A free “Green Halloween” costume swap is coming to the Roosevelt Square Whole Foods Market (1026 NE 64th St). Drop off gently-used Halloween costumes at Whole Foods between Friday, October 1 and Saturday, October 9, 2010 and receive a ticket for the costume swap. For every costume or five small accessories you donate, you will receive one ticket. Redeem your tickets for a “new-to-you” costume at the swap on Saturday, October 9 from 12 p.m. to 3 p.m.
September 2010
September 23, 2010 at 10:34AM
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Squealing pigs heard roaming an alley in east Green Lake last night
My Green Lake reader Julie wrote us this morning (Thursday, Sept. 23, 2010) to report that, around midnight last night, she heard some pigs roaming the alley behind her house, located at Woodlawn Ave N & N 63rd St. The pigs, Julie says, woke her up. “There must have been at least three of them,” Julie says. “There was one outside my window and I heard more across the alley. They were so loud with their snorting and squealing.” Coincidentally, Ordinance 123378, Seattle’s Urban Agriculture Ordinance, went into effect today. The ordinance allows for pigs to be kept in the…
September 23, 2010 at 7:00AM
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Author Laura Numeroff coming to Green Lake’s Mockingbird Books
Laura Numeroff will be at Mockingbird Books (7220 Woodlawn Ave NE) next Wednesday (September 29, 2010) at 7 p.m. Numeroff is the nationally-acclaimed author of If You Give a Mouse a Cookie. She will be discussing her new books The Jellybeans and the Big Book Bonanza and The Jellybeans and the Big Camp Kickoff.
September 22, 2010 at 3:56PM
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Pedestrian struck while jaywalking at 67th and Aurora
A pedestrian was struck on Aurora Ave N at N 67th St, just west of Green Lake Park, shortly after noon today (Wednesday, Sept. 22, 2010). The man was crossing Aurora from the west side, near Greenlake Farmers Market. Although there is a crosswalk at N 68th St, he was jaywalking at N 67th St. The man was struck by a northbound van in the inside lane. The impact of the crash broke the van’s front headlight. Gideon Powell, the driver of the van, told me that after his van hit the pedestrian, the man was then “run over” by…
