A Word from Montlake Elementary’s Art Studio and Greenhouse–
Art patrons, music lovers, book readers, urban farmers and seekers of the finest, fresh local flavors-it is time to feast your eyes, fill your ears and treat your taste buds!
On Friday June 9, indulge your senses at Montlake Elementary’ s 5th Annual Eat Real, Art Walk, Book Fair and Spring Concert! The party starts at 5 pm and goes until sundown.
Break bread with your family, friends and neighbors! Savor the offerings of Neon Taco and Rachel’s Ginger Beer, along with sweet and savory Caravan crepes, grilled Rainshadow Meats hot dogs (veggie too!), free salad, lemonade, Molly Moon ice cream, desserts and good coffee to keep you strong!
UW Bookstore will provide you with a healthy selection of fine summer reads. Additional music will be provided by the local talents of past Montlake alumni, and hopefully some random local musicians.
Larry Fogdall says
Like many others I attended the recent MCC — City event at our Community Center next to Portage Bay. The scene / atmosphere was fairly noisy, reducing one’s ability to communicate and/or learn — still, there was useful content in the meeting.
I urge us in Montlake NOT to be content with merely trying to hold on to current transit routes, because there has actually occurred a very negative trend in transit service here. The Great Takeaway of routes 25 and 43 on the same day last year should NOT be acceptable to any Montlaker who values or needs a “good” level of future transit service. The administrative decision to cut perhaps 95 percent out of the heart of highly successful Route 43 (compare past timetables to the current “wimpy” listing) was an insult to Montlake! For now, there’s no more 25, and the 43-remnant is a joke! Public involvement in their process and decision(s) was minimal.
Think of the rather large residential area stretching south from the 520 corridor all the way through Montlake to the “zone” near Group Health/Kaiser and businesses and residences near the “top” of Capitol Hill, Volunteer Park, etc. etc. Thousands live in our part of Seattle, and essentially NO transit service remains to serve the thousands living around here. Extend this zone, if you will, to the nearby Portage Bay residential area which currently has fresh attempts at adding retail businesses. There is now no transit service joining the 2 neighborhoods at our elevation, nor joining either of them to Capitol Hill’s neighborhoods. Route 43 used to be “key” and vital, sucessfully meeting the needs of many, but not any more!
If anyone claims that we should be satisfied with riding other transit route(s) one mile or so, then waiting-and-transferring to another route, riding it another mile or so, and (as I did recently) have to transfer AGAIN to a third route to reach a destination on Capitol Hill, First Hill, or downtown — I say “no way” !! Need more information, or example? Consider this: when we in Montlake try to use transit northbound, we experience something similar: first, get yourself to 24th Ave. — ride one mile or so north of here, reach the University Hospital area, and what’s next? Get off and transfer to some other route if you need to go further! Come on, Metro! And, City government! This is no way to treat or serve citizens, especially in such a traffic-challenged part of our City! (Signed) Larry Fogdall, a past chair of the Citizens Transit Advisory Committee (June 2017)