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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…

Miyabi (2208 N. 45th St), the Japanese restaurant on 45th Street, has re-opened with a brand new menu and concept. I asked Chef Kunise Stroh to tell us about the change, and she obliged: Miyabi 45 was closed for one week at the end of March, and we reopened on April 1st with a new menu and concept. When we first opened in 2013, we did not serve any sushi or sashimi because there were already a few restaurants in Wallingford which…

From time to time, many of us have suffered the minor transgression of having our garbage cans stuffed by somebody else. As if we don't have enough of our own garbage! I live on what, for many people, is their direct line to Gas Works Park, so my can probably gets stuffed more often than most. It's not the end of the world, of course, but I have such a really small can … Richard writes to report of an unusual…

On April 5, 2017 the Wallingford Community Council hosted a meeting for renters, landlords and single-family home owners. The meeting was put on by the Tenants Rights Bootcamp, a partnership between BE:SEATTLE and the Catholic Community Services Legal Action Center. Devin Silvernail, Executive Director of Be:Seattle conducted the meeting and Maureen Roat, Senior Staff Attorney for the Legal Action Center presented the legal aspects as well as answered questions from the audience. The meeting resulted in a wonderful dialogue between renters…

The following article was submitted by Susan Gulick. Susan is a neighbor representative on the Good Shepherd Center Advisory Board (GSCAB).  Her interviewee, Erin French, is the Director of Admissions and Marketing at the Meridian School.  The following conversation discusses concerns that some neighbors have expressed about the presence of Meridian School at the Good Shepherd Center. Background on Meridian School Susan: Before we begin, can you provide some background on Meridian School? Erin:  Of course! The Meridian School is an…