Photos: SeattleStairs.Home.Comcast.net & Montlake Flyer
Construction is almost complete on the 19th & McGraw stairs. While final touches are still needed, the staircase has been opened for people to utilize. Enjoy!
19th & McGraw Stairs
Locations Announced for Sunday’s Montlake Garden Tour
ANNUAL MONTLAKE GARDEN TOUR
Featuring six private gardens and three points of interest.
Sponsored by the Montlake Community Club
SUNDAY, JUNE 22nd
1:00pm – 4:00pm
A free, self-guided tour makes it convenient to start where you want.
Click the image below for a full program and map.
Featured Gardens & Points of Interest
2421 East Roanoke Street
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Montlake Children’s Gardens
2409 22nd Avenue East
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2304 East Lynn Street
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Montlake Gateway Parks
SE/SW corners of 24th & Boyer Ave E.
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1941 Boyer Avenue East
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2215 East Howe Street
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2012 19th Avenue East
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1911 East Eaton Place
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Interlaken Park Designated Wildlife Habitat – Vintage Gardenscape *
21st Avenue East Street End
*No entry – Ogle through wrought iron fence
The Graduates
We all noticed the process of graduation at the University of Washington this weekend however did you notice that similar activities were commencing in the Arboretum and Interlaken Park? If you would like to learn more about the nature’s educational process follow this link to Union Bay Watch.
Wednesday’s What’s Happening Weekly Event List
Here is this week’s list of events in and around Montlake. Visit our neighborhood calendar to keep track of upcoming events. Click the event name to get all the details.
In Montlake
Thursday, May 29th
- Challah Bread Baking Class – 6:00-9:00pm, Montlake Community Center
Friday, May 30th
- Eat Real Food & Art Walk – 5:00-9:00pm, Montlake Elementary
- Jem’s Jewelry Spring Show & Sale
– 9:00am – Noon, 2611 25th Ave E
Saturday, May 31st
- Jem’s Jewelry Spring Show & Sale – 9:00am – Noon, 2611 25th Ave E
Sunday, June 1st
- Gateway Parks Spring Weeding Party – 9:30am – Noon, Montlake Gateway Parks – 24th Ave E and BoyerAve E
Monday, June 2nd
- Gentle Pilates with Mary – 7:00pm, Montlake Community Center
Ongoing
- Preschool Story Time, Montlake Library – Wednesdays at 11:00am
- Mediation Class – Every Thursday at 9:30am
- Arboretum Parent & Child Nature Classes – Every Tues, Wed, Thus, Fri & Sat at 10:00am
Around Montlake
Friday, May 30th – Sunday, June 1st
Wednesday, June 4th
All-Montlake Music & Art Happening Sunday, May 18th
Mother Pluckers Ukulele Band
It’s the All-Montlake Music and Arts Happening THIS Sunday, May 18th at the Montlake Community Center. Stroll on over for the afternoon-2:00 to 5:00. Our Montlake artists and authors will display their creations for your viewing enjoyment, while our musical groups and soloists bring you auditory delights.
Our neighborhood businesses are chipping in with refreshments too (Cafe Lago, FUEL, Traveler Montlake, Monts Market, Montlake Blvd Market). With all these talented folks on hand, and refreshments as well, you just can’t stay away! Visit the Montlake Community Club Business table to vote for next year’s board, watch your kids doing some art explorations, and check out the new playground equipment MCC helped Montlake Family Fitness fund.
So, Come One; Come All; Come on Out; Come on Down; Come on In. Come See the Musicians, Artists, and Authors named below and bring your family and friends.
The Musicians Play Times
At the Entry and in the Big Room, you’ll want to hear them all.
2:00-2:30 Layered System – jazz classics, R&B (Big Room)
2:00-2:55 Max Mondzac – finger-style guitar (Entry)
2:40-3:10 Mother Pluckers Ukulele Band – listen and sing-along (Big Room)
3:00-3:55 Michael Memmo – British Isles vocals & 12-string guitar (Entry)
3:20-4:15 Jazz Hands – jazz standards, Gypsy, Latin, and blues (Big Room)
4:00-4:55 Clark Snyder & Co – Americana vocals, guitar & djembe (Entry) 4:20-5:00 The Seattle Gilbert & Sullivan Society – tunes from The Mikado (Big Room)
The Montlake Artists
Whose new works you’ll enjoy in The Big Room
Montlake Elementary School Students (various ages and media)
Elise Bernard – Oil Painting
Rosie Cashman-McCann – Demonstrating Rainbow Loom jewelry
Mary Freiburger – Exquisite Jewelry
Sarah Hauschka – Wearable Knitted Creations
Anna Haworth – Henna Body Tattoos on You
Victoria Martinsen – Paintings
Robert Milnor – Nature Photography
Chris Oldham – Watercolor Paintings–trains in natural settings
Cynthia Phillips – Photography
Jonathan Phillips – Photography (and AMMAH event photographer)
Elizabeth Sandvig – Monotypes and oil paintings
Daisy Schreiber – Demonstrating Crochet, felt, and fairy creations
Briana Schwartz – Wire sculpture, fabric fantasy clothing and found art
James Sutherland – Fanciful Polychromatic bas-relief
Barbara Bishop Sand – Wood Block Prints
Bill Weitkamp – Abstract & Impressionist Paintings, Sculpture
Gail Wong – Plein aire Sketchworks (watercolor over ink line drawings)
Montlake’s Famous Authors Sharing Their Works
Steve Cummings – Photographic Travel Books
Judy Cobb Dailey – Murder Mysteries
Arthur Dorros – Children’s Literature
Arthur Lee Jacobson – Trees and Wild Plants
Lensey Namioka – Children’s Literature
Eugene Smith – Montlake History
Jennie Spohr – Historical Fiction
Audrey Weitkamp – Travelogs and Travel Tales
Support Montlake Students with “Real Food” Fundraiser
Per Montlake Elementary:
Here’s a great way to get healthy, yummy food and support our 5th graders’ annual trip to Islandwood. Each year Montlake has to consider whether or not to continue attending Islandwood because of its cost. “What I love about that camp is how well it connects to so much of what we strive for at Montlake and allows the kids to take their environmental and sustainability knowledge and see it put into place in a larger context,” says Cheri Bloom.
This spring we are working with an organization called FarmRaiser, who match schools to local farms and food artisans. So instead of buying chocolate or magazines subscriptions, Montlake parents can buy a box of local food products. The profits are split between our school (45%), the farms (45%) and FarmRaiser (10%).We have partnered with FarmRaiser to offer families the opportunity to buy a box of gourmet, local food. The proceeds will support the trip to Islandwood.
The box costs $55 and contains:
- Macrina Bakery‘s Vollkorn Loaf
- Bow Hill Blueberry‘s Pickled Blueberries
- That Brown Girl Cooks Ethiopian Black Eyed Pea Hummus
- Loki Fish‘s cold-smoked wild coho lox
- 1/2 lb spinach from Willie Greens Organic Farm
- A special selection of two 60mL bottles of olive oil & vinegar from Queen Anne Olive Oil Company
The deadline to order is May 15. The food will be available for pick-up at the Eat Real Food & Art Walk event on May 30. To purchase a box, please visit the FarmRaiser website: http://farmraiser.seeyourimpact.org/montlake/
Montlake Elementary Annual Evergreen Tree Sale
Montlake Elementary is once again holding its annual Evergreen Tree sale event. Purchase your tree, wreath, door swag and/or garland and support a great cause. Proceeds will specifically benefit the 5th grade trip to IslandWood this spring.
Visit the Montlake School website for more details. Order forms are available HERE. All trees and decorations are pre-sold only. Orders are due by Friday, Nov 22nd at 3:00pm and tree pick up will be Saturday, Dec 7th 11:00am – 2:00pm.
Thank you for your support and Happy Holidays!
Montlake Neighbor to Seattle School Board: “Don’t Split Montlake!”
Montlake resident, Kerry Clayman delivered a strong plea to preserve Montlake Elementary’s southern boundary along the edge of Interlaken Park, at the Seattle School Board meeting on Wednesday night, with a contingent of Montlakers cheering her on.
Seattle School Board is currently considering a proposal to shrink the southern boundary of Montlake Elementary. The new boundary would split Boyer Avenue in half, assigning a small number of Montlake families whose homes line the south side of Boyer or border Interlaken Park to Stevens Elementary, instead of our neighborhood school.
There’s still time to speak up to protest this change. (For more information about what’s happening, see this earlier post.) The school district’s online feedback survey will be available through Monday, October 21st, to take feedback.
To get to the survey, click here. The number on which you are providing feedback is 41. You may cut and paste the form letter here or write your own. If you live in the impacted area, please personalize your comments to say so.
Don’t wait! Numbers matter—even if you are not directly impacted by these changes, the more neighbors who weigh in, the more the school board will understand the importance of keeping our community intact.
Don’t Let the School District Split Montlake
Proposed changes to Montlake Elementary’s attendance area. Area 41 would move to Stevens, Area 39 to McGilvra.
Seattle Public Schools wants to shrink the Montlake Elementary school boundary to the north side of Boyer Avenue. Please take a moment now to ask Seattle Public Schools to change their proposal.
The proposal would assign certain homes that sit squarely within Montlake to Stevens Elementary. The affected areas are the south side of Boyer Avenue; Eaton Place; 19th, 20th, 21st, and 22nd Avenues south of Boyer; and other streets south of Boyer. See a map of the proposed changes here.
The proposed boundary would go right down the middle of Boyer Avenue. Imagine standing at the entrance to the Greek Church on Boyer Avenue and looking across the street: the families in those homes would no longer be part of the Montlake Elementary community.
Children in these areas would no longer have a short, safe walk to school. The district’s plan ignores the natural boundary of Interlaken Park at our southern edge.
The school district has asked for feedback via an online survey, available for one week, beginning today (Oct. 14-21). To get to the survey, click here. The number on which you are providing feedback is 41. You may cut and paste the form letter below or write your own. If you live in the impacted area, please personalize your comments to say so.
Numbers matter—even if you are not directly impacted by these changes, the more neighbors who weigh in, the more the school board will understand the importance of keeping our community intact.
Sincerely,
Julee Neuhart, President, Montlake Community Club
Amanda Williams, Montlake PTA/MCC Board Liaison
Kerry Clayman, Montlake Neighbor
Nina Hess, Montlake Neighbor
To submit your feedback:
Access the survey by clicking HERE.
1. Select the numbered area on which you are providing feedback: 41
2. What is your feedback?
As a Montlake resident, I am concerned about proposed changes to the Montlake Elementary School boundary.
The new boundary would fall in the middle of Boyer Avenue. This change would send a small section of Montlake families, living on the south side of Boyer Avenue—and the few streets south of Boyer that back up to Interlaken Park—to Stevens Elementary instead of Montlake. The children and parents in this area are deeply rooted in the Montlake community and isolating them from our neighborhood doesn’t make sense.
Although Stevens may appear to be close as the crow flies, the steep, heavily wooded Interlaken Park is a natural barrier. Designating Stevens as the school for these children goes against the district’s own guiding principles of a safe route to school. Walking or biking to school would not be possible. There are no sidewalks on Interlaken Ave. as it extends down the very steep north slope of Capitol Hill toward Montlake. The trails in Interlaken Park are secluded and unpopulated. They are not safe for school children. A safe route to Montlake Elementary School already exists: a 10-minute, safe, flat walk for most of our kids.
I encourage Seattle Public Schools to keep the children of Montlake together. Don’t split the Montlake community and keep the boundary where it belongs, at Interlaken Park.
