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Tulip Season

How does a gardener from Wallingford get herself involved in a missing person case steeped in mystery, murder, and international intrigue? The answer lies within Bharti Kirchner's latest novel, Tulip Season, the first in a series of Mitra Basu Mysteries. Mitra Basu is a 29 year-old Calcutta-born, Wallingford-based landscape designer who discovers that her dearest friend, Kareena Sinha, has gone missing. As she tries to get to the bottom of Kareena's mysterious disappearance, she discovers a lot of things about herself,…

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Wallingford teens hold a food drive

Last year, when Grace and her sister and mom read Nicole Brodeur’s piece in the Seattle Times, “For some kids, cuts at nonprofit mean fewer meals”, it spurred an idea: “The article got my sister and I thinking, and decided with some friends to organize a food drive,” Grace wrote to me in an email. “We put up posters around the neighborhood and gave out over 100 flyers. We want everyone to participate in this food drive.” The food drive was such a…

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Waste Management/Teamsters Reach Tentative Agreement

From the Waste Management website this evening: Waste Management and Teamsters Local 117 have reached a tentative agreement on a new 6-year contract. Teamster leadership and the bargaining committee will fully recommend that members approve the new contract at the ratification vote scheduled for 9:00am on Thursday, August 2, 2012 at the Union Hall in Tukwila. Garbage drivers will return to work in the morning and begin servicing their regular Thursday collection routes. However, due to the timing of the ratification…

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Mural, mural on the wall

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Yet another reason to be out and about in the neighborhood tonight: Wallingford's Urban Mural Project kicks off at CUTZ Salon and Gallery (4515 Meridian Avenue N.) during the Art Walk, where artist Ricardo Rimerez will be doing some finishing touches tonight on the mural. CUTZ owner and Wallingford Chamber of Commerce President, Colleen Kurke adds: I have asked the Chamber to help sponsor this project, and I will co-chair it with Kathy Liao, a renowned artist. We hope that this mural will be one…

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Wallingford Art Walk and Backyard BBQ Benefit

Tomorrow is the first of August (gaa-ack! already!) and Wallingford will be buzzing with all sortsa food, art, and entertainment. Here's the scoop: Backyard BBQ Keller Williams and Walgreen's are throwing a "Backyard BBQ" on the SE corner of Stone/45th, from 5:00-9:00pm. In addition to hamburgers, hot dogs, and root beer floats, they'll have desserts by Smokey Delights and musical entertainment by brass band Tubaluba (beginning at 6:30pm). Plus, they'll have a barrel on hand so you can donate school supplies and…

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Stone34 gets a (deep) green light

On Monday, the City Council unanimously approved changes to the Living Building Pilot Project, creating another tier called the Seattle Deep Green Pilot Program, which allows Skanska's Stone34 project to move forward. Projects qualified under the new ordinance must meet sixty percent of the program's requirements, including the use of less than 25 percent of energy and water used by comparable buildings. According to the City Council's announcement, the new buildings must also capture at least 50 percent of stormwater used on…

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TnT Opens

It's been an empty storefront (sometimes euphemistically called a "test kitchen") since August 2008, but no more. Chow Foods is back in action and has throw open the doors on the old Loki / Jitterbug Cafe spot with a new Mexican restaurant: TnT Taqueria. Chow Foods has opened its fourth restaurant, TNT Taqueria in Seattle’s picturesque  Wallingford neighborhood at 2114 North 45th Street. In the space formerly occupied by the Jitterbug; TNT Taqueria opened Thursday evening, on July 26th. The Taqueria is…

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