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SEPTEMBER 8, 2021
VOL. 102, NO. 36
QA Boulevard to get new trees By Jessica Keller
QA&Mag News editor
The Seattle Parks Department has developed a plan to replace 24 trees that were removed from the historic Queen Anne Boulevard last fall. The trees, including chestnuts, maples and birches, were cut down after a parks department arborist determined last sum-
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mer that they could not be saved because they were diseased, dying or, in some cases, already dead. Kevin Bergsrud, Parks and Recreation Department senior specialist with the planning and development division, updated the Queen Anne Community Council last week about the efforts to replace the trees on Queen Anne Boulevard. Following the trees’ removal last October and No-
vember, a certified arborist and a consultant partnered to identify suitable tree replacements using a list adopted in 2012 as a guide. Certified arborist Nicholas Johnson said in the presentation that when it came to selecting the replacement trees, in some cases they had to deviate from the 2012 list because they were no longer suitable. “There’s a lot of complexity to
figuring out what would be appropriate, where,” Johnson said. In some instances, Johnson and the consultant agreed replanting with the recommended tree was impossible because they would not have survived. “We found a lot of diseases in a lot of the trees [removed] that would prohibit planting a lot of
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QA&Mag News editor With athletes and residence student staff already settled in and the majority of students arriving today, Seattle Pacific University’s campus is showing the signs of life largely absent during the past year and a half. With the start of fall quarter of the 2021-22 beginning Monday, SPU will resume operations largely resembling pre-pandemic years, although strict safety measures, Jeff Jordan, vice president of student life, said. Most exciting, Jordan said, is the return of in-person classes and campus operations, rather than the mostly online or hybrid model employed the last year and a half. Not that operating during the pandemic hasn’t taught SPU staff and administrators some valuable lessons, however. “I think one of the things we’ve learned is the importance of being together,” Jordan said, adding hearing each other’s voices in person rather than Zoom and being able to work collaboratively in the same room has made a difference. Jordan is also reassured that, should SPU have to shift its operations again to reflect a change
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practices put in place during the pandemic. For example, residence halls will not be as populated this year, and there will be no more than two students to a room. This is similar to how SPU structured living arrangements when only a few students were living on campus in the midst of the pandemic. As well, at least for the time being, everyone will be required
to wear masks and maintain social distancing, Jordan said. The biggest addition to ensure student safety, however, centers around vaccines. SPU, along with many other universities in the state and country, is requiring students be vaccinated in order to attend college. Staff are required to be vaccinated,
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