Tag: memorial walks

January 6, 2017

Memorial for Nellie Yelli Saturday + Treza Hafzalla charged with Vehicular Homicide, Hit & Run

Friends, family and neighbors will gather tomorrow (Saturday) morning to remember Nellie Yelli, 62, who was killed Sunday while walking in a Green Lake crosswalk. The memorial, organized by Seattle Neighborhood Greenways, begins 11 a.m. at 82nd and Wallingford Ave N, the intersection where she was killed. More details are available on the event page.…
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tagged: deaths, green lake, memorial walks, n 82nd street, nellie yelli, seattle neighborhood greenways, treza hafzalla, wallingford ave n
October 7, 2016

Sunday: Join a memorial for recent victims of traffic violence, rally for safer streets

Seattle Neighborhood Greenways groups are organizing their second memorial event in as many weeks, this time in Northgate. Meet noon Sunday at Northgate Community Center to join. It’s been an awful couple weeks of traffic violence in the area. Last week, Central Seattle Greenways hosted a memorial walk on Capitol Hill for Max Richards, who…
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tagged: memorial walks, northgate, seattle neighborhood greenways
June 20, 2016

Memorial walk for Desiree McCloud tonight on Yesler Way

Family, friends and neighbors working for safer streets will hold a memorial walk for Desiree McCloud today (Monday) on E Yesler Way. The walk starts 6 p.m. at Bailey Gatzert Elementary. The group will cross the street to the ghost bike memorial set up at 13th and Yesler where McCloud crashed last month while biking…
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tagged: desiree mccloud, first hill streetcar, memorial walks
August 24, 2015

One year after Kung was killed, join a vigil and call for Vision Zero Friday

Traffic injuries and deaths are preventable, and we have the cure. We’ve already planned Seattle’s safe streets upgrades corridor-by-corridor and neighborhood-by-neighborhood. The city’s traffic engineers have studied proven best practices from in town and around the world. The city is essentially holding the traffic violence vaccine in its hands, but we’re still scared to take…
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tagged: 2nd ave, cascade bicycle club, memorial rides, memorial walks, move seattle, move seattle levy, sher kung
January 16, 2015

Memorial walk Saturday for Leo Almanzor, killed walking to work downtown

Leo Almanzor worked as a janitor at Washington Athletic Club in downtown Seattle for 17 years. But his walk from the bus to his job took a tragic turn November 22 when someone driving a Honda sedan fled a Seattle Police traffic stop and drove into Leo, killing him. He was 68. “The family is…
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tagged: leo almanzor, memorial walks, sally bagshaw, scott kubly, seattle neighborhood greenways
August 11, 2014

Lucia: Seattle one of the safest cities to walk, but that’s not good enough

Seattle is one of the safest big cities in North America for people walking, but tell that to the 415 people hit by cars and trucks in 2013. For every 100,000 Seattle residents, 1.15 people will be killed in traffic while walking. 60 people were very seriously injured in 2013, and many more still have…
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tagged: bill lucia, crosscut, memorial walks, rebecca scollard, seattle neighborhood greenways, vision zero