At the end of every month, we like to do a review the past month in Green Lake. Our most clicked-on story in October? Notice of tonight’s naked pumpkin run. October also brought some more serious reading. As news of the mayor’s proposed cuts to the Green Lake Community Center spread, Green Lake residents tried to wrap their heads around the idea that 2011 could bring no Pathway of Lights. We also learned that offices may be permanently moved into the second floor of the community center, displacing several classes and programs. Many residents expressed alarm when signs went up…
October 2010
October 31, 2010 at 6:00AM
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Sunday Photo
Every Sunday, we feature a great shot of our park or neighborhood from the MyGreenLake Flickr Pool. This week’s photo comes to us from Sandi, who writes: “My husband and I look forward to seeing this line of trees every year at Fall. What a beautiful place to be!” Thanks, Sandi!
October 30, 2010 at 9:27PM
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All welcome at “Transylvania Public Library” haunted house
Karen Laurie of Cafe Lulu wrote to tell us about a neighborhood haunted house taking place in east Green Lake tomorrow night (Sunday, Oct. 31, 2010). All Green Lake neighbors are welcome! At the Library of Horrors, Reading is Fundamental–ly Deadly! This month’s Story Time will be held in the Edgar Allan Poe Reading Room of the Transylvania Public Library, where fiction is fact and the stacks are alive with undead goings-on. Our dedicated and curmudgeonly librarian, Edith Eatschildren, will read from some of horror’s finest authors, including Bram Stoker, Washington Irving, Mary Shelley and Christine O’Donnell. Remember to bring…
October 30, 2010 at 1:46PM
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North Seattle Sarah: Green Lake’s Certified Wildlife Habitat
Ed. note – Here’s the latest from contributor Sarah Heath. Sarah, a real estate broker with Matrix Real Estate, writes about North Seattle life on her personal blog, North Seattle Sarah. Every Saturday, Sarah brings us her musings on life in Green Lake. A house near mine has several signs posted that both amuse and confuse me. The first, which I love, is this: It’s hard to read in the photo, but its simply states “Trespassers will be Composted.” The second sign, the one that got my curiosity going, is this: How could a regular house, in the middle of…
October 29, 2010 at 4:01PM
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Ann Holmes Redding to speak at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church
Ann Holmes Redding is speaking on “What is Our Piece of the Peace?” on Monday, Nov. 15, 2010 at 7 p.m., at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church (111 NE 80th St). All are welcome. Ann Holmes Redding is a minister and author. In 2006, she founded Abrahamic Reunion West, which her website describes as “committed to healing the Abrahamic family’s global dysfunction.” Her engagement with Islam led to Ann’s defrocking after 25 years as an Episcopal priest. Ann is co-author of Out of Darkness, Into Light: Spiritual Guidance in the Quran with Reflections from Jewish and Christian Sources. Her article “The…
