Back in October, we wrote that the Kiddies Parade, a neighborhood institution for over 70 years, may be in danger of being discontinued in coming years due to lack of support. The parade, run this year by Celebrate Wallingford, is in dire need of both financial support and volunteers. Back in October, they sent postcards to many residents to try to drum up support.

In describing the scope of the need, Blake Garfield (of Bedrooms and More, a major force behind the parade for many years), chairman of Celebrate Wallingford’s board, told us back in November “It costs roughly $10,000 …

Few businesses in our neighborhood have been as enduring as Changes near the corner of 45^th and Meridian. The Hawaiian Store and Murphy’s come to mind although Murphy’s used to be down the street a bit where Starbuck’s used to be (and Young Tea now is).

On Sunday, January 29, Changes celebrated its 34^th anniversary. Ryan from Changes emailed us with the announcement:

Changes, the longest continually owned-and-operated gay bar in Seattle, celebrated their 34th Anniversary on Sunday, January 29 with a night of karaoke and celebratory times. The bar’s owner Floyd McIsaac was 36 years old when …

Lincoln High School will be holding a silent auction to benefit the Performing Arts program (PAL – Performing Arts at Lincoln)

Margaret writes:

You are invited to “Auction for the Arts” on February 4th, 2023, 7:30-10:30 pm at the Fremont Abbey.

We are looking forward to getting together to enjoy drinks, dessert, live music and silent auction. This is a fundraising event, and every single dollar raised will go directly to support our teachers and kids through performing arts programs at Lincoln! We need …

Seattle Police North Precinct tweeted at 1:31 pm about an armed robbery near 45^th Street:

Beat: B3, ROBBERY (INCLUDES STRONG ARM) at 45XX BLOCK OF WALLINGFORD AV N reported on 1/30/2023 1:31 PM, Call# 23000028534

— SeattlePD Boy 3 (@SeattlePDB3) January 30, 2023

Not even an hour later, a second robbery or attempted robbery took place:

Beat: B3, ROBBERY – IP/JO (INCLUDES STRONG ARM) at N 43 ST / EASTERN AV N reported on 1/30/2023 2:15 PM, Call# 23000028568

— SeattlePD Boy 3 (@SeattlePDB3) January 30, 2023

A reader wrote to us with these additional details:

I just got …

While not quite located in our neighborhood, Ladd and Lass Brewing (located at 722 NE 45th St beside the Blue Moon) is, for many of us, our nearest brewery. (That may change next year for some of us with the arrival of Gasworks Brewing.) L&L opened about a year ago as reported here by Gary, and now they are celebrating their one-year anniversary.

Jessie Quan, an L&L founder along with Nick Ladd, emailed us to say:

Hope you’re enjoying a wonderful (warm, safe, and power outage-free) holiday season!

I’m writing because Ladd & Lass is officially a year old now…

If you’ve been to our neighborhood QFC recently, you no doubt would have noticed the absence of fresh fish and, possibly, meat at the respective counters. This comes as a blow to many shoppers who are probably hoping to get all their shopping done at one time and in one place, including the purchase of some meat and/or fish. To be fair, the QFC is not totally bereft of these items. There is plenty of pre-packaged meat available (as always), and apparently, a worker from another store has been coming by to cut up fish and shrink wrap it for …

While none of the actual work this coming week will take place in our neighborhood, use of a storage area along Woodland Park Avenue may affect your travels. We received this from the Seattle DOT:

Starting as early as next week, crews will begin the process of relocating their vehicles and equipment to a new storage site on Woodland Park Ave, between Green Lake Way N and N 46th Street. Crews will be utilizing this area for the next six weeks.

During this process you can expect: