Fabulous Feline Adoption Event at the RECC this Saturday *meow* (update)

November 8, 2011 by 1 Comment

UPDATE (Friday, November 11): We’ve been told that this weekend the Seattle Animal Shelter has agreed to waive adoption fees for adult cats, and is offering a special price for those adopting two kittens at once!

Nearly 50 cats and kittens will be available at the Ravenna-Eckstein Community Center on Saturday. It’s a purr-fect opportunity to adopt one (or more).

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You look like you could use more cats.

I can haz you for an owner?

Look no further than this Saturday’s Fabulous Felines Cat Adoption Event at the Ravenna-Eckstein Community Center (6535 Ravenna Ave NE).

From 12-3 PM, the Seattle Animal Shelter will have a selection of cats from their foster care program available for adoption at the community center.

From The Scoop (the Seattle Animal Shelter news and events page):

Adoption prices range from $45 to $135 (see top of post for this weekend’s adoption specials) and include:
• Initial vaccinations
• Deworming
• Feline Leukemia testing
• Certificate for free health exam at local veterinarians
• Spay or neuter
• Microchip (About the size of a grain of rice, the microchip is injected under the cat’s skin, providing an identification number associated with that animal. Animal shelters can then “scan” a lost animal and retrieve its records from the microchip.)

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Willy Wonka, eat your heart out – Will Bake for Food is back!

November 5, 2011 by Leave a Comment

Ravenna Blog's Junior Editor sampling a Pumpkin Pie Cinnamon Roll by Cook Local at Will Bake for Food 2010.

We love a good bake sale, don’t you?

Well, they do not get any better than Will Bake for Food.

Imagine a room full of baking bloggers who have donated their time, culinary talents, and tasty goodies in exchange for donations of food or cash to a local charity.

Donations of food or cash are exchanged at the door for tickets, which are then used to “buy” goods at all the various tables. Or, if you’re the gambling sort, raffle tickets can be purchased as well.

This year’s donation recipient is The Emergency Feeding Program of Seattle and King County. You can find a list of the items the Emergency Feeding Program needs most here (PDF).

This year’s bake sale of champions takes place on Saturday, November 12, at University Heights (5031 University Way NE), from 11AM-2PM.

Our haul from last year, long since consumed with gusto.

Last year’s event collected 1,903 pounds of food and $946 for Northwest Harvest. The 1,631 items sold by 54 bakers and 138 beverages (55 coffee, 83 cider) poured by 2 volunteers sold out in 90 minutes.

To see a sampling of this year’s bakers — which includes Molly Wizenberg of Orangette and Delancy, Cook Local of the Roosevelt neighborhood, and the secretary of the Ravenna-Bryant Community Association — visit the Bakers page of the Will Bake for Food website.

For more on the organizers of Will Bake for Food, check out our post about last year’s event (“Will Bake For Food: The Ravenna connection to next week’s event for Northwest Harvest”).

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Learn Home Weatherization Tips with Sustainable NE Seattle

November 3, 2011 by Leave a Comment

The days are growing shorter, the air is getting colder, and your heating bill is on the rise.

What a perfect time to learn about home weatherization.

Sustainable NE Seattle‘s November meeting will be held on Thursday, November 17, at the Wedgwood Presbyterian Church (8008 35th Ave NE), from 6:30-9 PM (social time with treats for the first half hour).

Here’s the event description:

There are some immediate things we can do to make our homes more energy efficient. We will learn what to do before replacing windows from our community expert [and Ravenna resident], Joel Gregory. Also, learn about Solarize NESeattle, project to bring reasonable pricing for solar power to our neighborhood. Additionally, SustainableWorks® home retrofitting org, will be here for input and Q&A.

Bring a snack to share, if you wish, and your own utensils.

Sustainable NE Seattle is, via their about page, “a community of citizens dedicated to building a sustainable, resilient future for our locality, which includes Seattle neighborhoods that are north of the ship canal, east of I-5, and north to about 110th St NE.”

For more information on the organization, check out their FAQ (PDF).

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Happy Halloween, neighbor!

October 31, 2011 by Leave a Comment

We realize that we posted this picture on Halloween last year, but we’re still pretty darn proud of our handiwork:

Grew those ginormous zukes at Picardo, too.

We’ll be Trick or Treating on our street tonight, as is our custom.

How do you spend your Halloween evenings in the neighborhood? Tell us in the comments — they WORK now!

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Ravenna Blog Social Media Round-Up for October 23-29

October 30, 2011 by 1 Comment

Good news! The tool that we use to create these weekly updates has gone though an upgrade, making it much easier to grab stories from not only twitter, but facebook, RSS feeds, and much much more!

Henceforth, we’ll be calling this weekly post the “Social Media Round-Up” to reflect this enhanced collectibility of good local Internet stuff.

ENJOY.

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Slideshow: Fall colors at Picardo P-Patch

October 29, 2011 by Leave a Comment

As is our custom, we took a stroll through Picardo P-Patch at the beginning of the month to capture some autumnal farm foliage pictures. Here they are, for your Saturday Brunch pleasure*:


Created with Admarket’s flickrSLiDR.

And, what the heck. Here’s a set of pictures from fall of 2010:


Created with Admarket’s flickrSLiDR.

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*Unless you’re using an iOS device. Which we do. So, clearly, we need to find another slideshow solution, darn it.

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S. Germany comes to Ravenna – Heidelberg Haus menu revealed!

October 26, 2011 by 1 Comment

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We’ve been doing “drive-by tweets” of Heidelberg Haus progress (2122 NE 65th St) for a few weeks now, but today we have something even better…

…the MENU.

Heidelberg Haus menu (click to make FULL SIZE)

WE were SO excited to see the offerings that we forgot to ask about an opening date. Please forgive us. We’ll try and rectify that error tomorrow.

There is a website for the new restaurant listed on the menu (Seattle-Eats-German.com), but it’s not alive as of yet.

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Ravenna Blog Twitter Round-Up for October 16-22

October 22, 2011 by Leave a Comment

A very mixed bag of tweets this week: The grand opening of the University Village Microsoft Store, increasing signs of life at new German restaurant Heidelberg Haus, and the sudden and unexpected death of 46th District State Senator Scott White.

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Freaky Fall Festival this Friday at the RECC

October 20, 2011 by Leave a Comment

How much fall family fun can be had for just three dollars a person?

Find out Friday, October 21, as the Ravenna-Eckstein Community Center (6535 Ravenna Ave NE) holds its Fourth Annual Freaky Fall Festival.

Halloween's still a couple weeks off, but that doesn't mean you can't try out your costume early.

From the event description:

It’s that spooky time of year again! Join us for this annual evening of treats and a few tricks. Come in costume and enjoy carnival style games, crafts, a jumpy toy, and more! Meet your neighbors, let your kids loose in the gym and have fun!

The event runs from 6-8PM. After that, you’ll have to find somewhere else to haunt.

Those spiders look serious.

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The Return of the Weekly Ravenna Blog Twitter Round-Up

October 16, 2011 by Leave a Comment

Once again we welcome back the weekly round-up of notable tweets from the Ravenna Blog twitter feed from the past week.

This week’s selection includes some archival photos of Wedgwood Elementary from the Seattle Public Schools Flickr account, a town hall with Mayor McGinn at Nathan Hale High School, and hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of fines upheld against a certain Roosevelt-area landlord.

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