Weekend News Round-Up
- The train tracks near Carkeek Park on were shut down for nearly four hour Saturday evening, after a California-bound train struck and killed a 25-year-old Seattle man.
- It will be tough to finding your favorite Scandinavian treats of pickled herring, lutefisk and svinneribbe. After 49 years of business, Ballard's Olsen’s Scandinavian Foods announced over the weekend that they will have to close their door. Sales have already begun.
- Fremont was certainly the "Center of the Universe" for everyone painted head-to-toe in body paint this weekend. Once again, the annual Fremont Fair and the Solstice--naked people--Parade did not disappoint.
- The weekend proved eventful for life around the Woodland Park Zoo, first with unwelcome graffiti as well as the
much adoredFriends of Woodland Park Zoo Elephants--sans Lily Tomlin--protesting to move the elephants to a sanctuary in Tennessee.
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