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Amy Pennington Book Signing for City Fruit

Amy Pennington Book

From City Fruit’s blog:

A new growing season is here, and City Fruit would like to kick it off with a celebration at Santoro’s Books in Phinney with Amy Pennington, Urban Pantry cook book author and gardening expert. Ms. Pennington will kindly sign her newest book, Apartment Gardening: Plants, Projects and Recipes for Growing Food in Your Urban Home.

In addition to her books, Amy is well-known for launching UrbanGardenShare.org and for her business tending edible gardens for Seattleites.

Please join City Fruit board members, a representative from the Greenwood Food Bank, volunteers, and a slew of supporters as we share an update on our activities for this year — including plans to expand the fruit tree stewards program, running our two neighborhood harvests, and growing our roster of tree care and canning classes.

We will have light munchies, wine and beer. The event is free, but without your generous contribution we will not be able to match (or exceed!) last year’s harvest of 10,000 pounds of fruit. Please consider what it means to low-income families in our community to have access to fresh, nutritious, local fruit.

A portion of all proceeds will go towards supporting City Fruit.

Details:

  • What: City Fruit celebration with special guest, Amy Pennington
  • When: Thursday, May 12
  • What time: 6:30 – 8:30 p.m.
  • Where: Santoro’s Books, 7405 Greenwood Ave. N.
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New Neighborhood Crime Prevention Coordinator for the North Precinct

The Seattle Police Department recently announced they secured grant funding for four neighborhood crime prevention coordinators until the end of 2011. Formerly there were six coordinators.  Neil Hansen who helped many of us set up block watches, gave great tips on securing our property, and was a familiar sight at the Ballard District Council, retired a few months ago. The new coordinator for our area is Terrie Johnston.

According to the city’s Crime Prevention Coordinator’s web site, you can contact Terrie to:

  • Set up a Block Watch meeting for your block.
  • Talk about ongoing crime problems and work to resolve the crime on your block.
  • Set up a “Block Tour” so everyone understands the problems on your block.

Also on that site, are links to other crime prevention information and publications.

Terrie’s contact information:

Terrie Johnston
(206) 684-7711
terrie.johnston@seattle.gov

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Residential Burglaries

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It looks as though the Crown Hill (and Ballard) area has suffered a spate of residential burglaries in the last month (March 18th to April 18th, 2011). Just this afternoon (Monday), a neighbor on 12th (97xx block) surprised a burglar in his home. The neighbor pursued and caught the burglar on foot and was able to retrieve the burglar’s backpack in the ensuing struggle before the individual ran off.

UPDATE 04/19/2011: The Seattle PI website has more details on the likely perpetrator of Monday’s attempted burglary: http://www.seattlepi.com/local/article/Police-investigating-North-Seattle-burglary-1344246.php Please note that as of 04/19, the individual is NOT in custody, and has NOT been arrested in conjunction with the attempted burglary.

UPDATE 04/20/2011: This may be the same guy: http://www.seattlecrime.com/2011/04/19/serial-burglar-targeting-broadview-but-police-know-who-he-is

Here are the burglary incidents detailed on the map below:

03/18/2011:  23xx Block of NW 85th
03/20/2011:  10xx Block of 11th Ave NW
03/24/2011:  10xx Block of 11th Ave NW
04/03/2011:  9xx Block of NW 96th St
04/04/2011: 14xx Block of NW 105th St
04/06/2011: 17xx Block of NW 89TH St
04/07/2011:  14xx Block of NW 95th

There was an article published on MyBallard.com on the 17th detailing 4 break-ins in the area south of 80th and West of 15th: http://www.myballard.com/2011/04/17/neighbor-says-at-least-four-homes-broken-into/

The map for Crown Hill over the last month looks like this screen shot snagged from the SPD Police Reports website. The burglaries are in green with a star-burst which resembles broken glass:

Crime Map of Crown Hill
Crime Map of Crown Hill 3/18 - 4/17/2011

Normally Crown Hill is a fairly quiet enclave in the city of Seattle. Likely these crimes are the work of a small number of individuals who are moving through the neighborhood. Steps you can take to cut this crime spree short:

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‘Hood Hunt Wrap-up

The first ‘hood hunt in Crown Hill was held Saturday, April 9th, 2011.  We had 39 folk assemble themselves into eleven ‘teams’ whose job was to visit 25 checkpoints in Crown Hill, and answer a ‘simple’ question about something at that checkpoint. Easy enough you say, but the maps did not have street names on them. Once each team dusted off their orienteering skills, they were then confronted with the formidable 5-1/2 mile route to visit each point and return within 75 minutes. Adding to the challenge were the grueling hills of Crown Hill which induced shortness of breath, and sore legs. Upon return, the scores were totaled for each team, and prizes awarded based on the number of correct answers and finishing order.

Try it yourself!
If you want to try your skills at the challenge, you can download the map and question sheet. It should be a pleasant hour plus spent walking around the neighborhood!
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The Amort Family, second place winners of the 2011 'hood hunt

Prizes:

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Road work on Holman Road, April 13-14, 2011

Seattle Dept of Transportation will be doing some repaving work on Holman Road in the north-bound curb lane to address the issues of potholing along that edge of the street. Work is preliminarily scheduled for April 13th and 14th, weather permitting. Be prepared for some disruptions.

SDOT Traffic Advisory
For immediate release: April 8, 2011
Contact:  Marybeth Turner, (206) 684-8548

Holman Road Pavement Repair Next Week

Seattle Department of Transportation paving crews will work on Holman Road NW between Mary Avenue NW and 9th Avenue NW on Wednesday and Thursday, April 13 and 14, if weather is favorable. The crews plan to work from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. each day to grind off old pavement and lay new asphalt on a portion of the street. One north lane and two south lanes will remain open.