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The Miller Park blog shares this neighborhood soccer potty issue:
...a report from a neighbor who lives immediately adjacent to the lower Miller parking lot: she has witnessed players urinating in the bushes near the parking lot, because the outdoor toilets at Miller were locked.Guessing that unlocking the bathrooms won't solve this issue completely. Show me a footballer who doesn't enjoy taking a leak in public. Hopefully the new field turf scheduled to be installed at Miller drains well.
Catching up on a busy June weekend.
Sure, Chocolate City's closure may have stirred things up a little bit but that doesn't mean you can't wander south of Madison every now and then. Our unofficial count still puts good people ahead of bad people at about a 4:1 ratio. Here are two things that may be worth the wander:
More on the Chocolate City situation. While I'm hopeful this is opportunity to change the area, I'm not so ready to do full on celebration. The real problem is drugs, crime, poverty, etc. Chocolate City? I feel bad that all of this gets pointed at a black business. What if there was no crack dealing outside? What if there weren't people wandering around in a stupor and trashing up the sidewalks and alleys? Then, it would be pretty cool to have a place like Chocolate City around.
--j
Andrew Taylor of the Miller Park Neighborhood Association posts news about the infamous Club Chocolate City.
The owner of Club Chocolate City (the bar at 2040 E. Madison, formerly "Deano's Bar and Lounge") agreed to voluntarily give up his liquor license as of March 31st, 2007.First, to be clear, we come to bury Chocolate City, not to praise it. The strange cast of characters that hang out around it do have a rough charm when pondered from our well-to-do-white-person POV. The charm fades quickly however, when you live nearby and take a closer look. It really comes down to simple things like being able to walk down the street. Nobody walks to the Safeway near Chocolate City at night. We drive or go someplace else. For good reason. The area surrounding the club is a gathering place for trouble in a notorious clash of cultures -- a border zone where gentrification meets what, as The Stranger's Charles Mudede wrote about the area, the "human remains" of working class families that have moved away. Chocolate City's owner...
While our Viaduct survey is still open through Tuesday night, you might want to visit the Miller Neighborhood blog for another survey about an issue even closer to home.
With the Miller Greens project as his lightning rod, Andrew Taylor is collecting your thoughts on development in our area. We are young and foolish, perhaps, but we're proponents of change and growth. Will we regret this stance when the next Miller Greens comes along? We don't think so. But there are some important questions to ask and Andrew is asking them. --j/k
We recently got the chance to meet neighborhood activist Andrew Taylor of the Miller Park Neighborhood Association. Among the many good things Andrew does for our area is the invaluable e-mail newsletter he maintains. We wrote about Andrew's work back in November in the post We all live in Miller Park.
We nagged Andrew to consider also posting his e-mail notes to a blog so more people could benefit from his information. We even went so far as to build a site for him and took the liberty of signing him up to post to it. We're not sure he'll find it as useful as the e-mail newsletter but we're happy to see he's giving it a rip. Stop by the site and urge him on! The Miller Park Seattle blog --j/k
We joined about 50 neighbors and volunteers this morning to help clean up the Miller Park neighborhood. The city provided gloves, nifty orange safety vests and handy garbage grabbers. We provided a couple hours of our time and some elbow grease. The end result was many yellow garbage bags filled with discarded soda bottles, junk food refuse and the occasional crack dime bag. We got to meet the legendary Andrew Taylor and J also found this nifty drug paraphernalia.
If you're looking for that empty Doritos bag you tossed in the bushes at 19th and Madison, check the yellow bags. --j/k
Once you figure out which neighborhood you live in, you might want to help the mayor clean it up.
The Miller Park Neighborhood Association is inviting you to help this weekend. Here's the mail: Saturday, Jan 20th: our neighborhood will benefit from the Mayor's Clean and Green Program: http://seattle.gov/mayor/issues/cleanseattle.htm Please join us at 9AM on Saturday in the grassy area behind (east of) the Prince of Wales apartments (20th & Denny, 1818 - 20th Ave). We'll be met by the Deputy Mayor and/or the Mayor's Chief of Staff. See the details below. BONUS: Stella Chao, new Director of the Department of Neighborhoods will attend. Read about her: http://www.seattle.gov/news/detail.asp?ID=6808&dept=40 We'll have: * refreshments (and lots of good food!) * people from various city departments to consult * volunteers to help us clean up the neighborhood: there should be enough people to clean a large area. You'll come along and: * help the City departments identify neighborhood problems that you know about, they don'...
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