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February 10, 2012
Maple Leaf’s Beaver Pond Natural Area has been in the news lately, but not because of the beavers. We got 94 comments on our initial post about nearly 50 trees being vandalized in December. Then the Seattle parks department and City Light posted notices that a number of trees in the beaver pond proper, at …
February 10, 2012
Maple Leaf resident Paula Becker, who co-wrote a book that looks back at the 1962 Seattle World’s Fair, is no stranger to the speaking circuit. She and co-author Alan Stein have discussed the book that commemmorates the 50-year anniversary of the world’s fair at many of the Seattle Public Library branches, and have even shown up …
February 8, 2012
Update Feb. 9: Maura emails to say her car was stolen overnight. We live on Fifth Avenue Northeast, very close to 80th as the cross street. They had to jimmy the lock, dismantle the alarm and hotwire the car to drive off, Silver Chrysler Sebring- nothing special about the car… All while we were sleeping …
February 6, 2012
Your chance to regain many of the skills that have been lost over the generations is coming up this weekend at the Hands-On Community Skills Fair on Saturday at Meadowbrook and Ravenna-Eckstein community centers. Organized by Sustainable Northeast Seattle in partnerships with the community centers, the event will teach you such skills as: Making cheese …
February 5, 2012
Two years ago, Maple Leaf resident acupuncturist Misty Nault decided she was done driving to far-off locales such as Puyallup and Marysville to practice her career, and she started shopping around for a location a little more close to home. She couldn’t have gotten much closer than where she ended up at 9415 Roosevelt Way N.E. …