Queen Anne News 06-05-2024

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Queen Anne Historical Society 2024 awards celebration Monorail

By Mary Chapman Cole QA Historical Society

On May 23 at the Elks Lodge #92, the Queen Anne Historical Society held their 2024 Awards Celebration.

There were 5 awards presented: Outstanding Renovation - Studio Ming Strazara and the Cascade Parent Partnership at the North Queen Anne School; Beloved Queen Anne Business - Targy’s Tavern; Outstanding Community Organization - Queen Anne Farmer’s Market;

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Gearing up for the summer, Seattle Monorail Services has partnered with Seattle Center and the City of Seattle’s Office of Economic Development to showcase local art on the historic Seattle Center Monorail guideway columns. The Monorail Column Mural Project is part of the City’s efforts to support the economic and cultural recovery of downtown Seattle by activating the 5th Avenue corridor. Artwork is located on 14 monorail columns along 5th Avenue between Broad Street and Pine Street.

“We are excited to see these vibrant murals along 5th Avenue, enriching our community and inspiring all who visit,” said Seattle Center Director, Marshall Foster.

“This initiative showcases incredible local art, and community partnerships, and plays a vital role in downtown Seattle's cultural and economic revitalization. Seattle Center is deeply grateful to the Office of Economic Development for their support in bringing the Monorail Column Mural Project to life.”

The monorail column murals were created by local linocut artist and instructor, Leslie Nan Moon. Moon’s murals highlight cultural activities, community organizations, festivals, and attractions at Seattle Center and around

Photos courtesy Leanne Goulding Sarah Holt and Maria College, QA Farmer’s Market

Photos courtesy Leanne Goulding Owen Gonder, Principal of Cascade Parent Partnership

Realtor Steve Kennedy, QA Masonic Lodge Townhomes

Pat Bennett, Manager of Targy’s Tavern

Laurie Reed, Owner of the Handschy House

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Farmer’s market open

City Councilmembers Bob Kettle, center, and Tanya Woo (blue dress) joined staff and volunteers to ring the opening bell of the season’s first Queen Anne Farmer’s Market. The market is open — rain or shine — every Thursday from 3 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. through September. In addition to more than 70 vendors and food trucks, there is a community tent and the Roots to Shoots tent for kids. To learn more about this year’s vendors and special guests or to sign up to volunteer, visit the website qafm.org

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SANELLI TO GIVE AUTHOR PRESENTATION

Mary Lou Sanelli will a give an author presentation at Queen Anne's beloved Fountain Head Gallery at 4 p.m. Saturday, June 15. Sanelli has written her column, Falling Awake, for The Queen Anne & Magnolia News since 2009. She also contributes to the Seattle Times. She will be presenting from her last title, Every Little Thing, which was nominated for a Washington State Book Award and a Pacific Northwest Book Award.

Her newest title, “In So Many Words,” will be published this fall.

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the city. For the last decade, Moon visited Seattle Center weekly as a safe and fun space to explore and spend time with her severely autistic son. Moon explained, “Sharing art is crucial to me. Art fuels my soul as does helping others discover how it can help them as well.”

A CHILD LOOKING AT A DRAWING

To create learning opportunities for local youth, Moon built community partnerships and worked with Pratt Fine Arts Center, Seattle Print Arts, and YouthCare. She conducted workshops for over 40 young people in our community teaching them the process of making linocut art starting with design, working through ink mixing, and finally printing. Moon’s linocut art workshops served elementary students from Pratt’s youth art program as well as teens from YouthCare’s Orion Center. From the youth workshops, three of the monorail column murals feature collages of their work representing Seattle Center festival themes such as Bite of

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Outstanding Adaptive Reuse - QA Masonic Lodge

Seattle Center welcomes new public art

Walking Round Thing by Harold Balazs is the third art piece installation by Chihuly Garden and Glass.

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RAIN CITY SYMPHONY PERFORMANCE SET

Rain City Symphony, a community orchestra, is having its Spring Concert on Wednesday, June 5 at 7:30 p.m. at the Nordic Heritage Museum in Ballard. The symphony will: The Lark Ascending and Folk Song from Somerset and Mendelssohn’s Reformation Symphony.

The symphony has members from Queen Anne, Magnolia, Ballard, laurelhurst, the U District, Capital Hill and Nathan Hale areas.

The concert is free or can be heard at the RainCitySymphony.org website.

Seattle, Winterfest, and Bumbershoot.

The vibrant linocut art will brighten and enliven 5th Avenue for the next year. The monorail column murals will be included in the Seattle Center Art Tour Presented by Alaska Airlines which provides the opportunity for a self-guided art tour of over 50 works of art.

In partnership with Visit Seattle and Seattle Center, Seattle Monorail Services first piloted monorail column mural art in July 2023 to celebrate MLB All Star Week in Seattle.

Seattle Center Monorail is owned by the City of Seattle, overseen by Seattle Center, and operated by Seattle Monorail Services. Megan Ching, President of Seattle Monorail Services, says, “Since the 1962 World’s Fair, Seattle Center Monorail has served as a city connector and continues to be a front door to Seattle Center. We look forward to supporting community engagement, local art, and re-energizing downtown Seattle with the Monorail Column Mural Project.”

For more information, visit https://www. seattlemonorail.com/monorail-murals/

Townhomes; and Outstanding Stewardship - The Handschy House. QA Historical Society also

honored outgoing President Michael Herschensohn with a gift in recognition of his many years leading the organization.

Seattle Center is pleased to welcome a new public art installation to campus, courtesy of Chihuly Garden and Glass. Walking Round Thing is a six-foot tall copper sculpture created by artist Harold Balazs in 1980. This new addition to Seattle Center’s outstanding collection of public art will be unveiled on Monday, June 3 at 9:00 am. As the name suggests, Balazs’ intent was to invite the viewer to walk around and enjoy this sculpture from various perspectives. Its new home, on the plant-filled walkway between the Space Needle and Chihuly Garden and Glass, will enable visitors to do just that.

During the Seattle World’s Fair held at Seattle Center in 1962, Balazs’ artwork was displayed across the fairgrounds. He installed a wooden relief at the entrance to the Forest Industries Theater, a large public sculpture entitled Screwtape in the First National Bank sculpture exhibit, and Glyph No. 2 in the Northwest Art Today exhibit in the Fine Arts Pavilion. Balazs was a champion of public art as a State Arts Commissioner and created iconic sculptures across Seattle and Spokane.

“Our goal is for guests visiting from around the world to remember Seattle for its exceptional artists,” said Michelle Bufano, Executive Director of Chihuly Garden and Glass. "The addition of Balazs’ art continues the longstanding commitment of Chihuly Garden and Glass to enrich Seattle Center with vibrant, authentic creativity."

Walking Round Thing is the newest addition to the Seattle Center Art Tour. Balazs’ art is the third art piece in a series that was installed by Chihuly Garden and Glass. Walking Round Thing joins two other sculptures, Feminine One by David Lemon installed in 2016 and Water's Edge Years Round by Joey Kirkpatrick and Flora C. Mace installed in 2018. Visitors and locals are invited to experience over 50 works of art on campus through an enriching selfguided tour with a companion guide available at seattlecenter.com/explore/ arts/public-art.

Learn more at chihulygardenandglass.com.

Courtesy of Bob Kettle's office

Queen Anne Little League celebrates 50 years of softball

By Laura Marie Rivera

This year marks the 50th anniversary of Little League Softball. According to littleleague.org, Little League Softball started in 1974 with just two divisions. Today, there are approximately 300,000 athletes from over 25 countries playing in five divisions.

On Saturday, more than 200 members of the Queen Anne Little League Softball community came together at Bethany Presbyterian Church for the Girls With Game Softball Jamboree to celebrate the players. Softball players and their families were treated to ice cream and popcorn and several awards were given out. Each of the eleven teams awarded two players on their team: one coach’s choice award for growth mindset and one player’s choice for most valued

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QALL Softball players and families enjoyed the photo booth at last Saturday's Softball Jamboree.

teammate, prioritizing positivity, supportiveness, and good sportsmanship.

They also honored Anh Nguyen, QALL Vice President of softball, for her commitment to the teams and nearly doubling the program in the last five years.

Tom Koerick, the former QALL President,

said, “QALL is so lucky to have Anh leading the way for softball! Her energy and enthusiasm are so contagious and the girls and their families are making memories that will last a lifetime. Let’s hope that more girls continue to come out and play in the years to come!” For more, go to qall. org.

NAIA bars transgender women from women’s sports

By Maeve Smith UW News Lab

Transgender women wanting to enter women's sports in community colleges will not be able to after a new national policy has prohibited them from doing so.

On April 8, the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) released a policy barring transgender women from competing on female sports teams.

The policy will take effect on Aug. 1 of this year and states that only people “assigned female at birth” are allowed to compete on NAIA Women’s teams.

According to Zeb Hoffman, associate director of Intercollegiate Athletics at Evergreen State College, this decision was a surprise and “came out of nowhere.”

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The global Olympics framework states: “The Framework recommends a multifaceted approach to eligibility criteria for sex-segregated sports competition. This is because the factors that matter to sports performance are unique to each sport, discipline, and/or event. The Framework also recognizes that populations of trans people and people with sex variations are highly diverse, including with regard to their athletic abilities.”

While the NAIA is the first major sporting organization in the United States to take such a drastic stance, there are currently 25 states with laws or regulations that ban transgender athletes from competing under the gender they identify with.

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The decision was reached by a unanimous vote from the NAIA Council of Presidents after the Transgender Task Force proposed this policy in April. The Transgender Task Force was formed in April 2022 at the request of the Council of Presidents.

Brad Anawalt, a professor of medicine at the University of Washington, felt the April NAIA decision lacked “nuance.”

He said that “they (NAIA) are failing to recognize that these issues are related to social justice, and they’re societal issues. The decision of how to include transgender athletes in sports competitions is not solely based in medicine or science.”

This new policy is not aligned with current National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and International Olympic Committee (IOC) standards regarding trans participation. Both organizations emphasize transgender women need at least one year of hormone-suppressing therapy before competing in women's sports. Olympic standards also have sportspecific requirements, as the competitive advantage gained from masculine features differs from sport to

On April 19, President Joe Biden expanded Title IX protections to include discrimination based on gender identity. However, the administration delayed actions addressing the question of transgender athletes. In 2023, Biden proposed a policy that would outlaw outright bans of trans athletes. However, action has yet to be taken on this proposal.

Without Title XI addressing the question of fairness in sports, little can be done by those who disagree with the new NAIA policy.

“We’re waiting to see how Title XI interacts with this and how Washington State law interacts with this,” said Hoffman, Associate Director of Intercollegiate Athletics at Evergreen State College.

“Anyone with any skin in the game wanted to have a knee-jerk reaction to this, but I don’t think this is the time to do that.” Hoffman goes on to say.

Anawalt said the science surrounding fairness and trans participation in elite sports is not conclusive enough to generalize broadly. Anawalt wrote a report for the NCAA in 2019 in which he concluded “Science cannot provide a fair and just answer on how to include all individuals who self-identify and want to compete as women in NCAA sports.”

Your salad needs fruit

by Lynda Balslev

When stone fruit is in season, it's time to indulge. There's no denying the joy of slurpy bites of juicy fresh peaches, nectarines and plums -- but also consider applying fire and heat.

When stone fruits are roasted and grilled, their sugars caramelize, they soften and their flavors are amplified, adding winey, syrupy sweetness and a hint of char to desserts, salsas and salads.

Make this salad with grilled peaches or nectarines. Accompany them with ingredients that complement and contrast their tangy sweetness. In this salad, peppery arugula, an oozy, creamy burrata and crunchy pistachios balance and enhance the fruit. If you eat meat, you can also add salty shards of oven-crisped prosciutto.

The dressing for this salad is a light vinaigrette, which is freshened with honey and lemon so as not to overpower the ingredients, but complement the fruit and greens.

GRILLED PEACH AND MOZZARELLA SALAD

Active time: 20 minutes

Total time: 20 minutes

Yield: Serves 4

Dressing:

▶ 2 tablespoons champagne or white balsamic vinegar

▶ 1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice

▶ 1 tablespoon honey

▶ 1/3 cup extra-virgin olive oil

▶ Pinch of kosher salt

▶ 3 to 4 ripe but firm peaches, halved and pitted

▶ Olive oil

▶ 4 cups arugula, about 3 ounces

▶ 1 tablespoon chopped fresh mint leaves, plus more for garnish

▶ 1 tablespoon chopped fresh chervil, plus more for garnish

▶ 1/2 teaspoon finely grated lemon zest

▶ 1 (8-ounce) burrata or fresh mozzarella, torn in bite-size chunks

▶ 2 tablespoons unsalted pistachios, coarsely chopped

▶ Freshly ground black pepper

▶ Whisk the dressing ingredients in a small bowl.

If using a grill, lightly brush the cut sides of the peaches with olive oil to prevent sticking. Place face down on a griddle or on the grill grates over direct medium heat. Grill until marked and slightly softened, about 3 minutes. If using an oven, place cut sides up in a pan and broil until charred, about 2 minutes.

▶ Transfer the peaches to a cutting board. Brush with some of the dressing, then cut in half to create 6 to 8 wedges.

▶ Place the arugula in a wide serving bowl. Add the mint, chervil and lemon zest. Lightly drizzle with some of the dressing and toss to coat (you will add more dressing before serving). Arrange the peaches and the burrata on the salad. Scatter the pistachios and additional mint and

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chervil over the salad. Drizzle with more dressing and add black pepper to your taste and serve.

Lynda Balslev is an award-winning writer, cookbook author, and recipe developer based in northern California. Visit TasteFood at TasteFoodblog.com.

Association of WA Business endorses two of three initiatives on the fall ballot

By Brett Davis

The Center Square

The board of directors of the Association of Washington Business – the state’s oldest and largest business association – has endorsed two of three initiatives on this November’s ballot.

AWB’s board has voted to endorse Initiative 2109, repealing the state’s capital gains tax, and Initiative 2124, allowing employees and selfemployed individuals to opt out of coverage under WA Cares, the state’s mandatory long-term care insurance program.

The board voted to remain neutral on Initiative 2117, repealing the state’s Climate Commitment Act that limits greenhouse gas emissions via a cap-and-trade program.

“Washington is a highcost state for employers, but the lack of an income

tax has historically been a competitive advantage,”

AWB President Kris Johnson said in a news release.

“When lawmakers chose to implement a capital gains tax, we lost one of our key advantages and moved a step closer to an income tax, which Washingtonians have repeatedly rejected. We hope voters will say yes to I-2109 and support tax policies that make it easier, not harder, to start and grow in business in Washington.”

In 2021, the Legislature passed and Gov. Jay Inslee signed into law a capital gains income tax aimed at the state’s wealthiest residents. The measure assesses a 7% tax on capital gains above $250,000 a year, such as profits from stocks or business sales.

A lawsuit challenged the tax's constitutionality, but in March 2023, the state Supreme Court held that it

was constitutional.

Johnson also had harsh words for WA Cares, a first-of-its-kind universal long-term care insurance program funded by worker contributions that became law in 2019.

“Lawmakers made some critical changes to the original long-term care insurance program in 2021 that made it problematic, including removing the option for people to opt out of the state program when they acquire private insurance,” Johnson said. “Employers have tried to work with legislators to fix the program but have been unsuccessful. We think people should have the choice to opt out of a program they may never use.”

The WA Cares payroll tax – 58 cents on every $100 earned – was supposed to kick in Jan. 1, 2022, but that plan was derailed by, among other things, lawmakers

concerned about people paying into the program who would not be eligible to receive benefits.

In late January of that year, Inslee signed House Bill 1732, delaying both the start of the long-term care payroll tax until July 1, 2023, and the start date for benefits payments until July 1, 2026.

The board was more circumspect with regard to the CCA and its emissions trading program to put a limit on pollution by requiring emitters to obtain “emissions allowances” equal to their covered greenhouse gas emissions that can be obtained via auctions hosted by the state Department of Ecology.

“Our members overwhelmingly agree the Climate Commitment Act has challenges and needs reform, but there is a range of opinion about whether it would be better to repeal

the program or continue to address the issues with the existing program,” Johnson explained. “After much discussion, our board decided to remain neutral on this initiative.”

The three initiatives on the November ballot were part of a package of six initiatives submitted to the Legislature this session by the voter advocacy group Let’s Go Washington. The three initiatives not on the ballot – lifting restrictions on police vehicle pursuits, prohibiting income taxes, and establishing a “bill of rights” for parents of K-12 students – were passed by the Legislature and go into effect next month.

In the meantime, supporters and opponents of the three initiatives on the fall ballot are making their case to voters in the five months remaining before the Nov. 5 general election.