I just received this email regarding Alki’s Statue of Liberty:

Have just talked with Pamela Green, Director of Community Outreach, Mayor’s Office re: details of our great event on Tuesday, Sept. 11th, for rededication of the newly recast statue to her home of 55 years on Alki.
According to Pamela, here’s some of the happenings:
• West Seattle Big Band starts playing at 5:30pm
• During the playing of the ‘National Anthem’ a Honor Guard of
     2 Seattle Police Dept. officers
     2 Fire Department officers will present ‘colors’
• Mayor Nickels at 6:00 pm
• Tom Rasmussen, City Councilman
• Unveiling of statue
• Fireboat Leschi with water display
• Boy Scout Area Director will be rounding up some local Boy Scout Troops to be in attendance.
• Plus various Parks Dept., city/county officials

We also have personally invited Fire Station 29 who played such an important role during the memorials on 9/11, and local police officers who also played a big part in the community memorials.

Hope you all can come and join us.

I personally can’t think of a more fitting place to be or thing to do on September 11 if you’re in the Seattle area.

Click this link to see a sneak peak curtosy of West Seattle Blog.

Before you go to bed Tuesday, if you have one of these where you park on Beach Drive, you’ll want to move your car.   Spots where they’re finishing up the Sharrows will have no parking from 6:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.  on August 15.

Bellevue may have their big art fair this weekend…

and so do we!

Yesterday afternoon, I noticed white dashes painted along both sides of Beach Drive.  Did someone from the city read my rant about bikes on the sidewalks…could it be for a future bike lane?   Is the city preparing to rip up BD much like the rest of West Seattle has tolerated?   Inquiring minds want to know…

According to the city’s project list  (done well before my rant)…there are plans for a "bicycle improvements from Morgan Junction to Beach Drive (and beyond)".   I’m not sure if this is what the white dashes are about…it appears to be so.   

Geez…where will we park?

I may have to drop the West Seattle Blog a line…they know EVERYTHING West Seattle!

Update:  WSB has pointed us to another neighborbood blog:  Miller Park    

Has anyone received notice or information about this from our fine City?

Loafing around Great Harvest Bread Co. where we had a delish iced latte here.

The scene at the West Seattle Streetfair was pretty much the same as last year.   

I’ll be there again tomorrow to volunteer an hour for the Alki Community Council (across the street from the Rat City Rollers dunk tank).

Yours truly will be at the West Seattle Summerfest helping to man the Alki Community Council booth on Sunday, July 15, 2007 from 12:00 – 1:00.   Why don’t ya stop on by and say hello.

Of course this will be after I deliver the Alki Beacon on my paper route!

The following message is from Libby and Paul Carr, Seattle Statue of Liberty Committee–Phase II:

The Alki and West Seattle Community is at an important crossroads as we get ready to bring the newly recast Statue of Liberty back to her home on Alki Beach.  We have to make final strategic decisions between two choices:

1. New Plaza with a Higher Pedestal:  If we decide to continue with the plans approved last year with input after several community meetings with architects Matt Hutchins and Chris Ezzell, we now need to form a new committee (the Seattle Statue of Liberty Committee—Phase II) and do the necessary fundraising to finish the Statue base and surrounding plaza.  This design clearly incorporates all the bricks (engraved pavers) sold earlier and has plenty of room for more.  It is also specifically designed to make the statue less exposed to vandalism.
2. Using the old pedestal.  Certain individuals on staff at the Parks Department would prefer that the new Plaza not be built because they just want to finish the project as quickly as possible.  Because of various project delays caused by periods of inactivity by NPA and, ironically, additional ground engineering concerns expressed by the Parks Department, the City’s Park staff now feels badly the statue has not yet been replaced.  Their solution for this delay is to place the newly cast statue onto the old pedestal, which may or may not include the brick pavers, and call it a day.

These are the two basic choices we will be discussing on Wednesday night.  In addition, Libby and Paul will outline fundraising plans being considered so people can get a feel for what types of activities may come into play for raising the necessary funds to do the new plaza quickly.

Please bring your lawn chairs, blankets, picnic dinners and/or non-alcoholic beverages as we have this meeting Wednesday evening at 7:00 PM at the Statue site on Alki Beach, west of the Bathhouse.

If you care about the Statue and what this wonderful space will look like years into the future, you need to be there Wednesday, July 11, at 7:00 PM.  See you then.  We want to hear your voice.  Thanks.  Libby and Paul Carr, Seattle Statue of Liberty Committee—Phase II.

"…it is not the years in your life that count, but the life in your years."

     –Abraham Lincoln

Wishing you and yours a very safe and sane Independence Day.