by Chris Maykut | Mar 29, 2011 | PhinneyWood Neighborhood
International Student Exchange needs host families in our neighborhood for the 2011-12 school year. Students will be coming from Germany, Brazil, Sweden, Spain, Vietnam, Austria, Denmark, South Korea, China, Norway, Belgium, Thailand, Japan and France. Students come...
by Chris Maykut | Mar 28, 2011 | PhinneyWood Neighborhood
Seattle Met’s latest issue proclaims Phinney-Greenwood as one of the top 20 Seattle neighborhoods in which to live. And the author seems to give a whole lotta credit to PhinneyWood for bringing the two neighborhoods together, but we all know we were super close...
by Chris Maykut | Mar 28, 2011 | PhinneyWood Neighborhood
Santoro’s Books, 7405 Greenwood Ave. N., is hosting a Book Fair from 12-6 p.m. Saturday, to benefit the Ballard Preschool Co-op, a program of the Phinney Neighborhood Association. Twenty percent of the book fair’s total sales will be donated to the co-op...
by Chris Maykut | Mar 28, 2011 | PhinneyWood Neighborhood
Camp Fire USA is looking for students in grades 8-12 to volunteer at its summer day camps, including at Woodland Park and Carkeek Park. Day Camp is about doing, not watching. It’s about enjoying nature and living outdoors, and working together with kids from a variety...
by Chris Maykut | Mar 28, 2011 | PhinneyWood Neighborhood
The 7-Eleven on Phinney Avenue North and North 59th Street is getting new fiberglass underground gas tanks. James took this photo of one of the old tanks being taken out last Thursday. When I stopped by on Friday just as the construction workers were getting off work,...
by Chris Maykut | Mar 26, 2011 | PhinneyWood Neighborhood
Greenwood’s Bherd Studios is preparing its latest show, “Monsters & Aliens,” opening on April 8. But much of the work is being done by 7-year-old Zinn Bellevie, an art lover and, now, curator. Zinn Bellevie looks at some of the art he chose for the latest show at...
by Chris Maykut | Mar 25, 2011 | PhinneyWood Neighborhood
Seattle Public Schools Interim Superintendent Dr. Susan Enfield has presented a new plan to get the school district back on track after the recent firing of Superintendent Dr. Maria Goodloe-Johnson. Enfield’s plan, titled “Earning Public Confidence in Seattle...
by Chris Maykut | Mar 25, 2011 | PhinneyWood Neighborhood
Woodland Park Zoo’s latest exhibit is not about live animals. Instead, it will feature life-size animatronic dinosaurs. Photo courtesy Billings Productions, Inc. “Dinosaurs: Real Close” opens April 30 and runs through Sept. 5. The limited-engagement,...
by Chris Maykut | Mar 25, 2011 | PhinneyWood Neighborhood
The sun is out and there are plenty of fun events happening this weekend, from live music for adults and kids to a night at the theater, and learning how to take care of these pesky plumbing problems yourself. Empty Sea Studios, 6300 Phinney Ave. N., presents the...
by Chris Maykut | Mar 25, 2011 | PhinneyWood Neighborhood
A new double-wide bus shelter was installed today in front of Woodland Park Zoo on Phinney Avenue North at North 55th Street. Public Relations Coordinator Rebecca Whitham tells us it’s one of several zoo campus upgrades along Phinney Avenue. Whitham said the zoo...