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 Please join in helping to clean up the growth and garbage from Walking on Logs to 35th on Saturday, September 13th. 

Volunteer shifts are for 2 hours beginning at 9am.  We would love to have a JuNO shift, so if you are available to assist please comment on this post ASAP with your time preference and name.  I will contact you soon with followup details. 

A few random tidbits from the last SW District Council meeting:

1.  Seattle City Light is the place to call to report flickering or burned out streetlights.  Please be sure to include the pole number (located 6-15 above the ground) and the nearest address when calling 206.684.7056 or online at http://seattle.gov/light/streetlight

2.  Ercolini Park (located at 48th Ave SW and SW Alaska St) will have an official ribbon cutting celebration on Saturday, July 12th from 10am-1pm.  Balloons and cupcakes provided.

3.  Community Harvest of Southwest Seattle is looking for volunteers to pick fruit during the summer harvest .  Also, if you have a tree to be harvested and are willing to donate the fruit (to be used at West Seattle and White Center Food Banks, senior center and schools) please contact organizers at www.gleanit.org, info@gleanit.org or 206.762.0604.

4.  Clean and Green Event - Residents of West Seattle are needed to assist in a massive effort to clean up the area from Walking on Logs to the light at 35th & Fauntleroy.  We will be working with SDOT and other departments to rid the area of growth, litter and debris.  If you are interested in volunteering at this event for any 2-hour shift on Saturday, September 13th between 9am-3pm please contact Nancy Driver at ndriver@quidnunc.net.

5.  Summer Fest is coming . . . July 11, 12 and 13!  See you there!

We will be hosting our 2nd Adopt-A-Street Cleanup on Saturday May 31st from 9am-1pm.

If you would like to volunteer for this event, please post a comment here or email kyle.mizell@gmail.com.

No experience necessary and all supplies are provided!

Please comment on this post if you would like to pledge volunteer hours.  I will then send our total combines hours to Chas and the Dept. of Neighborhoods.

This message just in from Chas Redmond:

The West Seattle trails project has put in a large neighborhood matching fund grant to provide funding up front for all 23 wayfinding stations and the associated 150, or so, on-street direction signs (think trail markers). The Department of
Neighborhoods is working with us to prepare the grant for CNC appraisal and voting. They have (DON) also requested that we work with the community councils where these kiosks and street signs would be located to build up the number of pledges for community support to help match the grant.

The Junction will have one of the 23 kiosks, probably to be located in the new Junction Park, but that element is one of the items to be addressed by JuNO and the trails project in the planned charrettes. An appropriate and as-yet-to-be-located number on on-street signs will be in the Junction area also. Seattle DOT and DON and DPD have worked together to create on-street signage which will be owned and maintained by SDOT but which would be paid for and located by this present grant request.

I’m asking Junction Neighborhood Organization to consider the attached letter and community support pledge sheet and if the
community sees fit, to return the letter and pledge sheet to me so I can attach this to the grant application for its final review. The deadline for the grant submittal is April 13, so this is rather short notice I realize.

The letter is an attempt on my part with Feet First’s help to round up the number of hours we need in each community. We would greatly appreciate your support but also understand that this may come prior to your next council meeting and therefore may put the council in a situation where you all feel you would like to support this but can’t without membership concurrence. In that case, would you consider a letter of support written in general terms and just leaving the pledge sheet blank?

I apologize for the short timing on this. We (Feet First and me and DNDA) were caught a bit by surprise when our grant request made it past the first round of DON reviews and so we’ve been scrounging for the past two weeks to find matching hours throughout the Southwest District Council area.

As you’ll see from the letter, the process we’re aiming for will involve several charrettes in each neighborhood area and several more peninsula-wide charrettes. The process would take place this Spring through Fall and will include specific charrettes for the incorporation of local art into each separate kiosk.

Thanks for your and the Junction Neighborhood Organization’s past support and for any consideration you all can bring to this current request.

Chas Redmond
attachments:
1- sample letter of support
2 - DON pledge document



3903 SW Monroe St.
Seattle, WA 98136
206-932-6003 <-Qwest hardwire
202-316-3574 <-AT&T Wireless cell
credmond@mac.com <-email address
http://web.mac.com/credmond <-blog & web essays
http://homepage.mac.com/credmond/art <-art gallery
http://homepage.mac.com/credmond/RFR <-podcasts (archived presently)
http://flickr.com/photos/chasbot/ <-Photo Uplinks
http://homepage.mac.com/credmond/multimedia.html <-Multimedia Projects

http://www.wsjuno.com/2008/02/09/?category_name=event-calendar

We have scheduled our Adopt-A-Street cleanup this quarter for February 9th, 2008 at 10am.  We are going to meet in front of 4527 41st Ave SW to grab tools, bags, plans, etc.  The region of West Seattle we are responsible for is from Fauntleroy Way SW to 44th Ave SW, between Edmonds St SW and Oregon St SW.  This event should not take longer than 3 to 4 hours.  We are looking to get 12 - 15 individuals to help with the cleanup, please respond and let us know if you would be willing to help out.  Please dress appropriately for the weather / activity, bring gloves if you have them.

If you are interested in volunteering, please respond to us at erica@wsjuno.com or info@wsjuno.com. 

A big thank you to Starbucks in Jefferson Square for donating coffee to our volunteers during the clean-up! 

Thanks.

Kyle Mizell and Erica Karlovits

Please read the posting on the West Seattle Blog concerning the Rapid Ride presentation at our JuNO meeting on 1/8/08.  Here is the link: 

http://westseattleblog.com/blog/?p=5073

The minutes from the meeting are also posted.  Membership Meeting Notes 1/8/08 

What are your thoughts about this proposal?  How do you feel about Rapid Ride in the junction?  What questions, concerns and suggestions do you?

 Do you want the opportunity to check out information on Rapid Ride?  Here is your chance:

http://www.metrokc.gov/kcdot/transitnow/rapidride.stm

http://www.metrokc.gov/kcdot/transitnow/

Public meetings:

Thursday, January 24, 5:30 - 8:30 p.m.
Open House at The Hall at Fauntleroy, Vashon Room
9131 California Avenue SW , Seattle , 98136

Tuesday, January 29, 5:30 - 8:30 p.m.
Open House at the West Seattle Senior Center , Multi-Purpose Room
4217 SW Oregon Street , Seattle , 98116

Wednesday, January 30, Noon - 3:00 p.m.
Information Table at the West Seattle Senior Center , Multi-Purpose Room
4217 SW Oregon Street , Seattle , 98116

If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to ask.  And, please give us your feedback on the proposal.  JuNO has been asked to write a letter to King County Metro with feedback on the proposal, so we would like to hear comments from our neighbors.

NEW INFORMATION Added 2/8/08:

I have learned more information about the proposed Rapid Ride transit:

• King County Council will be meeting in May to review recommendations from the Rapid Ride team.

• Over 1000 questionaires have been sent in.  If you want to submit a comment directly to Metro, the best option is Jack Lattemann as the project coordinator.

• The proposed West Seattle Rapid Ride would replace the local 54 bus.

• The two options for routing in the Junction under consideration are:

1. Follow the current 54 local route from California, left on edmonds, right on 44, right on Alaska.  This would enable all other connections on the corner of Alaska/California.  The Rapid Ride bus would not travel on California between Edmonds and Alaska.
2. Travel down Edmonds, turn right onto Alaska.  This would require a mid block stop with a station, bulb outs for the stop, and would likely be near the mid block cross walk (In front of Elliott Bay Brewery).

• The requested safety study for the possible midblock station/stop on California is not complete yet.  This is looking at pedestrian safety, and the impact on the Walk All Ways intersection on California/Alaska.
• The start of the route is still under consideration for either Westwood Village or the Fauntleroy Ferry dock.
• The Rapid Ride schedule is likely to have a bus every 15 minutes until 10:30pm and then every 30 minutes from 10:30pm until 1am.  The route would begin in September 2011.

 JuNO would like to make a recommendation to Metro . . . . please give us your input.  The West Seattle Junction Association (business association) is in favor of having Rapid Ride follow the existing 54 route and not come down California with a mid block stop.  I am pasting the letter they sent in the comments.

 PLEASE submit comments either directly to erica@wsjuno or as a comment to this posting by February 15th.  Thank you.

JuNO has adopted the Junction.  More information will be coming soon about opportunities to join us in cleaning up our streets and neighborhood.