The Selena’s Guadalajara / Chabela’s / Patty’s Eggnest /  Salut Bistro spot on 45th has a new tenant on the way: Pam’s Kitchen.

According to their web site:

The story of Pam’s Kitchen starts over 20 years ago, when the owner and chef Pam Jacobs was still living in her native country of Trinidad. She had a small establishment there, called ‘Pam’s Snack Shack’, but she always dreamed of coming to the Pacific Northwest to open a full restaurant.

When Pam moved to Seattle around 1994, she realized her dream, slowly but surely. While paying the bills with her housekeeping …

Elementary school tour season continues. Trung Hua, Geen Lake Elementary’s PTA New Student Liaison for New Families, writes:

We would love to share with new families considering to start their child at Green Lake Elementary. We have two SPECIAL guided school tours for new families, which will require your registration. These tours are an opportunity to meet our principal and staff, and see the facility including our new Cafetorium (lunch room and auditorium opening this Spring). They may bring their child, though we do not have childcare. (And if their child is entering kindergarten, there is an ice cream social …

Pecado Bueno in Fremont is hosting a fundraiser for Wallingford’s FamilyWorks on Monday night, with all proceeds helping out the food bank.

A $15 admission for adults or $10 for kids gets you an all you can eat Taco Bar and music by Tangletown String Band.  Stop in between 5-8pm.

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Happy birthday, Wallyhood: it was 6 years ago this week that the first post appeared. Since then, there have been 4,408 posts and 21,937 comments, if WordPress is to be believed (and 4,291,243 page views, if Google is to be believed).

2015 is going to be a bit different: on March 9th, my wife Michelle, my six-year-old son Zev and I will all three board a plane for Seville, Spain, beginning a three-month (or more) trip abroad. Our plan is to wander around Europe a bit, living in various cities for three to four weeks at a spell: long enough …

Always fun happenings at the Chapel Performance Space at the Good Shepherd Center. This coming Saturday, January 17th, the Tiptons Sax Quartet and Drums presents Mythunderstandings: An Oral History-Driven, Multi-Media Performance This collaborative performance features an award-winning creative team: film maker Adam Sekuler and director Lisa Halpern, with the Tiptons Sax Quartet collaborating with Coastal Salish story-teller/musician Paul ‘Che oke ten’ Wagner.

Mythunderstandings explores the common threads of our individual experiences and the myths we tell ourselves and each other to make sense of them.  How do people deal with Fate, Superstition, Love, Death and other facets of the …

Maureen writes:

This morning a large cockerel arrived and parked himself at the Wallingford Methodist Church, complete with the requisite cock-a-doodle doo morning serenade for all in the vicinity of 42nd and Bagley.  This guys is big and healthy.  He is more than just an “oops” from a batch of chicks.  We haven’t seen or heard him before in the neighborhood and are speculating that maybe his owner got desperate and decided to just ditch him here.  He seems pretty determined to hang out on the church fence for a while.…

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