Woodland Park Zoo Open House

Woodland Park Zoo (5500 Phinney Ave. N. Map of location) is hosting an open house this Thursday, February 28, from 5:00pm - 7:00pm to kick-off its "Inner North Parking Lot Reconfiguration and Expansion Project." The plans call for and additional 165 parking spaces in the zoo's North Parking Lot, demolishing two storage sheds, and moving the portable trailers that house the zoo's administrative offices. The zoo says this expansion will also serve to create better pedestrian connections between the North Parking Lot…

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Classes offered for the TQI Diet

Kathy Abascal is offering a five-week program on the "TQI Diet - The Abascal Way" at the University House beginning Wednesday night, February 27. TQI stands for "to quiet inflammation", and Kathy, with a background in biochemistry, has developed a diet plan that calls for eliminating certain foods from the diet, thereby enabling the body to quiet inflammation, for health and weight loss. Her past students rave about the diet, and attribute it to eliminating aches, pains and illnesses. The Seattle Times…

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All ya gotta do is ‘Knoq’

When you're looking for recommendations for a particular service for your home--say, a roofer, a house painter, a plumber--who better to ask for a referral than your neighbors? That's the thinking behind Knoq.com, a new website that connects neighbors to local businesses. Knoq is a locally-owned free service to help folks get things done around the house by providing recommendations to local businesses. Sign up here and once you do, you'll see names and locations of other neighbors using Knoq in…

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A heart-y pancake breakfast

Valentine's Day may be over, but it's still  heart month; and to celebrate, the Wallingford Community Senior Center (4649 Sunnyside Ave N #140) is hosting a Pancake Breakfast this Sunday, featuring free-formed heart-shaped pancakes and lots of other goodies for the whole family. Pancake Breakfast With Heart – For Everyone   Sunday, February 24       9am - 12 noon Adults - $5; Kids -  $2.50 Choice of Pancakes or French Toast; Ham or Veggie Sausage Beverages – Orange Juice, Coffee, Tea, Milk  

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5xTenn (or so)

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Most know playwright Tennessee Williams for his classics, A Streetcar Named Desire and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof; however, Williams produced a number of one-act plays up until his death. Six of these plays are featured in Stone Soup Theatre’s wonderful production of 5xTenn (or so), running from February 15-March 9. The eight cast members deliver delightful performances: Patrick Baxter lights up the stage as the drunken Guiseppe in "Sunburst"; while Brynne Garman and Gianni Truzzi argue, flirt, and connive in "Kingdom of…

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Self defense workshops

In response to the recent attacks in the area, Oom Yung Doe (3845 Bridge Way), along with ADT Security, is offering a new series of self defense seminars free to the community. If you can make it, the first one starts this evening (2/20) at 6:30pm at Oom Yung Doe; but for those who can't, each session will cover the same techniques and situations repeatedly. For those who attend multiple workshops and are able to learn the techniques, there are intermediate and advanced…

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I Love Recycling Because

The Think Green Recycling Challenge rolls on. Wallingford's Waste Management route, Friday North,is in ninth place as of the end of November 2012. Hey, we have nowhere to go but up! But we do have a good chance of winning up to $10,000 for neighborhood projects as a result of monthly Recycling Challenge outreach activities. Some past activities have been a Halloween costume exchange, no-waste Thanksgiving recipes, recycled-material holiday ornaments along 45th, and a Recycling Challenge display and sorting game at…

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