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Photo by Jessica Keller Eric Connolly sets out his produce — mushrooms — at his Puget Sound Mushroom booth before the opening of 2023 Queen Anne Farmers Market on Thursday on Crockett Street in Queen Anne. This is Connolly’s inaugural year selling his produce at the farmers market, and he will return every week throughout the summer. ‘I love it. I get to chill out here in the sun and earn a living,’ said Connolly, who grows his mushrooms in Yelm and graduated from Evergreen University with a focus in agriculture. ‘ You just get to be outside and talk to customers who are interested in local product.’ The Queen Anne Farmers Market continues from 3 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. every Thursday throughout the summer. See more photos of this year’s Queen Anne Farmers Market opening day on page 5. For more information on the Queen Anne Farmers Market, visit https://qafm.org/.
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QA resident Bob Kettle wants to bring pragmatic, progressive decision-making to City Council
By Jessica Keller
Affairs Council Seattle, Ballard Eagleson Queen Anne & Magnolia News editor VFW Post 3063, the Society of White House Military Aides, Veterans for Patty Queen Anne resident Robert Kettle Murray and the 36th Legislative District isn’t new to civic duty and public service. Democrats. He is a retired Naval officer, where he He says he is not a politician and is new served 22 years before moving to Seattle, to the political process, so his campaign and a former member of the Queen Anne for the District 7 council seat has been an Community Council. education. Kettle is one of four people registered “It’s been quite the opportunity to with King County Elections as challengers learn about our democratic process with a for incumbent City Councilman Andrew Lewis’s District 7 seat, a crowded race that grassroots approach,” he said. Kettle, who describes himself as a will be whittled down to two in the Aug. 1 pragmatic progressive, said one of the primary. reasons he is running for political office is The other challengers, according to a desire to help create new leadership on King County Elections, are Seattle Police the council, which he believes is currently Department officer Aaron Marshall, owner lacking and myopic in its policy and of Piroshki Piroshki Olga Sagan, software decisions. engineer Wade Sowders and licensed “Yes, we need to lead with compassion private investigator Isabelle Kerner. but also wisdom,” he said, adding many Kettle has been involved in the of the decision the council members have community for some time as a member made in the last three years have created of the Queen Anne Community Council unintended consequences and negative board, West Precinct Advisory Council, Queen Anne Block Watch Network, World impacts in many areas of the city, such as
public safety and the business community and more. Kettle said the City Council needs to think bigger in its solutions and tries to consider impacts to every sector and resident before making a decision, such as with public safety and mental health. “We cannot succeed at public safety if we don’t also succeed at mental health,” he said. As well, Kettle said the City Council needs to take a more unified approach to governing and work better together and pursue more partnerships with other governmental agencies. “We need a City Council that works well together and works well together with others in the region and county and state,” he said. Within the city, however, Kettle said the new City Council needs to do more to improve relationships with different stakeholders, such as business communities. He said the city is in danger of losing a large number of small businesses, which
Photo by Jessica Keller Bob Kettle, a longtime Queen Anne resident, stands at the Betty Bowen viewpoint at Marshall Park. Kettle, who previously served on the Queen Anne Community Council and is a retired U.S. Navy intelligence officer, is running for KETTLE Page 3 District 7 City Council.
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