Queen Anne News 5-3-2023

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2023 Queen Anne Farmers Market to feature 70 vendors

By Jessica Keller Queen Anne & Magnolia News editor

e 2023 Queen Anne Farmers Market season will begin a little early this spring before regular

markets resume.

Because shoppers responded so well to the fall Saturday markets last year, Queen Anne Farmers Market Executive Director Matt Kelly said organizers opted to host a spring Saturday market. It will take place from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. May 13 on West Crockett Street.

From plant starts, to owers and a full market besides, the Saturday market will feature more than 60

vendors, many targeting Mother’s Day shoppers, which happens to be the following day, May 14.

“It’ll be really happening on West Crockett Street that day,” Kelly said.

e regular 2023 Queen Anne Farmers Market, which takes place from 3 to 7:30 p.m. ursdays through the summer, will begin June 1, starting on Crocket Street

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Voters approve levy to fund mental health services

By Jessica Keller Queen Anne & Magnolia News editor

King County voters have approved a levy that will improve mental health services in King County, although nal numbers have yet to be approved.

As of April 28, King County Elections sta report that 56.62 percent of King County voters supported the nine-year levy that will, among other things, create a regional network of ve crisis care centers throughout the county and restore and increase mental health residential treatment beds.

“King County voters agree — we must build a stronger behavioral health system to meet the urgent

and growing need for care,” Executive Dow Constantine said in a press release. “With this strong approval, we will chart a path forward to provide the help people need and deserve.”

Residents will be assessed $0.145 per $1,000 of assessed value beginning in 2024, and the levy is anticipated to generate approximately $1.3 billion between 2024 and 2032. King County expects it will cost the median property owner $119 per year.

According to the press release, in 2021, more than 900 people waited for two or more days in county hospitals and emergency rooms because there were no open beds for behavioral health treatment. As of July 2022, people waited an average

of 44 days. Since 2018, nearly onethird of mental health treatment beds have closed.

Once the crisis care centers open, a person in crisis can call 988 for resources, access a walk-in clinic, move to mid-level residential treatment and talk with behavioral health workers, according to the press release.

At the April Queen Anne Community Council meeting, District 7 County Councilmember Andrew Lewis, one of the sponsors of the bill, said the levy funding will be used to build ve 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. e fth will be focused on youth and their behavioral health challenges they are experiencing, speci cally. While that center is likely to be in Seattle, no de nitive sites have been selected yet.

All ve centers would have to be set up and operational by 2029, but preferably sooner, Lewis said at the time.

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 di erent 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.

In 2018, King County had 355

residential treatment beds to serve people experiencing some sort of mental health crisis. at has declined to about 244, Lewis said. 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.

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 model used in Maricopa County, Ariz.

According to the press release, Constantine will propose the implementation plan by the end of 2023 for review and approval by the Metropolitan King County Council.

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An employee at Sidhu Farms helps a customer at last year’s Queen Anne Farmers Market. Sidhu Farms will return as one of 28 vendors selling farm products, which also includes ranchers and shermen. e market o cially begins June 1, although there will be a spring market May 13.

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And if that isn’t sad enough, I nally got around to watching “ e Handmaid’s Tale.” I suppose I was being a scaredy cat about the whole thing because reading Margaret Atwood’s book was one thing, but seeing the show? Rotten men, rotten women, rotten patriarchal state. e possibilities for sleepless nights are now endless. e point of the tale is to depict how cruel and calculating theocracy can be, a theme that never gets old to me. Which probably puts me on some rival list of the Religious Roundtable Council, Jerry Falwell’s Moral Majority, James Dobson’s Focus on the Family and Pat Robertson’s Christian Broadcasting Network. But this doesn’t trouble me because they are on mine. My growing, growing list. ese feel like such authoritarian times. More and more bans sponsored by our very own Morality Police posing as representatives and senators. To quote my friend Liz, “ ey are taking away our reproductive rights, banning books, guns are now the No. 1 cause of death for children and teens in this country!” And then — because nothing makes her angrier than liberal apathy so she works really hard to stir it up, and I mean hard — she adds in frustration, “We had an insurrection, people! FFS, what’s it going to take?” And don’t even get me started on all the bills in Florida. Now they are considering a law that would ban elementary school classrooms from talking about menstrual cycles and other sexuality topics before grade six.

When I listen to ultra-conservative arguments, it’s clear to me that in their eyes, women are still viewed as the domain of men, or the church, or both. is is what scares me the most.

Another ray of optimism is Trump’s indictment. My friend Sequoia is a history guru. “Remember,” she said, “the government was never able to get Al Capone on any of his mob murders. ey nailed him on taxes.” I breathed a sigh of relief. But this hopefulness could just as easily dissolve. If upholding justice was once intensely in style, it can be just as intensely passé. Like toe rings. Recently I got a text from a friend that said, “Hey!!! Have you watched ‘ e Family’?” ere were way too many exclamations for me to ignore. It’s unusual for this particular friend to send me a text in the rst place, so of course I watched the documentary that night, only to learn how sneaky men have been in the name of Jesus, hosting the National Prayer Breakfast, for starters, which has become the hub for backroom fundamentalist lobbying. Even more di cult to learn is how, when these fanatics don’t get their way about things like banning gay marriage in this country, they try to win their “battle” in other countries, spending millions to propagate fear of homosexuals around the world like a gardener sows seeds.

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Now wait just a minute. I got my period in the h grade. And it was my homeroom teacher, Ms. Smith, who gave me all the comfort and instruction I needed. And believe me, we talked about what was happening to me. is did not make her part of any woke agenda, like legislators like to rattle on about. It made her a compassionate, responsible teacher.

I really need to write and thank her.

Now, this may seem like an abrupt change in subject, but bear with me: Not long ago I was taken aback by what was happening in a doorway on Fi h Avenue. One young adult was injecting another. Let me describe some other particulars about that little scene: While the guy injected the woman’s forearm, his jeans were halfway to his knees. Now, for women on the street, the likelihood of being sexually assaulted is not really a question of if, but when. I wondered what any of us should do, other than call the police, which a woman standing in the doorway of Anthropology promptly did.

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I’m not sure how many more images I can endure of a man standing at a podium deciding what women can or cannot do, while not one of them stands up to ban automatic assault ri es. And let’s be real, our kids are not afraid of women who want nal say over their reproductive choices; they are afraid of being shot (shot!) at school.

I feel exhausted with grief over this new reality. So much so, that lately, when something good happens, when someone does stand up, or even spring in the air — cherry blossoms raining down and tulips all over the place — I feel like it happens more stunningly in contrast to the eerie attacks on our rights. I think one of the fundamentalists’ major objectives is that women relearn the message that empowerment isn’t feminine. is is not only bad for grown women, it’s bad for our girls. We will have to start from scratch to ensure their self-esteem.

I bring this up not because Seattle has been described as a “new Mecca for fentanyl dealers.” And I don’t bring it up because downtown is not exactly the emerald of the Emerald City nowadays. I bring it up because when I think of how organized fundamentalists and Right to Lifers have been, I think what a better world this would be if their e orts were targeted at homelessness or addiction or mental health. Why not make a ordable higher education the cause? Or health protection? Gun-violence prevention? Solve a crisis that impacts those already living and struggling beyond hope.

Because our bodies don’t belong to men who meet in backrooms. ings you have to steal never do. And all of the the s lately, well, they are scaring the bejesus out of me.

Even if I’m pretty sure no one says that anymore.

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and then expanding when school ends.

Kelly said he hopes this year will continue the success of last summer, which returned to prepandemic attendance levels.

“ e market was very a big hit last year,” Kelly said, adding the farmers market experienced an uptick in vendor participation going into this season.

Attendance on the rise

He said more than 110 vendors asked to participate, which is over 20 percent more than last year. Based on space and vendor o erings, the regular ursday market will feature 70 participating vendors throughout the season. Per usual, the majority will be farmers or ranchers as it is always the mission to support Washington farm producers, Kelly said.

He said the vendors will rotate out throughout the season, depending on the

produce in season and vendor availability.

“On any given market day, people can expect over 50 participating with us,” Kelly said, adding the market will feature 28 farm/ranch/ sher vendors throughout the season.

ose include market mainstays like Hayton Farms Berries and Alvarez Organic Farms as well as a few new farm vendors, like Enumclaw-based Fantello Farmstead and Creamery, which produces cow cheese, both so and aged.

“ ey have also butter, too, which is something we’re excited to have in the mix,” Kelly said.

Also new to Queen Anne is Olsen Farms, a ranch that raises cattle, lamb and pigs and does its own processing there, and also o ers potatoes.

Kelly said another vendor he is excited to see is Puget Sound Mushrooms, which is returning to Queen Anne a er a few years hiatus.

Puget Sound Mushrooms is based out of Yelm and o ers a wide variety of

gourmet mushrooms.

“I think it’s really going to add to the neighborhood plates this summer,” he said.

e market will also have 23 food artisans, selling processed foods from their booths.

“We’ve got a good

number of them, and it’s going to keep things fresh as they rotate all season long,” Kelly said. New this year is Alpenglow Cocktail Company, which produces handcra ed, non-alcoholic cocktail syrups. Burns Vegan Bakery is also new

this year and is known for its old-fashioned fudge, with over 20 types.

Lastly, Kelly said the market will feature 19 ready-to-eat vendors, which includes seven food trucks. New to that list is Seattle Samosa, o ering

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samosas made from organic, local ingredients, and Kottu, a food cart specializing in Sri Lankan food.

Kelly said so much interest from vendors eager to sell at the Queen Anne market is a good problem to have but made the selection process difficult.

“The ones we are able to accommodate are the best of the best, I guess is the best way to describe it,” Kelly said. “It’s hard, though. It’s a challenging process to get the market mix right.”

He said, while farms are prioritized, supporting new and start-up businesses is another goal at the market.

“I would say vending in any Seattle market is a huge opportunity for small businesses, and we try to offer as many opportunities to new businesses every year,” Kelly said. “I guess it also keeps things fresh for our customers, too, when

we offer something they haven’t seen at another market.”

Other activities

As in past years, the market will also have sponsor booths and different activities, including the popular children’s program and the two-bite challenge, where children are asked to try

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two fruits or vegetables from a vendor that they may have never had before. Participants then receive a $2 coupon to use at the market. Kelly said the market will also host live music during the summer, featuring local artists, typically from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m.

After the regular season concludes Oct. 12, the

Farm products

X Alvarez Organic Farms, www.alvarezorganic.com

X Amador Farms

X Cascade Valley Farm, cascadevalleyfarm. com

X Collins Family Orchards, collinsfamilyorchards.com

X Dragon’s Head Cider, dragonsheadcider. com

X Fantello Farmstead Creamery, fantellocreamery.com

X Finnriver Farm and Cidery, www.finnriver. com

X Happy Gnome Farm – vegetables and eggs, www.happygnomefarm.com

X Hayton Farms Berries, www.haytonfarmsberries.com

X Hierophant Meadery, www.hierophantmeadery.com

X Holmquist Hazelnuts, www.holmquisthazelnuts.com

X Klickitat Canyon Winery, www.klickitatcanyonwinery.com

X Local Color Farm and Fiber, localcolorfarmandfiber.com

X Martin Family Orchards

X Olsen Farms, olsenfarms.com

X Our Family Farm (Berries), HulbertFamilyFarm.com

X Puget Sound Mushrooms, psmushrooms. com

X River Run Farm, riverrun.farm

X Sam’s Salmon Sales, samsalmon.com

X Shipwreck Apiaries, www.shipwreckhoney. com

X Sidhu Farms, sidhuberries.wordpress.com

Queen Anne Farmers Market will bring back the popular harvest markets from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Oct. 28, Nov. 18 and Dec. 16.

“There will be 24 market days this year,” Kelly said. “That’s more markets than ever, and we feel really good about that.”

Kelly also noted that people have until the end of today to donate to

X Skinny Kitty Farms, www.skinnykittyfarms. com

X Sporadic Sprouts Microgreens

X Sweet Alyssum Farm, www.sweetalyssumfarm.com

X Tieton Farm & Creamery, www.tietonfarmandcreamery.com

X Tonnemaker Family Orchard, tonnemaker. com

X Vashon Garlic, vashongarlic.com

X Xiong Cha and Cha Gardens, facebook. com/XiongChaandChaGarden

Processed foods

X Alpenglow Cocktail Company, alpenglowcocktailcompany.com

X Bake Shop, bakeshopseattle.com

X Bluebird Ice Cream, bluebirdicecream.com

X Burns Vegan Bakery, www.burnsveganbakery.com

X Fair Isle Brewing, www.fairislebrewing.com

X Forget-Me-Not Ice Cream Sandwiches, forget-me-not-ice-cream-sandwiches. square.site

X Haxan Ferments, haxansauce.com

X Jonboy Caramels, www.jonboycaramels. com

X La Liath Bakery, www.laliathbakery.com

X La Pasta, facebook.com/lapastaseattle

X Liberated Foods/Askatu Bakery, www.liberated foods.com

X Lovely and Dapper Desserts, lovelydapperdesserts.com

X Ma & Pops, www.maandpops.com

X Papa Tony’s Hot Sauce, www.papatonyshotsauce.com

X Pete’s Perfect Toffee LLC, petesperfecttoffee.com

X Pie Love, pieloveseattle.com

X Pinckney Cookie Café, www.lovethesecookies.com

GiveBig, which is a statewide effort that benefits non-profits. Kelly said a donor has pledged to match up to $6,000 donated to the Queen Anne Farmers Market this year. To donate, go to wagives.org/ organization/QAFM. For more information on the Queen Anne Farmers Market, visit qafm.org/.

X Salt Blade, saltblade.com

X Seattle Pops, www.seattlepops.com

X Seeking Kombucha, seekingferments.com

X The Black Flag, theblackflagonwbbq.com

X The French Guys, www.thefrenchguys.com

X The Mediterranean, facebook.com/pg/ The-Mediterranean-100538848352731/ about/

Ready to eat

X Blinchiki, blinchikiusa.com/

X Bumbu Truck, bumbutruck.com

X Café Lolo

X Dutch Dame Stroopwafels, www. ddamestroopwafels.com

X Falafel Salam Co., www.falafelsalam.com

X Geni’s Ethiopian Corner

X Island Girl Seafood, www.islandgirlseafoodco.com/

X Kathmandu Momocha, www.hathmandumomocha.com

X KISS MY GRITS, www.kmgruck.com

X Kottu, Kottuseattle.com

X L’ITALIANO, facebook.com/ litalianofoodtruck/

X O.P’S Meals on Wheels, opsmealsonwheels. com

X Rainbow Fresh, rainbowfresh.us

X Sam Choy’s Poke to the Max, samchoyspoke.com

X Seattle Samosa LLC, www.SeattleSamosa. com

X TABASSUM FOOD TRUCK, www.tabassum. info

X Tamale My Life, www.tamalemylife.com

X Taqueria Los Chilangos, www.loschilangos. com

X Vespucci Pizza, www.com/pg/ vespuccipizzaseattle

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2023 QA FARMERS MARKET VENDORS

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The French Guys bakery did a brisk business at the Queen Anne Farmers Market. It will return this year as one of the bakeries that will tempt shoppers with fresh baked goods.

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Interbay P-Patch hosting plant sale

The Interbay P-Patch organization is hosting a plant sale featuring over 200 pots with peony, lilac, dahlias, ground cover and more from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. May 6 and from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. May 7 at the Interbay P-Patch, 2451 15th Ave. West.

The fundraiser supports the Interbay P-Patch, which was first established in 1974 and is one of the earliest P-Patches in Seattle. It is home to several small garden plots that new gardeners and well-seasoned masters rent from the city each year. A portion of the Interbay P-Pitch is dedicated to food bank gardening, where gardeners volunteer time working the food bank garden and donate from their own plots.

Local Realtor hosting annual shredding, recycling event

Local Realtor Ken Graff will once again be sponsoring his annual secure document paper shredding, electronics recycling and charitable donation event. The event will take place from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. May 6 in the lower parking lot of the AGC Building, 1200 Westlake Ave. North. Follow the signs down the ramp, and Graff will validate parking tickets. Custom coffee drinks will be provided. This year, Graff encourages attendees to consider bringing and donating clothing/fabric for Northwest Center, and/

or baby wipes that will be delivered to Mary’s Place. Computer/laptop drives will be wiped clean before recycling. The event takes place in the lower parking lot at the AGC Building at 1200 Westlake Ave N. Most electronics are acceptable, but the vendor is unable to accept alkaline batteries, vacuums, CRT TVs and CRT monitors as part of this collection event. For a detailed list of what electronics can be donated, or for any questions regarding the event, contact Graff at Ken@KenGraffHomes. com.

Seattle Humane raising funds at Tuxes & Tails gala

Seattle Humane will once again showcase its work and mission during its annual Tuxes & Tails gala, May 13. This annual event raises funds necessary to continue saving and serving pets on the organization’s Eastgate campus and out in the community through the nonprofit’s many programs in high demand across the Pacific Northwest. The event begins at 5:30 p.m. May 13 at Magnuson Park, Hangar 30, 6310 N.E. 74th St., Seattle.

Expanding access to care and services in resource deserts is one of Seattle Humane’s top priorities outlined in its Vision 2026 strategic plan. Building out

a delivery model to fill in these service gaps is the focus of this year’s Tuxes & Tails fundraising efforts. Seattle Humane will share how the organization is meeting people where they are with these critical services in a Fund-a-Need video during the event at Magnuson Park’s Hangar 30.

The Tuxes & Tails program also includes Seattle Humane’s popular Pet Runway Show, which is another way to share stories about pets and the people who love them. People can purchase tickets and/or make a Fund-a-Need gift at tuxesandtails.org.

Pioneer Association hosting talk on history of Mount Rainier National park

The Pioneer Association of The State of Washington is hosting Jeff Antonelis-Lapp at its annual meeting beginning at noon June 17 at Pioneer Hall, 1642 43rd Ave. East in Madison Park. AntonelisLapp, an emeritus faculty member at The Evergreen State College, will present Tahoma’s Biggest Stories, a talk based on his book “Tahoma and its People,”

a natural history of Mount Rainier National Park and Banff Mountain Book Competition finalist. The talk is free and open to the public. The event includes a no-host luncheon at 1 p.m. for $35.

Contact Sally Irvine at sallyai@comcast.net for reservations or more information.

Asian Paci c Islander Heritage Month Celebration kicks o Saturday

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May kicks off with the Asian Pacific Islander Heritage Month Celebration to celebrate the first week of National Asian Pacific American Heritage Month.

With more than 40 countries and distinct cultural groups, languages and customs represented by the API community in the greater Seattle area, this family-friendly festival will take place from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday at Seattle Center and streamed online.

Working to promote Asian American Pacific Islander culture, heritage and contributions for current and future generations along with the general public, the festival aims to give space to Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders to share their preserved traditions.

The day begins at 11 a.m. with Mak Fai Kung Fu Dragon and Lion Dance, followed by performances from the Seattle Chinese Community Girls Drill Team, Traditional Dance of China at UW, Huayin Performing Arts Group, Live2Dance Seattle and Lotu Mo Ngaue, a Tongan dance group.

Headlining the event is local b-boy crew Massive Monkees, a 28-member crew from Seattle that won the 2004 World B-Boy Championships in London and appeared on season 4 of MTV’s America’s Best Dance Crew. Other traditional and contemporary dance and musical performances include Beatbox Panda, The Kompany, MiYoung Margolis Dance Collective, Kaze Daiko, Sunshine from

Polynesia and the First Samoan Congregational Church, with a traditional Samoan dance.

The Alan Sugiyama Hum Bow Eating Contest, named for the late longtime chair of the festival and community activ-

ist, will begin at 2 p.m., featuring local vendors, performers and sponsors. Other activities include traditional culinary delights, performance videos, martial arts demonstrations, API community tables, a cul-

tural display of nations and local author Cindy Wong-Li reading her children’s book Starhug.

Seattle Center Festál is a public program presented by Seattle Center in partnership with the Asian Pacific Direc-

tors Coalition. Admission is free of charge. For more information on this festival and to learn more about this collection of ethnic, cultural events, visit seattlecenter.com/festal or call 206-684-7200.

Photo by Susan Fried

e Asian Paci c Islander Heritage Month Celebration is this Saturday at Seattle Center. It will feature dancers, bands, local vendors and other activities.