An interesting email came in overnight at 2:25 a.m.

“FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

“Maple Leaf Pharmacy Receives 2017 Seattle Award

“Seattle Award Program Honors the Achievement

“SEATTLE March 22, 2017 — Maple Leaf Pharmacy has been selected for the 2017 Seattle Award in the Pharmacies category by the Seattle Award Program.”

Only one pharmacy in the area is selected for the award each year, according to a fact sheet from the Seattle Award Program.

And in Seattle in 2017, it’s the Maple Leaf Pharmacy.

Which went out of business in October 2015 after decades at the corner of Roosevelt Way Northeast and Northeast 89th Street.

That location is now occupied by The Little Gym.

The full press release about this exciting award is here.

We’ve had several neighbors wonder what has happened to the Maple Leaf Community Council.

So far, we’ve responded that we don’t think it made it through last summer.

We last devoted a full post to this in April 2016:

On the Maple Leaf Community Council – the elected body that represents our neighborhood – five of the c0uncil’s nine positions will soon be vacant.

That news came in the newsletter distributed this weekend – yet it’s scarcely news.

We wrote about it here, in January, and here, a year ago.

Today, Donna Hartman-Miller, who we once labeled ubiquitous, has posted to the community council’s Facebook page.

She says, in part:

Currently there are four members on the MLCC Executive Board; one of the board members will not be standing for election this next cycle, so, unless some other people step forward, that will leave three members….

This last year or so has been an unexpectedly busy time for the current members of the board and so the attention the Maple Leaf neighborhood has normally received is not at the level it has been in the past….

We want to be very clear, we need more people to step up and join the board. You don’t have to have experience, you just need to have an interest in making Maple Leaf a good neighborhood and a willingness to participate. It is a learning experience for every single person who joins.

The full post is here.

She also notes the council’s website is down, and the quarterly newsletter MIA, but that an attempt is being made to revive the group.

Currently we are looking at meeting sometime in the middle to end of April. If you are considering joining the MLCC Executive Board (and attending this meeting), please email [email protected].

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This morning David emails:

Yesterday I lost my white and blue plane N of Maple Leaf park, near the Roosevelt
side, it fell somewhere in the first few streets there. So basically NE of the water tower.
Please post.

David
 617 513 6938
[email protected]

Jessica writes on Nextdoor Northgate/Maple Leaf:

“Does anyone know what’s going on with COA on Roosevelt? They’ve been closed for more than a week. There’s no sign or any other notice.”
Not only that, but the phone number for Coa Mexican Eatery & Tequileria at Roosevelt Way Northeast and Northeast 80th Street comes back as “invalid number.”
Yelp reviewers say the restaurant is closed.

We’ve tried reaching out to them on Facebook.

If Coa is gone, it joins a number of other past Maple Leaf eateries, Notably:

Cafe Piccolo

The Maple Leaf Grill

LC’s Kitchen

The Hudson New American Public House

In other news, several neighbors have wondered what happened to the Maple Leaf Community Council. We’ll try and poke at that a bit more, but the news doesn’t seem good.

Also, Lilly writes:

 I just opened a small salon in maple leaf over on 82nd
and 15th. I worked at wild root salon for ten years and I'm super excited to be
back in the neighborhood!
I saw that you have posts about new business's in the area and would love to have
the opportunity to let the neighborhood know I'm back in a new salon.

Tuesday 8:15 a.m. SNOW!

(Soon to be rain.)

We missed last week’s snow.

Oh, well.