[Update: The day after this story posted, we received this information from Mike Mikkelsen, General Manager of Tweedy & Popp Hardware:

The story posted today about Tweedy & Popp Wallingford should be withdrawn as it is inaccurate and no longer current.  One of the partners in the store wanted to sell his share and created the listing.  His share is being purchased back by existing partners and is not for sale to the public. The listing under MLS is supposed to have been removed but the link still goes to the out-of-date status.  Thank you.

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The Wallingford United Methodist Church on 42^nd and Bagley is hosting a funeral planning presentation for those wishing to take control of the Big Exit.

Writes Nancy:

Join your neighbors for a presentation by Kathy Long, Executive Director of Peoples’ Memorial Association, a nonprofit organization that provides funeral education and advocacy.

The event is aimed at those who are looking for a starting point as they investigate funeral options. We’ll be talking about the key decisions individuals should make, the funeral planning paperwork needed and newer funeral options.

More information on Peoples’ Memorial can be found at their website.…

Here’s your reminder that this weekend is the Fremont Fair and Solstice Parade, and Mother Nature has blessed us with a gorgeous weekend to enjoy it with.

The Solstice Parade kicks off at NW 39th St and Leary Way NW at 1 pm on Saturday with the famous Naked Bicycle ride (captured in quirkiness by local filmmaker Dan McComb in Beyond Naked), and then tumbles, struts and thumps through Fremont to Gas Works Park. Watch for “Baby Z”, now in his seventh year stilting in the parade (and long past babyhood…that’s him at right, five years ago). Folks start …

These are desperate times for those fleeing their home countries for safety and freedom. In the face of the stunning injustices the president’s government has been inflicting on those in need, many of us are wondering what can one person do.

Despite the walls going up (literal or figurative), there are still organizations working to welcome newly arrived refugees into our community. World Relief Seattle is one such non-profit, and I’ve had the pleasure of providing temporary housing to a number of families they are re-settling from Afghanistan, Sudan and other countries here in Seattle. They’re fabulous people who provide …

Growing up, my family was not particularly religious. I learned Hebrew from a private tutor, alongside the children of a couple family friends, but only stepped foot in a synagogue once or twice throughout my childhood. My family was part of a group of similarly-minded Jewish families that would gather in a church basement on high holidays and celebrate together, sans rabbi, children chasing each other down the thinly carpeted halls and across the linoleum floors. My bar mitzvah was held in a rented hall, and the catered food was perhaps not kosher.

Nonetheless, Friday nights often found us at …