Monthly Archives: May 2010

Plants and Electronics

Bush beans, cucumbers, sunflowers and IEEE 1394 cables. It must be springtime! Now, before you start singing "one of these things is not like the other", turn your attention to Barb's mail, reminding us of the John Stanford School's spring plant sale and electronics drive this Saturday, May 8th starting at 10 am: Come and help John Stanford International School support its sister school in Mexico.The JSIS Kindergartners have been growing starts from the Seed Savers Exchange, a non-profit organization that…

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What Our Neighbors Are Saying This Week

It's time, once again, for our weekly stroll through Wallyhood where we recap some of the more popular discussions in our Forums section and highlight some of our livelier reader comments. This week in Wallyhood: We've taken a tour through a well-loved Foursquare house on Densmore complete with its own firing range of yore; Voiced concerns over one neighbor's tenant-to-car ratio; All hailed at the return of the Bull; Opined the pros and cons of keeping the Wallyhood Nightlife Calendar; and…

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Art Walk Tip

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Reminder: Wallingford Art Walk is tonight, 6 - 9 pm all over Wallingford. Check out the map of participating businesses from the Wallingford Art Walk web site. If you're wondering where the cool art is, here's one that looks interesting: David McCrae will be showing work from his From A Scanner, Darkly series at the offices of the naturopath Amy Wells at 4426 Burke Ave N. From David's web site: I am both a research scientist, working in metropolitan Seattle, and…

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Waiting for the Geeks

Lower Wallingford's Institute for Systems Biology took over Fremont's Waiting for the Interurban Tuesday, hanging inflatable DNA strands and giving the would-be passengers some light reading to pass the time:  copies of a recently published Science journal article about ISB's work sequencing the genome of a family of four.  Read about it here. Or better yet -- go see ISB founder Leroy Hood present "Genomics 101"  at Town Hall Wednesday evening, 5/5 .  Tickets are $5 through Brown Paper Tickets.  Hood…

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Happenin’s in the Neighboring ‘Hoods

Here's what's happening in our neighboring 'hoods this past week: Our neighbors in the U District finally have a new blog of their very own, courtesy of the same Ballard-based Next Door Media company that is behind many "local" blogs north of the ship canal. Since they share articles with each other, you may have already seen some of their work (e.g., 1, 2). Welcome to the local blogging scene, guys. Two bodies were found at an Aurora Motel. Police believe…

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Community Helps Raise $1,700 Toward Challenge Grant

The Senior Center's "New Start" community pancake breakfast on April 25 brought out 204 attendees and raised $1,700 toward the center's $25,000 challenge grant. The event was put on by a group of 40 volunteers, ranging from 12-years-of-age to the eldest, who was in her eighties. Additionally, the center raised $900, which will go toward the actual event cost. WCSC's Executive Director Kathleen Cromp tells us that while they wanted to raise money and move closer to their 25K goal, the…

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Crazy Beans Leaves Town

I saw this Tuesday morning at the corner of 45th and Corliss.  The Crazy Beans drive-thru espresso stand all packed up and ready to hit the road.  The moving crew told me they were hauling it up to Mukilteo, but didn't know if there was going to be a replacement.  Now where are we going to go for our in-the-car quick-fixes of caffeine? Remember the Roosters place that used to be there?  That one got shipped off somewhere else too.  Is…

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