Wallingford News

First workshop on the playground at McDonald Tuesday night

Submitted by Ray Marcham on Saturday, March 20th, 04:12pm

The Friends of McDonald School are holding the first of two workshops on Tuesday night to discuss what structures to add to the school's playground as it gets ready to reopen.

The gathering will be from 7-9 p.m. at Green Lake Elementary School. The meeting will consider what types of equipment to purchase for McDonald. Funding for the equipment will be coming from grants from the city and the county, along with donations from businesses and members of the community.

A second meeting will be held on April 27 to select a playground design. Then volunteers will help install the equipment in late June.

McDonald Elementary School will reopen in September inside the former Lincoln High School building. In 2012, students will return to a renovated McDonald Elementary School.

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Great day for the Spring Regatta

Submitted by Ray Marcham on Saturday, March 20th, 12:51pm

Sunny skies and comfortable temperatures greeted rowers and spectators as the 48th Annual Green Lake Spring Regatta took place on Saturday morning.

Rowers from around the region came together for the event.

KOMO photographer Jon Knorr shot these scenes of the regatta on Saturday. It was a great day for the event, as you can see from the photos.

Results from the regatta can be found on the Green Lake Crew website.

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Regatta expected to draw 1,000 to Green Lake

Submitted by KOMO Staff on Friday, March 19th, 03:41pm

The 48th Annual Green Lake Spring Regatta is tomorrow and with more than 30 teams on the roster, organizers expect 1,000 participants and of course that means a major parking crunch.

Competition starts at 7:20 a.m. with races every 10 minutes until 5 p.m.

Check the sked here. Seating is limited at the Aqua Theater, but you can also see the races on the southwest shore of the lake.

For more information, call the Green Lake Small Craft Center at (206) 684-4074.

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Sports & Recreation

Talk townhomes tomorrow

Submitted by KOMO Staff on Friday, March 19th, 03:25pm

What do you think of the townhomes, condos, and apartments that have sprung up around Seattle?

Tomorrow (Saturday, March 20) the City Council is holding that community meeting we told you about to discuss the state of multifamily housing.

It's from 10 a.m. to noon at the Taproot Theatre, 204 N. 85th St.

Discussion topics will include parking requirements, building heights, density limits, code simplification, and design review requirements.

Councilmembers will highlight hot issues and take your questions and comments.

Questions about the event? Contact City Councilmember Sally J. Clark's office at (206) 684-8802 or sally.clark@seattle.gov

Clark is chair of the council's Built Environment Committee.

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Pour House opens in Tangletown

Submitted by Eric Jensen on Thursday, March 18th, 04:25pm

Less than two months after Luau closed its doors, Pour House has opened up in it's place.

The decor is simple, owners Erik Knutson and Jay Farias wanted to open up the space and provide a " warm, upscale casual spot that doesn't feel pretentious." "People should feel comfortable coming in wearing jeans or being more dressed up." said Erik.

The menu is described as "elevated comfort food" with nothing over 20 dollars. A good happy hour menu is available from 4-6 and 10-closing. The pork sliders and the crab spring rolls last night left us excited to try more things on the menu.

The back of the house (the eastern side) is all ages for families with children, and a weekend brunch is in the works, possibly starting this May.

Pour House / 56th and Kirkwood

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Stone Way is still the pits

Submitted by KOMO Staff on Thursday, March 18th, 02:58pm

Seattle neighborhoods are pockmarked with gaping holes like the stalled supermarket site above at 40th and Stone. Our partner, the P-I, took a look-see to find that, yep, still big and ugly, and since they're probably not going away anytime soon, the city is considering legislation to make the landowners pretty up the "lifeless craters" with lighting or kiosks.

Do you think this would help? What, if anything, should be done with the neighborhood pits?

Leave your thoughts in the comments section, or, better yet, tell Sally Clark, the city councilmember who chairs the Built Environment committee.

Photo by Dan Schultz. Check out other work by him here.

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Sunday: Cloudy with a chance of meatballs?

Submitted by KOMO Staff on Thursday, March 18th, 09:35am

If you haven't seen the sandwich board signs, here's a reminder that St. Benedict School is having a spaghetti dinner fundraiser Sunday, March 21.

The meal is served by the students themselves from 11 a.m to 7 p.m. in the school's dining room.

It's a fundraiser to send sixth grade students to a four-day overnight environmental camp.

The cost is $8 for adults and $6 for seniors over 65 and children ages 3-12. Kids under 2 are free! The meal and simple beverage is covered by the cost of the ticket, but desserts, soda, and wine will also be sold. Cash only.

Photo courtesy Flickr user jshj.

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The elephant in the living room

Submitted by KOMO Staff on Wednesday, March 17th, 09:24am

How much television is too much for your child?

Find out at a free talk, "Screen Time: How It Affects Your Child and What You Can Do About It" at 7 p.m. Wednesday, March 24 in the Good Shepherd Center's Chapel Theater, 4649 Sunnyside Avenue North.

Dimitri Christakis, MD, MPH will discuss how television viewing influences kids’ ability to pay attention, learn, stay healthy, and sleep at various ages.

He is the author of "The Elephant in the Living Room: Make Television Work for Your Kids," and is the George Adkins Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Washington, Director of the Center for Child Health, Behavior, and Development at Seattle Children’s Hospital Research Institute, and an attending pediatrician at Children’s Hospital in Seattle.

The talk is free and open to the public. It is sposnored by the Meridian School Parent Association. For more information: parents@meridianschool.edu

Photo by Flickr user Tony Crider.

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Parents & kids

Making friends while making dinner

Submitted by Amy Roe on Tuesday, March 16th, 03:00pm

When Rachel Duboff, a private chef, took over running the Wallingford Community Kitchen about six months ago, it was in semi-active mode.

Duboff turned up the heat. These days about 30 people show up for the monthly dinner, which is always on a Friday night, though there is no set date. The next one is 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. Friday, March 19, in room 140 of the Good Shepherd Center.

Cabbage and potatoes will be the theme of the night. Duboff will demonstrate making kimchee and sauerkraut.

Run on the model of community kitchens that became popular in the 1960s, the Wallingford Community Kitchen is a collaborative process but it's not a throwback. There's the requisite Facebook page.

Participants sign up to bring ingredients, and everyone preps and cooks together, each according to their ability.

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How not to bomb on St. Paddy's Day

Submitted by Amy Roe on Tuesday, March 16th, 09:53am

Wednesday is St. Patrick’s Day, which means lots of folks will crowd into pubs to order a drink called an Irish car bomb.

They won’t be serving them at Conor Byrne in Ballard.

Owner Diarmuid Cullen said he thinks the drink’s name is insensitive and likens ordering one to “walking into a bar in lower Manhattan and ordering a 'Flight 93.'”

An Irish car bomb is made by dropping a shot comprised of Bailey’s Irish Cream and Jameson’s Irish Whiskey into a pint of Guinness.

It's not just the Irish. All “bomb” drinks—in which a shot is dropped into a glass of beverage— do more than break a lot of glasses, Cullen said. They can trigger unruly behavior. Conor Byrne doesn’t serve any of them.

Besides, Cullen doesn’t think his dad would be proud “if he knew I was messing up a pint of Guinness.”

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