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When it was Aegis Living in Queen Anne on Galer resident Duane Hyde’s turn to receive his COVID-19 vaccination at a clinic earlier this month, he was ready. Hyde is one of 50 residents at the assisted living an memory care facility to receive their COVID-19 vaccination after months of planning by Aegis Living.
For Hyde, choosing to receive the inoculation was easy. The 97-year-old retired physician, who estimates he has received about 70 vaccinations throughout his life, said he has seen first hand the benefits of vaccines through his career. His greatest apprehension, he said, is people who are waiting to see what happens before receiving their shots.
“But we need to have them take it if we’re going to get around (the virus) and get herd immunity,” Hyde said. “It’s really selfish, as far as I’m concerned.”
Aegis Living in Queen Anne on Galer General Manager Kaylan Moore said, when it was time for residents and staff to receive their vaccines, staff wanted the event to be celebra-
resident Duane Hyde receives his first COVID-19 vaccine at a clinic at the assisted living and memory care facility earlier in January. Although it was an important day, Aegis Living staff turned it into a celebratory event.
tory and special.
The facility has been strictly following state and federal guidelines and practices during the pandemic, and Moore said that work has paid
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Neighborhood leaders pushing for Lewis to take closer look at parks, police and homelessness
By Jessica Keller QA&Mag News editor
With one year behind him, District 7 Seattle City Councilmember Andrew Lewis has made inroads in acquainting himself with the neighborhoods and
people he represents.
Neighborhood leaders, however, are keeping track of his progress, as well as the issues they believe should be prioritized in the forefront.
In Magnolia, one of the continued concerns is the fate of the Magnolia bridge and whether the
structure is going to be replaced.
“I think that he should make sure that the in-kind, or 1-1 Magnolia bridge replacement, is identified as the preferred alternative, and that will help get us out of the limbo of wondering what we’re going to do next,” Janis Traven, a member of the Magnolia Community Council, said.
Beyond that, Traven said she hopes Lewis will do what he can to lessen the financial and societal impacts of the coronavirus pandemic.
“I think there’s just going to be
a ton of repair work, economic repair work, needed to get us to a better place after COVID is handled,” she said. Circumstances are dire for many people right now, Traven said.
“Economically, we have a lot of problems that have only been made worse or exposed with the pandemic,” she said. Traven said one thing she would like Lewis to work on is
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The Seattle City Council approved Magnolia resident David Moehring’s appointment to the city’s Urban Forestry Commission at its Jan. 19 meeting.
Moehring, who is a member of the Magnolia Community Council and chair of its Land Use Review Committee, has been an outspoken proponent at the city level for saving trees for a long time.
Moehring, who is an architect, was appointed by Mayor Jenny Durkan to serve on the commission as a representative to the development community. Moehring joins 12 other commissioners who each represent a different
interest group or environmental field, including wildlife biologist, landscape architect and arborist. Together, they advise the mayor and City Council on policy and regulations regarding “the protection, management and conservation of trees and vegetation in the City of Seattle,” according to the city’s website.
Moehring said he is already known by many at the city level in his interest for saving trees, and as a development representative with an architectural background, he wants to focus on finding a balance between increasing the number of trees in the city and the need for increased density for housing. It is important, he said, that the city do both.
He said Seattle is losing about 600 to 800 street trees each year, but he fears, with more being taken down on private properties, the city is headed in the wrong direction when it comes to protecting its tree canopy.
Moehring estimates between 2,500 to 3,500 trees are being cleared from residential properties in a year as the city pushes
for more density and housing. He said the way density is taking shape at the moment, there isn’t a lot of space to replant trees.
Moehring said, for 100 years in Magnolia, there were large lots with small houses and lots of space for trees. Now, the lots are being divided, and more houses are going in with less room for trees.
“It’s going to be hard to maintain our tree canopy if, over time, those trees are removed,” Moehring said. “We’ve got to work harder to find how we can combine the density and trees and still get the buildings in. We just need to find more opportunities to make that sort of stuff happen.”
According to the Urban Forestry Commission website, Seattle officials set a goal of achieving a 30 percent tree canopy cover by 2037 and adopted the Seattle Urban Forest Stewardship Plan in 2013, which outlines the strategy for accomplishing that mission. Moehring’s term expires in March of 2022, but he can be appointed for another term, which typically are for three years.
As of last week, the Seattle Public Library expanded its locations and hours for curbside pickup and return services.
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As part of its expansion, the Library is now offering curbside pickup services three times a week at the Magnolia branch, 2801 34th Ave. W. Patrons can now pick up holds at that location from noon to 6 p.m. Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays.
Patrons can now return books and materials at 18 locations, including in Magnolia and the branch in Queen Anne, 400 W. Garfield St.
Library staff started the curbside service program last summer so patrons could access books, CDs, DVDs and other materials while the library buildings are closed, according to a news
The library’s free curbside printing service is now available at nine locations, including the Magnolia branch. People can now order 10 black-and-white pages a day.
For the complete list of locations and hours, go to www.spl. org/Print.
In addition, the Library has increased the maximum number of holds people can place on physical materials from 25 to 50 items.
People don’t need to make an appointment to pick up holds at the branch locations offering
Patrons can use the MyLibro app, https://app.mylibro.com/#/ login, or call 206-386-4636, to make an appointment to pick up holds at the Central Library, 1000 Fourth Ave.
According to the news release, Curbside Pickup Service locations offer additional services, including a selection of “Peak Picks” that patrons can browse and add to their checkouts, Grab & Go bundles of books sorted by genre and free child-sized and adult disposable masks available for patron use.
Go to www.spl.org/Curbside for information on the Curbside Pickup Service programs and www.spl.org/Hours for a schedule of services at each Curbside location.
King County Council Vice Chair Reagan Dunn introduced legislation last week to take a thorough look at system failures that led to the spilling of millions of gallons of untreated wastewater into Puget Sound and Lake Washington on Jan. 13, and issue a report offering a set of recommendations for preventing future wastewater spills.
A rainstorm on Jan. 13 caused flooding and power outages throughout the Puget Sound region and led to a power failure at King County’s West Point Treatment plant in Discovery Park in Magnolia. The plant spilled 11 million gallons of untreated wastewater — including sewage, industrial toxins, stormwater runoff and other contaminants — into Puget Sound, according to a press release. An additional 2.4 million gallons of stormwater and sewage spilled into Lake Washington from other wastewater facilities.
This recent wastewater spill follows the February 2017 failure at West Point that resulted in 235 million gallons of untreated wastewater flowing into Puget Sound. Such spills are known to impact the marine environment and result in the closures of public beaches in the area.
The required report would outline the causes of the wastewater spills and overflows on Jan. 13; the consequences to Puget Sound and Lake Washington ecosystems; the potential impacts for waterfront landowners and facilities; a summary of emergency discharges at the West Point Treatment Plant since February 2017; and the recent and projected future pattern and frequency of storms that could generate wastewater volumes that would overwhelm the West Point and the pump stations. The report would also put forward a strategy to reduce future spills. This report would be due by Aug. 1.
That’s a great observation about cats and dogs. Even I wasn’t sure why cats spin around before they sit down, so I took your question to my friend Dr. Jessica Bell.
She is a veterinarian at the Washington State University Veterinary Teaching Hospital and has seen quite a few cats and dogs walk in a little circle before they sit down.
“It’s a common thing we observe as veterinarians, but we can’t talk to cats and dogs and ask them ‘why,’ ” she said. “From a behavioral standpoint, it probably stems back to their wild instinct.”
An instinct is a behavior that animals don’t have to learn. They are born with this behavior, and it often helps them survive in the world. When cats and dogs spin in a full-circle, they have a chance to observe their environment. They might even spin in circles a few times to be certain the spot where they want to sit is safe.
They are likely keeping their eyes out for any danger, such as predators. This behavior was especially important when felines and canines lived in the wild. While a lot of cats and dogs may live in homes with humans these days, they never lost this instinct.
You may have also noticed that sometimes cats and dogs sniff around as they get ready to lie down. Both senses of sight and smell can help these animals make sure the coast is clear. Bell also told me that once the animal knows a space is safe, it will often return to the same spot.
“They often position themselves in the same place on their bed every time or face the same
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converting vacant downtown commercial office space into housing.
“And that’s something that would affect his district that I think would be a huge boon to address the homeless situation,” Traven said.
Queen Anne Community Council member Bob Kettle, who is the chairman of the public safety committee, said he would like Lewis to acknowledge crime’s impacts when considering public safety legislation.
“I’d ask him to give voice to the victims, be it the lady who lost her job since the store she worked in closed due to shoplifting or the single mom fearful of another home break-in and on edge with every car prowl,” Kettle said. “Reform is needed, yes, and compassion is needed, yes, but not at the expense of those suffering from crime.”
Former attorney and Magnolia resident Bruce Carter said he has been paying close attention to how the city is responding to public safety and police needs in light of the shake up following last summer.
He said he doesn’t necessarily oppose Lewis’s ideas to make the police force more efficient, but he thinks city leaders need to take a different approach when considering the problems.
“Police reform is sometimes a
direction,” she said.
While that may be the more scientific answer to your question, she also offered another idea.
“I think many dogs and cats are just finding a good, comfy, fluffy spot to lay down with just the right depth and cushiness,” she said. Finding a good place to rest can also be helpful for dogs who are getting a bit older. For instance, dogs that have arthritis, a condition where the joints get stiff or swollen, will often walk in a slow circle before they lie down.
If you keep your eye out, you may notice that other animals, such as horses or birds,
good idea, but you don’t automatically start by looking at the dollars. You start by looking at what you want them to do to improve the situation,” Carter said.
He also does not like the idea being considered by some City Council members of passing legislation that would reduce or eliminate penalties for some misdemeanors — mostly theft — if the person accused of a crime can prove it was done out of need.
“I think the courts have discretion to take appropriate steps with criminal defendants to try to get them on a road to recovery rather than just telling them to go ahead and walk on after stealing people’s property,” Carter said.
While Queen Anne Community Council member Don Harper would like Lewis to meet his campaign promise of hiring more police officers and prosecuting attorneys, he also wants him to continue to push for the completion of parks projects in his district.
“I need him to support parks,” Harper said.
He said the city needs to fulfill its commitment of completing Smith Cove Park, which has been on the books for a number of years and even has money dedicated toward it.
“We were promised that,” Harper said.
He also mentioned that Lewis needs to ensure other parks projects are completed, as well, such as the field and light project at Big
walk in a circle before they sit, too. You might see birds getting comfortable in their nests or a birdhouse. They even flip around their feathers and move different parts of their nest to get everything just right before they settle in. You know, a lot of veterinarians pay close attention to animal behavior and ask a lot of questions about it as they take care of our pets. If you keep up the great observations and continue to ask questions, you might just help us learn more about the amazing animals on our planet one day.
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“Police reform is sometimes a good idea, but you don’t automatically start by looking at the dollars. You start by looking at what you want them to do to improve the situation.”
— Bruce Carter, Magnolia
Howe Park. He also would like Lewis to advocate for a bigger offleash dog area in Queen Anne.
“I mean there are so many dogs, and the dogs are ruining our parks and fields,” Harper said. “You can just see it, and it’s not one dog. It’s not one person’s dog. It’s because of 50 dogs.”
Community Council member Justin Allegro said he would like Lewis and the council to improve the city’s finances.
“Step one is I’d like Councilmember Lewis and the council to avoid austerity measures and pass new progressive revenue that can be put toward helping our community become more equitable and respond to the coronavirus epidemic,” Allegro said.
He also wants Lewis to lean in further on the capital gains tax proposal he introduced last fall, which entailed creating a tax that applied specifically to
high earners. Allegro said Lewis pulled back on his idea locally to advocate for a capital gains tax at the state level when Democrats announced they would seek one during this legislative session.
“Every day that gets wasted while we wait for someone else to do something is another day that gets lost,” Allegro said.
Other organizations also have highlighted things they would like Lewis to focus on this year.
The Magnolia Chamber of Commerce recently sent a letter to Lewis outlining issues of importance in the community.
Chamber Executive Director Jason Thibeaux said one area of concern is the rise in property crimes, especially at businesses.
He said in an email that, as the chair of the Select Committee on Homelessness Strategies & Investments, Lewis would be “very interested in the number of repeated thefts and vandalism impacting employees, customers and owners’ livelihoods, which is an ongoing concern to many of our members and other business owners in Magnolia.”
Thibeaux said the chamber is pleased Lewis continues to support intervention, treatment and services for people dealing with homelessness or other issues that can contribute to the rise in property crimes.
“Policies and ongoing investment will improve the lives of those in need,” Thibeaux said in his email. “It will also help
support the recovery of small businesses in Magnolia’s retail and service districts, including the light industrial/manufacturing/ craft-artisanal businesses in the Ballard-Interbay Manufacturing Industrial Center area.”
In an email, Rick Hooper of Uptown Alliance, outlined areas of concern for committee members in the neighborhood they would like to see city leaders help address. A main concern is improving housing options and services for people experiencing homelessness, given an increase in encampments in the neighborhood.
Uptown Alliance members would also like city officials to be responsive to and engage with the community as the new Climate Pledge Arena nears completion and address transportation issues that are still unresolved.
In his email, Hooper said the Uptown Alliance will continue to track the city budget and impacts to Uptown in particular.
Members are advocating for city officials to continue to offer rental relief for Seattle Center tenants until the center fully reopens, as well as economic support for small businesses, specifically restaurants.
They also want continued recognition of the Uptown name.
“We need City Council approval of our proposed resolution to clarify and continue to support our community name ‘Uptown,’ ” Hooper said in his email.
Here at Bayview, we’re not sick from COVID, but sick of COVID.
We’re tired of social distancing, of wearing masks, of keeping our distance from loved ones, of not going to the movies or restaurants. We’re sick of all the bad news out there in the world, and we know from research that dwelling on the negative is bad for our health.
Nancy Weinbeck
In a prior column I addressed the benefits of a positive mindset and how older adults may have a positive mindset bias. This bias may lead to better health outcomes. I mentioned some tips to create a more positive mood, such as the pencil trick, as a faithful reader recently reminded me.
While scary stories of COVID and political unrest have dominated the headlines, positive and promising developments on healthy aging have slipped under the radar. Here are a few news tidbits that may help us pivot towards a more positive mindset in the midst of turmoil and chaos.
A world without Alzheimer’s disease? A major pharmaceutical company announced on Jan. 11 that researchers had positive results in their Phase 2 clinical trial of a drug that clears away the amyloid plaques in Alzheimer’s patients’ brains. Plaques are one of the telltale signs of Alzheimer’s disease, the most common form of dementia. Findings of this drug showed slowing of decline of cognition and daily function in patients with early symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease.
This is just the beginning of potentially viable and effective treatments for an insidious disease that more than 5 million Americans suffer from, is the sixth leading cause of death in the United States, and from which 1 in 3 seniors will die.
On the cancer front, a team of Australian scientists published promising findings on a cancer vaccine that could potentially be used to treat blood cancers as well as tumors. Imagine taking a vaccine to prevent cancer! As well, according to World Economic Forum, the 2020 annual meeting of the European Society for Medical Oncology reported on advances in the treatment of ovarian, breast and prostate cancers.
June 2020 also brought the world’s first spherical artificial eye with a 3D retina. This could potentially restore vision to those who suffer from visual impairment. Macular degeneration is particularly cruel to our elders who are also struggling with mobility issues even with full sightedness. Imagine restoring sight to those who face an ever-darkening world!
These are just a few of the medical advances on the horizon. Imagine a world where dementia doesn’t exist! Families not devastated by the loss of loved ones who no longer recognize nor remember them. Imagine cancer becoming a relic of the past, like polio and smallpox. Imagine if we could all live long and live well, right up to the end.
That’s the world I want to live in, and one I want for all of our seniors.
Good news is on the horizon. I’m feeling my positivity bias engine engaging, and it feels great!
Do you have some good news on healthy aging to share? Send me an email at nweinbeck@bayviewseattle.org. I’d love to hear it and pass it on.
— Nancy Weinbeck is the CEO of Bayview in Queen Anne.
Seattle press release
Mayor Jenny A. Durkan last week announced the next phase of the Seattle Fire Department Mobile Vaccination Teams, which involves a COVID-19 vaccination partnership with Service Employees International Union 775 and focuses on older adults in supportive housing.
To date, the City of Seattle has received 1,400 doses of the Moderna vaccine from the Washington State Department of Health. Following the completion of adult family homes, the two Seattle Fire Department Mobile Vaccination Teams will begin to vaccinate home health care workers and Seattle’s most vulnerable older adults living in permanent supportive housing and affordable housing. This newest vaccination effort began Jan. 21.
In addition, the city launched a new in-language website, www.seattle.gov/vaccine, where residents can find information regarding the progress of the vaccination effort in Seattle and can sign up for weekly vaccination updates from the city.
“In their first week in the field, our Mobile Vaccination Teams have provided relief and security to hundreds of our most
vulnerable Seattle residents,” Durkan said in a press release. “Our health care workers and the Seattle Fire Department are saving lives as they vaccinate our communities. As the city receives additional doses, we can vaccinate more workers and elders, who are some of our highest risk communities without equitable access to the health care system.”
The City of Seattle is partnering with SEIU 775 to host its first pop-up vaccination clinic in the coming days. The SFD MVTs will vaccinate an estimated 300 SEIU 775 members in one day and will provide the second dose four weeks later. SEIU 775 represents 45,000 home care workers statewide who are eligible to get vaccinated in Phase A1.
Home care workers — like those represented by SEIU 775 — are disproportionately Black, people of color and limited English speakers, who don’t have a common worksite and are more likely to be uninsured. As such, many King Countybased home care workers have not yet been vaccinated despite their A1 eligibility and close proximity to extremely high-risk communities, including older adults and people with multiple co-morbidities.
off because no residents have come down with COVID-19, as a result.
“We’ve been through the wringer just explaining to residents why we’ve been doing what we’re doing,” Moore said.
The resulting understanding and commitment of residents to do their part in staying safe were a few reasons why staff decided a celebration, complete with treats and balloons, was appropriate at the facility’s vaccine clinic.
The vaccine “party” went off without a hitch, Moore said. Nobody suffered any adverse reactions, and everyone left with a renewed sense of hope that the end of the pandemic is on its way, she said.
“Our employees were emotional, myself included, because it was just a big, big day,” she said.
The party was the culmination of a lot of work by Aegis administrators and staff that began even before the vaccines received federal approval. Moore said Aegis network administrators wanted all residents at their facilities to be ready to receive vaccines when they first became available. That meant launching a campaign to educate, answer questions, satisfy concerns and, hopefully secure buy-in from staff, residents and, in some cases, residents’ powers of attorney.
Moore said, because this is a new vaccine for a deadly illness, they were anticipating some people would have reservations and
questions.
“There should be questions. There should be concerns,” she said.
To eliminate misinformation from spreading or confusion, and to ensure people were making informed decisions from trusted sources, Moore said administrators formed a coronavirus advisory council comprised of physicians and healthcare professionals from throughout the West Coast. The advisory council then met with residents, staff, family members and powers of attorney in a series of Zoom sessions to answer questions and ease concerns.
In addition, Moore said her boss told her at the very beginning of the education campaign that if anybody had immediate questions or concerns, they could call him directly.
“I think without these kind of things in place, we wouldn’t have been able to accomplish our goal at Aegis, which was 100 percent participation,” Moore said.
She said 89 percent of staff received their vaccines, and those who didn’t declined for medical or religious reasons.
Moore said, when it was time to get her vaccination, the process went smoothly.
“I’m scared of shots, and I didn’t flinch,” she said.
Moore said, with the first round of vaccines complete, she expects the next clinic, to administer vacccine boosters, will go just as smoothly.
While state and federal gov-
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Aegis of Queen Anne at Galer resident Betty Sechrist holds up a card announcing she received her COVID-19 vaccination at a clinic earlier this month.
ernment officials are working out questions about how much vaccine has been distributed and how much is needed, Aegis and other facilities like it that are receiving vaccines through the federal government program are in a better position.
Moore said she has been assured by CVS staff the boosters will be available at the second
clinic, which will take place this week.
Even after that, however, until the rest of the population is vaccinated, restrictions will have to stay in place at Aegis, Moore said.
“But this is the biggest step forward,” she said. “This is going to mean huge things for the safety of our residents and staff.”
Seattle Symphony’s Community Stages Fund opens Benaroya Hall stage to local organizations
The Seattle Symphony is launching the Community Stages Fund, which aims to support nonprofit organizations by providing fully sponsored or heavily subsidized use of the performance and backstage spaces of Benaroya Hall and access to digital streaming equipment and production crew.
The initiative will serve organizations within the Pacific Northwest who do not have access to technology or spaces of their own to produce digital content, which impacts not only their ability to connect with audiences but also their ability to fundraise.
Organizations interested in a Community Stages Fund grant can apply at seattlesymphony.org/ communitystages. First round applications are due by Feb. 8, with additional applications accepted on a rolling basis. Initial participants will be announced by March 1. The selection committee will consist of Symphony leadership in addition to leaders from partners within the Symphony’s Community Connections program. Selection will be prioritized based on demonstrated need of the organization as well as service to racially diverse communities.
For questions about the application process, contact community.stages@seattlesymphony.org.
