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Register your kids now for the Woodland Soccer Club

Registration is now open for the Woodland Soccer Club (WSC). WSC is a nonprofit recreational soccer club open to kids between the ages of 5 and 18 who live in Green Lake, Wallingford, Fremont and Phinney Ridge.  Club boundaries are N & 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. There are no tryouts, and players are distributed among teams in such a way that there are no dominant teams.

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Watch the World Cup at Green Lake's Turnpike Pizza

Lots of news from My Green Lake advertiser Turnpike Pizza (6900 E Green Lake Way N): Starting this Saturday (June 12, 2010), Turnpike will be offering daytime delivery on Saturdays and Sundays. Turnpike’s delivery area is expanding to all of North Seattle. New on the menu: mini pizzas … and calzones will soon be making a comeback. The World Cup is coming to Green Lake!  The following games will be broadcast on Turnpike’s TVs (with audio): Date Time TEAM TEAM Friday, June 11, 2010 11:30 AM Uruguay X France Saturday, June 12, 2010 11:30 AM England X USA Sunday, June…

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Celebrate the Lower Woodland Park field renovations December 5th

The two Lower Woodland Park soccer fields are artificially enhanced and ready to party with you. Of course we’re hoping for fair weather, but hey, if it’s raining we’ll get to witness the minimal silt runoff firsthand. Saturday, December 5, 2009 9:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. Light refreshments, Lower Woodland Field #2 Green Lake Way N & N 50th St, Seattle, WA 98103 Please join Seattle Parks and Recreation, the athletic field community and your neighbors in the celebration for the renovation of Field #2 and Field #7 at Lower Woodland Park. The fields’ inauguration, co-sponsored by Seattle Youth Soccer…

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Woodland Park Soccer Field Renovations

Last night, at the Friends of Green Lake monthly meeting, attendees heard from Kevin Stoops, Director of Planning and Development of the Seattle Department of Parks and Recreation. Kevin, who has a long history of involvement in the environmental health of Green Lake Park, spoke about the recent field renovations at Woodland Park and the steps the Parks Department is taking to monitor the environmental impact of the new fields. Woodland Park, which is located just southwest of Green Lake, is bisected by Aurora Avenue – the west side of the park contains the zoo, the east side houses picnic…

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Lower Woodland Park Playfields Construction Underway

We heard about the improvements planned for playfields numbers 2 and 7 at the last Friends of Green Lake and Green Lake Community Council meetings and you’ve probably noticed that work has begun. The two dirt fields will soon be replaced with synthetic turf. See the Parks and Rec website for location info and before and after imagery. The synthetic turf is a good thing and will create less runoff into the lake. The men in hardhats and work trucks will be part of the landscape throughout the summer. Equally exciting was our discovery of yet another guerilla knitter cozy when we went…

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