Friends of Ballard Corners Park

Donations to Other Non-Profits

david — Mon, 17 May 2010 16:43:47 +0000

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.

Whoa! More Press!

david — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 06:27:00 +0000

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)

Donation to Others

david — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 05:56:40 +0000

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.

The endless spam war

master — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 04:11:04 +0000

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.

The fence is down!

david — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 15:56:43 +0000

Finally, the construction is all done!

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

Alta’s Photos of the Easter Egg Hunt

david — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 01:10:36 +0000

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

Photos of the 2010 Easter Egg Hunt

david — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 00:29:09 +0000

I snapped a few photos of the hunt yesterday -

Ballard News Tribune Photos of the Easter Egg Hunt

david — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 00:07:04 +0000

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

Amazing fungus and cherry blossoms

david — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 18:08:14 +0000

a few pics from the park.

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

david — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 05:18:07 +0000

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.