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Salmon Bay Sand & Gravel Co. has been fined $12,000 by the Washington State Department of Ecology for spilling sand and gravel into the Lake Washington ship canal. The company, which has been operating in Ballard since 1907, spilled sand and gravel mixtures, which can damage the marine habitat and clog the gills of fish from shoreside bunkers. They have also been cited by the Department of Ecology for lacking a spill-response plan and for not having any records of required stormwater inspections.

TIME WARP: Third Eye Cinema and the Northwest Film Forum present Time Machine, with Bill Brown and Sabine Gruffat. The two will be traveling through the past, present, and future via spoken word, video performance, 35mm slides, and good old scratchy records. Discover Real-Time rendering, Quartz, and Max patches as Gruffat steers you through the strange world of digital and analog hyperspace. If your girlfriend or wife has been on you to go see The Time Traveler's Wife, this may be a good distraction...the book is always better anyway.

A 20-something Rainier Valley Beach man suffered critical injuries on Sunday evening, after a failed jump from a three-story-high balcony into Lake Washington. The young man's alcohol-infused plans for a successful jump into the lake below were foiled after striking his head on the second story balcony and, seconds later, the water below. KOMO-TV reports that neighbors pulled the unresponsive man out of the water and began CPR, until medics arrived at the 9600 block of Rainier Avenue South. The victim, rushed to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, is listed in critical condition.

• Monday evening, Seattle police discovered an unidentified human body that had drowned in Lake Washington and washed ashore the beach of Lake Cottage Park.
• Good news for ORCA card holders: Seattle Transit Blog says the Seattle Streetcar will be adding ORCA readers to stations starting next year.

Opening Day for boating season is just a few weeks out, but the news stories are already starting to come in from off the water. This morning, ferry workers had a rough start to their day as they discovered a body of an adult male around 8:30 a.m. under the Pier 52 Colman Dock. On Saturday, a tugboat sunk to the bottom of Lake Washington--near Kenmore--spilling 40-50 gallons of diesel fuel into the lake; they refloated the tug on Sunday. Don't worry, the state's Department of Ecology is on it. Over by the Ship Canal, one guy realized that the sky wasn't falling on his car, but parts of the Ship Canal Bridge were. Thankfully for him, yesterday proved to be a great day for a sun roof.

We were just reading the Weekly's conversation with Cliff Mass about global warming's effects on the Northwest: in the coming years, "late springs and early summers may actually be cooler--at least in the Western part of the state." Compare that with today's Seattle Times story on spring coming earlier around here: "Dozens of studies concur that the onset of spring--as measured by the response of plants, animals and ecosystems--is about a week earlier than it was 50 years ago," and Lake Washington's "spring cycle of warming and algae growth now start three weeks earlier than it used to." Spring comes earlier and gets colder. FAIL.

We can't find the thrown ball in this photo. Is this a fake throw to get the dog to pose for the camera? You kind of get the sense from him that he's saying, "That's not necessary--How do you want me to stand? Like this? More devotion? Because I can do that." Cool picture, zeebleoop. Thanks for putting it in the Flickr Pool.

No really. It's true. According to the League of American Bikes (via the Cascade Bicycle Alliance in our case), Washington is the most bicycle friendly state in the union. According to the LAB, "Washington’s model bike laws, signed and mapped statewide bike route network, dedicated funding from the state for bicycle related programs and projects, and an active statewide bicycle advisory committee" are reasons that the state earned top honors above Wisconsin, Arizona, Oregon (numbers two, three and four respectively) and all the others.

"Under 520" by Shelley McIntyre

Then we arrived.

Prop. 1, the roads and transit measure. Supporters say it will help solve our gridlock problem. Anti-tax opponents say"no it won't" and environazi opponents say "roads are killing the planet, it's transit-only or nothing." Tomorrow's election day. Here's how Seattlesters are voting.

There is no prettier place in America to watch a sporting event than Husky Stadium. Boats dot Lake Washington off the east end zone, the foothills are beyond, and, off in the gloaming, the Cascades. And there's the Husky band too, who last week did a James Brown tribute. Seriously, even if you aren't into sports, you should check it out.

Man, you tend to forget what dark is in the city until the lights go out. Last night on the Hill we drove Roanoke which had no power, central Broadway which had power, Olive-ish Broadway which had no power and finally Pike/Pine which did. Where the power was out it was like a big blanket had been thrown over the area and the sky was somehow responsible for the lack of light. The dark spots seemed supernaturally dark (although, of course usually the opposite is true and they're supernaturally light).

It's rainy which means it's fall, which means there's an election coming, which means that Seattle is all bound up in a transportation quagmire, which means it's time to devote millions of words to the problem and then eventually do nothing.

Other than the Apple Cup, Garfield High vs. Franklin High is the best sports rivalry this area has to offer.

The mouthbreathers who oppose public transportation are striking early against the roads/transit package that will appear on November's ballot. Unfortunately they are striking with a weapon they have little facility with: The English Language.

Get outside, do it now.

We knew that Carlos Guillen's 2001 bout with tuberculosis was serious, but until we read this feature by Jon Paul Morosi (formerly of the P-I, now with the Detroit Free Press), we never knew that Guillen was so close to death:

He could barely sleep. He had a fever every night. He battled headaches and weakness. He lost almost 20 pounds. He coughed up blood. Yet, Carlos Guillen continued to play shortstop for the Seattle Mariners.

Continue reading "Six Years Ago, Carlos Guillen Was a Coin Flip From Going Six Feet Under"

They're actually doing it. The Port is getting King County Airport (AKA Boeing Field) in exchange for an Eastside rail corridor and a bag of baseballs. A bunch of Agreements were signed today making it so, with the other interested party being King County. When this deal was first floated to the public in October it was made clear that the rail corridor would be transformed into a recreational trail, something that we found to be kind of neat but also kind of wasteful, although we didn't really shed many tears for the Spirit of Washington dinner train that was going to be displaced in the process. In the press release this time around the recreational possibilities of the corridor are downplayed somewhat, but that's still the intended use. The County promises to do some research into making it a transit pathway, although they insist that such a transit line isn't currently needed.

Last March we were trying to keep a stiff upper lip as we informed you that the bill banning PBDEs, a wily fire-retardant chemical, had been stifled for another year.

Sullivan, 39, has been swimming in Lake Washington every day since June 24. Today will be day 203.

Continue reading "Victrola Coffee Makes Man Impervious To Cold, Common Sense"

--The city of Seattle's only skatepark at Seattle Center is scheduled for destruction and will close to the public after today.

10. Which is the largest of the Greek Islands?

There was a small earthquake at Mt. Rainier, and the question that leaps immediately to mind is whether we will all soon be flash-cooked alive like the residents of Pompeii or something.

“Can you really eat that?”

Answers will be forthcoming this afternoon, along with final standings and any other information we feel like we can cram into a post. In the meantime, entertain yourself with the questions from last night's quiz at the Old Pequliar:

-Every 24-yr-old who's ever been frustrated at their inability to rent a car should rejoice - Seattle-based Flexcar is going for the campus market.

Maybe it started when we found out the Urban Hike domain is actually owned by a Pittsburgh group. Pittsburgh, we thought. Huh.