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YMCA of Greater Seattle turned its former residence into transitional housing for former foster care and currently homeless youth, aged 18 to 25. This YMCA operates six transitional housing programs and 20 studio apartments. These services are offered at their Young Adult drop-in center in Seattle, Washington. [17]
Mineral, Washington. / 46.71694°N 122.18083°W / 46.71694; -122.18083. Mineral is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Lewis County, Washington, [ 3] on State Route 7 near the Pierce/Lewis county line. Mineral originally began as a logging camp and mining town. Prospectors searching the area for gold instead ...
YMCA Camp Orkila. Camp Orkila is on the northwest shoulder of Orcas Island in the San Juan Islands of Washington, overlooking Presidents Channel, and the Canadian Gulf Islands. It has been in operation since 1906. [1] It is operated by the Greater Seattle Area's YMCA. It is open year-round and offers many different programs ranging from ...
The Great Seattle Fire was a fire that destroyed the entire central business district of Seattle, Washington, on June 6, 1889. The conflagration lasted for less than a day, burning through the afternoon and into the night, during the same summer as the Great Spokane Fire and the Great Ellensburg Fire. Seattle quickly rebuilt using brick ...
This 1909 map of Seattle shows many neighborhood names that remain in common use today—for example, Ballard, Fremont, Queen Anne Hill, Capitol Hill, West Seattle, and Beacon Hill—but also many that have fallen out of use—for example, "Ross" and "Edgewater" on either side of Fremont, "Brooklyn" for today's University District, and "Renton Hill" near the confluence of Capitol Hill, First ...
YMCA, sometimes regionally called the Y, is a worldwide youth organization based in Geneva, Switzerland, with more than 64 million beneficiaries in 120 countries. It has nearly 90,000 staff, some 920,000 volunteers and 12,000 branches worldwide. [1] It was founded in London on 6 June 1844 by George Williams as the Young Men's Christian Association.
The Seattle school boycott of 1966 was a protest against racial segregation in the Seattle Public Schools. On March 31 and April 1, thousands of students left classes at their public schools, with the large majority of them attending community Freedom Schools instead. [1] [2]
Ballard Bridge. Ballard Bridge. More images. July 16, 1982. ( #82004231) Spans Lake Washington Ship Canal. 47°39′47″N 122°22′30″W. / 47.6631°N 122.375°W / 47.6631; -122.375 ( Ballard Bridge) Built in 1917, the Ballard Bridge is one of the oldest examples in the state of a double-leaf bascule bridge. [8]