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	Seattle, Washington
		Seattle's climate is mild, with the temperature moderated by the sea and protected from winds and storms by the mountains.
		Seattle is known as the home of grunge music, has a reputation for heavy coffee consumption, and was the site of the 1999 meeting of the World Trade Organization shut down by anti-globalist demonstrators.
		Seattle is the largest city in the state of Washington, and in the northwestern United States.
	bopedia.com /en/wikipedia/s/se/seattle__washington.html (1717 words)

	Ravenna, Seattle, Washington - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ravenna Park is located in the neighborhood's southwest corner, stretching from 15th to 25th Avenues NE.
		It incorporated in 1906 and was annexed to Seattle in 1907.
		Ravenna's main thoroughfares are NE 55th and 65th Streets (east- and westbound) and 15th, 25th, 35th, and 40th Avenues NE (north- and southbound).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ravenna,_Seattle,_Washington (282 words)

	Ravenna, Seattle, Washington - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ravenna Park is located in the neighborhood's southwest corner, stretching from 15th to 25th Avenues N.E. Ravenna Creek runs through the park.
		Ravenna's main thoroughfares are N.E. 55th and 65th Streets (east- and westbound) and 15th, 20th, 25th, 35th, and 40th Avenues N.E. (north- and southbound).
		That portion of south-central Ravenna adjacent to the University Village shopping complex is often considered part of the University Village neighborhood, and Ravenna east of 25th Avenue N.E. is also referred to as Bryant or Ravenna-Bryant.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ravenna,_Seattle,_Washington (202 words)

	Ravenna Neighborhood in Seattle, WA
		And well-known Ravenna Park is one of Seattle's oldest parks.
		Ravenna is located north of the University of Washington, an upper-middle class neighborhood close to Interstate 5 and the Burke-Gilman Trail.
		Ravenna features a number of pre-Depression small Tudors, bungalows and Craftsman-style homes, and a few homes of newer construction.
	www.diannegirard.com /cities/seattle/ravenna.html (112 words)

	SEATTLE - LoveToKnow Article on SEATTLE
		The town of South Seattle was annexed in 1905; and the city of South-east Seattle, the town of Ravenna, the town of South Park, the city of Columbia, the city of Ballard, the city of West Seattle, and Dunlap, Rainier Beach and Atlantic City were ~annexed in 1907.
		Seattle is the see of a Roman Catholic bishop, and St James Cathedral is the finest church in the city.
		Practically a part of the citys park system and to be crossed by its boulevards are the campus of the university of Washington, and the fine grounds (6o5 acres given to the Federal government by the city) of Fort Lawton.
	www.1911ency.org /S/SE/SEATTLE.htm (1765 words)

	Seattle Parks Department Project Update
		Seattle Parks and Recreation (SPR), with the help of community members, has selected the landscape firm of GAYNOR Inc to design the project within Ravenna Park.
		The intent of the Ravenna project is to restore a segment of Ravenna Creek to the surface within Ravenna Park as an alternative to a proposed conveyance pipe (the creek is currently diverted into a sewer north of the Ravenna playfield).
		The Cowen section will be managed with other Pro Parks improvements in Cowen, and addressed separately from the Ravenna segment (although of course we will maintain coordination between the two projects).
	home.earthlink.net /~ravennacreek/Publications/spdupdate1-02.htm (427 words)

	Seattle Rentals Ravenna & Maple Leaf
		The neighborhoods of Ravenna and Maple Leaf lie north of the University District and east of Greenlake.
		Ravenna, named after the ravine that winds through the neighborhood, surrounds beautiful Ravenna Park with its many walking trails and tennis courts for locals to enjoy.
		Sandwiched between Maple Leaf and the University District is the lush neighborhood of Ravenna, with its tree-lined streets and park.
	www.seattlerentals.com /805.html (347 words)

	The Seattle Times: Pacific Northwest Magazine
		The Douglas fir and cedar giants that were saved from the ax by the creation of Ravenna Park in the late 1880s were later felled by the Seattle Parks Department near the park's eastern entrance off Ravenna Boulevard.
		The trout stream that once flowed from Green Lake through the future Ravenna Park ravine to Lake Washington was first crossed by the railroad late in 1887.
		This may be the oldest surviving photograph of Ravenna Park.
	seattletimes.nwsource.com /pacificnw/2003/0413/nowthen.html (348 words)

	The Olmsteds in the Pacific Northwest
		For example, their 1903 plan for Seattle, suggested setting aside Ravenna Park, which was then a private park that contained giant old-growth trees, a lush understory of dozens of native plant species, mineral springs, and a rushing stream that tumbled over rocks and fallen logs.
		Seattle Parks has a short history of the Olmsted legacy, as well as early photographs of these parks on their website.
		Park acquisition and building was neither fast nor cheap, but over the few decades, the city developed many of the areas identified in the original Olmsted plan.
	www.halcyon.com /tmend/OlmstedNW.html (5296 words)

	Ravenna Creek Daylightin Project by Kit O'Neill
		Ravenna Creek, an urban creek in northeast Seattle, exists with integrity only within Ravenna Park now, although it once drained an area nearly thirty times larger, including the Green Lake Basin.
		Seattle is a city of hikers and in the mountains when you find a valley you also find the water that made it.
		A grassroots group, the Ravenna Creek Alliance, was formed in 1992 to pursue the daylighting option and incorporated as a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) for that purpose.
	www.scn.org /neighbors/ucuc/rcreek.html (791 words)

	Ravenna News
		Seattle Parks and Recreation will hold a meeting to review the revised design for daylighting Ravenna Creek in Ravenna Park Thursday, October 9 from 6:30-8:30 p.m.
		Concerned residents have established a Web site to provide a forum for the Ravenna community and PCC members to express their concerns about the future of the PCC store and to provide members an opportunity to ensure that management is faithful to the purpose and values of the co-op.
		At the June 13 Ravenna Bryant Board meeting the board heard about the University housing project scheduled to be built on Twenty-fifth NE south of the Silver Cloud Hotel.
	www.northeastseattle.com /news/ravenna.htm (1023 words)

	E. O. Schwagerl and Seattle Parks
		Ravenna, Cowen, Woodland, Green Lake, and Discovery Parks in north Seattle, and Kinnear on Queen Anne.
		Seattle's parks should include what Schwagerl called "attenuated parks"—strips of land "…skirting possibly a shore with its driveway, fringed by a forest, a wood or a cliff." To connect the parks, Schwagerl proposed a system of boulevards, which were to be entirely different than typical city arterials.
		Seattle's founding mothers and fathers, entrepreneurs, city officials, neighborhood activists, and landscape architects of international renown all had a hand in creating local parks.
	www.halcyon.com /tmend/schwagerl.htm (2891 words)

	Seattle Parks Tour
		Ravenna and Cowen are actually two different parks, but because they are situated adjacent to each other it is difficult to remember that they are separate entities.
		Situated on the Southern slope of Queen Anne hill, it overlooks the skyscrapers of downtown Seattle and the expanse of Elliot Bay.
		Situated Southeast of downtown Seattle, in the Rainer Valley part of town, Seward Park is a large peninsula which juts out into Lake Washington.
	students.washington.edu /rldexter/SeaParks.htm (2342 words)

	Seattle Parks and Recreation: Ravenna Park - History
		Seattle Parks and Recreation: Ravenna Park - History
		The Ravenna Park ravine was formed when melt-off from the Vashon Glacial Ice Sheet formed Lake Russell and cut drainage ravines through new glacial fill.
		He named the place "Ravenna" after an Italian seacoast town that was famous for its pine trees, where poets, warriors, and statesmen once strolled in a state of euphoria similar to his own.
	www.cityofseattle.net /parks/parkspaces/RavennaPark/history.htm (245 words)

	Seattle, Washington City & Neighborhood Guide
		Seattle includes many diverse neighborhoods, which each have their own unique character, from the beautiful views of the Seattle skyline and Mt. Rainier from Queen Anne Hill, to the artistic bent of Fremont near the University of Washington, to the extravagance of Laurelhurst on the western shores of Lake Washington.
		Seattle is known around the world for its temperate climate, greenery (Seattle is known as the 'Emerald City'), and beautiful views of both water and mountains.
		Seattle has grown to enjoy a reputation as one of the most desirable locations to run a business, particularly if you are in the computer software or hardware industries.
	www.diannegirard.com /cities/seattle (281 words)

	Ravenna: Area is quintessential Seattle
		Ravenna's homey little market, the Puget Consumer Co-op at Northeast 65th Street and 20th Avenue Northeast, was affectionately regarded as the "mother ship," when the alternative chain first took root in Seattle in the 1970s.
		As Seattle's population swelled, new little communities like Ravenna -- named for a seaside district in northeast Italy -- sprouted near train stations and clearcuts at the edge of the frontier city.
		Ravenna has no sex shops, but it does have a few family restaurants, small bakeries and unique shops, including The Herbalist, McCarthy & Schiering Wine Merchants, and Saxe Floral & Greenhouse, founded in 1919 by a Japanese gardener.
	seattlepi.nwsource.com /neighbors/ravenna (416 words)

	The Seattle Times: Local News: Kids have say in playground renovation
		Mary Margaret Sweeney, 2, splashes through the Ravenna Park pool in Seattle as she and other children play under the watchful eye of parents.
		The play area is in the southeast section of Ravenna Park, just west of where construction is under way to return Ravenna Creek to a more natural state.
		Buoyed by a $100,000 city matching grant recommended by Mayor Greg Nickels, the ambitious overhaul could be completed by the end of next summer, helping to usher in a new era for one of Seattle's most treasured parks.
	seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/localnews/2002426715_ravenna08m.html (755 words)

	Service for Peace
		One group worked with Seattle Parks and Trail Maintenance crewsand City Year loading fresh gravel for trail restoration at Ravenna Park, an inner city park that serves primarily low-income and minority families.
		Seattle, WA Some of the younger volunteers at Ravenna Park
		The Seattle program was one of several in the Northwest that were initiated and energized by the MLK Training Seminar held at Portland State University in Oregon in late October, that was presented jointly by Service For Peace and the Points of Light Foundation.
	www.serviceforpeace.org /seasons/mlk/2005/seattle.htm (228 words)

	DJC.COM: Ravenna Creek daylighting OK'd, provided by Seattle Daily Journal of Commerce
		Under the agreement, King County and Seattle will daylight a portion of the creek in Cowen Park and the south end of Ravenna Park, then pipe the water from there to Union Bay.
		SEATTLE -- King County councilwoman Cynthia Sullivan and Seattle City Council member Richard Conlin announced a joint agreement on Friday to daylight Ravenna Creek.
		The city will work with area residents during construction, and will maintain the daylighted portion of the creek through Ravenna Park.
	www.djc.com /news/enviro/11006933.html (167 words)

	NWsource: Guide to the best walks in Seattle, Washington
		Few cities in the country offer wild parks that rival Seattle’s, and Discovery is the crown jewel in that impressive array.
		The upper entrance to this forested park hangs at the edge of a ridge of glacial rock debris overlooking Lake Washington.
		Seward Park is a regional treasure with a splendid example of urban old-growth forest.
	www.nwsource.com /outdoors/guides/seattlewalks_073004.html (245 words)

	Ravenna park and ride may get artistic touch
		In the concrete jungle on Northeast Ravenna Boulevard lurk commuters and the homeless and the occasional knight.
		Among the ideas that artists might come up with are a skateboard park under the freeway, lights along the side of the freeway, art along Northeast Ravenna Boulevard, Northeast 65th Street and Weedin Place Northeast and maybe someday artwork under the freeway, like the troll that lives under the Aurora Bridge in Fremont.
		The neighborhood associations of Roosevelt and Green Lake once voted the Ravenna park and ride lot one of their most hated places.
	seattlepi.nwsource.com /local/207484_nsecondary12.html (758 words)

	11143834.html
		At the turn of the last century, Seattle civic leaders had the wisdom and foresight to begin preserving the city’s spectacular natural landscape while providing access to green space and recreational opportunities for all of its residents.
		Last fall, the Seattle Parks Foundation received the largest donation for park purposes in the history of the city: $1.3 million.
		The Friends of Seattle’s Olmsted Parks, Seattle Parks and Recreation, and City Park Alliance host the National Association for Olmsted Parks conference in Seattle, the keynote event of a year-long celebration of Seattle’s Olmsted Centennial.
	www.djc.com /news/en/11143834.html (1626 words)

	Fall 1996
		In late October and early November this year RCA had the opportunity to further our understanding of the hydrogeology of the Ravenna Park area when two deep (350-plus feet) cathodic protection wells were drilled by a contractor to the Seattle Water Department within one-half mile of the Park.
		Ravenna Creek flow originates from springs in pre-glacial sandy sediments at the head of Ravenna Park, called the Vashon Advance Outwash Aquifer.
		Ravenna Creek Alliance proposes to keep the Creek on the surface as a positive benefit, 'daylighting' a natural resource for the entire community to enjoy.
	home.earthlink.net /~ravennacreek/Publications/Newsletters/Fall1996.htm (1979 words)

	HistoryLink Essay: Seattle Neighborhoods: Ravenna - Roosevelt -- Thumbnail History
		Ravenna Park became a popular destination for Seattle residents, who were willing to pay 25 cents apiece to visit it.
		During those years, Seattle city engineers diverted Ravenna Creek from Green Lake into a sewer that discharged into Union Bay.
		Ravenna Boulevard was constructed between Green Lake and Ravenna Park along the stream, following a recommendation in the Olmsted Plan of 1903.
	www.historylink.org /essays/output.cfm?file_id=3502 (1531 words)

	Chronology
		Exchange of letters between City of Seattle and King County executives regarding the current availability of $3 Million from the County for daylighting Ravenna Creek and two years during which to leverage those funds to put together the full amount required for daylighting the Creek to Lake Washington's Union Bay.
		For an indication of political support, see Seattle City Council Resolution 28867 supporting the daylighting of Ravenna Creek, which was adopted January 31, 1994 unanimously.
		However, analysis of the voting pattern in the vicinity of Ravenna Creek shows that immediately adjacent precincts came in as high as 85% in favor of the bond.
	home.earthlink.net /~ravennacreek/chronology.htm (540 words)

	University Village, Seattle, Washington -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
		Ravenna Creek will still be reconnected to (Click link for more info and facts about University Slough) University Slough, but by a pipe rather than above ground.
		In the late (The decade from 1990 to 1999) 1990s, a proposal was floated to "daylight" (Click link for more info and facts about Ravenna Creek) Ravenna Creek across the University Village grounds, but the project was successfully blocked.
		University Village is an upscale (Mercantile establishment consisting of a carefully landscaped complex of shops representing leading merchandisers; usually includes restaurants and a convenient parking area; a modern version of the traditional marketplace) shopping center in (Click link for more info and facts about Seattle, Washington) Seattle, Washington as well as its surrounding neighborhood.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/U/Un/University_Village,_Seattle,_Washington.htm (357 words)

	Ravenna, Washington -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
		For information on Ravenna post-annexation, see (Click link for more info and facts about Ravenna, Seattle, Washington) Ravenna, Seattle, Washington.
		It was named after (A battle between the French and an alliance of Spaniards and Swiss and Venetians in 1512) Ravenna, (A republic in southern Europe on the Italian Peninsula; was the core of the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire between the 4th century BC and the 5th century AD) Italy.
		Ravenna, Washington -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/R/Ra/Ravenna,_Washington.htm (80 words)

	Washington Chamber of Commerce Executives - King County
		Seattle, WA The University District is one of the oldest, most loved and diverse communities in all of Seattle.
		Located 30 minutes east of Seattle Washington USA, this valley is a natural scenic tour; featuring rugged mountainous terrain for hiking, skiing or mountain biking, raging rivers for fishing and water sports, a wonderful selection of golf courses, and for the less adventurous, many fine specialty shops through which to browse.
		Seattle, WA As the largest business organization in Western Washington, we’re also one of the most influential, working for Greater Seattle’s economic vitality and quality of life.
	www.wcce.org /king.htm (1708 words)

	Seattle Bed and Breakfast - Chambered Nautilus - University District, Seattle Washington Bed and Breakfast Inn
		The Chambered Nautilus is a Seattle, Washington Bed and Breakfast perched on a peaceful hill in Seattle’s University District.
		Located in the heart of Seattle, WA, the Inn is within walking distance to the University of Washington campus, UW medical center, and Husky football stadium, yet just minutes away from the downtown attractions.
		We are surrounded by many of Seattle's finest neighborhoods.
	www.chamberednautilus.com (308 words)

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