Shawn sent this photo of last night's boat fire on Lake Union, just down from Eastern Ave NE. According to KIRO, the fire started from illegal fireworks at about 10 pm last night and damaged 14 boats for an estimated $1.5M in damage: Witnesses saw a firework land on the boat cover of a Master Craft on the second level of the storage racks. [Cory] Crosby used the boat lift and pulled the burning boat out of the slot in the…
Happy Independence Day, Wallingford. Today's the day we get to play host to the rest of the city and beyond. Traffic will be snarled, dogs will be whimpering, the streets will be littered with spent bottle rockets and salutes. Invite a neighbor over for a hot dog. Hand out popsicles. Give your driveway parking spot to a frazzled minivan full of kids from somewhere up north. Pull your sofa out into the middle of the street and share it with someone…
Have you been toying with the idea of building a backyard chicken coop or starting your own little farm? If you want some creative inspiration, then you'll definitely want to check out Seattle Tilth's Chicken Coop & Urban Farm Tour on Saturday, July 13, from 10:00am to 4:00pm: In this self-guided tour, you will see simple chicken coops built in an afternoon and elaborate finely-crafted coops that took weeks of planning and building. See what accommodations are needed for keeping miniature…
Last month Waste Management announced the winners of the Think Green Recycling Challenge. The Wallingford Community Council, sponsor of the neighborhood volunteer effort, was awarded a recycled (of course) trophy and the rights to award $3,333 to local non-profits. Carter and Emily, 5th and 2nd graders from John Stanford International School, received the award on behalf of the Community Council. The students were active in Recycling Challenge outreach efforts which took place each month from October 2012 to March 2013. Emily…
Earlier in the year, we told you about the rise in the number of kids attending Hamilton in the 2013-14 school year. Initially, there was some speculation that the district would open an annex for incoming 6th graders at the John Marshall site on Ravenna Blvd. in Green Lake; however, that idea was taken off the table. Still, there are capacity management issues that remain, which will not only impact the school building, but also the traffic and parking around the…
In response to our recent post that the medical marijuana dispensary at 45th and Corliss, Truly Helpful Collective, had closed, but that we weren't sure why, Rhysling posted a link to this Slog article, which gives some background: Eleven medical marijuana dispensaries in Seattle received letters from the federal Drug Enforcement Administration yesterday, ordering them to shut down within 30 days or risk having their properties seized. Details on the Seattle dispensaries targeted by the DEA come from Kiro: They all received letters…
Lots of shops offer "buy one, get one free" deals. Ho hum. Yawn. Zaw, however, has a lovely, community minded spin on it: We often get inspired by our customers, like when one of our favorite regulars at Zaw called us to arrange for a pizza and bottle of wine to be delivered to their neighbor... just because! Well, that little gesture tickled our fancy and hit on a lot of the values all of us working at 'zaw adhere to…