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Wallingford weekend: Hamilton celebration and more

Sadly, the Home Tour isn't taking place this Sunday, but we hope Janet in the Wallingford Neighborhood Office has some homeowners willing to pitch-in for a January 2011 date.  Meantime, there's still plenty of stuff to do around the neighborhood this weekend, including Hamilton's Open House (Molly Moon's ice cream truck will be there, too). If you plan to cycle or run along the Burke Gilman on Saturday, oh, say between 9:30 a.m.-2 p.m., watch out for the little ones from…

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Fruits of your labor

Barb Burrill of City Fruit is looking for some folks to serve as fruit tree stewards along the Burke-Gilman Trail in Wallingford. City Fruit is working on a project with the City of Seattle to train fruit tree stewards to care for fruit trees in Seattle parks: The planning group for this new fruit tree stewards program has selected five pilot parks, one of which is the Burke-Gilman Trail in Wallingford, between I-5 and Gas Works Park. Each park will have a team of…

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Bus revisions include Wallingford routes

Beginning Saturday, October 2, Metro riders will see a few changes made to some of the bus routes in the neighborhood.  We’ve listed below those services added and discontinued to the most frequently used routes.  Check Metro’s website for a full list of service changes if you don’t see your route listed here. Routes with added service: Route 5 On weekdays, two trips will be added each day to improve service frequency from downtown Seattle to Greenwood Ave N & N…

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Let’s Make A Deal with Greenlake Moms

Have you seen those Daily Deal junkies?  Are you, in fact, secretly one? I used one recently to get a haircut (paying a lot for haircuts is a pet peeve) and the stylist said a huge wave of people cashing it in had come through, all opening up about their deep obsession with getting deals (psychiatrists should do double duty as hairdressers). Well, a very local outlet for those outrageously discounted, virtually irresistible bargains has opened under the aegis of the…

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Last Wallingford Farmers Market

We're giving you a days warning: tomorrow, Wednesday September 29th, 2010 is the last Wallingford Farmers Market of the season, and, as you know if you've been following the hullabaloo, perhaps ever. So, one more time: shake the loose bits of dried parsley out of the bottom of your cloth sack, tuck that broke-spine old copy of the The Moosewood Cookbook under your arm and head on up to the Wallingford Center Wednesday from 3 - 7 pm. Chef Dustin Ronspies…

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Sensory Garden

Your typical garden is designed for one, maybe two senses: flower gardens are beautiful to look at and, if you're lucky, add a bit of sweetness to the air. A vegetable garden may be focused entirely on taste, a lumpy bit of tumbling ugliness, rooted in practicality on its way to your table. How would you design a garden if you were thinking about your senses at once? Bright colors and subtle shadings, fierce and delicate smells, lavender and mint and…

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Wading pool, library affected by proposed city budget

Mayor Mike McGinn released his proposed city budget for 2011 – 2012 on Monday, addressing the $67 million dollar shortfall in the City’s General Fund for 2011.  The proposed budget calls for the Wallingford wading pool to operate on a three day per week schedule next summer, similar to this year’s schedule.  The closest wading pool to operate seven days per week will be Green Lake. The proposed budget also calls for reducing “on-site librarian reference service in order to achieve…

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