If your neighborhood would like to participate in Spring Clean, the city’s annual community cleanup event, the Seattle Department of Neighborhoods has a fund to support your activity.
Over the last decade, reverse mortgages have been marketed as an easy way for seniors to cash in their home equity to pay for living expenses. However, many have learned that improper use of the product — such as pulling all their cash out at one time to pay bills — has led to significant financial problems later, including foreclosure.
Sure, all of nature engage our senses — whether it be the sound of cottonwood leaves rustling in the summer, the painful spines of a blackberry or the sweet fragrance of lilac in bloom. While this is a fact of life, the act of beginning to connect with the natural world in a personal way is catalyzed with an amplified and direct sensual experience with the plant world. Such interactions may inspire healing, calm, creative expression or even connection with others.
Early spring in the Puget Sound region is known for numerous cloudy and rainy days. While everyone knows that a hot, sunny, summer day can cause sunburns, many do not realize that 80 percent of the sun’s harmful rays penetrate through clouds and rain.
A question that I hear quite frequently from clients is whether pet insurance is worth it. The answer to this question is not really black-or-white, however. There are a lot of factors that can go into your decision to purchase a pet insurance policy.
Yes, it really is OK to name a restaurant for yourself. Canlis, for example. Not quite as dashing, perhaps, as El Gaucho, but it does just fine, evoking the high plains of Central America. Steelhead Diner says it all if you’re a fisherman. But then consider Duke’s, Ray’s...or Shiro’s.
Seattle filmmaker Kristian St. Clair’s inspiration for his first feature documentary, “This is Gary McFarland,” stemmed from his childhood appreciation for McFarland’s jazz music and a concern that McFarland wasn’t getting a fair shake from music history.
Kshama Sawant’s mission to reject the usual corporate politics on the Seattle City Council has drawn a great deal of attention. So much so that she doesn’t have time to take meetings with everyone who asks. But Sawant’s spokesperson maintains that Pamela Banks was never slighted intentionally.
Pamela Banks, 55, is a first-generation college graduate from the University of Washington who moved from Portland, Ore., to Seattle in 1977. She served as a senior policy advisor for former Mayor Greg Nickels, which is when she said she first considered making a run at office.
Mayor Ed Murray announced last week that the City of Seattle will prohibit funding any city employee travel expenses for city business to Indiana. The announcement came after the Midwest state passed Senate Bill 101, the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.
The Neighborhood Matching Fund, a program of Seattle Department of Neighborhoods, is hosting its last two workshops for those interested in applying to the Large Projects Fund this May.
The Seahawks fan group 12s Helping 12s is holding its first rally and fundraiser Sunday, March 29, to help 12 fan John Bachner and raise money for area charities.
King County Metro Transit will have experts speak on the future of public transportation in the county during a “visioning” workshop on Tuesday, March 31.
If voters weren’t scared off by the number of levies they’ve approved in recent years asking for their tax dollars, the city’s Move Seattle transportation levy should do it.
