You’re invited  on Monday, July 2 from 4:30-8:00 p.m. to celebrate the Elliott Bay Water Taxi with a round-trip voyage to Salty’s on Alki Beach in West Seattle for a panel discussion and reception.

King County Councilmembers Dow Constantine and Julia Patterson will lead public, maritime labor and passenger ferry industry representatives in a discussion to highlight:

* King County Ferry District – Impact on Elliott Bay, Vashon Island and Lake Washington
* Puget Sound Regional Council passenger ferry study
* Kitsap Transit and community efforts in West Sound
* South Sound Triangle Route (Tacoma-Gig Harbor-Des Moines/SeaTac shuttle)
* North Puget Sound initiatives from Port Roberts to Whidbey Island
* Olympic Peninsula/Hood Canal passenger ferry opportunities
* Potential for a Sound-wide Interlocal Agreement to expand Passenger Ferry Service to complement the Washington State Ferry System

For more information, click here.

Happy Father’s Day to all the Beach Drive Dads.

These photos are from a family trip to D.C. back on our Spring Break of 2004.   I thought I would share them with you to honor those who have served our country.

My Mom is the lady in back in white.   The other ladies are my Aunt Patti, Aunt Teen and Aunt Mary.    Happy Mother’s Day!

Mark your calendars for the Alki Community Council Meeting on May 17 at 7:00 p.m. at the Alki Community Center.   Topics to include:

• Ready for summer?  Parks Dept. & SPD
• Pollution
• Zoning
• Emergency Preparedness
• Antennas

I just called Comcast and we are having an area outage. I guess if you have Comcast, like me, then you’re not reading this post! I was told the outage could be 2 or 3 hours. thank goodness for my Treo!

Update:  It’s 2:3o and we’re back on line.  🙂   It’s nice to know that I can still blog on my Treo!

You can download your copy of the May/June 2007 Alki Beacon right here!

I think that I shall never see

A Cell Phone tower lovely as a tree.

Perhaps, unless my wireless won’t ring

… okay BDB readers…here’s your chance to create the last line of this poem.   Submit your suggestion by clicking the comment link.  🙂

This was my inspiration for the silly poem above.

I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Perhaps, unless the billboards fall,
I’ll never see a tree at all.
–   Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1933

On a more serious note…to read West Seattle Herald’s latest article on the cell phone tower issue in Alki, click here.