Canning and Cooking with Wallingford Community Kitchen

If you're a tomato lover, you might be interested in the Wallingford Community Kitchen event happening this Friday, September 30. This month, the Community Kitchen is a two-parter, focusing on canning AND cooking with organic tomatoes. Details are below, but you must register online today to reserve your spot. Click here to register. Please join us for our exciting September Wallingford Community Kitchen. We'll be canning organic tomatoes and using those recipes to make a wonderful meal. Our very own Cathy…

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Tintin in Wallingford

As a kid, nothing was more thrilling to me than to read The Adventures of Tintin, action-packed stories of a young journalist from Belgium. Tintin and his witty sidekick and canine companion, Snowy, somehow always managed to get themselves into a bit of a scrape with a wide assortment of thugs and evildoers. Whether they sailed the high seas in search of a meteorite with the drunken Captain Haddock, or gave the bungling Thom(p)son twin detectives the slip; in the end, Tintin and…

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For the Love of Pete

A guy walks through QFC parking lot with a pair of matching brown Boxer dogs, one has its hind legs in a wheeled contraption that rolls along, the other does not. Inside QFC I notice more of this summer's new fashion, floor-length slinky sundresses.  The middle-aged woman in me approves, it's attractive but covers a lot. At the intersection of Wallingford and 45th a woman scampers across as the light is changing to red, while her male companion refuses to follow…

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Obama over Wallingford?

Glen writes: Have you heard anything about what was possibly Obama flying over Wallingford tonight around 5:30?  He was scheduled to leave Seattle at 3pm so maybe he wasn't aboard, but I think it was his helicopter. All news to us, but we did see what looked like a coast guard helicopter following an identically marked 747 flying south over the U District and Capitol Hill around 6:50 pm tonight. They both had the red stripes of the coast guard, not…

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Don’t Throw That Out!

Inevitably, you get to an age where some of your possessions are older than grown adults walking around who weren't even born when you bought them.  This sad situation occurred recently in our house with my husband's pajamas.  Yes, he loves them, but, yes, they were purchased in the late 1980's, which not only makes them old enough to vote, but also serve in the military and drink alcohol.  They had to go. Now, in these days of environmental awareness I…

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Present Sense

Kate Talbott, who runs the Present Sense space at 42nd and Woodland Park Ave. N. wrote us recently about what she's created down that way. Here's what she had to say: I started Present Sense because I wanted a place to do the things I loved with other people: make art, write, practice mindfulness, and create community. These practices have brought so much richness and meaning to my life, and I am thrilled to have the chance to give back some…

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