Housed at the Good Shepherd Center, the ALLIANCE FRANCAISE OF SEATTLE is a non-profit cultural & educational organization that strives to improve understanding between France and other countries.  One of the ways they do that is to arrange for a summer student exchange program.  Here’s where you come in:

15 French students are eager to visit Seattle July 29 – August 18th… and they need host families.  If you or someone you know is interested in hosting an exchange student, please contact Jill Zawatski (jillzawatski at gmail dot com) by Friday May 28th.

New host families will …

Wallingford gets a new indie retail shop on May 21st:  Sock Monster! Not sock monkey. Sock MONSTER. Bwah ha ha!

Sock Monster opens May 21st with what promises to be a fine party DJed by recent East Coast transplant, Miss Shelrawka.  Come, get your groove on, sample some of the snacks, and check out the rad socks.

You may recognize owner Holly Gummelt’s Fairy Tale Fibers hats from the Portland, Pike Place & Fremont markets – she’s been a regular for years and opened her first store, Ballard’s Monster Art & Clothing, to provide a place for other market kids …

Lower Wallingford’s Institute for Systems Biology took over Fremont’s Waiting for the Interurban Tuesday, hanging inflatable DNA strands and giving the would-be passengers some light reading to pass the time:  copies of a recently published Science journal article about ISB’s work sequencing the genome of a family of four.  Read about it here.

Or better yet — go see ISB founder Leroy Hood present “Genomics 101”  at Town Hall Wednesday evening, 5/5 .  Tickets are $5 through Brown Paper Tickets.  Hood will summarize the Human Genome Project, tie that into current research, and present his vision for the future of …

May is the right time to protect your apples, pears and Asian pears from apple maggot fly and codling moth.  Can’t have that!

City Fruit, a 501(c)(3) non-profit helping residential tree growers grow healthy fruit, harvest & use what they can, and share the rest, offers a comprehensive pest protection class at the Solid Ground Bldg in Wallingford on Saturday, May 1, 1:30 – 3:00 pm.

Conveniently scheduled so you can attend the Seattle Tilth Edible Plant sale in the am, the workshop provides opportunities to learn various strategies for reducing damage from apple maggot fly and codling moth.  These …