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Photo by Brandon Macz George Sidwell spent two months selling Real Change newspapers outside Bert’s Red Apple. With support from his customers, he applied for and was given a job there in December.

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Madison Park shoppers may have first met George Sidwell while he was selling Real Change newspapers outside Bert’s Red Apple. Now, he’s a full-time employee at the neighborhood grocery store, getting back into the workforce a decade after a series of misfortunes pushed him into homelessness. “He got ran over by a train a few times in a row,” said Real Change News founding director Timothy Harris, “the kind of adversity that would flatten most people.” Sidwell was born in Yakima, and he moved to Seattle to work in construction, which he’d been doing for 35 years before he had a stroke while on the roof of a job site in 2009. “It was just that all of a sudden I just fell to the ground and couldn’t move my legs or nothing,” Sidwell said. It took him six months to relearn how to walk, and for the next several years he required the assistance of a cane.

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January 2020

Leaders ink agreement to form King County Regional Homelessness Authority Durkan, Constantine confident people with lived experience will be heard in new coordinated approach to addressing crisis By Brandon Macz

Madison Park Times editor King County Executive Dow Constantine and Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan signed an interlocal agreement on Wednesday with structural changes to a regional homelessness authority they had proposed in September, but both elected leaders expressed confidence those with lived experience will guide this new coordinated effort to help those living unsheltered. “The burden for us is to make sure that the voices of those with lived experience continue to be elevated and heard in our governing board, as well as in the implementation of our policies,” Constantine said. The executive and mayor delivered a proposal to the King County Regional Policy Committee informed by two years of work by the National Innovation Service and a Lived Experience Coalition comprised of people who had or were experiencing homelessness. King County Councilmember Jeanne Kohl-Welles then introduced an amended plan to the RPC, which passed unanimously on Dec. 5. “What was transmitted to us was not going to go through, as much as many of us would have liked to have that happen,” she said before the RPC vote. With a few clarifying amendments tacked on, the King County Council approved the proposal on Dec. 11, followed by the Seattle City Council on Dec. 16. Constantine acknowledged the legislation was different than what he and Durkan proposed, but said it still addresses the issues that have dogged municipalities across the county. “Different governments across the region signing contracts with different service providers with different standards for performance, seeking different outcomes — no more,” the county executive said. “The legislation Mayor Durkan and I will sign today differs from what she and I proposed, but it remains a bold, innovative and necessary response to the goal of unifying a fractured homelessness system.” The amended legislation Kohl-Welles introduced to the RPC in early December provides more representation for the Sound Cities Association — comprised of 38 cities in King County — in both the implementation board and governing committee that will oversee the new regional authority’s development, hiring of a chief executive officer and planning a coordinated response to the homelessness crisis. The new interlocal agreement (ILA) provides SCA with three seats on the governing committee, up from one seat and the opportunity for another if 20 cities subscribed to the ILA. No SCA appointments were originally recommended for the implementation board, which will be comprised of experts on homelessness and services; the approved ILA gives the association two appointments. Members of the Lived Experience Coalition spent the past three weeks showing up to meetings, concerned about the new structure of the implementation board and governing committee potentially minimizing their voices and undermining the last two years of collaboration to come up with the original legislation. The 12-member governing committee will have three representatives each from King County, Seattle, SCA and those representing individuals with lived experience as determined by an advisory committee; the mayor and executive will make up one seat each for Seattle and King County, and one King County Council representative will have Seattle within their district. The federally mandated Continuum of Care Board will serve as the advisory committee to the regional homelessness authority. The governing committee will be in charge of hiring a chief executive officer — the original plan was for an executive director position — and approving and amending

Photo by Brandon Macz King County Executive Dow Constantine and Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan sign an interlocal agreement to form a King County Regional Homelessness Authority inside the Yesler Building on Wednesday, Dec. 18. City and county employees will co-locate there to staff the authority in spring. major plans and budgets. The implementation board will provide recommendations about a CEO, develop a funding allocation report and make budget and major plan recommendations to the governing committee; the CEO will also report directly to the implementation board. With the addition of two SCA-appointed seats, elected officials will make 10 of the 13 appointments, with the other three being made by the advisory committee. King County Councilmember Kathy Lambert, who attended the ILA signing on Wednesday, argued before the county council’s Dec. 11 vote to approve it that the organizational structure puts the impetus on elected officials to get the authority right, or they would face being voted out by their constituents. It will take eight (two-thirds) of the 12 governing committee members to approve hiring a CEO, with a quorum of nine members. It would take nine votes to remove a CEO. It would take a majority vote to make changes to bylaws, the budget, the implementation board, or approve a staffing plan, also with a quorum of nine. That means it would take eight votes to make budget or planning changes if all 12 members were present, or six votes if only nine members were present. King County Council chair Rod Dembowski said a previous proposal for a simple majority, with at least one vote in favor by each caucus, was met with too many objections. He also said it was important to increase accountability for elected officials, considering the $650 million in taxpayer money being invested in the authority over the next five years. While SCA will have more influence than previously proposed for the King County Regional Homelessness Authority, only Seattle and King County will be funding the new agency. Under the signed ILA, the agency wouldn’t seek approval by the Legislature to levy taxes to support it, making it an authority in name only. Seattle City Councilmember Lisa Herbold had expressed concerns previously that no governments within the SCA would contribute to the authority despite being in agreement that homelessness is a regional issue. The City of Seattle will contribute $73 million a year — plus $2 million in 2020 for startup costs — to the authority. King County will pay $55 million annually, plus $1.3 million to start the authority. Seattle City Councilmember Lorena González expressed concern at the Dec. 12 meeting of the Select Committee on Homelessness and Housing Affordability that guiding principles in the ILA lacked strong enough language to ensure cities receiving funding from the authority would follow evidence-based practices when addressing homelessness in their communities.

“I have ongoing concerns about the three first issues that I’ve highlighted related to evidence-based requirements, both in the subregional plans and in how the regional authority makes determinations about spending that are in alignment with governing principles,” González said, “and I also continue to have concerns about the lower threshold that exists that would, in some instances, if attendance is low, only require up to 50 percent of the full governing committee to make pretty significant decisions to amend the budget, to change policies in the five-year strategy as it relates to the regional approach to addressing the issues of homelessness, and removing the CEO.” Rather than amend the legislation passed by the Regional Policy Committee and King County Council, which would have required passing it back to the RPC to restart the approval process, Seattle City Councilmember Sally Bagshaw added a separate, nonbinding ordinance that outlines the city’s expectations for how the authority will operate in order to ensure Seattle continues to fund it. “Let’s not play cute with what the impact of this ordinance is,” González said. “This ordinance binds us as the City of Seattle, but it does not bind King County.” The ordinance states that the city council expects any changes to the King County Regional Homelessness Authority’s goals, policies, plans or annual budget will require the vote of at least eight governing committee members; that services and funding will be consistent with evidencebased practices, as will the authority’s five-year plan and subregional plans; the authority will provide an annual performance report to the city and county councils; the implementation board will strive to appoint members who reflect the racial and ethnic make-up of King County while maintaining a majority of members representing those disproportionately experiencing homelessness; and a new Office of the Ombuds will provide an annual report to the governing committee. “I would describe that as a nuclear option of this council suddenly deciding, because these issues aren’t resolved, that we are going to withhold $73 million from the regional authority,” González said. “I don’t think that’s a realistic scenario, and I don’t think it would come to fruition.” Bagshaw said she agreed with those concerned about the ILA, that details matter when it comes to such major funding, but said she was happy that the implementation board would be comprised of 13 experts on the matter of homelessness, as well as the voting requirements set for the governing committee. “To me, this strikes a sensible balance between our shared desire to have experts driving the implementation board policy with government officials who are ultimately AUTHORITY, Page 4

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Seattle Public Library offers clean slate in the new year The Seattle Public Library will end overdue fines starting on Thursday, Jan. 2, in an effort to offer a clean slate for patrons in the new year. The library board unanimously approved the policy on Dec. 12, which means outstanding fines will be cleared and fine forgiveness for those who return overdue materials. “We want everyone to have easy and equitable access to Library resources,” said Chief Librarian Marcellus Turner in a news release. “Fines can be a very real and significant burden for some of the most vulnerable residents in our community. We know this kind of financial barrier can deter people who need us most from using the Library, which means they stop using resources needed for school work, to search for jobs, improve literacy skills and more. By removing this obstacle we are giving every resident in Seattle greater access to education and opportunity.” Seattle Public Library will continue to charge fees for lost — not returned within 31 days — or damaged materials. Accounts with a

January 2020

Madison Park group encouraging neighbors to Buy Nothing

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Facebook group sprouts of of larger movement to gift with community By Brandon Macz

Madison Park Times editor Madison Park resident Allison Fly walks her condo unit, pointing to the many pieces of furniture and decor she proudly didn’t pay for. But she gives as good as she gets. Fly is a local administrator for the newly sprouted Buy Nothing Madison Park group, which connects neighbors looking to give belongings a new home or searching for an item someone may be able to offer in their own backyard. The Buy Nothing Project was started by two friends on Bainbridge Island as a hyperlocal gift economy, and there are now has Facebook groups around the globe. Fly got hooked on Buy Nothing while living in Poulsbo. “I’ve always been somebody who felt like they had too much stuff,” she said. The Buy Nothing Madison Park group grew out of the popular Capitol Hill group and launched on Nov. 30, creating a more localized connection for neighbors looking to add or subtract items in their homes. “Now that we’re hyperlocal, we can all walk to pick up our gifts,” Fly said. People have to apply to join the Facebook group and also live within the coverage area. After they’re approved, they can post pictures of the items they want to give away and also request things they may need or want to borrow, such as a sewing machine or photo projector. People are encouraged

Photos by Brandon Macz Madison Park resident Allison Fly has filled her living room with furniture and decorations sourced from her local Buy Nothing group. to let their posts marinate for a while, though it’s not uncommon for neighbors to chime in quickly for hot-ticket items. “People are allowed to choose whoever they want for whatever reason,” Fly said about picking a gift recipient. Fly leaves a lot of her gifts on her porch for Buy Nothing neighbors to pick up, but said she enjoys meeting people in person. “The whole idea is to get people out meeting each other, so when we see each other out and about, we can greet each other,” she said. People can also offer gifts of service. Fly is a professional nanny. If a client has paid for service, but cancels, she’ll sometimes offer free babysitting during that time slot. “I’m not a budget nanny, which is why I moved to Madison Park this summer,” she said. Buy Nothing groups also ensure the items people want to see find a renewed purpose with someone else don’t end up in a landfill after being sorted by a thrift store and never making it to a shelf. “Secondhand” author Adam Minter found only one third of thrift store items are sold, and in a

recent NPR interview noted that non-boutique items coming into Goodwill donation centers often end up being dumped. Fly’s condo is now decked out for the holidays, all with secondhand decorations. “I didn’t buy a thing,” she said, “and my place looks like a Christmas box exploded in it.” Fly’s cat, Lillie — a Buy Nothing gift she received when someone needed to rehouse the feline — wasn’t too excited about the decorations at first. People wanting to set up their own Buy Nothing groups receive support from the nonprofit behind it, which provides online training to get people started. Fly shares administrator responsibilities with Althea Jones, and Michele Kaspar is the moderator for the Buy Nothing Madison Park group. Elaine Jones is in charge of handling membership requests. “There’s so much behind the scenes,” Fly said. “There’s so much support, not just in Seattle, but across the state.” There are also Buy Nothing groups in Madison Valley, Leschi, Madrona, Steven/Miller and beyond, all with their own coverage areas.

January 2020

Tips for healthy skiing knees

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s Bode Miller says a position, and tensioning your in the Lindsey Vonn muscles, in such a way that you HBO documentary, are prepared to react to anything “The Final Season”: “If you that might come your way with want to know what it’s like fall- enough quickness and reaction ing while downhill skiing, drive time that you could dodge a your car at 70 mph and just get fastball pitch, with enough stiffout.” ness and strength that someone If you’ve spent any amount of could run into you by accident time on the slopes, I don’t have and you’d remain on your feet, to tell you that your knees take and with enough finesse and coa beating in the sport of skiing. ordination that you could conIf the falls don’t get nect with Seahawks you, the sharp cutting, wide receiver Tyler combined with long Lockett for a first periods of squatting down. and leaning forward, Start here: Stand up, will. Indeed, falls aren’t put your feet shoulthe only danger to der width apart, bend your knees, and even you knees partly, grip when things appear to the ground with the be going well as your sole of your foot (go Dr. Dan whisk your way down light on the toes), and Michael fresh white powder put your hands out as NW Sports on a brisk winter day, if you’re hugging one your knees wish you of those large inflatknew more about how able therapy balls. You keep them happy. As a should be breathing, sports rehab doc, I’ve seen some and you should have enough pretty grumpy skiing knees, and tension in your core that a 6 these are the top-3 complaints year old could punch you in the they would have (if they could gut as hard as they can, and you talk). wouldn’t flinch. You should feel 1. Work on your a connection between your feet athletic stance. and glutes here, too. (See 3) An athletic stance is simply 2. Be more proactive prepara way of putting your body in ing for ski season.

We often judge our preparedness for activities retrospectively. Meaning, we do an activity, and then judge how we feel after the fact, to make a determination on whether or not we were prepared for that activity. This is an OK test if you are judging the fitness of your muscular fitness, because your muscles communicate soreness very quickly (24-48 hours) after an activity, but what about your tendons, ligaments and joint cartilage? These structures require repetitive stress to produce pain, and due to their slow healing ability, it often takes you out of commission during the healing period.

Start here: Start preparing for ski season three months in advance at minimum and if you’re a serious skier, but you only touch fresh powder every winter, then you might think about starting preparation 4-6 months in advance. Nothing prepares you for skiing like skiing, but hitting the gym to work on your strength and endurance of your core, hips and feet is where you’ll want to start. In addition, you’ll need to engage in plyometric training once you’re ready to simulate the quick change of direction you’ll experience carving up the SKIING, Page 8

 AUTHORITY, from Page 2 held accountable for results by the general public and taxpayers,” Bagshaw said during the select committee meeting, “and I believe that people are going to show up to these meetings and there will be 12 people there, so that means eight people would be required to change something.” The Seattle City Council passed the legislation to the mayor on Dec. 16 by a 5-1 vote, with González opposed. Herbold, Teresa Mosqueda, who is on maternity leave, and Kshama Sawant were absent, meaning the council barely had a quorum. “I believe strongly that when we come together and get the right people in place that everyone will stay at the table to get things done,” Durkan said on Wednesday. “I believe in a scenario that will not be a worst-case scenario, because if we get to the point where there’s a vote that’s spread by one person on whether we should move forward, we’ve already failed.” Durkan said she feels people have overstated the impacts of the representation on the governing committee, noting it would still take eight votes to overrule anything coming up from the implementation board if all 12 members are at the table. “And if we get to that point, it means we have not been doing the very hard work it takes to get to the right place, with the right budget, with the right programs,” Durkan said. The mayor also expressed support for subregional planning. Under the legislation she and the county executive proposed, the initial five-year plan would include subregional planning, while the amended legislation means subregional planning by suburban cities will influence the next five-year plan.

Photo by Brandon Macz Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan said she’s confident the new regional authority will be successful as long as the right people are at the table and every part of the region feels invested. “This won’t work if every part of the region doesn’t feel invested and doesn’t see themselves in it,” Durkan said, adding the subregional planning will also require taking census of the populations experiencing homelessness and existing resources in the community. “I think it’s going to paint a really different picture than what people think, because then we’re going to be all about solving that problem rather than focused on turf.” Lived Experience Coalition member Miranda Hunter said she had hoped the ILA would require an 80 percent vote by the governing board to push budgets and policies forward, but she believes there’s still time to work on establishing an authority that empowers the voices of those with experience living unsheltered. “I’m just ready to move toward the future

of change and help people who have experienced homelessness,” she said. King County Department of Community and Human Services director Leo Flor said the city and county will spend the next three months developing a staff and program transition plan as DCHS and Seattle’s Human Services Department employees aim for a March co-location to the King County Yesler Building. The goal is to ensure continuity of service during the transition, Flor said. The King County Regional Homelessness Authority will focus on outreach, diversion, shelter, rapid rehousing, transitional and permanent supportive housing efforts, according to a news release, but capital funding will not be provided for housing construction or Seattle’s controversial Navigation Team.

Six weeks after getting completing physical rehabilitation, his home burned down. “One of my roommates was heating up grease and walked off and forgot about it,” Sidwell said, “and [fire] went up the wall.” His insurance had also been canceled. Sidwell went to live in a tent in Nickelsville, and at a very troubling time for the village, Harris said. Nickelodeons had been fighting to stay in a vacant southwest Seattle lot while Mayor Greg Nickels was enforcing sweeps. “My stepdad had a heart attack and was having problems with that, so my mom and stepdad weren’t able to help me,” Sidwell said, “and my brother was taking care of my sister-in-law, who had cancer, so they were pretty filled up with their own thing.” He became a Real Change vendor in 2011. “A friend of mine told me about it, so I thought I’d go ahead and check it out,” Sidwell said. “I had a stroke in 2009, so I wasn’t really looking for employment. When I started with Real Change, I was just looking for some extra cash.” But Sidwell’s role with Real Change expanded over the years to include sharing his story with others through the Homeless Speakers Bureau and serving on Real Change’s Vendor Advisory Board. “He’s actually really amazing when he’s out in front of people and tells his story,” Harris said. “He’s someone who makes his nerves work for him when he’s a public speaker. I’ve seen George just have a room full of people in the palm of his hands when he’s telling his story.” Sidwell has also addressed the Seattle City Council regarding policies affecting people experiencing homelessness on multiple occasions, Harris said, and traveled to Olympia several time for Homeless Housing Advocacy Day. His peers at Real Change elected him as Vendor of the Year in 2018. Sidwell said his experience changed his perception of homelessness. “Now, being through it myself, and seeing other people go through it too, I can see where it isn’t always just that straight of an answer,” he said. “There are a lot of other things that can happen too.” Sidwell now rents an apartment through Plymouth Housing, which he said is close enough to work. He’d been selling Real Change outside Bert’s Red Apple for about two months before landing a job at the grocery store. “I’d seen the [wanted] sign, and a couple customers told me, ‘You should try inside, they’ll hire you,’” Sidwell said. “I’d talked to him a couple times out front, and he was pretty persistent with checking with me,” said Keith Coddington, Bert’s Red Apple market manager. “He’s doing really good, very happy.” Sidwell can be found bagging groceries, facing shelves and many other daily tasks most mornings, but he said he will no longer have time to continue selling Real Change or public speaking. Working for Red Apple does provide more structure to his days, he said. “It also gives me a little more stability in the way of knowing what I’m getting as far as income and the benefits and stuff like that,” Sidwell said. “It’s just basically seeing — number one — if I can handle being in the workforce. So far, it’s been OK.”

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Photo by Brandon Macz Rock Paper Scissors owner Brianne Ingertila is planning a final move in Madrona, putting her adult and kids salons under one roof in the former St. Clouds restaurant space.

Brianne Ingertila is combining her adult, kids salons under one roof in Madrona; hair styling to continue while new spot get ready By Brandon Macz

Madison Park Times editor Rock Paper Scissors salon owner Brianne Ingertila is working on one last move in Madrona, putting her salons under one roof — the long-vacant St. Clouds restaurant space on 34th Avenue East. “We grew up going to St. Clouds — we love St. Clouds,” she said, “so we’re trying to keep as much of the feel as we can.” Ingertila, who studied at the Gary Manuel Aveda Institute in Seattle, started styling hair in Madrona with her small, two-chair Sage studio in 2012, and then grew into Rock Paper Scissors in 2014. She opened Kids Rock Paper Scissors next door on East Spring Street last year. After nearly 20 years in the neighborhood, St. Clouds closed its doors in October 2018, a little more than a year after Michael McGloin took the business over from John Platt and Paul “Pablo” Butler. The building has been vacant for more than a year now, and Madrona neighbors have been eager to see what would take its place. While rumors about Rock Paper Scissors only recently popped up on social media, Ingertila had the St. Clouds space locked down back in August. She ducked questions for a while, she said. She made an official announcement with a Dec. 9 Instagram video. Plans are to open the new location in the spring. “It’s going to be beautiful,” Ingertila said, “at least the salon I’ve always dreamed of.” Kids Rock Paper Scissors will be located on the left side of the lobby, where the bar used to be, Ingertila said, and be critter themed and the adult-focused

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salon in St. Cloud’s former main dining area, which are both being designed with repurposed wood and green materials to promote sustainability. “Luckily, this place, the whole flow and function of it was perfect,” she said. The hassle of removing the kitchen hood will be skipped, providing a little St. Clouds flavor to Rock Paper Scissors, and will be where a shampoo back bar will be. Ingertila said she’s also leaving space to offer beer, wine and other beverages. “So, you’re going to be able to sit up there and process with a glass of wine,” she said. The space is large enough to offer a few more stations, and the new Rock Paper Scissors will continue focusing strictly on hair. “It’s what we’re good at, it’s what we love to do, so we’re sticking with that,” Ingertila said. Not only will Rock Paper Scissors be more prominently centered in Madrona’s business corridor at 1131 34th Ave., the St. Clouds location also will provide room to create a community gathering space, Ingertila said, even if people aren’t looking for a haircut. Ingertila plans to make the new Rock Paper Scissors available for community events and offer some of her own. “Everybody wants a little piece of that backyard in the back, myself as well,” she said. Ingertila said she wants to host movie nights in the back patio area and other gatherings, possibly with some smoked meats — another passion of hers — and provide opportunities for bands to provide live music on weekends. She also wants to offer the new space for rent during non-business hours, she said, and would like to partner with neighboring restaurants to offer package deals. If people like any of the featured bands at Rock Paper Scissors, Ingertila said, she could work to connect them for parties and other events. Ingertila said Platt was part of the glue holding the Madrona community together with St. Clouds for so many years, and she feels it’s her turn to give back to the community. “Hairdressers really do have the power to change the way people feel,” she said about their relationship to the community. People wanting to watch St. Clouds transform into the new Rock Paper Scissors can follow the salon on Instagram @rpsmadrona.

January 2020

Temporary eastbound SR 520 on-ramp now open Existing ramp closes permanently as crews continue removing old bridge

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WSDOT permanently closed the eastbound State Route 520 on-ramp from the Washington Park Arboretum and open a new, temporary on-ramp at 5 a.m. on Friday, Dec. 20. Drivers will continue west along Lake Washington Boulevard East to East Lake Washington Boulevard to access the temporary eastbound on-ramp, which will stay open through 2021. The existing eastbound on-ramp from Montlake Boulevard East remains open. Montlake Project design-build contractor Graham Contracting will continue removing sections of the old eastbound SR 520 bridge across Union Bay, with plans to add pilings for temporary work bridges. A crane will also soon be assembled near Foster Island, “as crews set up a second pile-driving location on the eastern portion of the bridge,” according to a WSDOT news release. Graham shifted the westbound off-ramp to Montlake Boulevard farther north, opposite a reconfigured connection to East Lake Washington Boulevard, this fall. Eastbound SR 520 mainline and Montlake Boulevard on-ramp traffic was shifted to the West Approach Bridge North in early November. WSDOT also activated a new traffic signal at East Lake Washington Boulevard and 24th Avenue East on Dec. 20, in conjunction with the new on-ramp opening. Roughly 3,500 to 5,000 drivers use the existing on-ramp daily. Crews will soon begin work to replace a 54-inch waterline running north and south across SR 520, which will likely require 160 days of intermittent closures on East North Street at Montlake Boulevard. There will also be occasional nighttime lane reductions on Montlake Boulevard.

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Montlake Market The Montlake Market and 76 station closed at the end of December. WSDOT purchased the Montlake Market and 76 station property from Kemper Freeman for $16 million in June. The site will be used during the future reconfiguration of Montlake Boulevard as part of the Montlake Project portion of the SR 520 Bridge Replacement and HOV program. The Montlake Market was removed and later added back into plans for a reconfiguration of Montlake Boulevard, which caused an outcry from the neighborhood and legal challenges. The Legislature passed a proviso in 2018 directing WSDOT to preserve the market if possible. WSDOT recently closed a survey asking people what

temporary amenity could be provided on a portion of the market site. WSDOT spokesperson Steve Peer tells MPT a request for proposals will be issued sometime in January. The site still needs to be remediated due to a number of petroleum-based contaminants being confirmed in the soil. “We didn’t know what we were going to find,” Peer said of soil testing this fall, “but we did find contaminants throughout that property.”

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n the 1940s, we young tykes were just past training wheels when we began to wonder what the adult world was about. Around dusk we headed down to 43rd and McGilvra. Jumping onto tiptoes to peer in the windows of the Purple Poodle (now McGilvra’s), we saw a few men deep in conversation. As the sky darkened, the female faction came in through the back door, donned in makeup and fancy hairdos. The volume increased on the jukebox, and suddenly laughter and frivolity turned it into a party. This transition indicated to us it was our Richard bedtime. Carl During the warm Lehman Revisiting the summer days, members of the armed services Park visited our villa by the sea. Some were stationed nearby and others were the wounded from Marine hospitals. They came for an afternoon of socializing. On early mornings, when delivering newspapers, some were seen leaving dwellings that had offered them shelter from the cold night before. I handed a paper to one such couple as he kissed the woman goodbye, slipping his shoes on hurriedly to catch the bus. When the war ended, the Madison Park ship workers moved away to be closer to jobs. Madison Park was experiencing a lull in rentals.

seen in the early morning at the Bakery, which was the only coffee outlet at the time. We welcomed them to our local taverns: The Red Onion — which was largely a college draw — and The Attic next door. We lost the Broadmoor Tavern, as it turned into an NBC bank, and the Purple Poodle became Lee and Bob Angels’ Village Foods, which was a necessity. The Attic was decorated with the theme of an actual attic, with cobwebs, sheet music from the teens on the walls, barrels for seats and larger barrels for tables. The “in” music was Peter Paul and Mary on the big jukebox. Suddenly we had the two top taverns in Washington state, and if there was any doubt, you could almost pick out the members of the liquor board. Yes, we surpassed the fun limit in bar regulations. Another bar on that list was owned by John Swank, my uncle on my mom’s side, called the Lynnwood Tavern. His also had a catch—a theater-sized popcorn machine. What goes better with popcorn than a cold beer served by college-aged barmaids in very short shorts? Taverns were turning up the style!

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Would it ever come back? Eventually, word got out that affordable rentals were available, and it piqued the interest of college students and young office workers. Airlines were building bases in Seattle, so an altogether different influx of renters came to town, and did they ever

turn heads! Stewardesses, whose attributes were young, intelligent, tall, attractive and single, revitalized our villa by the sea with their bright, shiny smiles — it was contagious! It was good to be single in Madison Park! This newfound conglomerate could be

Apparel changed from bib overalls or jeans to slacks and dinner jackets probably mid-’60s. It was suddenly becoming competitive. I rented a house with four others where Washington Towers is now and was forced to make rules for the house for dating and whatnot. We had dinner parties and cruised  HERE, Page 10

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help improve sleep quality, which is vital because most physical recovery happens during sleep. Not only does CBD work directly to help the body recover after a workout, but it promotes auxiliary functions like deep sleep and relaxation that are doubly advantageous for recovery.

How does CBD work? For a more in-depth look at how CBD works, we need to understand the Endocannabinoid System (ECS). Throughout our central nervous system are receptor sites for cannabinoids like CBD, which compose the ECS. These receptors are located in the entirety of the body, including in the brain, immune tissues, organs, and muscles. The ECS controls the uptake of cannabinoids produced naturally within the body, so when supplemented by cannabinoids like CBD, the functioning can be tonified or optimized. The ECS also controls a wide array of physiological functions, including the regulation and modulation of pain, the regulation of appetite, sleep, memory, and other processes. This is likely why many people who use CBD experience a sense of general wellness and uplifted mood, because the harmonic functioning of the body, known as homeostasis, can promote wellness at the cellular level. However, because CBD can cause relaxation and sometimes

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(Above) Santa made another stop in Madison Park to hear what children and adults wanted for Christmas. (Left) The Argosy Cruise Christmas Ship provided a light and musical show once again for folks at Madison Park Beach on Tuesday, Dec. 17. Photos by Brandon Macz

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3. Your gluteus maximus (and core) isn’t helping even less than you think.

In Seattle (and most metro cities around the country), there’s no shortage of brand-name exercise techniques/classes/programs that put their own spin on how you’re supposed to engage your core. And the internet has no shortage of articles and videos with ‘glute exercises’ that are supposed to help you become a better skier, look good at the beach, or quiet your “tight hip flexors.” Some of these are good; most of them are not. What your knees want you to know is that your gluteus maximus is the gluteus muscle that is secretly sleeping on the job, and that your core is behaving more like a light switch than a volume dial. Start here: For the sake of time (and newspaper space), here I will cover the gluteus maximus. Sit down on a chair and put your feet out in front of you in a relaxed fashion with your heels resting on the floor. Now lift your heels off the ground a few inches, keep them there, and then squeeze your butt cheeks together like you are try-

ing to grab a wine cork with them. You should not feel your heels digging into the ground, and with any luck you should feel your entire body lift up a couple of inches (depending on how big your gluteus maximus is, results may vary). This feeling is what you need in that athletic stance (See 1), as well as anytime you are squatting, lunging or lifting. This can be extremely challenging to translate this simple exercise to a practical movement such as an athletic stance and often you need feedback from a well-trained professional. Even then, many are unsuccessful in activating, coordinating and training the gluteus maximus effectively, and unfortunately many athletes and professionals are fooled by the body, thinking the gluteus maximus is active when in fact it is not. This awareness drill can help you in your musculus glutaeus maximus-finding process. Skiing can be a wonderful and restorative sport to enjoy, especially for us in the beautiful Pacific Northwest. It’s also an excellent way to strengthen your legs and core that we often miss while we sit inside and wait for the rain to ease. If done right, it’s also a fantastic way to strengthen your feet and work on your balance while having fun doing it. Unless you’re a professional,

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CORRECTION Metro routes face revisions, not removal from service

Friends of Arboretum Creek receive WaterWorks grant

The Madison Park Times incorrectly wrote that the launch of the King County Metro RapidRide G would include replacing Routes 11 and 12. While these routes had previously been considered for removal, Metro tells MPT they are now going to remain, but likely with some revisions. “Metro is still determining the scale of change to be considered. However, we will consider options that maintain service on 19th Ave, and consider changes to Routes 11 and 12 in order to best serve our customers,” according to a Metro spokesperson.

 HERE, from Page 7 over to the local taverns in a four-cylinder engine vessel with a covered roof. Engine hand cranked, champagne in hand, we headed out north to the little dock to tie up. Total cruise time was six minutes. The party scene changed even further, with several flight crew leasing large mansions, arranging huge soirées with waitstaff and live music. Groups of us reserved dining rooms in restaurants like Sundays on Queen Anne. Boats were chartered for the Seafair festivities and general cruising around Lake Washington and the Sound with dinner and music. A club called “Jet Blue” jetted to remote ski areas. It was becoming quite eclectic around here. Then another change: taverns opened on Sundays! That first Sunday, the streets were packed and a parade ensued. The Red Onion front door opened and a bagpipe wound its way through the tables toward the back playing a favorite tune. They were followed by a friendly lot, proud to march in natural attire and careful not to get too close to the fire ahead of each. People stood on table tops to get a better view. There was cheering, clapping, whistling, yelling and laughing uncontrollably as the parade marched out the back door. That antic, and variations of it, made its way to the waterways. Yes, mate, any day is a good day for a “Flaming A.” In the years to follow, a person couldn’t walk down the street for the throngs out on a Friday night, let alone have your date not be seriously waylaid on her way to the bathroom in one of the taverns. In the ‘80s, it was Becks for a Buck on Thursdays, which, in its aftermath, raised concern for the owners, so it was reconsidered. Later, the scene changed to actual liquor licenses being granted and our very first fine restaurant opened—Peters in the Park! It was a huge success and now greatly missed. Carpeted, quiet, stylish, sophisticated, martini and Jody Benson, chef to the stars! More please.

Photo by Larry Hubbell The King County Council has approved a $114,500 WaterWorks grant to the Friends of Arboretum Creek to hire an engineering firm to help design a project to keep clean surface water from entering the sewer system.

Group to hire engineering firm to help design project to divert surface water from combine-sewer overflow system back into the stream By Brandon Macz

Madison Park Times editor Outgoing King County District 2 Councilmember Larry Gossett championed a $114,500 grant award that will fund the design of the Alder Creek to Arboretum Creek restoration project. The Friends of Arboretum Creek filed the application, with support from the King County Wastewater Treatment Division (WTD). The goal of the project is to divert Alder Creek and other surface waters in the Arboretum Creek watershed out of a combined-sewer overflow system. This will help lower demand on the West Point Treatment Plant and keep clean surface water from being mixed with sewage. FOAC received a grant from King County in 2017 to conduct waterquality testing in Alder Creek and Alley Creek, which is what the group calls the stream that flows between East Aloha and Ward streets at 26th Avenue East. The King County Council unanimously approved a suite of WaterWorks grants totaling $4.5 million on Dec. 11, $2.4 million of which were direct allocations by councilmembers. “We have incredible thanks to Larry Gossett for approving this and getting the council to approve this grant,

because it was through the council approval that we got it. It wasn’t as part of the budget for the wastewater treatment division,” said Friends of Arboretum Creek member Larry Hubbell. Helping guide work on the diversion project is an advisory group of stakeholders that includes the Arboretum Foundation, Seattle Parks and Recreation, the University of Washington Botanic Gardens, Seattle Public Utilities, the Seattle Department of Transportation and Seattle Parks Foundation, which is FOAC’s fiscal sponsor. FOAC had also counted Michael Galvan, water quality planner and program manager for the King County Wastewater Treatment Division, as a partner in the project, but Galvan is no longer with WTD, so Hubbell is hopeful another representative from the department will join the advisory group. Hubbell said FOAC will look for an engineering firm in early 2020 to help the group reach a 30-percent design for the project, and he expects more fundraising to occur in the future. The group has also applied for a Neighborhood Matching Fund grant with the City of Seattle. Part of the engineering work will include evaluating a 19-inch pipe near the low-hanging Wilcox Bridge in the Washington Park Arboretum,

which Hubbell said is a chokepoint for Arboretum Creek. “Bringing the stream to life, that’s really what we’re about,” he said, “is maximizing the quality of life in the stream.” Any leftover funding will likely be used to build out the FOAC website and enhance community outreach. People wanting to track the project’s progress can visit arboretumcreek. wordpress.com. This was the fourth cycle for the grants, which originally were decided by King County WTD and a ranking committee that included community stakeholders. The process now allows councilmembers to identify projects in their respective districts. The department and council WaterWorks grants are split 50/50. King County Council chair Rod Dembowski defended the new process before the Dec. 10 vote, saying councilmembers are rooted in the communities they serve and should be able to respond to requests from partner agencies in their district. He lauded the grants as a way to continue the vision of civic leader and Lake Washington advocate Jim Ellis by investing in water quality and making sure the lake is safe for people and salmon to swim in. Ellis, who was known as “the father of Metro,” died in late October at the age of 98.

Temporary closure at Leschi Elementary due to illness Seattle Public Schools superintendent Denise Juneau closed Leschi Elementary for extensive cleaning after more than 100 students an staff went home sick with what is believed to be norovirus on Thursday, Dec. 12. The school reopened on Monday, Dec. 16. Public Health— Seattle & King County provided cleaning recommendations for the school, which was carried out by SPS custodial staff. SPS notified Public Health about a potential norovirus

outbreak on Wednesday. District spokesperson Tim Robinson tells MPT the number of people reporting being sick on Dec. 11 “hadn’t reached the point that triggered the decision to close.” Norovirus can be contracted by eating contaminated food, but Public Health spokesperson James Apa tells MPT the agency determined the cafeteria food at Leschi was safe. No other school in the district reported high cases of illness, according to SPS.

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King County Council approves emergency funding for courthouse security, social service outreach Third Avenue to reopen with on-street deputy, another on Fourth By Daniel Warn

Madison Park Times contributing writer The King County Council voted Wednesday to declare an emergency situation outside King County Superior Court’s Third Avenue entrance, which remains temporarily closed following the Nov. 27 attack of public defender Kevin McCabe by a person on the street. The emergency declaration allows the King County Council to move $600,000 from its general fund to increase security around and inside the courthouse, and to also connect people experiencing homelessness in the area to various services. King County Council chair Rod Dembowski sponsored the legislation, which equally divvies up the $600,000 for three purposes. The first $200,000 will be spent providing on-street security by two sheriff ’s deputies at the entrances at Third and Fourth avenues; Third is expected to remain closed until at least Jan. 1. Another $200,000 will cover posting two more screeners and a marshal at the Fourth Avenue entrance to keep it consistently open, and the last bucket of funding will staff Department of Community and Human Services outreach worker around the courthouse to assist at-risk indi-

viduals. The legislation passed unanimously. District 6 King County Councilmember Claudia Balducci said the council has heard about the safety concerns employees and visitors to the courthouse have about the Third Avenue entrance for quite some time. The safety concerns are real and need to be dealt with, she said, but so do the actual root causes of all the disturbances. “I think we all know that posting guards, like building walls, does not solve the problem,” Balducci said. “It only protects you from it, and it only goes so far. I think this is important for now, because we need to keep our entrances safe, and we need to keep our employees and our jurors and the people coming to this building for justice safe. But I think we need a longerterm, deeper, broader approach to everything that is going on.” District 8 Councilmember Joe McDermott said it’s fair for people to ask for protection, but he fears that such an action would only move the problem somewhere else. He said that, in the grand scale of things, wanting to “hyper-protect one block” is not the appropriate response. His support of the security actions hinged on the $200,000 that will be devoted to social work in the area, he said. Several courthouse employees and people who work in the area testified as to the kinds of assault they have been subjected to on their way to work during the Dec. 10 King County Coun-

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cil Government Accountability and Oversight Committee meeting. He said he sees graphic details on a daily basis in his line of work. He understands that much of this violence and disturbance is caused by people who are most vulnerable in society, he said, but something must be done about the situation in front go the Third Avenue entrance to the courthouse. Hannah Matson said she has also bee assaulted on Third Avenue. “I’ve been a victim of someone who is a repeat offender,” she said, “someone who was not convicted, [who] repeatedly hit multiple people before that person decide to assault me. With that being said, the end result of my case with him…all charges were dropped. He could not be found competent.” Nadia Simpson said she has been harassed and stalked by people on the block surrounding the courthouse in her half-decade of service with the court. In response to these comments, and many more, King County sheriff Mitzi Johanknecht was visibly moved. “I’d like to apologize on behalf of law enforcement to those folks who have been victimized around our campus, our government campuses,” said King County Sheriff Mitzi Johanknecht, “whether it’s the courthouse, the administration building, wherever it is. And so, I humbly say that I’m sorry on behalf of the sheriff ’s office, but I’m also digging in my heels, because we are going to do something about it for you, OK?”

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HOV connector delayed As the ultimate fate of Initiative 976 and hundreds of millions of dollars in state transportation funding remains undetermined, WSDOT is pumping the brakes on a list of projects in the pipeline for at least the next six months. Washington Gov. Jay Inslee directed WSDOT to delay projects not yet underway following passage of I-976 in the general election. The initiative was set to take effect on Dec. 5, but King County Superior Court Judge Marshall Ferguson granted an injunction last week that was requested by a coalition of plaintiffs being led by King County and the City of Seattle. Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson is appealing that decision to the Washington Supreme Court. On WSDOT’s six-month deferral list is a project that would provide a reversible transit and carpool connection between State Route 520 and Interstate 5 express lanes. The SR 520-I-5 Express Lanes Connection Project is estimated to cost $60 million to $70 million. The connector project was supposed to be implemented during the Montlake Project for the SR-520 Bridge Replacement and HOV program and open at the same time. Peer tells Madison Park Times the transportation department is continuing to engineer and design the project in house.

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