The Woodland Soccer Club (WSC) will open registration for 2011 Fall Recreational Soccer on Sunday, May 1, 2011. 1,100 kids and teens participate every year on WSC’s recreation soccer teams. The organization serves families in Green Lake, Wallingford, Fremont, and Phinney Ridge. The boundaries are N and NW 85th St to the north, the Lake Washington Ship Canal to the south, I-5 to the east, and 8th Ave NW to the west. Games take place at Green Lake Park and Wallingford Park.
April 2011
April 21, 2011 at 4:27PM
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Tangletown resident advises neighbors to secure basement windows
A Tangletown resident says that she believes she interrupted a burglary attempt at her home last night (Wednesday, April 20, 2011), and she wants to warn others to secure their basement windows. “We walked to the store around 6 p.m.,” she says. “We were gone about 15 minutes, and when we returned I immediately heard something in the basement. The cat and I both perked up, eyes wide. I called out that there was a noise in the basement, and my boyfriend stepped down there but didn’t see anything. We think now that what I heard was the scraping of the window…
April 20, 2011 at 9:20AM
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The 1955 opening of Green Lake’s Evans Pool
This story comes to us via Casey McNerthney at seattlepi.com. My Green Lake and seattlepi.com are news partners. Today from the seattlepi.com archive we have a February 1955 article about the opening of what’s now Evans Pool at Green Lake. The pool was opened that year with a Feb. 11 ceremony and dedication, marked by music, speeches and the inaugural dive into the pool, done simultaneously by 56 boys and girls from 38 Seattle schools. Seattle Mayor Allan Pomeroy spoke about recreational swimming in Seattle, and Mrs. H.W. Barragar, chair of the North End Pool Committee, also briefly spoke. “William…
