Wallingford, Seattle

Last Thursday, Seattle Public Schools International Education specialist Karen Kodama presented families with next steps to rolling out an international curriculum for McDonald Elementary.  If funds are allocated by the district next month, the immersion component of the program will begin in Fall 2011, with incoming Kindergarten students and children entering first grade learning either Japanese or Spanish.  In 2012, other components of Seattle Public Schools' International Education curriculum will follow suit, providing students with a broad global perspective.  You can…

The long wait is over. Back in June, we posed a question in photos. In November, we let you know the answer, and that progress was being made. Now, it's January, and we've arrived at the grand unveiling. Lucie Campbell wrote to let us know that tomorrow morning, Tuesday January 18th at 9:30 am, the John Stanford International School is hosting a brief ribbon cutting ceremony to celebrate their new playground renovations (see before and after below). "The Wallingford Community has been very…

It won't be the cheapest spaghetti you've ever eaten, but it's for a good cause. Jacqui wrote us: Join the Wallingford Boys & Girls Club for a Key to Success Dinner from 6:30 – 8:30 p.m. Thursay, February 17th at the club. Dinner will be served between 6:30 and 7:30 p.m. All proceeds from this spaghetti dinner will go toward helping WBGC Keystone Club members attend the National Conference in Orlando, Florida in March. Enjoy a spaghetti dinner and hear our…

We just got a tip that the 7-Eleven near the post office (4612 Stone Way N.) is closing. We called and confirmed: they'll be out as of Feb 1st and until then, it's 50% off most things in the store. Our evening call to the cashier didn't yield deep insight into complex landscape of the urban convenience market economic outlook, just that they were not renewing their lease and the existing employees did not know whether they would have jobs elsewhere.