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By Chris Jacobsen & Heidi Madden
If you were to stand facing north at the intersection of 8th Ave. NW and NW 105th today, you would see rows of ramblers built in the early 1950s during the post-war building boom. You would hear traffic from Holman Road and Greenwood Ave. N. But years ago, my parents, Art and Betty Jacobsen, lived in a quiet farmhouse on a dairy farm at this very location.
In the early 1940s, Art and his older brother, Chris, owned and operated the Pedersen Dairy, formerly called Puritan Dairy Farm. Its southeast boundary was roughly NW 105th and 8th Ave. NW. It stretched for about 20 acres – up the hill to the west, and north to the current border of Carkeek Park.
 Aerial photo of the area from 1936. Red dot indicates the location of the farmhouse. The farm outbuildings, including the barn, can be also be seen to the north in this photo. Art had moved to the Seattle area from Minnesota in 1934 at the age of 19. He joined Chris, who had already been in the area for two years.
 Art with his milk delivery truck (children unknown), early 1940s In the late 1930s, the two brothers worked for their uncle, Harold Vikelyst, who owned the Puritan Dairy Farm. They met every morning at their uncle’s house, which was located at 10028 12th Ave. NW. The house, which was built in 1928, still stands today.
The Life of a Dairy Farmer
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A contractor working for the Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) will paint the railing on a raised portion of Holman Road NW at 8th Avenue NW from February 1 to February 12. The sidewalk will be closed 24-hours-a-day. During the first week, the crews will close the northern sidewalk, and then starting February 8 the crews will close the southern side. Pedestrians will cross Holman Road at 7th Avenue NW and at 13th Avenue NW.
FAST RELIEF: An All-Star Acoustic Concert For Haiti
Featuring Northwest music luminaries Brian Butler, the Canote Brothers, Mark Graham, Jo Miller, Del Rey, Kim Scanlon, Linda Waterfall, and the Fast Relief Ramblers with Paul Anastasio on fiddle and Cary Black on bass. Fabulous mystery guest stars as well. Host and MC, Joe Vinikow.
All proceeds will provide urgently needed supplies to support the Haiti field deployment of Dr. Kathy Jobe and her colleagues at the Seattle/King County Disaster Team, to provide emergency medical care for victims of the recent catastrophic earthquake.
The concert will be held 7pm Thursday, February 11th, at the North Seattle Community College Concert Hall, located just west of I-5 in Seattle’s Northgate district, at College Way North. and North 97th Street. A map link is here: http://www.northseattle.edu/maps/wayfinder.php?loc=26
Suggested donation is $20, and tickets will be available at the door. For more info, contact Julie Sakahara at 206-322-5692. Thanks, and we’ll see you there!
Three great classes coming up at Swanson’s Nursery. The cold snap in December has probably kicked your cabin fever into high gear. Only problem is that was followed by record breaking warm weather in January which has you itching to get out in the yard. It’s still not safe to put in your spring garden, but our neighborhood nursery, Swanson’s has just the thing coming up in February. The first two seminars are put on by Laura Matter from Seattle Tilth (Planting your Edible Garden), and Crown Hill’s own Wendy Welch (Container Design). And we could use inspiration and help in selecting appropriate fruit trees for our yards. The seminars are FREE and no reservations are required.
Swanson’s Nursery
9701 15th Avenue Northwest
Seattle, WA 98117-2399
(206) 782-2543
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Ever wonder what your neck of the woods looked like a long time ago? A while ago, I stumbled across a set of aerial photographs from 1936 at the King County Records site. Looking at many areas of Crown Hill using the online IMAP Geographic Information System, I visualized the area before it was converted to the present day densely packed grid of mostly single family houses. The whole area bore a distinctly rural character, with scattered rectangular arrays of orchard trees, agricultural plots and out buildings. Holman Road existed, though it appears unpaved and deeply rutted. The red dot on the photo below is at the intersection of present day 12th Ave NW and NW 95th.
 12th and 95th aerial view (1936) Click on the photo to view full size Read more of this article
This just received from SDOT. The Holman Rd railings repainting project has been rescheduled to begin on January 27th. It was originally slotted to be completed in December. During painting pedestrian access to the walkway on the Holman Road overpass over 8th Ave NW may be restricted.
2009 Bridge Painting Projects
Construction Update: January 14, 2010
Due to several issues the scheduled start of the 2009 bridge painting projects has been revised. The following is the latest information on start dates for the projects. More information will be provided in the upcoming weeks concerning vehicle and pedestrian traffic restrictions.
Revised Construction Start Dates:
(1) Carkeek Park over BNSF Railroad — January 20, 2010
(2) Holman Road over 8th Ave NW bridge railings — January 27, 2010
(3) Fairview Avenue N bridge railings — February 15, 2010
(4) E Boston Terrace bridge railings — February 23, 2010
(5) Washington Street Pier — Week of March 1, 2010
Project Contacts
George Frost, Public Outreach Coordinator, george.frost@seattle.gov, (206) 615-0786
Ron Scharf, Project Manager, ron.scharf@seattle.gov, (206) 684-5192
At the December Ballard District Council meeting, Council President Jennifer Macuiba called for volunteers to address poor illumination and impaired pedestrian safety along major thoroughfares in Ballard and Crown Hill. Seattle City Light does not automatically check for street light operation, leaving that up to citizens like us to initiate a repair by reporting the outage. During the week before Christmas, the volunteers fanned out along Market, 15th, 8th, Holman Rd, 85th, 65th and other areas with high pedestrian traffic, and identified a total of 198 malfunctioning (either completely or intermittently out) street lights. Each of the lights was entered into Seattle City Light’s online trouble report at: http://seattle.gov/light/streetlight/ Some of the lights were already repaired by the first week of January 2010.
The volunteers covered the major streets and arterials, but there are many streetlights which were not surveyed by this effort, and are on the much darker interior streets of our neighborhood. This is where we would like to enlist your assistance in this effort to improve pedestrian safety. As you walk, bicycle or drive on our neighborhood streets, make a note of any lights which are malfunctioning, and report them. You will need the pole number (a reflective number affixed to the pole), the closest street address, and a description of the issue (light out, light intermittent, vegetation blocking the light, etc.). Report any lights which are out promptly using the online form at: http://seattle.gov/light/streetlight/ Seattle City Light will endeavor to fix the lights within 10 days of first report. A less than 5 minute investment of your time can make a difference for both you and your neighbors!
A dedicated group of neighbors in West Crown Hill recently applied for Bridging the Gap Large Project Fund money to construct sidewalks in their area. Deborah Jaquith shepherded the effort. The area defined for the proposed project spans from NW 85th to NW 90th between 15th Ave NW and 20th Ave NW.
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Delancey Pizza
1415 NW 70th St
Wed-Sat, 5 PM to 10 PM
Sun, 5 PM to 9 PM
(206) 838-1960
http://delanceyseattle.com
Delancey is definitely not in Crown Hill, but it is such a gem of a pizzeria, and so close by, you’ll just have to make your way down there and feast. Delancey is located in that wonderful little business district located on 70th St around 14th Ave NW. They are neighbors of the Honore Artisan Bakery at 1413 70th, but don’t plan on popping over to Honore for dessert after feasting at Delancey because Honore closes at 4. Clearly worth a separate trip.
Delancey was started up by Brandon Pettit and Molly Wizenberg. Perhaps you’re already acquainted with Molly from her Orangette (http://orangette.blogspot.com) blog, one of the most well written blogs about real food in the whole world.
Delancey’s pizzas are all baked in a wood-fired pizza oven, so if you haven’t yet been treated to a hearth baked pizza, this is your chance. We had the Crimini pizza, and the Prosciutto. Both were mouth wateringly good. Each was about twelve inches in diameter, about right for one person, and reasonably priced at $12 and $15 respectively. Each had a handcrafted feel, slightly non-circular shape, super thin crust, and just the right amount of toppings to balance the rustic crust. We finished the meal with a monstrous chocolate chip cookie with grey salt (recipe here on Molly’s blog) and a luscious Budino elegantly served in a wide mouth jam jar.
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 15th Near 85th Artists Concept Thanks to everyone who filled out a survey questionnaire to help gauge community and business support for a vegetated median along portions of 15th Ave NW (from 83rd St to 87th St) and Holman Road (from 87th St to 12th Ave). The Holman Road / 15th Ave corridor is a dominant feature in our community, and improvements to the corridor have the potential to make our neighborhood safer for both drivers and pedestrians, healthier for businesses, nicer looking and greener.
Holman / 15th Median Study Community Review Meeting
December 10, 2009 at 7:00pm, doors open at 6:30
Journey Church , 9204 11th Ave NW
Snacks provided
On Thursday, December 10 at 7:00pm the Crown Hill Neighborhood Association and the Crown Hill Business Association will host a community meeting to review designs for a series of planted medians for a section of the Holman Road / 15th Ave NW corridor. Produced by a team of students from the University of Washington’s Community, Environment, and Planning Program, these designs reflect the responses from more than 290 Crown Hill residents through an online survey, as well as conversations with SDOT, Metro transit officials, and business owners along the corridor.
The student team will present a preliminary conceptual drawing (see draft below) and discuss several options for your comment. Feedback from this meeting will be used to produce their final design recommendations.
 Preliminary Median Concept Schematic
Lynn Wirta, Small Faces Emeritus Executive Director, has asked for community input and assistance in designing the play field fences east of the school building.
Small Faces is slowly moving towards renovating the playground, (including the fence issue) now that the building has been secured. We have several draft drawings that are a result of children, family, staff and neighborhood input. Now we need someone to take the ideas and create a formal picture that can be used for marketing our plan. Are there any neighbors who might have the architectual skills we need who would be interested in helping?
The fence model we like is patterned after the one at the Phinney Neighborhood Association. It has planters as the safety barrier and will include a people gate and a vehicle gate for access to the future City Park. See the attached pictures.
What do you think?
Lynn
 Phinney Fence 1  Phinney Fence 2 Interested in contributing ideas or skills to this project, contact Small Faces at smallfaces@smallfaces.org or John Otto (the new executive director) at johnny@smallfaces.org or phone at (206) 782-2611.
A very friendly crowd of approximately 300 people showed up for Mayor-elect Mike McGinn’s transition team town hall meeting at the Northgate Community Center on November 30th. This meeting was one of a series of meetings held, one each in the North, Central and South parts of the city. He assumes the responsibilties on January 1st with an official ceremony taking place on Monday, January 4th.
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According to a number of media sources there was a stabbing approximately 7 PM, Sunday evening. The victim was transported to a local hospital for treatment of unspecified injuries. The incident occurred near Holman Road and 90th, although the emergency response address was listed as Holman Road and Mary Ave.
Here are some links with more detail about the incident:
According to at least one of the articles above, the injured woman did not know her assailant. Please be cautious of and attentive to your surroundings. Do not display fancy electronic gear (phones, ipods, gps units, etc). Immediately call 911 to report suspicious activity when you see it.
Updated December 3rd:
Police are looking for a white male 5′ 8″ tall, approximately 300 lbs, short hair, small tattoo on his left thumb.
Some local footwear purveyors will be collecting gently used footwear for Soles4Soles, a non-profit set up to distribute footwear to people in need in more than 125 countries. On December 12th, participating locations will give 20% off a new pair of shoes in exchange for your donation.
Nearby locations:
Ballard: re-soul, 5319 Ballard Ave.
Phinney Ridge: The Sneakery, 612 NW 65th Street
Fremont: evo, 122 NW 36th Street
Fremont: Shoes ‘n Feet, 3409 Stone Way North, #102
For more information or other locations: http://souls4seattle.com and http://giveshoes.org
Enjoying a leisurely Saturday morning following Thanksgiving, 11 Crown Hill residents walked to Carkeek Park to check out the annual chum salmon return to Piper’s Creek. Doug Gresham, a wetlands ecologist and CH resident, provided expert commentary on the life cycle of salmon and the restoration project in Piper’s Creek.
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