• A Target? In Seattle? If only Seattlest HQ had a fainting couch. The national big-box retailer has purchased a three-story space on 2nd Avenue between Pine and Union streets. [Seattle Times]
• It’s a majorly eventful weekend in the city, with Seafair and closures on I-5 and I-90 making for some seriously snarled traffic. [Seattle Times]
• President Obama signed legislation to provide emergency funding to fix the storm-damaged Howard Hanson Dam. Engineers expect to start work this fall, in hopes of avoiding an ugly flooding scenario. [KING5]

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Moody in static cling form (Photo: The Anne Bonny)

When Moody opened The Anne Bonny three-and-a-half years ago at its former location on Olive Way, he says he sought a change from his previous day job working in a warehouse.  “I just didn’t want to have a regular job,” Moody said, “and I had always loved stores like this.”  He had envisioned opening a store like The Anne Bonny sometime much further down the road as a retirement venture, but the opportunity emerged, and within four months the store was open for business.

“Everything in the store on day one I had acquired over the four-month period before,” Moody said.  Moody accumulated many of the store’s quirky wares – which includes everything from furniture, to clothing, historic photographs, and an enormous wooden cross – from estate sales, and he recalled a drive from Austin, Texas, to Seattle as being particularly fruitful.

A year-and-a-half ago, Moody moved The Anne Bonny to its location at Summit Ave. and Mercer St., where rent cost a quarter of what it did at the Olive Way location. However, the reduced rent did not necessarily make paying the bills any easier.

“I don’t know what I make per hour,” Moody said, “but I know it’s not very much money.  I could work in a bar two days a week and earn what I’m making six days a week here.”

Making small, independent businesses survive in Capitol Hill has been a struggle for a variety of reasons, as we have seen in recent weeks with the announced closures of Broadway News and Pho 900.  Moody feels that part of the challenge has been getting customers to shop regularly at small businesses like his.  “Talking about supporting small business does not actually support them,” he said.  “What’s important to small businesses is people patronizing them.”

“It’s a very small segment of the population that will look into a small business before they go to an Ikea,” he said.

Moody’s short-term plan is to focus on earning more money, however that may be.  He has performed for years with local music acts Murder City Devils and Triumph of Lethargy Skinned Alive to Death, and he suggested perhaps focusing more on his music or art.  “[Managing The Anne Bonny] has been good,” said Moody.  “I’m proud of what I’ve done, and I’m looking forward to figuring out what I’m going to do next.”

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It’s composed of several easels holding brightly-colored paintings and one painted door with a unicorn bird, a sword, and a bullfrog:

The art was brought to our attention by twitterer Travam. So far we don’t have any details on the who or why, but will let you know when we hear more.

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Thanks, Skylark Cafe and Club, for sponsoring the WSWL!

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ALL WEEKEND: Citywide traffic alerts for big events

ALL WEEKEND: Colman Pool regular 7-day-week season, click for schedule

ALL WEEKEND: Wading pool schedule – if temp gets over 70 degrees

ALL WEEKEND: Southwest Pool open (here’s the schedule)

ALL WEEKEND: Summer brochure for West Seattle and South Park community centers, click here

ALL WEEKEND: Movies (and more) at the Admiral Theater

ALL WEEKEND: West Seattle history on display @ Log House Museum at Alki, Thursdays-Sundays, noon-4 pm

ALL WEEKEND: Rent a sea kayak, stand up paddleboard, fishing boat, bike, longboard, or pair of inline skates at Alki Kayak Tours

ALL WEEKEND: Mountain to Sound Outfitters (WSB sponsor) sale all weekend with 10-20% off in stock items.

SATURDAY: Garage (etc.) sale season – check the WSB Forums’ Freebies/Deals/Sales section for listings

and in fact, here’s one ..

SATURDAY MORNING-AFTERNOON: Breast-cancer fundraising sale, 9 am-3 pm, 5613 44th SW (details here)

SATURDAY MORNING-AFTERNOON: Bicycle donation drive for Africa, West Seattle YMCA, 9 am-5 pm, more details here

SATURDAY MORNING-AFTERNOON: Genesee-Schmitz Neighborhood Council leads a cleanup at Genesee Hill Elementary campus, 9 am-1 pm (more info here)

SATURDAY MORNING-AFTERNOON: West Seattle Tool Library open 9 am-2 pm, South Seattle Community College Garden Center. Membership to the Tool Library is on a pay-what-you-can basis, as are the weekly rental rates on all of its tools.

SATURDAY MORNING-AFTERNOON: Special Westcrest Park work party with Earth Corps, 10 am-2 pm

SATURDAY MORNING-AFTERNOON: West Seattle work parties to restore and clean up parks and greenspaces NEED YOU! Full list at greenseattle.org

SATURDAY MORNING-AFTERNOON: South Park Market on Wheels, 10 am-4 pm in Napoli lot on 14th S.

SATURDAY MORNING: Pie & Coffee Social – 10:30 a.m.-Noon
Community Room 3 at The Kenney
Visit The Kenney for a cup of joe and slice of pie at an informal Open House. Learn what Assisted Living at The Kenney is all about! Get your questions answered and meet the Director of Assisted Living Services, Jill Morris.
R.S.V.P to Karmen Hudson, Director of Marketing at (206) 938-6941

SATURDAY MORNING-AFTERNOON: Marination Mobile street food truck is in West Seattle today, 11 am-2 pm (35th/Graham)

SATURDAY MORNING-AFTERNOON: SWAC Youth Football preregistration, SWAC Field Batting Cages, 2750 SW Trenton SW, 11 am-2 pm

SATURDAY MORNING): Return of Vietnamese Story Time at Delridge Library, 11:15 am

SATURDAY AFTERNOON: West Seattle Thunder fastpitch club announces its tryout dates for 2010-2011 season. We are looking for young ladies for 10u (born in 2000, 2001) and 12u (born in 1998, 1999) to join our teams to play tournament fastpitch.
Dates: Saturday, July 31 12:00-2:00pm
Location: Sealth High school softball field, 2700 SW Trenton St (across from Westwood Village’s north side)
Questions? Contact:
10u: Brian Kumasaka bkuma2@gmail.com
12u: Tom Richmond richmond22@msn.com”

SATURDAY AFTERNOON-EVENING: Inexplicable Illusions in the gallery at ArtsWest, noon-7 pm

SATURDAY AFTERNOON: Alki Lighthouse open for tours and gift shop, 1-4 pm

SATURDAY AFTERNOON: Kitty Harbor open from 1 pm – 6 pm and is located at 3422 Harbor Ave SW – just under the bridge. We’ve got a brand new website this year where you can find out updated information about our current cats and kittens. People can find us at www.kittyharborseattle.org, on facebook (http://www.facebook.com/pages/Kitty-Harbor/108132119231061?ref=ts) or through email at info@kittyharborseattle.org. Kitty Harbor is an all volunteer-run and donation-funded shelter and we appreciate any help that people can give.

SATURDAY AFTERNOON: JOIN us for the 6th ANNUAL CONES FOR KIDS:
July 31, 2:00 to 5:00 PM
Adjacent to the Alki Bathhouse in picnic shelter #1
Husky Ice Cream will be served along with games, face painting, and other activities for the kids! All proceeds will benefit Children’s Hospital uncompensated care program.

SATURDAY AFTERNOON: Family Story Time at Southwest Branch Library, 3 pm (more info here)

SATURDAY AFTERNOON-EVENING: Camp Long Lodge reopening celebration, 4-7 pm (cake! tours! free! more info here)

SATURDAY EVENING: Northbound Alaskan Way Viaduct closes 5:30-7 pm approximately for Torchlight Run

SATURDAY NIGHT: Live music at C & P Coffee with The Jon Sheckler Group, 6-8 pm

SATURDAY NIGHT: GreenStage presents “Romeo and Juliet,” free Shakespeare in the Park, Camp Long, 7 pm

SATURDAY NIGHT: Live music at The Bohemian with jazz, funk, soul by Tom Norton, 7-10 pm

SATURDAY NIGHT: Seafair Torchlight Parade downtown (with West Seattle participants including WS Hi-Yu Festival, Pathfinder K-8 unicyclists, more here), runs southbound on 4th Avenue starting between 7 and 7:30, from Seattle Center to the International District (also live on Channel 7 and kirotv.com)

SATURDAY NIGHT: “Side Show” at ArtsWest, 7:30 pm

SATURDAY NIGHT: Third of six Saturday nights for Summer Outdoor Movies in The Junction (Hotwire/Dr. Wolff courtyard, 4400 California SW) – “Fantastic Mr. Fox,” at dusk, but come early with your blanket/chair for pre-movie activities – bring a donation for West Seattle Food Bank/White Center Food Bank, which are tonight’s sponsors along with Dream Dinners (WSB sponsor) – also bring a few $ for raffles to raise $ for nonprofits, and concessions too – the movie itself is free!

SATURDAY NIGHT: Come one, come all to the Seattle Glee Clubs’ Annual OLIO SHOW, “Granny’s Secret Attic” . . . or, “How the Charleston Met the Dancing Queen!”You’ll be toe-tappin’ and seriously clappin’ for songs from the flapper and disco eras! You’ll fall out of your chair laughin’ at some of your normally staid West Seattle neighbors’ comedic shtick! “Olio” refers to the ol’ snake oil and vaudeville eras! You’ll be treated to live community comedy theater in the Olio-est sense of the term. – Saturday, July 31, 8:00 PM At the Youngstown Cultural Arts Center 4408 Delridge Way S.W. . . . An air-conditioned theater! Some of Seattle’s best musicians will be accompanying our glorious singers and actors from the orchestra pit! Tickets prices: $15 in advance; $20 at the door. Tickets can be purchased online at www.brownpapertickets.com

SATURDAY NIGHT: The Slags w/ Aiiee!
Saturday, 7/31
Poggie Tavern
4717 California Ave SW
show starts @ 9, Slags on @ 10:30
We will play our usual array of original psycho-garage rock and reggae, as well as 5
covers from iconic Russian ’80s band, KINO!

SATURDAY NIGHT: DJ Tony B, Rocksport, 9 pm

SATURDAY NIGHT: At Shadowland: Live music with Blackheart Honeymoon, 10 pm

SATURDAY NIGHT: At Skylark Cafe and Club (WSB sponsor): Live music with The Heels, 11 pm (live & no cover, as always)

SUNDAY: Garage (etc.) sale season – check the WSB Forums’ Freebies/Deals/Sales section for listings!

SUNDAY: Colman Pool open, click for schedule

SUNDAY MORNING-AFTERNOON: West Seattle Farmers’ Market @ The Junction, 10 am-2 pm

SUNDAY MORNING-AFTERNOON: First Sunday for Friends of Seattle Public Library tabling at West Seattle Farmers Market, 10-2

SUNDAY MORNING-AFTERNOON: Highland Park Sunday Market @ 12th/Holden, 11 am-3 pm (follow the link to the Facebook page, to see who’s new!)

SUNDAY MORNING-AFTERNOON: Discovery Shop in The Junction now open 11 am-3 pm Sundays in addition to regular hours are 10 a.m to 4:30 p.m. every other day. It’s at 4535 California SW. Currently, all items with pink tags are selling for a single dollar. All proceeds to American Cancer Society.

SUNDAY MORNING-AFTERNOON: Friends of the Animals Foundation will be holding weekly adopt-a-thons for our adoptable cats and kittens. Adoptions take place at Next to Nature in the West Seattle Junction every Sunday through Labor Day weekend from 11-5 pm and by appointment. All of our cats and kittens are rescued. They have been spayed or neutered, started on vaccines, combo tested, and treated for parasites. They come with a collar, tag, and a certificate for a free vet exam. Cat adoption fees are $100 for one and $160 for two. Kittens five months and under are $125 for one or $200 for two. Please bring cash or check, a carrier, and if a renter, proof that cats are allowed in your home. For more information email info@fafseattle.org or call (206) 719-4864.

SUNDAY AFTERNOON: Alki Lighthouse open for tours and gift shop, 1-4 pm

SUNDAY AFTERNOON: Kitty Harbor open from 1pm – 6pm and is located at 3422 Harbor Ave SW – just under the bridge. We’ve got a brand new website this year where you can find out updated information about our current cats and kittens. People can find us at www.kittyharborseattle.org, on facebook (http://www.facebook.com/pages/Kitty-Harbor/108132119231061?ref=ts) or through email at info@kittyharborseattle.org. Kitty Harbor is an all volunteer-run and donation-funded shelter and we appreciate any help that people can give.

SUNDAY AFTERNOON: Seattle Swing Dance Club in West Seattle. From Seattle Dance Info: “Intermediate West Coast Swing will be taught by ARI LEVITT at 2:45 and 4 PM pre-dance workshops (see www.seattlewcswing.org for details). Also at 4 PM: a basic West Coast Swing lesson for new folks. Dance from 5 to 9 PM with DJ TAMRA HOOD. … Admission for both workshops is $25 for guests ($19 for SSDC members), and includes the dance. Dance only admission is $11 for guests ( $7 for members) and includes free admission to 4 PM basics WCS class. Alki Masonic Lodge (West Seattle), 4736 40th Ave SW”

SUNDAY AFTERNOON: “Side Show” at ArtsWest, final performance, 3 pm

SUNDAY AFTERNOON: Come one, come all to the Seattle Glee Clubs’ Annual OLIO SHOW, “Granny’s Secret Attic” . . . or, “How the Charleston Met the Dancing Queen!”You’ll be toe-tappin’ and seriously clappin’ for songs from the flapper and disco eras! You’ll fall out of your chair laughin’ at some of your normally staid West Seattle neighbors’ comedic shtick! “Olio” refers to the ol’ snake oil and vaudeville eras! You’ll be treated to live community comedy theater in the Olio-est sense of the term. – Sunday, 3 PM At the Youngstown Cultural Arts Center 4408 Delridge Way S.W. . . . An air-conditioned theater! Some of Seattle’s best musicians will be accompanying our glorious singers and actors from the orchestra pit! Tickets prices: $15 in advance; $20 at the door. Tickets can be purchased online at www.brownpapertickets.com

SUNDAY AFTERNOON: C & P Coffee live music with Phil Hansen, 3-5 pm

SUNDAY AFTERNOON-EVENING: Feedback Lounge (WSB sponsor) is having a Pineapple Cocktail Fest today! (explained on The Feedback’s home page)

SUNDAY NIGHT: Ladies Night at The Bohemian with bartender “Corner Inn Lynne,” 7 pm-midnight

SUNDAY NIGHT: “Oh My Darling!” karaoke at Talarico’s with Matthew Darling; here’s the Facebook event page, 10 pm

SUNDAY NIGHT: All-ages live music at Skylark Café and Club at 8 pm, with Social Steal, Made to Break

Are we missing anything? Let us know! And between weekends, keep an eye on our continuously updated Events page.

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Surface/Transit Option (WSDOT)

The comment thread of this Dan Bertolet post reveals some confusion about the transit aspects of the deep-bore tunnel plan and the most recent iteration (December 2008) of surface/transit/I-5.

The Deep-Bore Tunnel Plan

• WSDOT provides $32m in mitigation funds, allowing Metro to run some additional bus service in the corridor until construction is complete.
• The County provides $190m in capital, plus $15m annually,  to add RapidRide and peak express bus service in the corridor; create a Burien-Delridge RapidRide line; “simplify” downtown trolley bus service, and make some transit-related street improvements, all funded by a new 1% MVET. Despite of signing a letter that vowed to “support efforts” for this revenue source, Governor Gregoire jettisons it at the first sign of trouble (three weeks later) and later goes out of her way to veto a much smaller vehicle license fee.
• An unfunded commitment to examine the First Avenue Streetcar in the context of the Transit Master Plan.

Surface/Transit/I-5

The who-pays-for-what isn’t as well fleshed out in any document I can find*, but the spending components are:

• $30m in construction mitigation.
• $476m (plus $55m annually) for:

Transit improvements include more all-day service than the elevated hybrid scenario. This would include increased service on Metro’s RapidRide routes for Ballard/Uptown, Aurora Avenue and West Seattle and new RapidRide routes on Delridge Way and Lake City Way. The waterfront streetcar would be replaced with a new First Avenue line between King Street and Seattle Center. Park and rides would be expanded in Burien, White Center and Shoreline. The Rapid Trolleybus Network would be expanded with new connections such as Madison Park to Colman Dock, Queen Anne to Capitol Hill, and Beacon Hill to Capitol Hill. Moderate investment would be made in other express and local routes in Seattle.

Make of this what you will, but those are the facts.

* It is, interestingly, much easier to find info about unpopular alternatives like the Elliott Bay Bridge or retrofit than live ones like surface/transit or the rebuild. See this for one take from the 2009 Nickels campaign, a take which probably isn’t constitutional.

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Above is the new design concept for Nagle that Sound Transit has unveiled. Its creates a a southern plaza and a northern section which will be a service and parking entrance. The original Nagle concept floated by Sound Transit last year treated the street as a maintenance route that would be sometimes closed to traffic and repurposed for the market. You can see how they illustrated it previously, below.

The new plan will be discussed at a public forum next Tuesday, August 3rd at the Century Ballroom. One issue raised by many about Tuesday’s meeting is that it’s an awful night for a community meeting with theNight Out 2010 block parties happening around the neighborhood. We asked Sound Transit about the possibility of a reschedule or follow-up meeting. Here’s what spokesperson Jeff Munnoch said about that via the CHS comments:

The Capitol Hill community is very active and there are a variety of public activities and events on almost every night of the week during the busy summer months. Sound Transit attempts to avoid schedule conflicts with agencies and community groups, and unfortunately we cannot always find a time that works for everyone . This meeting was rescheduled once already to avoid a conflict with a another community group event on Wednesday night.

We want to provide everyone in the community a chance to participate and provid feedback. The materials from the meeting, will be available on our website following the meeting. We will also make the materials available here on this site, along with a link to send us in your comments or feedback.

We’ll definitely report on the meeting and gather materials to share here on the site. On one hand, it might be more productive to move meetings like this to online resources more and more. On the other, it doesn’t seem impossible to find a night on Capitol Hill with a lower level of schedule conflict. Meanwhile, a group from the Capitol Hill Community Council is planning a follow-up meeting on Thursday night to discuss the forum at 7 PM at Roy Street Coffee.

If that’s not enough transit wonkery for you, consider spending Saturday morning at the Century Ballroom for a second session introducing the Creative Crossroads Committee to the Hill’s transit oriented development process. The group, backed by King County, the Cascade Land Conservancy and a $15,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, is holding kick-off sessions to gather support for its effort to work with community groups like the Community Council-Chamber of Commerce Capitol Hill Champion joint effort. If you’re a little confused about how it all fits together, so are we. So we asked.

Alison Van Gorp, urban policy director for the Cascade Land Conservancy, sent CHS the slides embedded below from the presentation the group went through during this week’s first session on the Hill and will walk through again on Saturday. She pointed us specifically at slide 7:

Here is what Van Gorp wrote in her e-mail:

Our effort is pulling together a number of experts who are developing recommendations for the Champion (as well as the City and Sound Transit) on a strategy for creating community cultural space in the light rail redevelopment.  We look at our effort as informing the work of the Champion going forward.  The Champion will continue to advocate for the community’s vision for the light rail station, including this community cultural space component.

CHS asked Van Gorp about the possibility that Capitol Hill community groups and her organization’s agendas might diverge and make it more difficult to counterbalance Sound Transit’s goals. Van Grop writes that she and others will be “making sure that these two pieces are closely integrated so that we’re all advocating for the same vision and no ‘divisions’ emerge.”

Want to help make that goal a reality? Below are the slides and details of Saturday’s session. If you went to Monday’s meeting, how did it go?

Network Building Parties PPT_FINAL

NETWORK-BUILDING PARTIES: 
Learn more and meet others who are working to make this happen. Please attend one of our two gatherings. 

WHEN: 
Monday, July 26, 5:30-7 pm
Saturday, July 31, 10:30 am – noon

WHERE: 
Century Ballroom, East Hall 
Oddfellows Building (915 E. Pine St.), 2nd Floor

These events are free, but space is limited. RSVP at creativecrossroads.eventbrite.com.

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Description: Ventures volunteers welcome and wait on visitors, talk with them about items in the store, sell a wide variety of products, provide information and printed materials about Washington CASH, “Ventures” products, services, upcoming events and be an important “public face” for the organization.

Summary of Responsibilities:

*Responsibilities vary depending on a volunteer’s experience, interest, and physical capacities*

• With direction from the Ventures managers, and working collaboratively with other volunteers, sell a wide variety of gift items including books, jewelry, cards, accessories, artist created item, coffee, tea and snacks.

• Wait on all visitors to Ventures with a gracious and welcoming approach.

• Be familiar with and enthusiastic about Ventures merchandise and client services, and promote Washington CASH programs, services, history and mission.

• Clean and organize displays, back stock and beverages.

• Abide by all Washington CASH policies and procedures, and Code of Conduct. Reports to: Miriam Works and Tammy James, Retail Incubator Managers

Time Commitment:

• Participation in one volunteer orientation and up to four on site training sessions

• Minimum of one 4-hour shift per week. Example: 1st shift 11:00-3:00, 2nd Shift 2:00- 6:00

• Three month time commitment

Qualifications:

• Excellent interpersonal communication and customer service skills

• Ability and willingness to handle a variety of tasks

• Ability to deal cheerfully with large volumes of people during events, tours etc.

• Ability to work a dependable schedule, which may include evenings and weekends, depending on volunteer’s availability

• Ability to multi-task–working on a variety of tasks simultaneously while remaining organized and providing welcoming customer service.

• Interest in and enthusiasm for WACASH and its mission

• An understanding and respect for diverse lifestyles, cultures, religions and values and ability to interact with a variety of people

§ Previous retail experience desirable but not required

Benefits:

Join a community of courageous and empowered individuals working toward economic self-sufficiency through small business ownership and contribute to a vibrant local economy and thriving neighborhoods.

Contact Mary Eriksson-Humphrey at mary@washingtoncash.org or (206) 352-1945, x240 to get involved!

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The Leschi Community Council puts on some of the neighborhood’s best events. Their series of concerts at Flo Ware Park last year were terrific.

They’ve got another big one planned for tomorrow in the historic Leschi Park along Lake Washington, with their Leschi Park Arts & Crafts Fair, scheduled from 11am to 6pm.

They’ll have live music from two bands:

• Bakra Bata – The leaders of the steel drum band lived just a few blocks from Leschi Park until they were forced out by a SWAT operation. They’re performing for free in Leschi to thank the community for all of the support during the last year. Bakra Bata will perform at noon, and click here for a video of their performance at HONK!
• Greenwood Concert Band – The more than 50 musicians in the band reportedly made a big splash at last year’s Leschi Park Centennial celebration. They take the stage at 2:30pm.

The event will also have neighborhood artists and other vendors displaying their work.

It all starts at 11am at the park at 201 Lakeside Avenue.

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