Monthly Archives: March 2011

Open Enrollment begins for Seattle Schools

The Open Enrollment period for Seattle Public Schools begins today, March 15, and runs through April 15.  This is for students who are new to the district, including incoming Kindergartners.  Here are the following steps you need to take to enroll your child for the fall: Click here to go to the Seattle Public Schools website for step-by-step instructions and enrollment forms. First, you need to determine which school is in your attendance area.  It's pretty straight forward if you choose…

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Smash Coupon

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Smash Wine Bar and Bistro is offering a great deal through the Green Lake Moms / Wallyhood Deal Coop: $25 for $50 worth of food and drink! The usual restrictions apply (e..g, can't be used for Happy Hour pricing), but $25 off this great little restaurant is not to be missed. We had an interesting conversation with Dana Hannon, Smash's owner, about the relative merits of the coupon sites when we were setting this up and it was good to hear that…

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Local, Organic Produce Delivered to Wallingford

The fate of the Wallingford Farmers Market remains in doubt. Whole Foods (aka "Whole Paycheck") recently capitulated to Monsanto's drive to genetically engineer pesticides into our food supply. What's a lefty, organic-food-lovin' locavore to do? Go CSA, of course! CSA's (Community Supported Agriculture) are farms or groups that will deliver (mostly) locally grown produce to you on a regular basis based on what's in season. You're not going to get strawberries in December, but that's just as well: eating local doesn't…

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Issian Shares with Japan

As a home to such a large Japanese-American community, Seattle is filled with aching hearts this past week. Issian, a Japanese restaurant on 45th Street, has offered to help in one small way. As many of us may already know, Japan has been hit by a series of devastating earthquakes followed by a tsunami, which engulfed many people's lives, connections, and memories. Many of our families and friends are without shelter, safety, with no end in sight. As a part of…

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Burglary Rash

Two e-mails about fresh Wallingford burglaries greeted us this morning. First, from Andrew: My house at 43rd & Corliss was broken in to between noon and 9pm today (Friday). The burglar entered through a locked window in the rear of my house in a fenced yard, by breaking the latch on the window. Despite there being several valuable items left about, the burglar only took about $40 in quarters, but rifled through nearly everything in the house. When a police officer…

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imok, uok?

With the earthquake in Japan in the news these last days, I thought it might be a good time for an update on community preparedness planning in our own back yard. Nothing like a big disaster to get people's attention about making some basic preparations. You might be wondering what the headline has to do with this subject. One thing that emergency preparedness folks have realized over the past couple of years is that texting is often more successful than a…

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Jiggles Strip Club Closed

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Jiggles, the Gentleman's Club that has operated just over our border on Roosevelt in the U District, has been closed by court order today. "Superior Court Judge Suzanne Barnett awarded the injunctive relief sought by Assistant City Attorneys Bob Tobin and Carlton Seu at the end of an hour of oral arguments," according to the Seattle City Attorney's office. "Barnett rejected the First Amendment argument that was central to the defense by Jiggles’ owner Bob Davis ... As long as its…

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