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Bring Up the Sun, Bring In Summer! It’s been a long winter. As if the post-election pall weren’t bad enough, we’ve broken the 122-year-old record for wettest winter, and another record for the sheer number of wet days between October and April. How do you cope with such dismal weather? Take excessive doses of Vitamin D? Book a trip someplace sunny? Complain while binge-watching Netflix? How about getting up before dawn on May 1st to bring in the summer! It may sound…

This Saturday, April 29th, from 2:00 - 3:30 PM, the Jae H. Kim Taekwon-Do Institute (1900 N 45th St) will offer their 10th annual free women's self-defense workshop: Learn the strategies and gain the knowledge to arm yourself against a possible attack! Our women's only class (appropriate for ages 12 and older) will cover the crime process, strategies for self-defense, and self-defense techniques. There is no cost, and pre-registration is not required. Wear casual, comfortable clothes and come prepared to kick…

The Northwest Immigrant Rights Project, founded in 1984 with offices in Seattle, Tacoma, Wenatchee and Granger (Yakima county), supports immigrant populations by, according to their website, “defending and advancing the rights of immigrants through direct legal services, systemic advocacy, and community education.” The organization is headed by Seattle attorney Jorge Baron who was recently profiled in this Seattle Times article. Interested in supporting this organization? How about if you could drink a beer at the same time? Floating Bridge Brewing and…

Here's something going on this week that you can only catch only two places in the world: at Vrijplaats Middelstegracht in Leiden, Netherlands and at the Good Shepherd Center here in Wallingford. The Drone Cinema Film Festival, now in its third year, showcases cutting-edge, ethereal works of drifting beauty that bring sonic drones into the visual realm. This year's festival,whose theme is GOLD, takes place again at Vrijplaats in Leiden, Netherlands, as well as a brand new location in Seattle, Washington. Cascone…

Last week, the city introduced a revised set of procedures for the removal of camps on city property. These procedures govern such things as identification of camps to be cleared, notification of campers and storage of their belongings after a camp has been cleared. City workers got an opportunity to flex these new policies last week as they cleared – for the second time – the camp along the Burke Gilman Trail. More on that later. Wallingford is among perhaps a…