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On the back wall of Kamp Social House in neon lights is a sign that says “Don’t be a stranger.”
Domicile, Madison Park’s new art gallery, which opened this summer, is more than a business to co-owner and Madrona resident Marisa Spooner-LeDuff and her business partner, Erin Langden, it is the culmination of a longtime dream.
Volunteers are needed for the final garden work party of the fall at the Prospect Street Preserve street end at 41st East and Prospect, just north of the Seattle Tennis Club.
Last month, on Aug. 6, Seattle native and Major League Baseball player Jake Lamb made his debut as a third baseman and outfielder for the Seattle Mariners.
Along with kangaroos, koala bears and Nicole Kidman, list eucalyptus as one of the great gifts from Australia to the world. Nearly all the 800 species of this remarkable genus are native to The Great Down Under.
When people see Elsa Sjunneson walking in Queen Anne, they may notice her petite frame, vintage dresses, thick glasses, white cane and air of quiet confidence.
It has been a high-speed chase in the real estate market — in Seattle and elsewhere — for the past few years, with escalating prices, bidding wars and low inventory. The Federal Reserve tapped the brakes after the spring market with an increase in interest rates, and we saw an immediate slowdown in the home-buying frenzy.
On most afternoons Madison Park resident Sandy Chock-Eng can be found at the moorage docks in Leschi or paddling on Lake Washington with other members of the Seattle SAKE Paddling Club.
Many moons ago, in the 1940s, we kids pressed our noses against a store window displaying a TV. Even if it was only a test pattern, it was a thrill like no other. At the time we were dependent on our favorite radio shows — Captain Midnight — after school, with most of us having signet rings for decoding the secret messages of the day.
To Dr. Hortensia Freud:
