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Events
Saturday, May 8th, 1pm-5pm
Program from 1pm to 2pm
Rededication of Flo Ware Park
Saturday, May 8th, at
1:00, Seattle's Leschi Community Council will
hold a rededication ceremony
for the newly restored Flo Ware Park on 28th S. and S. Jackson. It is one
of Seattle Parks Department's Central Area Legacy Parks. King County
Councilman Larry Gossett will preside over ceremonies.
The
grand new entry way includes a portrait of African-American activist
Florestine Ware, for whom the park is named. Her inspiring quotes that
encourage community action are embedded along a cement ribbon path that
meanders through the park.
The
park’s new entryway celebrates the patterns of many ethnic heritages and
was created by Coyote--a community non-profit arts and enrichment program
for junior-high age youth. The Seattle Design Commission reviewed the
park’s design with unanimous approval and praised this dramatic new piece
of public art. Bring the family, enjoy the celebration, and applaud
Coyote’s young artists as they take their bows!
See longer
article on the Rededication and history of rebuilding Flo Ware Park
Saturday, February 28, at 1pm.
This event commemorates Black History Month.
We have invited several people who knew Flo
Ware to come and relate their memories of her.
This will be a tribute for one of our late, great community voices.
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County Councilman Larry Gossett
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City Councilman Richard McIver
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Historian Phyllis Beaumonte (author of
"Seattle's Black Victorians"
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Thurston Muskelly - Leschi Community
Coalition President
Royal Alley-Barnes, Parks manager, will MC
the program
We will have coffee from Starbucks and
snacks from Friends of Flo Ware Park.
The Re-Opening of Flo Ware Park!
January 31st from 11 am to 1 pm
Opening Day Pictures
It's finally happening - Flo Ware Park is
nearly completed and we are planning a neighborhood welcoming to the new
park on January 31st from 11 am to 1 pm.
There will be a hospitality tent with
refreshments to welcome neighbors to the new Flo Ware Park, which should
be opened the last week of January, 2004.
Starbucks has promised to supply coffee and
cookies and it should be a great celebration. Plan to come by and
experience the new park and meet your neighbors.
All the big projects will be completed
including the new play structures, basketball court, walkways, sidewalks
and landscaping and the park will be open for use!
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Still to come:
The entry structure created by Coyote Junior High School will be installed
between February 4th and March 3rd.
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We have no word yet as to when the words of
Flo Ware will be installed in the "Ribbons of Flo Ware" pathway, but we
are working on it and should have progress to report.
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Additional landscaping on the back portion
of the park will be completed in 2004.
The building of the new park is underway!
Pictures of Flo Ware
Park Progress
Notes from Tonna
Kutner:
In November 2003 Friends of Flo Ware Park visited the park and were
pleased at the progress. I visited the park on November 26th and was
impressed with how big the park feels from inside. The new playground
equipment is in place along with the underlayment of the rubberized play
surface. I also couldn't help but notice the brand new "real"
sidewalk that has gone in along Jackson Street. The pole for the
basketball court is in and blacktopping the full half court will happen as
soon as the weather permits. The reddish ribbon meandering through
the park is very dramatic.
Current plans are to open the park to the
public in January 2004. At that point only a few features will not
be ready. The entrance way, built by Coyote Junior High, will go in
sometime in February. Although the Flo Ware ribbon meanders through
the park, the words and deeds of Flo Ware which are to be written there,
will not be put in until a later date, probably the spring time.
Also in the spring, the parks department is planning to move and refurbish
the shrubs and trees along the back and side of the park.
Notes from John
Barber:
Randy Robinson and Shwu-jen Hwang, landscape architects for the Department
of Parks and Recreation, were most helpful We were all impressed with the
high quality of construction work and the care that the contractor is
taking to assure that the aesthetics and maintenance qualities will
satisfy the toughest critics amonst us. It is also reassuring that
Randy and Shwu-jen have exerted their own creativity and resourcefulness
towards giving us a park design that is greater than we imagined!
The contractor says that he will be
complete and out by mid-December [now revised to January]. Some
landscaping -- shrubs and a few trees along the back edges -- will be
installed in Spring 2004 by Parks maintenance staff. Also, the quotes of
Flo Ware will go out to separate bidding and will need some fund-raising
to pay the costs.
Also, if you have been peering through the
fence, you may have noticed that the color of the concrete is different
that the regular sidewalk color. This is just one design technique to
distinguish the park area from streetside character.
Third
Flo Ware Park Community Meeting
Check
out the new plans
Please join Parks
staff for a final opportunity to review and comment on the plans for
renovations to Flo Ware Park. The plans and art elements were
presented and discussed at community meetings in January and March this
year. We anticipate the part renovation will begin in the fall of
2003.
Tuesday, April 15th,
2003, 6:30pm-8:00pm
Central Area Senior Center, 500 30th Avenue S.
Meeting Agenda:
| Drawings, plans |
6:30 - 6:45 pm |
| Presentation |
6:45 - 7:30 pm |
| Questions/comments |
7:30 - 8:30 pm |
Please
contact Cathy Tuttle, Park Project Planner if you require special needs
accommodation for this meeting Cathy
Tuttle, Park Project Planner
Seattle Parks and Recreation
Planning and Development Division
800 Maynard Avenue S.
3rd Floor
Seattle, WA 98134-1336
206-684-7033 Cathy@Seattle.gov http://www.cityofseattle.net/parks/proparks/projects/floware.htm
Community Meeting to
Review Preferred Park Design
Tuesday, March 11, 2003, 6:30-8:00 p.m.
Central Area Senior Center, 500 30th Avenue S.
Please
contact Cathy Tuttle, Park Project Planner if you require special needs
accommodation for this meeting Cathy
Tuttle, Park Project Planner
Seattle Parks and Recreation
Planning and Development Division
800 Maynard Avenue S.
3rd Floor
Seattle, WA 98134-1336
206-684-7033 Cathy@Seattle.gov http://www.cityofseattle.net/parks/proparks/projects/floware.htm
Flo
Ware Park Community Planning Meeting Tuesday,
January 28th, 2003, 7:30pm-8:30pm
Central Area Senior Center, 500 30th Avenue S. Seattle
Parks and Recreation invites you to a community meeting to plan park
improvements. In 2002, the Seattle City Council unanimously approved
$250,000 from the Pro Parks Levy Opportunity Fund to improve Flo Ware
Park. The Friends of Flo Ware Park have also raised funds from a
variety of public and private sources for this 2003 park renovation
project. The
community has met 6 times in the past two years to decide on elements that
would best serve the local neighborhood. Park elements considered
include new play structures and playground surfacing, improved basketball
play area, exciting public art projects, better visibility, and family
oriented gathering spaces. Please join Parks staff to make final
decisions on park elements that will best serve our community. Please
contact Cathy Tuttle, Park Project Planner if you require special needs
accommodation for this meeting Cathy
Tuttle, Park Project Planner
Seattle Parks and Recreation
Planning and Development Division
800 Maynard Avenue S.
3rd Floor
Seattle, WA 98134-1336
206-684-7033 Cathy@Seattle.gov http://www.cityofseattle.net/parks/proparks/projects/floware.htm Back to the Top
Neighborhood
Celebration to receive $250,000 from
Pro
Parks Levy Opportunity Funds
Flo
Ware Park Summer Celebration
Saturday,
August 17th, 2-6pm
Come
to Flo Ware Park for a good, old fashioned, neighborhood party, fun for
the whole family.
Co-sponsored
by Starbucks
who will provide snacks and beverages as well as the presentation of their
grant to help pay for the Flo Ware Park renovation project.
Check
out our Grants
Other
Summer Celebration features:
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BBQ
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Games
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Mural
Painting
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Musical
presentations (including a drum performance by Monad), and more.
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Fun
for the whole family.
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Meet
and Greet your Neighbors
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Final
chance for raffle tickets - this is the day of the big drawing
This
turned out to be a great event. More than 150 friends and
neighbors showed up and a great time was had by all. Thanks to
Starbucks for the beverages and great cake and the $10,000
presentation! Thanks to all those who brought food, music and
themselves - all those who helped and those who participated.
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Flo
Ware Park Benefit Drawing
All Proceeds Benefit the Flo Ware Park Renovation Project
The lucky winners were drawn at the Flo
Ware Park Summer Party on August 17th, 2002. Flo Ware Park made
$1,300 in this successful event. Thanks to all those who sold
tickets and bought tickets.
Here's the great prizes:
- Bike Tune-Up at Il Vecchio ($80)
- Leschi Mart Smoked Turkey + 2 bottles wine ($50)
- Month Membership at Everybody Fitness ($119)
- Cert. for Framing or Art at Artemis Gallery ($25)
- Weekend at Leavenworth Cabin for up to 8 ($250)
- 3 Hr PC Computer or Web Training by Computer LYNX
($210)
- Party Pkg: Gourmet Appetizers/25+3Hr Cello ($500)
- 2 Hours Gardening for You ($50)
- Design/Write Newspaper Ad for Your Biz ($300)
- Lesson by Monad: Craft Totem Ocarina Flute($100)
- Microsoft Office XP for Windows software ($479)
- Dinner for 2 at That's Amore ($40)
- Philly's Cheese Steak Restaurant Certificate ($50)
- Nootka Big Nose Welcoming Man Mask by Roy Peters, Scowlitz
tribe ($150)
Thanks to all those who have donated to the benefit
drawing. We appreciate your support and generosity.
Donation Fliers and Envelopes for the
renovation of Flo Ware Park will be included in the May issue of the
Leschi News. Please donate generously to this great project.
Donation
Form
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Leschi
Community Rummage Sale
Saturday, June 8th, 2002
Leschi Elementary
School - 135 32nd - 10am-3pm
This was a huge sale with
contributions from all over the community benefiting the Youth of Leschi.
Friends of Flo Ware
Park participated as volunteers at this community event. We also
sold raffle tickets and made some really cool purchases.
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Flo
Ware Day - May 5th, 2002
12 noon to 4pm
We can make this a park that will truly
honor the spirit of our community hero, Flo Ware! The first "Flo
Ware Day" was on May 8th, 1982 - see
the proclamation.
FLO
WARE DAY CELEBRATION WAS A
ROUSING SUCCESS!
On the sunny and windy Sunday afternoon of May 5,
about 100 neighbors (kids and adults) gathered from noon to 4 in Flo Ware
Park to honor Flo Ware, to get better acquainted, and to learn more about
the new park design.
It was heartwarming to see all the different ways
people had fun! The kids enjoyed decorating (and eating!) cupcakes,
drawing pictures, decorating balloons, playing with hoola hoops, and
making soap bubbles! Girls
from the Seattle Girls School set up games on the lawn for all the
children to enjoy.
The adults enjoyed talking with each other and
making new friends in the neighborhood.
Young and old alike devoured the fantastic baked
goods that so many people contributed to the bake sale!
Our thanks to Starbucks who provided coffee and hot chocolate.
And special thanks to Chrissy and her family for providing
delicious barbecued chicken!!
Our thanks to the many volunteers who helped in so
many ways with this event, and to those who helped stuff the large
donation jar, and to those who brought their Red Apple receipts to turn
in. We couldn’t have done
it without you!!
A
GREAT TIME WAS HAD BY ALL!
Find
out more about Flo Ware
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Turkey donated
by Leschi Mart - December 2001
Our first effort at event fundraising, even though it
was very much a last minute affair. We had a turkey donated by
Leschi Mart. Cynthia Davenport and Helen Anschell sold raffle
tickets. By evening's end we had collected over $ 100!
Mailing Party - November
2001 Community Mailing Party for preparing
the Leschi News for mailing to all 2300-some addresses in the neighborhood
and we will be including an appeal for contributions with a return
envelope. This is the first major effort to raise funds in the
neighborhood for the renovation of Flo Ware Park. From this
first effort we made $2,235.
May 30, 2000 - 13th
Annual Spring Clean of Flo Ware Park. Twenty
neighbors worked together on May 30 at Flo Ware Park, on the corner of
28th and Jackson. A month before, most of these same folks had met
to talk through their concerns about the neighborhood, to problem solve
and to suggest solutions. On the 30th, they got together to make
this corner of our neighborhood a little nicer one garbage bag at a
time. While we were working at sprucing up the park, kids playing there
asked if they could help. And help they did.
Donation
Form
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