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Wallingford Greenhouse Project Needs Volunteers

Calling all Wallingford green thumbs! The Greenhouse Project is looking to recruit some volunteers to help grow fresh and organic produce for local food banks.  Volunteers will be dedicating their time towards growing thousands of vegetable starts in a lower Wallingford greenhouse, which then will be distributed by Lettuce Link to P-Patches around the city.  All vegetables will then be donated to food banks. If you're interested in volunteering for the local greenhouse project there is an orientation and workshop on Saturday,…

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Fallen fir on 46th

Brian London and Justin Ivy wrote to tell us that half of a large Douglas Fir fell earlier today at 46th and Eastern, due to the high winds.  The fallen tree is blocking 46th, so folks, be careful driving around there! Update from Brian at 4:51: Someone cut part of the tree away and SDOT came out and cordoned off the sidewalk but they left the rest, presumably because they need more equipment to safely remove the heavier, higher up portion.

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Bystander Intervention in Wallingford

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It's 3 am, there's someone screaming in your dream. As you push up through the sticky morass of your slumber, you slowly realize there's someone screaming in real life, outside your window. There's a woman yelling at a car. Is she hurt? Drunk? Tweaking? Mentally ill? What are you supposed to do? When we ran a letter from the woman this happened to last week (Ruckus), a conversation ensued in the comments about what she should have done, which reminded me…

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Saturday Valentines At The Zoo

The Woodland Park Zoo can get kinda old if you're a member of it and have seen all the exhibits a couple times, and it can get even more stale for the animals themselves. Most animals figure out the routine and spend a lot of time napping, although the otters fortunately have acute ADHD. This is why you must visit the zoo for "enrichment activities". The most fun I've ever had at the zoo was at Pumpkin Bash- seeing an elephant…

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Stoneway Village Construction Update

It's only been a few weeks since we reported the good news about our neighborhood's beloved festering pit being transformed into Stoneway Village; but folks close by have already witnessed some action down there and, by gosh, it's a beautiful thing.  Reader Denny sent us a few pictures, including the one featured on the right here, and added in e-mail that "the work appears pretty modest but it's becoming an active construction site. At this point it's just moving dirt around."…

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Wallingford Weekend

I love a weekend that leads up to a holiday.  Happy Almost Valentine's Day, everybody!  Here are some of the local happenings in the 'hood: Thursday 26th Annual Seattle Improvised Music Festival. 8pm at the Chapel Performance Space in the Good Shepherd Center.  $5 - $15, sliding scale.  Performers include:  Tyler Wilcos (sax), Andrew Lafkas (bass), Jeffrey Allport (percussion), Lou Cohen (laptop - yup, you read that right!), Paul Hoskin (contrabass clarinet), Radu Malfatti (trombone) and Gust Burns (piano).  Details here.…

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Love Thy Neighbors

This Saturday, February 12th, is Neighbor Appreciation Day: February 12, 2011 will mark Seattle's 17th annual celebration of Neighbor Appreciation Day. It's the day when we reach out, create new bonds, and express thanks to those who live or work around us. The celebration began in 1995 when Phinney Ridge activist Judith Wood suggested that the City designate "a special day to celebrate the goodness in those around us and to reach out and strengthen our bonds to each other." Mayor…

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