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 Each month, we will feature a recipe from a member of the Haller Lake community. Please send us your suggested recipes for this column!


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Junction Point Homeless Shelter Off 128th Street

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 I was able to tour the Catholic Community Services Homeless Shelter, Junction Point, last week.  This shelter is located at 1132 N 128th St. near Stone Way and 128th St.  There shelter is a series of small, individual building for the residents that look something like "tiny homes".   I met up with Sharonda Duncan, Division Director within CSS Homeless Services.  She manages 4 of CCS's shelters around Seattle.  This shelter became active last June.  It has capacity for 49 individuals, men or women who are 50 years old or older.  The shelter is currently at full capacity. The shelter does utilize volunteers from the community.  They can use help with their plants/gardening and putting together hygiene packs and move out packs for the residents.  If you are interested, you can visit the shelter and ring the door bell. This is a shelter that moved from the old Junction Point location along Elliot Avenue.  The Elliot avenue shelte...
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The Haller Lake Emergency Hub (and the Hller Lake P-Patch Emergency Hub)

This is a recruiting post.  There are about 750,000 people living in Seattle, and perhaps another 50,000 visitors at any given time.  There are about 8,000 emergency responders: police, fire fighters, ambulance drivers, and similar.  In an earthquake, a large fire, a major power failure, civil disturbance, or other disaster, the emergency responders will be overwhelmed.  We might survive the earthquake only to die in the aftermath. Recognizing this problem, a group of volunteers have formed the Seattle Emergency Hubs (See   Emergency Preparedness, Disaster Awareness | Seattle Emergency Hubs ).  We have created list of about 127 hubs of which 65 are active and 62 are not yet active.  The Haller Lake Emergency Hub (HLEH) is considered active, since it has a hub captain (me) and an active grant application.   The Haller Lake P-Patch Emergency Hub (HLPEH), by way of contrast, is not yet active, because it does not have a hub captain nor anyt...
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From The Archives November 2025

  Once upon a time there was a preschool in the bowels of the club.  I know.  I lived it.  A little history.  The post WW2 period brought much development and young families to Seattle’s north end.  Actually, it wasn’t a city yet.  In the late 1940s and early 1950s, the Seattle School District and later the community college system saw a need to develop “playgroups” which would offer parents and there preschoolers time to socialize, learn and bond in a classroom setting.  The catch was each parent would assist the teacher one day per week for the half-day program.  It included a parent education component as well. Back to Haller Lake.  The parent cooperative model thrived in the basement of the Club between 1946 and 1973 and was instrumental in raising Club membership.  Thinking back, Club members were younger and had young children.  There was a true symbiotic relationship between the two.  In 1973 the Club decided not to...
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