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Farmers Market announces schedule

The Queen Anne Farmers Market Association (QAFMA) announced dates for the market's 2010 season today. The market will run Thursday afternoons from May 20 - October 7, 2010, 3:00-7:00 p.m., at W. Crockett St. at Queen Anne Ave. North.

Friends sell wristbands for teammate with leukemia

On New Year's Eve, Louisa Cryan's family was preparing to go out to dinner when she suddenly didn't feel well.

Bledsoe takes over at Lawton

Raines goes on family leave

Kathy Bledsoe is the new interim principal at Lawton Elementary School.

Diversions 2/10

THEATREStone Soup Theatre' 2009-2010 Season is in full swing. Fool for Love by Sam Shepard, Feb. 19-March 14; The Vagina Monologues 10th Anniversary Edition, by Eve Ensler, April 2-24; Original One-Act Play Festival, May 13-23, 2010. For tickets and more information visit www.stonesouptheatre.org

Police Blotter 2/17

Bus Stop AttackA man with a walnut-sized red mark on his left cheek, approached a police officer in the 100 block of Dexter Avenue North at 8:20 p.m., Feb. 4, and said he'd been hit in the face with a glass bottle at a nearby bus stop.

Land Use permit applications

The following information was provided by the city's Department of Planning and Development. Written comments on projects should be mailed to 700 Fifth Ave., Suite 2000, P.O. Box 34019, Seattle, WA 98124-4019.The project number is in parentheses. For more information, call 684-8467.

Bulletin Board 2/17

Sustainable Magnolia February Meetingis at 7 p.m., Monday, Feb. 22. Come and join one of the action teams - Built Environment; Local Food/P-Patch; Public Policy; Transportation; or Waste Reduction/Recycling. Help make a difference in our community! All are welcome. (Meeting Location: the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints: Seattle First Ward, 2415 31st Ave W.

Briefs 2/17

Queen Anne Church raises $50,000 for Haiti Relief Efforts

Taking the initiatives

Seattle Soundings

Well, someone's got to try to solve the pressing issues of our times.

About time to start that indoor vegetable garden

It's still winter, but believe it or not, late February and March are the months that we can start planting the vegetable garden! While snow peas and arugula can be planted in the cool soil outdoors, many of our favorite veggies can get a head start on spring, started by seed, indoors.

'Ghost Writer' is Roman Polanski's triumphant return

There is a sequence in the Hitchcock classic "Foreign Correspondent" when Joel McCrea and his comrades, in a car pursuing another car bearing a man who just carried out a very public assassination in the city they've left behind, round a curve and see ... an empty road and miles of windmills (it's Holland). This is one of the cinema's sublimely creepy moments. How did that car disappear in an infinity of nothingness?

Security should have stepped in

Editorial 2/17

When does a person step from their uniform and into their human form to come to someone's aid?

What would you do?

Wilken's Watch

It's easy to criticize. I know this because for 17 years and seven newspapers I've been writing columns. And sadly, you might say, at least 50 percent of them have been taking somebody, including occasionally myself, to task.

To the moon, America

Roundabout

I remember back in college watching an episode of the original "Star Trek" television show in a dorm lounge with a couple other students. After the episode ended, a woman sitting next to me said she had never understood the appeal of "Star Trek."

Early spring ...

Notes from the Garden

FOGThe fog comes on little cat feet.It sits looking over harbor and cityon silent haunchesand then moves on. - Carl Sandberg