Category Archives: Shilshole Neighbors

topics related to your dock neighborhood, as well as the greater Ballard/Sunset Hill neighborhood

How to build Shilshole Community

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 Turn off your TV and get outside
Know your neighbors
Look up when you are walking
Greet people
Sit on your dock box
Play together
Buy from local merchants
Share what you have
Help a lost pet
Take children to the park
Garden together
Support neighborhood schools
Fix it even if you didn’t break it
Have potlucks
Honor elders
Pick up litter
Read stories aloud
Dance in the street
Talk to the marina staff
Listen to the birds and the sea lions
Help carry something heavy
Barter for your goods
Start a tradition
Ask a question
Hire young people for odd jobs
Organize a dock party
Bake extra and share
Ask for help when you need it
Open your shades
Sing together
Share your skills
Take back the night
Turn up the music
Turn down the music
Listen before you react to anger
Mediate a conflict
Seek to understand
Learn from new and uncomfortable angles
Know that no one is silent, though many are not heard

City Council Candidates Forum-Nordic Museum

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Wed, June 12th, 7pm

Here’s your chance to interact with community members and hear in person from candidates on a wide range of issues for this important local election. The Seattle City Council primary election is August 6.

Seattle City Council District 6 encompasses the greater Ballard area, as well as Green Lake, Phinney Ridge, Fremont, and part of Greenwood. This panel will cover at-large issues as well as providing focus on Ballard-specific topics.

candidates forum details

Fisheries Supply Spring Swap Meet

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Sat, April 6th, 5am to 1pm

What to Expect:

A maritime flea market, full of boating goods, old parts, and new parts, outboards, buoys, dock line, coolers, heaters, chain, clothing, and so much more. Die-hard bargain boaters have been known to arrive the night before to stake out a good parking spot, although sellers are not allowed to use the lower tier of the upper parking lot (closest to the store entrance). In addition to the hundreds of boaters buying, selling and trading boating equipment, Fisheries will be offering great pricing on clearance, discontinued, overstock, scratch and dent products, and last seasons clothing.

see details here: https://www.fisheriessupply.com/swap-meet

Seaview Temporary Stoplight and Construction

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By now you may have seen/been stopped by the temporary light  near the railroad bridge.  This is necessary to allow heavy equipment on the roadway to complete the emergency sewer connection to Magnolia.  In 2017, the pipe broke under the ship canal and leaked raw sewage into the canal.  sewage spill and repair.

Road detour and repairs should take about 2 months.

Project Site

 

SLA Winter Party at CYC

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The Shilshole Liveaboard Association put together a great little Winter Party at the Corinthian Yacht Club.  Of course, there was a fine cruiser potluck, and I was thrilled to see a good turn-out from O-dock. With a fun Monty Python theme, Kristen and her crew decorated with banners, spam and mini-grails, and even a entry drawbridge. We had live music, good camaraderie, and even a silly walk. It was a small Winter turn-out, and with only one loved child, so she got most of the pics. What a good fun evening! Hope you can come next time – thanks all!  see pics here…