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- Next chance to help ‘save the river’: Thursday night May 22, 2013A reminder from the Duwamish River Cleanup Coalition – this event’s not in South Park but worth the drive/ride if you can make it! Where can you find a 50-foot long large-scale model of Seattle’s only river + art (including an 18-foot “scroll”, professional photographs, paintings, sculptures, etc.) + authentic Hawaiian food + FREE tickets[…]
- Free training for Duwamish River cleanup jobs – sign up ASAP! May 17, 2013The Duwamish River Cleanup Coalition reminds us that only days remain to sign up for free training for river-cleanup jobs – get the info here. […]
- Video: Duwamish cleanup public hearing @ South Park Community Center May 16, 2013(Our video of the entire 2-hour meeting) 5:48 PM: We’re at South Park Community Center, where the presentation is under way at the latest public hearing about the EPA’s proposed Duwamish River cleanup plan – primarily in Spanish, though an English translator is on hand and speaking into a system that can be accessed by[…]
- GiveBIG today! Our list of South Park-relevant beneficiaries May 15, 2013Again this year, local nonprofits are participating in today’s GiveBIG one-day donation drive coordinated by the Seattle Foundation. The money you give to any or all of the participating nonprofits helps them be eligible for a “stretch pool” of partial matching funds, to be distributed proportionately depending on how much each participating nonprofit raises […]
- May 2013 South Park Neighborhood Association meeting tonight May 14, 2013The agenda for tonight’s South Park Neighborhood Association meeting, as published on the Yahoo! e-mail group: 7:00 Meet and Greet 7:05 Introductions What is your favorite flower? 7:20 Announcements 1. Anyone is free to suggest a topic for discussion at a future meeting. Contact Elizabeth Mauro, SPNA VP, at Elizabeth@artinstallation.com (206) 940-6145 2. Boe […]
- Duwamish River cleanup’s health effects to be discussed at City Hall today May 13, 2013On Mondays, the Seattle City Council usually has two meetings. The first one, in the morning, is its weekly “briefing” session, often with a central subject on which it’s briefed. Today, the Duwamish River cleanup-plan proposal is at centerstage. B.J. Cummings of the Duwamish River Cleanup Coalition will be one of the experts talking to[…]
- Love garage/yard/rummage sales? Come to West Seattle today May 11, 2013Just west of here, it’s the 9th annual West Seattle Community Garage Sale Day – which your co-publishers here organize on behalf of partner site West Seattle Blog, as coordinators/presenters of the big event. 280 sales are on the map this year, and you are cordially invited to check them out between 9 am and[…]
- South Park resident’s foreclosure fight to escalate May 11, 2013(March 2013 photo by Nick Adams for TSPN) Back in March, we reported on a vigil at the South Henderson St. home of Jeremy Griffin, who has been fighting foreclosure. He is still fighting, and a local activist group has just sent this media alert saying they plan to fight a court-ordered eviction: Yesterday, after[…]
- Duwamish River cleanup proposal: Family/community workshop Thursday May 9, 2013Only five weeks remain for you to have your say on the proposed Duwamish River cleanup. A multi-language event tomorrow is one way to find out what’s being proposed and how it would affect you. Incentives, too, as explained by this announcement from the Duwamish River Cleanup Coalition: Concord International School, South Park’s neighborhood school,[…]
- Update: SWAT situation over, described by police as ‘attempted marijuana ripoff’ May 7, 2013The situation that brought SWAT officers to the 8300 block of Dallas overnight finally ended early this morning – here’s the newest information from SPD Blotter: Three men are in custody after a robbery inside a building in South Park early this morning. At approximately 12:37 a.m. officers responded to the 8300 block of Dallas[…]