Ducklings can provide a refreshing distraction from the world which surrounds us. I hope you enjoy this post:
Have a great day on Union Bay…where nature lives in the city!
Larry
Annual Fourth of July Montlake Neighborhood Parade
The Montlake Family Co-Op annual Fourth of July Montlake Parade is around the corner!Date: Wednesday, July 4th
Time: 10:00 am
Location: Montlake Community Center
10:00 am – Come to the Montlake Community Center to decorate your bike, trike, stroller, or simply yourself!
10:30 am – We’ll march around the block!
11:00 am – Fire truck visit! (if not needed at emergencies)
11:00 am – Fire truck visit! (if not needed at emergencies)
Immediately following the parade, join your neighbors for a popsicle and a pack-your-own picnic.
We would welcome volunteer support for the parade, specifically:
– set-up of the decorations area (9:45-10:30)
– parade route guides and Statue of Liberty volunteer(10-10:45)
– popsicles/clean-up (10:30-11)
Please email Melinda Early early.melinda@gmail.com if you can help out. The co-op looks forward to seeing you there!
Save the Date! Montlake Yard Sale, September 15, 2018
Save the Date –
2018 MONTLAKE YARD SALE
Saturday, September 15, 9 am
– 3 pm
This is the sixth Montlake Yard Sale organized by the Montlake Community Club.
Get organized, clean out your garage and closets. Team up with your neighbors! Look for more information and the sign up in August.
East Gateway Pocket Park Work Party
Come meet your neighbors and help
us weed, prune, and mulch at the
East Gateway Park (24th and Boyer)
Work Party Sunday, June 17, 10:00 am to 1:00 pm.
Bring your gardening tools, bring a friend,
and bring work gloves. Help us get the Park
in great shape and ready for summer enjoyment!
Questions? Contact 23rd Ave E resident and
clean-up organizer Tom Brown – tbrown1200@comcast.net
Rock n Roll Marathon in Montlake This Sunday
The Rock n Roll Marathon is coming through Montlake this Sunday, June 10. Road closures will occur in Montlake between 6:30 am and 10:30 am. A course map and more information are available online.
Last Reminder: Apply to the MCC Board by April 30
MCC board members and residents at the community club’s 5K Turkey Trot and Fun Run.
Final Reminder! Applications to the Montlake Community Club Board are due Monday, April 30th. Join this great group of neighborhood residents working to make Montlake better place to live. There are 2, possibly 3, open board positions, so chances are there is a place for you on the board. Applying is easy: send a short email with a few sentences about why you are interested to secretary@montlake.net by April 30. Feel free to send any questions to secretary Darcy LaBelle as well.
Focus Areas: Board member focus areas include communications, Turkey Trot, annual Yard Sale, Emergency Preparedness & Neighbors Helping Neighbors, welcoming new neighbors, business district improvements, traffic issues, and bicycle and pedestrian safety. (We recently posted about recruiting a volunteer to run the yard sale; the yard sale chair could apply to be a board member or could be a non-board member volunteer).
Meetings: The board meets the second Tuesday of every month at 7 pm at the Boyer Children’s Clinic. Time commitment can vary greatly depending on the board member’s specific area of interest and whether special events/outreach efforts are underway.
Qualification: Applicants must live or work in the Montlake Community Club’s membership boundary, shown here.
Meet and Greet: Come meet us on May 16th at 5 pm at Purr Cocktail Lounge! The MCC is hosting happy hour and drinks. This is open to all residents to get to know the MCC better. Get all the details.
The New All Stop at 19th & Lynn: The Backstory
You’re probably seen the new all-way intersection at 19th Ave E and E Lynn St near St. Demetrios Greek Church, which includes stop signs, sidewalk restoration, curb ramps, and other changes, some of which are still in progress. (In case you missed it, here’s a sheet from the city describing the new intersection.) These changes, which were years in the making, should go a long way to speed calming and pedestrian safety in Montlake once completed. At press time, landscaping and street striping are still to come.
The Montlake Community Club extends a big thanks to the entire community for your advocacy in making this happen. In particular, our thanks go to Montlake resident Lionel Job and former resident Rainer Metzger for their work as the Montlake Greenways group, which Lionel started in 2011. Later they both joined the MCC Board. Under the Greenways umbrella, Lionel and Rainer worked to improve both 23rd & Boyer and 19th & Lynn by canvasing neighbors for support and tireless advocacy. Rainer applied 19th & Lynn to the city’s Large Neighborhood Street Fund program in late 2012 which eventually failed at the Neighborhood District Council level months later. He applied again in 2013, and again the district council favored other proposals over Montlake’s. But in the meantime, the Greenways team brought the 19th and Lynn proposal to Brian Dougherty, who ran the Safe Routes to School Program at Seattle Department of Transportation; Brian agreed it was a city priority for improvement, and for that, we are all very thankful. Brian designed the new configuration and was able to find other city funding internally and put the project in SDOT’s long queue of street works… and five years later here we are. Rainer now lives downtown and told the Flyer he is happy to hear the project is near completion.
Click the image to see the city’s sheet about the intersection
Apply to the Montlake Community Club Board by April 30!
MCC board members giving the University District Food Bank the proceeds from the MCC’s Turkey Trot.
The Montlake Community Club Board is seeking applicants to be on the board of trustees of the MCC. Join this dedicated group of people who all share a common interest in making Montlake a better place to live. There are 2, possibly 3, open board positions, so chances are there is a place for you on the board. Applying is easy: send a short email with a few sentences about why you are interested to secretary@montlake.net by April 30. Feel free to send any questions to secretary Darcy LaBelle as well.
Meet and Greet: Come meet us on May 16th at 5 pm at Purr Cocktail Lounge! The MCC is hosting happy hour and drinks. This is open to all residents to get to know the MCC better. Get all the details.
Focus Areas: Board member focus areas include communications, Turkey Trot, annual Yard Sale, Emergency Preparedness & Neighbors Helping Neighbors, welcoming new neighbors, business district improvements, traffic issues, and bicycle and pedestrian safety. (We recently posted about recruiting a volunteer to run the yard sale; the yard sale chair could apply to be a board member or could be a non-board member volunteer).
Meetings: The board meets the second Tuesday of every month at 7 pm at the Boyer Children’s Clinic. Time commitment can vary greatly depending on the board member’s specific area of interest and whether special events/outreach efforts are underway.
Qualification: Applicants must live or work in the Montlake Community Club’s membership boundary, shown here.
Reminder: WSDOT Open House Tuesday at Montlake Community Center
Stop by the WSDOT Open House tomorrow eve (Tuesday, April 17th). More SR 520 Construction is on the way to Montlake in late 2018. This is your opportunity to learn what’s ahead.
When: Tuesday, April 17, 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm.
Where: Montlake Community Center, 1618 E. Calhoun St., Seattle, WA 98112
What: You are invited to join WSDOT for an open house to learn about design and construction plans for the upcoming Montlake Phase of State Route 520 reconstruction. Staff from the Washington State Department of Transportation and partner agencies will be on hand to discuss what’s ahead and answer questions.
Construction of the Montlake Phase is scheduled to begin in late 2018. The project will build:
· A new West Approach Bridge South to carry eastbound traffic from Montlake to the floating bridge
· New transit/HOV ramps to and from the Montlake lid
· A new Montlake lid and interchange
· A new pedestrian and bicycle land bridge over SR 520 WSDOT will also look ahead to future phases of the SR 520 Program in Seattle, including construction of a new Portage Bay Bridge, a Roanoke lid, I-5 connections, and a second bascule bridge over the Montlake Cut.
Seattle ARCH New Library Resource, Film on the Way
Anna Rudd, Seattle ARCH organizer and former anti-freeway activist, appears on King5.
Seattle ARCH (Activists Remembered Honored and Celebrated) continues to make great progress in capturing how Montlake citizens and other Seattle residents stopped the construction of the RH Thomson Expressway.
The group recently announced a new resource of information about the freeway revolt. Seattle’s Freeway Revolt: A Directory of Historical Resources, hosted on the Seattle Public Library’s special collections online, provides a wealth of information on the intense, multi-year battle to halt plans for an expansive network of freeways in Seattle. It includes an overview of this multi-faceted movement, along with timelines, bibliographies, graphics and guides for finding relevant information. The project was made possible by a grant from 4Culture/King County Lodging Tax Fund, which funded two research archivists who contributed much of the content.
Until now it’s been nearly impossible to uncover this history, say project organizer (and former Montlake resident) Priscilla Arsove and Anna Rudd, since it resides in records of multiple governing bodies and
agencies, as well as media coverage dating back 50+ years. Priscilla’s father, Newton street resident Maynard Arsove, led the revolt.
A documentary film on the freeway revolt, produced by filmmaker and UW professor Minda Martin, is targeted for release in early summer. In addition to collaborating on the film, Seattle ARCH has worked to preserve a section of the R.H. Thomson “Ramps to Nowhere” as a monument to citizen activists who helped defeat this freeway. In October 2016, the Seattle City Council unanimously approved a resolution, introduced by Councilmember Debora Juarez, to preserve four columns and a crossbeam of the defunct
freeway. The monument is expected to come to fruition when reconstruction of SR 520 is completed in 2028.
In the mean time, enjoy Anna Rudd’s appearance on King5 to talk about the freeway revolt.
