cafe has now opened at the site of the former Library Cafe and later Crown Hill Bistro. Great to see new businesses opening up in Crown Hill!
850 NW 85th Street (85th and Dibble)
(206) 297-6384
They serve breakfast and brunch/lunch. They’ve already got some very good reviews at Yelp.com.
| July 13, 2009 | | 6:30 pm | to | 8:30 pm |
Design Review Early Design Guidance Meeting
Monday, July 13th 2009
6:30 PM
Ballard High School (Library)
1418 NW 65th Street
(http://web1.seattle.gov/dpd/luib/Notice.aspx?BID=430&NID=9961)
This is the proposal to replace the current Fred Meyer and Greenwood Market with a larger Fred Meyer. The proposal is quite controversial with many folk holding strong opinions on all sides, so this is your chance to get in on the ground floor.
MyBallard.com has an extensive write-up on the meeting.
Monday, June 15th Crown Hill Neighbors and Crown Hill Business Association jointly sponsored a Crime and Safety meeting for Crown Hill and adjacent areas. We had 37 members of the public attend the meeting in the Journey Church basement with 3 representatives of Seattle’s city government. D. Haag and N. Hansen from the Seattle Police Department and Rob Mattson from the Department of Neighborhoods fielded questions from the room, and each gave short presentations.
Read more about Neighborhood Safety Crime Meeting Wrap-up
One child’s “Dragon Fire Pirate Camp” sweatshirt at the CHNA annual meeting, May 9th. email kit@crownhillneighbors.org
Thanks everyone for answering our first question, “What is your favorite place to spend time in Crown Hill? and why?”
Twenty-four neighbors shared their favorite spot in Crown Hill. That’s about a 10% response rate, which is very good for an email survey. Many couldn’t resist and mentioned more than one place, including seasonal preferences such as, Sound View wading pool in the summer; Bento Sushi in the winter; or baseball season at Whitman & Crown Hill ball fields. Read on for a summary of familiar favorites and possible new discoveries. To check out all the responses click read more below.
Crown Hill denizens like their parks as they topped the list with 18 mentions. Crown Hill Park/school took the lead as either a current favorite, ” … with my 2 year old son. He loves running around playing on all the different things; I love that there’s so much space and I don’t have worry about him running out into the street.” It’s also been fun to watch him develop; he can finally go down the slide all by himself!” or a future favorite, “When the new park across from Dick’s is finished with the skatepark feature that will be my favorite place on Crown Hill…” and “We love playing frisbee in the field and we’re hoping there will still be a place to play when the park is developed.”
Read more about OUR CROWN HILL Question #1: Favorite Places
| July 20, 2009 | | 7:00 pm | to | 8:30 pm |
Crown Hill Neighborhood Association Monthly Meeting
Monday, July 20th 2009
7 PM
Journey Church
9204 11th Ave NW
Public is welcome, please e-mail agenda items to agenda@crownhillneighbors.org
| July 25, 2009 | | 9:00 am | to | 3:00 pm |
Calling all Crown Hill Neighbors to participate in our Third Annual CHNA Garage Sale. About 50 households participated last year with loads of cool stuff. Great way to meet your neighbors.
Is your house overflowing with clothes, furniture, toys, appliances, etc which could find a home with one of your neighbors or garage sale cruisers? Want an excuse to buy those 70’s bell bottom pants? Remember, one household’s junk is another’s treasure! This is your chance to buy or sell, and a wonderful opportunity to mingle with the crowds. Last year’s sale had over 50 participating selling households.
Do your kids need an excuse to set up a lemonade stand?
Check back at http://crownhillneighbors.org on June 25th, and we’ll have an online form so you can include your address and a short description of what you’ve got. We’ll have an online map and list of participating addresses with the descriptions you provide. (UPDATED: You can sign up here)
It’s definitely time to start setting your merchandise aside, and plotting joint sales with neighbors so you can take turns visiting other sales.
Thanks for visiting. After a slow start our new web site is officially open for business. We hope you’ll find the site easy to navigate and chock full of vital information and news about your Crown Hill neighborhood.
We created the site using WordPress blogging software. We have turned on comments on many articles to facilitate conversations between neighbors. If you choose to add your comment to an article, please keep it good-natured and civil (trolls will not be tolerated). For those of you technical wizards, RSS feeds are enabled for the web site, so you can subscribe to the feed and get up-to-the-minute notification of new and changed articles (I use the Brief add-in for Mozilla Firefox to subscribe to RSS feeds, and am not familiar with either Safari or Internet Explorer, so I can offer no guidance there).
We are planning to add new features as time permits. We are volunteers, so please be patient as we move along. If you have suggestions for improvements please let us know at webmaster@crownhillneighbors.org.
We also e-mail a newsletter with events every few weeks, you can sign up at no charge here. We encourage donations in the form of memberships in the organization which you can sign up for here.
This was just received from Seattle Teen Challenge director Brandlyn Kay about their Teen Challenge Walk-A-Thon held on Saturday, June 13th:
Thank you to everyone who came out to our first annual Walk A Thon. We had lots of fun doing this and meeting so many new people. The grand total of the fundraiser is over 13.000 dollars! We couldn’t have done it with out your support. Thank you and I look forward to seeing you next year!
Brandlyn Kay
Executive Director
Seattle Metro Women’s
Teen Challenge
Direct 206-721-7555
| July 8, 2009 | | 7:00 pm | to | 8:30 pm |
Wednesday, July 8th 2009
7 PM
Ballard Neighborhood Service Center
5604 22nd Ave NW
For information, contact Rob Mattson
| June 15, 2009 | | 7:00 pm | to | 8:30 pm |
Crime and Safety in Crown Hill
Monday, June 15th
7 PM – 8:30 PM
Journey Church basement
9204 11th Ave NW
You’re invited to join your neighbors and local business owners for a crime prevention and community safety meeting sponsored by Crown Hill Business Association and Crown Hill Neighborhood Association
Just today (Friday, June 12th) a car was stolen on 12th near 97th. Yesterday, an African American man was threatened with a knife and racially harassed at the bus stop at 85th and 15th. This is OUR neighborhood. We’ve had many other incidents including theft of residential mail, graffiti in both commercial and residential areas, thefts from businesses, gunfire, a stabbing, vehicles tearing up the grass at Crown Hill Park, drug use and dealing at the McAbee entrance to Carkeek Park, unsavory characters loitering in parking lots.
I think we’re all familiar with the neighborhood block watch program, but what further steps beyond increased vigilance can we take as a neighborhood (residents and businesses) to put the bite on crime, and make our neighborhood safer for all?
Find out what residents and businesses can do to best protect themselves and their property – basics review. Review of what official reports/statistics Seattle Police are receiving regarding our Crown Hill, Ballard, and city wide. Overview of some Ballard wide efforts and initiatives. What are we in the community seeing in Crown Hill? Ground rules apply! Breakout discussion sessions focused on areas of input brought forward in the meeting. Learn what we can do to be better prepared, to have a better understanding of what we’re seeing in our area, and to be empowered to make positive changes for our community.
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