Next event is Night Out Against Crime
August 3, 2010 at 5:30-8:30, Tuesday
WHERE: Hauge Homestead Park (south end of lake)
19th and 121st St. Ave SE
Special guests: Everett Police/CERT, Sno-Co Sherif, Balloon Artist, Silver Lake Kiwanis
Bring family and friends to this free neighborhood event to raise awareness on home and personal safety. Free ice cream and hot dogs and chips and pop for those attending! See flyer info

Meeting schedule
Meetings are scheduled 7:00pm on the first Thursday of the month. 
Special meetings are called as events dictate. While we try to meet most months, we often have taken off July or August, and also December when it is challenging to schedule guest speakers.

Previous meetings/events
July 2010: No meeting
June 2010: Paul Kaftanski, Everett Parks Director
May 2010: Yina Moe-Lange, Winter Olympic alpine ski racer athlete
April 2010: Gary Cohen, Everett School District Superintendent
March 2010: Eric Owl, neighborhood gardens
February 2010: Everett Crime Prevention/Silver Lk Elementary Choir
January 2010: Everett Traffic Eng. Dongho Chang

2009
December 2009: Everett Mayor Ray Stephanson
November 2009: Kevin Fagerstrom, Everett Code Compliance
October 2009: Cedar Grove composting; Hazardous Waste Disposal
September 2009: Allen Giffen, Everett Planning Dept.
July-August 2009: no meetings or picnic planned
June 2009: Shannon Affolter, Everett City Council
May 2009: Aaron Reardon, Snohomish County Executive/EPD K-9 Unit
April 2009: Christina Robertson, Everett Tilth, community gardening
March 2009: David Dilgard, Silver Lake Yesterday slide presentation
February 2009: Disaster Preparation for Home & Business
January 2009: Rick Robinson, Asst Fire Marshall, Everett Fire Dept.

2008
November 2008: Everett Mayor Ray Stephanson
October 2008: Eileen Simmons, Everett Public Library Director
August 2008: Karen McGhghy, Everett Senior Ctr. Director
July 2008: Potluck Picnic at Hauge Homestead park 1-4pm
June 2008: Special planning meeting for picnic and future grant projects
May 2008: Alan Clark (ARCA Architects) reviewed plans for new Silver Lake Center at the north end of the lake, including 8-story condos, restaurant, new Safeway, and commercial space.
April 2008: Shannon Affholter, Everett City Council; and developer proposal for "Eastmont Station" at former Home Base with Tony Kastens from Real Capital.
March 2008: Hal Gausman, Everett Parks RE: Silver Lake Trail prelim. plans

Look for Everett Parks and Recreation events and activities.


Guest speakers share information useful to residents and businesses in the Silver Lake area. New businesses to the area let neighbors know what services they have added.

Police and fire departments regularly attend monthly meetings to update neighbors on hot issues. Art has been spotted in Sullivan Park/City Beach.

Family recreation programs icluding boating, kayaking, and canoeing are available at Silver Lake thru Everett Parks & Recreation. No public boat launch is currently available.

Friends and neighbors picnic at the shelter in Hauge Homestead Park at south end of the lake, just like they did 100 years ago. Nearby property previously included a ball field, beach cabins and waterslides known as Silver Beach Resort.

Summer days bring out the families and daycares to weekly scheduled activities.

HISTORIC EVERETT
TO NOMINATE LOCAL LANDMARK:
Bothne House on Silver Lake

HANS BOTHNE was born in Botnen, Norway in 1878. He emigrated to the United States and became a citizen in 1906. Initially he was drawn to Alaska in search of gold, returning to Washington State with enough money to acquire the beachfront property at Silver Lake in 1913 with his business partner Nels Peters. They opened a beach resort just south of the present city beach.

Bothne married a North Dakota woman of Norwegian ancestry and initially they resided in a little houseboat on the lake. His bride narrowly survived the flu epidemic of 1918 and gave birth to a daughter in the cabin-on-a-raft early in 1919.

Hans bought more land and when Everett's YMCA burned in the spring of 1920, he bought the salvage rights and moved the building, board by board, to the western shore of Silver Lake. The lumber, portico columns, railings, windows, doors, lockers, pipes, even the nails, were reclaimed and resurrected into two houses and a pair of cabins. For some reason the Palladian windows in the east and west gable ends of the old YMCA were saved but never installed. Of the four buildings constructed from YMCA salvage, only the Bothne residence survives (see photo top left). Hans' son Donald was born in the house on February 15, 1921.

Historic Everett preservation group is set to nominate the historic family homestead as an icon of lakeside life. It hopes to work with the Everett Parks Dept and Silver Lake neighbors to ensure it's place as an interpretive center connected to the Sullivan Park.

Article courtesy Historic Everett Newsletter

Everett neighborhoods
with web sites:
Bayside
Lowell
Northwest
Port Gardner/Rucker Hill
Riverside
Silver Lake
Learn more at
Everett Office of Neighborhoods

Hotlines
Everett Graffiti: 425-257-8748
Code Enforcement: 425-257-8560 or codeenforcement@ci.everett.wa.us
Everett Roads: 425-257-8800
Sno-County Roads: 425-388-7500 or Contact.PWRM@Snoco.org

Flowerize Silver Lake
Neighbors and property owners along 19th Avenue helped add yellow flower planters and bedding plants to improve the streetscape. Volunteers on May 2 filled planters from 9am to noon meeting at Solid Rock Coffee Cafe at 10025 19th Ave. SE (just north of Costco). Some volunteers met at Silver Lake Elementary to work with students to plant flowers too.
Special thanks to:
Safeway
Silver Lake Kiwanis
Lowes
Silver Lake Center/Skotdal Real Estate
Seattle Outboard Racing: Mini-Hydros
Cedar Grove Compost
Everett Parks & Recreation
Everett Office of Neighborhoods
Everett Public Works
Ornamental Stone
Solid Rock Coffee
Hometown Lending
Hughes Dental
Molbak's
Silver Lake Elementary School
Bordeaux HOA
Bluwater Apartments
OnSilverLake.net rental hall

Celebrate Local Winter Olympians
While northwest atheletes put it all on the line in Vancouver BC and Whistler, we invite Silver Lake neighbors, friends and families to encourage fitness in their lives. From area students to our seniors, we can all be inspired by local Olympic athletes like Christian Niccum from Woodinville, J.R. Celski, Torin Koos, Will Brandenburg, Karen Thatcher, Bree Schaaf, Patrick Deneen, Holly Brooks, Scott MacCartney, Laura Valaas, Vic Wild and of course, Apolo Ohno!

Highlights from Meighborhood meetings

Emory’s Restaurant on Silver Lake: The cause of the early November fire has announced as arson. Owners are going through the permit process to rebuild next year. Herald reporter Jackson Holtz (jholtz@heraldnet.com) is interested in talking with neighborhood residents about their thoughts on the matter.

Silver Lake Shopping Center: This is Alan Clark’s large 6-story condo/retail/mixed use development northeast of the lake behind the Safeway store and on the geodesic house property. Some permits are in place but no development is likely in the near term until financing is available, according to Clark.

Fountain Place (Alan Clark’s smaller development at the SE corner of Hwy 527 and 116th St. SE): Site is for sale and will likely not be developed soon, and perhaps not in they way that has been described at our neighborhood meetings. Some accumulation of trash on the site and Alan has been contacted by Everett's Code Enforcement--for both propeties.

McDonalds at 96th Pl SE and Hwy 527: No longer in operation. All signage and restaurant/playland materials have been removed. Is this restaurant moving or has it gone out of business entirely?

Green Lantern Park on peninsula of land at northeast side of lake: Development of this city property as a real park is part of the proposed mitigation actions for the planned development of Silver Lake Shopping Center and Fountain place. Perhaps nothing will happen until these other developments are underway.

Trail and boardwalk around lake: Awaiting better financial times for Everett. Likely several years away and could be developed in stages. Many new projects will be on hold until economy improves.

Annexation of areas north and east of Silver Lake by Everett: On hold because the annexed areas would not bring in as much tax revenue as they would require in funding to provide city services. Several Everett council members do not want to annex any areas that would be a net loss at this time of tight finances.

Where do you live?
Do you know your Silver Lake Neighborhood boundaries?
North- 100th Place SE
East- Lowell-Larimer Rd/Seattle Hill Rd
South- 132nd Street SE
West- Interstate 5
The Silver Lake Action Committee is a non-profit neighborhood organization with volunteers working together with the Everett Office of Neighborhoods and Snohomish County.

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