Wallingford, Seattle

A Fake Badge and A Box of Porn

Apparently, there's a guy posing as a cop who's been robbing people in the area. SPD tells us that a 46 year-old male named Ryan James Purdy (aka Tracy Byers) has been on robbery detectives' radar since December, when he robbed several people in Volunteer Park, taking cash and credit cards, after he flashed a fake badge. On February 10, Purdy struck again, but this time, a little closer to Wallingford.  According to the SPD Blotter: Shortly after 2:30 pm on February…

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Register for Kindergarten

Elizabeth from the John Stanford International School PTSA asked us to pass this along: Please Don’t Wait to Enroll your Kindergartner Do you have a child starting kindergarten in Wallingford area Seattle Public Schools in Fall 2013? Please enroll now to help our local public elementary schools plan ahead for capacity and staffing. There is a sense of urgency to know how many kindergartners our schools can expect next year. It will really help in planning, both for capacity and for staffing to language…

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Li’l Klippers Anniversary

Li'l Klippers, the kids hair salon in Wallingford Center, is celebrating its 25th anniversary this Saturday. Just imagine, kids that got their hair cut there when they opened could be sending their own kids there now. Says they: Li'l Klippers, Seattle's original kids hair salon since 1988, invites the neighborhood to join in celebrating its 25th birthday on Saturday March 2nd. This celebration recognizes devoted clients and the dream they helped to make possible! As the first of its kind, Li'l…

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More apartments planned for Stone Way

Looks like plans for a new mixed-use apartment building on Stone Way are in the works. This time, it's on the former site of Stoneway Roofing, at 3636 Stone Way N. We phoned Stoneway Roofing back in the fall when we heard they were closing that location, but they were pretty mum about vacating the space. The Land Use Application calls for "a 4-story 120 unit residential building with 7,642 sq. ft. of retail at grade. Review includes demolition of existing structures…

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Woodland Park Zoo Open House

Woodland Park Zoo (5500 Phinney Ave. N. Map of location) is hosting an open house this Thursday, February 28, from 5:00pm - 7:00pm to kick-off its "Inner North Parking Lot Reconfiguration and Expansion Project." The plans call for and additional 165 parking spaces in the zoo's North Parking Lot, demolishing two storage sheds, and moving the portable trailers that house the zoo's administrative offices. The zoo says this expansion will also serve to create better pedestrian connections between the North Parking Lot…

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Classes offered for the TQI Diet

Kathy Abascal is offering a five-week program on the "TQI Diet - The Abascal Way" at the University House beginning Wednesday night, February 27. TQI stands for "to quiet inflammation", and Kathy, with a background in biochemistry, has developed a diet plan that calls for eliminating certain foods from the diet, thereby enabling the body to quiet inflammation, for health and weight loss. Her past students rave about the diet, and attribute it to eliminating aches, pains and illnesses. The Seattle Times…

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All ya gotta do is ‘Knoq’

When you're looking for recommendations for a particular service for your home--say, a roofer, a house painter, a plumber--who better to ask for a referral than your neighbors? That's the thinking behind Knoq.com, a new website that connects neighbors to local businesses. Knoq is a locally-owned free service to help folks get things done around the house by providing recommendations to local businesses. Sign up here and once you do, you'll see names and locations of other neighbors using Knoq in…

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