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JANUARY 22, 2020

VOL. 101, NO. 4

AFFORDABLE UPTOWN

FEATURED STORIES

PORTAL PARK

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PLYMOUTH HOUSING BREAKS GROUND ON APARTMENTS ACROSS FROM SEATTLE CENTER

Photo by Brandon Macz Plymouth Housing and its partners broke ground on a new affordable housing project at Second Avenue North and Mercer Street in Uptown on Thursday, Jan. 16.

By Brandon Macz

QA&Mag News editor

The sun came out for Plymouth Housing’s groundbreaking ceremony in Uptown, where it will spend the next 18 months constructing more than 90 affordable housing units above a nonprofit community arts space. The cold, however, underscored the need for more

QA Little League sign-up ends soon The Queen Anne Little League is seeking players age 4-16 for the 2020 spring season. Children living or attending school in the 98109, 98119, or 98121 zip codes are eligible to play. The signup deadline is Wednesday, Jan. 29. Evaluations for the baseball minors division takes place Saturday, Feb. 1. Evaluations for majors is Tuesday night, Feb. 4. Registration is open for tee ball, softball, baseball and teen baseball and softball. Fees vary based on the sport and league. People can register their children at qall.org, as well as sign up to volunteer, umpire and/or coach. For more information, email info@ qall.org.

affordable housing stock in order to bring those experiencing homelessness inside. “We are here with warm hearts for what we’re going to do here today,” said Plymouth Housing board president Jane Zalutsky, who is also executive director of the Seattle Center Foundation. Located on the southwest corner of Second Avenue North and Mercer

Street, the 11,000-square-foot “K” site was gifted to Seattle Center by the Kreielsheimer Foundation while the rest of the 43,000-square-foot block was donated to the Seattle Opera, which sold its land to Washington Holdings in 2016. The City of Seattle and Plymouth  PLYMOUTH, Page 12

Seattle Parks removes vandalized Magnolia tree Someone drilled holes in two Douglas firs, filled them with harfmful herbicide

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Seattle Parks and Recreation has removed one large Douglas fir tree at the southeast corner of Magnolia Park and will continue monitoring another one discovered vandalized back in April. “We went out and we inspected the tree; it had a couple of holes drilled in

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Photo courtesy of Shary Flenniken Pieces of a Douglas fir are seen in Magnolia Park. The tree was removed after someone filled drill holes with herbicide, killing it.

it,” said SPR arborist Chris Rippey, adding a liquid substance was discovered inside the holes. “We ended up having it tested and it came

back as a chemical that’s in a couple different products, one being a stump killer.”

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