Woooohoooo! Free cookies at Duke’s Chowder House (7858 Green Lake Dr N)! Here’s the good word from Duke (yep, there’s a real Duke!): I am introducing the best tasting Chocolate Chip Cookie on the planet and I’m giving them away FREE from now til the end of October. Ever since I ate dinner at the Original Toll House in Whitman, Massachusetts when I was ten years old, I have wanted to make the best Chocolate Chip Cookie in the world. We now have it. This is the best cookie I have ever tasted. It has all the properties of a…
October 2009
October 19, 2009 at 6:35PM
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Green Lake bulk buy of organic roots and tubers
Thanks to Annette for letting us know about this very cool food-buying opportunity: This week one of my favorite local groups, Sustainable Greenlake Food Buying Coop, www.SustainableGreenlake.com is letting me help coordinate a large order of root vegetables directly from the organic farmers in Eastern Washington. This means that organic local, seasonal foods are as cheap for you as they possibly could be. This is my favorite kind of buying – wholesale group buying. 2009 was the year I discovered buying clubs. It’s where a group of like minded individuals get together to form orders large enough to qualify for…
October 19, 2009 at 12:29PM
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Green Lake Preschool & Childcare Center hit with more car prowls
The following is from Anne Kelly, the Director of the Green Lake Preschool & Childcare Center. She left this as a comment on this morning’s post about the mugging at 65th and Woodlawn, just a few blocks from her preschool. [note: we added the links] Hello neighbors and friends: I run the childcare center at the Green Lake Church of 7th day Adventists, (6350 East Green Lake Way North) and we have been the victim (s) of car prowls again. We were hit a few weeks ago and several cars were broken into and things like book bags were stolen….
October 19, 2009 at 12:11PM
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Our old neighbors: Scarecrow Video
Welcome Welcome Welcome Scarecrow Video, our newest advertiser! Scarecrow Video is located in the UDistrict, but from 1988-1993, it was Green Lake’s pride and joy. Check out this little tidbit from their book The Scarecrow Video Movie Guide. That’s right – Kurt and Courtney came to our hood for videos. Scarecrow Video is also sponsoring Wallingford’s neighborhood blog Wallyhood. From Wallyhood: Regular readers will know how we feel about national chains: food, coffee, clothing, whatever. By focusing on “top sellers”, they destroy diversity. If you’re a movie buff, you’re lucky to have Scarecrow Video (5030 Roosevelt Way NE), one of…
October 19, 2009 at 9:09AM
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Mugging last night at 65th and Woodlawn Ave. N.
On 10/18/09, at approximately 9:16 p.m., a citizen called 911 to report that two males had just robbed him at gunpoint at 65th and Woodlawn Ave. N. View Larger Map Approximately 30 minutes later at 9:51 p.m., two males robbed a female at gunpoint at NE 43rd and 8th NE. An officer on viewed the second robbery and quickly found suspect #1 in the bushes nearby. The second suspect was found one block away and also arrested. The victim’s positively identified the suspects at the scene of the arrest. Robbery Detectives responded and took control of the suspects and the investigation. Suspect #1 is…
