Pets of Pinehurst #3 Dogs Need to Workout Too!

Even little dogs need to exercise regularly, just like people. This week I’m introducing JC, which stands for Joey Cora, — remember him? Little guy, bulgy eyes, used to play for the Mariners? Lots of ladies thought he was cute, he cried when they lost the AL playoffs …. Awwwww!

JC belongs to Dan [...]

2/12 Streets for People Kickoff Forum

Streets for People Kickoff Forum

When: Thursday, February, 12thWhere: The South Lake Union Armory, 860 Terry Ave. NTime: 5:30-7:30

Seattle Great City Initiative is excited to announce the launch of the Streets for People Campaign. Last year’s presidential election demonstrated that we are on the cusp of amazing new changes in America. The Streets For [...]

I-5 Pavement Repairs – Coming to us this spring

This February the Washington State Department of Transportation will begin work to repair the worst of the worst pavement on both directions of I-5 between South Seattle and Shoreline and on the I-5 express lanes. Due to the scale of the project they are expecting up to 14 weekends of closures and more than 100 [...]

Lamb of God Preschool (NE 125th and 27th NE)

Maria asked me to pass this on to folks:

My son Parker goes to Lamb of God pre-school in Lake City and loves it. They have lost a couple of kids from his class and now have room for a few more. He is in the 3-4 class and there is also a pre-K class. [...]

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Sunship (another band with roots in Pinehurst)

I am biased on this one because my husband plays in Sunship.

Sunship plays original free jazz compositions. Band members include Stuart Dempster, Brian Heaney, Andrew Luthringer, Michael Monhart and David Revelli. Stuart Dempster taught ethnomusicology at the University of Washington for over three decades and is credited with bringing the didjeridu to the [...]

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Photo: Damon Winter/The New York Times

Obama’s Office of Urban Policy

The Obama White House web site is up. Obama proposed to establish a White House Office of Urban Policy. You can read more at: http://www.whitehouse.gov/agenda/urban_policy/.

Here are some items being proposed:

Build More Livable and Sustainable Communities: Our communities will better serve all of their residents if we are able to leave our cars to [...]

Do you have a street or park project that you would like to see happen in Pinehurst?

A sidewalk? A crosswalk? Traffic calming? Curb bulbs?

Once a year, community members throughout Seattle nominate neighborhood projects for consideration for funding through the Neighborhood Street Fund and Cumulative Reserve Subfund (aka the NSF/CRS). This is a competitive process and many worthy project ideas are submitted. But, submitting a project is important because it tells [...]

A new day in America

AP Photo/Alex Brandon