Now that the new district-by-district Seattle City Council is sworn in, Crosscut has a piece today on Debora Juarez, the councilwoman representing north Seattle including Maple Leaf.
Headlined “Street-level politics come to Seattle, led by Debora Juarez,” it begins:
“Rule number one: Don’t call District 5 “Seattle’s Canada,” at least not to new Councilmember Debora Juarez’s face.
Read the full story here.
It notes Juarez’s top priorities locally – “Three major capital projects for District 5: the North Precinct Police Station, the Northgate bike and pedestrian bridge and securing funding for a second light rail stop on Northeast 130th Street.”
Meanwhile, our news partner The Seattle Times this week published a look at our own primary stream: “Thornton Creek gets a makeover from the ground up.”
It’s a bit of a slog (which is why it took two days to read – the “so-called hyporheic zone” is in the third sentence) but interesting. The gist is that Seattle Public Utilities is testing treating Thornton Creek like the Cedar River.
Our drinking water comes in part from the Cedar drainage, whereas Thornton for decades has resembled more of a storm water/sewer drain.
One of the test areas is in Maple Leaf, the renamed Kingfisher Natural Area.
And besides, it gives us the opportunity to highlight this video the Thornton Creek Alliance posted to our Facebook page last week. It’s of a coyote yipping in the Kingfisher Natural Area.
Is Wadical Weft making fun of an accent or speech impediment? Does not seem appropriate here or anyplace.
While Ms. Juarez needs to practice her public speaking some, she has interesting things to say about social, economic, and (FORTUNATELY!) local issues.
It makes me very happy to read in the Crosscut article that Councilperson Bagshaw has to focus on local issues instead of “experimental” ones.
The best part was reading about the possibility of a public safety levy. I would definitely vote for an increase in police funding and I hope Ms. Juarez gets the levy on the ballot sooner rather than later.
FWIW, while on our evening walk Southbound on 12th NE a week or so ago, we watched a coyote come East on NE 92nd from Roosevelt, continue through the intersection East, then come back to 12th and go North on 12th right past us on the opposite side of the street.
It watched us and we watched it as it passed not 20 feet away. It continued North while looking in yards as it went, as if it were looking for something but not finding it, then it went out of sight around NE 95th.
The cats that are often in that area were not out that night, perhaps the better for them.
It looked healthy and I hope happy.
Please remember there are Maple Leaf residents that are (for reasons that are still baffling to me) located in Council District 4. It would be nice to see links to info about that in addition to District 5.
MLL: For district map go here.