The Weekend Wrap Ducks and Covers

We sent Seth to Wenatchee to cover the fire but he ended up at an AppleSox game instead. (They lost to the Corvallis Knights.)

It wouldn't be a Friday night in Seattle if someone wasn't shooting a 9mm pistol in the air, would it? As it happens, City Attorney Pete Holmes was just blocks north, walking Belltown with community leaders.

Bank regulators staged a "hold-up" earlier on Friday: Cowlitz and Bay Bank members, meet Heritage Bank. The PSBJ reports that the FDIC retained ownership of $200 million in what are being termed assets. That's Washington's eighth failed bank this year. On the brighter side, U.S. Senator Patty Murray found $44 million to pay for temporary repairs to Howard Hanson Dam, in addition to funding a Seattle-to-Port Townsend passenger ferry. Is it just me, or are election years wonderful?

Target is coming to Seattle, plunking down $15.5 million for retail space at the bottom of Newmark Tower, at Second Avenue between Pike and Union. It's something of a coup, considering that complaints about area crime and disturbances have been constant since the Newmark opened in 1991.

The Hutch announced that as of January 2011 Lawrence Corey, M.D., an expert in virology, immunology and vaccine development, will be their new president and director. The pick seems to emphasize both the relationship of viral infections as cancer-causing agents, and Corey's background in bringing new therapies to bear quickly.

In the neighborhoods, a playground in Eastlake was the terminus for a high-speed chase. Capitol Hill was dealing with a mini-juvenile crime wave. CD News strolled through the new Madison Valley stormwater park, and Southend Seattle explored Deadhorse Canyon. RVP was still celebrating CNN's spotlight on the Columbia City Farmers Market. Viewing portals are going up around the U District light rail station construction.

The city wants to know where to put P-Patches. A Green Lake homeless shelter is running short of money for bus fare. The mysterious yellow helicopter was explained. Construction is beginning on the Nickerson Street road diet. PhinneyWood's Hondas sleep in fear. A Magnolia resident is collecting signatures for an initiative putting the deep-bore tunnel to a vote. You can have Maple Leaf's Roosevelt parking when you pry it from their cold, dead hands.

That sailor found dead--shot to death--in Afghanistan was a graduate of West Seattle High.