One of the familiar cats that hangs on 12th Avenue Northeast is missing since Sunday.
The much loved Benjamin Bunny cat decided to take a summer walkabout but failed to leave a note indicating where he was going and when he would be back. If you see him please contact Sheila Cloney @ 206-910-3184 or email [email protected]
The cats at Seattle Creative Kids Preschool, 9221 12th Ave., are well-known to neighborhood walkers. Shelia has been thinking of putting up a Cat Oasis as a counterpart to Maple Leaf’s Dog Oasis a few blocks away.
He has been found! He was found and his tags got him home when he wandered into a backyard at 91st and Roosevelt.
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Deborah emails at 1:19 p.m.: “My stepmom’s dog who was visiting from Arlington has been lost in Maple Leaf, could you post my # 206-399-5351. And 206-524-6097 is on his collar (a Seattle family member).
“He is a medium size black and white border collie and has been missing for about three hours from Northeast 97th Street & Roosevelt Way Northeast. His name is Rob Roy.”
Seattle Public Utilities will pick up garbage, yard waste and recycling like normal next week, despite the Labor Day holiday.
The City of Seattle’s North & South Recycling and Disposal stations also will be open during their regular business hours of 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. The North Recycling and Disposal Station is at 1350 N. 34th St. in Wallingford.
Customers can report a missed collection after 6 p.m. on the day it was missed by calling (206) 684-3000 or filling out the online Missed Collection form.
The city’s crime map is showing yet another robbery at the popular Northgate Transit Center, 10200 First Ave. N.E.. It’s the third (at least) similar offense there in recent months involving iPod, iTouch and iPhone devices.
This time police report that a new student at the University of Washington, who had only been in the country for a few days, was waiting for a bus back to his dorm at about 10:30 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 27.
A group of approximately five men approached the student; one of them asked him for “a buck so he could get home on the bus,” according to the police report.
The student was listening to his iPod, and one of the men snatched it from his hands. All the men ran off toward the nearby cinema, police said.
In June, officers were called to the center just before 8:30 p.m. Two men waiting for a bus said a group of six men approached them, grabbed their iTouch devices, and ran off, according to a police report. No suspects were located.
In April a woman waiting for a bus was pepper-sprayed in the face at about 3 p.m. by one of four women who attempted to steal her iPhone, police report.
In case you haven’t stopped at Blue Saucer lately, the cafe at 9127 Roosevelt Way N.E. has much more than coffee, tea and good eats available.
For $20 (cash only), you can wear your Maple Leaf pride by purchasing these T-shirts shown at right, made by a friend of Blue Saucer owner Billie Bryan who is making similar T-shirts for a number of Seattle neighborhoods.
Looking for something specific? Sizes and colors are also at right.
In addition, it turns out there’s another Seattle artist making neighorhood kids’ T-shirts, including the T-shirt shown below of a parakeet that states, “M is for Maple Leaf.” (more…)
Which brings us back to Andrea Jensen, co-owner of maoStudios at 9220 Roosevelt Way N.E., who in her free time also writes the Guide to Gluten Free blog, which includes a Seattle Eats section featuring a few Maple Leaf restaurants and their gluten-free options.
Below are Jensen’s area choices, and what she had to say about them: (more…)
Gardeners have been anxiously awaiting the time when they can send in their postcards for a chance to buy the much coveted “Zoo Doo” or “Bedspread” composts from the Woodland Park Zoo.
A steaming pile of Zoo Doo. Photo courtesy Woodland Park Zoo.
Well, the time is now. Send in a postcard from Sept. 1-23 to request your compost (you can request both Zoo Doo and Bedspread, but separate postcards are required and only one postcard per person is eligible for each drawing). Entry cards will be selected randomly for as many entrants possible. “Dr. Doo” will contact the lucky drawn entries only.
Send a standard postcard to Dr. Doo, Woodland Park Zoo, 601 N. 59th St., Seattle, WA 98103. Include the following information:
Name
Day and evening phone numbers
Preference: Zoo Doo or Bedspread
Amount of Zoo Doo or Bedspread you’d like to purchase (anything from a garbage bag to a full-size, pick-up truck load)
Weekday or weekend preference for pick-up
Pick-up dates for Zoo Doo or Bedspread begin Oct. 1 and end on Oct. 17. Winners load their own compost, but Dr. Doo will provide shovels. Costs: pick-up truck 8×4 bed – $60; 6×4 bed – $45; 6×3 bed – $35. Limit one full truck per person. Garbage cans: $8 to $10 depending on size; bags $4 to $6 depending on size. Two-gallon and pint-sized buckets are available anytime at the ZooStores for $14.95 and $4.95, respectively.
Next week, North Seattle Community College is celebrating the grand opening of its 46,000-square-foot Opportunity Center for Employment and Education.
Photos from Doug Scott.
Although it first opened in May, the ribbon-cutting ceremony is set for 1 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 8, which will be followed by a brief program, reception and building tours.
The new enployment center, which provies aid to more than 400 North Seattle residents a day and features classrooms, public computers as well as copiers, fax machine and phones available to those searching for work, also offers: (more…)
The restaurant is taking the place of the former A New York Pizza Place at 8310 Fifth Ave. N.E., and required more extensive renovations than was originally expected, owner Bill Coury told us at the Maple Leaf Life Summer Social (where we snapped his picture at right).
He also told us the pizzeria would be open in time for Labor Day, and it looks like that deadline will be met. From his email:
A couple Flying Squirrel FAQ’s….
Yep…we’re kid friendly. We don’t have a play area, nor encourage
running around, but we’re a family place!
Yep…we’ll have gluten-free options.
Nope…we don’t sell pizza by the slice.
Yep…we have lots of local beers and wines.
Nope…we don’t sell hard alcohol.
Nope…we don’t deliver.
Yep…we do takeout and love to see the neighborhood folks when they
pick up their pizzas.
Yep…we have amazing, salads, pizzas, appetizers, and sell Molly Moon
ice cream pints to go (also scoops in-house)
And a word of warning: In addition to fighting the Maple Leaf crowds that have been waiting for Flying Squirrel to open, you might have to fight Flying Squirrel’s loyal Seward Park fans for the first couple of weeks while that location is undergoing an extensive renovation. From Flying Squirrel’s Facebook page:
ATTN SEWARD PARK! Flying Squirrel Pizza in Seward is about to undergo a complete kitchen renovation. Due to this, we will unfortunately be closed starting tomorrow, Monday Aug. 29th - Sept. 15th. Sorry! However, we’re opening our Maple Leaf location on September 1st! So if you need a Squirrel fix, head on up and say hi to us in Maple Leaf.
It’s going to be an exciting weekend in Maple Leaf!
We know it’s late summer, and we know the weather’s been good for weeks - but this is a bit much. Or maybe a lot much.
Linda emails:
Greetings! My husband and I are organic urban farmers/gardeners in Maple Leaf.
See attached photo of this amazingly tall sunflower in our yard! Is this what happens to plants when the sun finally comes out in Seattle???!!! My husband is 5′ 8″ for reference.
She and Walter didn’t even plant this monster - it volunteered and grew to a mere 5 feet before they left in early July for a month in Europe.
“When we returned on August 6 the height shocked us. Since then it’s just gotten taller and taller! We estimate it’s about 14 feet tall now. The flowers are finally opening; starting at the top but it’s loaded with buds up and down.”
In urban wildlife news, Linda also reports that a sharp-shinned hawk visiting her 5,000-square-foot yard has been trying for song birds. “And finally, had a Lourquins Admiral butterfly visit our veggie garden this past week too!”
She attached a photo of their front gardens from late June.
The owner of Maple Leaf’s COA Mexican Eatery & Tequileria, 7919 Roosevelt Way N.E., has been making the news in recent days over a controversy in Mount Vernon that has resulted in community members calling their mayor racist.
In addition to recently opening COA, owner Edgar Carreon is also in the process of opening a similar restaurant with his brother Carlos in Mount Vernon called Calle Tacos Tequila — a process that now is on hold after Mayor Bud Norris asked the state to halt the liquor license.
Norris, who openly discusses wanting to make English the official language of Mount Vernon, made a similar request when another Hispanic restuarant sought a liquor license for the same location just a year ago.
Read more about the controversy via the following news stories:
The newly renovated Wedgwood Safeway, at 7340 35th Ave. N.E., is offering great deals all day today, from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., to celebrate its expansion.
So stop by the Wedgwood store, pick up a coupon book and a flier at the door and start shopping. (Don’t miss the Tillamook cheese, usually $7 a brick, today two for $5.)
Also by the door is a donation bin for the North Helpline food bank. Pick up something and donate.
Budget cuts have hit North Helpline hard. In a letter to donors this month, Amy Besunder, executive director, notes:
Our client base has nearly doubled over the course of the last two years. Every week we see new faces and every week we monitor the decline in our food stocks. We have walked out to a nearly empty warehouse following food distribution and wondered how we will serve our clients the following week.
According to Dave Workman, who writes for the Seattle Gun Rights Examiner, a group of open-carry gun activists is planning to visit Green Lake Park on Saturday afternoon around noon, and perhaps on Sunday as well (August 28 and 29, 2011).
The visit is reportedly being planned in the wake of a controversial police response to a “person with a gun” dispatch to the park last Sunday.
Alarmed by an encounter involving a longtime open carry activist and Seattle police at Green Lake last weekend, some open carry activists are planning to visit Green Lake Saturday around noon, and others tell this column they may walk around Green Lake on Sunday.
Why? After a week of discussion on the Open Carry forum, one might think this controversy had run its course and that it is time to move on. It’s caused a good discussion on the Defensive Carry forum.
The incident has taken on something of a life of its own.
