Friends of Ballard Corners Park

Current Status

Phase 3 construction is nearly done – the fence is down!  Please come and enjoy the fantastic corner store – neighbors are already holding picnics there.

As well as the photos on this blog, it’s always worth looking at the “ballardcornerspark” tag on flickr.


We will need support funds for the future to resource gardening and cleanup outside the Parks budget and care so please remember to continue our “low stress” fund-raising activities of collecting Ballard Market receipts and shopping at Amazon using the links on this page.

Ballard Corners Blog

Donations to Other Non-Profits

When we were done paying all our bills, we had a few thousand dollars left over.  Two other non-profits helped us and we wanted to thank them.  We gave $400 to Ballard Boys & Girls Club for letting us meet in their building and another $400 to the Ballard Historical Society for providing the cool historical photos in the corner store and helping edit the interpretive panels.

The Boys & Girls Club sent us this letter in return.

Ballard Boys & Girls Club thank you letter for donation

Posted on May 17th 2010 by david in Fundraising | Leave Comments |

Whoa! More Press!

I just saw this today.  The Ballard News Tribune picked up our park as a part of a collection of pocket parks in Ballard.

(photo courtesy of Ballard New Tribune)

Posted on April 30th 2010 by david in Mentioned elsewhere | Leave Comments |

Donation to Others

corner store is open!

corner store is open!

It is a bit odd.  We are an organization with no financial assets.  The Friends of Ballard Corners has no bank account, no officers (on paper), no board, no nothing.  We rely on Groundswell NW to handle all our money as our “fiscal sponsor”.  Any money we receive goes straight to them.  Any money we “spend” comes straight from them.  In return, they receive a 5% cut of all our donations – this helps them fund their operations.

It seems strange to me that we would give money from our account at a non-profit to another non-profit.  No one gets a write-off.  But, nonetheless, we were inclined to want to thank two organizations – Ballard Boys & Girls Club and Ballard Historical Society for their help.

The Ballard Boys & Girls Club hosted virtually all of our meetings, including the large public meetings.  The Ballard Historical Society helped with our historical photos and writing up the verbiage of the panels.  In return, we wanted to support them.  We did it with profuse thanks and a check for $400 each.

Posted on April 29th 2010 by david in Fundraising, Meetings | Leave Comments |

The endless spam war

It appears the Russian spambots have worked out how to do math (*). Therefore I have made the math formulas for posting comments a little more obscure.

Here are a couple of hints:

* A Space Odyssey
* George Orwell
* Columbus

(*) to leave a comment on this website you need to answer a math question e.g. twenty4 plus 3. Now it more like aspaceodyssey plus columbus.

Posted on April 16th 2010 by master in Misc. | Leave Comments |

The fence is down!

Finally, the construction is all done!

The park really is done now and completely open! Yeah!

Posted on April 13th 2010 by david in Current State, construction | Leave Comments |

Alta’s Photos of the Easter Egg Hunt

Alta shared some photos of the Easter egg hunt.  Her daughter (with the dark hair) stars in a few of them.

Posted on April 5th 2010 by david in Events | Leave Comments |

Photos of the 2010 Easter Egg Hunt

I snapped a few photos of the hunt yesterday -

Posted on April 5th 2010 by david in Events | Leave Comments |

Ballard News Tribune Photos of the Easter Egg Hunt

Our local newspaper, the Ballard News Tribune, posted some photos of yesterday’s hunt.

Posted on April 5th 2010 by david in Events, News | Leave Comments |

Amazing fungus and cherry blossoms

a few pics from the park.

Posted on March 18th 2010 by david in Current State | Leave Comments |

Camille and Kasey speak of the importance of parks in the neighborhood

A request came in from Groundswell NW’s President Andrea Faste to have Camille and her friends come to their annual meeting and speak about the importance of parks in the neighborhood. I asked Camille and she said, “sure!” So, she and her best friend Kasey got up in front of 30-40 people (including the mayor) and communicated why parks are important to them and kids in general. They did great.

Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn heard the whole thing and accidentally took my seat when I went up to do a Q&A with Camille. I thought the Q&A thing would facilitate Camille’s public speaking performance.

Posted on March 14th 2010 by david in Meetings | Leave Comments |

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