Queen Anne News 4-12-2023

A SPECIAL CELEBRATION

Aegis Living Galer hosts Aegis Games 2023

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After deciding that the Paris 2024 Olympics were too long to wait, Aegis Living Galer hosted its own Olympic Games last month.

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Aegis Games, an Olympic-inspired event series and tournament, was initially created as a fun way for residents and team members to come together when COVID-19 pandemic restrictions started to lift in 2021 and the Summer Olympic Games in Tokyo were just gearing up. The highly anticipated Aegis Games are now a biennial event hosted across all 36 Aegis Living communities.

“Aegis Games creates one more opportunity for our residents to connect, not only with one another, but with our staff as well,” Aegis Living Galer General Manager Nick Sponaugle said. “Our staff is continually learning from the residents we care for, and Aegis Games is not an exception.”

This year, more than 5,000 participants enjoyed more than 45 events during the threeweek event. With activities centered on mind, body and spirit, residents and staff participated in everything from “javelin” throws and ping pong to Jumbo Jenga, mind-bending puzzle competitions, official opening and closing ceremonies and more. Favorite activities among Galer residents and staff were trivia, poker/blackjack, and pie eating.

In addition to the core games, each community hosted two challenges. The “Aegis Gives Back Challenge” gave Aegis residents and team members an opportunity to participate in local community service projects. Aegis communities recognized firefighters, sorted food at a food

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Levy up for vote this month would fund mental health services

By Jessica Keller

Queen Anne & Magnolia News editor

Residents should be receiving ballots in the mail for a special election to go before King County voters this month that would provide funding for mental health services around the county.

Proposition No. 1 would fund behavioral health services and capital facilities, including a county-wide crises care centers network; increased residential treatment; mobile crises care; post-discharge stabilization; and workforce supports, according to levy language.

The nine-year property tax levy would assess residents $0.145 per $1,000 of assessed value beginning

in 2024. The 2024 levy amount would be the base for calculating annual increases in 2025-32.

Speaking at last week’s Queen Anne Community Council meeting, District 7 Seattle City Councilmember Andrew Lewis said, as the city’s representative on the Regional Policy Committee, he worked with King County Executive Dow Constantine and County Councilmember Girmay Zahilay to come up with a crisis response for behavioral mental health or behavioral health situations triggered by substance addiction to help fill a need in the communities. He said King County has a very small number of places that can accept people in crisis and remove them temporarily from the public.

“This is having an incredibly bad

impact on our community safety in the city of Seattle and in King County, and it’s not good for any of the parties involved, the people in crisis or other community members who are in people in crisis to not have this effectively mitigated,” he said.

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In 2018, King County had 355 residential treatment beds to serve people experiencing some sort of mental health crisis. That has declined to about 244, Lewis said, adding much of the reason stems from how local behavioral mental health providers are compensated by the state.

“The state of Washington over the last several years has not been living

up to its obligations on behavioral mental health or behavioral health in general, really, and the result of that has really put a massive burden on counties, King County included, to try to figure out strategies to make up that difference,” Lewis said. “This measure in front of us would get as back to at least parity and hopefully more than where we were in 2018 before the pandemic in terms of residential crisis beds that people can be taken to remove them off the street.”

If passed, the funding would be used to build five regional behavioral health crisis center: one in north King County, one in Seattle, one on the east side – Bellevue/ Factoria/New Castle area, and one in south King County – Federal Way, Auburn, Kent area. The fifth

will be focused on youth and their behavioral health challenges they are experiencing, specifically. While that center is likely to be in Seattle, no definitive site will be selected until after the levy passes.

All five centers would have to be set up and operational by 2029, but preferably sooner, Lewis said.

Each center will be able to take people 24 hours a day on a walk-in basis under a “no-wrong door” policy of access, which is different from how many crisis response centers operate right now.

“Our current system is really reliant on emergency rooms and jails be in the King County Jail or municipal city jails,” Lewis said, adding jails

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Aegis Living Galer resident Kathleen Nielsen watches as a Jumbo Jenga set goes tumbling during the Aegis Living Galer’s Aegis Games 2023.

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Vino in the Village coming up Magnolia Chamber of Commerce is hosting a spring Vino in the Village from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. April 29 starting at Modeles Home Furnishings, 3220 W. McGraw St., in Magnolia Village.

Purchase tickets early because they sell out quickly. This event will feature 16 local wineries that will pour wines and spirits at different businesses in the village. Visit discovermagnolia.org/ and click on the Vino in the Village tickets link.

Celebrate renewal of life at Seattle Cherry Blossom & Japanese Cultural Festival

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Embrace traditions and cultural arts between the people of Japan and the Pacific Northwest at the Seattle Cherry Blossom & Japanese Cultural Festival from 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Friday to Sunday at the Seattle Center.

Part of the Seattle Center Festál series, this free, in-person festival will take place in the Armory Food & Event Hall and Fisher Pavilion at Seattle Center. Join honorary cochairs Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell and Consul General Hisao Inagaki, in honoring the renewal of life with springtime cherry blossoms and Japanese arts.

This year’s festival presents: The Japan Foundation Traveling Exhibition, “Manga Hokusai Manga: Approaching the Master’s Compendium from the Perspective of Contemporary Comics,” from 11a.m.-4 p.m. now through April 28 and April 30 in the Seattle Opera Center Lobby, courtesy of Consulate-General of Japan in Seattle.

All other activities will take place in the Armory and Fisher, which includes Go lessons, storytelling, history panels and cultural programs. The festival will also celebrate the 100th anniversary of the JapanAmerica Society of the State of Washington, the 60th anniversary of the Hyogo Business & Cultural Center and the 45th anniversary of Beikoku Shodo Kenkyukai, which is

the art of calligraphy.

Discover koto, shamisen and taiko sounds, live music from Ichi Bichi and Moopsie and traditional Buyo, Japanese and contemporary dances, as well as mechanical dolls from Tanimoto Karakuri Ningyo, ikebana demonstrations, martial arts, music, tea ceremonies, food and children’s activities. Culinary delights include bento, ramen, musubi and mochi from local vendors such as Tokara Japanese Confectionary, Ramen-Ya Teinei, Setsuko Pastry and more. There will also be opportunities to experience ancient and contemporary traditions of Japan, like kimono dress-up and sake tasting.

Seattle Center Festál is a public program presented by Seattle Center

in partnership with Seattle Cherry Blossom & Japanese Cultural Festival. Admission is free of charge. For more information on this festival, visit cherryblossomfest.org and, to learn more about this collection of ethnic cultural events, seattlecenter. com/festal, or call 206-684-7200.

The Seattle Cherry Blossom & Japanese Cultural Festival was initiated on May 8, 1976, when Japan’s former prime minister, Takeo Miki, gifted 1,000 cherry trees to Seattle in commemoration of America’s bicentennial and the long friendship between the people of Japan and Washington state.

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Wesley Charles Green, Washington, age 46, passed away on December 21, 2022. His mother, Linda Green, of Chicago, IL, preceded him in death. At the time of his death, Wesley lived in Seattle, Washington.

Wesley loved his family, friends, books, music, nature, and life.

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Wesley is survived by his father Chris Green, brother Terry Green, stepfather Tom Erickson, Aunts Patty Stillwell and Kim Blackowiak, Uncle Steven Stillwell, cousins Erika Emerick, Alex Blackowiak, Claire Blackowiak, and Kevin Blackowiak.

Wesley is buried close to his Mother at All Saints Cemetery in Des Plaines, IL.

A celebration of life for Wesley’s Seattle friends and community will take place April 22, 1-3 pm, at the Fremont Public Library in Seattle.

Donations in Wesley’s honor can be directed to the Ballard Food Bank and Facing Homelessness organizations in Seattle, Washington.

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The Seattle Cherry Blossom & Japanese Cultural Festival returns with a number of activities Friday through Sunday at the Seattle Center.

Are ranunculus annual or perennial? It depends …

The tight globes of layered ranunculus blooms are almost too perfect to be believed. You might think they are crepe paper concoctions, but they are very real. Growing from corms resembling tiny brown octopi or claws about the size of a quarter, greenhousegrown plants arrive like magic at nurseries in March and April, when gardeners are at their most flower-deprived and color-hungry, alongside primroses and pansies.

The ranunculus family includes the dreaded creeping buttercup, the fleeting spring anemones and these lovelies. Sometimes called “the rose of spring” or “Persian buttercup,” ranunculus come in singles or doubles, smooth-edged or ruffled, in solids and picotees. They are robust cut flowers lasting up to 10 days in a vase. It was love at first sight for me. Years ago, my then-boyfriend lived in an apartment facing a paved courtyard in the West Village of New York City. He didn’t have access to the garden, but the woman who did, called Sara, was an experimental container gardener with a trained eye for plants. I think she had a larch, but in spring she had these elegant lollipops on stems, and the first chance I got I hollered across the courtyard to ask her what those crazily beautiful things were. (New Yorkers aren’t shy about that.)

Fast-forward to gardening now in Seattle, where the question has nagged at me over many springs — can we, or I — get ranunculus to stick around year after year in the garden?

In the fall, I made the leap and purchased some salmon-toned Elegance ranunculus from Easy to Grow Bulbs, easytogrowbulbs.com. When they arrived in mid-November, I wasn’t sure whether to store or pot them up, so I reached out to customer service — and that’s when the confusion deepened.

The Easy to Grow Bulbs site says in zones 8 and warmer, plant in the fall; in cooler places, store and plant in spring. But we couldn’t agree on my zone. Although the USDA map shown on the site lists Seattle as 8b, EGB’s online zipcode calculator puts us as 7B, which the customer service representative reiterated. The USDA’s own calculator, planthardiness.ars. usda.gov, has us at 8B, though we used to be 8 until 2012.

So, adamantly sticking with zone 8, my option was to store in a cool, dark place like a pantry shelf in a mesh or paper bag, or plant. I planted in a container the first week of December to help boost drainage. (This was based on my success of one single “Tecolote” making it through to a second year — barely and briefly — in a window box.) Here’s hoping!

This year, I gained some local knowledge. At the Northwest Flower and Garden Festival, I saw a new booth called The Dahlia House, selling ranunculus corms. Anne Long

runs Dahlia House, thedahliahouse. com, from the Skagit Valley, growing and arranging ranunculus, their cousins the tuberous anemones and dahlias, and she’s taught at Floret Farms, Christianson’s Nursery and at the flower festival.

Long was selling corms on her website in mid-late March, but if you haven’t ordered corms yet, you can buy growing plants.

By happy accident, I met Emily Mitchell, @lollibirdgardensrc, at the booth. She grows Anne’s varieties, along with other easy-to-grow cut flowers, from her Magnolia greenhouse and sells them from her sidewalk from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturdays at 3220 Magnolia Blvd West. This year, the season runs from March 18-May 20.

I learned from Long’s free online webinar that the most resilient varieties of ranunculus for our area are the Italian lines, with names like Sfumato, Giallo and Cloni Nere. Italian ranunculus bulbs offer sturdier stems, a higher petal count and, most importantly, adapt to a wider range of climates, potentially including our well-watered one. They are harder to find, but worth seeking out. Series to look for are Cloni, Cloni Pon-Pon and Elegance.

By the way, many of the varieties you’ll see at nurseries are not the Italian types. In zones 7 and warmer,

planting in fall, in a sunny spot with excellent drainage is your best bet, with greenhouse or protected spring growing a close second. Long digs hers in fall, as many dig their dahlias, but they can overwinter here. This is where the “it depends” comes in.

Ranunculus are hardy to about 30 degrees and need protection with row cover fabric below that.

More tips from Long:

Soaking corms in water for four hours or so helps sprout them. Then plant 2 inches deep, claws down. You should see blooms in three or four months. The more you cut, the more blooms will come. Cut the stalk all the way to the base. Fertilizing during and after blooming will keep the

plants strong. They will bloom until temperatures reach 80 degrees or so, and then they’ll slip into dormancy. If digging, Long says wait until the foliage has yellowed.

Floretflowers.com says they can overwinter in zones 7 and warmer depending on how cold the winter is, how well-drained the soil and which critters might nosh on your bulbs. Bottom line? Long digs hers in fall and Floret Farms replants extra every year to never be without ranunculus. It sounds like experimentation is necessary to find the perfect microclimate to grow these beauties — or just dig them and save for next year’s bouquets.

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Local financial advisor recognized by Forbes RBC Wealth Management recently announced that Heather Krause, Krause & Thorpe Wealth Management Team senior vice president and financial advisor, was named to the Forbes Top Women Wealth Advisors Best-In-State list in the U.S.

Born and raised in Seattle, Krause graduated from Franklin High School and holds a Bachelor of Science degree in mechanical engineering from Lafayette College and a Master of Science degree in aeronautics and astronautics from the University of Washington.

She has lived in the Ballard area of Seattle since 1995 with her husband and two children.

award was announced February 2023. The award was developed by SHOOK Research and is based on in-person and telephone due diligence meetings to evaluate each advisor qualitatively, a major component of a ranking algorithm that includes: client retention, industry experience, review of compliance records, firm nominations; and quantitative criteria, including: assets under management and revenue generated for their firms. Investment performance is not a criterion because client objectives and risk tolerances vary, and advisors rarely have audited performance reports.

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2023, (11 days before the sale date) to cause a discontinuance of the sale. The sale will be discontinued and terminated if at any time before April 10, 2023 (11 days before the sale) the default as set forth in Paragraph III is cured and the Trustees’ fees and costs are paid. Payment must be in cash or with cashiers’ or certified checks from a State or federally chartered bank. The sale may be terminated any time after the April 10, 2023 (11 days before the sale date) and before the sale, by the Borrower or Grantor or the holder of any recorded junior lien or encumbrance by paying the entire principal and interest secured by the Deed of Trust, plus costs, fees and advances, if any, made pursuant to the terms of the obligation and/or Deed of Trust, and curing all other defaults. VI. A written Notice of Default was transmitted by the current Beneficiary, PNC Bank, National Association or Trustee to the Borrower and Grantor at the following address(es): ADDRESS BRANDON SMITH 7116 NORTHEAST 167TH STREET, KENMORE, WA 98028-6310 WENDY SMITH 7116 NORTHEAST 167TH STREET, KENMORE, WA 98028-6310 by both first class and certified mail on November 7, 2022, proof of which is in the possession of the Trustee; and the Borrower and Grantor were personally served with said written Notice of Default or the written Notice of Default was posted in a conspicuous place November 7, 2022 on the real property described in Paragraph I above, and the Trustee has possession of proof of such service or posting. VII. The Trustee whose name and address are set forth below will provide in writing to anyone requesting it, a statement of all costs and fees due at any time prior to the sale. VIII. The effect of the sale will be to deprive the Grantor and all those who hold by, through or under the Grantor of all their interest in the above described property. IX. Anyone having any objections to this sale on any grounds whatsoever will be afforded an opportunity to be heard as to those objections if they bring a lawsuit to restrain the sale pursuant to RCW 61.24.130. Failure to bring such a lawsuit may result in a waiver of any proper grounds for invalidating the Trustees’ Sale. X. Notice to Occupants or Tenants. The purchaser at the Trustee’s sale is entitled to possession of the property on the 20th day following the sale, as against the Grantor under the deed of trust (the owner) and anyone having an interest junior to the deed of trust, including occupants who are not tenants. After the 20th day following the sale the purchaser has the right to evict occupants who are not tenants by summary proceedings under chapter 59.12 RCW. For tenant-occupied property, the purchaser shall provide a tenant with written notice in accordance with RCW 61.24.060. Notice to Borrower(s) who received a letter under RCW 61.24.031: THIS NOTICE

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turn away a lot of referrals, and it is not sustainable to rely on emergency rooms to respond to the crisis.

Lewis said it is anticipated that a significant number of the stays would be for less than 24 hours to stabilize the person in crisis, and after that they would be discharged. He said 20 spaces will be reserved for people coming in for 24 hours or less. Each center will have about 16 spaces for up to a two-week stay.

“The national average for facilities of this nature in other jurisdictions is about a nine-day period if someone has a more serios issue that they need to work through and then work with people to get them some sort of referral to some kind of placement on the other end of the crisis-care center,” Lewis said, adding that might be transitional housing or treatment program.

In total, Lewis said, about 100 new beds will be added to the whole system in the county, but hopefully more depending on how it is set up.

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Overall, the new system will allow law enforcement to be able to transport people who are in crisis but not a good fit jails or hospitals to a place where they can have their needs met. Each crisis care center will have designated responders at any given time to evaluate people in need.

Lewis said King County will be charged to implement the system, which is based on an extensive

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bank, created essential bags for those experiencing homelessness, participated in beach and garden clean-ups, donated knitted hats and quilts for local organizations and more. Aegis Living Galer chose Mary’s Place as its give-back focus.

During the games, residents also enjoyed the “Wellness Warriors Challenge.” Roughly 500 residents participated in daily feats of physi-

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model used in Maricopa County, Arizona.

“While this is a really critical investment, it, in and of itself, isn’t going to be enough to fix all the issues that we’re facing,” Lewis said, adding there will still be holes in the behavioral health system that will need to be filled, but without the levy, it will be harder to fix some of the other challenges the county is facing around transitional housing.

While nobody disputed whether the levy was necessary, a few members were dismayed that this added property tax will put further strain on senior citizens and people on fixed incomes living in Seattle.

“Well it’s a worthy endeavor, but I’m a person who has a parent with serious mental illness, and I’ve been a longtime member of NAMI, and I understand the importance of this facility and support them, but there’s a problem, and that’s that the City Council has made no accommodation that’s going to help us mature, retired people and longtime residents be able to stay in our homes because we keep getting one property tax after another, and we just can’t handle it,” Community Councilmember Sharon Levine said. “it’s almost like I’m being forced to vote no for something I believe so strongly deserves to be built.”

Residents have until 5 p.m. April 25 to return or have their ballots postmarked for them to count.

For more information on the levy, contact Dan Floyd, deputy director, Behavioral Health and Recovery Division, DanielDCHS.Floyd@kingcounty.gov.

cal and mental strength to achieve better overall wellness. More than 2,000 hours of movement were logged, which is equivalent to 83 days of moving.

“My favorite part of Aegis Games was competing (and winning) against other Aegis communities,” shared a Galer resident. “The games brightened my day and gave me something new to look forward to. I also really enjoyed seeing the staff get involved, especially in the pie-eating contest.”

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Seattle to hold competitive call for ideas to make downtown more residential

By Spencer Pauley | The Center Square

The Seattle Office of Planning and Community is holding a “call for ideas” competition to convert Seattle Downtown commercial office spaces to residential use.

The competition goes along with Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell’s newly announced Downtown Activation Plan. The plan looks at immediate strategies to make downtown safer and more welcoming. This includes filling vacant storefronts, converting office space to housing

and creating what his office calls a “linear artsentertainment-culture district.”

“We need to recognize that (Seattle’s downtown) office space may never fill up as before,” Harrell said in his state of the city address in February. “We need more housing options, so let’s make downtown affordable for everyone who wants to live there.”

Building owners and architect teams are invited to pitch solutions, to identify obstacles to conversion and suggest potential policy and regulatory changes. The deadline for entries

is April 28, 2023. Qualified entries will be on display at the Seattle Convention Center in late May.

“We seek visions for downtown that celebrate the intersection between residential, business and civic activities,” Seattle Office of Planning and Community Acting Director Rico Quirindongo said in a statement. “We will foster ideas that expand the concept of downtown as a vibrant residential neighborhood, in addition to its history as a place of commerce, entertainment and tourism.”

Unleavened bread the foundation of Passover cooking

Passover is a Jewish celebration and one of the religion’s most sacred and widely observed holidays. Passover commemorates the Biblical story of the Israelites’ escape from 400 years of slavery in Egypt. In 2023, Passover takes place April 5-15.

Pesach, as Passover is known in Hebrew, includes all kinds of ceremonial foods. The Passover seder plate showcases specific items that relate to both the suffering and emancipation of the Jewish people.

Throughout Passover, the faithful abstain from any leavened bread products. According to Exodus 12:8: “They shall eat the flesh that night, roasted on the fire; with unleavened bread and bitter herbs they shall eat.”

Jews also are to remove all leaven (hametz) from their homes and eat unleavened bread for an additional seven days. Apart from being commanded by God, it is believed unleavened bread became traditional Passover food because the Jewish people departed Egypt in haste without time to let bread

rise. Further, some say God also associated leavened bread with sin.

If there is one ingredient Passover celebrants might find challenging to work with during the holiday, it could be unleavened bread. Typically matzoh/matzah is substituted for other yeasted breads this time of year. One place matzoh really shines, though, is in matzoh balls for use in soups or side dishes. A dumpling of sorts, matzoh balls are tasty and filling, and ideal for meals throughout Passover.

Try this recipe for “Perfect Matzah Balls (Kneidlach)” courtesy of Chabad.org’s Kosher Cooking.

Perfect Matzah Balls (Kneidlach)

Yields 4 balls per each 1/4 cup of matzah meal (Meat, Pareve)

2 eggs, slightly beaten

2 tablespoons oil or chicken fat

2 tablespoons soup stock or water

1/2 cup matzah meal

1 teaspoon salt

1 quart of salted water or

chicken soup, for cooking

1. Beat eggs slightly with fork. Add other ingredients, except matzah meal, and mix. Add matzah meal gradually until thick.

Stir. Refrigerate for 20 minutes in covered bowl.

2. Wet hands and form into balls. Drop into bubbling chicken soup or into a large wide pot into

which 1 quart of water seasoned with 1 tablespoon salt has been added and has come to a boil.

3. Cook for 30 minutes.

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