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Happy New Year! Your Garbage Rates Just Went Up

NOTE:  Solid waste collections are on regular collection schedule for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, Monday, January 16.  Seattle's recycling & disposal stations will also remain open on that day. Did you know? Solid waste rates increased 15% for residential customers effective January 1, 2012. New monthly garbage rates  - for weekly curbside collection: 12 gallon micro-can:  $17.55 20 gallon mini-can:  $21.55 one 32 gallon can:  $28.05 two 32 gallon or one 64 gallon cart: $56.10 three 32 gallon or one…

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Creative Music Adventures

You might not spot it at first glance, but tucked away on Interlake Avenue, just above N. 45th and next to the Drum Exchange, there's a new performance space and gallery for Creative Music Adventures. Creative Music Adventures (4501 Interlake Ave N #9) is a music school for kids as young as four years-old, and also for adults. On the school's website, founder Michael Stegner writes: I want to help students respect the music of the past and present, while also…

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Mapping the trees

SDOT has just announced the release of a new web based tool for looking up what sort of trees are planted throughout Seattle. After taking inventory of over 122,000 street trees, SDOT has put together this handy, dandy little web based tree map that allows users to find out what types of trees are on their street and who is responsible for maintaining them. The website also lists each tree's common and scientific name, the diameter of the trunk, the street…

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Total Experience Gospel Choir

Wallingford United Methodist Church (42nd and Bagley) invites the neighborhood to celebrate and honor Martin Luther King, Jr. this Sunday, January 15, at 11:00AM.  The Total Experience Gospel Choir will be the congregation's guest choir, and the Reverend Rubye Hayden, from Ebenezer A.M.E. Zion Church, will be the guest preacher at that service. The Total Experience Gospel Choir was founded in 1973 at the Mt. Baptist Church here in Seattle, initially comprising students from Roosevelt and Franklin High Schools. Over the…

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UW Experimental College Classes in Wallingford

Are you bored to tears by echos of over-used and under-fulfilled New Year's Resolutions to "lose 20 pounds," "stay in touch with old friends," and "practice simple acts of kindness," etc, etc? Me too. A few years ago, I decided to make yearly resolutions that would embrace my most intense and far-out wishes for self-improvement, and lo and behold: our fair city offered classes for most of these seemingly random goals. One awesome source for courses right here in Wallinford is…

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Turtle and Ladybug receive props

Recently, Wallingford's street murals, Bubbles the Turtle, and the Ladybug on 49th and Burke, were included in a photo essay on intersection art. The post, titled "Coloring Inside the Lines", can be found on Sightline's blog, Sightline Daily. Writer Alyse Nelson explains the origins of intersection art which started in the mid-1990s in Portland and provides some colorful examples. You really should take a moment to read the article because are are some super cute ideas for communities beyond intersection art. I won't give…

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Holiday Lights Recycling – Another Chance

You still have time to recycle your old holiday light strings at nearby businesses: Whole Foods, accepting until January 15 at these nearby locations: Roosevelt Square, 1026 NE 64th Street,  206.985.1500. Box by garage/escalator. Interbay, 2001 15th Avenue W, 206.352.5440. Bin is outside. Westlake, 2210 Westlake Avenue, 206.621.9700. Bin in parking lot. Maple Leaf Ace Hardware, until January 31. 9000 Roosevelt Way NE,  206.522.3324

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