All about the West Seattle neighborhood around Beach Drive
This morning the West Seattle Blog reports:
2/3/10: Just received a phone call (8 am) that a small female dog was found along north Beach Drive (south of Alki Point) this morning. Taken to West Seattle VCA vet clinic/hospital. If it might be yours, please call 206 923 3551 (and let us know if there’s a reunion since we may not hear directly from the hospital).
Hard to believe that it was three years ago today that Beach Drive Blog was launched. Just this past weekend I bumped into someone at my nephew-in-law's (boy that sounds funny) home who knew me from BDB. It's such a small world! He and I wound up being "Facebook Friends" and then noticed we had the mutual connection… social media and how much it can connect us, will never cease to amaze me.
Our first blog post (910 articles ago) has a photo of Thelma, our white cat who left us about this time last year. She's also in the banner for the blog. What's interesting to me about the first post is that I still have the same overall goal or purpose for this blog: serving the community that exists along Beach Drive.
Part of my reasoning for starting this blog, in amidst all the others is that I would like to see our neighborhood have an active block watch or a way we can all communicate with each other. This could serve as one of the functions of this blog. It would also be interesting to share photos and events about our neighborhood and blog about the history of several of the homes in this area…kind of a "this old house". This can also be a tool for networking, sharing recipes…we don't know what this could evolve to. Your participation is welcome.
And yes–your participation is very welcome and these days…NEEDED. I have been pretty busy keeping up with my day job and other business related blogging activites. I am not and will not abandone this blog–it's most near and dear to my heart.
My vision for Beach Drive Blog has always been to have neighbors along this community being active reporters "covering their beat". If you live in the Beach Drive neighborhood and are interested in being a contributing author, please let me know. Instructions on "how to" write for this blog and what content would be appreciated is on the "how to" tab along the top of this site.
I cannot thank you enough. I enjoy writing this blog and getting to meet our neighbors. I am humbled to have ANY readers (I subscribed my husband so I would have at least one). Thank you for sending in your stories, photos and being active in our community in West Seattle.
Thank you and happy birthday, Beach Drive Blog!
Below Atlas along the mud slide, Beach Drive is reduced to one lane.
Photo take with my mobile phone…please pardon the quality.
I'm hearing from a friend that on Friday night there were:
"two buildings on Beach Drive that I know of that were broken into last night with the use of force and prying on lobby door knobs"
Does anyone have more information on this? At the very least it's a good reason to be extra alert. If you have more information, please let us know.
The Alki Community Council will meet Thursday, January 21 at 7 p.m. at the Alki UCC Church at 6115 Hinds St. This is a new location.
Special guest will be Lyn McClelland, who will speak about the Alki Light Station.
Hat tip to West Seattle Blog for following up with the Seattle Department of Transportation to let us know that tomorrow, the portion of Beach Drive (around the 6000 block) tht was impacted by the mud slide will be closed from approximately 9:00 am to 4:00 pm.
Please pardon the quality…they're from my mobile phone.
While checking my emails this morning, I caught a message from my sister asking if we're okay…she heard there's a landslide on Beach Drive via the news. Of course the first thing I did (since we're fine) was to check West Seattle Blog and they do report that the 6000 block of Beach Drive is closed due to a response from a landslide.
If you have any photos, please be sure to forward them.
Update: Here is Fox Q13's report. From their photo, the slide looks pretty small–let's hope it stays that way.
Beach Drive Blog is looking for needs neighborhood writers and photographers. I've been passionately plugging away at the blog for almost three years (we actually have a "blogoversary coming up soon) but with all the changes in my "full time job", I've been running out of day to give BDB the time and attention it so deserves.
This is where Beach Drive Blog could use your help. If you live in the Beach Drive Neighborhood of West Seattle and would like to be a contributor, please let me know. It would be great to have "reporters" covering the entire stretch of Beach Drive with articles you've written or your photographs.
If you're interested or have any questions, please let me know and I'll fill you in on the details. The more contributors we have at BDB, the more vibrant and rich this blog will be for our community.
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