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Mommy, I Need to Swim, NOW!

All dressed up in teeny adorable Crocs, baggy swim diapers and those little sunglasses with the strap to keep them on, where's a toddler to go for some summertime water fun this year? The mayor's office announced today that, due to mid-year budget cuts, the Wallingford wading pool will be operating with reduced hours beginning June 30th through August 20th:  Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, noon - 7 pm. Green Lake's wading pool (along with those of Magnuson, Lincoln, Van Asselt, and…

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Friday Night Twilight Walk

Slow, soft summer sunset.  A stretch limo that seems to go on forever turns left onto 45th Street obstructing traffic in both directions with teenage boys hanging out the windows screaming their heads off.  Prom Night I can only assume?  Too startled to get a photo. Turning south down 1st Ave.  Some hard, new little pears are sprouting. And Emily has finally gotten her Ph.D.! More teenagers dressed in formal-wear giggling in front of someone's house.  No photo, to protect the…

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Stone Soup Theater Summer Programs

Wallingford's Stone Soup Theater offers summer programs to keep the kiddos busy, engaged, and entertained this summer.   And if you've got kids in your house, you know how very important this summertime public service is. The 2010 summer programs consist of half day or full day workshops the weeks of June 28-August 27, Monday-Friday 9am-12pm  (5-7 & 3-4 yrs only) & 9am-2pm (age groups 6-9, 8-13, and 10-20 yrs). Half day camps are improvisational, while the longer workshops require some reading…

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Sign Defaced!

Attention, City of Seattle, Department of Tearing Down Defaced Signs! A sign, in Wallingford, has been defaced. Observe this photographic evidence, snapped covertly by cameraphone and smuggled out of the neighborhood onto the Internets by means of telecommunication waves: This sign was meant to protect people, and now it has become whimsical! It belongs to the city, but now a rogue artist has unlawfully altered it! Quick, rush your crack team of sign dismantlers to the intersection in Wallingford on which…

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New Wallingford Landmark Coming

Or, perhaps we should say, BETTER landmark coming. Anyone who's come up 45th St from I-5 is familiar with the mini-festering pit on the corner of 4th Ave NE and NE 45th St. There used to be a hair salon or somesuch there, then developers knocked the building down to build condos, then the economy got knocked down, and the empty lot lay collecting garbage. Together with the drab Cosmopolitan Apartments (and formerly Office Max) building, the seedy mini-market on the…

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Park Your Bike on a Big Fish

Translation: you can now park your bike on a large fish-shaped bike rack in the lower hood. This fabulous, car-sized, rack was installed at 10am yesterday down at the corner of Woodlawn and 34th, right in front of the Essential Baking Company. It was quick and easy; it only required three workers, a few traffic cones, and takes up but one car space. One car spot for 14 bike slots seems like a healthy trade. The installation was complete before noon…

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Mosaic Talent Show Fundraiser Tonight

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Back in April, we told you about a group of people raising money to "freshen up" the den (side room on the left as you enter) at the Mosaic Coffee House. Tonight (Thursday, June 10th), they're holding a talent show fundraiser from 5:30 - 8:30 pm and it sounds like they've got a great line-up. Rachel Duboff writes: The master of ceremonies for this event is Spark Interaction's ever-fun improv master Leif Hansen. The local artists who will perform include critically-acclaimed…

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