Kathy Abascal is offering a five-week program on the “TQI Diet – The Abascal Way” at the University House beginning Wednesday night, February 27. TQI stands for “to quiet inflammation”, and Kathy, with a background in biochemistry, has developed a diet plan that calls for eliminating certain foods from the diet, thereby enabling the body to quiet inflammation, for health and weight loss. Her past students rave about the diet, and attribute it to eliminating aches, pains and illnesses.

The Seattle Times ran a feature on the TQI Diet back in June, and you can check out her website and …

When you’re looking for recommendations for a particular service for your home–say, a roofer, a house painter, a plumber–who better to ask for a referral than your neighbors? That’s the thinking behind Knoq.com, a new website that connects neighbors to local businesses.

Knoq is a locally-owned free service to help folks get things done around the house by providing recommendations to local businesses. Sign up here and once you do, you’ll see names and locations of other neighbors using Knoq in Wallingford, and you can ask people for a recommendation. You can also take advantage of the various neighborhood offers …

In response to the recent attacks in the area, Oom Yung Doe (3845 Bridge Way), along with ADT Security, is offering a new series of self defense seminars free to the community. If you can make it, the first one starts this evening (2/20) at 6:30pm at Oom Yung Doe; but for those who can’t, each session will cover the same techniques and situations repeatedly. For those who attend multiple workshops and are able to learn the techniques, there are intermediate and advanced techniques that will be taught. All six will be held on the 3rd Wednesday for six months …

We received a very moving account of an incident that occurred today in front of Bartell’s. The reader who sent this to us wishes to remain anonymous: 

As I was walking home from the U-district today, I encountered what appeared to be a man passed out at the bus stop in front of the Bartell’s on 45th. A few men were walking away, saying things like “he’s fine”, “he’s breathing”, “let him sleep it off”. I noticed a couple of women at the bus stop watching the situation; one walked away to the QFC just as I was approaching. I …