Today's chef demonstration at the Wallingford Farmer's Market should be interesting: it features Chef Wali Khairzada of Kabul Afghan Cuisine (4 pm at Wallingford Center). It's mid-August, so just crazy amounts of fruits and veggies are all coming ripe, there's no better time to stop by the market and stock up on the fresh: tomatoes, melons, beans, sweet corn, peppers, the list goes on. 3 - 6 pm today (Wednesday).
Kathleen Byrnes from the Wallingford Senior Center dropped us a note: We are trying to create some nice portraits of life here at the senior center to display at our upcoming fundraising event in October. Do you happen to know of any photographers in the area that might be up for stopping by for a few photo shoots in the next couple of weeks? It would required dropping by at pre-arranged times when we have specific programs here and taking photos.…
As we've reported here in the past (e.g., News from the Dump and Dump Update), the city's efforts to update the Solid Waste Transfer Station (aka the dump) at 34th and Carr is making slow headway in the face of resident law suits. Here's the latest, courtesy of Cole Gainer and cribbed from the excellent Wallingford eNews: The King County Superior Court recently affirmed the Seattle Hearing Examiner’s 10/20/08 decision that an environmental impact statement is not required for the North…
Thanks to a bit of community reporting, we bring you photos of guerrilla art from 39th and Bagley. Christina e-mailed us yesterday and asked if we had seen the "most excellent signs at 39th and Bagley". We had not! And our schedule prevented us from making a foray over there to investigate. So we sent out a plea to Twitter: anyone with a camera near 39th and Bagley, please send us shots of what we're missing. Shortly thereafter, Lee sent us…
Thanks to My Green Lake's industrious working of the Twitter, we learned that there was a pole fire in Woodland Park tonight. Who ever heard of a pole fire? Well, here's a picture snapped by Joe Sunga. Apparently, an electric line snapped, hit the pole with sparks and ba-boom! A good old fashioned pole fire. Doesn't sound like anyone was hurt, but a kickball game was cancelled, for which we offer our deep condolences.
Jupiterwise posted this to the Wallyhood Forums yesterday: This afternoon I returned to my house near 40th and Corliss to discover that someone had stomped on our lavender and rosemary bushes, ripping off several branches, tore out a bunch of plants from our parking strip, and worst of all, took our terra cotta planting pot with two baby ginkgo trees and smashed it in our driveway. I remember hearing a year or two ago about other gardens in the general vicinity…
Remember, you have until tomorrow to postmark your ballot for Seattle's primary and special election, including your vote for Mayor and for the plastic grocery bag fee. We held an unofficial straw poll for Seattle Mayor of our readers. Here are the results of the 87 votes cast: Interestingly, while 87 people have voted in our mayoral poll, 113 voted on our Wallingford t-shirt design suggestions. This is not out of line with the generally tepid response commenters had to the…