Holiday

Celebrate One Wallingford

Save the date, folks: The Wallingford Community Senior Center (WCSC) invites you to "Celebrate One Wallingford" on Thursday, December 13, from 5:30-8:00pm.   Last year's celebration was a fun-filled evening with carolers, cookies, and holiday entertainment brought to you by neighbors young and old.   Here's what the folks at the WCSC have to say about this year's event:   It’s that time of year again for festive gatherings with family, friends and neighbors! The Wallingford Community Senior Center (WCSC) is…

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Holiday Light Recycling

Keep those burned out, inefficient, or just plain tacky holiday lights out of the landfill. This holiday season there are a few options for recycling your old strings of lights near the 'hood: Whole Foods Markets:  all locations Maple Leaf Ace Hardware Girl Scouts of Western WA, collecting for Point Defiance Zoo:  601 Valley Street (just west of Aurora) When you donate holiday lights, remove all packaging, twist-ties and rubber bands. Place lights directly in the collection bin, with no bags…

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Holiday decorations along 45th St? You decide!

Colleen Kurke wrote to tell us that the Wallingford Chamber of Commerce will be cleaning up the streets and tree pits along 45th St. later in the week, in preparation for the holiday, and the rainy/wet season. But rather than covering expenses for putting up lights along 45th during the holiday season, the Chamber has decided instead to place emphasis on donating food to the FamilyWorks Food Bank. Still, though, it might be nice to have some sort of decoration along…

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Cooking for Compost at Thanksgiving

"Cooking for Compost?" Sounds like what happens when no one likes what I make for dinner. Maybe a better description is  "No Waste Recipes." Whatever the name, they'll help you have a more sustainable Thanksgiving feast. Prepare holiday dishes from fresh ingredients, without single-use packaging, where food waste can be used in other food or composted. This should be easy as pie in Seattle, where nearly all food scraps can go in the food and yard waste bin (the main exception…

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National Costume Swap Day – Saturday, Oct. 13

Get your green (as in re-used) costume on! Or drop off one that doesn't fit any more. Saturday from noon to 2 pm at Whole Foods at Roosevelt Square (1026 NE 64th St) celebrate a green Halloween by participating in National Costume Swap Day. From now until noon Saturday you can also drop off your gently used and clean costumes.  You will receive a ticket which will allow you to return and receive a new (to you) costume. Here are some…

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Family 4th Fireworks on Lake Union are a Go

One Reel announced yesterday that all systems are "go" for this year's Family 4th celebration at Lake Union, thanks in part to Starbucks as the event's Presenting Sponsor, along with Microsoft and Seattle Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce serving as Major Sponsors. This year's Fourth of July celebration falls on a Wednesday, and on the day after, Starbucks will hold the annual "5th of July Lake Union Cleanup" in which volunteers will pick up all the Fourth of July detritus. The full event…

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Good Pesach!

Tonight at sundown begins Passover, perhaps the raddest Jewish holiday of them all. Sure, Chanukah gets all the attention because of its proximity to Christmas (thus leading to Jewsmas, our creation, but that's another story). However, we have always been partial to Passover. Why? So glad you asked. Passover is a celebration of the Jews escape from slavery in Egypt, throwing off the shackles of oppression and becoming a free people again. And the story isn't a slow, grinding process of…

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