Pacific NW Magazine

Pacific NW Magazine

Walk the beat with an outreach worker helping people who live on Seattle streets

Sometimes, finding people who are living on the street but have been approved for housing requires hours of searching. “It feels like when you’ve got a resource, you can’t find ’em,” says Mikel Kowalcyk, of the nonprofit REACH. “Then, when you don’t have anything, they’re right in front of your face.” (Daniel Kim / The Seattle Times)
Sometimes, finding people who are living on the street but have been approved for housing requires hours of searching. “It feels like when you’ve got a resource, you can’t find ’em,” says Mikel Kowalcyk, of the nonprofit... (Daniel Kim / The Seattle Times)

REACH outreach worker Mikel Kowalcyk is part advocate, part confidante, part conduit, part coach to people with addiction issues on the streets of Seattle.

Contrasting textures furnished by hardy evergreen plants, including a Chinese windmill palm, fill deep planting beds. (Lisa Bauer / Chartreuse Landscape)
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A private garden oasis in the shadow of a Wallingford housing development

When a housing development grew behind a once-private Wallingford garden, smart design and thoughtful planting turned disappointment into an urban oasis.

The Art Deco Woolworth’s in Seattle was a landmark at Third Avenue and Pike Street. (Jimi Lott / The Seattle Times)
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Art Deco Seattle skyscrapers inspired by the nature of the Pacific NW

Two Art Deco buildings in Seattle — the Seattle Tower and the Exchange Building — symbolized the new century with boldness and vision, providing visible public art.

Cover stories

Mikel Kowalcyk, screening and outreach coordinator for REACH, center, works alongside with outreach workers from CoLEAD on Third Avenue in Seattle on April 28, 2023.

Walk the beat with an outreach worker helping people who live on Seattle streets

Gather

For Madison Linkenmeyer, improv class is a recreational escape. “It’s something fun that makes me put my phone down for a couple of hours,” she says. “We laugh and get completely immersed. Time goes by really fast when you’re focused and present.”

It's all fun and games (and focus) at these Jet City Improv classes

Seattle Sketcher

Even on a hot summer day, these golfers are up for some clubbing

Check out eye-popping exotics every week at Redmond Town Center car show

Seattle’s Uptown got a new name, but a historic landmark shines on

The return of ‘Alki Fridays’ coed volleyball brings energy back to the beach

Taste

Paunchy Elephant’s seasonal rhubarb lemonade is a tart, silky accompaniment to a dinner featuring grilled rhubarb as a tangy condiment. (Jill Lightner)

Try this seasonal Grilled Rhubarb with Paunchy Elephant's tangy BBQ sauce VIEW

Cheers!

Drinking games have been around as long as drinking.

A roundup of drinking games through time, from Kottabos to Flip Cup

Now & Then

NOW: In this aerial view, Hiawatha Community Center (formerly fieldhouse) peeks through the trees at back center, flanked by West Seattle High School at upper right beneath Mount Rainier. A Safeway stands on the former Corner Grocery site at lower left, and two low-slung Lawton Cypress trees straddle the park’s corner entry at lower left-center.

At West Seattle's groundbreaking Hiawatha Playfield, the trees are key VIEW

GROW

Contrasting textures furnished by hardy evergreen plants, including a Chinese windmill palm, fill deep planting beds. (Lisa Bauer / Chartreuse Landscape)

A private garden oasis in the shadow of a Wallingford housing development

Reader's Lens

*** READER’S LENS – ONE TIME USE ONLY *** Elston Hill elstonh@yahoo.com Seattle, WA 3604523935 From my balcony in South Lake Union 2023/4/12 I was hoping to take a photo of the Space Needle with the sun behind it from my balcony at Mirabella, a retirement community in South Lake Union. With all the rain and clouds, the project seemed doomed this spring. To my surprise and delight we had a clear evening and I nailed the sun behind the space needle. Fortunately, I set the camera to take three shots with different exposures each time I triggered the shutter. The photo with the least light was the only one to get the sun right. Canon R5 with Canon RF 100-500mm lens. a0H9A6758.jpg I agree to the Readers Lens Terms and Conditions 08:02:21 13 Apr, 2023

A reader really threads the Space Needle with this stunning Seattle sunset

Vintage Pacific NW

The Art Deco Woolworth’s in Seattle was a landmark at Third Avenue and Pike Street. (Jimi Lott / The Seattle Times)

Art Deco Seattle skyscrapers inspired by the nature of the Pacific NW

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