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Wallingford Center has trick or treating from 2 to 5 PM on Halloween, plus bring non-perishable food for FamilyWorks when you visit. Fun fact: You know why the food bank always wants non-perishable items? Because other food they get for free from the grocery stores as soon as it goes past its sell by date. Granola bars and canned food are a precious commodity for the food bank. Archie McPhee has of course been doing Halloween all week, and Kids on 45th…

  Countdown to candy day. Whether you've chosen to go the non-candy route (see Halloween Planning for some alternatives to candy for trick-or-treaters) or the candy bar route, if you've got kids, you're going to have a big bag of candy coming into your house Saturday night. Parents seem to have a variety of strategies on this one: Let the kiddos gorge themselves. Nothing teaches a lesson like an aching belly. One night of gorging, then the bag mysteriously disappears. Candy doled…

When someone knocks at my door at dinner time, I groan. I'm not buying what they're selling, and as a rule, I don't "give" at the door (I prefer to do my research through Charity Navigator or the like, plus the economics of door-to-door fundraising means that a significant chunk of my donation would go to the fundraiser, rather than the cause.) But tonight, I got a surprise. Fiber! Yes, the long awaited deliverance from Comcast hell has arrived: CenturyLink fiber optic internet…

Wallingford and Green Lake Community Councils made a request to SDOT back in 2007 to reconfigure Green Lake Way with 3 goals: Maintain or improve throughput for vehicles at the intersection of 50th and Green Lake Way Connect Stone Way bike lanes to the Green Lake Way bike lanes around the lake Restore lost pedestrian crossings between Tangletown and the park As SDOT typically does these days, they accepted the bike and pedestrian goals and then threw out the goal of maintaining…

Shima Sushi (4429 Wallingford Ave N) will wrap its last sushi roll in Wallingford this Friday, October 30th. The owners, the same folks who own Hawaiian Breeze (which is also out), say that they were unable to negotiate an affordable lease for the space, but plan to re-open elsewhere when they can find a spot. Customers who come through this week are being encouraged to sign up for their e-mail list to get the notice when they do. I hadn't been…

Double your fun from that Halloween costume, all for a single lousy dollar. The Wallingford Boys and Girls Club has a Haunted House, Wizard's Lair, and Carnival Games set up today from 6 to 9 PM: Want to help out? Here's the sign up for stuff they still need to help make it a success. Questions? Contact Meghan Sweet at [email protected] or call her at 206-547-7261.

You may have noticed that the new apartment complex going up at 45th and Interlake has a name now, Smith & Burns. I puzzled about why they would call it that, and emailed my contacts at Mack Urban, but haven't heard back. Then, flicking through Flickr for a photo to use on another article, I came upon this, from the Washington State Archives: The plot thickens! Why is that Shell station on Stone Way labeled "Smith + Burns"? According to Historylink, "Smith…