In her book, The Art People Love, on the art work of Richard Beyer, Margaret Beyer (his late wife) related a police blotter item that ran, circa 1979, in the Ballard Outlook newspaper.
In July, the Silence-Heart-Nest staff hosted Nimdoma Sherpa, of the Kingdom of Nepal. Nimdoma holds the record as the youngest woman ever to climb Mt. Everest. She climbed at age 16, celebrated her birthday on the mountain and summited at age 17. Now age 19, Nimdoma, the youngest woman ever to be on top of the world, has completed a mountain-climbing world tour including Mt. Rainier.
Again this year, Frame Up Studios will sell the fabulous Fremont Fair posters (before, during and after the festival) to raise money for Solid Ground, and their programs to end poverty through building community.
On Sunday, May 15th, in remembrance of the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens, Red Hook Brewery will hold the 16th annual ‘Haul Ash’ Tour de Brew bicycle ride – a 42-mile, round-trip excursion between the current Red Hook Brewery (14300 NE 145th St, Woodinville) and the place where the micro-brewery became massive – Fremont.
On Saturday, May 14th, from Noon – 1:30p, the Fremont Historical Society will hold its annual reception at the Fremont Branch of the Seattle Public Library System. While this reception will officially kick-off the historic Fremont display, the photos and narratives on several Fremont structures can already be viewed, and will be decorating the library for the entire month of May.
On Saturday, April 30th, Seattle Public Utilities (SPU) will host a walking tour and a public meeting to gather community input on the two final design concepts for the remodel of the North Seattle Recycling and Disposal Station (a.k.a. The Dump.) A walking tour of the perimeter of the existing facility will take place on Saturday, starting at 9:30a (and going to 11a) at the corner of North 34th St & Carr Pl North. At Noon (until 2p) a public meeting will be held at Hamilton International Middle School (1610 N 41st St.)
During the summer of 2011, a new, playful walking tour will stroll the sidewalks of Fremont providing a humorous, and slightly hysterical, history of the ‘hood. The Fremont Tour is seeking boring, humorless people to be tour guides. If interested in the job, which includes training and a script, please contact thefremonttour@gmail.com.
The 22nd Annual Emerald City Insulator/Bottle Collector’s Show (and Potluck) will take place on Saturday, March 12th, in the gym at B.F. Day Elementary School (3921 Linden Ave N). Collectors and distributors of these unique items will be on-hand, starting at 10a, to display, sell and trade with the general public.
September 1st marks the one-year anniversary of this attempt to bring readers the complete news, information, history and profiles of Fremont’s events, people, and icons.
In complete keeping with the incredible community-building energy behind this project, the official dedication of the new mural along the 46th Street underpass of Aurora Avenue collected together a great cross-section of the Fremont/Wallingford neighbors on Friday, August 27, 2010.
