Announcements, Events

Crown Hill Neighbors Annual Meeting / Jim Diers Workshops

Crown Hill Neighbors Annual General Meeting, May 15th 2010

Crown Hill Neighbors will be holding its annual general meeting this year on Saturday, May 15th. A dynamic program is planned. We’ll start with about 30 minutes of updates on neighborhood topics such as:

Crown Hill Park
Holman Road Median
Landmark Tree Survey
Crown Hill Center (former school) facility improvements and changes planned
Public safety

Then the well-known neighborhood activist, Jim Diers, will fire us up with his energy and ideas. Many people recall that Jim Diers was instrumental in the Neighborhood Small and Simple Grants program, developing the neighborhood plans for Seattle, and putting Seattle in the forefront of empowering neighborhoods to create local color and local amenities.

9250 14th Ave NW
10 a.m. to Noon for essential neighborhood updates and presentation

Noon – 2:30 PM for “neighbor power” workshop

Events, History

2010 Parade of Classic Ballard Homes Tour on June 6

Ballard Classic Homes Tour

Sunday, June 6, 2010, 10:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.

Join the Ballard Historical Society to tour seven lovely vintage homes built between 1909 and 1929. The homes on this year’s Ballard Classic Homes Tour serve as standards of enduring interest, quality and style. The tour is the Ballard Historical Society’s largest fundraiser and takes place only every three years. Check out the home of a doctor who housed tuberculosis patients — right inside his home! And tour the home of a family that served residents for decades at its Ballard meat markets.

Beginning May 14, purchase tickets for $20 at Secret Garden Bookshop, REStore, Johnson & Johnson Antiques and the Sunset Hill Green Market. Exchange your ticket for a tour brochure on Sunday, June 6 beginning at 9:30 a.m. at Sunset Hill Green Market.
Contact Coordinator Lesli Billings at (206) 992-7010 for more information or to volunteer as a docent on this year’s tour.

Announcements, Events, Parks & Greenspace, Public Notices

Parks and Green Space Levy Information Meeting

Seattle Parks and Recreation is hosting open houses throughout the city to encourage you to come and learn about the new six-year, $146 million 2008 Parks and Green Spaces Levy. There is funding for new neighborhood park land and more than 50 named projects, which include 23 playground renovations, two parks on top of reservoirs, four playfield improvements, forest and stream restoration projects, and funding for development in Discovery, Magnuson and Jefferson parks and in the Washington Park Arboretum. To see the named projects in your neighborhood visit http://seattle.gov/parks/levy/default.htm.

In Crown Hill, we are particularly interested in speaking up for the funds and designs for the Crown Hill Park adjacent to the former school.  CHNA encourages residents to attend one of the meetings and learn the process for implementing this local project using the available levy funds.

North Seattle,
Tuesday, May 12th 2009
7-8:30 PM
Green Lake Community Center
7201 E. Green Lake Dr. N
Central Seattle,
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
7-8:30 PM
Parks Administration Bldg,
100 Dexter Ave. N.

For additional information please contact: Karen O’Connor, Planning and Development
Seattle Parks and Recreation, Karen.o’connor@ seattle.gov or 206-233-7929
or visit  http://seattle.gov/parks/levy/default.htm and find out about the named projects in your neighborhood.