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June 15, 2010
Dozens of children and parents crowded into the Northgate Community Center just before noon Tuesday to celebrate life with members of the Adefua Music & Dance Co. The call-and-response drumming, singing and dancing was part of The Seattle Public Library’s Summer Reading Program. The group brought extra drums and invited kids to play along with …
June 14, 2010
This is posted on a utility pole by the 7-Eleven store on Roosevelt Way Northeast in Maple Leaf.
...June 14, 2010
Work at Thornton Place’s newest retail business, The Vitamin Shoppe, is moving right along. According to its website, the store located at 301 N.E. 103rd St. is set to open July 6. And according to signs displayed in the store’s windows, the grand opening sale will feature buy one get one half-off on all Vitamin Shoppe products. Don’t expect it to …
June 14, 2010
The Northgate and Meadowbrook community centers will remain open as normal, but the Dahl Park wading pool is being scaled back to 3 days a week this summer. This morning, the mayor’s office announced its mid-year budget cuts. All community centers and swimming pools will continue to be funded. The only areas that took a …
June 13, 2010
A couple of dozen free tomato starts are being given away this afternoon at the Dog Oasis (corner of 12th Avenue Northeast and Northeast 89th Street). Actually, a dozen of them are already gone. They were grown by Caroline Ullmann, owner of the Dog Oasis and, not co-incidentally, the wife of Maple Leaf Life’s co-editor. …