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Open Space Plan

Groundswell Northwest has received a Seattle Department of Neighborhoods Small and Simple Matching Fund grant to inventory open space in Ballard, and that includes Crown Hill. Are there open space, park, natural areas in Crown Hill, Blue Ridge, Olympic Manor, North Beach that you would like to see established, or improved?

There will be lots of opportunity for public input. The first opportunity is the open house, Thursday, May 29th at the Ballard Library at 6 PM.

This evening, we will be holding an open house to help shape the future of open space in the Ballard District.  Please join us on Thursday, May 29th at 6 PM at the Ballard Library.  The open house will run until 7:30 PM.

Funded by a grant from the Seattle Department of Neighborhoods, Groundswell NW is assessing our community’s open space current capacity and future open space needs.  The Ballard Open Space Plan is a community-driven initiative that will improve livability in the Ballard and Crown Hill areas through fostering an open dialogue about public open space. We’re updating the 1996 inventory, which led to the creation of parks like Thyme Patch Park, Kirke Park, Ballard Commons Park, and Ballard Corners Park. 

At tonight’s open house, we’ll share the goals of the Ballard Open Space Plan, take input on your ideas for open space in individual neighborhoods within the greater Ballard community, and explain how you can get involved. 

We’re recruiting people for our Discovery Day on June 14th, where volunteers will hit the pavement throughout Ballard using smartphones and/or maps to identify opportunities for new parks and public spaces. Open space includes parks, trails, rights-of-way, public art, natural areas, spaces for events and festivals, and other green infrastructure . 

We look forward to hearing what open space means to you!

http://ballardopenspaceplan.org/

 

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Crown Hill Neighbors — all neighbors meeting and more! May 17th.

Crown Hill Neighbors will be holding it’s combined monthly and annual meeting on Saturday May 17th from Noon to 1 PM in Room 4 of Crown Hill Center.

Agenda items:

  • Holman Road project update
  • Crown Hill Neighbors recruitment for new board members/ elections to follow in next month or so
  • Stephanie from Just Gardens
  • Designating the Blue Ridge Realty building at 15th & 100th as a historic landmark with the City of Seattle
Also happening on May 17th will be Just Garden Program’s Spring into Bed project to build 10 organic vegetable gardens and also an edible pathway at Labateyah Youth Home. Volunteers are needed. Please meet at 9 AM at Crown Hill Park (9220 14th Ave NW) for a quick meet and greet, light breakfast and instruction. Construction activities will take place between 10 AM and 1 PM. We do hope you can break off for our meeting at noon in the Crown Hill Center in Room 4. After 1 PM, volunteers return to Crown Hill Park for a celebration replete with food, music and fun.
More information on the Spring Into Bed project is here: http://www.seattleschild.com/article/family-volunteer-activity-help-build-food-gardens. The Just Garden Program is part of Seattle Tilth.

 

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Help save the street trees from Ivy, the sequel, Nov 16, 2013

HolmanKP-16NovHelp save nearly 200 trees from an ivy infestation! Join us from 10 am to 1 pm on Nov 9th. Help Crown Hill Business Association and our neighbors, as well as a safety and technical team from SDOT to save our street trees along Holman road.  There will be a partial road closure of the curbside southbound lane for worker safety.  SDOT staff will be working alongside us! Many tools and gloves provided.  Bring shovels and loppers and if you prefer your work gloves, bring those too.   Meet behind the Key Bank on Holman Rd. Work will proceed from 7th Ave NW toward 13th Ave NW.

There will be food and beverages. Come for as long as you can.  Let’s get this project started!

Date: Saturday, November 16th 2013
Time: 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM
Location: 7th Ave NW and Holman Rd (behind the Key Bank)

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Let’s Reunite Deuce with his Family!

Picture of DeuceDeuce is a dearly beloved brindle-colored English Bulldog missing now for a month. He was last seen in his yard on NW 101st near the QFC. He is about 58 pounds, and has very distinctive markings on his face. He is friendly. We’re hoping for a happy reunion with his family. This is the most recent post on the Bring Deuce Home Facebook page: www.facebook.com/deucepodhola

We need help. We are going to be putting up more posters, everywhere! 
How you can help: 

  • Put a sign in your YARD! Especially if your yard is easily visible to traffic. We will make sturdy signs for those that can and deliver!
  • If you work for a business that will allow a poster in the window, we will bring a nice laminated poster to hang and flyers for people to grab.
  • Tag your car!
  • Help hang signs in shoreline, west Seattle, south Seattle, university dist, capital hill, greenlake, Ravenna, Northgate. Basically, if you’re on an area in or immediately around Seattle with no missing Deuce posters we need your help. 
  • My goal us to let everyone and their far away cousins know Deuce is still missing and we are still looking for him.
  • I will be working in new posters and yard signs today, if you can help send me a message or text (206-351-5304), no comments please, they can get lost in the shuffle.
  • Also, if you have time to assist going door to door in crown hill/Ballard/greenwood/phinney, let me know – I can get you mini flyers.

Let’s do this, I want my dog back and I need your help.