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Bike Tour to Little Free Libraries of Wallingford

Inspired by our article about Wallingford's Little Free Libraries, Spokespeople has put together a tour for biking bibliophiles this Saturday. Cathy writes: Saturday, January 5 is going to be a great day for a bike ride. We're going to go on a fun ride this Saturday to discover the Little Free Libraries of Wallingford. We’ll likely explore some poetry corners too as we bike about six miles around this literary neighborhood. You can bring a book or take a book (in a…

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WSDOT Begins I-5 Repavement in February

I-5 users, traffic is going to suck even worse beginning in February when the Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) works on the stretch of freeway between Roanoke St. and NE 59th St. What's more, if you live around I-5, you can expect noisy nightly weekend repairs when they grind down the deteriorating pavement and replace it. According to this handy flyer from WSDOT: Southbound Interstate 5 in the University District is a mosaic of wheel ruts, cracked and broken concrete.…

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‘Cape Spin’ and Solarize NW Seattle

There's been lots of recent discussion about the SolarizeNW Project for Wallingford residents to solarize their home. If you're interested in learning more about it, you might want to check out this Friday's Meaningful Movies when SolarizeNW and Northwest SEED will be on hand to answer questions, discuss benefits, strategies, costs, group discounts, federal & local tax credits, and financing. This Friday's (January 4) film is "Cape Spin - An American Power Struggle." Here's a little bit about the film: CAPE SPIN! (90 min,…

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Abacus West Adds Hours for Homeschoolers

Back in September, we wrote about Abacus West, an after school math enrichment program at the Good Shepherd Center. Now, Abacus West is offering math classes during weekday hours to allow homeschoolers to take advantage of the program. Here's a little bit of info: Starting in January 2013 Abacus West is offering enrichment math classes during weekday daytime hours making it convenient for homeschoolers to join this popular program. Classes will be offered at Wallingford’s historic Good Shepherd Center. Abacus West…

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Funny House

On our way to the Densmore Working Group meeting last night, a new mural set next to the Wallingford Art Walk robot, on the side of Bottleworks on 45th St and across the parking lot from Key Bank, caught our eye:   As luck would have it, Carlos Aguilar, the artist, was just dusting on a few last shots of spraypaint and wrapping up for the day. He told us he got turned on to the project by a guy from a "graffiti…

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‘Georgia’ on my mind

One of my regular running routes from Wallingford to Green Lake is along Wallingford Avenue. It's an easy mile from here to there and the street is, for the most part, pretty quiet with roundabouts aplenty above N. 50th St. Over the years, I've seen houses for sale, houses under renovation, and houses painted and repainted. But what I'm most impressed about this stretch of Wallingford is that it's very neighborly. During the warmer months, it's not uncommon to see neighbors…

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Christmas Resolutions

As an atheist, anti-consumerist Jew, I've generally felt that Christmas isn't "my holiday". I feel a little different this year. I know that New Year's is usually the "resolution" holiday, but honestly, it seems to me that if you're going to pick a day to model your year after, it should be one built around family and giving instead of booze and hollering (as fond as I am of all four). The rolling toll of gun-fueled violence this past year in our…

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