Crime Prevention Tips from the North Precinct

Diane Horswill, Crime Prevention Coordinator for the North Precinct, and I talked about the puzzling, possibly suspicious door-to-door activity that took place on Friday. Ms. Horswill shared some crime prevention tips:

* don’t open the door without having a peek first at who’s on the other side.

* you can, behind your bolted or locked [...]

Monday Night Trivia at Boud’s Pinehurst Pub

Boud’s Pinehurst Pub has a trivia night every Monday at 7:00PM. For more information about trivia night, see QuizNight.net, although the web site is incorrect about the starting time, which is 7:00PM and not 9:00PM.

Events at St. George Episcopal Church

Feb. 16th Mardi Gras or Fat Tuesday Party 6:00 p.m. International Supper, everyone welcome. Dinner by donation. Feb. 17th Ash Wednesday, First day of Lent. Services and distribution of Ashes 12 noon and 6 :00 p.m. Open to everyone.

Treehouse Coffee breakfast special (February 13-14)

From Michele: “This weekend we have prepared Asparagus and Parmesan quiche for our breakfast special. As always, we will also have waffles available!”

Read more about Treehouse Coffee here and here.

quirky door to door solicitor

At 3:10 pm today. Friday, February 11, a young man knocked on my door. He said good day and said he was giving a six-question survey to neighbors.

He didn’t introduce himself or the organization on whose behalf he was offering the six question survey, and didn’t say what the survey questions were about.

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Public Input on Police Chief Search – Questions for Us

Meetings and launch of website set up for public input.

The public is invited to offer feedback and help draft assessment criteria for Seattle’s next Police Chief during several upcoming public forums and through a new website and telephone line.

 Here are the questions Mayor Mike McGinn’s Police Chief Search Committee is asking of interested [...]

Pellet Gun Incident near 125th

Yesterday (2/8/2010) one of the Audubon members who studies Merlins in our neighborhood encountered a man near 125th holding a crow.  The man said it had just fallen out of the sky with an injured wing.  She took the crow to a wildlife rehabilitation center where it was discovered the crow had been shot by a pellet [...]

More Arson Updates

There have been a lot of updates on this recently but I mainly wanted to let people know that the Seattle Police Department has confirmed that they have a suspect in custody now. I’m still not sure if this is the only suspect but it’s certainly a very positive sign.

Also, they have confirmed that [...]

Local Arson News

The PI has some news about the fire on 125th which does appear to an arson and is being linked to the fire behind Safeway yesterday.

Arson fire in North Seattle

Arson investigators arrived on scene soon after the flames were put out and Seattle Police Department scanner traffic suggested officers were combing [...]

Pinehurst Fire

I don’t have many details but there’s a fire response going on in Pinehurst still. And it looks big enough and timely enough I thought it would be worth sharing.

2/7/2010 2:28:10 PM – 2223 Ne 125th St Fire in Single Family Res

There were a LOT of units responding though as of 5-10 minutes [...]