by Kirby Lindsay, posted 16 November 2012
Suffer from election fatigue? Get over it! It is time to vote for Fremont’s Best!
Between November 15th and December 31st, 2012, cast an e-mail ‘ballot’ (only one per address, please) for a favorite Fremont resident, company, and organization. An award for the 2012 Best Fremont Resident, the 2012 Best Fremont Company, and the 2012 Best Fremont Project will be distributed in early January 2013.
Nominations, Schmominations
Anyone is eligible for one of the three Fremont’s Best Awards. Votes can be cast for a resident, company and an established/ad hoc organizer completely, previously, overlooked by this website. And as Fremocentrist.com accepts the Fremont Chamber of Commerce definition of Fremont as “a State of Mind,” not a geographic (or rigid) location, votes can be cast for anyone.
For those, however, who seek guidance – or require a mental nudge – about some of the special people, businesses and projects who influenced Fremont in 2012, click along through this retrospective of Fremocentrism, broken down into the three distinct categories:
Best Residents?
Fremont is primarily, by square footage, a residential community. A lot of fine folk call this community home, and in 2012, Fremocentrist.com met only a small number. Still, for your consideration:
- Carol Magalleneas, concerned B.F. Day parent and quiz night organizer
- Vinita Sidhu, future B.F. Day parent, and landscape architect/project manager for Site Workshop
- Vinita Sidhu, also a member of the Peak Park Steering Committee
- Paul Bryant, beekeeper for Hazel Heights P-Patch and Peak Park Steering Committee member
- Katie Talbott, activity space curator and local therapist
- John & Diane Callahan, tower house neighbors
- Holly Westerfield, for ‘March Fourth’ fundraiser for Leukemia & Lymphoma Society
- Charles Hadrann, for sending inner tubes to Kuwait (could also be a Best Business)
- David Roman, for Texas Chainsaw Pumpkin Carving, and the Slightly Spicy Dinner Theatre
- Mary Anne Dickerson and Ed Hirschler, of See Monster Service (could also be a Best Business)
Best Business?
Fremont has a thriving commercial district, but Fremont’s Best Business in 2012 may not be the most successful. This category won’t necessarily decide the most popular retail, restaurant, service, non-profit, bar, coffee shop, etc. in Fremont, unless that’s what voters choose to bestow.
Or, you can vote for the Fremont company that deserves to be distinguished above all others for being, well, the most Fremont-esque, such as:
- Oohla’s Salon & Gallery
- Add-A-Ball
- Bastyr Center for Natural Health, for ‘Better Sleep, Better Energy’, for ‘Choosing The Right Sweetener’, and being Bastyr
- Video Isle
- Seattle Pacific University
- Kvichak Marine Industries
- Fremont Studios, for hosting events like ‘Seduction’ and ‘Seattle Red Dress’
- Café Turko at Istanbul Imports
- Stone Soup Theatre (for ‘Language Art’, ‘Young Man From Atlanta’, etc.)
- Mischief Distillery
- ’62 Seattle Collectibles, and Bill Crossman (could also be Best Resident)
- Cornicello Photography (could also be Best Residents)
- M & S Deli
- West Of Lenin (for Pali Chant Suite, Tommy Smith’s ‘Demon Dreams’ & ‘White Hot,’ ‘See Me Naked,’ Live Girls ‘Emerald City’, Sandbox Radio, etc.)
- Frank & Dunya
- Pel’meni Russian Dumpling Tzar
- Teletron Service Company
- The Backdoor @ Roxy’s
Best Project/Organization?
Some projects (events, activities, fundraisers, art, etc.) come from established organizations, while others get started by a one-time-only committee formed solely for that purpose. Vote for your favorite Fremont Project, and/or the organization/committee/group that did it, in 2012. Consider these projects:
- The exhausted volunteers working on making the Shoreline Master Plan something we can live with
- The Gift Exchange with Delevan, Wisconsin
- The B.F. Day Writer-In-Residence program (Seattle Arts & Culture)
- The Wednesday Warm Meal Program, organized by Community Meals
- Moisture Festival
- The B.F. Day Elementary School Playground Improvement Project
- The Fremont Siphon Replacement Project
- The Northlake Community Wharf, and Center for Wooden Boats
- Fremont Fair (Bold Hat Productions)
- Fremont Oktoberfest (Bold Hat Productions)
- Fremont Fun Run & Briefcase Relay (Pro-Motion Events)
- Fremont Street Scramble (Meridian Geographics)
- Walk & Roll fundraiser at B.F. Day
- Fremont Greenways
- ‘Fremont: Timber To Troll’ History Project
- The Fremont Invitational Mini-Golf Tournament by PubPuttGolf.com
- Maintenance crew on the SPACE art installation
And these Fremont organizations:
- Rotary Club of Fremont
- Fremont Neighborhood Council
- Fremont Chamber of Commerce
- Fremont Arts Council
- Leukemia & Lymphoma Society
- Fremont Peak Park Steering Committee
- The Fremont Baptist Church
- Wallingford Boys & Girls Club
- B.F. Day Elementary School
- FamilyWorks
- The Hallows Church
Send votes for a Fremont resident, a business and a project/organization to nudge@box2219.temp.domains. Vote carefully, and feel free to get friends, family and random computer keyboards to stack the vote of those you feel particularly deserving.
Visit the Fremocentrist.com News page for updates on the voting, or become a Fremocentrist.com subscriber (again, at nudge@box2219.temp.domains) to get weekly reminders of Fremocentrist.com columns – and vote tabulations.
And, thank you for voting for Fremont’s Best!
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