By STAN STAPP

AFTER OPERATING My Friends Cafe for 10 years, owners Wayne and Toni Davenport are calling it quits. My wife Dorothy and I will miss the Davenports (as will their many friends) as we have eaten at their place about once a week during most of that time.

My Friends lived up to its name - for Wayne and Toni, and daughter Jessica, who also worked there, knew the names of all the regulars.

The popular restaurant on NE 72nd just east of East Green Lake Way N has been sold to a Korean couple, June and Min, who have been residing on Capitol Hill. The new owners will continue serving American food from the Davenports' menu, and add a "fusion of foods from all over the world." Breakfast and lunch will be served as before, and My Friends name will be retained.

The new operators are due to take over Feb. 1, with the Davenports remaining for short period during the transition. The Davenports then are going to "travel the world" - the USA part in their fifth wheeler pulled by their truck. The rest of the world will be by air.

Besides the sale of My Friends, the Davenports had two other events to celebrate, Wayne's 50th birthday two weeks ago, and Jessica's engagement. The party (held in the restaurant) was rather unusual, and full of fun, including a nun "sent from above" egged on by the party-goers "to straighten out Wayne." The food menu included several kinds of soup, salad and rolls.

There were three cakes (combined with ice cream) and several dozen candles. Wayne could have blown them all out expect for six trick ones that kept re-lighting themselves.

Perhaps the highlight was a game of Canadian hockey using potatoes instead of pucks. Wayne was born in Victoria, British Columbia, and had played hockey in high school leagues. Toni was born in Oxnard, Calif., and met Wayne in Santa Cruz. Jessica, born in Carmel, is engaged to Nate Zaretzke, a police officer, and will marry later - possibly next winter - so they "can spend their honeymoon skiing."