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Wedgwood News Archive
Wedgwood Wide Block
Watch Summit 2005
01/12/05 Wedgwood Wide Block Watch
Please join us for the next Wedgwood Wide Block Watch Summit on January 19, 2005
at the Wedgwood Homestreet Bank at 7pm.
Dahl Playfield Volunteers
Needed
01/03/05 Friends of Dahl Palyfield
As many of you know, we are about to submit additional grant requests for funds
necessary to complete the Dahl Playfield Project.
Dahl Playfield Renovation
Update
12/02/04 Friends of Dahl Playfield
The latest news about the upcoming renovation of Dahl Playfield.
Architect Selected
for Dahl Playfield
11/01/04 Friends of Dahl Playfield
After reviewing 11 applications and interviewing 3 firms, we are pleased to announce
that Site Workshop is the firm that will be facilitating our park design process.
Dahl Playfield Project
Update
10/26/04 Friends of Dahl Playfield
The latest on the Dahl Playfield project and how you can get involved.
Second Annual Wedgwood Outdoor Cinema - August
27th
08/04 Wedgwood Community Council
This year’s cinema is set for Friday, August 27th and sponsored by HomeStreet
Bank. This free Wedgwood Community Council event is also made possible by the
hospitality of A2/Decatur Elementary School (7711 43rd Ave NE) where the fun
begins at 7:30pm with food and beverages for sale and entertainment for all ages.
Bring a chair and enjoy the fun! For more information and to vote for a movie,
visit our website at: www.scn.org/wcc. It’s looking like Shrek but there’s
still time to vote...
Friends of Dahl
Playfield forms to revitalize play area
07/04 Friends of Dahl Playfield
A new citizens group, Friends of Dahl Playfield, has formed in an effort to improve
the area around the park, which is located in the Wedgwood neighborhood. Small
and Simple Project funds from the City have been awarded to help the group hire
a landscape architect to work with its members and the community-at-large to
create a design plan.
Sick
drinking water makes senator boil
01/15/04 Sen. Ken Jacobsen
If Wedgwood Elementary were a real-life version of the popular board
game “Clue,” the
Seattle school board’s solution might go something like this: the janitor
did it, in the hallway, with the drinking fountain.
Wedgwood's
Princesses
08/03 Seattle Sun
Before World War Two, the Wedgwood neighborhood was a nameless semi-rural
area outside the Seattle city limits. Wedgwood's identity was established
during the post-war housing boom.
Tent
City for homeless sets up housekeeping in Wedgwood
07/08/03 Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Tucked between a neighborhood playfield, school and synagogue, the parking lot
at Wedgwood's Temple Beth Am has given Tent City another place to call home,
for now.
Northeast
Branch Closes A Chapter: Doors Close For Expansion April 19, 2003
03/17/03 Seattle Public Library
The Seattle Public Library’s North East Branch, 6801 35th Ave. N.E., will
shut its doors at 6 p.m. Saturday, April 19, to prepare for an expansion project
that will more than double the size of the system’s busiest branch to better
serve the community.
Seattle
class proves it has the write stuff
02/12/03 The Seattle Times
The partnership between Alternative Elementary School No. 2 (Decatur)
in North Seattle and the poor Xcalak School in Xcalak, Mexico, began
last
year when teacher Jo Vos vacationed in the fishing village south of
Cancún.
35th
Avenue Northeast Improvement Project
01/06/03 Department of Transportation
The Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) will soon address some
of the maintenance and upgrades needed for the roadways, sidewalks and
traffic signals along 35th.
Goodenough
Community Coming to Northeast Seattle
08/02/02 American Association for the Furtherance of
Community
The American Association for the Furtherance of
Community, known colloquially as the Goodenough Community, has purchased
the old Wedgewood
Rehabilitation Center on 92 and Ravenna Ave. NE.
Conversation
Cafes: Look Who's Talking
04/25/02 The Seattle Press
This popular phenomenon originated in Seattle, started by Your Money or
Your Life co-author Vicki Robin.
Change
is coming to Godfather's site in Wedgwood
11/06/01 Wedgwood Community Council
The owner of the property now occupied by Godfather's Pizza at 35th Ave
NE and NE 73rd is planning to build a three-story, mixed-use building
on the site.
Wedgwood
hit by juvenile crime wave
10/01 Jet City Maven
For the second time in three weeks, hundreds of Wedgwood residents packed
the halls of Wedgwood Presbyterian Church to attend a community council
meeting on Sept 17. The topic that drew so many concerned neighbors was
a crime wave, localized in Southeast Wedgwood, that has been disturbing
the sleepy neighborhood's peace for months.
Neighbors,
police join to tame young toughs
09/19/01 The Seattle Times
Wedgwood residents press for arrests after vandalism, thefts and threats
from about a dozen teens.
Dahl
Field to be Closed For One Year
8/28/01 Seattle Parks and Recreation
The playfield will be closed during construction, which starts in
September 2001, with turf establishment from September 2001 to September
2002. The field will open for use from October 2002.
Expanding
the Lake City Library Progress Report
07/05/01 Seattle Public Libraries
Seattle Public Libraries has recently posted this status report detailing
the progress being made to expand the Lake City Library.
City
to purchase Wedgwood Estates complex
06/08/01 The Seattle Times
The Seattle Housing Authority will spend $20.3 million to buy a Wedgwood-area
apartment complex, a purchase housing officials say will counteract skyrocketing
rents by stabilizing prices.
Northeast Branch Library Expansion News
05/15/01 Seattle Public Libraries
SPL has recently published a recap
of the public meeting held April 24th and a press
release announcing the artist selected to provide artwork for the
expanded branch.
Wedgwood
Launches Neighborhood Exchange
05/08/01 Sustainable Wedgwood
In the last few months, we have researched examples of existing exchange
systems and have developed a model to try out in a pilot project. We believe
Wedgwood is well-suited for a vital neighborhood exchange and welcome
your participation.
Seattle
schools get new leaders
04/26/01 The Seattle Times
Changes affect both View Ridge Elementary and Wedgwood Elementary.
Wedgwood
launches new community Web site
03/01 Wedgwood Community Council
The Wedgwood Community Council recently launched a new Web site including
a community calendar, a list of community groups active in the neighborhood,
a list of e-mail groups about Wedgwood topics and much more. Be sure to
take a look.
Wedgwood
Cycle closes its doors after 19 years in business
03/01 Jet City Maven
A business that has been a fixture in the Wedgwood neighborhood for more
than 19 years, Wedgwood Cycle, located at 8507 35th Ave. NE, closed its
doors on Feb. 28.
Wedgwood's
business strip buzzing with activity
03/01 Jet City Maven
I recently spent an afternoon exploring the Wedgwood neighborhoodıs main
business thoroughfare, 35th Ave nue NE. Here is my report.
50
years like yesterday for Eckstein's students
02/12/01 The Seattle Times
It was a gorgeous Seattle day, and hundreds of past and present students
and faculty filtering into Nathan Eckstein Middle School on Northeast
75th Street yesterday got the full benefit.
Architect Finalists Selected for Northeast
Library Expansion
02/05/01 NortheastSeattle.com
Architect
finalists have been selected for the expansion of the NE Branch Library.
You are invited to a reception 2/15 to meet the finalists and view display
boards featuring their previous work.
View a list of the finalists.
Find out more about the reception
in our Community Calendar.
Wedgwood
residents rally to support tree lot owners
9/00 Jet City Maven
For the past 40 years, many residents of the Wedgwood community and the
surrounding areas have included a trip the Hunter Farms' Christmas tree
lot as part of their holiday tradition.
Neighbors
keep 'good thing going' for Wedgwood Broiler
7/22/00 The Seattle P-I
The beginnings of the Wedgwood Broiler go back to the founder of the Wedgwood
neighborhood itself.
Falling
short of space to sort
6/23/00 The Seattle Times
To treat letters better, U.S. Postal Service officials are seeking the
public's stamp to buy plumper parcels of land.
P-Patch's
bronze Venus to stay
1/25/00 The Seattle Times
It's been covered with garbage bags and bedecked with flowers. But after
a vote by those renting plots at the Picardo Farm P-Patch, the statue
of a naked, pregnant woman will stay put.
