QueenAnne News 9-13-2023

LIGHTNING THROUGH THE NEEDLE

The Aug. 30 thunderstorm provided a unique opportunity for lightning-chasers. Knowing that lightning displays like this are rare for western Washington and that this could be one of the last thunderstorm opportunities for the year, photographer Mathew Nichols made the three-hour drive from the Olympic Peninsula with the goal of capturing the lightning in one of his favorite cities in the world. Once he lined up his view of the Space Needle, he knew the American flag would be an additional challenge but was determined to make it work. He waited hopefully — in the rain — from 11 p.m. to 5:30 a.m. There was plenty of lightning throughout the night but he had his heart set on that very narrow shot. In the end, Nichols got what he came for and said he was extremely happy with the result: “Not to mention I absolutely love a good thunderstorm, as it reminds me of my favorite part of growing up in Kansas every time.”

Matters of life and dance

Artist Stacy Milrany was surrounded by friends, dancers, and art lovers for the opening of her show, “And...Five, Six, Seven, Eight! Matters of life and dance” at the Fountainhead Gallery in Queen Anne on Saturday night.

King County parks to receive $30M in upgrades

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e King County Council voted 9-0 to approve Executive Dow Constantine’s proposal to allocate nearly $30 million in grants funded by the King County Parks Levy that will support 53 projects led by cities, park districts, school districts, and community organizations throughout the region.

Constantine announced nearly $30 million in King County Parks Levy funding for 53 projects that will build and upgrade aquatic facilities, enhance parks and trails, protect and restore river corridors, and make access to healthy recreation more equitable.

e King County Council unanimously approved the funding package developed by Executive Constantine, who included a combined $110 million in grant funding in the voter-approved 2020-2025 Parks Levy. Grant recipients include cities, park districts, school districts, Tribes, and community organizations that contribute to healthy, welcoming parks, trails, and natural areas where people, families, and communities can gather, relax, and play.

"We are investing in community-led projects to grow and enhance King County’s already impressive parks, trails, and pools,” said Constantine.

“Whether you want to bike, hike, kayak, swim, or simply enjoy a safe, peaceful greenspace, you will have more options to gather, relax and play throughout King County and its cities thanks to these grants.”

Here are a few of the projects that will receive King County Parks Levy grants:

• Aquatic facilities at the Highline, Lake Washington, and Mercer Island school districts and the cities of Sammamish, Renton, and Enumclaw will receive a combined $5.75 million to improve accessibility, public safety, and energy e ciency.

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• A few of the new park features will include a skatepark in Seattle’s Rainier Beach neighborhood, lighting at the North SeaTac Park BMX track, a new multi-use paved trail that connects businesses, schools, and the library in Fall City, and a community park with open space, restrooms, shelter, and gathering area in Kent.

• Seattle Parks and Recreation will receive

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QACC annual meeting and board election set for Sept. 20

e Annual Meeting of the Queen Anne Community Council will be held on Wednesday, Sept. 20 at 7 p.m. via Zoom e primary purpose of the meeting will be the election of members for 11 seats on the board of trustees.

Everyone who lives, works, owns or operates a business, or owns property in Queen Anne is eligible to vote. Voting

will be electronic during the meeting, and results will be announced at the meeting.

To view a complete list of candidates and their letters of interest, go to https://drive.google.com/ le/d/1qsMkEX

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Washington DNR using new AI tech cameras to search for wild res

By Randy Bracht e Center Square

The Washington Department of Natural Resources has begun using remotely operated camera systems placed around the state that scan for signs of wildfire and quickly alert authorities to respond.

The new pilot program was updated Thursday in a presentation by state Lands Commissioner Hilary Franz, DNR officials, and representatives from two private companies, Pano AI and T-Mobile, which are providing technical operations and support for the fire detection system under an agreement with the state agency.

Two wind-driven wildfires which rapidly spread across Spokane County last month – burning hundreds of homes, thousands of acres, and prompting mass evacuations – were a sobering reminder that “we are all at risk,” said Franz.

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Consequently, employing another tool that aids a fast response can be critical in confining a blaze, saving property and lives, and reducing costs, she said.

by T-Mobile’s 5G network, which can rapidly deliver “huge amounts of data,” said Kastner and Erin Raney, T-Mobile’s senior director of network technology services and innovation.

DNR now has nine detection stations in place with plans to add a dozen more by next summer. Other “legacy cameras” and satellite information are also utilized. Site locations are determined by several factors including fire occurrence over the last 10 years, DNR jurisdiction, burn probability, wildland-urban interface, and extended view capability.

But two dozen cameras “don’t get you too far” in monitoring critical areas across expansive Washington state, said Franz. Consequently, DNR is seeking partnerships with public lands managers, tribes, utility companies, large homeowner associations, insurers, and others.

Kastner said Pano AI has been supplying its technology to smaller entities in other states, but DNR is the company’s first overall state customer.

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Currently, an outside fire is often reported by someone calling 911, but it may be hours before it is detected and its location and size are verified. The ability to remotely monitor certain critical areas day and night helps. San Francisco-based Pano AI’s technology can expedite such assessments, said CEO Sonia Kastner, who founded the company in 2020, and business development manager Kat Williams, a former wildland firefighter.

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Pano AI detection stations are placed on elevated vantage points using ultrahigh-definition, 360-degree cameras which continuously scan the landscape and use artificial intelligence to spot, evaluate, and signal wildfire activity within a 15-mile radius. If a suspected fire is detected, human monitors are alerted for confirmation and appropriate responders are notified.

“We can monitor and deploy resources if needed … depending on what we’re seeing out in the field with the cameras,” said Angie Lane, a wildfire management official with the Department of Natural Resources.

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“Hilary Franz is a technology trailblazer,” said Kastner. “We’re grateful for the partnership.” Added Williams: “We’re here to keep all wildfires small, to protect communities … (and) protect firefighters.”

To date, said Franz, 1,750 wildfires have been reported statewide this year but only 155,000 total acres have burned and 95% were confined to 10 acres or less. That’s a relatively small amount compared to hundreds of thousands of acres scorched over the past decade, including an increasing number in western Washington which has grown more prone to fires due climate changes.

In addition to cameras from Pano AI, the Department of Natural Resources is using other technologies to fight wildfires such as deployable Starlink satellite packages, an expanded radio repeater network for smartphones, and “Cellular on Wheels” capability to increase cell and WiFi coverage connecting firefighters and incident commanders.

Franz said the disaster-preparedness technology will complement increased funding provided by the state legislature in recent years to add more firefighters, ground equipment, and aerial resources.

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is show is dedicated to the twists and twirls of life and explores the way the public is preparing to stretch their way back into the post-pandemic world. e opening was so successful, the artist said, "I'll never not have dance teachers at an art opening again!"

e lively paintings will be on display until Oct. 1. Fountainhead Gallery is located at 625 W McGraw St. and open Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Saturday and Sunday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. For more information, fountainheadgallery. com.

Ferguson enters governor's race

Attorney General Bob Ferguson officially announced his gubernatorial campaign last Saturday. After stops in Spokane and Tri-Cities, he ended his statewide launch at Seattle's historic Washington Hall. King County Councilmember Girmay Zahilay emceed the event and remarked that there werepast, present, and future Washington State Governors in the room. Jay Inslee anchored the all-star lineup that included former Governor Christine Gregoire, Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal, and King County Executive Dow Constantine.

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Getting grounded with Earthing State program aims to help underserved

You know that feeling of relaxation you get after your first day at the beach in a long while? Maybe you credited the feeling the infusion of salty air, or the sun on your face. The actual reason for your new calm may be down at your feet — and you don’t have to go to the beach or even be outside to get that feeling again.

If proponents of Earthing are right, the secret to blasting inflammation and boosting wellness might be right at your feet.

Also called grounding, the practice is simply touching bare skin to the Earth; however, we’ll see later that companies have created workaround products, so you don’t have walk barefoot on city streets or sleep outside.

The idea is that doing so resets the electrical activity in our conductive bodies by reconnecting with the Earth’s charge. In theory, the Earth’s free electrons neutralize free radicals in the body, known to contribute to damaging healthy tissue.

Wearing synthetic and rubbersoled shoes broke that connection to the Earth humans had enjoyed for centuries.

For years my husband and I have seen a pair that look to be mother and daughter walking in the neighborhood most evenings — both loping on the sidewalk

barefoot. When I heard about Earthing, their shoeless walks began to make more sense to me. Studies are increasingly showing that connection to bare ground can decrease the body’s inflammation response, hasten healing of wounds, and even help with conditions related to chronic inflammation. One study cites reduced impacts and faster healing from COVID-19. Author/ biohacker Dave Asprey swears by it as a jet-lag cure after flights.

A 2015 study concluded:

“Grounding appears to improve sleep, normalize the day–night cortisol rhythm, reduce pain, reduce stress, shift the autonomic nervous system from sympathetic toward parasympathetic activation, increase heart rate variability, speed wound healing, and reduce blood viscosity.”

It summed up the report by saying: “The living matrix (or ground regulation or tissue tensegrity-matrix system), the very fabric of the body, appears to serve as one of our primary antioxidant defense systems. As this report explains, it is a system requiring occasional recharging by conductive contact with the Earth’s surface — the “battery” for all planetary life — to be optimally effective.”

Earthing was brought into

$800,000 to advance its Garfield Super Block project that will offer a new multi-use court for tennis and basketball, the city’s first public parkour park, replace the restroom facility, and build a new loop path with ramps to make the space more accessible.

• Funding will support organizations that promote equitable access to healthy activities, such as After-School All-Stars' Puget Sound chapter that provides out-ofschool and summer wellness and recreation programming for middle school students in underserved communities in Kent, Tukwila, and Federal Way.

• The City of Tukwila will receive $280,000 to design Chinook Wind Extension, which will connect new shoreline habitat that King County recently created along the Duwamish River to the upstream Duwamish Gardens park.

• Events that promote equitable access to parks and trails, including the Refuge Outdoor Festival, Sundaes Outside, Let’s Go Outside with The Nature Project, and Bike Works Seattle’s program that promotes cycling

modern popular culture by Clint Ober, a former cable-television specialist, who began studying the effects of grounding in 1988, and now sells Earthing products at earthing.com.

Recently, TikTok has jumped on the Earthing bandwagon with both feet, to the tune of millions of #earthing posts, and a 2019 documentary The Earthing Movie: The Remarkable Science of Grounding" starring Ober, Deepak Chopra and actress Mariel Hemingway has over six million views at this writing.

It’s said you want to shoot for a minimum of twenty minutes daily, either walking barefoot or in specially constructed “grounded” shoes. You can also sneak in a lot more time by using a wristband, an Earthing mat under your desk, on your bed, or an Earthing blanket on your shoulders in the evening. These may need a special grounder for your outlet.

Or you can just take a shoeless jaunt in your yard or a park — or a swim. Water connected to the Earth counts too. Gravel and rock surfaces are fine, Oder’s site says, as is unsealed concrete or brick. Gives a new meaning to the term “happy feet.”

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communities navigate unemployment benefits

By Randy Bracht The Center Square

The Washington Employment Security Department will host an online information program next week for community organizations interested in helping people in underserved communities file unemployment claims.

The virtual conference is scheduled Wednesday, Sept. 13, from 10 a.m. to noon and will be hosted through Microsoft Teams. The conference is for organizations seeking to participate in Employment Security’s “Unemployment Insurance Navigator Program.”

Once trained, designated “navigators” will conduct outreach, education, and support to help individuals file for unemployment and better understand claim processes and related services.

In addition, navigators will meet regularly with Employment Security staff to share best practices, review challenges and provide feedback on ways to improve services for everyone, according to press release Friday from the state agency. Selected organizations will be eligible for up to $500,000 to provide assistance in their communities. The focus is on “disadvantaged” communities which have been affected by persistent poverty and inequality.

The Sept. 13 virtual conference will be accessible on computer or device by using this link at 10 a.m., or by audio-only phone call at 564-999-2000 (enter phone conference ID: 460219069#).

access for BIPOC youth, adults, and communities in Southeast Seattle and South King County.

• Improvements at King County’s Tanner Landing Park will make it safer and easier to kayak in the Middle Fork Snoqualmie River.

• Multiple cities and park districts will receive funding to enhance parks, including $500,000 for the Si View Metropolitan Park District to construct an accessible adventure playground and soft-surface trails for an underserved area near North Bend.

Interested organizations can apply through Sept. 29. Applicants must create a Washington's Electronic Business Solution (WEBS) account. WEBS is a platform that allows businesses and other organizations to look up public agency solicitations for goods and services. Participants will be selected after the Employment Security Department has reviewed all applications. For more information about the program or bidding process, contact esdgpbids@esd.wa.gov.

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Proposal calls for pickleball courts

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A proposal to build a sports facility with 20 pickleball courts has been unveiled.

The project anticipates building 20 courts in the 3000 block of 15th Avenue West, at the corner of Bertorna and 15th in Interbay.

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ETHAN STOWELL RESTAURANTS COLLABORATE WITH A LZHEIMER’S ASSOCIATION

During September Ethan Stowell Restaurants will donate a portion of the proceeds from select cocktails to the Alzheimer’s Association Walk to End Alzheimer’s. Ethan Stowell and ESR are organizing a Walk Team for the Seattle Walk on Sept. 30 at the Seattle Center.

Participating ESR restaurants include: How to Cook a Wolf, Victor Tavern, Cortina and Bombo.

KING COUNTY COUNCIL CANDIDATES FORUM

Candidates for District 4 of King County Council, Jorge Barón and Sarah Reyneveld, will answer moderated questions on issues of interest to our communities.

The forum will take place at 7 p.m. on Oct. 4 on Zoom.

You must register for the event using signup to receive the Zoom link. Registration will close at 5 p.m. on the day of the event.

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Ten courts will be interior courts and 10 will be exterior courts, along with player gathering spaces to lounge and grab a snack.

For any questions, contact the development manager at 206‐369‐6343 or maria@ barrientosryan.com.

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The forum will take place at 7 p.m. on Oct 12 on Zoom. Registration will close at 5 p.m. on the day of the event.

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VOLUNTEERS SOUGHT FOR TASTE OF QUEEN ANNE

The Taste of Queen Anne is seeking volunteers.

The event takes place on Saturday, Oct. 14.

All ages and abilities are welcome. Volunteers are needed to help:

• Set up the space before the event begins

• Run the event, including checking attendees in and out, helping to serve food and drinks, keeping the space organized, and jumping in to help the event flow smoothly

• Tear-down/clean-up after the event ends

To register, go to https://www. queenannehelpline.org/volunteer.html

Grilling to a ‘T’

by Lynda Balslev

It's time to bring out the big guns — big steaks. T-bone and porterhouse steaks make for a dramatic presentation and are a great way to feed a group of hungry meat-lovers. Both steaks are cut from the short loin of cattle and have a T-shaped bone. Two cuts of meat ank the bone: a strip steak cut and a tenderloin let.

Porterhouse steaks have larger let sections than T-bone steaks and are therefore pricier. Porterhouse steaks are also cut thicker, at least 1 1/4 inches or more. T-bones are slightly less expensive and usually top out at 1 inch thick, but they are no less indulgent. Whichever steak you choose, you are guaranteed a meaty feast, and there's no better way to cook them than on a hot grill.

In this recipe, a simple balsamic and red wine reduction creates a light sauce. It's puckery and winey, braced by the kick of balsamic vinegar and perfumed with woodsy rosemary. Add merely 1 tablespoon of butter to give it a little body; for a richer sauce, add 2 tablespoons. With that said, the sauce is an embellishment and is entirely optional, since a good piece of meat is stand-alone delicious.

What is not optional, however, is the salt. Yep, salt is the key to enhancing the avor of the meat, so be generous with the seasoning, and serve additional salt on the side.

GRILLED T-BONE STEAKS WITH BALSAMIC SAUCE

Prep time: 30 minutes

Total time: 30 minutes

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Yield: Serves 4 to 6

Sauce:

• 2/3 cup full-bodied red wine

• 1/3 cup balsamic vinegar

• 1 large garlic clove, peeled, smashed

• 1 (2-inch) sprig fresh rosemary

• 1 to 2 tablespoons cold unsalted butter

• 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt

• 1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper

Steaks:

• 2 T-bone steaks, each 1 inch thick

• Olive oil

• Kosher salt

• Freshly ground black pepper

• Sea salt akes for serving

Make the sauce: Combine the wine, vinegar, garlic and rosemary in a small saucepan. Bring to a boil over medium heat, then continue to boil until reduced by about half, 12 to 14 minutes. Remove the pan from the heat and discard the garlic and rosemary sprig. Whisk in the butter 1 tablespoon at a time until smooth. Season with the salt

and black pepper.

While you make the sauce, let the steaks stand at room temperature. Prepare the grill for direct cooking over high heat.

Lightly brush the steaks on both sides with oil and generously season with salt and black pepper.

Grill the steaks over direct heat, with the grill lid closed, 6 to 8 minutes for medium-rare (or to your desired doneness), turning once or twice. (An instant-read thermometer inserted into the center of the steak, without touching the bone, will register 125 degrees for medium-rare.)

Remove the steaks from the grill and let rest for about 5 minutes. Cut the meat away from the bone, then cut the meat across the grain into thick slices. Serve the steaks with the balsamic sauce for drizzling and salt akes for sprinkling.

Lynda Balslev is an awardwinning writer, cookbook author, and recipe developer based in northern California. Visit TasteFood at TasteFoodblog.com.

Seattle Children’s eatre (SCT) is proud to present Dog Man: e Musical, a hilarious and heartwarming production. is story chronicles Dog Man, who, with the head of a dog and the body of a policeman, loves to ght crime and chew on the furniture. Can he save the city from Flippy the cyborg sh and Petey, the world’s most evil cat? Find out in this epic musical adventure featuring the hilarity and heart of beloved characters from Dav Pilkey, the creator of Captain Underpants.

Based on the bestselling Dog Man book series by Dav Pilkey, Dog Man: e Musical has a book and lyrics by Kevin Del Aguila (two-time Emmy Awardwinning writer of the PBS show Peg + Cat), and music by Brad Alexander (Drama Desk Nominated See Rock City & Other Destinations). With original direction and choreography by Jen Wineman (Less an 50%), scenic design by Timothy R. Mackabee (Broadway’s e Elephant Man), costume design by Heidi Leigh Hanson ( e Addams Family Musical), lighting design by David Lander (Broadway’s e Lightning ief: e Percy Jackson Musical) and sound design by Emma Wilk ( e Heiress). e show runs from Sept. 21 through Oct. 22. Tickets range from $15 to $50. e SCT’s Charlotte Martin eatre is located at 201 omas St., Seattle. For more information, https://www.sct. org/onstage/productions/dog-man-themusical/

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