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Organizers estimate that as many as 35,000 people came to see the Jade Buddha at Co-Lam Temple on Graham Street last month:
We would like to emphasize that the purpose of our program of meditation and prayer before this solemn symbol, the Jade Buddha of Universal Peace, is for each one of us to practice the Buddha’s teaching that, if only we transform our minds to be truly peaceful and aware, we can transform our world in the same way.
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The NewHolly farm stand – located at 42nd South and South Rockery Dr. – is where gardeners living in the NewHolly neighborhoods grow, harvest and market their own fresh produce. It does not get any fresher or more local!
The stand opened on July 7, and runs every Wednesday from 4 to 7 pm until Wed., Sept. 29.
Seattle Market Gardens is a program developed with the community by the City of Seattle P-Patch Community Gardening Program in collaboration with the Seattle Housing Authority and P-Patch Trust.
Photo/David Mullarkey Images
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Seattle Weekly:
There are manly pizza toppings and girly pizza toppings… But Flying Squirrel Pizza must be bisexual, because they go both ways.
The Secret Squirrel ($8) is called “secret” because it’s secretly gay, like a Republican Congressman. It’s basically a shrimp pizza with pesto sauce. Six huge-ass prawns, juicy and perfectly cooked, lounge on a small pizza crust, painted with a high-gloss coating of vivid green pesto, and a sprinkling of microplaned parmesan. But what makes this pizza secretly gay? As everyone knows, shrimp are a manly topping because they are beloved everywhere by all people–which makes shrimp a very populist topping. And populists are manly like Teddy Roosevelt, who is so tough he once punched a grizzly bear in the nuts so hard he killed it. But all the shrimp in the world can’t change the fact that pesto is the Liberace of pizza toppings. The Secret Squirrel is thus somehow simultaneously manly and gay: Rob Halford, in pizza form!
A small Caesar Salad ($6) sucked because they diced the romaine smaller than necessary. Seriously, you could’ve put that salad on top of a taco. A very noncommittal dressing was smooth in texture, but lacking in either garlic or anchovy flavor. At least the croutons were crunchy and flavorful. Is a Caesar Salad girly? It’s got “Caesar” in it, with all the connotations of victory and assassinations and other manly pursuits which that name implies, but I don’t think I have to tell you that salads are for chicks.
The #1 was a plain cheese pizza. It was $14, which is maybe too much for a cheese, but it was a pretty damn big pie. The crust was bubbly and chewy, puffy around the edges but very thin underneath the toppings. The sauce was a perfect balance of sweet and tangy, and the mozzarella was of a higher quality than the white melted caulking that places like Pizza Hut put on their pizzas. Everyone knows that cheese pizzas are the stem cells of pizza, the foundation of other, more advanced pizzas. As such, the #1 was neither male nor female. Like Michael Cera, it’s just a fetus, and its sex is too early to tell. Read more.
Flying Squirrel Pizza – located at 4920 S. Genesee St. in Columbia City – was voted Best Pizza in your RVP’s 2009 Best of Southeast Seattle Reader’s Choice Poll. Photo/do communications
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With 50 entries, yesterday’s 18th annual Rainier Valley Heritage Parade and Summer Streets Party was a huge success and nearly twice as large as last year’s event. Winners include the Electronetts Drill Team and Pacific NW Drumline with a 2-way tie for Best Overall Performance; Renegayde Pep Band with Most Creative entry; and – for the third year in a row – Rainier Valley Football and Cheer Association with Most Community Spirit. Congratulations! Photos/David Mullarkey Images
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Geraldine’s Counter serves breakfast AND lunch all day, which is badass because you can get a hamburger at 9:30 in the goddamned morning. And those hamburgers ($9.50) are so delightful, they could only be tastier if they were grilled by a man drinking a beer and wearing a “World’s Best Dad” apron in the park. The patty was sloppy and unevenly shaped, obviously handmade, served still pink inside on a sturdy bun. Caramelized onions are standard equipment, but you can add bacon and cheese for a buck each, and why wouldn’t you? If you’re on a diet you shouldn’t be f***ing eating hamburgers anyway.
Burgers come with pretty crispy fries, but you can substitute sweet potato fries for $0.50 more. DO THIS. Those sweet potato fries are the best: uniform, perfectly rectangular orange batons, with a light crunchy coating reminiscent of a thin tempura batter, and which shatters when you bite it as easily as a boyhood dream.
Luckily, my boyhood dream of eating chili- cheese fries for breakfast is still intact. Yes, they even serve chili-cheese fries–aka America’s poutine–all day. The fries are the same crispy Russet fries you can get with a burger. Here I’m talking about the plain fries, and NOT the sweet potato fries. If you substituted the sweet potato fries for the regular fries in America’s poutine, your head would explode with the sheer awesomeness–just like if you looked inside the Ark of the Covenant. Read more.
Geraldine’s Counter was voted Best Breakfast in the 2009 Best of SE Seattle Reader’s Choice Poll. Photo/David Mullarkey Images
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Hamlet Avenue resident Erik Gunderson (top) organized fellow neighbors and with the help from a grant from the Department of Neighborhoods they are building planter boxes, to bring community together and slow down traffic on the block:
The street had an unused parking strip between the sidewalk and the street. Cars would park in this area which typically is grass or has a curb.
On our street, we built planter boxes in this area so that cars would park on the side of the street, narrowing the street to thru traffic. Instead of two lanes of traffic on this residential street (where 15 kids walk in the street because cars would park on the sidewalk), now there is one slow lane of traffic and the sidewalks are open for use.
Thank you Seattle Neighborhoods for helping us clean up our street!
Photo/David Mullarkey Images
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As the world’s gaze turns toward South Africa tomorrow, so does that of Empire Espresso in Columbia City, and the proof is in its artfully designed coffee cup sign where owner Tino Ganacias recently placed a large globe.
Surprisingly enough, the popular cafe is one of the only places in the valley hosting local fans of World Cup soccer.
From Tino’s blog:
ITS TIME FOR THE WORLD CUP!!!!! We will be open for every LIVE World Cup game. This includes the 4:30am starts, June 12th through June 21st!!!! a 47-inch flatscreen television will be joining us for the World Cup. Coffee, Panini, beer, wine, waffles on the weekend, and outdoor seating. Join us, the beautiful game, espresso, and experience the universal language of soccer!
Indeed, Empire will open at 4:30 am Sat., June 12 through Mon., June 21, for World Cup viewing.
As if that’s not enough – the shop now offers beer and wine, and is open until 9 pm Monday through Saturday.
Empire Espresso – located at 3629 S. Edmunds St. in Columbia City – was voted Best Coffee Shop in your RVP’s 2010 Best of Southeast Seattle Reader’s Choice Poll. Photo/ David Mullarkey Images
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The community is invited to join Southeast Effective Development (SEED) to celebrate the newly renovated Rainier Valley Cultural Center (3515 S. Alaska St.) on Thur., June 24, from 4:30 to 6:30 pm. From SEEDArts:
Please join us to celebrate our newly renovated arts facilities. With support from local individuals, foundations and public agencies, we have made long-awaited renovations to both the Rainier Valley Cultural Center and the Columbia City Gallery. We’d like to share them with you.
The event will begin at 4:30pm with a dance performance by the D & G Studio JAM on It!, followed at 5pm by presentations from Stella Chao, Director of the City of Seattle Department of Neighborhoods and Jan Kennedy, MJ Murdock Foundation Program Director. A ceremony acknowledging all our capital campaign supporters will follow.
A reception with hors d’oeuvres and beverages will be held in the lower level following the ceremony.
Please RSVP to jplumridge@seedseattle.org, call 206.760.4286 or just drop by.
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From Daphne R. Schneider:
Join the Ribbon of Parks Association (ROPA) and the Othello Neighborhood Association (ONA) tonight, Tues., April 27, at 6 pm at Holly Park Community Church (across Othello Street from Othello Park) to help prioritize the work that has been going on for several months.
Using a $15,000 Department of Neighborhoods grant, this will be the third time that ROPA has brought the community together to give input into the master plan for the neighborhood’s parks and green spaces. Working with SVR, a well know Seattle landscape architecture firm, and more than 100 community members, a plan has been built that is intended to guide park planning into the future.
The elements have been defined by the community – now the priorities need to be set. Join with your neighbors to give your input. Light supper will be provided.
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Last week, the Rainier Beach Community Empowerment Coalition (RBCEC), in partnership with South Lake High School, hosted the 8th annual Rainier Beach Town Hall Meeting (RBTHM).
Special presentations included acknowledgment of the 2009 Rainier Beach Award winners, including Secret Charles, Pam Berry, Communities Reuniting Rainier Beach (CURB) and the South Seattle Crime Prevention Council (top right).
Did you attend this important community event? Use the comment section below to share your feedback and observations with your neighbors. Photo/David Mullarkey Images
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Beer Sheva Park – located at 8650 55th Ave. South in Rainier Beach – was named for Beer Sheva, Israel, one of Seattle’s International Sister Cities. It is a one-acre, “Pesticide Free Park” just east of Rainier Beach High School. Photo/David Mullarkey Images
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