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Help compile a community cookbook

Submitted by Jill Blocker, KOMO Communities Reporter
Friday, January 27th, 2012, 3:47pm
Help compile a community cookbook

Do you have a special casserole recipe that your kids beg for daily? Is your apple pie the talk of the neighborhood?    

Share them with your community by sending recipies to Team Alleycat. Team Alleycat is looking for recipes from residents in the Central District and Beacon Hill for a community cookbook.

The recipes will be collected for an eBook for the neighborhoods.

Here are the details:

1. You submit (with the form), we’ll compile. Simple!
2. For submitting a recipe, you’ll get a free .PDF version containing all selected recipes.
3. Once we’re ready to go, we’ll publish the eBook online and it will be available for download at an affordable price — around $2.99 – $4.99.

Team Alleycat says its goal is to have the cookbook ready by spring.

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Volunteer with the CD Forum

Submitted by Jill Blocker, KOMO Communities Reporter
Friday, January 27th, 2012, 1:31pm

The Central District Forum for Arts and Ideas is looking for volunteers to help with Expressions: NW African American Pioneers in the Media.

Volunteers are needed for the Feb. 2 event, which is  presented by the Black Heritage Society of Washington State in partnership with CD Forum and MOHAI.

Volunteers are invited to the private reception featuring the music of Mount Zion Baptist Church Wind Ensemble, from 6 to 7pm, at the Museum of History and Industry (2700 24th Avenue East).

Those interested in volunteering or would like more information, can contact almak@cdforum.org or call (206) 323-4032.

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You're invited to the city hall open house on Saturday

Submitted by Kiersten Throndsen, KOMO Communities Reporter
Friday, January 27th, 2012, 10:28am
You're invited to the city hall open house on Saturday

Neighbors grab your coats, your hats, your kids - and get on down to the city's Open House this Saturday.

This is the third year the city has hosted an open house event.

During the event folks can learn about city resources, meet local elected officials, ask questions and offer ideas on things you think can be improved throughout the city.

The open house runs from 10-2:00p.m., at 601 5th Ave.

Here's what organizers say you can expect if you're planning to come:

  • Tours of the Mayor's Office and City Council Offices
  • Q&A session with the mayor
  • Workshops on the legislative process and interpreting credit reports
  • Tabling by City departments and the City Attorney's Office
  • Live music
  • A farmer's market

Anyone and everyone is invited to stop by and check it out.

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Doctor accused of killing partner, son found competent to stand trial

Submitted by KOMO Staff
Thursday, January 26th, 2012, 5:01pm
Doctor accused of killing partner, son found competent to stand trial

A doctor accused of killing his partner and their 2-year-old son has been found competent to stand trial on charges of their murder, the King County prosecutor's office said Thursday.

Louis C. Chen, 39, faces two counts of aggravated murder in the first degree for the stabbing deaths of 29-year-old Eric A. Cooper and 2-year-old Cooper Chen.

Judge Ronald Kessler announced the ruling during Chen’s status conference this afternoon at King County Courthouse.

Chen is accused of stabbing his partner and son at their high-rise apartment building on Seattle's First Hill.

The victims' bodies were found August 11 when a co-worker showed up at Chen's apartment, concerned he had not shown up for an orientation session at Virginia Mason Hospital where he had recently been hired.

According to police, the coworker found Chen nude and covered in blood.

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Police: Woman repeatedly rams boyfriend's car with Mercedes

Submitted by KOMO Web Staff on Thursday, January 26th, 03:39pm

SEATTLE - A woman was arrested Wednesday night after she used her 2004 Mercedes Benz 500 as a battering ram to repeatedly hit her ex-boyfriend's car and push it down an embankment, police said.

Officers were called to the scene, in the 1800 block of 24th Avenue, at about 7:10 p.m. Wednesday after receiving reports about the woman's bizarre behavior.

According to witnesses, the suspect used her car to ram the other car five to 10 times.

The suspect, a 34-year-old woman, eventually was able to push her ex-boyfriend’s vehicle down a six-foot embankment and into a neighbor’s fence, said Seattle Police Detective Mark Jamieson.

In the process, she got her Mercedes stuck on top of the other car. The ex-boyfriend, who was not in the car at time, and several other people witnessed the woman's actions, Jamieson said.

The woman was arrested and later booked into the King County Jail for investigation of malicious michief-domestic violence. Detectives are now handling the follow-up investigation.

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Central District elementary class wins "Jeopardy!" game

Submitted by Jill Blocker, KOMO Communities Reporter
Wednesday, January 25th, 2012, 4:22pm

Some Kimball Elementary students might want to stay in class late tomorrow, after their classroom gets a fun gift to help them learn.

What is a Classroom Jeopardy game?

(You are correct.)

Kelly Miyahara, a "Jeopardy!" Clue Crew member and UW alumna, says she’ll stop by Kimball Elementary tomorrow to present the interactive learning game to Mrs. Ashenbrenner’s 4th grade class.

“Usually, most kids know what Jeopardy! is, so they’re get pretty excited about the classroom game,” Miyahara says. “Once Double Jeopardy! starts, I can hardly keep them in their chairs!”

Ashenbrenner’s students should be more than familiar with the game. The teacher has been using her own form of  the Jeopardy! game in her class for years, according to KOMO 4 News’ Scott Altus, who helped select the winning class.

KOMO 4 News will also give one other local school the opportunity to win a Classroom Jeopardy! game. Details on that contest to follow.

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Local music: Blue Scholars put on suits, pick up swords

Submitted by Seattle Pulp Staff
Tuesday, January 24th, 2012, 12:32pm

Despite the fact that that tear-jerker Macklemore has been Seattle's most prolific rapper of late, it's important to remember that we were once a city defined not by a pretty boy who cries over shoes, but by a twosome of dudes who liked to rhyme about the Central District, being working class and generally living in the Seattle that doesn't really care about Michael Jordan. And now, they have a new video out.

Ahhhh. That feels so much better.

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