Picardo Farm, Wedgwood neighborhood, Seattle, Washington: A community Allotment ( gardening ) | allotment garden with raised beds for the handicapped.

On June 15, 1972, Seattle Professional Football Inc., a group of Seattle business and community leaders, announced its intention to acquire an NFL franchise for the city of Seattle, WA.

The group plays at every home game as well as over 100 events in the Seattle community.

The Seattle Community College District is a group of community colleges located in Seattle, Washington.

In addition to being a haven for artists, the southern end of Whidbey Island also serves as a minor bedroom community for the nearby cities of Everett, where the Boeing Everett Factory is located, and Seattle.

IWW organizing drives in recent years have included a major campaign to organize Borders Books in 1996, a strike at the Lincoln Park Mini Mall in Seattle that same year, organizing drives at Wherehouse Music, Keystone Job Corps, the community organization ACORN, various homeless and youth centers in

Experiences in Portland and Seattle have demonstrated that successful collaborative planning depends on a number of interrelated factors: the process must be truly inclusive, with all stakeholders and affected groups invited to the table ; the community must have final decision-making authority ; full government commitment ( of both financial and intellectual resources ) must be manifest ; participants should be given clear objectives by planning staff, who facilitate the process by providing guidance, consultancy, expert opinions, and research ; and facilitators should be trained in conflict resolution and community organization.

A similarly influential yet often overlooked album is Neurotica by Redd Kross, about which the co-founder of Sub Pop said, " Neurotica was a life changer for me and for a lot of people in the Seattle music community.

While the Seattle music scene in the late 1980s and early 1990s in actuality consisted of various styles and genres of music, its representation in the media " served to depict Seattle as a music ' community ' in which the focus was upon the ongoing exploration of one musical idiom, namely grunge.

* Seattle arrest – Khat and the Somalian community

The book, written in 1991, was chosen in 1998 by Nancy Pearl, the then Director of the Washington Center for the Book at the Seattle Public Library, and Chris Higashi, the current Program Manager, to be the first selection for " If All Seattle Read the Same Book ", a program that has continued in the Seattle community and at many other public libraries around the country.

The other two are in Long Beach and Seattle, Washington, which also have a large community.

The town's late 20th century population growth has been mostly as a commuter community for people with jobs in Seattle, Bellevue, and other suburban centers.

Ten years later, Gottlieb Burian and his wife, German immigrants from Lower Silesia who owned taverns in downtown Seattle, arrived in Sunnydale, which was only a community of trails and small houses without roads or commercial buildings.

) Since the Weyerhaeuser sawmill closed, North Bend has become an upscale bedroom community for the Eastside of Seattle, Washington, with property values more than doubling from 1997 to 2006.

North Bend is for the largest part a bedroom community to Bellevue and Seattle.

Like other nearby towns, Woodinville began as a logging community, became a farming center in the early decades of the 20th century, and developed into a suburb of Seattle after World War II.

The city is a mix of urban, suburban, small city, crossroads and bedroom community to many professionals who work in Seattle.

The Marlins did not make a huge move at the deadline, instead trading minor-leaguer Yorman Bazardo to the Seattle Mariners for left-handed pitcher Ron Villone.

A study in Seattle, Washington, showed that all wild salmon had roundworm larvae capable of infecting people, while farm-raised salmon did not have any roundworm larvae.

They failed completely to make any inroads with the Seattle Archdiocese of the Roman Catholic Church, who had recently built Sacred Heart Church there ; they did a bit better with the Freemasons ' Nile Temple, which they were able to use for the duration of the fair and which then returned to its previous use.

* Larry Seivers-Two-time All-American wide receiver at the University of Tennessee ; drafted into the NFL by the Seattle Seahawks but did not play

He told Nelson that he attempted his first kidnapping in 1969 in Ocean City, New Jersey, but did not kill anyone until sometime in 1971 in Seattle.

Zito was taken by the Seattle Mariners in the 59th round ( 1, 586th overall ) of the 1996 Major League Baseball Draft, and in the third round ( 83rd overall ) by the Texas Rangers in 1998, but did not sign with either team.

In fact, the Seattle Symphony and the Seattle Civic Symphony did not merge in 1921, since the personnel lists of the last Seattle Symphony concert of the 1920-21 season and the first season of the Seattle Civic Symphony have no more than one name in common.

Sleepless in Seattle received two nominations for awards in the 66th Academy Awards ( held in 1994 ), but did not win either of them.

In the aftermath the Seattle branch also left to found the Freedom Socialist Party, after protesting the alleged suppression of internal democracy, as did Murray and Myra Tanner Weiss.

Though Seattle did not make the playoffs in the 2001 season, Jackson's impressive rookie performance provided a solid foundation for the franchise to build on.

Eighteen teams have all hosted an all-star game at least twice since the Mets last did: Atlanta Braves ( 1972 and 2000 ), Chicago White Sox ( 1983 and 2003 ), Cincinnati Reds ( 1970 and 1988 ), Cleveland Indians ( 1981 and 1997 ), Detroit Tigers ( 1971 and 2005 ), Houston Astros ( 1968, 1986, and 2004 ), Kansas City Royals ( 1973 and 2012 ), Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim ( 1967, 1989, and 2010 ), Milwaukee Brewers ( 1975 and 2002 ), Minnesota Twins ( 1965, 1985, and 2014 ), New York Yankees ( 1977 and 2008 ), Philadelphia Phillies ( 1976 and 1996 ), Pittsburgh Pirates ( 1974, 1994, and 2006 ), San Diego Padres ( 1978 and 1992 ), San Francisco Giants ( 1984 and 2007 ), Seattle Mariners ( 1979 and 2001 ), and St. Louis Cardinals ( 1966 and 2009 ), and Washington Senators / Texas Rangers ( 1969 and 1995 ).

Another production, by the Seattle Shakespeare Company in 2007, reportedly did not tamper with this aspect of the text and was commended by a reviewer for " the courage to face the script's unsavory side.

Seattle police ( led by Chief Norm Stamper ) did not react immediately because they had been convinced by protest organizers during the protest-permit process that peaceful organizers would quell these kinds of activities.

The next season, Barry did some broadcasting for the Seattle SuperSonics, however a plan for permanent employment fell through when Barry insisted that his then-wife be allowed to join him when the team was on the road, which would have been contrary to team policy.

He eventually signed with the Seattle Mariners, where he acquired the nickname " Ancient Mariner ", and won his 300th game on May 6,, the first pitcher to win 300 since Early Wynn did so in.

* February 7, 1968: ( CP322 ) Boeing 707-138B leased from Standard Airways ( of Seattle ) crashed into aircraft and buildings at Vancouver while attempting to land in low visibility after a flight from Honolulu ; 60 crew and passengers survived, but one flight attendant died, as did one person on the ground.

In 1857, Doc Maynard traded his " downtown " acreage for Charles C. Terry's farm in West Seattle, but this new enterprise did not prosper ; he and Catherine then opened a two-room hospital in what is now Pioneer Square.

During the Seattle Indian war Doc Maynard protected the natives and ensured that they did not starve.

Henke was first drafted on June 5, 1979, by the Seattle Mariners in the 20th round of the 1979 Major League Baseball Draft, but did not sign.

He holds the Seattle Mariners career record for strikeouts, with 1375, and has the lowest career stolen base percentage since 1954 ( 6 stolen bases against 24 times caught stealing for a success rate of 20 %; baseball did not keep track of times caught stealing until 1954 ).

) He did get a football stadium for the Seattle Seahawks through a successful statewide ballot initiative, and founded the Experience Music Project ( originally intended as a Jimi Hendrix museum ) on the grounds of Seattle Center.

Seattle, Washington remains under U. S. control by treaty as a city-state enclave, and most game materials are set there and assume campaigns will use it as their setting.

Electric buses, which use twin trolley poles ( one for live current, one for return ) but have wheels with tyres rolling on a hard surface rather than tracks, are called trolleybuses, trackless trolleys ( particularly in the Northeastern U. S .), or sometimes ( in the UK, as well as in Seattle and Vancouver ) simply trolleys.

Mark Arm, the vocalist for the Seattle band Green River — and later Mudhoney — is generally credited as being the first to use the term grunge to describe this genre of music.

" Clark Humphrey, editor of Desperate Times, cites this as the earliest use of the term to refer to a Seattle band, and mentions that Bruce Pavitt of Sub Pop popularized the term as a musical label in 1987 – 88, using it on several occasions to describe Green River.

Another significant event that shot Zerzan to celebrity philosopher status was his association with members of the Eugene, Oregon anarchist scene that later were the driving force behind the use of black bloc tactics at the 1999 anti-World Trade Organization protests in Seattle, Washington.

After discussions with the small company Microsoft, IBM decided to use 86-DOS ( QDOS ), a CP / M-like operating system that a Seattle area computer company had made for its own hardware.

The first meeting to use the name Convergence in the United States was held in Seattle in 1986.

After residing in Seattle for many years, Cantrell moved to Los Angeles, California in mid 2003 by which time he had stopped his heavy drug use.

The airport was constructed by the Port of Seattle in 1944 to serve civilians of the region, after the U. S. military took control of Boeing Field for use in World War II.

They were back in use for the 1992 game by White Sox pitcher Jack McDowell and infielder Robin Ventura, and for the final time in the 1997 game by Seattle Mariners outfielder Ken Griffey Jr .. Game-specific uniforms are made every year, but are not worn for the game itself.

King County's election department ( the greater Seattle area ) was also targeted for how they handled the ballots, including untracked use of a " ballot-on-demand " printing machine.

From the beginning, the authorities indicated their intent to use very intensive security measures to restrict the ability of anti-and alter-globalization movement protesters to approach the area where the summit was to take place, in light of the well-known previous incidents in Seattle ( November 30, 1999 ), Prague ( September 26, 2000 ), and Montreal ( November 20, 2000 ).

* Sources for this atlas and the neighborhood names used in it include a 1980 neighborhood map produced by the Department of Community Development ( relocated to the Department of Neighborhoods and other agencies ), Seattle Public Library indexes, a 1984-1986 Neighborhood Profiles feature series in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, numerous parks, land use and transportation planning studies, and records in the Seattle Municipal Archives.

It is now almost exclusively a tourist attraction, as the distance covered is too small to be of much practical use unless you are living in a hotel downtown and visiting the Seattle Center.

The city of Seattle, Washington, of the United States has used " The Emerald City " as its official nickname since the 1980s, because of how green it is in that region of the world, although that was previously in use by Eugene, Oregon.

According to Sonora Jha of Seattle University, journalists are using the Web to conduct their research, getting information regarding interviewing sources and press releases, updating news online, and thus it shows the gradual shifts in attitudes because of the rapid increase in use of the Internet.

It was peaceably agreed that those who wished to take more extreme action would not use the name " Kinatechitapi ", but the resulting tensions led to Warren losing the next election for the Service League presidency to Joyce Reyes, leading to a united front among all significant Seattle Indian organizations.

In 1968, the name " Museum of Flight " first appeared in use in a 10, 000-square-foot facility, rented at the Seattle Center.

Most of Seattle and King County use a single street grid, oriented on true north.

Northwest Folklife was founded in 1971 by the Seattle Folklore Society, the National Park Service, the National Folk Festival Association ( now the National Council for the Traditional Arts ), and the City of Seattle, as part of the Park Service's urban outreach program to allow the people of its Northwest Region ( including Alaska ) to publicly present what they " make for their own use and do for their own entertainment.